27 Authors. 27 Stories. No Names Attached. A bold collection of stories about sex that leaves you guessing who wrote what.

Bestselling novelists Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan present an elegant, international anthology of erotica that explores the diverse spectrum of desire, written by winners of the Pulitzer Prize, National Book Award, PEN Awards, the Women’s Prize for Fiction, Edgar Award, and more. There are stories of sexual obsession and sexual love, of domination and submission. There’s revenge sex, unrequited sex, funny sex, tortured sex, fairy tale sex, and even sex in the afterlife.

While the authors are listed in alphabetical order at the beginning of the book, none of the stories are attributed, providing readers with a glimpse into an uninhibited landscape of sexuality as explored by twenty-seven of today’s finest authors.

Featuring Robert Olen Butler, Catherine Chung, Trent Dalton, Heidi W. Durrow, Tony Eprile, Louise Erdrich, Jamie Ford, Julia Glass, Peter Godwin, Hillary Jordan, Rebecca Makkai, Valerie Martin, Dina Nayeri, Chigozie Obioma, Téa Obreht, Helen Oyeyemi, Mary-Louise Parker, Victoria Redel, Jason Reynolds, S.J. Rozan, Meredith Talusan, Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan, Souvankham Thammavongsa, Jeet Thayil, Paul Theroux, Luis Alberto Urrea, and Edmund White.

Marrick has the most beautiful coal black eyes I do not think that I have ever seen eyes this dark and so black before and his dark wavy hair just flows around his face But I still cannot get over how pale white he looks and I cannot take my eyes off of him

We walk up on to my porch we are now standing in front of my door. He looks down at me and he gently places his index finger under my chin to have me look up at him I do not fight it. There is such a cooling feeling coming from him. He bends his head down so that he can look into my eyes and now he is lowering himself closer to my shoulder.

"Renee, I will make you mine "

He whispers in my ear with a very soft low voice.

I feel his lips dragging on my skin his cool feeling lips I can feel my blood coursing through my body.

I can feel his arms tightening around me so that he can hold me tighter against him all of a sudden I feel a sharp stabbing pain in my neck and I can feel him gently sucking on my skin. I do not know what to do but the pain does distract me of what I was feeling a moment ago

He releases my skin from his mouth and he looks at me once more.

"Renee, I am sorry for what I just did I got caught up in the moment. I wanted to taste you "

He says to me as he looks into my eyes.

I see his eyes they look different somehow they look darker. Then I notice that there is actually blood on his bottom lip his soft pale lips

Is that blood from me?

Josep Pla is Catalonia's foremost twentieth-century prose writer. He witnessed and wrote about some of the twentieth-century's most notable events including the Spanish Civil War and the foundation of the state of Israel. Due to a lack of translations of his work he is only now being discovered by the international audience and will soon join the ranks of major realist writers in world literature. In Josep Pla, Joan Ramon Resina teases out the writer's deep-seated intellectual concerns and challenges the assumption of Pla as an anti-intellectual. Resina condenses Pla's forty-seven volumes of work, including travel books, narrative fiction, and history, into eleven thematic units: including time, memory, perception, life, religion, metaphysics, utopia, and self-delusion. Resina acutely explores the writer's authorial gaze and invites the reader to see the world through the eyes of one of the most underappreciated observers and writers of the twentieth-century.

Creighton King is silent, brooding, and hostile. Annika Volkov still has a crush on him. She is everything he is not: bright, lively, and the heart of every party. What Annika doesn’t realize is that behind Creighton’s quiet beauty lies a dark and violent soul.

Creighton knows he can never outrun his past, so he unleashes his pain on others. He never expected to be drawn to the girl who is his complete opposite. But as Annika tries to break through his walls, he finds himself captivated by her especially after he uncovers her wilder side. Now that he’s obsessed, she will never escape him.

Can Annika bring light to Creighton’s darkness, or will he pull her into the shadows with him?

