To Burn in Brutal Rapture

To Burn in Brutal Rapture
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Release: 2020-10-22
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ISBN: 9781735916200

The ache of tragedy sunk deep, like the claws of a wicked monster. To heal was to remember what my godfather told me when I was six? Pain is a part of life. If you prepare for it, it will hurt less. He would know, after all. Lazarus Weston is pain personified. The scowling man with stormy eyes and tattoos covering his excessive muscles is not only my godfather, but also my dad's business partner and best friend. A permanent fixture in our lives. Well, in Dad's, not mine. But when grief mixes with confusing new feelings, I'm forced to see Lazarus differently, in a way that severely complicates my world. Because he's too old for me. He'll never be mine. I'm not allowed to have him, but obsession burns a fine line between can't and won't. I can't want her?The curse on my heart is heavy, the tale of my malediction drenched in brutal loss. Wearing ink like scars reminds me of the tomb I left behind. I've been expecting pain all my life, yet I'm still unprepared, failing to see my downfall until she's wrapped around my soul like barbed wire. Tracien Wright. My best friend's daughter. Part of my life strictly through association. She was never meant to be more than that. But Traci is a trickster. A skilled predator in the most unexpected package, oblivious to her own power. She'll learn the hard way that not all beasts should be hunted. I'm not what she thinks I am, having rose from a pit, only to bury myself in secrets and lies.Deep down I'd love nothing more than to have her. But I don't get to keep nice things. Burn with me, Lazarus.

Double-edged

Double-edged
Author: Nyla K
Publisher: Nyla K
Total Pages: 614
Release: 2022-08-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1735916285

What's an honest man to do? Isn't that always the question we find ourselves wondering when we get swept up in something bad... Something overpowering and tangibly wrong, with the ability to corrupt our morals down to the core? These boys, they're not mine, but they might as well be. I'm responsible for them, in a sense. And they couldn't be more different, identical in looks alone. One I've noticed... The other has noticed me. One needs me, the other needs him. Sometimes a hero will fall on his own sword, but in my case... I've fallen on two. ** Double-edged is a full-length taboo standalone novel that is intended for mature readers only. Some of the themes in this book could make readers uncomfortable. Please proceed with caution, and heed the author’s warnings.**

Push

Push
Author: Nyla K
Publisher:
Total Pages: 505
Release: 2019-09-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578563640

To the unassuming observer, Ben Lockwood is your typical, suburban dad. Aside from the fact that he's only thirty-six and his daughter is a sophomore in college. He and his wife, Jessica, had their only daughter, Hailey, when they were in high school. So you can imagine the unease Ben is feeling when said daughter brings her new boyfriend home for Thanksgiving¿ To stay, in their house, for the whole weekend. Ryan Harper, otherwise known as The Boyfriend, is every dread Ben's ever had in his daughter dating come to fruition. There's nothing wrong with Ryan. He's polite, smart, and charming¿ He doesn't have any neck tattoos or facial piercings, and he drives a BMW. But still, he's dating Ben's daughter. That makes him a threat. It's in Ben's best interest to keep an eye on the kid. You know, to make sure there's no funny business going on under his roof. Unfortunately for him, the tension in the house is less about Ryan being his daughter's boyfriend, and more about him being a strangely intriguing human. And soon enough, Ben can't tell if he's watching Ryan to protect his daughter's innocence, or obliterate his own. It seems like the boring married-guy image isn't going to hold up for long¿ Not after this bizarre, life-changing weekend. What are these new, strange feelings and desires? Where did they come from? And why do they have to center around what belongs to his daughter?Ben and Ryan's situation couldn't get much more complicated¿ Until Jessica steps into the mix. An unexpected push is all it took for their lives to change forever.

The Rapture of the Nerds

The Rapture of the Nerds
Author: Cory Doctorow
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 353
Release: 2012-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0765329107

From the two defining personalities of post-cyberpunk SF, a brilliant collaboration to rival 1987's The Difference Engine by William Gibson and Bruce Sterling

Joyless

Joyless
Author: Nyla K
Publisher:
Total Pages:
Release: 2021-09-30
Genre:
ISBN: 9781735916224

Correctional officers get a bad rep. But in our case, it's fully justified.We're not good people? We're guard dogs. As twisted as the inmates we patrol, courtesy of the monster who created us.Prisoners ourselves on an island of manipulation, we've spent years drowning in vices to dull reality. If these walls could talk, I'm telling you? they'd scream.They call me Velle, but that's Officer Chevelle to you. Hands dirtier than my mind, I have no qualms with staying ruthless to keep these creatures in line.And I'm not alone.Joy Jameson is my partner in crime, and my ex. Together we rule Alabaster Isle like Bonnie and Clyde, only prettier and far more dangerous. It's the two of us against this wicked, secluded world.Until he shows up?Although we need him, the rookie is a problem. Flipping me upside down, using my own hidden desires to tempt me.Rook... with his green eyes and country boy smile?He has no business luring me into something that will get everyone hurt.Let it be known, denying myself while dominating this role is my default setting. But with him in the picture, I'm struggling to keep it intact.The mask is slipping, control I can't lose wavering as we welcome our newest psycho to the roster.Let's hope, for all our sakes, Inmate #101 doesn't do anything stupid.

