A TOP 25 OVERALL BESTSELLER AT BARNES AND NOBLE AND AN AMAZON US TOP 50 EROTICA BESTSELLER!HOW FAR WOULD YOU GO TO GET THAT PROMOTION?Hardworking Susan Chalmers is 29 years old, ambitious, and desperate to be promoted to Vice-President, but her hated company rival is getting an edge on her with the boss. Then Channing Crawford - the reclusive billionaire company CEO - makes her an indecent proposition. For one week, she must submit to his every sexual command - no matter how bizarre and foreign to her sensibilities. In return, he will give her what she craves.But Susan hasn't counted on Channing himself affecting her so deeply. He's extremely handsome, unpredictable, unknowable and dominant, but there are also whispers about his mysterious and unsettling past. Susan is about to be swept into a world she has no control over.HIS INDECENT PROPOSITION is the first volume in the 'BOUND AND SHACKLED TO THE BILLIONAIRE' BDSM series. At 10,000 words, it chronicles the beginning of a strange but compelling erotic romance.BOOKS IN THIS SERIESHis Indecent PropositionHis Indecent DemandsHis Indecent DesiresHis Indecent SecretsHis Indecent RevelationsExcerpt:"I have a proposition for you, Susan Chalmers," he says calmly. His gaze rakes her face again.The gnawing apprehension bubbles over in her stomach.Oh what oh what is he going to ask me to do?He says, "I have seen you around and taken note of your progress in all these years."You have? She's astonished. "I believe you have the ruthless ambition to make things happen for yourself.""I do, Mr. Crawford, I do." This comes out in a bit of a rush.He leans back in his chair, and it creaks with protest."You see, I have certain personal needs. I'm looking for the right woman to fulfill them, and I believe you have the characteristics to tend to my needs, Susan."She can't believe what she's hearing. Her jaw drops."Wh-what kind of needs, Mr. Crawford?"He steeples his hands. "Let's just say I enjoy taking a strong-willed, ambitious woman like yourself and molding her into someone who will bend the knee and obey my every command. Are you that woman, Ms. Susan Chalmers?"The proposition dangles in front of her like a carrot on a stick.This can't be happening, she thinks. This is surreal. Channing Crawford wants her in the physical sense? He who is unattainable and lives in the clouds, who is secretly desired by every woman in the company, only they are too afraid to even speak of it?Bend the knee.It sounds deliciously depraved . . . and yet tantalizing. Her terror surfaces again."Wh-what's in it for me, sir?" "I will be making a decision on the Vice-President post by Friday next week. Leonard Drake, a fine upstart individual with extremely impressive paper qualifications and a track record that dwarfs even yours, is your main contender - as you no doubt have acceded. He has promised to bring in the Buchanan contract by Thursday next week."He lets this float in the tension-filled air between them.The Buchanan contract? Her spirits sink. The Buchanan contract is the Holy Grail of contracts - the biggest, most notoriously sought among them. Edward Buchanan is a recluse whose company is worth eighteen billion dollars.A recluse who donates generously to the church."I see," she says, the pit of her stomach caving in. How can she possibly compete with that?But that's precisely the point. She can compete with it.Her voice is shaky as she says, "What would you require me to do, Mr. Crawford? And for how long?""Let's make it until Friday, Susan Chalmers. As for what I require . . . well, let's just say you will do my every bidding . . . my every command." His crystalline blue eyes bore probingly into hers.She licks her lips nervously. "And would those . . . requests . . . be sexual in nature, sir?"He waits a beat before answering, "Yes, for most part."From the AuthorThe story of this novelette's charting on the bestseller lists is painful to me. 3 weeks after its publication, 'His Indecent Proposition' hit No. 62 on the Barnes and Noble overall bestseller charts. On the very next day, it was pulled from the charts and a thousand points was added to its rank (No. 1053). This despite it selling more copies than another book of mine which has entered the Barnes and Noble Top 100 ('A Virgin Enslaved' by Artemis Hunt at No. 72).After checking with my author friends, I was told that Barnes and Noble does this periodically to erotica as they do not want erotica besmirching its front pages together with the Harry Potters and Hunger Games. I find this unfair because 'His Indecent Proposition' has the same kind of story structure (same, but different) as 'Fifty Shades', and nothing has been done to derail 'Fifty Shades'.Barnes and Noble have since admitted their 'error' and reinstated the novelette. It went on to hit No. 22 in their overall bestseller charts. Views: 18
DCI Henry Christie, taken off an anonymous murder case and transferred into a dead-end desk job, leaps at the chance to investigate the brutal killing of an ex-cop turned sleazy private eye. At first Christie thinks he will have no trouble identifying the killer, but as he investigates, he stumbles into a plot by Muslim extremists and finds himself plunged into the world of international terrorism. Christie faces his toughest challenge yet as he tries to head off one of the world's most ruthless assassins who has never yet been caught - and who has never yet missed a target.Review"Oldham takes the taut pacing, gripping suspense, and hard-edged plotting that readers have come to expect from the best British procedurals and adds a fresh twist. A touch of James Ellroy thrown into a John Harvey-style procedural makes a powerful combination" Booklist on Psycho Alley "Oldham, a real-life copper, offers a story full of dark menace, gritty realism, and graphic violence. Add head-spinning action and surprising plot twists, and the result is a gripping, gut-wrenching thriller" Booklist on Big City Jacks" About the Authorthe well-reviewed author of several crime novels, including The Last Big Job, A Time for Justice, One Dead Witness and Nightmare City Backlash is his first novel for Severn House.. Views: 18
