A jigger of tranquility is all Em Johnson wants, but now that her beloved Tiki Goddess Bar has been chosen as the location for Trouble in Paradise, TV's hot new reality show, life is anything but tranquil. When a member of the camera crew is found dead in her kitchen—stabbed to death with Chef Kimo's sashimi knife—the scene on the sleepy North Shore of Kauai goes from eccentrically crazy to downright dangerous. Suspects lurk behind every paper drink umbrella.It's not enough that Chef Kimo is the number one suspect or that the life's-a-party Hula Maidens nearly burn down the place while dancing the hula with flaming coconuts. Em still has to deal with her Uncle Louie's wedding to The Black Widow—until his fiancée's Mercedes plunges into the Pacific. Roland Sharpe, a handsome, Hawaiian, fire-dancing detective, warns the locals not to interfere, but Em and the madcap Maidens can't help themselves and soon wind up knee deep in danger again. Can the... Views: 12
Sabrina
has built a new life for herself as a respected historian in the ten years
since she woke up in a London hospital badly beaten and with no memory of her
identity or her past. When her work takes her to the historic French chateau of
a wealthy, powerful man by the name of Raoul Valoire,
however, her new life begins to unravel without warning.
It
starts with dreams—or are they memories—of a life with Raoul. But these dreams
don’t show any life that the proud, independent Sabrina would ever have
imagined for herself. They reveal a young woman deeply in love, but they also
reveal a husband willing to strip his feisty wife naked and spank her. Worse,
they show a wife who, as much as she may fight it at first, ultimately submits
to her husband’s firm discipline and fierce lovemaking.
In
spite of the dreams, most of Sabrina’s memories still fail to return, even
after Raoul informs her that she was indeed his wife until she disappeared ten
years ago, and tells her that he has searched for her and longed for her return
every day since. Confused and in need of space, Sabrina prepares to flee the
chateau, but Raoul makes it clear in no uncertain terms that he will not lose
her again, even if that means using his power and connections, and if necessary
his firm hand applied to her bare bottom, to keep her by his side.
Even
as she fights against his control over her, Sabrina feels something kindling
inside her again, and her fury at Raoul is mixed with a burning desire to be
his once more. Soon, though, memories of her kidnapping ten years ago begin to
resurface, and the shadow of the past threatens to consume them both. It will
take more than the dying embers of romance to keep Sabrina and Raoul from being
torn apart again—it will take the rebirth of a fiery and passionate love.
Publisher’s
Note: Conquering Sabrina is an erotic
novel that includes spankings, anal play, exhibitionism, graphic sexual scenes
including lesbian play, elements of BDSM, and more. If such material offends
you, please don’t buy this book.
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“Did you remember to blow out the candle?” One innocuous question leads to a night of terror. This short story is part of Ian Rogers’s Every House is Haunted, a short fiction collection that explores the border-places between our world and the dark reaches of the supernatural.ChiZine Publications (CZP) curates the best of the bizarre, bringing you the most excitingly weird, subtle, dark, and disturbing literary fiction. Look for more titles in the ChiZine short stories collection to build your digital library. Views: 12
The tables have turned for Rho Vasile, executioner for the undead. Now she’s the one marked for death. Despite her soul being stained by deadly magick, she still has a job to do for the DarqRealm United Council—work with her lover and the rest of her team to retrieve five Kamens, the ancient relics that hold the magick of their world. With only one Kamen found and zero leads on those still missing, the team heads to Paris, the last known location of the magick mover’s Kamen. And when an evening of research turns into a fight for their lives, the team is confronted with a deadly truth. The leadership of the DarqRealm has been compromised. As friends go missing, dark magick is put into play and a grave betrayal is revealed. Now with her energy waning, it’s up to Rho to use the gifts of her birthright to save her friends and her lover, or risk losing more than just her life. Views: 12
Never make the same mistake twice? SigneBehind Rosie Tom's angelic face and sinfully delicious body, Angelo Di Capua knows there is a deceitful gold digger. But his late wife has left Rosie a cottage on his country estate--and if she wants to stay, she'll have to make a deal with the devil! Rosie must accept her ex lover's offer to save her struggling business. But while she longs for his touch, she can't trust the man who betrayed her by marrying her best friend. If her resolve fails, she will lose more than her worldly possessions. She'll lose her heart to Di Capua. Again. Views: 12
From Donald Wells
The Author of The Taken! Series, Blue Steele & The Reynolds Family Saga
Caliber Detective Agency - Box Set - Case Files 1-6
From the plains of Texas in 1875 to present day New York City and the world, the name Caliber is synonymous with heroism.
Case File #1
After the death of his long-time friend and secretary Velma, legendary, octogenarian P. I. Jake Caliber is thrilled to meet Velma's young niece.
However, the beautiful, young woman hides a secret, and only time will tell if she's friend, or foe.
Case File #2
Christopher Caliber is the youngest member of the Caliber clan and unlike his tough as nails brother Jake the fifth, he has no plans to become involved in the family P. I. business.
However, fate has plans of its own, and when the young Caliber finds himself involved in a deadly situation, his choice is to act, or die.
