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When my ex-girlfriend and I broke up, I went to see my family therapist. He asked me about my ex-girlfriend, how I felt, and if I was doing okay. I explained that I felt bad about the relationship ending and that I was mourning. I missed my ex, but I told him that I thought she was a narcissist. The first question the therapist asked: Was the sex good? I found his question interesting because it seems that there is a correlation between great sex and people with mental and/or emotional disorders.

Stoicism is tailored for the “good life.” It doesn’t emphasize abstract, philosophical musings, like many other philosophies that might seem irrelevant to day-to-day life. It doesn’t require an education, a stellar IQ, or wealth to begin following its principles. One of its major thinkers was actually a slave, and another was an emperor. Clearly it’s a philosophy as applicable to those at top as to those at the bottom, to those who’ve known the best of life as to those who’ve known the worst, to the rich as to the poor, to the healthy as to the sick - because there are no true obstacles to bettering ourselves.

A motorcycle road trip turns to more when Sean stops one night at a remote bar. The place is almost deserted. When he asks if he can have a room for the night, the two MC biker owners agree. He quickly finds out why they want him there when they close up the bar to show him the room. Payment for it is his body, and he finds himself being used by two strapping bikers and their collection of sex toys.

"Someone's best quality is also their worst. It's the most extreme parts of us that are extraordinary, but can also be very un-relatable." Alex has been secretly watching Penelope for years, controlling who she dates and what coffee she drinks. But when Penelope unexpectedly bumps into Nathan, Alex starts to lose control of his obsession. How far will he go to get rid of Nathan and protect the masterpiece he's created in Penelope?

Fourteen-years of marriage, two-children - and Dan and Lauren were now on the rocks. Date night, his mother-in-law suggested. Only problem was Dan would have to wing it, as he didn’t have a clue how to date his wife. He wanted to ignite the spark back into their marriage; however, Lauren wasn’t as keen. Lauren was devastated and confused by the sudden interest Dan was now showing her. Was he playing away from home? That would certainly account for the weird hours he’d been keeping at work.

Adelle Hendrix doesn't believe in hocus pocus. She doesn't believe in happily ever after, either. So, when she sees her best friend Ben Jackson in a supposedly enchanted mirror, she decides she's not the crazy one; the loony old woman who showed her the mirror is.

After holding off the New Watchers at the tomb of a fallen angel, Rafe and Alec are back with a new adventure. The Praesidium has gotten a tip that the New Watchers are on the hunt for the legendary ring of King Solomon. Traveling the globe on a continent-spanning adventure, Alec, Clemy, and Enoch the misanthropic computer have to unravel the mysteries of conflicting information.

For thousands of years, the Sollirians abducted children from their homeworlds to fuel their magic. Inez would know. She was one of them. Like other star-maids, she was tethered to an archlord, Rylec. Unlike other star-maids, she fell for him, and he helped her escape. Three years later, Inez can’t forget Rylec or the other star-maids she left behind. Unable to return to Earth, she’s spent her time smuggling others out on unsuspecting intergalactic cruise ships.

A new job in a small town fire department sees Jacob on nightshift with his new commander on the very first week. The attraction between them is already there, and there’s no fighting it off. It ends with Jacob giving in to feelings he’s been suppressing, as he lets the commander take charge to show him just how good it is to be with a man.

Left alone when his parents leave for a weekend away, Ben is surprised when his older neighbor drops in on the Saturday night. Mr. Reid explains he was asked to keep an eye on him to make sure he didn’t get into any bother. It quickly becomes clear that the only trouble Ben faces is from his visitor as he’s trapped in the house and made to be a submissive boy for a dominant partner.

When the daughter of Greece's premier singer fails to sing as expected, she finds out about a biker group of women. But will she manage to find the elusive Orosa, the bikers' motovlogger, when all she has to go on are random street-sightings of criminal behavior, when her family is opposed to her following this path, and when her dad's employer wants to keep her as she was for marketing purposes?

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Nothing felt worse than getting betrayed by the person you trusted the most. Finding out I'd been around my mate for decades without recognizing him hurt. But with an evil queen intent on usurping the throne of Otherworld, and all of the demon realm under threat, we hardly had time for romance. Not that I'd let that stop me, no matter how reluctant Lionel was to accept me as his mate. Could I balance love and war, and win them both?

Living with the DeMarco vampires has been a lifesaver for Ari. However, as a human, he’s always felt inferior. He has always wanted to be turned, but his vampire friends have refused his one wish.

When photographs of singer Summer Jennings canoodling with her manager land on the cover of a gossip magazine, she runs home to Maine and ends up working as a maid at her family’s motel. A big movie is filming in town, and she gets to meet the leading man she’s crushed on since her youth. The director’s PA also catches her eye, and that’s just the beginning of her world turning topsy-turvy. Is Summer supposed to look back or ahead? Does letting go mean giving up?

From Lyme to Light is my spiritual and physical healing journey with neurological Lyme disease. Starting with a tick bite that led to dementia, followed by a stroke, and then a Near Death Experience (NDE), I learned how to overcome the confusion and challenges involved with a mysterious illness to find hope and wellness!

Devin Sharp, a gentle-natured boy, has trouble sleeping. Recurring visions of strangers moving among shadows in his bedroom keep waking him at night. He swears that what he sees and hears is real. To no avail. No one believes him.

Preston Knight - Elvis to his friends - loves being a vampire. The night he was turned was the first step to him becoming the kind of man he always hoped to be. Now, he’s a rock star. What could be better? But the one thing that would make his world complete is just out of reach. The woman he yearns for has some serious secrets, and despite him knowing that she wants him just as much as he wants her, she won’t let him in.

Billy Bean lives alone in the small attic apartment of an unoccupied old mansion. His cheap rent is subsidized by an agreement to watch over the place while the owner is away. A bank teller and chronic introvert, Billy’s life is one boring, mind-numbing day after another. Since the age of four, at the exclusion of all the normal social interaction of activities other children his age enjoyed, he worked toward becoming a concert pianist.

A short stint temping for an attractive business executive has Darren fantasizing about office sex. The interest shown in him raises his hopes that he’ll get what he wants on his last day. The appearance of his boss’s best friend quashes the idea, but only until he finds out that he’s been set up for a threesome. There’s no denying two alpha males what they crave and he willingly lets himself be taken over a desk by a couple of kinky men.