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But Elizabeth Markel is a little higher up the university food chain than she’s let on, and the truth brings out buried prejudices that Anna didn’t know she had.
People and computers have one thing in common: they’re both capable of self-sabotage. The difference is that computers are easier to fix.
All You Can Eat
Ed. R.G. Emanuelle, Andi Marquette
ISBN: 978-3-95533-221-1 (mobi), 978-3-95533-222-8 (epub)
Length: 58,000 words (260 pages)
Chef R.G. Emanuelle and sous chef Andi Marquette locked themselves in the kitchen to create a menu that would explore the sensuous qualities of food and illustrate how the act of preparing and eating it can engage many more senses than simply taste and smell. They gathered a great group of cooks who put together an array of dishes, and they present to you here a menu that ranges from sweet and romantic to sultry and seductive, from relationships enjoying a first taste to those that have moved beyond the entrée.
Each story also ends with a recipe. Some of these require cooking implements while others are whimsical accompaniments that don’t require cooking at all—at least not in the traditional sense. After all, food serves as more than sustenance—it’s a trigger for love, laughter, sex, pleasure, and carnal and sensory satisfaction. Whatever your palate prefers, you’re sure to find something tasty here.
The menu includes dishes by Ashley Bartlett, Historia, Jae, Rebekah Weatherspoon, Cheyenne Blue, Karis Walsh, Victoria Oldham, Cheri Crystal, Andi Marquette, Jove Belle, R.G. Emanuelle, Sacchi Green, and Yvonne Heidt.
Sigil Fire
Erzabet Bishop
ISBN: 978-3-95533-169-6 (mobi), 978-3-95533-170-2 (epub)
Length: 30,000 words (131 pages)
Sonia is a succubus with one goal: stay off Hell’s radar. But when succubi start to die, including her sometimes lover, Jeannie, she’s drawn into the battle between good and evil.
Fae is a blood witch turned vampire, running a tattoo parlor and trading her craft for blood. She notices that something isn’t right on the streets of her city. The denizens of Hell are restless. With the aid of her nest mate Perry and his partner Charley, she races against time before the next victim falls. The killer has a target in his sights, and Sonia might not live to see the dawn.
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Good Enough to Eat
Jae & Alison Grey
Robin’s New Year’s resolution to change her eating habits is as unusual as she is. Unlike millions of other women, she isn’t tempted by chocolate or junk food. She’s a vampire, determined to fight her craving for a pint of O negative.
When she goes to an AA meeting, hoping for advice on fighting her addiction, she meets Alana, a woman who battles her own demons.
Despite their determination not to get involved, the attraction is undeniable.
Is it just bloodlust that makes Robin think Alana looks good enough to eat, or is it something more? Will it even matter once Alana finds out who Robin really is?
The Caphenon
Fletcher DeLancey
On a summer night like any other, an emergency call sounds in the quarters of Andira Tal, Lancer of Alsea. The news is shocking: not only is there other intelligent life in the universe, but it’s landing on the planet right now.
Tal leads the first responding team and ends up rescuing aliens who have a frightening story to tell. They protected Alsea from a terrible fate—but the reprieve is only temporary.
Captain Ekayta Serrano of the Fleet ship Caphenon serves the Protectorate, a confederation of worlds with a common political philosophy. She has just sacrificed her ship to save Alsea, yet political maneuvering may mean she did it all for nothing.
Alsea is now a prize to be bought and sold by galactic forces far more powerful than a tiny backwater planet. But Lancer Tal is not one to accept a fate imposed by aliens, and she’ll do whatever it takes to save her world.
Driving Me Mad
L.T. Smith
For Rebecca Gibson, her journey to a work convention will be one she’ll never forget. After driving around for four hours, Rebecca stops to ask for directions at an isolated house on the outskirts of Kirk Langley, Derbyshire.
Her initial meeting with the house’s attractive owner, Annabel Howell, seems strange and unsettling, but at her hostess’s insistence, Rebecca spends the night.
Plagued by nightmares, Rebecca senses that her dream world has blended with what she believes is reality. When she leaves the next day, her life has changed.
Can Rebecca solve a mystery that has been haunting a family for over sixty years? Will she find love along the way?
Or will the events drive her mad?
Unwrap these Presents
Edited by Astrid Ohletz and R.G. Emanuelle
ISBN (mobi): 978-3-95533-278-5
ISBN (epub): 978-3-95533-279-2
Also available as paperback.
Published by Ylva Publishing, legal entity of Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.
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Owner: Astrid Ohletz
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Germany
www.ylva-publishing.com
First edition: November 2014
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This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are a product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously, and any resemblance to locales, events, business establishments, or actual persons—living or dead—is entirely coincidental.
Credits
Edited by Nikki Busch, Day Petersen, Glenda Poulter, Michelle Aguilar, Sandra Gerth, Andi Marquette, R.G. Emanuelle, Astrid Ohletz, Julie Klein, Blu, Debra Doyle, Alissa McGowan, Fletcher DeLancey
Cover Design and Formatting by Streetlight Graphics
Red Christmas Truck © Nikki Busch 2014
Red and Green and Gray © Jove Belle 2014
The Miracle of the Lights © Cindy Rizzo 2014
A Christmas Epiphany © Wendy Temple 2014
A New Christmas Carol © Eve Francis 2014
Mary Christmas © L.T. Smith 2014
Christmas Road Trip © Jae 2014
Holiday Spirit © Fletcher DeLancey 2014
Mama Knows © Cheri Crystal 2014
Angels © Joan Arling 2014
Doctor’s Call © Patricia Penn 2014
Flea © Lois Cloarec Hart 2014
Meet the Lesbians © Ashley Stevens 2014
Operation Jingle Bells © Devin Sumarno 2014
One Hot Tamale © Catherine Lane 2014
Elfin Magic © R.G. Emanuelle 2014
First Christmas © Jean Copeland 2014
Season’s Meetings © Andi Marquette 2014
Kitmas on Peacock Alley © Lee Lynch 2014
A Champagne Christmas © Clare Lydon 2014
First Christmas © Erzabet Bishop 2014
Home for Christmas © T.M. Croke 2014
The Spirit of Christmas Past, Christmas Future © S. M. Harding 2014
Slaying the Ghost (of Christmas Past) © Nikki Busch 2014