Scott's Satin SheetsLacey AlexanderCity Heat, Book FourPayton Albright has it all-she spends her days on a yacht sailing the Caribbean, with every comfort she could desire. Except one-freedom. At twenty-six, Payton is treated like a child by her wealthy father, kept under his thumb. And Payton has needs-need she's desperate to have met. Desperate enough to let her inner wild child out, desperate enough to seduce a stranger into the satin sheets on her bed.The moment Scott Fletcher spots the beautiful Miss Albright, he knows she's trouble-very tempting trouble. Her father is Scott's boss, and Scott needs to keep his job. Yet when Payton propositions Scott, he can't resist. Soon he discovers there's more to Payton than meets the eye-the persuasive wild child turns out to be as sweet as she is sexy, and he's more than happy to be her bedroom tutor.But what happens if Scott takes one too many chances with Payton? What happens if he's caught rolling around in satin sheets with the boss's daughter? Views: 10
All women know that Training Wheels (fake diamond earrings) don't count as a Big-Ticket Item (a gift big enough to get a man out of trouble). Most have spent an evening doing Raw Cookie Dough Time (after they've been dumped) and, when they were really desperate, dated men from the Recycling Bin. (What did you hate about him? You don't remember.) But for anyone needing a translation, or just a laugh, Diane Farr offers a whimsical guide to dating vernacular. Part not-so-secret code, part code of silence (remember: never admit to collecting boyfriend T-shirts), and part code of honor (girlfriends never ditch each other at a singles bar, no matter what), The Girl Code is as funny as it is familiar. Views: 10
Mystery/Crime. 59988 words long. Views: 10
The thorn has pierced my finger, pierced my skin. My blood wells up, a bead of life that rises and gleams in the moonlight. Black. It reflects the slit of a dying moon.
The roses are all about me. Their velvet blooms are damask, Bourbon, musk, they swell like the breasts of harlots and their scent is sweet as sin. My crystal goblet holds blood-red wine, drained of its color by moon and stars.
What has brought the beautiful Dove to this place? Why must she forever fear the sun? The answers lie in her memories of blood and wine and roses.
Also includes a second story by the same author, Every Night and All. Views: 10
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Grainy CCTV footage shows a man walking into a bank and putting a gun to a cashier's head. He tells her to count to twenty-five. When he doesn't get his money in time, she is executed. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case. While Harry's girlfriend is away in Russia, an old flame gets in touch. He goes to dinner at her house and wakes up at home with no memory of the past twelve hours. The same morning the girl is found shot dead in her bed. Harry begins to receive threatening e-mails. Is someone trying to frame him for this unexplained death? Meanwhile the bank robberies continue with unparalleled savagery. Gripping and surprising, Nemesis is the new thriller by one of the biggest stars of Scandinavian crime fiction. Views: 10
The latest novel in the internationally best-selling Feng Shui Detective series sees Mr Wong and other members of the Union of Industrial Mystics in Singapore. They are introduced to a young woman who, all their mystical arts tell them, is doomed to die. Their desperate efforts to save her eventually lead C.F. Wong and Joyce to Sydney . . . As he travels around Asia solving crimes the venerable feng shui Master C.F. Wong is so much more than an interior design consultant. In this latest adventure he and other members of the Union of Industrial Mystics are introduced to a young woman who, all their mystical arts tell them, is doomed to die.Trying to save her calls for desperate measures and their best efforts eventually send Mr Wong and his brash young intern Joyce McQuinnie to Sydney. There at the famed Opera House, a building with appalling feng shui, surprising things happen, much cross cultural chaos ensues and as you would expect with the inimitable Feng Shui detective the day is saved in most inventive ways.Nury Vittachi was born in Ceylon and lives with his English wife and their three Chinese children in Hong Kong. Irresistible mix of classic whodunit and Asian philosophy outlandish humour, self-deprecating charm, and a biting subtext.'The Age , Melbourne Views: 10
Heath Johnson had made the decision to put the past behind him. Unfortunately, his past decided to show up that very night.
Chance kew two things the moment she saw him. First, he was still the only man she ever loved. Second, she never should have ran away from that love.
Can an estranged married couple stop hiding secrets, let down those walls, and allow the love they have for each other mend fences? Views: 10
The harrowing adventures of a woman who kidnaps her endangered granddaughter and goes into hiding. Views: 10
From Publishers WeeklyJam-packed with critical insights and historical context, this discussion of C.S. Lewis's Chronicles of Narnia from Miller's double perspectives--as the wide-eyed child who first read the books and an agnostic adult who revisits them--is intellectually inspiring but not always cohesive. Finding her distrust of Christianity undermined by her love of Lewis's indisputably Christian-themed world, Salon.com cofounder and staff writer Miller seeks to "recapture [Narnia's] old enchantment." She replaces lost innocence with understanding, visiting Lewis's home in England, reading his letters and books (which she quotes extensively) and interviewing readers and writers. Lengthy musings on Freudian analysis of sadomasochism, J.R.R. Tolkien's Anglo-Saxon nationalism and taxonomies of genre share space with incisive and unapologetic criticism of Lewis's treatment of race, gender and class. The heart of the book is in the first-person passages where Miller recalls longing to both be and befriend Lucy Pevensie and extols Narnia's "shining wonders." Her reluctant reconciliation with Lewis's and Narnia's imperfections never quite manages to be convincing, but anyone who has endured exile from Narnia will recognize and appreciate many aspects of her journey. (Dec. 3) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. From The New YorkerIn this powerful meditation on 'the schism between childhood and adult reading,' Miller recounts her tumultuous relationship with the favorite books of her youth, C. S. Lewis's 'Chronicles of Narnia.' Filled from an early age with a distrust of the Catholic faith in which she was raised, Miller didn't notice the Christian subtext, and when she learned of it, as a teen-ager, she felt 'tricked, cheated.' Combining memoir, criticism, and biography, Miller takes Lewis to task for his 'betrayals,' including the racial stereotyping and 'litism that, she argues, inform the books. Yet her respect for Lewis's talent remains; scrupulously placing him in his historical context, she crafts a nuanced portrait of the author as a sensitive curmudgeon and comes to the realization that 'a perfect story is no more interesting or possible than a perfect human being.' Copyright ©2008 Click here to subscribe to The New Yorker Views: 10
This is the new 'Fancy Jack' Crossman novel. The Indian Mutiny has almost run its course, but there are still battles to be fought before the uprising is finally put down. Lieutenant Jack Crossman, posted to India from his adventures in the Crimea, finds himself plagued by one Captain Deighnton, who seems determined to duel with him to the death. The reason for Deighnton's animosity appears to run deeper than a simple exchange of insults. When Jack is abducted following the Battle of Bareilly, and accused in his absence of desertion, he has to fight to clear his name - only to find Deighnton waiting for yet another, perhaps final duel... Views: 10
