I’d run away, except he’s what I want.I’m doing what's best for the pack, even if that means an arranged mating. Tonight though, I'm ignoring duties and telling fate to screw itself. You can find me hiding behind a costume tonight at a masquerade party. Halloween is the season I can pretend to be anyone but myself.The thing is, I never thought I’d actually meet someone. He has me panting for more, but he also makes me question my future. How do I tell my father, the alpha, that I've met my mate and I can't be the link to the mountain pack.Behind the mask he’s the mate I’ve dreamed about. When the morning comes, can I walk away? Views: 676
From USA Today Bestselling author, the second book in the Laurel Springs Emergency Response Team Series If you don't love, you can't get hurt... Nick Kepler One thing my childhood taught me was never show my emotions. Don't make memories. Don't count on other people. Don't hope for the best. All that changed when I was adopted by Ryan and Whitney Kepler. Begrudgingly I let them into my life, along with my new sister and a best friend I would lay down my life for. But giving up my heart and accepting love in return from Kelsea Harrison? It's the hardest thing I've ever tried to do. And the truth is? I'm not sure if I'm that strong. Kelsea Harrison From the very moment I met Nick Kepler I knew he would be the love of my life. Problem is I haven't been able to convince him of that yet. When our best friends get married, Nick and I spend a drunken night letting our walls down and losing all our inhibitions. In one... Views: 676
Successful restaurateur Lucien Black’s blue-green eyes and unattainable attitude drive women wild. But his abandonment issues and criminal past have left him emotionally closed off. When a familiar face shows up for a job interview at his nightclub, the ache he has tried to forget tears at his heart—it’s the girl who once healed him… and then abandoned him.
Darcy MacBride still remembers Lucien’s delicate touch when they were both wildly in love teenagers. His gorgeous eyes had soothed her hurt after she’d been dumped off at the orphanage where Lucien lived. Darcy felt his jagged edges fit perfectly into her own, and she’d planned to spend the rest of her life with him—until a mysterious man warned her away. Now, fourteen years later, she’s ready to endure the torture of Lucien’s indifference and having him as her boss…just to be near him. But when it seems that they might finally take up where they left off, a devastating secret buried in their past threatens to tear them apart again.
L.A. Fiore’s story of smoldering love recaptures the tormented romance of Beautifully Damaged. Views: 676
Read this classic romance by USA TODAY bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Previously published as Witchchild in 1988.'I am not prepared to let a little gold-digger like you anywhere near my son!'It was a case of mistaken identity, but Leonie Spencer wasn't about to clear the air immediately and make things easy for Henry Hawker Sinclair. After all, he had accused her of wanting to marry his nineteen-year-old son, Hal, for a share in the Sinclair millions! In fact, it was Leonie's twin sister who was head over heels in love with Hal, and to spare her unnecessary pain, Leonie was ready to go to any lengths to keep the young lovers together - even if it meant beguiling and bewitching the intimidating Hawk. Views: 676
From New York Times bestselling author Jenny Colgan comes a hilarious romantic comedy about a down-on-her-luck florist whose future begins to bloom when she takes on the challenge of helping to transform her nerdy roommate.Holly is a frustrated florist whose life doesn't seem to be coming up roses. Fleeing a roommate situation from hell, she moves in with a motley crew of friends—Josh, a sexually confused merchant banker; Kate, a high-flying legal eagle with talons to match; and Addison, a gorgeous computer geek who spends his days communicating with his online girlfriend and anyone who worships at the altar of Jean-Luc Picard. From the moment Holly catches a rare glimpse of Addison, she's smitten. The only problem is how to get him to swivel his chair from the computer screen to her adoring gaze. After a series of false starts—involving a new friend and mathematician, Finn—Holly coaxes Addison away from his computer screen and out into the open.... Views: 676
Vinny the Vampire, Volume 1 is the first book in a new children's series about a family of vampires living in Atlanta Georgia. Vinny is an 8 year old vampire with an older brother and a younger sister. While vampires may not drink blood these days, they can still get into lots of trouble. Join Vinny the good, the bad and the scary.A portion of profit from book sales goes to children's charitiesVinny the Vampire, Volume 1 is the first book in a new children's series about a family of vampires living in Atlanta Georgia. Vinny is an 8 year old vampire with an older brother named Victor and a younger sister named Vanessa. The family also owns a bat and a cat.In the 21st century vampires don't have to drink blood any longer to survive. There has been a new food developed especially for them, called the bloodberry. Vampires also wear a strong sunblock to protect themselves from harmful sunlight. This allows them to go outside in the day time, something vampires never used to do.Vinny the Vampire, Volume 1 is the first book in a series of stories about Vinny and his family. The series is geared towards children ages 6-10. The series is also supported by a website that will feature interactive content as the series develops. Currently Vinny fans can purchase Vinny t shirts and read about the characters on the website, vinnythevampire.com.The motto for the series is R.I.P., which stands for Read In Peace. The stories will encourage kids to read as well as offer some educational content within the text. A dose or two or character building is thrown in for good measure. Views: 676
Tom Wolfe, the master social novelist of our time, the spot-on chronicler of all things contemporary and cultural, presents a sensational new novel about life, love, and learning--or the lack of it--amid today's American colleges.