The first book in an intense, thrilling and erotic, m/m urban fantasy series from an exciting new author in the genre! It's been ten years since Shane Conell sold his soul to the Ice King in order to save the life of the man he loves. Correction, loved. After ten years, it's growing difficult to remember love, and hate, and laughter - until a chance appears to get back the only thing his frozen heart still wants... Drake Young is doing fine. Really. He's got a good job, nice benefits, and the soulless husk of his old lover only comes by to torment him every so often. However, it only takes the appearance of a creature from the Etherworld wreaking havoc on the decidedly nonmagical city streets to drag him out of retirement, forcing him to team up with the one person he can't bear even to look at! Now, Drake and Shane must race against the clock to keep their city from being destroyed, even if it means working together. And no matter how difficult it is to catch the creature, it's a hell of a lot more difficult to resist the urges that ten years haven't managed to kill.

'Bear,' she cried. 'I love you. Pull my head off.'

Lou is a librarian at the local Heritage Institute who lives a mole-like existence, buried among maps and manuscripts in her dusty basement office.

The chance to escape the monotony of her city life comes when she is summoned to a remote island to inventory the late Colonel Jocelyn Cary's estate. Hoping for an industrious summer of cataloguing, Lou heads north.

Colonel Cary left behind many possessions, but no one warned her about the bear. After a tentative start, Lou soon begins to anticipate the animal's needs for food and company. And, as summer blooms across the island, she discovers that the bear might satisfy some needs of her own.

Perfect for fans of Netflix's smash hit 365 days! 'I'm not coming over.' Shey replied confidently. 'Then maybe you could return the favor now.' Wait, he didn't mean... 'Slide your hand beneath your panties and tell me how ready you are for me.' Oh my god, he did. Single Manhattanite Shey Lopez doesn't do one night stands, or have relationships she can't control. Especially if giving in to playboy Calvin Jones means losing her heart in the process. However, Mr Won't-Take-No-For-An-Answer always gets what he wants and there's only so many times a girl can resist such a enticing proposal...

Venus in Furs (1870) is a novella by Austrian writer Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. Intended as an installment in his Legacy of Cain cycle, Venus in Furs has far surpassed the author's other works in cementing his reputation. The work, which inspired Kraft-Ebing to define "masochism," is notable for its exploration of female dominance and male sexual submission. The frame narrative begins with an unnamed man who develops a strong sexual desire after having a vivid dream. Disturbed, he tells a friend about the vision, in which he spoke to the goddess Venus while she was wearing luxuriant furs. In the memoir, which appears to have written by his friend, a man named Severin von Kusiemski describes his love affair with Wanda von Dunajew. Moved by a strong desire, Severin asks to be made Dunajew's slave, and though she denies him at first, she soon grows to take advantage of her power of the man. As she grows progressively more violent in her treatment of Severin, she satisfies his desires while simultaneously learning more about her own. Severin, who describes himself as a suprasensualist travels with Dunajew to Florence, where he invents an identity as a Russian servant and acquiesces to a life of degradation and servitude. When Dunajew meets a domineering and attractive man, however, she begins to question her role as Severin's master, desiring a submissive relationship of her own. Venus in Furs is a semi-autobiographical work describing Sacher-Masoch's details through a thin veil of fictional devices, and remains influential for charting new territories in the representation of alternative sexualities. With a beautifully designed cover and professionally typeset manuscript, this edition of Leopold von Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs is a classic of Austrian literature reimagined for modern readers.

Take one rich girl who has a thing for the bad boys. Take one tough guy who thinks possession is nine-tenths of the misery law. Mix generously with a land dispute and a whole lotta lust.... And what have you got? Sometimes being bad can be just too good to miss.

Irene, a fashionable blonde, has always loved to travel the world. When she gets the chance to go to New York for a year, she grabs the opportunity without hesitation. Excited she leaves Germany to explore the Big Apple. Irene is convinced that she can have it all: a successful career, a happy relationship and a splendid life in the most exciting city of the world.

But she didn't anticipate all the trouble that would come her way. Her colleagues are a disaster and she finds herself in the middle of an affair with a married man whose wife threatens to kill herself. Irene finally finds the courage to break-up with him and meets the love of her life. But her new boyfriend gets cold feet and ends the relationship.

Meanwhile she has to deal with sexual harassment at the office and counts on her good friends that she has made in this fascinating city.

After her mother's life threatening illness, Irene figures out what is really important to her and fights for her dreams.

Originally published in 1936, here is a charming novel of a rural doctor's life, trials, and tribulations. Barter, conniving horse traders, and more face "Doc." Gordon on his rural rounds!

