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The whole plan is well-intentioned: to give Chris a chance to experiment with his identity. But when Rohan sneaks over for a peek, he’s not expecting to see a gorgeous babe in that storage room—and he’s not expecting to develop so many strong feelings for the secret sissy.

Desperate to spare his friend the pain, Alastair hatches a plan. Instead of revealing Claire’s infidelity, he’ll find Bob someone new—someone better, someone who will make him forget about Claire entirely. But after countless dead ends and disappointing candidates, Alastair realizes there’s only one person he can truly trust with Bob’s happiness: Himself.

Every night at exactly midnight, Nate is overcome by an uncontrollable desire to dress and act like a girl. It lasts only an hour, leaving him confused and embarrassed as the compulsion suddenly vanishes. But when the next night arrives, the same inexplicable urge overtakes him again… and again… and again. Nate doesn’t know what’s happening to him, but he knows when it’s going to happen: between midnight and 1:00 AM. Each night, he’s at the mercy of those strange, unshakable desires.

Jake is the guy everyone wishes they were: a tall, handsome, muscular football hero with a full scholarship and a promising future in the NFL. He has everything. Well—almost everything. His grades are questionable, and an unexpected test might have him flunking one of his more important classes.

Eli is in an awkward position. An injury has sidelined his twin sister, Madison, just a week before the most important figure skating competition of her season. She can’t compete—but she has an idea. Eli used to skate too, before the bullying at school drove him off the ice. Now, if he wants to help his sister, he’ll have to put the skates back on—and slip into a blonde wig and Madison’s tiny, sparkling skating dress.

At nineteen years old, Nicole C. Kear's biggest concern is choosing a major - until she walks into a doctor's office in midtown Manhattan and gets a life-changing diagnosis. She is going blind, courtesy of an eye disease called retinitis pigmentosa, and has only a decade or so before lights-out. Instead of making preparations as the doctor suggests, Kear decides to carpe diem and make the most of the vision she has left. She joins a circus school, tears through boyfriends, travels the world, and through all these high jinks, she keeps her vision loss a secret.

Elusive Cures sheds light on one of the most daunting challenges confronted by science while offering hope for revolutionary new treatments and cures for the brain.

Bobby wants to lose weight, so he’s thrilled when one of the most sought-after personal trainers in town offers him an unbeatable deal. Maeve is determined to whip Bobby into shape using her refined but unorthodox program, which includes her own brand of protein shakes and huge stack of motivational DVDs, which Bobby is supposed to play each night as he goes to sleep. Within weeks, it’s obvious that the program is working. But something else is happening. Bobby’s body is changing—and not just in terms of weight loss.

Damian just landed a dream apprenticeship with a famous luthier. There’s just one issue: it’s unpaid. He needs to find a way to live during his apprenticeship, and weekends at Subway aren’t cutting it. Thankfully, an old high-school classmate can get Damian into an experimental drug trial that pays thirty bucks a day, and more than likely, Damian will be put into a control group and given a placebo. What is there to lose?

Xavier Stone, a well-known investigative journalist, doesn’t normally do client work, but it’s hard to turn down Brian Ashdale Sr., who is desperate to find his lost son. Brian Ashdale Jr. had just turned eighteen when he vanished, leaving behind nothing but a cryptic note. Many have tried to find Brian; none have succeeded.

Nate was just supposed to be the designated driver for his cousin’s bachelorette weekend getaway. He wasn’t supposed to get roped into their games… but he’s had a crush on one of the girls in the wedding party for years: Lexie Matthews. So he can’t help it when they start playing Truth or Dare, and the prospect of sharing a cute kiss with Lexie is suddenly on the table.

Ben is going through a rough patch. He’s even turned to entering contests on social media, desperate for a little bit of money to get him back on his feet. He doesn’t win, but his old friend from high-school, Anthony, wins a big one worth one-hundred grand. There’s just one issue: Anthony entered the contest in Blake, his girlfriend’s name… and now she’s his ex-girlfriend. Back in high-school, everyone thought that Ben and Blake were brother and sister. So maybe Ben can help Anthony to accept that prize money and get a small piece of it.

Bruce thought he was heading to a straightforward meeting about cryptocurrency. But when the wealthy stranger he met in the swimming pool changing room reveals his true intentions, Bruce’s world takes a sharp turn. The man isn’t interested in Bitcoin—he’s fixated on Bruce’s… other assets. And he’s willing to pay a small fortune for Bruce to wear some cute outfits and pose for a strange, provocative photoshoot.

Gene-editing has gone mainstream. Cancer can be erased, limbs regrown—but of course, people are mostly just using the tech for vanity, paying fortunes to become ‘Goblin Girls’, ‘Troll Men’, or Greek-God versions of themselves—just with a simple procedure.

Evan was excited for a quiet week in his boss’s big, beautiful house. He was hired to housesit: water the plants, feed the cat, keep the dog company. But his boss never mentioned Lila, his nineteen-year-old daughter, would be at the house with him. This isn’t a housesitting gig; it’s glorified babysitting. She’s a spoiled transgender princess. A brat. And she’s a flirt, determined to make the week as awkward as possible for Evan.

Since the government launched the Department of Pairing—an AI-driven system that assigns every eighteen-year-old their “perfect match”—society has transformed. Divorce rates have plummeted. Productivity has skyrocketed. People have never been happier. Cameron has spent his whole life waiting for the program to hand him the dream girl he deserves. Instead, on his eighteenth birthday, a government email brings a nightmare: the name of his new husband. And worse, the Department of Employment has matched him with the role of housewife. They expect him to play the woman’s part. Dresses. Makeup.

Bradley just spent a month with Kieran, a foreign exchange student from the United States, and now it’s Bradley’s turn to go and spend a month with Kieran in North Dakota. Bradley can’t wait. Kieran made his hometown sound like so much fun. But the day Bradley arrives in that small town is the same day Kieran is taken to the hospital with a bursting appendix. Now, it’s looking like Bradley is going to be spending most of that month alone with Kieran’s mother. The house is a lot smaller than Kieran had led Bradley to believe, and a whole lot more remote.

Brandon tells his wife, Ellie, that he wants more from her in the bedroom. It turns into a big fight, and Brandon assumes he’s going to spend the next week sleeping on the couch. So he’s surprised when Ellie initiates some intimacy… and she throws a finger into the mix, putting it somewhere it’s never been before. It feels weird, but not unpleasant. Maybe Brandon even likes it. So he lets her do it again the next night, and the next.

Mike made a joke about the way his girlfriend dresses, and now he’s in big trouble. On the way home from an out-of-town wedding, Ellie kicks Mike out of her car, way out in the middle of nowhere. He thinks she’s just bluffing when she drives off… but she never does come back. And to make matters worse: Mike is wearing the tiny dress and heels she wore at the rehearsal dinner the night before. He put it on as a joke at that wedding, right before making the joke that prompted their early exit. Now, Mike has to figure out how to get home, stuck in that dress, with no money and no phone.

An updated edition of the classic introduction to the essential tenets of Calvinistic theology: its history and content, a biblical defense, and a guide to further study.