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Benigno “Benny” Caldera knows an orphaned Boricua blacksmith in 1910s New York City can’t call himself an artist. But the ironwork tank he creates for famed Coney Island playground, Luna Park, astounds everyone, especially the eccentric sideshow proprietor who commissioned it. Benny’s work earns him an invitation to join the show’s eclectic crew of performers—his first welcome in the city—and share in their astonishing secret: the tank Benny built is a cage for their newest exhibit, a living, breathing, in-the-flesh merman stolen from the banks of the East River under a gleaming full moon.

Santo Domingo de la Calzada, 1532. London, 1827. Boston, 2019. Three young women, their bodies planted in the same soil, their stories tangling like roots. One grows high, and one grows deep, and one grows wild. And all of them grow teeth.

Linus Baker is a by-the-book case worker in the Department in Charge of Magical Youth. He's tasked with determining whether six dangerous magical children are likely to bring about the end of the world. Arthur Parnassus is the master of the orphanage. He would do anything to keep the children safe, even if it means the world will burn. And his secrets will come to light.

Detective Rose Martin has spent years trying to bring down Sterling Montague, a corrupt British billionaire with plans of destroying democracy. But her pursuit of justice throws her into a shadowy world of spies and assassins—a clandestine organisation called the Circle. Tasked with guarding the monarchy, the Circle operates outside the law, led by a mercurial and dangerous woman known only as the Nightingale.

It’s 1972, and eighteen-year-old tomboy Maeve O’Connor must win a photography contest to escape her suffocating, conservative family and attend her dream school in Manhattan. But where will she find arresting subjects? Why, a washed up old seaside resort called Asbury Park, New Jersey—a place where sideshow entertainers, strippers, carnies, artists, and alternative lifestyles coexist on the boardwalk in plain sight.

Since I was eleven or so, I've had two extraordinary aspects to my life. The first was that, even though I had been born as James Patterson, I knew, in my heart, that I was a girl. But aspects of my life had been preventing me from becoming Melinda fully. The second extraordinary thing was a recurring dream about a place I called the Night Festival. And then a third extraordinary thing happened: I met Veronica--a beautiful and astonishing trans woman, who somehow fell in love with me. This is our story. And all the extraordinary things that happened once I met her.

Gene was a young teen with a secret--a secret self he called Jeannie. And after his father died, Gene's stepmother learned of Jeannie--and was delighted. Soon Gene was spending his summer before High School as Jeannie, full-time. Until a turn of events led Gene to disappear and Jeannie to take over. Permanently. But keeping such a transition secret is not something that can be easily done. And soon Jeannie had to chose whether or not to remain a secret. This is Book One of a planned multi-volume Transgender Tale. The second book is in process at the moment and should be available soon. In ...

Forty-seven year old Carl Nixon once dreamed of driving one of the world-famous black cabs he'd seen in London. After the sadness of losing his wife and now losing the job he's had for most of his life, his dream of being such a cab driver is coming true. Despite not being the same confident person he was in his youth, forward he goes, embarking on a new chapter in his life that will encompass not only a new job, but quite a few other kinds of new experiences...

Leonard O'Neal had always been notably short--for a man, that is. That did not prevent him from becoming an attorney and it did not prevent him from marrying a tall and beautiful woman. But Leonard carried a secret. He secretly preferred to be a woman named Laura. And when his wife discovered that secret, she did something unexpected and extraordinary. She happily encouraged her spouse to be Laura more and more, until at last there was no Leonard at all, only the lovely Laura--who happened to be just the perfect height, for a girl. And that was just the beginning of a process of total ...

Jax Maddox is a ruthless underground MMA fighter known as The Wrecking Machine — undefeated, untouchable, and emotionally locked down. Fighting is the only thing that quiets the storm inside him… until a cocky, reckless pretty boy with lightning-fast kicks and a smart-ass mouth struts into his gym and throws everything off balance. Cal Rivera fights like he’s got something to prove. Because he does. After a scandal in his pro circuit career, he’s starting over in the blood-soaked back alleys of underground fighting — and the last thing he expects is to fall hard for the grumpy, ...