Our story unfolds at fictional Dupont University: those Olympian halls of scholarship housing the cream of America's youth, the roseate Gothic spires and manicured lawns suffused with tradition . . . Or so it appears to beautiful, brilliant Charlotte Simmons, a sheltered freshman from North Carolina. But Charlotte soon learns, to her mounting dismay, that for the upper-crust coeds of Dupont, sex, cool, and kegs trump academic achievement every time.
As Charlotte encounters the paragons of Dupont's privileged elite--her roommate, Beverly, a Groton-educated Brahmin in lusty pursuit of lacrosse players; Jojo Johanssen, the only white starting player on Dupont's godlike basketball team, whose position is threatened by a hotshot black freshman from the projects; the Young Turk of Saint Ray fraternity, Hoyt Thorpe, whose heady sense of entitlement and social domination is clinched by his accidental brawl with a bodyguard for the governor of California; and Adam Geller, one of the Millennial Mutants who run the university's "independent" newspaper and who consider themselves the last bastion of intellectual endeavor on the sex-crazed, jock-obsessed campus--she is seduced by the heady glamour of acceptance, betraying both her values and upbringing before she grasps the power of being different--and the exotic allure of her own innocence.
With his trademark satirical wit and famously sharp eye for telling detail, Wolfe's I Am Charlotte Simmons draws on extensive observations at campuses across the country to immortalize the early-21st-century college-going experience. Views: 675
Going La La is a contemporary romance that benefits from its Los Angeles locale, setting it apart from other recently published London-based "chick-lit" and "city-lit" titles. Frankie is 29, happy in her job and thinks she might be about to get married. However, within the space of a week she loses both her job and her potential fiancé and is on a plane, running away to her best friend Rita, who is trying to make it as an actress in LA. Alexandra Potter revels in seeing LA and the Californian lifestyle through Frankie's naïve eyes, detailing the excesses and the absurdities of this image-conscious, sun-blessed, car-driven culture. Through Rita's somewhat nefarious contacts, she and Frankie experience an LA of parties and glamour that many a British visitor to LA could only dream of. However, Potter hams these up to such an extent that they appear as film scenes in their own right, with farcical swimming pool set pieces, obligatory scantily clad women and a whiff of Class A drugs.
Potter has written a classic romance that manages to twist and turn to leave the reader guessing at Frankie's happiness until the very end and has created in her hero and heroine two believable and yet off-kilter characters. Reilly, the love interest, appears as both the uncouth, cowboy-hat-wearing American of stereotype and yet also as the charming gentleman who has experienced pain and needs some love. Frankie, though she has a worrying tendency to relate all her LA experiences to the last two years of her life, (house parties are only comparable to those she went to with her ex-boyfriend, the smarmy Hugh, which feels unrealistic for a 29-year-old, but is perhaps symptomatic of her misguided devotion to her ex), is a sympathetic character and yet beautiful and flighty enough to be the star of her own story.
Going La La offers a dream away from everyday life, where men are Cary-Grant-cum-Marlboro man lookalikes and women are allowed to be swept off their kitten-heeled feet (while also becoming leather-trouser-wearing independent sex-bombs). Frankie rejects drab and oh-so-British-London and her equally drab and oh-so-British boyfriend, embracing sunny Los Angeles and Reilly with his "long, lazy smile"--something we'd all like to do, at least for one day, as we read this and smile on a cold, rainy Sunday morning. --Olivia Dickinson Views: 675
They're each other's Christmas present.But what about the other 364 days?Ex-soldier Matthias Bravo likes spending the holidays hunkered down in his remote Oregon cabin. Until Sabra Bond seeks refuge from a winter storm. Now they meet every year for a no-strings Yuletide romance. But Matthias is changing the rules. This Bravo bachelor finally knows what he wants—Sabra forever. Is she ready to commit to love not just at Christmas but every day of the year? Views: 675
