With her knack for being in trouble's way, Sookie witnesses the firebombing of Merlotte's, the bar where she works. Since Sam Merlotte is now known to be two-natured, suspicion falls immediately on the anti-shifters in the area. Sookie suspects otherwise, but her attention is divided when she realizes that her lover Eric Northman and his "child" Pam are plotting to kill the vampire who is now their master. Gradually, Sookie is drawn into the plot-which is much more complicated than she knows... Views: 4
Far from the Shogun's court at Edo, Most Honorable Investigator Sano Ichiro begins the most challenging case of his career. Upon the insistence of his strong-willed and beautiful wife Reiko, Sano arrives with her at the emperor's palace to unmask the murderer--who possesses the secret of kiai, "the spirit city," a powerful scream that can kill instantly. A high Kyoto official is the victim. Treading carefully through a web of spies, political intrigue, forbidden passions, and intricate plots, Sano and Reiko must struggle to stay ahead of the palace storm--and outwit a cunning killer. But as they soon discover, solving the case means more than their survival. For if they fail, Japan could be consumed in the bloodiest war it has ever seen...A legendary land comes alive in this compelling murder mystery set in seventeenth-century Japan. Filled with finely drawn characters and suspenseful plot twists, The Samurai's Wife is a novel as complex, vivid, and... Views: 4
Priscilla White knows she'll never be a wife or mother and feels God's call to the mission field in India. Dr. Eli Ernest is back from Oregon Country only long enough to raise awareness of missions to the natives before heading out West once more. But then Priscilla and Eli both receive news from the mission board: No longer will they send unmarried men and women into the field. Left scrambling for options, the two realize the other might be the answer to their needs. Priscilla and Eli agree to a partnership, a marriage in name only that will allow them to follow God's leading into the mission field. But as they journey west, this decision will be tested by the hardships of the trip and by the unexpected turnings of their hearts. Views: 4
Cassie is a college student during the week but on weekends she goes to the home of an older man where she surrenders all trappings of her adult life and becomes “Daddy’s very special little girl.” Special little girls are supposed to be obedient, but it’s not always easy for Cassie, especially when the demands “Daddy” makes of her collide with her lingering sense of herself as an adult.
This novella has four long chapters and describes a loving, supportive age-play relationship between a man and a younger woman. It explores Cassie’s inner struggles and the emotional dynamic between the two main characters, while detailing explicit punishments of a childish nature administered to a consenting adult woman. These punishments including spankings, shaving, forced regression, corner time and anal punishments.
Publisher’s note: this novella features sexual activity in the context of an age-play relationship but dominance and submission is a bigger theme than sex. If you are offended by SM themes, anal play or harsh punishments, please do not buy this novella. Due to heavy demand from customers, the author has produced as a separate product a M/m version of this story. If you prefer to read about an age-play relationship between two men, please see Safe Harbor by Bertram Maxwell.
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When a new store called the Game Spot opens in their town, the Aldens are thrilled. But it's not fun and games when the other shops at Crossroads mall are robbed. What's more, letters are disappearing from the sign in front of the shopping center! It all seems to spell a new mystery for the Boxcar Children. Views: 4
**From the internationally acclaimed author of *1222* comes the suspenseful tour de force that started it all - the unforgettable debut of Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen in a stunning literary skein of corruption, drugs, and murder.**Norwegian author Anne Holt has become one of the hottest writers of dark, sophisticated mystery fiction in the world today. *Blind Goddess* is the international bestseller that introduced readers to the brilliant and enigmatic Inspector Hanne Wilhelmsen, whose fascinating evolution over eight books lies at the heart of the series' success.
* Blind Goddess* opens with the discovery of a dead drug dealer on the outskirts of the Norwegian capital of Oslo. Within days Hansa Larsen, a lawyer of the shadiest kind, is found shot to death, and police officers HÅkon Sand and Hanne Wilhelmsen establish a link between the two crimes. The case is soon complicated by seemingly unrelated developments, including a coded message hidden in the murdered lawyer's apartment, ominous rumors from the drug underworld, and a Dutch suspect found wandering confused and bloodied in central Oslo who refuses to talk to anyone but an obscure civil lawyer. As the officers investigate, they uncover a massive network of corruption involving the highest level of government whose exposure may well get them killed. Views: 4
For Halloween, Anando suggests a new game to Virginia – for a night, they will trade roles and he will play at being human while she will embody a vampire on the hunt. Another game, another night of passion… but Virginia’s curiosity might end things abruptly… Views: 4
In the early 1960s, uncertainty and menace gripped New York, crystallizing in a poisonous divide between a deeply corrupt, cynical, and racist police force, and an African American community buffeted by economicdistress, brutality, and narcotics. On August 28, 1963—the day Martin Luther King Jr. declared "I have a dream" on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial—two young white women were murdered in their Manhattan apartment. Dubbed the Career Girls Murders case, the crime sent ripples of fear throughout the city, as police scrambled fruitlessly for months to find the killer. But it also marked the start of a ten-year saga of fear, racial violence, and turmoil in the city—an era that took in events from the Harlem Riots of the mid-1960s to the Panther Twenty-One trials and Knapp Commission police corruption hearings of the early 1970s.The Savage City explores this pivotal and traumatic decade through the stories of three very different... Views: 4
You can not stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously large-scale project to be a plot for failure conspired by his rivals and the "Warrior Pope." After all, Michelangelo was not a painter—he was a sculptor. The noble artist reluctantly took on the daunting task that would damage his neck, back, and eyes (if you have ever strained to admire the real thing, you know). Andrew Graham-Dixon tells the story behind the famous painted ceiling over which the great artist painfully toiled for four long years. Linking Michelangelo's personal life to his work on the Sistine Chapel, Graham-Dixon describes Michelangelo's unique depiction of the Book of Genesis, tackles ambiguities in the work, and details the painstaking work that went... Views: 4
Darrin's life has been going downhill ever since his girlfriend Bridget
walked out on him without a word of explanation six months ago. Soon
after losing her, he lost his job, and his car, and eventually his
enthusiasm for life. He can't imagine things getting worse—until he sees
Bridget again, for the first time since she walked out, just moments
before she leaps to her death from a bridge. In his quest to find out
why Bridget took her own life, he encounters a depressive (and possibly
immortal) cult leader; a man with a car that can drive out of this world
and into others; a beautiful psychotic with a chrome shotgun; and a
bridge that, maybe, leads to heaven. Darrin's journey leads him into a
place called the Briarpatch, which is either the crawlspace of the
universe, or a series of ambitious building projects abandoned by god,
or a tangle of alternative universes, depending on who you ask.
Somewhere in that disorderly snarl of worlds, he hopes to find Bridget
again. . . or at least a reason to live without her. Views: 4
Missy is suddenly an unwanted co-owner to Ocean View Stables by Florence, Oregon. Missy wants to start over somewhere new after her old boss burned her. She's jobless and has a wrongly ruined reputation, so this works out perfectly . . . until she meets the cowboy running the place. Views: 4
