Guilt about their love for each other is steadily destroying their lives... Since Sharla married the Duke of Wakefield, Ben's life has slowly crumbled as the knowledge that he is a mere commoner and can never have her eats at his soul. Sharla hides the truth about her disastrous marriage from everyone, shamed by her failure. When Ben glimpses a fragment of the awful truth, he knows he must do what he can to help her...and in the process he might just be able to pull his own life from the gutter. Marriage of Lies is the third book in the spin-off series following the historical romances of Scandalous Sirens. Scandalous Scions brings together the members of three great families, to love and play under the gaze of the Victorian era's moralistic, straight-laced society. Reader Advisory: This story contains frank sex scenes and sexual language. This story is part of the Scandalous Scions... Views: 347
(Suncoast Society 47, MM, MMM, MMF, MF, FF, BDSM)
Cali, Max, and Sean are hosting a kinky St. Patrick’s Day party for the Suncoast Society. From unicorn shibari photo shoots to crazy party games, it’s bound to be a wild night. Even if Cali’s bondage-loving cat, Baxter, has been confined to a back room for the duration of the festivities.
Yet it’s not all fun and games. Before the party even happens, tragedy overshadows the evening, driving home the point that life is short and uncertain, friends are everything, and each moment should be fully appreciated. It also brings a lingering, unsettled question back to the forefront for the triad.
For tonight, they’ve been asked to carry on, and that’s what they’ll do. But as the party plays out around them, will their future path finally solidify in their minds, or will it leave them with more doubts and questions than answers? Views: 347
Victoria Owens’s life takes a sudden turn after she receives an unexpected chain letter about her upcoming high school reunion. She’s quick to dismiss the letter and focus instead on her busy day, amidst a preoccupied husband and eleven-year-old-daughter. But the letter is only the beginning of a series of anonymous gifts, each more bizarre than the next, which shed light on a past long forgotten.Victoria Owens’s life takes a sudden turn after she receives an unexpected chain letter about her upcoming high school reunion. She’s quick to dismiss the letter and focus instead on her busy day, amidst a preoccupied husband and eleven-year-old-daughter. But the letter is only the beginning of a series of anonymous gifts, each more bizarre than the next, which shed light on a past long forgotten. Suspicious of her newfound admirer, Victoria soon finds herself trapped in a dangerous game of vengeance and betrayal, where her survival hangs in the very balance with every move that she makes. Views: 347
Logan Perry spent part of an inheritance traveling to various states, unconsciously looking for something to focus her life on. Near the end of her journey, her beloved truck, Shelia, breaks down outside the dismal town of Bourne Falls. Taryn Donovan has no self-esteem and hates the waitressing job that barely keeps her in food. When a stranger enters the tavern where she works, her world spins out of control. Can an unexpected weekend encounter turn out to be something more fulfilling? Find out in this sexually charged romance. Views: 347
A "gripping and fast-paced" biography of the brilliant atomic physicist and Soviet double agent who smuggled nuclear secrets out of Los Alamos and Harwell (The Guardian). Klaus Fuchs, a German Communist and gifted mathematician who fled the Nazis, went on to become the head of theoretical physics at the Harwell Research Complex in England. There and at the Los Alamos facility in New Mexico, Fuchs was an integral part of the Manhattan Project during World War II. But then, in February of 1950, he was brought before London's Old Bailey criminal court, accused of passing crucial military secrets to the Soviet Union. And his confession would shock the world. For more than sixty years, the governments of Britain, the United States, and Russia all tried to cover up the full extent of Fuchs's treachery. Piecing the story together from their declassified archives, The Spy Who Changed the World reveals the truth about Fuchs and his long career... Views: 346
Christmastime 1944: A Love Story is the fifth installment in the Christmastime Series. A WWII Christmas story of love and family that takes place on the home front (NYC and rural Illinois). Views: 346
Nomadic outsiders wander in a mythological world subject to chance, good or bad fortune. A family crosses the American Southwest in the 1920s. And a home dweller explores the mystery of familiar places. In these poems, tales told by multiple narrators, wayfarers move through a sparsely populated terrain, finding hardship, beauty, peril, the ineffable. Some are escaping events beyond their control, some choose to roam, and others stay in place, delving into the interior landscape. Views: 346
Things are not always as they seem when two experienced Chicago Detectives investigate a seemingly routine murder and robbery case.Opening night. The bridge to the Noh stage is only a few footsteps ahead, and the audience is waiting for you. Your mask is in your hand for the lead role, Shanne. Opposite you is your best friend Quinn, playing the sinister jester Punchinoni.You're all ready, all your lines are memorized, and your character is familiar and natural. All you have to do is step out on stage.Put on your mask. Step into your character. Take a deep breath.It's the role of a lifetime. It starts now. Views: 346
