Romance
What would you sacrifice to save your marriage? Your hopes... Your dreams... Your pride? Daniel and Sophia are on the brink. Family bonds begin to crack as the circumstances of life drive them closer toward the edge. Grappling to meet their own personal needs, they each pour fuel on the fire. ...
Sierra Fall Featured
Mackenzie Bishop was looking forward to spending the summer in Lake Tahoe. Recently widowed with two young kids, a change of scenery would do them all good. But she never expected Bren Banks to be part of that scenery. Or that he would come to mean so much to her in such a short amount of time. B ...
His Queen Featured
L’AMOUR DE MA VIE The streets are no longer safe in the city. Le Manchot has turned them into a criminal playground. He took her from me once and was lucky enough to escape alive. Now there’s a bounty on his head. Dead or alive, bringing him to me is the only instruction that matters… No loose en ...
Love, Julie Featured
Once, Julie dreamed of a life filled with love and laughter. Now, in her mid-forties, she faces a starkly different reality. She's single, lonely, and reeling from breaking her hard-earned sobriety in front of her family and friends. Opting for self-recovery over romance, Julie dives into plannin ...
I’m stuck as the roommate of a grumpy silver fox billionaire CEO.
I was homeless. Max is my brother's best friend. Just doing a favor.
Ruthless developers are foreclosing on my family’s farm. Desperate.
I left another guy at the altar.
That’s ...
A shy lighthouse keeper who can talk to ghosts. A lonely ghost mourning the losses of the past and hoping for justice. A love strong enough to transcend death. Monty Clark is the new park ranger for the Cape May Light. He hoped to find someone to love who can accept his ability as a psychic mediu ...
Book 5: Undeveloped Love Featured
She’s tried being polite. He’s digging in his heels. When complete opposites feel the tug of romance, will their holiday become a blizzard of delight? Blake Fisher won’t let anyone destroy the life she’s built. So when a silver-spoon-in-his-mouth snob refuses to listen to her proposed deal, the hard ...
Mary Poser Featured
Bollywood meets a modern Southern society in this award-winning sexy and provocative multicultural journey of self-discovery. There's troubled love in Music City, Nashville Tennessee. Despite deeply entrenched obstacles, Southern Belle, Mary, falls for a visiting Bollywood director, Simha Das. A ...
Heart of Faith Featured
Hold onto your aprons, darlings! My brother Jeremy throws me a lifeline: a gig as a personal chef on his billionaire best friend’s luxurious yacht. A quick fix to my financial crisis. Twister alert! Keith, the billionaire hottie and brother’s best friend, was my fling from a year ago. Yes, a one-nig ...
The desire for my inheritance has driven my family to take extreme measures. When my mother found out that I inherited everything, she wanted to destroy me to get it. I ran. Then, I end up in a barn in the middle of nowhere, caught by the most beautiful man I have ever seen. Flint Mayfield. He ...
The Keeper Featured
Can they extinguish the flames of obsession before everything they hold dear is consumed by the inferno? The stakes are high for billionaire Damon Knox when his obsessive ex-fiancée begins stalking him. He never expected his past to catch up with him in such a dangerous and sinister way. After some ...
Loving the Wrong Guy Featured
A runaway bride (almost). Two thousand miles. One perfect road trip.

Forbidden Daddy's Baby Featured
He’s my brother’s best friend My one night stand… And my baby’s daddy… I never planned to lose my v-card to my brother’s best friend, Mason Whitman, on the night of my brother's wedding. I was heartbroken the next day, waking up to an empty bed and a single note. That jerk abandoned m ...
Collision Course Featured
Serve his country or rescue his wife?
Federal Air Marshal Reese Donovan has sacrificed everything he loves to keep another 9/11 from occurring again.
After living apart from his wife, Verity, for a year, the last thing he expects is harrowing news that will force hi ...
Stefan of Caeli Featured
When Stefan Baudin’s mother was brutally ripped away from him by strange guards, he vowed to one day find her. He never expected that his quest would lead him to a hidden kingdom rumored to be a dragon stronghold, or that asking the wrong questions would land him in a dungeon with his dragon magical ...
A Fast Affair Featured
Bad boy race car driver Rafe Turner comes home to heal. Ronni Danken’s a healer, but will she help or hurt? Their worlds collide on the racetrack. Racing was in her blood. The loss of her family fueled Ronni’s desire to drive faster and faster away from that fiery tragedy. He barely survived a life- ...
