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"Ross," parts of which appeared in "Evergreen Review," is a created history based on the experiences of the mysterious Ross (T. E. Lawrence) in America, his relations with Billy, a street urchin, and Millicent Molloy, a famous Broadway actress.

Billy, believing he has accidentally killed Ross during a session of flagellation, escapes by ship, pursued by a transvestite FBI agent (Herbert Hoover). He finally reaches Paris, where Gertrude Stein, Alice B. Toklas, Picasso, Hemingway and other notorious intellectuals welcome him with open arms. Billy is kidnapped by Count Czerny, a Hungarian...

Living with the daily torment of desperately trying to forget her father's incestuous nightly visits to her bedroom, and a brutal attack she suffered at the hands of her best friend's brother, Attorney at Law, Esteria Arie Shaw believed she had finally laid to rest past sins committed against her as a child. However, when her teenaged daughter is killed in a tragic car accident, Esteria's life begins to virtually spiral out of control. She goes from believing she had conquered her past and humble beginnings, marrying the man of her dreams and acquiring a life of wealth and splendor, to...

"'I am the last of a dying breed. I have the capacity to dramatically alter your life; I also have the ability to take your life at my leisure. At the minimum, I have the power to do so.""

Sebastian Alzmek has it all.influence, power, beauty, and AIDS.

When he emotionally died a decade ago, he buried an insecure, unattractive individual and erased his past. Now he lives a second life based on society's perception, using his silence to mark his victims and make them part of his secret society of the undead.

Sebastian is on a one-man campaign to remind the world that AIDS is still...

Rhea and Alicia's relationship is still new when they move from the protective environments of the city of San Francisco to the wilds of Australia.

Both women will be tested as an ex-lover and the near death of one of them will make them question their commitment and love.

Will Rhea and Alicia walk away from their love or dig deep within their hearts to unearth the real love they both have for each other?

This struggle will involve family and friends as the two women learn what it takes to be a couple while becoming comfortable with their new life in Australia.

Alexandra Nottingham is caught up in the power politics of the financial world in Raleigh, North Carolina. Her stellar investing acumen rapidly shoots her to the top of her prestigious company, and she dines daily on the NASDAQ, S&P, and Dow Jones financial indicators as though they were licorice sticks from the candy store. Alexandra's name becomes synonymous with prosperity, and she has a prominent client list. Having achieved mammoth professional heights, she bathes in the glory of career success and social prestige.

But darkness soon invades her soul, and Alexandra discovers that she...

"The chanters had formed four rings around a clearing they had made. In the nucleus, eerily lit by the hundred or so candles, were two formations made of what looked from afar to be made of granite. It took Jeremy a moment to figure out that they were tombstones made up to look like coffins. Possibly, once, these were sold as headstones to be placed over a grave. Both of the granite coffins were together on an elevated square on which words had been carved into. Probably the names of the departed. But it what was lying on the headpieces now that caused Jeremy to gawk almost like Sheraton...

"Misty Row" is a fictitious, mist-filled, small town, set in Upstate New York. It is about a prominent, wealthy, African-American family--The Morgans. They have secrets and plenty of them. Deep, dark secrets and many issues. A host of multi-ethnic characters make the story entertaining and an edge-of-your-seat read. At times, it can be very dark, very moody, very colorful and always compelling. The happenings and goings-on in this tiny, smouldering hamlet make for plenty of surprises and much intrigue. The elemental, nightly mist, which filters the town, serves as an ominous backdrop for the...

In "The Boy at the Window," Scott Morgan and Vallie Taylor are two young, gay men who decide they want nothing more than to adopt a child. They contact Happy Home Adoption Services in Albuquerque, New Mexico, to find out what their chances might be to adopt.

They are investigated, finding out they do qualify. Prepared to adopt a newborn or toddler of any race, they find a fourteen-year-old gay teenager, Nicholas, desperately needs a home. They take the time to get to know him and decide to make him their new son. Nicholas is elusive, never smiling and does not make eye contact, but he...

A plane crash in the frozen wilderness of northern Wisconsin leaves only three survivors, and airline stewardess Diana Forrester must shoulder the heavy responsibility of caring for the two passengers--Urbano Rivera and Casey Morgan.

Despite her warnings, Diana can only watch as Urbano and Casey leave the wreckage and trek through the snow and freezing temperatures in search of help. It's not long before Casey returns--alone. Within a few days, the two women's hope of rescue fades, and they struggle to survive.

Back home, Diana's father, Martin, refuses to give up hope. His love for his...

