Blood Desire


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When a ruthless vampire king sets his sights on her, nothing will stop him from making her his bride. Forever... Born into a family of protectors, Lara is determined to prove her worth as a vampire hunter. She knows everybody in the settlement, even her own father, looks down on her for being a woman. When she's given the chance to run a mission through dangerous vampire wastelands, she accepts despite the risks. Captured by the vampire king, stranded, and alone, he makes her a deal she can't refuse if she wants to live. Surrounded by blood and violence, Dominic, of the Diamantis clan vampires, rules his kingdom with an iron fist. Yet the one who drives him mad with desire is the one who should be forbidden to him. He will stop at nothing to claim his fated mate. She will be his in blood, body, and soul. Will he break her spirit or win her heart forever?




Desire After Dark


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Since the 1960s, the occult in film and television has responded to and reflected society's crises surrounding gender and sexuality. In Desire After Dark, Andrew J. Owens explores media where figures such as vampires and witches make use of their supernatural knowledge in order to queer what otherwise appears to be a normative world. Beginning with the global sexual revolutions of the '60s and moving decade by decade through "Euro-sleaze" cinema and theatrical hardcore pornography, the HIV/AIDS crisis, the popularity of New Age religions and witchcraft, and finally the increasingly explicit sexualization of American cable television, Owens contends that occult media has risen to prominence during the past 60 years as a way of exposing and working through cultural crises about queerness. Through the use of historiography and textual analyses of media from Bewitched to The Hunger, Owens reveals that the various players in occult media have always been well aware that non-normative sexuality constitutes the heart of horror's enduring appeal. By investigating vampirism, witchcraft, and other manifestations of the supernatural in media, Desire After Dark confirms how the queer has been integral to the evolution of the horror genre and its persistent popularity as both a subcultural and mainstream media form.




Go the Way Your Blood Beats


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Using bisexuality as a frame, Go the Way Your Blood Beats questions the division of sexuality into straight and gay, in a timely exploration of the complex histories and psychologies of human desire. A challenge to the idea that sexuality can either ever be fully known or neatly categorised, it is a meditation on desire’s unknowability. Interwoven with anonymous addresses to past loves - the sex of whom remain obscure - the book demonstrates the universalism of desire, while at the same time the particularity of each individual act of desiring. Part essay, part memoir, part love letter, Go the Way Your Blood Beats asks us to see desire and sexuality as analogous with art - a mysterious, creative force, and one that remakes us in the act itself.




Of Blood and Desire


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Violet is a deadly huntress and sorceress who has waited for a long time to have her revenge and punish her vampire sire, Ewan. In an undercover mission, she gets close to him by pretending to be someone else. Meanwhile, the black widows—an evolution of the vampires with psychic powers—are becoming a problem for the secret organization she works for. The huntress needs to use all her tricks to get closer to Ewan and gain his trust. But the more time she spends with him, the more she understands that she might not be that immune to his charms. Worse, Ewan seems changed—different from the coldhearted bastard that she remembered. Still, her emotional connection with her sorcerer master becomes stronger every day. Fighting against old feelings and trying to deal with the new ones, Violet finds herself being the object of desire of two dominant males who will do anything to win her heart. However, Violet has a job to do and Ewan might be the one with the final piece to find the Vampire Creator and stop his evil plan. With time running out, Violet needs to decide if she wants to let go of her past and embrace her new immortal and powerful self or fall into old habits and give up on everything that she accomplished so far. Read the epic conclusion to this sexy Urban Fantasy story with powerful beings born to fight the vampires and a story of redemption and healing that will leave you breathless and begging for more.




Naked Liberty and the World of Desire


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In this new and original study, Simon Casey explores the long-neglected link between D. H. Lawrence and philosophical anarchism. Focusing on the writings of some of the major anarchists-with particular emphasis on Stirner, Godwin, Bakunin and Thoreau-this book argues that the conceptual parallels between Lawrence and anarchism are strong and extensive and that reading Lawrence within the context of this tradition significantly enhances any understanding of his work. Lawrence's faith in the essential decency of human nature, his forceful defense of individual liberty, and his intolerance of all forms of domination and control all reflect the essential features of anarchism. NakedLiberty and the World of Desire looks at where these attitudes find explicit articulation in Lawrence's essays, poems, and letters, and shows how they are illustrated in his major works of fiction.




Vampire Darcy's Desire


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This inventive, action-packed novel tells of a tormented Darcy who, dispirited by his family's 200-year curse and his fate as a half-human/half-vampire, would rather live forever alone than inflict the horrors of a vampire life on a beautiful wife. Destiny has other plans.




In My Blood


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While working on his second novel, John Sedgwick spiraled into a depression so profound that it very nearly resulted in suicide. An author acclaimed for his intimate literary excursions into the rarified, moneyed enclave of Brahmin Boston, he decided to search for the roots of his malaise in the history of his own storied family—one of America's oldest and most notable. Following a bloodline that travels from Theodore Sedgwick, compatriot of George Washington and John Adams, to Edie Sedgwick, Andy Warhol's tragic muse, John Sedgwick's very personal journey of self-discovery became something far greater: a spellbinding study of the evolution of an extraordinary American family.




Taken By Desire


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Greydon has two important missions: Find his brothers and rescue his people. His duty becomes complicated when he’s forced to beg a human to save his life. Aimee Jarvis always considered her bookstore a detour to bigger things. Little did she realize her next stop would be the intriguing world of a demon prince. Yet, she finds the dangerous Greydon alluring. While their attraction continues to burn, they both deny what their hearts already know. It will take the mystery of an ancient civilization and a shocking discovery for them to admit their desire.




Toxic Desire


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A scifi alien romance with fated mates on an aphrodisiac planet I’ve crash landed on a sex planet with my worst enemy. He’s a brooding, gold alien—a commander who destroyed my ship and half my crew. I should want to kill him. But everything on this planet is an aphrodisiac. So I just want to have him. Now. "Revenge--that's all he wants with me. He’s hated humans for more than a century, ever since we tried to destroy his kind." I’m the last person he should want, but the desire the sex planet stokes in both of us is eating us alive. Resisting his hands, his mouth, and his vampiric fangs proves impossible. I can’t help begging him to touch me. I have no idea what endless sex with his kind will do to me, but there are rumors. I have to get off this planet before I find out if it’s true—before he makes me his mate. For life. The Planet of Desire is a series of scifi alien romance standalones that can be read in any order. Toxic Desire Captive Desire Stolen Desire Forbidden Desire




Clive Barker's Age of Desire


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When a private laboratory conducting experiments on volunteers libido goes wrong a man goes insane with lust and his perpetual state of arousal erodes his respect for morality or the law.