Lord of the Betrayed Featured
An Earl who fears betrayal, a Lady certain in her affections, a long lost friend, an unhealthy obsession, a love saved from scandal and ruin. Roland Shelton, Earl of Eldwood, has finally allowed himself to trust that he will not be betrayed, to believe that he is worthy of love, and is soon to marry ...
Buttercream and Second Beginnings Featured
She’s almost got the recipe for success, but love might be the missing ingredient.
Callie Jones thought she had everything figured out with her booming bakery and close-knit friends in Peachwood Grove—until her first love, Macon Everette, rolls back into town. The ...
Felix Employed at Pierced Pretties, Felix is used to caring about the needs of others. When Prince Rainier comes looking for a Kitten, Felix is sure he won’t be chosen. Except he is. Not only does Rainier dote on him, he respects boundaries and is willing to let Felix set them too. Felix never i ...
The moment I laid eyes on Stella at the gym, I knew I had to claim her. An instant forbidden attraction too hot to deny. Her curvy backside and seductive smile weren’t just amazing—they were a challenge I couldn’t resist. Our flirty banter quickly turned into the most erotic night of passion, rev ...
Dandelion Summer Featured
Annie Chisholm led the perfect life for more than 30 years -- at least that’s how it seemed to everyone around her. But she and her husband, Michael, knew the truth about their shattered marriage. Eighteen months after her husband's death, Annie still struggles with grief and guilt, unable to ...
Roustabout Featured
A con man and a government agent walk into a carnival… Bartlett Gibson is a necromancer and an agent for the Tennessee Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. He’s hot on the trail of RJ Tucker, a psychic con man who has eluded him at every turn and led him on a merry chase. Pursuit leads to grudgi ...
Three deadly accidents that might have been magical murder. A dark witch with a grudge against the King family. Federal agents with supernatural abilities. And, as usual, Dawson and Grady are smack dab in the crosshairs of trouble even they can’t outrun. When Grady King’s brother Knox is targeted by ...
Protected By A Damaged Ex-SEAL Featured
Surfing gold was my only goal—until an ex-SEAL billionaire heir became my ride-or-die.
I spent the night with a stranger.
Not that...
My Jeep careened out of control.
Jaime Hendricks came running down the beach, half-naked, to save me ...

They Call Me Raven Featured
They call me Raven, she stated quietly. How did you get shot? Raven worked feverishly to help the man that had landed on her doorstep in the middle of the worst snowstorm in years. As Chase heals, she learns more about his mission to save her mountain. Danger is lurking at every turn not only fro ...
A Very Messy Christmas Featured
She makes sure nothing can go wrong. Until he decks the halls with chaos, unusual menus, and romance. Everyone knows Christmas is the most wonderful time of the year. So I make sure it’s absolutely perfect for my B&B guests, even if we’re on the Florida coast instead of the North Pole. With ever ...
Shine Tonight: A Badlands Story Featured
Simon and Vic finally get a night on the town for dinner and a performance at Impressions, a celebrity tribute show. Can Simon stop the mayhem when a haunting threatens to bring down the house in the worst possible way?
Last Love Featured
Welcome back to Juniper Springs, home of gay ducks, Nerdvana, and the LOLS.
Okay, so here's the thing. I'm Liv, the normal O'Bryan sister. I have two kids I'm raising on my own, and I even have what people think is a boring job. Going to Vegas with my insane s ...
Book 1: Grocery Girl Featured
She inhales life with every breath. He’s suffered a world of pain. Can they rise above tragedy to find their happily ever after? Maree Davenport refuses to let a tearful past rule her future. After losing her parents at the age of five, the big-hearted fabric designer is determined to embrace her fe ...
Hat Trick Holidate Featured
I'm eight years into my professional hockey career when I come face to face with my one-night stand from my rookie season. Her auburn hair and full body makes me crave a second helping. Hell, maybe even if a five course meal.
But right now, I have a daughte ...
Secrets cannot be hidden forever; not even by a tech billionaire.
James Hunt is a damaged, scorching hot, alpha entrepreneur. That’s my fault.
Well, not the alpha part.
His tech company made me a job offer I couldn’t refuse.
I took the bait, leaving my secu ...