Rifle closed the book and lay it in his coat. He unbuttoned his shirt and slipped it over his shoulders. He walked to the front of the wagon and sat on the axle to remove his boots. He set them under the canvas and laid his shirt across them. In the dark he removed his trousers and slipped into the still warmth below the wagon. He lifted the quilt he d spread there and crawled under it. He closed his eyes and waited. So silently did the canvas flap move behind him, he would not have known it had parted except he felt a cool, fresh breeze from outside the shelter. He felt the quilt lift and...

Jada Williams is about to be the director of a new marketing research division. Her career is soaring, but when she meets the woman of her dreams, hers is pummeling faster than the two can handle. When Jada learns the woman she loves has just lost her job, frustration quickly erupts. Tension running high, Jada lashes out words, but Shanice lashes back with her fists. Nevertheless, Jada promises to make their relationship last. When she learns of the violence Shanice endured in her last relationship, Jada is even more convinced to help her overcome the past. But despite her relentlessness,...

What happens when a seventeen-year-old Chicana from South Texas is dropped into the rarefied ambience of an Ivy League institution?

Emily Diaz has spent her whole life in two worlds. As a child of Mexican parents in South Texas, she had to maneuver the unruly terrain of two cultures, two economic classes, and two languages. At Yale, the discovery that she is in love with a woman sends her into a vortex of self-doubt that fragments her worlds even further. In Boston, she must face the divide between her outward heterosexual world and her internal emotional desires. Finally, she must risk...

During the maiden run of Amtrak's newest, fastest and sleekest train, the Desert Wind encounters a force of nature so powerful it stops the train cold. High in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, extreme cold and high altitude are starting to take their toll on passengers and crew. The avalanche that buried the Desert Wind, like the City of San Francisco decades earlier in the Sierra Nevada's, is about to meets its match. The railroad industry learned a hard lesson with the rescue of the City of San Francisco. Now, with technology not even conceived of only a few decades earlier, Amtrak decides...

"The Haunted Piano"-A piano with strange powers comes between two lovers whose sex life is waning and relationship is falling apart.

"The Nature of Fire"-A young man communicates with a restless spirit and discovers the secret of the specter's violent death, and what happens when the living and dead try to touch.

"The Devil Knows His Own"-Mysterious rites of a backwaters Fundamentalist Baptist Church haunt a young man as he experiences love for the first time.

"Losing My Religion"-The discovery of an early Christian painting in Rome and a meeting with a vampire provoke a crisis of...

"Endings and Beginnings" is the simple yet complex thing called life. We all have a path in life and it is most often dictated by the most basic element of decision. What if there were others whose paths were already preordained? What if there were others who could glimpse into the future and possibly change an entire existence?

"Endings and Beginnings" will show an account of a family who is normal in so many ways while extraordinary in others. Some have special talents while others don't. Yet they all have one ending after another and mostly a new beginning to always follow.

Nafis Jackson is on the come up. Setting neighborhood records, he was the youngest in town eatin' and respected the way he was. After burying his right hand man, things started going downhill for Nafis. His once happy relationship was falling apart, he got knocked, and he gets pulled into a whirlwind of negativity. After his incarceration, Nafis deals with demons from prison while still tryna maintain the lifestyle he did when he was on top of his game. His world comes to a screeching halt when his girl catches on to that ass. Left to explain a lot of who, what, when, where, why and how's...

If one night you met Max Neal, a darkly handsome nineteen-year-old who was turning tricks on the streets of Denver, and asked him what had brought him to this life-he wouldn't have told you the truth.

And he wouldn't have told you about his love affair with power. It was his hunger for power that precipitated the roundabout and sacrilegious journey that led to his popular, charismatic priesthood. But Max eventually learns that power cannot protect him from his destiny. His life soon becomes inextricably entangled with those of three very different priests and a suicidal young vagrant. The...

From the time Elise was fifteen years old, she knew she was different and that society did not embrace her difference. While in high school, Elise existed on the edge of the dating game. After graduating college she makes a decision to change her life. She wants to be the daughter her parents have always wanted. Elise terminates all of her old friendships, dates and becomes engaged to a well-respected young man. For some reason her engagement wedges a gap between Elise and her younger sister. But Elise is too concerned with changing her life to fix things with her sister. Then Elise meets a...

Being an heir to a drug empire doesn't guarantee the life of a princess. In this urban drama you meet Giselle Doran who is a Sexy 18 year old siren that's all about the Benjamin's Money, Clothes and cars are the things she holds dearest to her heart. Her father Big T is a major figure in the drug distribution game giving her only the best of everything. Dreaming of marrying a man of her father's type, his partner Shawn is the man that she wants and gets although without the approval of her brother Akil who's serving prison time. Giselle quickly finds out that everything that looks good to...