The first and only vampire book to be declassified by the federal government. . Felix Gomez went to Iraq a soldier. He came back a vampire. Now he finds himself pulled into a web of intrigue when an old friend prompts him to investigate an outbreak of nymphomania at the secret government facilities in Rocky Flats. He'll find out the cause of all these horny women or die trying! But first he must contend with shadowy government agents, Eastern European vampire hunters, and women who just want his body. . Skewering sexual myths, conspiracy fables, and government bureaucracy, The Nymphos of Rocky Flats reveals the bizarre world of the undead with a humorous slant and a fresh twist.» Views: 18
Rosa has arrived in London from Poland to look for her younger brother Mikhail. He is supposed to be staying with their English father, but when she visits the house she finds it's locked up and there's no sign of either of them. She urgently needs work and somewhere to live while she continues her search, but what can she do and where can she go? Stef is running away from her boyfriend Oliver and the claustrophobic life she's been living in his opulent flat. Frightened, friendless and far from her family, she needs somewhere to hide. Rick is living in a limbo, a shy young man hiding from the world to write and draw and dream. How will he find fulfilment? All three find refuge at 11 Belvue Gardens, the shabbiest house of a smart white-painted Georgian terrace in North London. Here, its owner Leonie herself once found sanctuary following a short career as a model in the sixties and a destructive marriage. Now, out of gratitude, she opens her house to others in need.... Views: 18
From Publishers WeeklySignatureReviewed by Molly Jong-FastMidway though Cabot's latest novel, Chaz (the boyfriend of protagonist Lizzie Nichols's best friend) tells Lizzie, Someday you're really going to have to describe to me in more detail what life is like on the planet you live on. Because it sounds really great, and I'd like to visit there one day. Ultimately, this is what is both problematic and enormously appealing about the work of Cabot, the woman who shot to fame selling the idea that fairy tales really do come true. Lizzie is the fairy tale heroine. She is the fat, awkward girl in all of us, profoundly Midwestern, from the Spanks (modern Spandex girdles) she wears to her indignation at subway rudeness to her insistence on paying her wealthy boyfriend rent for living in his mother's Fifth Avenue apartment. As the book opens, Lizzie has just moved to New York City with her best friend, Shari, and their boyfriends, Luke and Chaz. Lizzie is determined not to become like her acquaintance Kathy Pennebaker, the prototypical smalltown girl who fails in Manhattan and returns home to wander the aisles of the local grocery store loading up on cough syrup for a weekend meth-making session. Things quickly become perfect for Lizzie. Luke asks her to move into his mother's apartment. She finds an amusing though nonpaying job working as a wedding dress restorer with an insane French couple. Lizzie also takes a paying job as a receptionist at Chaz's father's law firm. There are slight problems in paradise: the wedding store where Lizzie works has fallen on hard times and is involved in a rivalry with another wedding dress restorer. Luckily, Lizzie stumbles on a wedding dress gold mine when she befriends a woman who takes cares of seals at the zoo. It turns out that the seal-keeper is about to marry into one of Manhattan's most prominent families; suddenly, the smart crowd is coming to Lizzie's store. But Lizzie's quest to become successful is sidetracked by Shari's relationship problems and Lizzie's conviction that Luke's mother is having an affair and her obsession with the idea that Luke will never marry her. There is something oddly affirming about Cabot's writing. After sitting down with Queen of Babble in the Big City, it is totally clear to me why her books are huge bestsellers. Meg Cabot is nice. She sees the world as a wonderful place, and you want to live in her world and be her best friend. Her characters are charming. There is a school of thought that says reading should be entertaining, and this is exactly what Meg Cabot produces for us: fun. She is the master of her genre; she is the George Bernard Shaw if not the George Eliot of chick lit. Molly Jong-Fast's third book,The Social Climbe's Handbook, will be published by Villard in 2009. Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. About the AuthorMeg Cabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana. In addition to her adult contemporary fiction, she is the author of the bestselling young adult fiction series The Princess Diaries. She lives in Key West, Florida, with her husband. Views: 18
Bronwyn is back...but so is her evil ex-boyfriend. From the author of Charmed & Ready and Charmed & Dangerous.