A newlywed in the Scottish highlands reaches back in time to unearth the story of a lass from hundreds of years earlier. 1695 - Tess Campbell is frantic to escape the arranged marriage her father is forcing upon her. When a galleon docks at the pier where she's to board a boat to her demise, she ...
A Royal Pairing in Perish Featured
June aka Quick Claw I want revenge. It’s been fifteen years since a home invasion changed everything. But I’m Quick Claw now, and everything I’ve trained for has led to tonight—to making the two men who broke into my apartment suffer. That is, until my moment is stolen by Black Coyote, the city’s ...
Perfect Night Featured
In the vibrant streets of London, Charlie is struggling to make ends meet. To afford his mother’s care facility, he’s taken on a risky side job that forces him to sell his body. Life is tough, but Charlie remains resilient, finding solace in the camaraderie of his four best friends.
When ...
Matt Featured
Will they embrace the love that could be theirs, or will the past steal their future? Rachel had the job of her dreams until it turned into a nightmare. She sees something she shouldn't, and now, she's desperate and running for her life. But when she gets to Serenity Bay and meets doctor charming, s ...
Brandon Davis is a psychic and a moose shifter. He makes his living as a wilderness guide in Fox Hollow, NY—a town that is a haven for misfit shifters and psychics. Brandon has a profitable business, a found family of close friends, and a cozy cabin in the woods. Life is good, but he wishes he co ...
Lord of the Lamented Featured
An Earl declared a war hero, a widow stricken with angry grief, a plot conceived in despair, lies and deception which might undo everything good in their lives, courage and forgiveness which lead to unexpected love at Christmas.
Martin Luckett, the Earl of Truharton, was injured at Waterl ...
Book 4: Take a Chance on Love Featured
When their friendship develops into more, will they find the courage to take a chance on love?
Faking a Fairy Tale Featured
She always dreamed of being Cinderella… Just not with him Bridal editor Daphne Ballantyne despises her handsome yet infuriating colleague Jack King. In fact, their workplace feud is legendary. But when a juicy magazine assignment requires going undercover as a blissfully engaged couple, both Daphne ...
In Fine Form Featured
He was in fine form until life—and love—threw him for a loop... Declan Doyle is ready for a change. He’s finally going to put his couch-surfing, job-hopping, responsibility-free days behind him. So, when his best friend’s sister offers room and board in exchange for home repairs, he jumps at the ...
Supernatural historian and goat shifter Adiel Nielson moved to Fox Hollow to write about the town's unique history as a haven for shifters and psychics. He never expects to encounter the cute guy he flirted with at a rest stop—or to discover that Joel is a shifter as well—and the photographer assign ...
Reckless Mate Featured
Not everyone is what they seem. Sometimes that’s good and sometimes not. Kyra My life is… complicated. I’m a deputy in the small town of Mystic River; my boss used to be my lover; and my brother is the local gangster. If that isn’t enough, Scott, the town’s very sexy baker, has told everyone ...
Peacemaker Featured
Secret agents, forbidden love, danger, and magic! Supernatural Secret Service agents Owen Sharps and Calvin Springfield meet on the train to their new assignment in St. Louis, and sparks fly between them. But it's 1897, and they need to be very careful—falling in love can be dangerous for men lik ...
Trusting Her Duke Featured
Alexander Cavendish, Duke of Ravensworth, returned from war to find that his father and brother had followed his mother into death, leaving him to protect his sister, and manage the estates. He retreated into a rigid and rather harsh approach to the world, and despised what he saw as ‘charitable ...

Savage Warrior Featured
In the aftermath of a devastating accident that claimed the life of his friend, Stefan Romansque - Rome - finds himself consumed by survivor's guilt, clutching onto it like a suffocating cloak. His sole intention is to tend to his wounds in seclusion, but his plans are abruptly shattered when he dis ...
SHE BRINGS BEAUTY TO ME Featured
A woman deserted. A troubled warrior. A passion denied. 1855. When eighteen-year-old Czanna Fehér is forced to flee her home in Hungary, she journeys with her younger siblings and her father's manservant to Montana in search of her cousin. Mourning for her recently deceased parents, she sings a p ...

A humorous romantic women's fiction novelette... When Marley Peters, a non-profit owner who helps the underprivileged, thinks her husband is cheating on her with her best friend during the holiday season, she prepares for a life without her other half and a business without her partner and friend. B ...
