No male with social status will accept a virgin bride on Bluhari. Preparing virgins for marriage is a rutting slave’s job and there’s none more proficient than the mysterious Thorne. With no memory of who he is and his one asset his sexual prowess, he serves a mistress who is determined to keep him in sexual servitude. Sierra’s pampered life spent devoting herself to her music is about to end as the time nears for her to learn the art of pleasing the royal pledged to be her consort. Despite her physical reaction to Thorne's nude body, Sierra is determined to resist him. Thorne, who has been promised his freedom if he breaks in Sierra quickly, is just as determined. When the two meet, the level of passion they experience is unexpected and will have far reaching consequences for them and the other man in Sierra's life. Views: 40
Romance/Fantasy. 82672 words long. Views: 40
Who'd Been Sleeping in Her Bed?When Tory Caswell attended her sister's wedding in a magical old Victorian resort, her mind was filled with images of bouquets and garters. But when she awakened the next morning, she thought she was still dreaming. Because a gray-eyed hunk was sharing her pillow!Rand Trent had drunk some brandy the previous night, but not that much. He could never have forgotten sleeping in the arms of such a gorgeous woman. But was Tory Caswell sane? After all, the instant she got a second look at Rand, she started proclaiming that it was 1995--when he knew good and well that it was the 1800s.... Views: 40
A loner in his all-white high school, Chinese-born Xing (pronounced “Shing”) is a wallflower longing for acceptance. His isolation is intensified by his increasingly awkward and undeniable crush on his only friend, the beautiful and brilliant Naomi Lee.Xing’s quiet adolescent existence is rattled when a series of disappearances rock his high school and fear ripples through the blue collar community in which he lives.Amidst the chaos surrounding him, only Xing, alone on the sidelines of life, takes notice of some peculiar sightings around town. He begins to investigate with the hope that if he can help put an end to the disappearances, he will finally win the acceptance for which he has longed. However, as Xing draws closer to unveiling the identity of the abductor, he senses a noose of suspicion tightening around his own neck.While Xing races to solve the mystery and clear his name, Crossing hurtles readers towards a chilling climax. Views: 40
From his hot air balloon flight over the zoo, sleuth Art sees something suspicious that later helps him solve a mystery.As winner of talkback radio's Going Up competition, quiz whiz Art shares the prize of a hot air balloon flight with mates India and Mars Bar. It's India's birthday soon and Art hasn't bought a present. Mars Bar comes regardless.The prize must be used at 4.30am next morning, but 9.am sharp on Wednesday is Mrs. Tasker's class visit to the Zoo. Luckily the flight path goes over the Zoo. The children are suspicious of passenger Mr. Brand who takes special photos. Luckily the balloon lands in time for the children's excursion. They meet the Cyclist, Shorty, and the Butterfly Expert and Kip the Zoo teacher. Art suspects all of them.Later, in the zoo grounds, Art checks out the mysterious Butterfly House clue. After sleuthing around the Zoo, they solve the mystery. A smelly solution. Zoo Poo Cake. Views: 40
In this age of an open Internet, it is easy to forget that every American information industry, beginning with the telephone, has eventually been taken captive by some ruthless monopoly or cartel. With all our media now traveling a single network, an unprecedented potential is building for centralized control over what Americans see and hear. Could history repeat itself with the next industrial consolidation? Could the Internet—the entire flow of American information—come to be ruled by one corporate leviathan in possession of "the master switch"? That is the big question of Tim Wu's pathbreaking book.As Wu's sweeping history shows, each of the new media of the twentieth century—radio, telephone, television, and film—was born free and open. Each invited unrestricted use and enterprising experiment until some would-be mogul battled his way to total domination. Here are stories of an uncommon will to power, the power over information: Adolph Zukor, who... Views: 40
EDITORIAL REVIEW: THE NURSE-S BROODING BOSS Laura Iding Dr Brock Madison can-t believe Elana Shultz works in his new A&E department! She-s a daily reminder of his troubled past, but her compassionate beauty melts his frozen heart. Brock wants to spend the rest of his life with this nurse in a million-but will Elana let him in? EMERGENCY DOCTOR AND CINDERELLA Melanie Milburne Prim and proper A&E doctor Erin Taylor has never felt real love, so gorgeous new doc Eamon Chapman stirs up emotions she-s never experienced before. When Eamon discovers the warm and vulnerable beauty Erin hides, he finds himself wanting to give her the fairytale happy-ever-after she truly deserves! Views: 40
Two sisters ... two very different lives.Alison's American dream is in tatters. Her highflying career is on the skids and her Upper East Side apartment is now way beyond her means. But pride prevents her from telling her family back home just how bad things are. Olivia is fraught trying to juggle family, career, preparations for Christmas and organize a surprise party for their mother's seventieth birthday. How she envies, and sometimes resents, her sister Alison and her life of excitement and affluence in New York.Coming home for the holidays is the last thing Alison wants to do, especially now that she's met a rather attractive neighbour. But family ties are strong. Alison and Olivia must sort their differences, throw a party and Christmas might just bring changes for Alison that she could never have imagined … Views: 40
The Ocean Fairies keep all the sea creatures safe and happy — until their magic goes missing! This is our eleventh group of Rainbow Magic fairies.The Ocean Fairies keep all the sea creatures safe and happy! But when the goblins shatter their enchanted conch shell, seven magical sea creatures leave to search for the pieces. The Ocean Fairies must find the shells...and their animal friends!Silky the seal discovered a piece of the shell near the beach! Now Amelie the Seal Fairy just has to find Silky. But will the goblins get in the way?Find the missing creature in each book and help save the ocean magic! Views: 40
Jake is a sci-fi buff, so when he's abducted by aliens he's delighted.But when he realises that his younger sister has also been taken, he'snot so pleased. What do they want with her? They find themselves on a space ship manned by aliens from aconfederation of planets. They form part of a Galaxy Patrol team,ceaselessly patrolling the galaxy to check on alien incursions intoless advanced worlds, such as Earth. They recruit children as localagents to help them in their work. Children believe: adults don't. NowJake and Rosie's first mission is to rescue the Queen, who has beentaken over by an alien bug ... Views: 40
TRUTH IS NOT AN OPTION… Beijing, sometime in the near future: a month has gone missing from official records. No one has any memory of it, and no one can care less. Except for a small circle of friends, who will stop at nothing to get to the bottom of the sinister cheerfulness and amnesia that has possessed the Chinese nation. When they kidnap a high-ranking official and force him to reveal all, what they learn – not only about their leaders, but also about their own people – stuns them to the core. It is a message that will rock the world… Terrifying methods of cunning, deception and terror are unveiled by the truth-seekers in this thriller-expose of the Communist Party's stranglehold on China today. Views: 40
