Valerie Rochelle's adolescence was spent rebelling against her parents' grand plans for her future. Starved of their affection, she turned to animals for comfort. The special bond she develops with them leads to her becoming a veterinarian. Valerie has blossomed into an attractive, outgoing woman; a fact that does not go unnoticed by the wealthy and fiery-tempered Teddy de Mornay. Both charming and popular, and certainly handsome, Teddy appears to be the ideal man for Valerie. But as she quickly discovers, his smile conceals a rather different nature. One stormy night, Valerie is called out to a remote horse farm in the country, she meets the mysterious but intriguing Wyndhym Ashley Conrad III. Once celebrated for his daredevil ways, Wyn has become a recluse, resigned to keep his terrible secret forever hidden in the mysterious shadows of Stonelair, his country estate. And though Wyn is Valerie's perfect antidote to Teddy's increasing demands, her happiness with Wyn is threatened with the emergence of Wyn's greedy soon-to-be ex-wife, who will do anything to satisfy her powerful lust for his money. For each of them has a past with an unforgiving enemy who will do anything to destroy so perfect a love. From Publishers Weekly"Don't take the ring!" you want to shout, when slithery Teddy de Mornay offers a humongous canary diamond to Valerie Rochelle. Valerie not only had the democratic good taste to drop the "de la" from her own name when she added "Doctor of Veterinary Medicine," she's also a woman of character tender yet tough, loyal and fearless. Alas, Teddy's romantic persistence, backed by a libido that doesn't quit, is persuasive. Then Valerie's pager intrudes: a horse has been taken ill at the mysterious estate called Stonelair, and the plucky vet drives off alone through the dark, twisty landscape. (The cinematic locale of this sudsy romance-thriller, never specified, is a rich Eastern seaboard community with lush scenery, vast mansions and prosperous farms.) It isn't only the stallion Storm Warning that needs healing, however. Laird of the manor Wyndym Ashley Conrad, who was dragged across a field in a polo accident, is scarred body and soul. Before Valerie and Wyn can have their happy ending (this time she gets a green diamond, to match her eyes), they have to do battle with the cocaine-fueled greed of his separated wife, Arielle; the perfidy of major domo Santo Ducci; and the crazed jealousy of one of Valerie's associates, whose rage drives her to murder several beloved pets under Valerie's care. Plausible? Subtle? Inventive? None of the above. But bestselling Gould (Time to Say Good-Bye) knows what makes a yummy, lo-cal summer salad: snaky evil defeated by redemptive true love with lots of hot un-dressing as the thunder crashes. Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information, Inc.From BooklistWealth and lineage have never been enough for Valerie Rochelle. Denigrated for her shyness as a child, she's found happiness, much to her society mother's bewilderment, working as a veterinarian in upstate New York. When Teddy, an old family friend, proposes, her mother is ecstatic, but Valerie is less than thrilled. Nonetheless, she accepts, but her reluctance is exacerbated when she pays a house call to the mysterious Stonelair estate to tend to an ailing horse. She and the estate's new owner, Wyn Conrad, connect on a level that she and Teddy never reach, and she learns that he's a former polo enthusiast who was severely injured in a match and has been a recluse ever since. Telling her mother and fiance that the engagement is off is the least of the lovers' worries as bad things happen to Valerie's friends and a plot against Wyn unfolds. Gould's steamy tale about the lives of the rich and troubled is perfect for a read on the beach. Patty EngelmannCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved Views: 18
I thought I loved Sam. He betrayed me. Now he's gone. I thought I loved my uncle. He doesn't know what love is. He only wants to use me. Who's left? Views: 18
SOMEWHERE THERE WAS A CHILD WHO NEEDED HER... Eliza Eldridge saw through other people's eyes. And now her dreams of a missing little girl were becoming urgent. Eliza couldn't ignore them, and she vowed to reunite the child with her father. While Walker Banacek would do anything to find his daughter, he'd been devastated in the past by charlatans who promised to help him. But when Eliza mentioned a little girl's pink toe shoes -- something only he and his daughter knew about -- he had to wonder. Was Eliza the one woman who could help him...and then love him? Views: 18
Once upon a time, a spell went wrong – and ordinary Joe Jefferson found himself transported to Muddle Earth, where the wizards are mad, the pink stinky hogs are stinky and the lampposts have serious attitude! Now, two years later, Muddle Earth needs him back. But can Joe find the lost Goblet of Porridge and rescue his sister from a thumb-sucking vampire Barbarian, all before a dragon battle breaks out and threatens to toast them all? Get prepared for another epic battle between the forces of good and evil – and everything in between! Views: 18
Rules are suspended and the game's a risky, dangerous one in Pandora's Hideaway - a South Seas tropical paradise owned and ruled by an anarchist and daunting sexual Dominant, Carlos Sanchez. After being caught having sex with her fiancé's brother, Jack, Mariel Fitzgerald's life takes a sudden twist when she begs the black sheep brother to take her with him on assignment to this faraway place with the strange sounding name. Immediately on arrival, she's shocked to find herself in a world where women accept their roles as slaves to men - there to be silenced, exhibited, used and determinedly forced to surrender. Mariel wages war against her unwavering host - and loses. Even as Jack pushes her into compliance, his own submerged and deviant sexual desires find a perfect playground in this out-of-the-way locale. Once Mariel relents to the darkness inside her, she gives herself wholly to Carlos, only to find that behind this paradise of sexual gratification is a sinister game... Views: 18
Private eye Jake Cardigan must derail an insidious plot by the ruthless Tek cartel to replace the US president with an android designed to do the group's dark bidding William Shatner—TV's original Captain Kirk of Star Trek fame—displays another side of his remarkable talent with his sixth science fictional excursion into a future world where the ubiquitous techno-drug Tek rules, and one man remains dedicated to wiping the scourge and its criminal suppliers from the face of tomorrow's Earth. Jake Cardigan, twenty-second-century ex-cop, private investigator, and former Tek user, has been given a special assignment by the head of the Cosmos Detective Agency: to track down the murderer of his daughter-in-law. It is a job that takes Jake and his partner, Sid Gomez, from Los Angeles to the East Coast and into the heart of a terrifying conspiracy surrounding the president of the United States. Unbeknownst to the nation and the world,... Views: 18
She's wanted a big family ever since her distant father and cold stepfamily isolated her from affection. He's an ex-SEAL sniper with PTSD. Too bad she's been told she can never have children, never have a family of her own.Too bad he's shut off his heart from love.What do you do when one secret could bring you ultimate happiness...or destroy everything you hold close?Beautiful Killer is an intense, ultra-sexy standalone novel set in the world of the Lawless Kings. Sherilee Gray's raw, deeply-emotional voice will leave you breathless long after the last page."Shattered King is a sexy, beautiful second chance love story... a truly enjoyable read." - Sawyer Bennett, New York Times bestselling author"Raw, gritty, and full of supercharged sexual tension...SHATTERED KING will break you into pieces right before it stitches you back together again." -Diana Gardin, author of SWORN TO PROTECT, Rescue OP's Series Views: 18
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The perfect life. The perfect marriage. The jilted lover. Their worlds collide. Fate intervenes twelve years later and their paths intersect once again. All three will question whether the heart is truly capable of dividing and being divided; each will decide whether it matters who you loved first or who you love last. Together they will learn that in the end, there can always only be one. Views: 18
Spartan do what they please when it comes to Helot girls and Chara curses the day that Nicias—effectively an enemy of her people—lays eyes on her and decides that he wants her for himself. His attention places her and her family in an awkward position, exasperated by her brother’s increasing where Chara needs to take decisive action to save her family. Views: 18
