Nerina, a young woman living in Venice after the breakup of the former Yugoslavia, is looking for a way to move to America. Her charm and grace bring her to the attention of Helena, a woman who seeks out 'individuals with useful skills' for her contacts in the international art community. Nerina successfully adapts to the social and professional expectations of working with creative people. In fact, she is so successful that her greatest challenge lies not in achieving her dream, but in finding for a dream to pursue in the first place – a journey that takes her from Italy to New York, and finally Montreal.Ann Charney's Life Class is an unusual diaspora novel, casting its protagonist not as a leaf scattered by wind, but as a brave explorer following her ambitions. Views: 11
Part 4 of Summer Flings – a fun, flirty and laugh out loud rom com series of short stories. Who needs fun when you can chill out in a stunning villa in Santorini all week and be pampered in every way possible? Ciara does. After an unfortunate wardrobe faux par, challenging her friends to jet ski racing, and hooking up with an unexpected visitor, Ciara's all about sex on the beach... the yacht... in the sea – wherever and whenever really! And she's not alone. It's the perfect fling in theory, but what happens when their Greek adventure comes to an end? The ideal summer treat for those relaxing days soaking up the sun! Views: 11
Special Agent Lee Dawson has secrets. Secrets that forced her from Dallas to New York City in disgrace two years ago.
Dallas County Assistant District Attorney Nate Crane visits New York and witnesses the brutal murder of a friend. When Lee is assigned to the investigation, her personal and professional life collide. She can’t avoid the man she ditched six months ago.
She’s the one Nate can’t stop thinking about. The one he let get away. He’s determined to get her back, no matter what she thinks she wants. Being a witness in her case puts them close—and Nate intends to keep it that way.
After Nate’s attacked at a safe house, Lee knows there’s a leak—a dirty FBI agent working with the human trafficker her unit has been hunting for years.
Can Lee protect her witness and resist the heat between them, or will she succumb to her desires and throw them both into danger? Views: 11
'Britain's equivalent to Patricia Highsmith, Celia Fremlin wrote psychological thrillers that changed the landscape of crime fiction for ever: her novels are domestic, subtle, penetrating - and quite horribly chilling.' Andrew TaylorClare Wakefield - protagonist of Celia Fremlin's 1991 novel, her fourteenth - is more dismayed than elated when she learns of her journalist husband's escape from Middle Eastern kidnappers. Edwin is a difficult man, and home life had been so much more relaxed without him. But dismay turns to fear once Clare begins to suspect that Edwin has practiced an extraordinary deception - and for the purpose of murder.'A thoughtful, entertaining thriller.' Booklist'I cannot recommend [it] too highly.' Time Out'Celia Fremlin is an astonishing writer, who explores that nightmare country where brain, mind and self battle to establish the truth. She illuminates her dark world with... Views: 11
DISHONORABLE INTENTIONS ON HIS MIND! Beatrice Dewey keeps falling for unsuitable men. She believes the man she loved, Hugh Kendrick, is lost to her forever, and now her new fiancé has canceled their wedding! But then Hugh reenters her life trailing rumors of illicit love affairs in his wake. Instead of marriage, he offers her a very public, passionate kiss! To succumb to his skillful seduction would be the ultimate road to ruin, but is there enough of the old Hugh left to convince Bea to give him another chance? "The sexual tension between the hero and heroine is palpable." --RT Book Reviews on The Wanton Bride Views: 11
William Faraday, a raw young recruit to television news, longs to join the close jealous band of foreign correspondents – that exclusive, hard drinking, hard swearing, whoring world of the cynical professional. His break comes when he is sent to cover a Marxist coup on a tiny coral island in the Indian Ocean just off the east coast of Africa. But Faraday is quickly disillusioned. Nothing matches his expectations. The Marxist takeover is less of a coup than a hiccough, and the famous globetrotting war correspondents seem nothing more than middle-aged, drunken hacks. But history turns in a second and Faraday finds himself suddenly in love and in the middle of the biggest story in Africa. His innocence is lost in the violence of war. Faraday is bloodied. Brutality, murder and rape all play their part in a plot that ends in a deadly explosive game of hide and seek. It is a story that is already secretly happening in Africa.... Views: 11
One can never escape the past, especially when it hunts you down and kicks you in the ass. ~Cove EvertonI was forced into becoming a porn star as a teenager by a man named Paul Jameson. What a psychopath he was. Besides the mental, physical, and sexual abuse he put me through, he also turned me into an alcoholic. Bastard. He really fucked with my head.Thank God he's no longer in my life, and interestingly enough, I fell in love with his daughter, Sophia. We got married and own a wine bar in St. Louis called The Dark Scarlett. Sad to say, dark doesn't even begin to describe the incidents at our place.What else... I'm also a bit of a self-centered prick. I make mistakes and so does my wife. We're like shit magnets that get pulled into a tornado each day, spun around, and vomited out.Get ready... Views: 11
