Jason Ridler

A salacious throwback to the detective pulps of the 70s, Hex-Rated kicks off the new urban fantasy series the Brimstone Files. Fall, 1970. Los Angeles has always been a den of danger and bliss, but even darker tidings brew in the City of Angels. Cults, magic, and the supernatural are leaking into the worlds of glamour and dives of the gutter. To the spectators walking down Hollywood Blvd, it's just more proof that La La Land is over the cuckoo's nest. But to former child magician and Korean veteran turned newly-licensed private investigator James Brimstone, it means business is picking up. After attending his mentor's funeral, Brimstone signs his first client: Nico, a beautiful actress with a face full of scars and an unbelievable story of sex, demons, and violence on the set of a pornographic film in the San Fernando Valley. The cops chalk it up to a bad trip from a lost soul, but Brimstone knows better. He takes the case, but the investigation goes haywire as he encounters Hell's Angels, a lost book of Japanese erotica, and a new enemy whose powers may fill the streets of L.A. with blood. He'll have to us his Carney wits, magic tricks, and a whole lotta charm to make it out of a world that is becoming . . . Hex-Rated.

A Brimstone Files Novel

Hex-Rated

Kelly Robson

Tim Waggoner

Lucien Soulban

Cassandra Khaw

Gemma Files

Selena Kitt

Molly Tanzer

Darien Cox

Jessica Freely

Steve Berman

Cassie Alexander

Jaye Wells

'Nathan Burgoine

Lucy Snyder

Nathan Pettigrew

A. Rustad

D. Warrick

Tom Cardamone

NASTY: Fetish Fights Back is a daring new collection of erotic short fiction spanning sexualities, genders, orientations, positions, & proclivities. From fetish priests to breath restriction, bondage play to somnophilia, there's something in NASTY for everyone. With stories from New York Times Bestseller Selena Kitt, Shirley Jackson Winner Gemma Files, five-time Bram Stoker Award Winner Lucy A. Snyder and more, this collection pushes the boundaries not only of steamy sex but of what defines us as sexual beings. Explore repressed yet explosive gay erotica in a politically-themed tale, "The Straw Man," by Jessica Freely. In A. Merc Rustad's "Bodies Like Galaxies," a nonconventional gendered couple engage in consciousness upload. Jaye Wells ventures into erotic romance with "Aural Sex." A woman explores her obsession with sensual words. Chiaroscuro never sounded so sexy. Genital piercing has rarely been this orgasmic. Read "Metal" by Lazuli Jones. Cassie Alexander, the author of "The House: An Erotic Choose Your Own Adventure," brings "Galatea." The myth has never made more sense than in this retelling. Hugo and Nebula Finalist, Kelly Robson explores the titillating world of aging lesbians and a group penchant for public nudity in "The Desperate Flesh." Moreover, who doesn't like a good Nazi takedown? Douglas F. Warrick's "The Things I Told the Cops After the Uprising (And a Few Things I Wish I'd Told Them)" is a bittersweet yet beautiful, romantic yet sensual journey through violence and transition. Focused on acceptance and consent, co-editors, Anna Yeatts & Chris Phillips, hope the stories in NASTY: Fetish Fights Back will help readers see the sexuality & sensuality common to all of us. Stories from Selena Kitt, Gemma Files, Jaye Wells, A. Merc Rustad, Lucy A. Snyder, Cassandra Khaw, Lucien Soulban, Jessica Freely, Cassie Alexander, Kelly Robson, Jason S. Ridler, Tim Waggoner, Steve Berman, D. F. Warrick, 'Nathan Burgoine, Kaysee Renee Robichaud, Darien Cox, Molly Tanzer, Tom Cardamone, Lazuli Jones, Rose de Fer, Ann Castle, Charles Payseur, Nathan Pettigrew, Robert Brouhard, Konstantine Paradias, and Matthew F. Amati.

Fetish Fights Back: An Erotic Short Story Collection

Nasty

David Schwartz

Ron Lundeen

Matt Goodall

Whether you fight for law, chaos, or a philosophy in between, this title allows you to tip the scales in your favor. This book features new options that is designed specifically for neutral characters - hone your pragmatic battle prowess with new combat feats, and overwhelm your extremist rivals with never-before-seen items.

Champions of Balance

A friend's death at a pro wrestling show sends gutter journalist and punk rock hasbeen Spar Battersea back to the underground of the city to find the killer. Along the way he rams into a washed up grappler deadlier than a snake bite, a dominatrix who dresses like June Cleaver, and the freak of nature who may be the killer, the mime known as Johnny Silent. To get to the truth, Spar will have to contend with each and then survive his very own . . . Death Match!

A Spar Battersea Wrestling Thriller

Death Match

Winter 1970. As rock stars die of excess and revolution fills the air, newly minted private investigator James Brimstone is spending his days wandering the streets of Los Angeles, looking for low rent cases as far as possible from his last work-for-hire, an unfortunate run-in with the occult on a pornographic film set. But fate has a funny way of slapping Brimstone with the dark hand of magic. When a deadly attack on a veteran’s hall nearly kills his Korean War buddy Cactus, the only clue left behind is a leaf from the Black Lotus, a war drug used in ancient Babylonia . . . that’s supposedly been extinct since the pyramids were young. Between bump-ins with rock star prophets and berserk professional wrestlers, Brimstone races to find out who’s behind the supernatural drug turning the City of Angel’s citizens into sex- and violence-crazed maniacs, as well as a mysterious creature of smoke and evil stalking the streets of L.A. On the boardwalk between our world and nightmares, Brimstone must face the darkness within himself to see if he, too, will fall victim . . . to the Black Lotus Kiss.

Black Lotus Kiss

During World War I, Oxford-trained archeologist Lawrence of Arabia used his knowledge of the Middle East to help organize the Arab revolt against the Ottoman Empire. In this entertaining and insightful book, Jason Ridler profiles the intellectuals, outsiders, and eccentrics who followed in Lawrence’s footsteps across the next hundred years of warfare and who relied on creativity, curiosity, and outside-the-box thinking to shape battlefields from World War II and Vietnam to Iraq and Afghanistan. They were Ivy Leaguers and Oxford scholars, anthropologists and archeologists, an ad executive, an international activist, a Peace Corps veteran, an émigré journalist (and former teenage member of the French Resistance), a diplomat—mavericks and oddballs, men and women—who, not always heralded or heeded and sometimes hated, challenged traditional military thought and helped win wars, secure peace, and change the face of modern war.

The Unconventional, Unorthodox Innovators and Thinkers, Scholars, and Outsiders Who Mastered the Art of War

Mavericks of War

Jason Ridler

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