She was being strangled...by a thousand details! Billionaire businessman Christoph Anastas understands business and he grasped that Lana Kostas was quickly killing her late father's empire. But when he offers a perfectly reasonable solution, marriage...to him...she immediately rejects his offer, determined to figure things out on her own. Lana is a brilliant artist with an international following. Unfortunately, she understood colors and emotions...not business. Lana desperately wanted to ignore Christoph's offer. Marriage? To him? Out of the question! She hated him with every cell in her body. Didn't she? So why did she feel this crackling awareness whenever he was close by? And why was she tempted to accept his enticing offer? Lana told herself that she didn't have another option. But was that the real reason? Views: 232
Agnes Santorini, known as "Yiayia" to her Greek clan, only has one thing on her Christmas list...a brown short-haired dachshund that matches the one she dreamed about, certain that pup is the one who can save her aging heart. When she learns that a local man has this very dog for adoption, she and her partner-in-crime, Gramma Finnie, join forces with their teenage granddaughter and set off to get their paws on the pooch. But things don't go quite as smoothly as expected. A quick walk through town turns complicated when the dog's owner has a simple demand, which sets off a series of events that have two grannies and one girl dashing through the snow with two dogs in tow. As they meet every demand and overcome every obstacle, Yiayia shares the secret of her past...and reveals just why this is the canine angel she needs to save her. Even if they manage to get the dog under their Christmas tree, that might not be where the little fellow belongs. And maybe, just maybe,... Views: 232
Banana Yoshimoto has a magical ability to animate the lives of her young characters, and here she spins the stories of three women, all bewitched into a spiritual sleep. One, mourning a lost lover, finds herself sleepwalking at night. Another, who has embarked on a relationship with a man whose wife is in a coma, finds herself suddenly unable to stay awake. A third finds her sleep haunted by another woman whom she was once pitted against in a love triangle. Sly and mystical as a ghost story, with a touch of Kafkaesque surrealism, Asleep is an enchanting book from one of the best writers in contemporary international fiction. Views: 232
“All my life, I battled with the knowledge I was twisted… screwed up to want something so deliciously dark—wrong on so many levels. But then slave fifty-eight entered my world. Hissing, fighting, with a core of iron, she showed me an existence where two wrongs do make a right."
Tess is Q’s completely. Q is Tess’s irrevocably. But now, they must learn the boundaries of their unconventional relationship, while Tess seeks vengeance on the men who sold her. Q made a blood-oath to deliver their corpses at Tess’s feet, and that’s just what he’ll do.
He may be a monster, but he’s Tess’s monster.
This is a story of eroticism, horror, and sweet tragedy. It contains graphic scenes, but there’s always light in the darkness. Views: 232
Just as this nightmare began, I once again find myself bound, destination unknown. However, this time, my kidnapper is the man who shattered my world beyond repair.Aleksei Popov—Russia's number one mobster, and the man I was sold to.His intentions for me are clear—submit, obey him, and call him master—but I won't surrender. I'm not like the other girls. Whether that's a blessing or curse, I've yet to decide. The problem is, my disobedience intrigues my captor all the more.When we arrive in Russia, the rules change.Saint, the man who was once a sinner, is my only salvation. What was forbidden now gives me hope that there is light in the darkness. He will risk everything to set me free.But behind these opulent walls, things aren't what they seem, and when the fine line between pleasure and pain begins to blur, only one thing matters—saving my soul.I will lie.Cheat.Steal.I was once an angel, but... Views: 232
Read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, now available for the first time in e-book! Originally published in 1993.The Man Is Trespassing On Her Emotions!Women as independent and career-minded as Miranda don’t just bump into a total strangers and fall in love. It’s ridiculous. Impossible. Totally unthinkable.There must be some other more logical explanation for her extraordinary reaction to Ben Frobisher. The wealthy tech expert has already made quite an impact on her small English town, and the fact that he’s reduced Miranda to a giddy teenager only fuels her determination to remain detached.True, she finds him incredibly desirable, but does he have to invade her dreams every night? Revealing emotions and needs she’s never before experienced? Views: 232
MEET THE HARVEY GIRLS: These real-life pioneering women were symbols of elegance in the wild frontier: taming rough manners, falling in love, and changing the face of the West forever.Grace Rogers is ready for the adventure of a lifetime. With her family's farm falling on hard times, she accepts a position with the prestigious Fred Harvey Company and heads for Juniper, New Mexico. There she meets a handsome cowboy who quickly turns her head. Too bad the Harvey Girls are forbidden to marry...Nick Hopkins has a plan: buy a little land, marry, and raise a family—in that order. But after meeting Grace, he can't keep away. Their only choice is to marry in secret...but Nick isn't the only man entranced by Grace's charms, and this unexpected rival doesn't plan on taking no for an answer. He will have her, no matter the cost: to Grace, to Juniper, or to the happily ever after Grace and Nick fought so hard to make their own.Cowboys & Harvey... Views: 232
Theirs was a love that defied the rules, sizzled with passion…then fell apart spectacularly….Katya Marlowe, the Countess of Stanhope, was forced into a loveless marriage when she was only eighteen, became a mother of three before she was twenty-three, and a widow by the age of twenty-four, and before she hit thirty, she developed a reputation as a siren and a woman of power. But as clever and seductive as she has been painted to be, her heart has only belonged to one man.Malcolm Campbell has been a fighter his whole life, willing to go to extreme lengths to support the causes he believes in. Ruthless, arrogant, and ferocious, he has dedicated his life to eradicating anyone who harms women, particularly the villainous Lord Shayles. But for all his fight, his heart aches for the one woman who he has never been able to secure, Katya.When Katya and Malcolm team up in a final campaign to bring down Shayles for good, old... Views: 232
Teanne has finally made it back to her time, and is making her way to Jacob. A new acquantance joins Teanne and Lin as they make their way through the Aakash Mountains where Teanne discovers there is more to a mysterious peak. Jacob and Iszalie must now put their personal feelings aside and face the consequences of breaking the one law and treaty.When Teanne Carr is given a stone that was long thought lost, and pledged to return it to its rightful owner, a series of events lead to the destruction of a secret treaty, and a union between divided lands that will challenge a law that has existed for hundreds of years. Views: 231
