Cecilia Tan

""Cecilia Tan has written a Yankee Doodle Dandy of a book. The reader is taken through the dramatic ebb and flow of the 50 greatest Yankee games. We learn a lot about the team from the Bronx in this fact-filled, entertainingly written opus. Should be required reading for all fans of the New York Yankees."" --Harvey Frommer, author of A Yankee Century and The New York Yankee Encyclopedia Every Yankee fan has a memory they will never forget or a game they wish they had seen. Covering an entire century of New York Yankees baseball, The 50 Greatest Yankee Games brings together the best (and sometimes worst) moments experienced by the most successful sports franchise on the planet. You'll be there as: * Babe Ruth performs the most debated gesture in sports history * Joe DiMaggio reaches one milestone on his way to another * ""The Wild Man"" tames the Dodgers, but the Bombers fail to score * Bobby Murcer delivers the game-winning hit just hours after delivering the eulogy at Thurman Munson's funeral * Dave Righetti throws his no-hitter against the Red Sox * Don Mattingly shines, but Seattle savors the day * Derek Jeter saves the game and the season with a ""shovel pass"" From the Yankees' first World Series to the pennant race that pitted Joe DiMaggio against Ted Williams to the Bucky Dent home run game, you'll have the best seat in the stadium as you experience all the excitement and drama. Featuring fascinating anecdotes and vintage photographs, The 50 Greatest Yankee Games is the perfect book for every Yankee fan and anyone who cherishes the game. ""Tan does a fine job choosing the most important contests from 100 seasons of Yankee baseball and recounting them in a gripping style . . . developing entertaining, dramatic story lines."" --Publisher's Weekly

""Cecilia Tan has written a Yankee Doodle Dandy of a book. The reader is taken through the dramatic ebb and flow of the 50 greatest Yankee games. We learn a lot about the team from the Bronx in this fact-filled, entertainingly written opus. Should be required reading for all fans of the New York Yankees.""--Harvey Frommer, author of A Yankee Century and The New York Yankee EncyclopediaEvery Yankee fan has a memory they will never forget or a game they wish they had seen. Covering an entire century of New York Yankees baseball, The 50 Greatest Yankee Games brings together the best (and sometimes worst) moments experienced by the most successful sports franchise on the planet. You'll be there as: * Babe Ruth performs the most debated gesture in sports history* Joe DiMaggio reaches one milestone on his way to another* ""The Wild Man"" tames the Dodgers, but the Bombers fail to score* Bobby Murcer delivers the game-winning hit just hours after delivering the eulogy at Thurman Munson's funeral* Dave Righetti throws his no-hitter against the Red Sox* Don Mattingly shines, but Seattle savors the day* Derek Jeter saves the game and the season with a ""shovel pass""From the Yankees' first World Series to the pennant race that pitted Joe DiMaggio against Ted Williams to the Bucky Dent home run game, you'll have the best seat in the stadium as you experience all the excitement and drama. Featuring fascinating anecdotes and vintage photographs, The 50 Greatest Yankee Games is the perfect book for every Yankee fan and anyone who cherishes the game.""Tan does a fine job choosing the most important contests from 100 seasons of Yankee baseball and recounting them in a gripping style . . . developing entertaining, dramatic story lines.""--Publisher's Weekly

Vampires have always been creatures of the margins between life and death, terror and desire, the forbidden and the irresistible. In Blood Kiss, seven masterful storytellers plunge deep into the erotic heart of the vampire mythos, embracing its sensuality with fearless delight. For centuries, the vampire has been cast as the ultimate seducer: a being for whom hunger is intimate, the chase a dance of flesh and instinct. Once condemned as sinful, the vampire's sensual nature now reveals itself as a celebration of the body-its power, its surrender, its exquisite vulnerability. These stories revel in that primal allure, exploring the magic that flickers where blood meets desire. Unbound by mortal rules or narrow proprieties, the vampires in these pages cross boundaries of gender, orientation, and appetite. They seduce men and women alike; they are gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, kinky, and gloriously transgressive. Their desires run as deep as their thirst. Here, fear and lust intertwine-just as they always have. The "little death" of orgasm, the immortal spark of erotic power, the dangerous ecstasy of the bite: a vampire's embrace may mean death, eternal life, or both in a single, shuddering moment. These tales delve beyond gore and fear to illuminate the lush, seductive undercurrent that has always pulsed beneath the vampire legend. In Blood Kiss, fear becomes excitement. Predation becomes seduction. Death becomes eros. Step into the night. Let yourself be bitten.

