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Beauty is a Blade by Justin Bourne Boring

Beauty is a Blade (A Thousand Scars for You) by Justin Bourne Boring


You’re goddamn right I mean business. I’m over two hundred years old, so my days of enduring narcissistic, lying, cheating assholes are over. Did I overreact by destroying an entire township in Jersey? Maybe, but sometimes you have to weigh consequences against comeuppance and scorch some earth. Sue me. I occasionally get a little stormy when someone rubs me the wrong way, but cheat on me, and you’re gonna catch my claws. Fortunately for others, that didn’t happen often. My heart wasn’t as black as my long, straight hair or as pale as my alabaster skin, but I could be hard and unforgiving when it came to infidelity. I’m working on it.

Naturally, my shenanigans meant they would be coming for me, but it’s okay; the just desserts were worth the calories. Besides, I’m finally ready to face them; it was long past due anyway- but that’s a story for a little later.

I’m not the least bit ashamed to say I was deeply in love with a miserable phony prick for four years (a blink of an eye for me) or that I had recently agreed to marry said miserable phony prick a few days ago. When people are profoundly disingenuous about who they are, one can’t be blamed for trusting them. I wear my heart on my sleeve; being powerful and ageless allows me to be vulnerable in ways others can not. However, the downside is that you tend to go to extremes when someone fucks you over.

Morristown, New Jersey? Collateral damage. Honestly, it was worth it. There’s little left in the world that commands my full and total rage, and unfaithfulness is one of them. Not to mention, in all my years, I’ve known only one thing sweeter than love, and that’s revenge.

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Lady Danger by Glynnis Campbell

Lady Danger (The Warrior Maids of Rivenloch Book 1) by Glynnis Campbell


The lasses of the Rivenloch clan are Scottish warrior maids, born to the blade…Firstborn Deirdre of Rivenloch never shies away from a fight, even against overbold men who consider her a prize. But she’s never met a man quite like Pagan Cameliard, the fierce knight commanded to wed into her clan, and when she marries him to save her sister, she soon finds she’s losing the battle over her heart.

    “Sir, do you accept my challenge or not?”
    “Since you won’t engage me in our bed, my lady, I suppose engaging me in the tiltyard is a reasonable alternative.” He held her gaze and slid his sword from its sheath with suggestive languor.
    Deirdre swallowed hard. The man was incorrigible. Even on the field of battle, he attempted to seduce her. And God help her, it was having some effect. His eyes burned into hers with the smoldering promise of pleasure. And his mouth, set in that self-assured grin…she remembered too well how it felt upon hers, warm and sweet and demanding.
    Nay! She wouldn’t think of that. She had to fight him.
    Moreover, this time she had to win.

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DOGMA by Jesse Mundy

DOGMA: The Dysphoric Odyssey of the Galvanic Mr. Adams by Jesse Mundy

“Mutiny, eh?” said {M}. “Just one moment, before you go and do something irreversibly stupid …” he added, walking briskly to the junk drawer. He threw it open. There were rubber bands abounding, and an absolute mess of earbud headphones, many that only specifically worked on a specific airline, for the specifically-sized plane that used them. They had specifically tied themselves to each other for all time. There was loose change, half a dozen takeout menus, and a subway map. And then, there was what {M} needed at the moment. He smiled at it.

{M} pulled a massive handgun out of the junk drawer and laid it on the counter. The isterlings all jumped at the sound of it. It was a laser gun, the kind that someone like Captain Dan Solo would carry on his hip. He slammed the door shut and picked up the blaster.

“Scallywagger enough for you, dickwads?” He pointed the weapon at the crate. “Okay, proceed with the friggin’ shenanigans.”

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Amber Alert by Dan Lawton

Amber Alert by Dan Lawton

The mail is mostly garbage— bills, junk, and local advertisements— but right in the middle of the stack, one of the envelopes catches Abby’s attention. It’s not like the others. It’s solid white, unsecured, and missing a stamp from the upper right corner. There’s no return address and Abby’s name is handwritten in the center. It’s out of place.

 

Abby opens that one first.

 

She moves it to the top of the stack and flips it over, then slices the back with the white tip of her nail. The seal breaks quickly, a sticky dampness transferring to Abby’s fingertip. Inside the envelope is a single sheet of lined
paper, torn and folded in half like that of a note one might pass around in junior high. Curiously, Abby unfolds the note and reads it.

 

FOUND YOU.

 

Abby nearly drops to the blacktop.

 

Oh, God.

 

The two words are written in uppercase letters and scribbled in pencil, much like Abby’s name is on the front of the envelope. The handwriting is amateurish, childlike,
like whomever wrote it hasn’t written anything in a while.

 

Abby recognizes it. She’s seen that handwriting before, and after a moment, she remembers from where. From whom.

 

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Bestiarii (Echoes of Pangaea Book 1) by James Tarr

Bestiarii (Echoes of Pangaea Book 1) by James Tarr

“What was that?” Andy blurted out, still staring at the screen. He couldn’t look away.

O’Malley looked at the screen again. “You mean what species? Who knows if anyone has a complete list of what’s out there.” He squinted. “Hmm. Could be Syntax just from the pack size. I don’t think we have the resolution in this satellite to det—”

“No,” Andy said firmly, “what was that? What attacked those men? Was it a pack of dogs or wolves or something?” He couldn’t imagine what else it could be, from the size of the dots on the screen. They’d been travelling in a pack, but this was too far south for wolves, wasn’t it? And what kind of feral dogs would attack a group of armed men? Twenty-one seemed a huge pack.

The soldier operating the computer looked at O’Malley, and O’Malley in turn looked at Andy. “Don’t they tell you blokes anything before they send you out here?” O’Malley asked in shock. He looked at the other soldier in disbelief. “Unbelievable.”

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