Don’t look back. How hard can that be? Siren Descending, a contemporary paranormal romance, reimagines the Greek myth of Orpheus. Athenia must avoid his tragic mistake, but it’s not as easy as it sounds. Sea Witch Athenia betrayed Thorne by stealing his mage gifts and abandoning him to suffocate in ...
Tolkien fan Amanda isn't just the most efficient worker at the advertising firm, she's also the iciest. At least toward Calvin the consultant and perennial player. He's sown so many wild oats, he could qualify for a farm loan.
So, right before Christmas, when they're stuck in ...
Two broken hearts. One happy ending.
Phoebe McAllister is back in Swan Falls with one goal: pack up her late parents’ home, sell it, and leave. If she doesn’t, the fashion boutiques she’s poured her heart into could collapse, and financial ruin will follow. But her estranged brother, Dami ...
Stephen, a young, disembodied soul is sent to the earthly plane by his spiritual master. After his harrowing previous life in flesh, he is petrified. But it’s part of the plan. ‘Every soul must fall into flesh to learn and grow.’ The words of the master ring in his ears—there is no escaping his sojo ...
Scarlett is just trying to survive with her nephew in tow, hoping one day someone will want to marry her. Everything changes when she meets a former musician at the music camp she finds work at.
Ana’s worst nightmare came true, but for once she’s not fleeing - she’s coming home. At least, that’s what she keeps telling herself. Numb from exhaustion and overwhelming heartbreak, she returns to her native New York to track down Sam, her long lost childhood best friend. They were each others’ on ...
Ethan Bell fell in love at Christmas Tree Falls ten long years ago. He’s never forgotten that big, cuddly bear of a man and fondly recalls their ski resort romance. Now, he’s miserable in what was supposed to be his dream job and has no clue how to fix his situation. When Ethan gets a mysterious let ...
TWELVE DAYS TO LOVE
When Archer Steele shows up at Calanthe Durand's failing plantation with an alligator over his shoulder, Cali thinks she's never seen a more handsome man. During the war she had to defend herself and her servants from both union and confederate soldiers. Independent and self ...
On the day that Layla Franklin is promoted to manager of the Pinwheel Plant Shop, she discovers her first business meeting will be with her billionaire ex-boyfriend, ceramicist Bradley Marconi. Five years prior, when Layla had to drop out of art school to support her disabled mom and her younger b ...
Black hearts and steel horses, we live to ride and protect our own.
I’m the man in charge, feared and respected. With my identical twin by my side, I’m riding high and living the best damn life anyone could ask for. That is, until Leviathan calls me with a mission and takes my twin from m ...
Author Jamie Beck returns with an engrossing series about family, friendship, and starting over. In this first Cabot novel, a legacy of secrets tests old friends seeking a second chance at life and love. On the second anniversary of her husband’s suicide, Colby Cabot-Baxter is ready to let go of her ...
Christmas is a time for kisses under the mistletoe, swirling silk gowns, and dances with one's true love under the glittering candlelight... This wintery holiday collection of seven never before published Regency romances by seven of your favorite historical romance authors will bring you dreamy ...

Laying it all on the line for love... I’m tired of being good. Achieving geek status at college doesn’t equate with fun. So when I head home to my dad’s tennis academy in Santa Monica on spring break, I’m determined to be bad. And hot Aussie tennis star Kye is just the guy to help me do it. However, ...
What if hitting rock bottom sparks your greatest adventure?
In the heartwarming third installment of the Highlands Christmas Romance series, Melissa Mackenzie is on the verge of fulfilling her dream of owning a charming Scottish home. Just as she celebrates signing the fi ...
I’ve always been a player. A football player, that is. In the dating game, though, I only have eyes for one girl. Sydney Porter, team publicist MVP, all-around hottie…and my ex-girlfriend. But Christmas comes early for me and I’m traded back to my home team mid-season. Of course, I run straight into ...
Calvin and Owen face their first Christmas together. Will memories bring them closer or push them apart? Calvin Springfield and Owen Sharps are partners in the Supernatural Secret Service, and now lovers. As their first Christmas together approaches, planning the big meal shows how different thei ...