Case File #3
After a dramatic confrontation, Christopher Caliber is reeling and unsure of what the future holds.
However, his future is even more uncertain than he realizes, because there's someone stalking him, someone who wants him dead.
Case File #4
When Mira Asher, their beautiful young client, comes into the office for help, the Calibers believe it will be a simple case.
However, soon one man will be dead, and Chris Caliber's reputation and life will be put on the line.
Case File #5
Even as things heat up between Chris and Velma, The Asher case takes a deadly and unexpected turn, and soon Chris finds himself having to prove that he has what it takes to be a Caliber.
Case File #6
The search for Mira's partner grows intense even as the list of suspects shrinks, but Chris won't stop until he finds the clever killer.
Meanwhile, Velma discloses to Chris the shocking reason why they can never be together, despite their growing feelings for each other.
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In this powerful love story that takes place on a Turkish sailing vessel, Lily, a professor at a Florida college, finds herself required to be the companion of her newly widowed mother as they take a cruise along the Turkish coastline on a small sailing ketch. Expecting to endure, though not enjoy, this trip among her mother’s friends, Lily instead finds herself falling in love with Izak, the charismatic Turkish captain of the boat, a man whose powers of kindness, strength and tenderness touch Lily in a way that awaken longings in her she had given up long ago.Lilly’s infatuation with Izak surprises her and at first she resists her feelings, knowing that it would be nearly impossible for an American college professor and a Turkish sailor to find a meeting place to join their lives. However, one day while the others are on a trip away from the boat taking a tour to see the sights, Lily finds herself alone with Izak and their passion reveals itself.About the AuthorMerrill Joan Gerber is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Among her novels are The Kingdom of Brooklyn, winner of the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine for “the best English-language book of fiction on a Jewish theme,” Anna in the Afterlife, chosen by the Los Angeles Times as a “Best Novel of 2002” and King of the World, which won the Pushcart Editors’ Book Award. She has written five volumes of short stories. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, The Sewanee Review, The Virginia Review, Commentary, Salmagundi, The American Scholar, The Southwest Review, and elsewhere.Her story, “I Don’t Believe This,” won an O. Henry Prize. “This is a Voice From Your Past” was included in The Best American Mystery Stories.Her non-fiction books include a travel memoir, Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence; a book of personal essays, Gut Feelings: A Writer’s Truths and Minute Inventions; and Old Mother, Little Cat: a Writer’s Reflections on her Kitten, her Aged Mother . . . and Life.Gerber earned her BA in English from the University of Florida, her MA in English from Brandeis University, and was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship to Stanford University. She presently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. Views: 12
Heroes and monsters clash with government forces in an apocalyptic London. Two years after London is struck by a devastating terrorist attack, it is cut off from the world, protected by a large force of soldiers (known as Choppers), while those in the rest of Britain believe that their ex-capital is now a toxic, uninhabited wasteland. Jack and his friends know that the truth is very different. The handful of survivors in London are developing strange, fantastic powers. Evolving. Meanwhile, the Choppers treat the ruined city as their own experimental playground. Jack’s own developing powers are startling and frightening, though he is determined to save his father, the brutal man with a horrific power who calls himself Reaper. Jack must also find their friend Lucy-Anne, who went north to find her brother. What Lucy-Anne discovers is terrifying-people evolving into monstrous things and the knowledge that a nuclear bomb has been set to destroy what’s left of London. And the clock is ticking. Views: 12
A young woman tries to move beyond her shadowed legacy, but finds her heart divided and her loyalty challengedClarissa Field never knew her mother, but hears whispers that she was a notorious femme fatale. Unknowingly, the girl follows her mother's passionate path and loses her heart to Jacobite rebel Dickon Frenshaw. But 1715 England is a dangerous place to be a young woman in love. Dickon is caught and exiled to Virginia, and Clarissa is married off to rakish soldier Lance Clavering. Caught between two men, Clarissa must navigate a hotbed of scandal, treachery, and betrayal. As civil strife threatens to ignite revolution, Clarissa is accused of being a spy. She faces a terrible choice, and must transform her life to prepare her daughter, Zipporah, for her legacy. Views: 12
Jersey Leo is the quintessential outsider--an albino of mixed race. Known as "Snowball" on the street, he makes a living as the bartender at a mob-run speakeasy in Prohibition-era Hell's Kitchen. Being neither black nor white, he has no group to call his own. His own mother abandoned him as a baby. And his father-a former boxing champ with his own secrets-disapproves of Jersey's work at a dive owned by one of New York's most notorious gangsters. So when he inadvertently purchases counterfeit moonshine ("sugar pop moon") with his boss's money-a potentially fatal mistake-he must go undercover to track down the bootlegger who took him in. The clues lead to Philadelphia, where he runs into a cleaver-swinging madman out for his femurs and a cold-blooded gangster holed up on a Christmas-tree farm. Now with a price on his head in two cities, Jersey seeks help from the only man he can trust, his father. As the two delve into the origins of the mysterious sugar pop moon, stunning... Views: 12
