Little is known of what life is like for contemporary Arab women living in the Middle East. One of the few literary voices speaking out from that still closed society is Hanan al-Shaykh, whose novel The Story of Zahra was banned in most Arab countries. Now available for the first time in the U.S. is her newest novel, a story of four women treated to every luxury but freedom. Views: 16
~ Delicious Masters - when women meet the Doms of their dreams ~Black Lace and Spice Briefs author Portia Da Costa presents a searingly hot, super value bundle of romantic BDSM short fiction, informed by her sixteen best selling years of writing in the genre.Approximately 27K total word count. Bundle price is less than half the cost of buying the stories separately! DELICIOUS PAIN comprises five intense stories of women's initiation into the rites of painful pleasure - AN APPOINTMENT WITH HER MASTER and FORBIDDEN TREASURES are both standalone titles, and IN SEBASTIAN'S HANDS is a BDSM love story in three acts. In AN APPOINTMENT WITH HER MASTER, Mary-Anne finally meets her online master face to face and hand to bottom. In FORBIDDEN TREASURES, a vintage punishment journal and a fierce rattan cane prompt Alice and her husband Julian to explore his secret past and a daring new BDSM future for the pair of them. In IN SEBASTIAN'S HANDS, Megan falls for the dark and devastating Sebastian Holmwood at a party, and quickly ends up across his lap, having her bottom spanked... and that's only the beginning of their journey. These stories include very explicit descriptions of erotic punishment in the form of spanking, caning, power exchange and the use of sex toys.Please note, AN APPOINTMENT WITH HER MASTER, FORBIDDEN TREASURES and IN SEBASTIAN'S HANDS have all been published individually as ebooks for Amazon Kindle and on other platforms. Views: 16
"Scream, hold your breath, cry in despondent anguish, and kick your bonny legs on my ancient floor. Oh, and don't forget to please, please pout with that sinfully-lush bottom lip of yours," Ciaran to his captive, Rebecca. “I’ll entertain your theatrics… for a while.” Covered in tattoos, piercings, soft-worn jeans, and combat boots, the sinfully-sexy, thousand-year-old Ciaran - Alpha of Scotland has finally reclaimed his pack. But battle after battle hasn’t prepared his deadened heart for a feisty red-headed problem: his entirely too tempting captive. Curl your toes in the Sanibel sand. Whisk away to cold castles and warm Scottish beds. Stay forever. The werewolves are always hungry...not necessarily for food. Graphic sex, m/f/m ménage amour, suspense. Views: 16
"Remember, what's down inside you, all covered up—the things of your soul. The important, secret things . . . The story of you, all buried, let the music caress it out into the open."When Allegra was a little girl, she thought she would pick up her violin and it would sing for her—that the music was hidden inside her instrument. Now that Allegra is twelve, she believes the music is in her fingers, and the summer after seventh grade she has to teach them well. She's the youngest contestant in the Ernest Bloch Young Musicians' Competition. She knows she will learn the notes to the concerto, but what she doesn't realize is she'll also learn—how to close the gap between herself and Mozart to find the real music inside her heart. Views: 16
From nineteenth-century London’s elegant ballrooms to its darkest slums, a spirited young woman and a nobleman investigating for the Crown unmask a plot by Napoleon to bleed England of its gold. Chance led to Charlotte Raven’s transformation from chimney sweep to wealthy, educated noblewoman, but she still walks a delicate tightrope between two worlds, unable to turn her back on the ruthless crime lord who was once her childhood protector. When Lord Edward Durnham is tapped to solve the mystery of England’s rapidly disappearing gold, his search leads him to the stews of London, and Charlotte becomes his intriguing guide to the city’s dark, forbidding underworld. But as her involvement brings Charlotte to the attention of men who have no qualms about who they hurt, and as Edward forges a grudging alliance with the dangerous ghosts of Charlotte’s former life, she faces a choice: to continue living in limbo, or to close the door on the past and risk her heart and her happiness on an unpredictable future.About the AuthorMichelle Diener has always had a passion for reading and writing. She began writing stories when her parents gave her a typewriter for her twelfth birthday, and she hasn’t stopped since. Born in London and raised in South Africa, she now lives on the west coast of Australia with her husband and two small children. Views: 16
In a rut, and with her love life at an all time low, Claire Harris makes a New Year’s resolution to join an Internet dating agency. Her challenge is twelve dates or twelve months, whichever comes first, unless she is lucky enough to meet Mister Right along the way. On her final date, and convinced that only frogs are left in the dating pool, she is relieved that it’s nearly over…until she meets enigmatic American, Daniel Marchant. The only problem is, his brother has set him up, and Daniel makes it very clear that he’s not interested in dating anyone at all. He is looking for someone to work in his developing conservation research company though, and when he discovers that Claire has the photographic and cataloguing skills he needs, he offers her a dream job in Florida.
But Dolphin Key is not as idyllic as it seems. There are too many secrets and too much heartache. And Claire has her own secrets as well. Not that she is going to share them with anyone, least of all with Daniel, because he must never know he has stolen her heart. Views: 16
Prudence Abernathy, a native Californian, married into an old plantation family in Mason County, Virginia. When the facing on the fireplace of the manor house collapses, exposing a skeleton in a Confederate Lieutenant’s uniform and a stolen bracelet, Prudence is accused of the theft. Aided by friends and her status as an almost-local, she sets out to prove her innocence by investigating a list of likely suspects, with sometimes amusing results. Views: 16
Matthew Cassidy is a man on the verge of self-destruction. His career is in tatters and his marriage is hanging by a thread under the threat of a latent violence he is struggling to control. His wife Rachel is on the verge of leaving him even before a phone call from his estranged father pulls him back into a world of violence and mystery that he left behind on a bloody winter's night sixteen years before.Matt must return to the quiet little country town of Tamerton, where he grew up in a world of questions but few answers. The town has changed but the mysteries remain, and Matt must question everything he thought he knew about his past. Why was his little sister mute? What really happened to his mother? And who are the two beautiful, ageless sisters who live in an isolated cottage out on the moor?The Man Who Built the World is a tour de force supernatural thriller where the answers are never quite what they seem . . .Excerpt from The Man Who Built the World :You can't just leave like that, you know you can't.The thought hit him like a hard slap across the face, and for a moment he stumbled, catching his footing just in time to avoid tumbling towards the puddles hidden in the dark at his feet. Just a thought, just a stupid, irrational thought, but it had snagged him like the barb of a fisherman's hook. His very presence back in Tamerton had opened up a can of long forgotten emotions that would take time to sort, time he didn't have. Time he didn't want to give. His sister wouldn't know he had come; she was dead, after all. And what sort of reception could expect from his father? Ian Cassidy had made the call to him - only Heaven knew how he had found Matt's number - but how much of that had been as a duty? How much did he really want to see his son?Welcome home, son. Welcome home, little me.The Man Who Built the World is a paranormal/fantasy/horror novel of 230 pages.Chris Ward is the author of the science fiction epic The Tube Riders, as well as dozens of published short stories, the best of which can be found on Amazon as part of the collection Ms Ito's Bird & Other Stories.About the AuthorChris Ward is a native of Cornwall, England, but currently lives and works in Nagano, Japan. He is the author of The Tube Riders, The Man Who Built the World, and the forthcoming Head of Words. He spends his time, snowboarding, writing, playing guitar in his rock band, Steampunk Unicorn (find us on youtube!), and generally having too much to say about just about everything. Thank you for stopping by. Like Chris Ward (Fiction Writer) on Facebook for regular updates, or follow Chris on Twitter at ChrisWardWriter. Views: 16
