This edition of Jack Ketchum's "Broken On The Wheel of Sex: The Jerzy Livingston Years" is the most complete edition of the "Stroup" stories ever collected together. New introduction by Jack Ketchum: "The Goblin On The Dance Floor." These stories, written from 1976 to 1981, and appearing in various men's magazines and other outlets, offer Ketchum readers a look into this author's formulative years. This is where Jack Ketchum honed his writing craft that has become so well known with his novels The Girl Next Door, The Crossing, Off Season and The Lost. Collected here is his character simply known as the "Stroup" stories written under the pseudonym Jerzy Livingston, which are rare and difficult to locate almost thirty years after the original publications gave them life. "I've called these the Jerzy Livingston years because over half of them were written under that name and the rest under my real one. Somehow Jerzy seems more appropriate for this collection. My adoption of that particular pseudonym was both a joke - a play on words -and a nod to a very good writer, which I hoped some day to be." - Jack Ketchum, from the author's introduction. Also includes Afterwords for each story by the author.

Carpe Diem is full of romance set in the 1980s and featuring classy southern author Julia Evans and her artful blue collar biker friends at a local hang out called the Red Barn. Curious New York city slicker and publishing tycoon Thomas Bartholomew crosses the path of the beautiful, famed southern author Julia Evans. Thomas, who has been divorced several times, loves his Mercedes and hates his neighbors' free-roaming Pomeranian. Now he's on a mission to get Julia to work for his publishing company. After raising two boys alone-having been divorced from her ex-husband James for several years-experiencing hard times, Julia tires to resist Thomas's calls for love, which sets him on a risky affair to a small town to Onslow County in North Carolina. An event sends Julia over the top, and the advice of her best friend, Millie, sends Julia to become an adventurous gal. Seize the moment

Everyone has a dark, erotic side, whether or not they want to admit it. You are invited to explore your most sensual, sexual fantasies through a series of steamy short stories and erotic vignettes designed to arouse your curiosity ... and more. Come along for the ride; it's perfectly safe. How you choose to respond is up to you. You might be bound, gagged, spanked, and inspired-as well as loved, and loved well. Do you dare enter this world? Perhaps this collection will become your hidden secret, or perhaps you will be so inspired that you can't wait to share it with a lover-or a prospective lover. However you choose to enter the fantasy, it is yours to enjoy. These stories may arouse, intrigue, shock, or frighten you. Some might even rub you the wrong way (and you might discover that you like it that way). Do you dare to enter the world of your most intimate, dangerous desires? Celebrate your sensual curiosity and fuel your sexual imagination with this collection of erotic musings. Unleash your fantasies

The beautiful and talented Author Jazz Halster of Atlanta, Georgia was dying to be loved. Jazz was at a point in her life where she had serious doubts about finding that special man. Then she meets former NBA baller and now the iconic head coach of the Panthers in Atlanta, Coach Clayton Dewberry. However; Clayton was enjoying the game of basketball and not looking for love until he crosses path with Jazz. Everything changes within a blink of an eye. Will Jazz find the love she so desired; will Clayton's heart be filled with lust or love for the beautiful Jazz Halster? Author Jazz Halster has no idea that her life would be scripted this way... The stunning and brilliant superstar agent to the stars Liz James had it all, wealth, a business empire, great kids, and a wonderful husband or so she thought she had it all until one night she meets former NBA baller now head coach at University of Miami Kyle Williams. Was it possible to meet someone once and know that you love them? Kyle Williams thought he had the perfect life, money, played in the NBA, now a head coach in Miami; the other sin city, no nagging wife, and free to come and go as he pleases. That is until he meets Liz James. Was it possible to love someone so deep that you were willing to step into another man's territory?

From the first time Charles Crowe, a billionaire architect, saw Sarah Evans, an attorney, walk into the restaurant, he was mesmerized by her grace and beauty, so much so that he made it a point to frequent the restaurant for lunch just to get a glimpse of her. What happens when these two people meet and fall deeply in love with each other and what obstacles do they have to overcome to become united? How do they manage to stay grounded in an affluent environment? This novel is filled with a little mystery, a lot of love, a few surprises, and insatiable passion.

As long as life remains, there's hope;
Thou rustic God, oh hear our prayer,
Great Priapus, I thee invoke,
Temper our arms to dare

Bawdy and sublime, coarse and elegant, decadent to the core and yet permeated with a peculiarly innocent ancient mindset, The Satyricon by Gaius Petronius, Arbiter Elegantiae of the court of Nero, is a controversial work of Roman fiction.

Each one will find what suits his taste, one thing is not for all,
One gathers roses as his share, another thorns enthrall.

The Satyricon is a combination of prose and poetry, aphorisms and erotica. Only a few fragments remain of the grandiose original. Over the centuries a number of skillful forgeries were created to fill in the gaps, in an attempt to elucidate and sometimes surpass the sensual pleasures of the original.

For who knows not the pleasures Venus gives?
Who will not in a warm bed tease his members?
Great Epicurus taught a truth that lives;
Love and enjoy life All the rest is embers.