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Human cloning. Technology evolves faster than we do. The law shields us from our worst temptations. But the opportunity is there, dangling just out of reach - perfection and ascension or delusion and destruction. The choice is ours. In this collection of clone-themed stories, 10 of today’s top speculative fiction writers explore our morality and built-in societal restraints and reflect upon our state of grace. Similar is not necessarily the same.

A job pits Jonathan and his team against Heziah, where they finally find a way to fully rid themselves of him. Now jailed, Heziah is no longer a threat. The team can finally relax—and Jonathan can retire with his newfound wealth.

A dark energy descends, and Haern searches for understanding. The metal he’s known his entire life, metal he’s come to know better than almost anyone alive, has changed. Now he must find out why. The key to this dark power is something unexpected, and requires him to seek a dangerous alliance. While exploring the space between Sliding, Lucy finds a danger she had never expected. Now she must find her way past before it’s too late. She searches for help from an expected source, but the key to survival must come from her. Understanding the Shadow Queen brings Daniel, Rayen, and Carth ...

A captured thief holds the key to the kingdom. Having learned the truth about the Dragon Thief and saving Zarinth, an impossible decision will bring Ty away from the only home he’s known. When a dangerous priest demands his help finding something the Dragon Thief failed to find, Ty must finish the job even the Dragon Thief had failed to complete, but must stay ahead of Roson James and the Dragon Touched. The prize will secure the Dragon Thief’s freedom, but there’s even more at stake than Ty can imagine.

Finn has grown into the role of executioner, taking on more responsibility with each passing year. After thwarting another plot against the kingdom, he’s developed a reputation - and the attention that comes with it. When attacked investigating missing women throughout the city, Finn finds his list of enemies growing. After another high profile abduction, Finn’s newfound skills are tested trying to find answers before it’s too late, but an imprisoned man speaking the strange language of the Alainsith forces Finn and Meyer to divide their work.

Is three a crowd - or is it not enough? Since he admitted that he loved Sean as much as he loved Lea, Andy has been acting oddly - mute, sullen, withdrawn. When Lea confronts him about it, Andy tells Lea he's been feeling uncomfortable because he wants her to come home to a friend's wedding. To Andy's old girlfriend. That Andy may have told his friend - and his old flame, and his family - that he and Lea are engaged. And that he doesn't know how to explain what he, Lea, and Sean are building.

Is it possible to have too much of a good thing? Lea always takes pride in a job well done. Sean and Andy take pride in Lea doing well, and pleasure in doing Lea well. As she begins her life in Atlanta in earnest, Lea asks herself if her arrangement with Sean and Andy might not be too much of a good thing. And when they ask for more, are they crossing the line from a friendly threesome... to a friendly menage? Never one to take things lying down, Lea gets down to business.

Lea is flying East again to a snow-bound Atlanta, and she's worried: she's moving in with two attractive firemen who plan to share their apartment, her bed, and her...Is there such a thing as too perfect? Is it time for Lea to be careful what she wishes for? It doesn't help that Sean and Andy are working, and she's going to have to make her way back to her new home on her own. A ménage à Lea. But a surprise shows Lea that too perfect is just about right!

For Ken, virginity was something to get rid of. For Bridget, it's something she's supposed to hold on to. He wants her. She wants him. What could go wrong? This is a tale of finding sex in the most surprising places.

Ty has bonded to a strange smoke dragon and trains as a Tecal. If he can’t control the connection, the dragon will be stripped from him so that another can use the power of the dragon in service of the kingdom, as the threat from Lothinal is not gone. When Roson James makes his move, Ty feels an increased urgency to understand how to connect to the dragon. Help comes from an unlikely source, but it might not be in time. This time, the kingdom is not the only target.

In Episode Two of Confessions of an Ex-Boyfriend, Cameron, and Clint explore each other all night while they struggle to keep their secret away from Samantha, but things get interesting when an unexpected visitor arrives. My Confession: "I'm falling for my girlfriend's old man." Cameron is straight. He planned on marrying his girlfriend Samantha after graduation, but when he caught her cheating with his best friend, Bradley, his heart broke in two and he temporarily gave up on love. Later that evening, an older, masculine, and muscular man named Clint showed up at his door. He needed ...

The best way to get over your ex is to get on TOP of someone else. Bryce is straight, but after being betrayed by his girlfriend, Candice, and his boyfriend, Professor Davenport, he doesn’t know if he likes guys or girls. He is fresh on the rebound. But when Lloyd, a six-foot-five police officer shows up to give him a ride to a nearby hotel, Bryce can’t wait to get on top of him and relieve all his pent-up frustration. Lloyd is straight, but when he sees Bryce walking angry and frustrated down the street alone, he decides that this is the perfect opportunity to revisit the other side of...

When Carthenne Rel first came to Nyaesh, she feared the A'ras. Now she trains with them, struggling to use the magic they teach, and cut off from the shadow blessing within her. Isolated for her differences, she has only a few friends among the other students. When the strange and powerful Master Invar offers to teach her to access the powers warring within her, Carth is isolated even more.

Helen is coming home - coming back from the amazing, life-changing, unplanned honeymoon in Fiji with her husband Tommy...and their husband Al. Coming back to her real life. Only it isn't the life she left. How can she face an office full of coworkers? Worse, how can she face her family? With Al and Tommy, she'll just have to find a way.

Thirteen-year-old Silver Batal calls the desert home, but her heart belongs to the waters. Although she’s expected to become a jeweler like her father, Silver harbors a secret and forbidden wish to race water dragons. Destiny comes calling when her friendship with a mysterious old woman leads her to Hiyyan, a baby dragon that can swim and fly. Risking everything, Silver, Hiyyan, and her resourceful cousin, Brajon, set off across the desert to join the legendary races in the royal city.

For a boy coming of age during the 1930s and '40s, Greenville, Alabama, a small cotton-farming town in the Deep South, was a wonderfully rich environment. Greenville may have been small, but for author Clifton K. Meador, MD, life growing up there was anything but dull. In his memoir Sketches of a Small Town: Circa 1940, Meador lovingly retells the stories that formed his values and shaped his life.

In Episode 3 of Confessions of a Police Officer, Officer Landon lets himself into Trent’s house, uninvited, and discovers the juicy secret that his boss/future brother-in-law was keeping from him. In fact, he got it all on camera. Things got interesting when he heard moaning noises coming from the upstairs bathroom. What he saw invoked jealousy but also turned him on at the same time. Take the bribe, and I’ll let you slide deep inside. I’m Officer Landon, a straight police officer who fantasizes about being with black men. I desire to be with them intimately and romantically, but I ...

Above Reproach is the gripping first installment of a heart-pounding post-apocalyptic series that follows the harrowing journey of Logan, a battle-hardened survivor, as he fights to build a new life in the ruins of a shattered world. Accompanied by his loyal dog, Gunner, and an unlikely band of survivors, Logan must navigate the treacherous landscape of a savage new world order, where the only law is the law of the gun.

After her brother dies under a cloud of suspicion, Alexis Douglas will do whatever it takes to clear his name. Enlisting the help of TJ Roman proves a double-edged sword. Her brother’s onetime best friend, the ex-military PI can’t afford any missteps. Alexis’s safety is all that matters, despite the powerful attraction drawing them closer. Up against a killer desperate to keep the truth buried, TJ must step up his game before he and Alexis are both silenced forever.

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