Clients call me Lexi. Naked is my super power, and I work it like a boss. In New Orleans, pleasure is a public service and I’m happy to do my part. I know what women crave, and I help their men learn to give it to them— with plenty of kinky window-dressing and an air of delicious command. It’s just a game men and women play, one that leaves everybody satisfied.Until the day I’m dragged into court on a ridiculous charge. Now I’m playing the game with Erik Jensen, Esq., the man who looks more like a sexy pirate than an attorney. Suddenly, the stakes are higher than I could ever have imagined. Because Erik isn’t the man I thought he was, and neither is the game.If I win, I keep it all: my business, my reputation, and my formerly invulnerable heart. If I lose…well, I won’t let that happen.But it’s getting harder to tell which one of us is being mastered and before long, a safe... Views: 23
Based on little-known true events, this astonishing account from Emmy and Peabody Award-winning journalist Jack Ford vividly recreates a treacherous journey toward freedom, a time when the traditions of the Old South still thrived—and is a testament to determination, friendship, and courage . . .
Two decades before the Civil War, a middle-class farmer named Samuel Maddox lies on his deathbed. Elsewhere in his Virginia home, a young woman named Kitty knows her life is about to change. She is one of the Maddox family's slaves—and Samuel's biological daughter. When Samuel's wife, Mary, inherits her husband's property, she will own Kitty, too, along with Kitty's three small children.
Already in her fifties and with no children of her own Mary Maddox has struggled to accept her husband's daughter, a strong-willed, confident, educated woman who works in the house and has been treated more like family than slave. After Samuel's death, Mary decides to grant Kitty and her children their freedom, and travels with them to Pennsylvania, where she will file papers declaring Kitty's emancipation. Helped on their perilous flight by Quaker families along the Underground Railroad, they finally reach the free state. But Kitty is not yet safe.Dragged back to Virginia by a gang of slave catchers led by Samuel's own nephew, who is determined to sell her and her children, Kitty takes a defiant step: charging the younger Maddox with kidnapping and assault. On the surface, the move is brave yet hopeless. But Kitty has allies—her former mistress, Mary, and Fanny Withers, a rich and influential socialite, who is persuaded to adopt Kitty's cause and uses her resources and charm to secure a lawyer. The sensational trial that follows will decide the fate of Kitty and her children—and bond three extraordinary yet very different women together in their quest for justice. Views: 23
Darien Winfield's American dream is about to become a nightmare when he learns a dark truth about himself, a truth that links him to powerful forces that are far beyond his understanding. In this dark urban fantasy thriller, Darien must fight desperately to keep hold of everything he loves most -- his career, his hard-earned slice of New York City luxury, and the few people he holds closest. Views: 23
And the Winner Is (The Hollywood Showmance Chronicles, Book Five) Views: 23
"I'm Mann, just Mann."The world is slowly recovering after environmental collapse, and the children of the automated, domed city of Oculum have begun to awaken. Miranda, William and the 998 other children wake to tend the fruit trees and gardens behind the thick, opaque walls of their world. Some speak quietly of Outside, which is forbidden. Until William finds a door ...The children outside the dome of Oculum — Mann, Cranker and others raised by Grannie — live amongst the rubble of the old destroyed city. They live with hunger, hard work, and stories about a time before the fall, of buggies without horses, light without fire ... and magical fruit called "peaches." But it must be lies, until one day Mann and Cranker get close enough to the ancient dome to find ... a door.... Views: 23
Juliet Seven is waiting on a seacraft offshore from war-torn Mangeria, hoping that her beloved Nicolas will soon join her. Instead, the boat is pirated by a Reject boy stinking of rot and oil. A storm rises and they are swept away. They reach a new land, but all is not what it seems in this perfect place of refuge. Juliet is desperate to escape. Since the day of her birth, the blind tellers of Mangeria have prophesied that Juliet is 'The One'. What will she have to do to fulfil her destiny? Views: 23
Mercedes McFadden is pursued by the one man she could fall madly in love with...but he's the last man on earth she'd ever want to marry. She doesn't believe opposites attract. Dante Edwards has lived a rich and elaborate life. Mercedes and her twin brother were orphaned and moved from one foster home to another until they were ten. She's afraid of love and commitment and he wants to settle down and have a family. Dante, the number two tennis player in the world, is known for his playboy lifestyle but meeting Mercedes was love at first sight. Can he change her mind about falling in love when he flies her to France on their first date? Or will the paparazzi drive her away? Views: 23
We thought we were the first civilisation to live on this planet…We were wrong.65 million years ago, an asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs. But that wasn’t the only thing it did…It also caused the people who were living here at the time to flee to a nearby planet. And there they have lived ever since.Until now…Sixteen-year-old Jasper Flint joins his paleontologist parents on a dig in Outback Australia and finds something there he never expected. Something no one ever expected.Buried for 100 million years with the fossilised bones of a dinosaur…A saddle.The only relic of a super-ancient civilisation who lives on in secret to this day. And some of them don’t want their existence known…Soon, Jasper is thrust on a time-bending quest through history to follow an ancient map and save the world. Views: 23