Dark magic threatens the BDSM community in New York. Good thing Mira's got her boots on and a whip in her bag. Mira is a massage therapist in New York City. Still stinging over the betrayal of her ex, she puts on her corset to attend a kinky club night and gets far more than she bargained for. She meets a new playmate who seems to satisfy her every whim, igniting desires she had thought were dead. Clive is a thrillseeker whose favorite place to get an adrenaline rush is on the receiving end of a whip, or while kneeling at someone's feet. Mira seems like Clive's sweetest dreams come true. But Clive harbors secrets. An underground society of ritual sex magic practitioners is recruiting him, and neither Clive nor Mira are prepared for what happens when Clive's dark powers are unleashed. Caught up in a battle between good and evil, Mira and Clive grow ever closer, but can Mira solve the mystery of Clive's darkest memory in time to save him... and maybe the world? Bound by the Blood combines paranormal romance with dark contemporary romantasy into a spicy thrillride.

In book form for the first time Daron & Ziggy and the ultimate relationship stress-test "Sex is easy to get," Ziggy tells Daron in this volume. "Companionship is harder."When it's time to get off the road for a while, Daron and Ziggy are ready to try something new: moving in together. After all they've been through, Daron has a deeper understanding of their relationship and a greater appreciation for Ziggy's hidden emotional depths.Meanwhile, Ziggy is learning that stability doesn't automatically mean there's no spontaneity or spark.But emotional challenges await them at every turn.And Christmas is coming up fast. The holiday season has always been an emotionally fraught time for each of them. What happens when they have to spend it with Daron's estranged mother and older sister? The ultimate stress-test of their relationship has arrived.

A slow-burn gay romance about rock stars in the 1980s."I don't know why I was nervous for the first day of auditions. I was not the one trying to get agig."With these words, Daron begins the story of putting together a new band for Ziggy, and preparing to go on an international tour with the "Ziggy Moondog" show. Daron is working himself to the bone to make everything click: the music, the show, and their love life.But his obligations to tour with Nomad have Daron on the road just when he wants to be glued to Ziggy. Can they maintain the passion and commitment to each other when they're thousands of miles apart? Daron has got to find a way to make love work. This is volume ten of the award-winning series about a rock musician coming out and coming of age in the 1980s and 1990s.

A SLOW BURN GAY ROCK STAR ROMANCEThe year is 1991, and the guitarist known as Daron Moondog stands at a crossroads between music and love.Daron is trying to keep everyone in his life happy-himself included-but the hustle of the music business is starting to take its toll. He's composing and recording soundtracks, writing songs for other bands, working on fundraisers, and Remo needs him on tour with Nomad. This is all great for Daron's bank account, but what about his heart?What about Ziggy? The singer who broke Daron's heart.Ziggy has a major solo album in the works, and has plans for a major tour. And he wants Daron as his music director.Ziggy always wants more.This is volume nine of the serialized internet phenomenon that had legions of readers leaving advice for Daron every week and questioning his questionable life choices.

Romantasy has taken over our book loving-world and there are dragons among us like never before from Game of Thrones to Fourth Wing.But dragons have been present across almost all human culture: from the classic fire-breathing and princess-coveting dragons of Western Europe to the wise and noble dragons of East Asia to the great monstrous lizards of Greek mythology to the feathered serpents of South America. In this anthology, the authors explore the more erotic side of dragon lore. What of sensuality at the border between earth and sky, what of the myths of kings and emperors being literally descended from dragons, what of dragons who take on human shape to learn mankind's ways? Humans and dragons have existed side by side since nearly the beginning of time-surely their desires must have crossed at some point. Like a Breath of Flame contains nine short stories that explore the theme of scaled sensuality from a variety of different perspectives. In this anthology you'll find tales of lonely mountain dragons with exotic tastes, dragons with the power to slip into their lover's dreams, shapeshifter dragons, unusual interpretations of the term "dragon rider," dragon-as-devil and dragon-as-god... and, yes, no less than two versions of the virgin-sacrificed-to-dragon story, each with their own unique twist on the tale. These stories of serpentine sexuality are certain to delight the senses. This anthology includes stories by KJ Kabza, Julian Oliver-Fenn, Dean Scarborough, Kannang Feng, Steven Schwartz, Dominic Santi, David Hubbard, Kimber Camacho, and Nobilis Reed.