NK3

NK3
Author: Michael Tolkin
Publisher: Atlantic Books
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-09-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1611859476

A panoramic vision - suspenseful, comedic, prophetic - set in a near-future California that has been devastated by NK3, a memory-destroying virus from North Korea. The H LYW OD sign presides over a Los Angeles devastated by a weaponized microbe that has been accidentally spread around the globe, deleting human identity. In post-NK3 Los Angeles, a sixty-foot-tall fence surrounds the hills where the rich used to live, but the mansions have been taken over by those with the only power that matters: the power of memory. Inside the Fence, life for the new aristocracy, a society of the partially rehabilitated who call themselves the Verified, is a perpetual party. Outside the Fence, in downtown Los Angeles, the Verified use an invented mythology to keep control over the mindless Drifters, Shamblers and Bottle Bangers who serve the gift economy until no longer needed. The ruler, Chief, takes his guidance from gigantic effigies of a man and a woman in the heart of the Fence. They warn him of trouble to come, but who is the person to watch: the elusive Eckmann, holed up with the last functioning plane at LAX; Shannon Squier, the chisel-wielding pop superstar from the pre-NK3 world, pulled from the shambling masses; a treacherous member of Chief's inner circle; or Hopper, the uncommon Drifter compelled by an inner voice to search for a wife whose name and face he doesn't know? Each threatens to upset the delicate power balance in this fragile world. In deliciously dark prose, Tolkin winds a noose-like plot around this melee of despots, prophets and rebels as they struggle for command and survival in a town that still manages to exert a magnetic force, even as a ruined husk.

Unwrap Him

Unwrap Him
Author: Nyla K
Publisher: Nyla K
Total Pages: 194
Release: 2022-12-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

'Twas the night before Christmas. A secret was looming. The lust in my heart had become too consuming. Make no mistake, no blood do we share, But my guardian was the man whose cross I did bear. With his icy coal eyes, and peppermint lips, Under mistletoe I stood, no chance to resist. For it was on none other than this cold silent night, That I gave into wrong, and it felt so damn right. **Unwrap Him is a guardian/ward MM novella, previously part of the Twisted Christmas Anthology. It contains taboo themes and an age gap. Please proceed with caution.**

Israel, Rapture, Tribulation

Israel, Rapture, Tribulation
Author: Michael Earl Riemer
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Total Pages: 335
Release: 2021-05-23
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1665525509

Jesus is coming soon, for all signs point to His arrival...again. The Last Days are upon us...again. The Great Tribulation is about to start...again. We will see the Lord coming in clouds of glory, for we are the last generation...again. Even before William Miller pronounced these kinds of tidings for 1843, and when it didn’t occur, he assured his followers it would happen on October 22, 1844; this refrain was common from Christians down throughout the ages. However, since the time of Miller, and especially since 1948, when the nation of Israel was given birth, the chorus of Christian voices proclaiming End-Times and Last-Days is a constant message. The problem, all those who have preached this since 70AD, have been wrong, always, 100% of the time. In the Revelation of Jesus, given to Saint John, he assures the seven Churches the time was near, it was in fact, at hand. The letter closes with the assurance of that fact, the Lord was coming soon, for Jesus states: “Surely I come quickly” (Revelation 22:20). So, that leaves us with two perplexing and bewildering conclusions. Jesus was wrong about His soon coming, and those who preach this, have also been preaching a tall tale, a cock-and-bull story. However, the early Christians did not believe what is being taught across today's pulpits concerning this teaching. They knew those events would happen in their lifetime, not 2,000 years in the future, they took Jesus at His word, and it saved their lives. In this book, you will find the doctrine believed by early Christians, and the reason the modern Last Days doctrine has always been wrong, and how it was fulfilled. You will also find the message taught by Jesus, and presented throughout the Holy Scriptures, hope and victory for Christ’s Church.

Rapture Untamed

Rapture Untamed
Author: Rochelle Wayne
Publisher: Pinnacle Books
Total Pages: 452
Release: 1991
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781558175464

Caroline Hanley has no memory of the brutal murder of her parents or of her abduction by Apache renegades. Living as one of them, she resigns herself to a union with a brave she does not love--until fate intervenes in the person of Ross Bennett. Part Apache himself, Ross undertakes the mission to rescue her, unaware that the beautiful, young woman will steal his heart.