Love is in the air this Christmas, but will they take a chance on romance?The December DealLilia Carrigan is under pressure to raise money for her dad's cancer treatment. Wealthy Vincent Morgenstern has to marry in order to inherit the company he loves so much. A marriage of convenience solves both their problems, but as Lilia and Vincent fake their way through events, holding hands and kisses, will their December deal stay professional or will real feelings ruin everything?A Heart for the HolidaysSilver Morgenstern is a hospital administrator who can't understand why Fisher Tibbs would request to be removed from the heart donation list. She's determined to convince this big-hearted charity founder with so much to give that life is worth the fight. What she doesn't expect is that the heart that's saved just might be her own...December DeceptionHigh-powered lawyer Henry Hale is dreading his exuberant family's holiday celebrations.... Views: 52
Fliss loves animals and will do anything to save them! Join her on her adventures to save wild species in danger.When Fliss volunteers to help at her cousin's birthday party in a jungle gym, she doesn't expect to end up in the rainforest in India! And if that wasn't exciting enough, she soon makes a new friend – a tiny tiger cub, left behind when its family fled from a flood. The little tiger is bursting with energy and Fliss can't believe her luck – playing with an actual tiger cub! But as the flood water rises, the time for games is running out, and to save her stripey friend, Fliss must face monsoons, dangerous creatures and the darker side of nature...LITTLE TIGER RESCUE is perfect for fans of Holly Webb, the ZOE'S RESCUE ZOO series and animal-lovers everywhere! Views: 52
He trains imperial concubines in the arts of the bedroom... I visit the grand harem of the Ottoman Empire once a year. The eunuch guards would behead me if they could. To be fair, they don't expect lovers to fly off the balcony and into the night. Being dragon has its perks. Like playing in Nuriye's bed. But it's been ten long years of waiting—it's time to return home to Greece and claim my soul mate. If only the fates will allow it. Akkan wants one last night of pleasure before risking his heart with a return home, but a runaway servant girl who saves him from the guards also complicates his plans... and may be just the thing he needs most. Akkan is a backstory after-novella for the Broken Souls series. He is the main character in My Dragon Master (Broken Souls 6), and this is his story. Keywords: paranormal romance, dragon shifter romance, fantasy romance, love and marriage Views: 52
The long-awaited magnum opus of one of Britain's most wide-ranging historiansCapitalist enterprise has existed in some form since ancient times, but the globalization and dominance of capitalism as a system began in the 1860s when, in different forms and supported by different political forces, states all over the world developed their modern political frameworks: the unifications of Italy and Germany, the establishment of a republic in France, the elimination of slavery in the American south, the Meiji Restoration in Japan, the emancipation of the serfs in Tsarist Russia. This book magnificently explores how, after the upheavals of industrialisation, a truly global capitalism followed. For the first time in the history of humanity, there was a social system able to provide a high level of consumption for the majority of those who lived within its bounds. Today, capitalism dominates the world.With wide-ranging scholarship, Donald Sassoon analyses... Views: 52
Betrayal. Poison. Almost Certain Death. Space Pirates. They're the stuff of B-grade action movies, right? So Kari thought, until she and her companions are captured by a swaggering captain with a cutlass. The lying traitor on board her ship set a trap, and she walked right into it. Captain Blanchard wants to sell Kari and her companions into slavery. There's only one thing for it: escape, and damn the trail of bodies. If they can't escape, they're doomed to lives of servitude. There's just one problem: Kari and her crew have no resources, no allies, and no hope. If you like sword fights in space, long odds, and massive space stations, then you'll love Starship Renegades: Buccaneer. Views: 51
Like a sublime spanakopita, Xeni's outer layer appears perfectly golden delicious, but underneath she is a jumble of emotions, bitter like wild greens and salty as creamy feta. Xeni knows the right ingredients to make any Greek dish delectable, but the one recipe she yearns for and can't perfect is how to make a baby. But not just any baby, Xeni desperately wants God to bless her with a virgin birth. Callie is determined to give her son, Manny the stable loving home she never had, and she's willing to learn every Greek recipe in existence if that's what it will take to please the father's very orthodox mother. But when she shows up at the grocery store to buy ingredients to make Spanakopita, she realizes just how little she knows. Xeni's resolve to stay pure of thought is tested from the first moment she sees Callie in the produce aisle, with her cerulean blue eyes and plump juicy baby. Xeni finds herself unfurling where she was once tightly bound, finding unexpected pleasure in... Views: 51
Lily Wong—a Chinese-Norwegian modern-day ninja—has more trouble than she was bargaining for when controlling grandparents arrive in Los Angeles from Hong Kong at the same time she goes undercover in the dangerous world of youth sex trafficking. As she hunts for a kidnapped prostitution victim, a missing high school girl, and a sociopathic trafficker, the surviving members of a murderous street gang hunt for her. Life would be easier if Lily knew who to trust. But when victims are villains, villains are victims, and even family is plotting against her, easy is not an option. All Lily can do is follow the trail wherever it leads: through a high school campus polarized by racial tension or the secret back rooms of a barber/tattoo/brothel or the soul-crushing stretch of Long Beach Boulevard known as The Blade. She relies on her ninja skills to deceive and infiltrate, rescue and kill—whatever is necessary to free the girls from their literal and figurative slavery. If... Views: 51