On paper, Luke's life seems perfect. He's ridiculously handsome, super successful, and the ladies love him. Too bad he's miserable with a job he hates and a long history of disastrous relationships. When the hot librarian across the hall offers to give him boyfriend lessons one drunken night, he can ...
A ghost, a missing book, and a confused fox shifter librarian add up to a fluffy Halloween short story.
Book Two in the "Impelled" Series: The night of the Million Dollar Grand Prix and Twin Oaks Farm’s end of season party was a night that would change Emma’s life forever – in more ways than one. As her working student position comes to an end, she once again has to make a decision about her future. A ...
Where secrets go, distrust follows. Can two lonely people let go of past hurt and learn to trust again? Single mom, Cassie Verano, and her two young daughters move to small town Worthy, Ohio to be near her brother and his family. She longs to raise her daughters without her ex-husband’s family’s ...
“No one can ever know I met my new client when I was buck-naked holding a dead rat. Elmer, Texas is too small a town. I’d never survive the gossip.” Cameron Morgan has been single mom extraordinaire for the past sixteen years, with the town of Elmer as her trusty sidekick (it takes a village, af ...
Marry Me is a steamy contemporary romance where Dylan McClain, world-renown television and film bad boy, is paired with the beautiful, if not slightly tragic artist, Andromeda Devlyn on a reality television game show called Marry Me. On the show, a star is partnered with an unknown fan or mi ...
When a strange Nerei carries an unconscious and badly injured Bas in from the Aegean Sea, Nik knows she must get him to an island in the Atlantic where a hidden spring of healing water will restore her Nerei (merman) lover. At the same time, her adoptive father is dying from a boating accident in ...
A Doms of The Cage Prequel Novel
Ever wondered where your favourite Doms and subs played before The Cage opened?
Delaney MacDonald is a bratty sub of the highest order who has never fully submitted to a Dom in all her years of kink.
After spending months trying to cr ...
Clayton Sinclair had moved back to his hometown in Middleton, Colorado for one purpose - find the curvy woman he’d been fantasizing about since high school and stake his claim. His mission didn’t prove as difficult as he’d thought as fate stranded his curvy beauty on a rooftop just waiting to be res ...
Stealing Time is a fast paced time travel thriller set during the turbulent hurricane season of 2004. As Hurricane Charley churns a path of destruction towards Orlando, Ronnie Andrews and her best friend, Stephanie McKay, scramble to prepare for the storm. Ronnie seeks shelter at her boyfriend's wea ...
Midnight on the Midway
Supernatural secret agents, vampires, and veterinarians!
Drake Carlson is an agent for the Federal Bureau of Supernatural Investigation. He’s psychic and gets visions of alternate realities. Drake is tracking magical Mafiosi involved in paranormal crime. On ...
She’s building a future. He’s chasing the truth. Can two wounded hearts open a window to trust? General contractor Jess Winters had to work twice as hard to make it to the top of her male-dominated field. So her sterling reputation can’t handle any mistakes in front of the guys—which means absolu ...
Hope and Alex… Two wounded hearts meet in an island paradise. Can a reluctant spark become an unbreakable destiny? After her predictable and carefully ordered life is upended, Hope Collins is desperate for change. This comes when she unexpectedly wins a scuba diving resort on the Caribbean island of ...
In the novel "Broken Trust," you will follow Jenna's journey as she tries to rebuild her life after being betrayed by those she trusted the most. She has to resort to deceit to survive, but things look up when she meets Mark, a wealthy businessman who takes her under his wing. J ...
'Almost Famous' meets '10 Things I Hate About You' with elements of 'Queen's Gambit.' By the time she gets to uni, Lin's experienced more sexual awakening than any teenage girl ought to have done, courtesy of touring with her dad’s rock band, a stint at a strict convent school, and an enlightening S ...
Four rockstars. One assistant. No escape.
I never wanted the spotlight. I’ve perfected the art of blending into the background as Crimson Riot's assistant. But when a freak snowstorm strands us in a remote cabin, there’s no hiding from Austin’s cutting glares, Jai’s soulf ...
Jade wants to give up on life. Battling the darkness inside her and the expectations of her Malaysian Chinese mother, Jade retreats to her bedroom and talks to a fictional counsellor - Deanna Troi from Star Trek. When Jade meets Rory, a charismatic local musician, their budding new friendship promis ...
