61T Zysk (This Vacant Body) brings us her huggable best with a bunch of cute chibi-bear friends out in the world finding magic, friendship and fun! Sweet Bear has just moved into a new home with his internet famous dog, Potato Chip, ready for friendship and adventure! He quickly meets his new neighbors, Spicy, Salty, and Savory - and with their help he befriends Sour, a weird extra furry guy from the woods, and Umami, a weird guy from the basement. Together, they tackle the everyday strangeness of living in The Big City, where everything is not quite how it seems... (6x9 in - Coated Color Cover and full color interior - 114 pages - 16+ content)
Book 1 Set in the American West in 2071, intolerable heat and violent weather trends have driven the population from the Southwestern states, leaving the people who cling to a fringe existence in this wilderness prey to gamblers and thieves. Chief among the lawless are roving clans of racers who travel as outlaws in this new Wild West. Funded by wealthy stakeholders, the racing clans set new rules of justice within the circle of the banners they fly. Mouse, a talented small town motorcycle mechanic, finds himself kidnapped by a gang of Japanese bikers led by a formidable clan boss, Sadao Koga. The two form an uneasy alliance in a country without borders under the shadow of the Orochi banner. Book 2 Locked up in a decrepit Utah prison and two years into his life sentence for murder, ex-Orochi team Boss, Sadao Koga, must find a way to negotiate his way out of lock-up and back to his team's secret new encampment. Now under the leadership of his former Captain, Ichiro Tagata, the renamed Sasori team ('scorpions') is battling the elements while honing their new snow and ice racing skills in the heart of the Canadian Coastal Mountains. Nestled in cabins and trailers along the frozen edge of a picturesque lake, team mechanic Mouse and his best buddy Lieutenant Lupe (now a successful member of the active roster) wait for news of their lost leader's whereabouts. Impatient with longing for his wounded and imprisoned lover, Mouse must keep the financially struggling team's mysterious natural disasters from upsetting their chance to win big at the upcoming Winter Sports Rally in Squamish. Despite their isolation among the pines, powerful outside influences are rolling dice against the displaced desert racers' futures - many of which have grown from the deep roots of Sadao's war-torn childhood in Japan
In 1781 - French privateers were wreaking havoc on the shipping lanes between Ireland and England. In the King's Navy, fortune and glory could to be found aboard her frigates. Ambitious Lieutenant, Quentin Howell, has just been reassigned to the Stag. Little does he know the adventure that awaits him will be more than he bargained for when he joins forces with Second Lieutenant James Hotspur. The two become fast shipmates in short order sharing the same birth, training the midshipmen for close quarter action and hardening gunnery crews for the heat of battle. When the chase for the privateer Briton ends in a draw, Howell devises a plan to clandestinely board the damaged ship, in a battle for prizes that can only be captured at sea.
American artist Llynx Rufus brings us a light-hearted tale from the Napoleonic War era in Light Horse and Cannon. When Hungarian Voros Macska (his friends call him Paprika) of the 5th Hussars wanders wounded into the Hess-Darmstadt Artillery camp, German Corporal Hans Mintz is eager to tend to his wounds using an aromatic extract from the family PFEFFERMINTZ industry. Get it? Paprika + Mintz = peppermintz? More than just clever wordplay is at stake as these two uncommon lovers share a common secret between them and the flaps of their rain-soaked military tent.
Outwards I In a dry inhospitable future world, the privileged live in big cities while the outsiders are forced to fight for a piece of bread in the desert. Mark Koch, a weapons builder and trafficker lives on the outside in a place known as The Colony within the rusty hull of a buried aircraft carrier. Tough and arrogant, he enjoys his position and free ways with the Colony women until one day he comes upon a stranger collapsed in the sand (Stefan). He takes this young man into the infirmary where he notices a striking tattoo on his cheek – a tribal design that marks this mysterious wanderer as a murderous renegade. Outwards II As Mark's relationship with Stefan heats up, the colony residents begin to notice not all men are being treated equal in Mark's eyes. Jealousy erupts as Mark's followers pressure him into putting Stefan to the test. Can this man be trusted to handle a high-risk delivery of weapons to the City? or will Mark and Stefan's troubled pasts with the privileged sect put them all in danger?
In the fall of 1946, Petty Officer Daniel Myers is assigned to helm the largest ship in the world, the recently commissioned USS Midway aircraft carrier - a floating city of 4500 souls on post-war cold-weather operations in the North Atlantic. His commanding officer - a decorated hero of the Pacific War - Captain Giovanni Bove, is his one guide point in a stormy sea of doubts and hopeless desires. As a young man untested by war, Daniel struggles to earn his place at his captain's side before circumstance drifts them apart.
Samurai 2.0 is a tribute to men and fantasy male creatures by an elite group of 12 international artists. It contains over 70 full-color illustrations and 6 Step by Steps of the artists' works.
In 1939, Johann Imhoff is a young soldat-soldier stationed in Gefangis prison in rural East Berlin. His assigned mission is to guard and translate for Herr Walburg Himmel, a renown German author imprisoned for writing controversial popular novels and sodomy. However, when Himmel's traumatic past unravels itself before Johann's eyes, he struggles to keep his own emotional baggage at bay while maintaining his loyalty to the Fatherland. A poignant story of how love can endure the crumbling of humanity.
The notorious highwayman, John Black, has been robbing wealthy travelers across the English countryside. One night, he robs the coach of Phillip Challonier - son of the rich, powerful and corrupt local Earl. Phillip is captured and held for ransom. Far from frightened, Phillip is intrigued by this mysterious masked robber. As the night unfolds, captor and thief discover a shared past and a shared passion.
As Lt. Det. Esh Voss follows the darkening trail into Mia's death, his fight with insomnia begins to take over. His ongoing problematic relationship with Intuitive Counselor Jonah Leif, is only complicating matters and unlocking even deeper, more painful secrets from his tragic past. Refusing to accept that his nightmare visions may be real, and not just fragments of a sleep disorder, Voss tightens his grip on the tenuous reality he subscribes to at the determent of his own safety and care for those he protects.
The Hourglass bridges the time period between Orochi no Kishi Book 1 and Orochi no Yaiba Book 2 (in progress) in the Yaoi-Revolution novel series. Riding at midnight across the oppressive heat of the Great Salt Flats, Sadao interrupts his mechanic in the garage who is welding in the nude again (with proper safety leathers, of course) and takes him on a moonlight ride up to a cooler mountainside hotspring for a 'break.' Wet, steamy and dreamlike, this encounter soon resonates of something much more powerful and symbolic of the coming time when both men will be forced apart to yearn for a distant reunion.
An inconspicuous bet forces Seiji to move in with his band colleague Yosuke for 7 days. The winner takes on himself to savor his triumph to the fullest - on the first evening the humiliations and taunts begin, to which, contrary to expectations, Seiji does not surrender without resistance. Driven by his desire to exercise power over Seiji, Yosuke does not notice how the situation is slowly getting out of hand ...