Wild Reunion

If he loses his mate again, there'll be no coming back. Eleanor McGowan is a piano teacher, hypochondriac, and proud fangirl of the Interstellar Love Connection graphic novel series. She's also had her heart broken one too many times by her high school sweetheart, Will Jaynes. When he returns to Huntwood after being MIA for four years, she can't decide whether to avoid him or kiss him or even better, kick his butt. Mountain lion shifter Will Jaynes has been avoiding his family's territory for one reason and one reason only, and that reason starts with an "E" and ends with a "leanor" and has beautiful hazel eyes and a tender heart. But four years ago, everything was ripped away from him after a pride war—his parents, his territory, and even Eleanor. When danger returns to the Dark Pines territory, Will must fight for his pride's place or lose everything. And if he loses this time, he knows there'll be no coming back. Wild Reunion is the third standalone novel in the Fierce Mates: Dark Pines Pride series. If you like shifter romances with naughty language, strong alphas, and nerdy heroines who don't put up with anyone's crap, you'll love this steamy, action-packed read. Buy Wild Reunion and fall in love with this tough mountain lion shifter today! additional keywords: second-chance romance, shapeshifter, mountain lion, cougar, high-school sweethearts, Washington, Pacific Northwest, small-town, steamy, paranormal series

In 1957, Duke Ellington released the influential album A Drum Is a Woman. This musical allegory revealed the implicit truth about the role of women in jazz discourse—jilted by the musician and replaced by the drum. Further, the album’s cover displays an image of a woman sitting atop a drum, depicting the way in which the drum literally obscures the female body, turning the subject into an object. This objectification of women leads to a critical reading of the role of women in jazz music: If the drum can take the place of a woman, then a woman can also take the place of a drum. The Drum Is a Wild Woman: Jazz and Gender in African Diaspora Literature challenges that image but also defines a counter-tradition within women’s writing that involves the reinvention and reclamation of a modern jazz discourse. Despite their alienation from bebop, women have found jazz music empowering and have demonstrated this power in various ways. The Drum Is a Wild Woman explores the complex relationship between women and jazz music in recent African diasporic literature. The book examines how women writers from the African diaspora have challenged and revised major tropes and concerns of jazz literature since the bebop era in the mid-1940s. Black women writers create dissonant sounds that broaden our understanding of jazz literature. By underscoring the extent to which gender is already embedded in jazz discourse, author Patricia G. Lespinasse responds to and corrects narratives that tell the story of jazz through a male-centered lens. She concentrates on how the Wild Woman, the female vocalist in classic blues, used blues and jazz to push the boundaries of Black womanhood outside of the confines of respectability. In texts that refer to jazz in form or content, the Wild Woman constitutes a figure of resistance who uses language, image, and improvisation to refashion herself from object to subject. This book breaks new ground by comparing the politics of resistance alongside moments of improvisation by examining recurring literary motifs—cry-and-response, the Wild Woman, and the jazz moment—in jazz novels, short stories, and poetry, comparing works by Ann Petry, Gayl Jones, Toni Morrison, Paule Marshall, Edwidge Danticat, and Maya Angelou with pieces by Albert Murray, Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Ellington. Within an interdisciplinary and transnational context, Lespinasse foregrounds the vexed negotiations around gender and jazz discourse.

The Wild Wild West premiered on CBS in 1965, just as network dominance of television Westerns was waning and the global James Bond phenomenon was in full force. Described as "James Bond on horseback," the series was like nothing else on TV before or since--a genre hybrid that followed the adventures of 1870s Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon, on special assignment from President Ulysses S. Grant. The show featured clever gadgets and costumes, carefully choreographed action and fight sequences, and stories that melded elements of Western, science fiction, fantasy, espionage and detective genres. This book provides in-depth critical analysis of this unique, eclectic series, considered one of the primary influences on Steampunk subculture.

The shifters of the Rock Creek Clan find even more suspense, danger, and romance in these three books. Grizzly shifter Ian, a former playboy, falls hard for the quiet bookstore owner who was his one-night-stand. Polar bear shifter Nolan is tasked with protecting his one true love—and she’s betrothed to someone else. Hercules, a dragon shifter, has been struggling to come to terms with the modern world. Falling in love with a human woman is the last thing he wants…but she turns out to be exactly who he needs. If you love steamy shifter romance that brims with suspense, humor, and feels, one-click this collection today!

In a territory of saloons, saddles, and supernatural outlaws, Gracie's posse faces new danger. The orneriest of demon outlaws is on a murdering spree, and she has her sights set on bounty hunter Gracie Boswell. Gracie's used to chasing danger, but danger's a whole lot scarier when Gracie's the one being chased. It's going to take the help of a nefarious necromancer, a fickle fae, and a wayfaring witch for Gracie and her posse to have the smallest chance of survival. Even then, Gracie's going to need to keep a hand on her holster at all times. And her inconvenient feelings for a certain vampire? Well, there's hardly time for any of that when she's busy chucking charms to save her skin. USA Today best-selling author Liza Street adds a thrilling new installment to her western gothic series. Pick up your copy of Blood Banished and join Gracie and her posse for another wild ride through the dark and dangerous west!

Do you have a misbehaving, violent, or otherwise problematic shapeshifter in your pack? Send them to the Junkyard, dumping ground and magical holding pen for unwanted shifters. Filthy Cowboy Stetson, a jaguar shifter, knows he’s exactly where he belongs: in the Junkyard, a place where all the bad shifters are sent. Reading books and fantasizing about the sweet librarian he’s never laid eyes on are his two main pleasures in life. But when Dew shows up, and his dangerous past returns to haunt him, he’ll have to shrug off his quiet, bookish ways and resurrect the beast inside of him in order to save his mate. Filthy Prince Damien knew there was something special about Gabrielle when he first laid eyes on her. The way she pushes his buttons makes his inner wolf howl to claim her. He doesn’t know why she ended their affair after one night, but he’ll do whatever it takes to keep her—and her baby—safe. Filthy Grizzly She’s off-limits. She’s his best friend’s little sister. But his inner grizzly wants nothing more than to claim her as his mate. This set includes Filthy Cowboy, Filthy Prince, and Filthy Grizzly. If you love dirty-talking heroes, smart heroines, and trashy romance, take the "guilty" out of "guilty pleasure" and buy your copy today!

Gracie Boswell's got a charmed bullet, a brand new posse, and a pack of outlaw vampires to kill. The Rift Territory has a big vampire problem—and charmslinger Gracie Boswell aims to be the solution. When a charming local layabout and an old competitor elbow their way into Gracie's posse, she's forced to at least pretend to play nice...but trust is scarce in the west, and smart bounty hunters always sleep with one eye open. This collection includes Blood Bounty, Blood Beast, and Blood Ballad, the first three novels in USA Today best-selling author Liza Street’s gothic western series. It’s packed full of outlaw vampires, sinister fae, and good old-fashioned treachery. Get ready for a wild ride through the dark and dangerous west!