Sara should be preparing for an all-important business meeting. Instead she's being stood up by a man she's never even met! Things improve when gorgeous city-boy Leo asks her to dance, until he reveals his relief that his dreaded blind date didn't show....Sara could almost ignore the words slipping from his oh-so-kissable mouth--if his next words didn't reveal his plans to build on the land she wants to buy! Turning to ice, yet very aware of his warm arms around her, Sara recalls a saying: keep your enemies closer... Views: 30
Emma Montgomery wouldn't be manipulated into marriage as part of Daddy's business deal—even if he cut off access to her trust fund until she complied. The talented jewelry designer would just make her own way. Or go down trying. Too bad her intended groom—maverick businessman and former crush Nathan Case—made her stubborn stance so difficult. The heat of his touch had her nearly betraying herself at every turn. Resisting Nathan and regaining her money were the name of the game—but meddling with this millionaire might land her right back in his arms! Views: 30
Violet Willoughby doesn't believe in ghosts. But they believe in her. After spending years participating in her mother's elaborate ruse as a fraudulent medium, Violet is about as skeptical as they come in all matters supernatural. Now that she is being visited by a very persistent ghost, one who suffered a violent death, Violet can no longer ignore her unique ability. She must figure out what this ghost is trying to communicate, and quickly because the killer is still on the loose.Afraid of ruining her chance to escape her mother's scheming through an advantageous marriage, Violet must keep her ability secret. The only person who can help her is Colin, a friend she's known since childhood, and whom she has grown to love. He understands the true Violet, but helping her on this path means they might never be together. Can Violet find a way to help this ghost without ruining her own chance at a future free of lies? Views: 30
Product DescriptionMariella is perfectly happy with her double life - keeping her work life separate from her personal life is easy as multitasking comes naturally. Her ability to become Lady Isis is private and no one in the office needs to know what she does. At least, that was what she thought until Tom arrived on the scene.With his clean-cut look and in his fitted suits, he created an aura that Mariella wanted to delve into no matter what the cost. Though he appeared like any other man that she controlled, he had a different effect on her. Will she be able to resist her desire to prevent the risk of exposure? Views: 30
Dru Rayne and her uncle fled to L.A. after Hurricane Katrina; but now, five years later, they face a different danger. When Joe Pike witnesses Dru's uncle beaten by a protection gang, he offers his help, but neither of them want it -- and neither do the federal agents mysteriously watching them.
As the level of violence escalates, and Pike himself becomes a target, he and Elvis Cole learn that Dru and her uncle are not who they seem -- and that everything he thought he knew about them has been a lie. A vengeful and murderous force from their past is now catching up to them... and only Pike and Cole stand in the way. Views: 30
Is the lash a sensible and necessary alternative to our broken criminal justice system? Views: 30
This isn't supposed to be a love story. She doesn't want him to sweep her off her feet, and he is far from her knight in shining armor. He wants to ruin her life. But even the simplest plans for revenge can go wrong.I like the way he watches me, this man I don't know. It's something I'll never confess to, never tell a soul. But with one look of those penetrating eyes, I feel as if he's unwrapped me, turned me inside out, rubbed away at my trust-fund-holding, good-girl exterior until I'm raw and exposed.He looks like he wants to destroy me. Like he wants to obliterate me and my shallow, perfect life until there's nothing left. And the crazy part is, I want him to.***I hate her. I hate her money and her family and her privilege. I hate her innocence and her smile and her shine. I want to annihilate her lightness and consume her with my darkness, my anger, my red-hot rage until there is nothing left of her. I know the truth... Views: 30
Killing yourself at any age is a seriously tricky business. But when I was seven, the odds felt insurmountable. As a young girl, Terri Cheneys life looked perfect. Her family lived in a lovely house in a tranquil Los Angeles suburb where the geraniums never once failed to bloom. She was pretty and smart, an academic superstar and popular cheerleader whose father doted on her. But starting with her first suicide attempt at age seven, it was clear that her inner world was anything but perfect. Theres something wrong with her, her mother would whisper, her voice quivering on the edge of despair. And indeed there was, although no one had a name for it yet. Hostage to her roller-coaster moods, Terri veered from easy A-pluses to total paralysis, from bouts of obsessive hypersexuality to episodes of alcoholic abandon that nearly cost her her life. Throughout Terris chaotic early years, nothing was certain from day to day except this: whatever wa... Views: 30