Roped into helping his favorite millionaire author host a charitable Halloween gala at her mansion, Deputy Chief Vasily Korsokovach finds himself unusually annoyed at having to set aside his clandestine wedding planning; with the possible New Years date now visible on the horizon, not only are there far too many items to get pinned down than he would like, Vas is increasingly worried his fiancé has begun to realize something is afoot — and he knows from experience a suspicious Alejandro Ortega-Cortez is a force to be reckoned with. Constitutionally being unable to say no to Rosie ...

In the spring of 1974, Calliope Stephanides, a student at a girls' school in Grosse Pointe, finds herself drawn to a chain-smoking, strawberry-blonde classmate with a gift for acting. The passion that furtively develops between them - along with Callie's failure to develop physically - leads Callie to suspect that she is not like other girls. In fact, she is not really a girl at all.

After nine years as the people's beloved princess in the sun-soaked Kingdom of Carca, Vita witnesses the execution of her mother by her father's hand. Forced into exile, Vita fades into obscurity with her only friends—the crows that visit her window. Eleven years later, Vita is given a choice: marry an enemy general, granting him legitimacy to take the throne, or die as the forgotten princess. With time running out, Vita meets Soline, an intriguing lady-in-waiting who introduces her to the powerful but unstable magic of alchemy.

I have feelings for my roommate, but I know it's wrong. God would never approve of this —my roommate is a demon who looks like an angel! Jonah has spent his entire life suppressing his feelings. But when he moves in with Lucien, his enigmatic roommate, resisting desire becomes impossible. Raised in a strict religious household, Jonah never questioned the rules—until now. In the vibrant city of Zurich, he's experiencing new freedoms for the first time. But nothing is as overwhelming as his growing attraction to Lucien. Lucien is everything Jonah isn't: confident, artistic and ...

Vincent LaRue is all wrong — too polished, too pretty, and too full of secrets. But when his brother turns up dead in a motel room dressed to scandalize, he walks into detective Nash Vega’s office with blood on his hands and a plea for help. Nash should’ve walked away. He’s been burned before. But Vincent’s kiss is as dangerous as the case — and someone out there is filming their victims like it’s high art. Lies. Lust. Murder on reel. Hollywood’s dirty secrets are about to light the screen on fire.

Samuel was an unusual young teen. He lived with his Aunt Elena. Who was a witch. Not that she was a mean woman, she was an actual practitioner of what regular people call magic. Then the life of the teen got even more unusual, when his aunt found he liked to wear girl's clothes. And then his aunt introduced Samuel to his own soul--the soul of a young woman named Shenandoah. And then things got really unusual.

My name is Patsy Conroy. I used to be a Chicago cop. I'm also transgender. I found out that it's not so easy to combine those two things. So now I'm a Private Investigator. It seems to suit me a little better. I was getting my life back together when I learned an old friend had been killed. On Goethe Street. Turns out, that wasn't the first murder to happen there in recent months. And pretty soon, it was my job to figure out how and why those two killings might be connected. Even though some of Chicago's finest weren't happy about that. Neither was a well-connected politician. Turns out, ...

Tanner, a fun-loving American jock, is on a solo trip through Europe, eager for adventure but struggling with the language. What was meant to be a simple coffee stop in Paris turns into a whirlwind of spontaneity when he crosses paths with Frederick, a charming and stylish Frenchman. Despite their language barrier, an unexpected spark ignites between them. Using a quirky translation app, Tanner and Frederick embark on an unforgettable weekend filled with fun, passion, and discovery. As they explore the hidden gems of Paris and navigate their growing connection, their bond deepens in ways ...

In an age of miracles where our greatest heroes from history have magically, unexplainably returned to shake us out of our confusion and hate, Harriet Tubman is back, and she has a lot to say. Harriet Tubman and four of the enslaved persons she led to freedom want to tell their story in a unique way. Harriet wants to create a hip-hop album and live show about her life, and she needs a songwriter to help her. She calls upon Darnell Williams, a once successful hip-hop producer who was topping the charts before being outed on a BET talk show.

Thirteen years ago, Providence Byrd threw the family car in reverse and ran over her mother. Even though her mother survived, that single instant of teenage madness made Providence a felon and irrevocably altered her life. When her mother disappears years later under suspicious circumstances, Providence tells herself that returning home is her chance to find closure after a prolonged estrangement from her family. Never mind that this is only half of the truth: she’s also returning to finally confront her abusive father, Tom Byrd.