Master Adam has trust issues, Master Rick's new neighbor is a sweet, curvy tease, and Master Patrick... well, he needs to keep his hands off his best friend's little sister. "I loved these stories so much that I went and one-clicked the rest of the series" - Reading is Our Satisfaction The Sassy Submissive Trust is everything. So when Angel isn't exactly truthful about who she really is, her second encounter with Master Adam is extra explosive. Taming the Tease Maria's hot new neighbor looks like a Greek God and flirts like one too. Is this newbie in over her head as she uncovers his surprising secrets? Mastering Lexie Hands off the best friend's little sister. That is, until she decides she wants his hands and more, and will stop at nothing to have them.

Elsa Morante's novels are "astonishing for the quality of the writing, . . . the complexity of the invented world, the wide-ranging view of the human condition" (Elena Ferrante).Once considered the greatest writer of Italy's postwar generation—and admired by authors as varied as John Banville and Rivka Galchen—Elsa Morante is experiencing a literary renaissance, marked not least by Ann Goldstein's translation of Arturo's Island, the novel that brought Morante international fame. Imbued with a spectral grace, as if told through an enchanted looking glass, the novel follows the adolescent Arturo through his days on the isolated Neapolitan island of Procida, where—his mother long deceased, his father often absent, and a dog as his sole companion—he roams the countryside and the beaches or reads in his family's lonely, dilapidated mansion. This quiet, meandering existence is upended when his father brings home a beautiful sixteen-year-old bride,...

Trying to escape his tortured past, Sergeant Liam Jacks travels aboard the transport vessel, the Santa Claus, as the security chief alongside his best friend and captain, Marc Danverse. Having survived the Civil War, they shuttle amongst the Proxima Centauri planetary cluster, trying to find some modicum of peace. Something of which Liam is in short supply. During a stopover on the planet Luxoria, they take on a mysterious passenger. Hadrian Jamison’s history is questionable and his effect on Liam is undeniable. The more they learn, the more questions they have. As they are drawn together, Hadrian’s presence threatens to disrupt the quiet. When Hadrian’s past catches up to claim him, the ensuing conflict is more than any of them expected.