Lauren lost everything that mattered to her and just wanted the pain to end... She steps to the edge ready to die, but Cyril won’t let her fall. Neither is looking for love, but both of them find it the night fate brings them together. His love will change Lauren’s life and she, in turn, will rock his. A romantic story about two people fated to rescue each other.This hot little novelette explores the relationship between a young woman who has given up all hope and the man whose love can save her.Extended Description:Lauren is alone and in pain. Cyril rescues her from a suicide attempt, but must keep her with him to prevent another. As the night progresses, Lauren discovers that Cyril is exactly what she needs. In the process, she also exposes his huge secret. As fate would have it, she is the answer to his unspoken prayers. Their love ignites a passion that burns bright and true.Adult Reading Material (18+) This book is for mature audiences only and contains sexually explicit content. Views: 96
The Sun King is a dazzling double portrait of Louis XIV and Versailles, the opulent court from which he ruled. With characteristic élan, Nancy Mitford reconstructs the daily life of king and courtiers during France's golden age, offering vivid sketches of the architects, artists, and gardeners responsible for the creation of the most magnificent palace Europe had yet seen. Mitford lays bare the complex and deadly intrigues in the stateroom and the no less high-stakes power struggles in the bedroom. At the center of it all is Louis XIV himself, the demanding, mercurial, but remarkably resilient sovereign who guided France through nearly three quarters of the Grand Siècle.Brimming with sumptuous detail and delicious bons mots, and written in a witty, conversational style, The Sun King restores a distant glittering century to vibrant life. Views: 96
The first time Elara laid eyes on Grayson was when he rescued her from the clutches of a madman and his scientists who were kidnapping humans and conducting horrific experiments on them. That was years ago. In spite of her attempts to deepen their relationship, they remained nothing more than close friends. Now Elara is a medic with the Admiralty, and she knows what she wants. It's been Grayson since the beginning. When Elara is stationed on the Star of Ishtar, she arrives with a plan to further her career. But this time her plan has an added bonus—to finally get her man. Grayson's spent years fighting the connection between himself and Elara. He's certain it only exist because he saved her life. But his will is failing, and he fears he just might give in to temptation. Views: 96
Set on the gritty streets of Baltimore, You Belong to Me kept readers "on the edges of their seats."Now, Karen Rose returns to the world of Baltimore's cops and prosecutors with a new tale of danger and desire... A car crashes in front of rookie PI Paige Holden's home. And suddenly, she finds one of her pro bono clients dying in her arms—from a gunshot wound. With her last breath, the woman whispers cryptic words into her ear and hands her a blood-smeared flash drive.Five years ago, State's Attorney Grayson Smith put a murderer behind bars. But when Paige Holden shares the flash drive with him, its contents cast doubts on the conviction—and lead him and Paige into a world of blackmail, dark secrets, and a decades-long string of murders. An investigation they'll survive only by trusting each other—and the truth. Views: 96
In 1999, master storyteller Joe R. Lansdale introduced one of the wildest, insane tales ever to fall into the steampunk genre, and it is now available in digital format. In “The Steam Man of the Prairie and the Dark Rider Get Down,” follow the Traveler from H.G. Wells’s The Time Machine as he makes one too many trips that transforms him into a ghoulish creature. Only a group of adventurers inside a giant tin man can hope to stop him from destroying the world.Got a dose of laughs, action, blood-craving horror, and time-traveling robots? You’ve just been STEAMPUNKED!As a bonus, this eBook also includes Lansdale’s alternate-history story featuring Wild Bill Hickock and Buffalo Bill titled “Trains Not Taken.” Views: 96
At the beginning—no—at the end—she appears, full of fury and bound by chains of prophecy.Once, there was a call—a binding—and so, a woman appeared, present in body but absent in knowledge of her past self. Making the ultimate journey of rediscovery was not without its own pitfalls—or rewards—and now Ree, a roaming Archeron, spirit of legend and time and physically now bound to her current form, has yet to fully uncover her true identity.Ree has spent her last innumerable seasons on the move—orbiting, in some sense, the lands of her only friend in this world, Aadet, who has become intricately involved in the new post-revolution politics of his people. Swinging back from the forests surrounding Solaike, Ree falls in with another wandering band, some Korenat refugees searching for their own protection on a trade route besieged with the fallout of the recent uprising. The Korenat's plight might not have... Views: 96
On a certain May afternoon, Tom Jessop, assigned to "cover" the Seattle waterfront for his paper, the Seattle Post-Intelligencer, had his curiosity aroused by a craft that lay at the Spring Street dock. The vessel was newly painted, trim and trig in appearance and was seemingly of about two thousand tons register. Amidships was a single yellow funnel. From the aftermost of the two masts fluttered a blue flag with a square of white in the center. The reporter knew that this was the "Blue Peter," flown in token that the steamer was about to sail.
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--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition. Views: 95
The West Indian liner, Tropic Queen, one of the great vessels owned by the big shipping combine at whose head was Jacob Jukes, the New York millionaire, was plunging southward through a rolling green sea about two hundred miles to the east of Hatteras. It was evening and the bugle had just sounded for dinner. Views: 95
A novel by Jack L Chalker, George Alec Effinger and Mike ResnickPublisher's WeeklyIn designing their book as a
round robin, Chalker ( The Return of Nathan Brazil ), Resnick ( Second
Contact ) and Effinger ( When Gravity Fails ) seem to have been more
interested in presenting the next author with a challenge (''Write your
way out of this!'') than they were in continuity, plot or character.
Millard Fillmore Pierce (most names are pseudo-significant, such as the
battleship Mahatma Gandhi, captain Nathan Bolivia) appears in five
different guises, each a member of a different species from a different
parallel universe; all of them speak English and most of them intend to
take over the human Pierce's galaxy. That none succeeds is largely due
to red tape: so many forms must be filled out in order even to fire a
shot that battleships carry hundreds of bureaucrats to support each
soldier. What could have been light entertainment is defeated by the
authors' arch, feckless comments to one another--with discussions on
writing the book included as part of the book. Only a blindly dedicated
fan will be pleased with this collaboration. Views: 95
