Award winning Black Lace author Portia Da Costa presents 10,000 words of delicious erotic romance, plus an 800 word bonus excerpt of her novella Power of Three.Super efficient P.A. Cally Hobbes burns with desire for her handsome boss, Innes McKenzie, but hides it beneath her cool, businesslike exterior. She knows he's not entirely immune to her either, despite their platonic working relationship.But icy weather, broken central heating, and a dose of twenty four hour flu change everything. With Innes laid low in his frozen flat, Cally's golden chance finally arrives. What else can a girl do but climb into her boss's bed to warm up his chilly limbs with a loving application of body heat? And Innes' overnight recovery soon leads to a more passionate kind of therapy...A version of this story was originally published in The Mammoth Book of Hot Romance.About the AuthorPortia Da Costa is the best selling author of over thirty novels and novellas of erotica, erotic romance and romantic fiction, as well as 100+ erotic short stories in magazines and anthologies. She's widely known for her sizzling titles for Virgin Black Lace and her frisky short erotica for Harlequin Spice Briefs. Her home is in the heart of West Yorkshire in the UK, where she works every day on new projects. Views: 74
Book Four of Robert A. Caro's monumental The Years of Lyndon Johnson displays all the narrative energy and illuminating insight that led the Times of London to acclaim it as "one of the truly great political biographies of the modern age. A masterpiece." The Passage of Power follows Lyndon Johnson through both the most frustrating and the most triumphant periods of his career--1958 to1964. It is a time that would see him trade the extraordinary power he had created for himself as Senate Majority Leader for what became the wretched powerlessness of a Vice President in an administration that disdained and distrusted him. Yet it was, as well, the time in which the presidency, the goal he had always pursued, would be thrust upon him in the moment it took an assassin's bullet to reach its mark.By 1958, as Johnson began to maneuver for the presidency, he was known as one of the most brilliant politicians of his time, the greatest Senate... Views: 73
BLINGY, BLINGIER, BLINGIEST! DO YOU WANT A DESIGNER LOOK THAT IS ALL YOURS-- AND TO EXPRESS YOUR CREATIVITY AND HAVE SOME FUN? All that glitters doesn't have to be gold . . . and diamonds (even the fake ones!) can be a girl's-- or a boy's--best friend. With Mark Montano's step-by-step guidance you, too, can let loose your inner fashionista and make fabulous, unique accessories to complement your entire wardrobe! Think outside the box when it comes to materials, and check through your recycling to find treasures In the Bin. Show people your New Mexico style, and make a papier-mâché Zigzag Turquoise Cuff out of newspaper. When the plastic store bags start crawling out from under the sink, tame them with a Fused Plastic Flower Cuff. Make the tree-mendous Nature's Bling Bag decorated with branches sliced thin. Or Twine Not try the hardware store for some colored twine--and pick up some aluminum flashing to find... Views: 73
Bookworm Anna is always reading something—unless it involves her school work. Her mother and stepfather have tried everything to get her to achieve good grades, and now that’s she’s in her senior year in high school, they’re desperate, worried she’s never going to graduate. Her stepfather comes up with an ingenious incentive plan to pay his stepdaughter for getting A’s—but Anna tells him she wants something far more naughty than money. She wants her stepdaddy instead. Views: 73
They say that whoever you are it’s okay, you were born that way. Those words don’t comfort Emily, because she was born Christopher and her insides know that her outsides are all wrong.They say that it gets better, be who you are and it’ll be fine. For Emily, telling her parents who she really is means a therapist who insists Christopher is normal and Emily is sick. Telling her girlfriend means lectures about how God doesn’t make that kind of mistake.Emily desperately wants high school in her small Minnesota town to get better. She wants to be the woman she knows is inside, but it’s not until a substitute therapist and a girl named Natalie come into her life that she believes she has a chance of actually Being Emily.A story for anyone who has ever felt that the inside and outside don’t match and no one else will understand...“Powerful and empowering, with an optimistic message that we all need more of in our lives. I'm thrilled to see this book is out in the world.” — Kate Bornstein, author of Gender Outlaw and A Queer and Pleasant Danger Views: 73
Trading herself for her men was her duty, but helping a stranger with the breakout was pure pleasure. Stella has given her life to the Coalition, but her soul belongs to the men on her team. When they see something they shouldn’t, her men are locked in stasis while she is held hostage to keep the charade of their situation hidden. Her cooperation is the ransom to keep her men alive and when someone offers her an opportunity to rescue them, she would give anything to see them free. Anything. Views: 73
