Joan Johnston transports us to rugged present-day Texas--a place of wide-open prairies and unbridled ambitions--where two ranching families, the Blackthornes and the Creeds, are locked in a bitter century-old feud. Here, Johnston brings to life a breathtaking love story--between the Blackthornes' oldest son and the Creeds' beautiful daughter--a magnificent novel of passion, vengeance, and star-crossed love.Trace Blackthorne was taught from the cradle to take what he wanted. And he wanted Callie Creed. Eleven years ago, the feud between their families had torn them apart. But now Trace has come home, a ruthless hard-eyed stranger, making her an offer she couldn't refuse: marry him and save her struggling family from financial ruin. But the secrets of the past return to haunt them. And Callie is once again compelled to make an impossible choice--between the family who desperately needs her and the only man she has ever loved.From the Paperback edition. Views: 21
I'm nobody. I'm an orphan. A janitor. A college student. A virgin. And him? He's a god. One of the hottest action stars to ever grace the silver screen, huge and muscular and gorgeous and famous. He could have anyone in the world. Yet, despite the chasm separating my world from his, I find myself in his hotel room, and he's acting like I'm the most beautiful girl in the world. I'm not. He's everything every woman could ever want, and I'm just...me. She doesn't know how sexy she is, and that's it's own kind of beauty. But for real, she's gorgeous. I've met some of the hottest women in Hollywood, and none of them can hold a candle to this girl. I want her. And the fact that she's closed off and impossible to figure out only makes the pursuit that much more intriguing. The last thing I expect is for one night of pleasure to turn into something I'm unable to forget, even after she's gone her way and I've gone mine. I can't forget her, no matter how I try. And the next time we run into each other, I know there's no way I can let her go again. No matter what it takes. ***This is a full length, stand-alone contemporary romance, set in the world of STRIPPED*** Views: 21
Alien abduction, penetration and pleasure! This is Book 1 of a fun & naughty short story series. Each story stands alone. Melody is a bikini barista who just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. She has had it with men and declares that to the universe as she closes up her store one night. A strange light opens up in the skies, and suddenly she is whisked away to another planet. The frightening aliens there need healthy human females to breed and populate their dying planet. And she has been chosen as a human vessel for their alien seed. Although she is at first terrified, she soon learns that being bred with an alien is far more pleasurable than she could have imagined. Views: 20
One day, a boy goes out for a walk. He encounters a dog, a cat, and a horse. The dog dares him to growl, the cat dares him to stretch, and the horse dares him to jump. "It's simple," says Simon. Then he meets a tiger, who challenges him to all three dares, with increasing difficulty. Will the boy best the tiger, or the tiger best the boy?From the Hardcover edition. Views: 20
Lady Eliza Framphampton must wed the Duke of Belville or see her family destitute. But the wealthy duke is cruel and vicious. When he returns to London after a sojourn at his ancestral estate to formalize their unspoken betrothal, Eliza is desperate to escape.
But all the ton is watching them that night at Almack's, some with more specific notice than others: Derrick Trulington, Eliza's childhood friend, believed dead in the war with France and come now to London incognito to confront the duke. Lady Prysden, a widow pregnant with the duke's bastard child. Eliza's mother, her husband ruined and killed by his noble, distant cousin His Grace the Duke of Belville.
All are watching. Some are plotting. And when a dance-floor waltz becomes a scene of murder, all their lives will change.
Romantic suspense author Sharon Louise turns to Regency England in Murder at Almack's, a regency romantic suspense short story. Approximately 7,700 words. Views: 20
From the author of the Sunday Times bestseller, M: Maxwell Knight, MI5's Greatest SpymasterIn the World War II era, Geoffrey Pyke was described as one of the world's great minds. An inventor, adventurer and polymath, he was an unlikely hero of both world wars. He earned a fortune on the stock market, founded an influential pre-school, and is seen as the father of the U.S. Special Forces. In 1942, he convinced Winston Churchill to build an aircraft carrier out of reinforced ice. He escaped from a German WWI prison camp, wrote a bestseller, and aided Republicans in the Spanish Civil War. He even launched a private attempt to avert the outbreak of the Second World War by sending into Nazi Germany a group of pollsters disguised as golfers.And he may have been a Russian spy.70 years after his death, Henry Hemming reveals Pyke's astonishing story in full: his brilliance, his flaws, and his life of adventures, ideas, and secrets. Views: 20