SHE MAY BE LESS THAN PERFECT . . . BUT PERFECT FOR HIM Annie Warden is too tall and too skinny. But she has the perfect body type for a high-fashion model. When she’s not walking runways around the world, her free time is spent volunteering for a greyhound rescue group where she meets a widower a ...
I hate Grayson Knight with a passion. Ever since he pulled a prank on me as kids, I’ve kept him in the mortal-enemy category, and we both prefer it that way. Now we’re seniors in high school and he’s still the same immature jerk. I avoid him as much as possible, but when an argument turns ugly and l ...
When Sophie’s Europe plans are cancelled, she pivots to a job as activity director at Christmas Tree Lodge. The same lodge where she was proposed to three years earlier. To a guy who dumped her in a text! Enter Sam who is there with his four-year-old daughter Can they get past their hurts and st ...

From Book 1: The head of Orsino Security was hired to protect her for a week. Instead, his bear wants to claim her forever.
It takes one look for bear shifter Salvatore Orsino to know that Natale Durante isn't just his client… shes his mate. His first instinct is to lay Natales ...
When a new stepmom joins the family, Jenny and Marianne's lives reel. Things look up when Jenny makes a new friend, but fall apart soon when she's caught smoking dope at school. Marianne is elected cheerleader, hoping this will provide the popularity she craves. But the head cheerleader resents her ...
The perfect beach read, an afternoon read or a just because read!" -Nerd Girl Official, reviewer Stephenee. This complete box set contains all five stories from The Summer Sisters family series: Book 1: Falling for the Movie Star One picture. One tabloid. Two lives changed forever. Hailey Summer doe ...
A decades old party invitation and a long-ago tragedy converge on a Halloween night, creating the opportunity for Erik Mitchell and his boyfriend, Ben Nolan, to put the ghosts of the past to rest.
A young woman undertakes a perilous journey from the Australian goldfields to the Yorkshire moors. In 1854, the Australian goldfields swirl with the heated danger and betrayal of the Eureka Stockade rebellion. At the center of this maelstrom is Melanie O'Dea, a woman with a price on her head and the ...
A runaway bride. A jilted groom. Will one night in Las Vegas lead to a second-chance romance? Flora: ‘I do’ just became ‘I don’t.’ And now I’m doing the 100-metre sprint out of the chapel, straight into the arms of the biggest, broadest, sexiest stranger Las Vegas has ever seen. But a perfect o ...
As Blowing Rock, NC’s JOY Radio talk show host, Everly has discovered fulfillment, but she hasn’t found love, at least not for her—not even from her mother.
Everly Johnson is every man’s dream of the perfect date, even though her audience has never met her. As host for the EnJOYing God’s ...

Looking to improve your English language skills while indulging in some heartwarming romance?
This collection of ten beautiful love stories is the perfect way to brush up on your English while immersing yourself in tales of love, passion, and heartache.
Each story is carefully cra ...
Gavin is helping one of his best friends, Dario, navigate through depression with the help of another friend, Rayland. The three did everything together until high school ruined the bond. Something happened to Gavin that puts his friendship with Dario at risk. When it ...
Love, Duty and Sacrifice.
Spring break in Campbell Falls was supposed to be my last taste of freedom before an arranged mating to a man I despise.
But today, I met Sol Cade, the charming and extremely sexy owner of the local bar.
We are Fated Mates, and th ...
Orin believes he isn't worthy of love and spends his life trying to be what he perceives as the perfect and most desirable human.
Orin decides he needs to accept himself as is before someone else can. All seems well until one momne ...
He lives in the spotlight. She hides in the shadows. With secrets and a spark between them, can they escape to forever? Max Davenport craves a break from the press. Constantly on the run from paparazzi and over-enthusiastic women, the football star takes to the small town of Green Hills to embra ...
Raccoon-shifter Mico Foley drives a garbage truck in Fox Hollow, a job that keeps a roof over his head while he pursues his true passion—creating art with found objects. He fears he might never find a mate—until he falls hard for the sexy new baker in town. But will a hottie like that fall for a guy ...
When Chad Garrett offers psychic sleuth and restaurateur, Daisy O'Connor a ghost-busting gig with a fat paycheck, she dives into the supernatural deep end. The only catch? The ghost, aptly named Mr. Sandman for his nocturnal visits, can't remember his own name or how he ended up ghosting around.< ...