Over.His life. Career. Marriage.Everything is finished. Richard Clayson dances on the precipice of self-destruction. His world crumbled before his feet.Since the day he laid eyes on Beau Blackwell in that interrogation room, his infatuation spun out of control. Richard knew it would be his undoing, in more ways than one. However, when the dust settles and nothing remains can he forgive?Can they get back together? Or will Richard and Beau always be enemies?There's no clear beginning, like all things beautifully and tragically headed for destruction, there is, however, a random and opaque series of events. that leads him to where he is now.Where he was always meant to be. Warning: this a dark mm romance, mm suspense romance, mm romance age-gap, mm straight to gay romance, cheating husband romance, mm first-time romance, that deals with mentions of past rape...

The next step...For Talaya, the past ten months have been a roller coaster of emotions—fear, grief, joy, love. She's not sure which ones are simply frequent visitors or which are the reality she can hold onto. All she knows for certain is that she wants Ridge, for however long fate allows.Keeping Promises...For Ridge, turmoil and influx aren't new. Waking up every morning to a gorgeous headstrong woman in his bed though, well that's something he's surprisingly getting used to. Until her nightmares begin and the careful realm of normal he'd been trying to weave for them comes crashing down.Now, to save the family they've both yearned for, they must confront the darkness that just won't relinquish them. But will facing this adversary only open the gates to a world of death and destruction?Publisher's Note: Talaya is the SECOND PART to Ridge. Storylines from Ridge are further explored and completed in Talaya's book. For premium enjoyment,...

If you enjoyed Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix or Authority by Jeff Vandermeer, then you'll love this latest horror novel from the Bram Stoker award-winning author Tim Waggoner.A sinister being called Night and her panther-like Harriers stalk their quarry, a man known only as Arron. Arron seeks refuge within an office building, a place Night cannot go, for it's part of the civilized world, and she's a creature of the Wild. To flush Arron out, she creates Blight, a reality-warping field that slowly transforms the building and its occupants in horrible and deadly ways. But unknown to Night, while she waits for the Blight to do its work, a group of survivors from a previous attempt to capture Arron are coming for her. The hunter is now the hunted.FLAME TREE PRESS is the imprint of long-standing independent Flame Tree Publishing, dedicated to full-length original fiction in the horror and suspense, science fiction & fantasy, and crime / mystery /...

When choosing to love and choosing to let go might be one and the same. I've adored Kenzie for years. Some say I've pined. What I haven't done is muster enough courage to tell her. Being best friends with her, while amazing, just doesn't feel like enough anymore. What's a man to do? Take a risk, and kiss her like my life depends on it, because I swear sometimes it feels like it does. That kiss is everything I've ever hoped it would be and more. I'm finally sharing my life and my best with my best friend and no longer in a platonic way. Then her ex-husband—my school nightmare—swoops back into Syracuse Falls and even into Kenzie's home. He's clearly hoping to swoop her into bed, too. She's longed for him as much as I've longed for her. The only way she and I stand a chance is if I can get him out of town, but Cal's made it clear he's sticking around this time. And what if I get him out of here and Kenzie no...

Never lose hope...Coming to terms with what must be done, Daria and the others are prepared to do whatever it takes to defeat Pandora.But when the curse is activated and everything Daria has been afraid of comes to fruition, will she be able to fight Pandora on her own?Maybe with the right weapon.The right courage.The right chaos.All of which she can find within herself, if all hope isn't lost.

Harper Lee Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author James Grippando returns with a bold new thriller that asks at what price do we open our lives to Big Data.Aspiring playwright, Kate Gamble, is struggling to launch a script she's been secretly researching her entire life, mostly at the family dinner table. Her father is Christian Gamble, CEO of Buck Technologies, a private data integration company whose clients include the CIA and virtually every counter-terrorism organization in the Western World. Kate's father adores her, and a play about the dark side of Big Data would be the ultimate betrayal in his eyes. But Kate is compelled to tell this story—not only as an artist exploring the personal information catastrophe that affects us all, but as a daughter trying to understand her mother's apparent loss of purpose, made even more disturbing by the suicide note she left behind: I did it for Kate. Then Patrick Battle comes back into...

Perfect for fans of Paige Shelton, an Alaskan tour guide is bracing for winter when she realizes that the wolves aren’t the only predators on the prowl.With boat tours off the coast of Alaska shut down for the winter, tour guide Stacie Calder is joining the dedicated team at the Juneau Wildlife World, a wild animal sanctuary.  Along with Sasha, her husky companion, she’s prepared to spend the long season in the scenic park. But not everyone is so chipper about the newcomers—least of all, Stacie’s new manager, Oliver Brownling. He constantly gives Stacie a hard time, specifically because she brought Sasha along with her. That is, until his mauled body is found in a remote part of the sanctuary containing wolves.When it becomes clear that a human was responsible for the brutal murder, all eyes are on Stacie. Encouraged by her friend, Officer Liam Amaruq of the Alaskan State Troopers, Stacie is resolved to find the murderer but knows that...