Kay Oliver

R. Saint Claire

Angel Gelique

Rajeev Singh

Len Streeper

Devon Tarantino

Brett O'Reilly

Bethany Daines

Bradley Poage

Clare de Lune

Map to Desire will entice and disturb your innermost erotic appetites. It will viciously twist and taunt your imagination. And it will tug and gnaw at your tethers for adventure. This anthology includes nine short stories from a diverse group of talented authors who span the globe, an introduction from Black Quill Editing and a closing poem from a young and upcoming writer. WARNING: THIS IS AN EXTREME AND GRAPHIC NOVEL; you will not close this book unscathed. Each story includes a map leading characters to their deepest desires, good or bad. Go on a gondola ride into the underworld to initiate a trade of life and death with the keeper of Hades. Survive a plane crash only to gear up for battle in the dense, dark forestry of the Smoky Mountains. Meet up with a jaded bank employee who harbors an obsession with death. Join a treasure hunt in an old, abandoned mine that holds an entity of fear known only in the most malevolent of nightmares. Work alongside two necromancers as they journey into a life of greed, lust, immortality, and sin. Venture into secret stone ruins to search for a true love that reveals its true, insidious self. Enter an apartment building with hidden peepholes into the residents' lives and the wicked, sinister past of the building itself. Meet a priest as he realizes his baptismal rite and takes the unholiest of communions to bring mankind to its knees. Finally, an alien vampire inhabits the body of a handsome college student to feed off fleshy freshmen while he searches for his ideal mate; night school was never this terrifying. All proceeds from this book will go to First Book to provide new books, learning materials, and other essentials to children in need.

An Anthology

Map to Desire:

The Shattering

Sick·o - /ˈsikō/- noun informal: A mentally ill or perverted person, especially one who issadistic.A collection of six short stories and one central novella. All seven tales have different sadisticand twisted sickos ready and waiting to strike.In this collection's namesake novella, Spencer, a college student tries to get back home to seehis mother in Wyoming one last time before the growing cancer takes her. A record-breakingstorm grounds all transportation out of Boston and he's left hoping and praying for a miracle. Akind stranger, Jethro, offers him a ride. Is this odd young man a miracle too good to be true?Take a detour through several short stories, including: A man in the woods hunting the ghost ofhis cruel and wicked father in Hunting Season. A cold-blooded, merciless 911 operator that isanything but helpful in Nine One One. A married couple find themselves harboring a monster intheir bathroom in Swap Meet Soap. An intruder with unearthly, deadly forces toys with a youngboy in Sick Day.Back on the road, Jethro slowly peels back his mask of odd, but kind stranger, revealing thehorror of the true sicko beneath. Spencer comes to realize he's now fighting, not just to see hismother before she's gone, but for his life. Will Spencer become just another tale of warning tonever accept rides with strangers?These stories offer more than just the soft kiss of fright or shiver up the spine, they will plungeyou into a labyrinth of pure terror, seven nightmares that only the ruthless and perverse sickosof each tale control.A psychopath is born every forty-seven seconds, you're bound to run into one.

Sicko

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