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Passion. The kind of tear-your-clothes off, scream-your-lungs-out, crash-into-the-furniture passion that changes lives. It's what Delilah wants. It's what she craves. It's what she fantasizes about whenever her disinterested husband's not around. Okay, so it occasionally makes her late for the school run and distracts her from the fact there's no food in the fridge, but an elaborate fantasy life is a basic requirement for a fledgling soap opera writer. Lately, though, the oddest things have been happening in Delilah's real life. First, she discovers a couple of skeletons rattling around in her husband's closet. Then, she learns that the insolently sexy plumber who's been fixing her pipes and starring in her daydreams is really an undercover FBI agent. And now all the clues seem to point to the conclusion that she's the only person in New York City not carrying on a torrid affair. Which she intends to do something about. Or does she? Because there's nothing more dangerous than acting on your secret desire.

From Alisa Kwitney, the acclaimed author of On the Couch and The Dominant Blonde, comes a wickedly funny new novel about adult education. A teacher of English as a second language, Katherine Miner is an expert in idiomatic phrases, subtle verbal cues, and unwritten cultural rules, but when it comes to the opposite sex, she''s baffled. Her girlfriends and her mother keep telling her that a woman who is about to turn forty needs to approach dating as a job, but Kat''s decided to opt for early retirement. It''s not that she hates men; she just doesn''t trust them. After all, her soon-to-be ex-husband, Logan, has dropped all contact with their son, just as her own father did to her thirty years before. While Kat prepares her students for the messy business of getting personal, she has no intention of getting herself tangled up in bedsheets and emotions. But Magnus Grimmson, the tall, good-looking, tongue-tied Icelander in the front row, doesn''t appear to pose any threat. In fact, the man seems to need more help deciphering women than Kat does decoding men. Then Kat receives a letter from her father that turns her life upside down. A former spy, Kat''s father writes that he wants to get to know her. But her father''s reappearance causes unexpected complications, and suddenly Kat finds herself questioning whom she can trust and discovering that she still has a lot to learn about men, friendship, and the kind of nonverbal communication they don''t teach in school. Darkly humorous, emotionally honest, and unabashedly sexy, Alisa Kwitney''s novel affirms that forty isn''t the end of the road -- sometimes, it''s a new beginning.

Class is in session at Mystik University an otherworldly academy that promises to teach its young charges how to master their unique and often dangerous magical abilities! Under the leadership of Dr. Rose Psychic (and her body-sharing husband, Dr. Occult), Zatanna and her fellow students including Davit Sargon, June Enchantress Moone, and brooding bad boy Sebastian Faust begin to learn the secrets of harnessing and directing their powers. But these introductory lessons may not be enough to save them from the deadly force known as the Malevolence, whose triumph in the not-too-distant future Dr. Psychic has already foreseen. For Zatanna, however, this dark prophecy is overshadowed by more immediate concerns among them, the obsessive attentions of the queen-bee Thriae Society, the cold-blooded calculations of Mr. E, and what really happened when she first manifested her backwards-speaking magic and sent her father to lleH! The classic magicians of the DC Universe are reimagined for a new era in Mystik U: Freshman Year Enchantments, collecting the three-issue miniseries from critically acclaimed novelist Alisa Kwitney (Cadaver & Queen, Does She or Doesn't She?) and fan-favorite artist Mike Norton (Revival, Runaways).

Harlan is a brilliant scientist who follows his own path and refuses to let anyone tell him how to live just because he's a wheelchair user. He has only one passion: to prove that there is no such thing as the supernatural. He doesn't believe in ghosts any more than he believes in love. One night in an abandoned chateau on the outskirts of Paris just might change his mind . . . if he survives.Because even though no one's lived in the old Vine estate for over a century, Harlan's not alone there anymore.Future Echoes: A different kind of long-distance romance."e;This is no ordinary bone-chilling heartstring ripper."e; --Shelly Bond, Editor/Curator, BLACK CROWN

Part 2 of the 3-part Future Echoes serial. Harlan is a brilliant scientist who follows his own path and refuses to let anyone tell him how to live just because he's a wheelchair user. He has only one passion: to prove that there is no such thing as the supernatural. He doesn't believe in ghosts any more than he believes in love. One night in an abandoned chateau on the outskirts of Paris just might change his mind . . . if he survives.Because even though no one's lived in the old Vine estate for over a century, Harlan's not alone there anymore.Future Echoes: A different kind of long-distance romance."e;This is no ordinary bone-chilling heartstring ripper."e; --Shelly Bond, Editor/Curator, BLACK CROWN

Part 2 of the 3-part Future Echoes serial. Harlan is a brilliant scientist who follows his own path and refuses to let anyone tell him how to live just because he's a wheelchair user. He has only one passion: to prove that there is no such thing as the supernatural. He doesn't believe in ghosts any more than he believes in love. One night in an abandoned chateau on the outskirts of Paris just might change his mind . . . if he survives.Because even though no one's lived in the old Vine estate for over a century, Harlan's not alone there anymore.Future Echoes: A different kind of long-distance romance."e;This is no ordinary bone-chilling heartstring ripper."e; --Shelly Bond, Editor/Curator, BLACK CROWN

Part 3 of the 3-part Future Echoes serial. Harlan is a brilliant scientist who follows his own path and refuses to let anyone tell him how to live just because he's a wheelchair user. He has only one passion: to prove that there is no such thing as the supernatural. He doesn't believe in ghosts any more than he believes in love. One night in an abandoned chateau on the outskirts of Paris just might change his mind . . . if he survives.Because even though no one's lived in the old Vine estate for over a century, Harlan's not alone there anymore.Future Echoes: A different kind of long-distance romance."e;This is no ordinary bone-chilling heartstring ripper."e; --Shelly Bond, Editor/Curator, BLACK CROWN

Part 3 of the 3-part Future Echoes serial. Harlan is a brilliant scientist who follows his own path and refuses to let anyone tell him how to live just because he's a wheelchair user. He has only one passion: to prove that there is no such thing as the supernatural. He doesn't believe in ghosts any more than he believes in love. One night in an abandoned chateau on the outskirts of Paris just might change his mind . . . if he survives.Because even though no one's lived in the old Vine estate for over a century, Harlan's not alone there anymore.Future Echoes: A different kind of long-distance romance."e;This is no ordinary bone-chilling heartstring ripper."e; --Shelly Bond, Editor/Curator, BLACK CROWN