MARY E. WILKINS FREEMAN (1852-1930) was born in Randolph, Massachusetts and died in Metuchen, New Jersey. Among her published regional short fiction and novels are A Humble Romance and Other Stories, A New England Nun and Other Stories, Jane Field, and The Portion of Labor. In 1926 she received the William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters for distinction in fiction. That same year, she and Edith Wharton were among the first women to be elected to membership in the National Institute of Arts and Letters.

A young investigator's search for a news story and her missing boyfriend delivers her into a world of wicked sorcery and kinky desires. It seems such a quiet little village, one unlikely to provide the scoop Mimi needs to make her name. But salacious gatherings to honour the Goddess, Paculla Annia, history's most wanton female, are happening right on Mimi's doorstep. The spirit lives on in the form of Morgana, a luscious priestess who runs a coven of sex-hungry devotees, all schooled in the Dark Arts and moulded in the image of those mythical hunter-savages, the bacchantes. Morgana is assisted by Haydn Shady, a depraved man with an evil disposition and a desire for immortality. Mimi doesn't know it but both Morgana and Shady are coming for her to settle their power struggle - the witch to take her as a lover, the villain to sacrifice her to the hunter girls.

Let Mischief Books seduce you with 'Sex and the Stranger' - a short story collection of casual fun with irresistible strangers. New erotica from Charlotte Stein, Justine Elyot, Aishling Morgan, Elizabeth Coldwell and many more. There are some people you want to seduce, or be seduced by, so badly that nothing can hold you back. There might never be a second chance, and you only live once ... A train commuter trapped between two hot passengers discovers fantasy can become reality, in public. Emma cruises the aisles of a supermarket for a service that comes free to those with more passion than restraint. When Natalie danced naked by the light of the moon, she had no idea she was not alone. Other hot short story collections from Mischief Books include: Submission: A Treasury of Women Who Like to Give in Exposure: Those who Love to Watch and be Watched

Explore the intense pleasures of submitting to female domination. 'In Her Service' includes hot new erotica from Charlotte Stein, Aishling Morgan, Monica Belle, Primula Bond, and Willow Sears. For many men nothing can compete with the intoxicating pleasure of a dominant woman in full control of the bedroom, playroom or office. Meet the empowered women and reduced men who learn to know their place ... and wouldn't have it any other way. Pursuing a female celebrity for a scoop leads one journalist into a humiliating experience he'll never forget. Daisy is a harsh mistress, but when her slaves revolt, her punishment is greater than what even she could devise. Kelly's arrival at a female friend's wedding, involves the renewal of special extra-marital vows that have nothing to do with monogamy.

The sexy allure of the vampire can prove too powerful to resist. Brand new erotica from Teresa Noelle Roberts, Janine Ashbless, Aishling Morgan, Monica Belle and Primula Bond. A short story collection of paranormal lust. When Reynaud and Amanda choose Rose to be their guest, she's led to wonder where nightmares end and fairy tales begin. Carrie's lover and saviour only rolls in at night, on the mist. When a family of ancient female vampires decides to move with the times, a night club provides a bounty of easy prey.

London, 1881. The brilliant Dr Frankenstein has a thriving practice in the city, treating ladies for 'hysteria' and seducing them along the way. Through his pretty chambermaid, Justine, he spies the perfect opportunity to create what he has always dreamt of - a truly liberated woman. When Justine wakes in the laboratory she has no memory of her former life. All she knows is that she has a ravenous sensual appetite and she will let nothing stand in the way of her desires, least of all Frankenstein. Soon Justine finds herself drawn into a world of forbidden delights, first with her female friends, and then with a mysterious young man named William, with whom she feels a strange and unearthly bond. An unbreakable connection that her creator will do anything to destroy.

Lesbian liaisons that make straight women curious and drive men wild. 'Ladies Who Lust' includes hot original erotica from Delilah Devlin, Valerie Grey, Primula Bond, Elizabeth Coldwell and Chrissie Bentley. There will always be something deliciously exciting about the seductions of one woman with another. And Mischief wouldn't be a leading publisher of erotica if it didn't explore these very special feminine lusts. At a company party, while the men talk the wives get down to a different kind of business. In Manhattan, a barmaid called Delilah eagerly entertains a visiting business woman. Consolation can take seductive paths when a woman comforts her girlfriend.