Bronwyn is used to making enemies-when you dedicate your life to ridding the world of evil magic dudes and dudettes, it can happen. So when she first realizes that an attempted hit on the Prime Minister was really for her, it's just "same spell, different day." But then something about this hex reminds Bronwyn an awful lot of an ex-Jason Gladstone, who was her college sweetheart until he tied her up and tried to drain her of her powers. Talk about a date from hell. Views: 18
SHE CALLED HIM COWBOY. HE CALLED HER PRINCESS. Caitlin Summers has come west for one reason only: to sell the Wyoming ranch that belonged to her late father. But Cloud Ranch isn't hers to sell--not as long as foreman Wade Barclay and his two brothers are majority owners. According to the will, Caitlin can't sell her share until she's lived there . . . for a whole year. For the debt-ridden Philadelphia beauty, the situation is intolerable. But the rough, infuriating wrangler will awaken every tender emotion buried in her heart. To Wade Barclay, Caitlin Summers is just a spoiled society girl--even if she is also the daughter of the man who was a father to him in all but name. Caitlin broke her father's heart when she and her mother left Wyoming, and Wade has no intention of letting her do the same to him. But living together under the same roof is hard on a man. One stolen kiss is all it takes to make him wild with wanting her. As the days pass, Wade knows he... Views: 18
Christmas Cheer In A Small Texas TownNo sooner has Scarlett, a hairstylist from Atlanta, Georgia, shouted, "California, here I come!" than her clunker of a car breaks down. There are worse places to be stranded than Brody's Crossing, especially when hunky local James Brody is dying to show her how they celebrate the holidays in their quaint Texas town. James can't believe this far-out redhead was planning on spending Christmas without her family. Especially when family means so much to him--it's why he moved back home. He knows there's no way he can keep a big-city girl in a place like this for long... but can he keep her here long enough to explore the feelings growing between them? Maybe so, because even though Scarlett promised herself she'd be in Los Angeles by the New Year, she's becoming more Texan by the minute! Views: 18
The next twenty-four hours will be crucial to America's survival. A determined band of terrorists holds the key to bringing down the government by plunging the country into darkness, fear, and chaos — a nightmare born not in a distant enemy land… but rather in the heart of America itself. After a mission gone bad, Counter Terrorist Unit operative Jack Bauer is relegated to infiltrating a dangerous homegrown militia group — and stumbles upon information about an activated sleeper cell of Middle Eastern terrorists on American soil. But the roots of the insidious threat may go deeper than he suspects, firmly planted in the lies and treacheries of powerful government agencies. And without the trust and support of his CTU superiors, Jack may have to rely on the very fanatics he's sworn to destroy… or face an earth-shattering catastrophe at the end of the day. Views: 18
Issue One of Volume Twelve of the Review of Australian Fiction. This issue contains new short fiction by Rosalie Ham and Ellie Nielsen. Views: 18
I killed Joe once, in a manner of speaking. But not twice. Not in the way you mean.'Twenty-four year-old Welshman Llew Jones is in jail. All he wanted was to see America and write about it. Then he met the extraordinary Butterfly Joe and his freakish family and got caught up in an adventure that got way, way out of control. Now his friend's gone and Llew has to give his side of the story . . . Part neo-gothic thriller, part existential road trip, part morality tale, The Killing of Butterfly Joe is a thrilling, funny and epic story of experience, desire, friendship and family. It's about leaving the life of introspection behind to participate in the Great American Dream: the one that takes you from 'rags to riches via pitches'. It's about the end of innocence and the dawn of consequence; the forces of revenge pitted against the powers of forgiveness; and, ultimately, the search for freedom and self-definition. Views: 18
