What if you couldn't pay your debt back with money? National Bestselling author Charlotte Byrd introduces Jax Grayson, the man you know you want to meet. "Beautiful and enticing, OBLIGATION will take you on a ride!" I'm Jax Grayson and I like to play games. I paid for her mom's cancer treatment, saving her life. Now, Sophia owes me. But I don't want her to pay me back with money. I have plenty of that. I only want one thing: everything. For one year. But what starts out as a game of obligation, turns into something else. The thing that I'm least expecting. Love. I need her. I crave her. It's no longer a game, but my reality. It's so dangerous that it's capable of leaving me completely broken. Will all of this end up being a terrible mistake? OBLIGATION is a full-length novel from Amazon and iBooks Bestselling author Charlotte Byrd. It's the 1st book... Views: 34
After one passionate night, Faith Sheridan found herself pregnant with her sexy bodyguard's child. Now she hoped the news of their secret child would be a welcome gift to Worth Cordell this holiday--and the beginning of a lifetime of love. . . . Views: 34
Uploaded by [StormRG]How far will a woman go to prove her love?Available for the first time in a single boxed set, the internationally bestselling Dominated by the Billionaire series introduces you to Pamela Rose, a typical young woman suddenly thrust into a torrid love affair at the top of the Manhattan business world with Robert Foster, a man with... unique tastes. AT HIS COMMANDShe had only seen him twice before, but he visited her in her fantasies. Strong, powerful, self-assured and supremely masculine, he was everything she could possibly want in a man. Every woman on her floor dreamed of being with him. But why would he want Pam? Of all the women he could choose in New York City she was surely the last. He was rich, handsome and powerful. She was nobody. She was nothing...... Until He Noticed Her...ON HIS ORDERSPam feels so much shame about what happened in the elevator with Mr Foster. She'd never done anything like that. Didn't know what had come over her. And now he was going to fire her, she was sure of it. An envelope waits on her desk when she arrives at the office Monday morning. Surely this it it. She should start packing her things. But it isn't a pink slip. It's a note, written in Foster's own hand...... And it contains orders. WITH HIS CONSENTJust days after meeting the enigmatic, domineering Robert Foster in the elevator Pam finds herself experiencing a sexual awakening she'd never imagined. Her body and mind have been pushed to the edge by Foster, and she's broken taboos she didn't even suspect existed. Now, resting in his office in a post-coital stupor, Pam is about to learn why Robert finds her so intriguing. FOR HIS AFFECTIONPam's exciting new relationship with the wealthy, powerful and beguiling Robert Foster takes her all the way from the bright lights of Manhattan to the romantic boulevards of Paris, the city of Pam's childhood dreams. Her dreams are shattered, however, with the arrival of a rival for Foster's heart, the beautiful and sexually adventurous Gabrielle Lucharde. As the French beauty's relationship with Robert is revealed it becomes clear to Pam that she must fight to keep hold of her man. But can she prove to Foster that she's the woman of his dreams? The Dominated by the Billionaire series contains graphic, descriptive scenes that some readers may find too much. If you like your sex to be implied by a soft fade to black you may want to keep searching. This collection is firmly aimed at readers 18+. Views: 34
Three-year-old Samantha Franer is dead of internal injuries brought on by rape. Worse yet, an eerie symbol - the spiked face of a straw-like man - has been painted on her abdomen. All fingers of guilt point at the child's stepfather, Paul Massieu, known member of an obscure cult based in New York State. Pompous pediatricians, presumptive police, and an eager press cry "satanism." Bo knows better. She has long ago learned to heed her heightened perceptions and her own intuition. This time they tell her that this is no case of ritual abuse. Then the victim's sister vanishes, undoubtedly kidnapped by Massieu, and Bo is placed on the case. Tracking eight-year-old Hannah Franer leads her to the misty hills of New York's Hudson Valley and the cult's "hideout." But Bo sees no evil here, a feeling underscored by the cult leader, an Iroquois mystic who is as wise as she is ageless. Two other things Bo senses strongly: Paul Massieu is not guilty; and only the truth can free young Hannah from the psychic torment that could destroy her. Following her instincts, Bo vows to uncover the real monster and save the lives of future victims. It is a desperate search that will lead Bo into the deepest recesses of the mind and the darkest caverns of the earth. And it will place her livelihood - and her life - in dire jeopardy. Views: 34
It is Christmas Eve, and 55-year-old Professor Pål Andersen is alone, drinking coffee and cognac in his living room. Lost in thought, he looks out of the window and sees a man strangle a woman in the apartment across the street. Professor Andersen fails to report the crime. The days pass, and he becomes paralysed by indecision. Desperate for respite, the professor sets off to a local sushi bar, only to find himself face to face with the murderer.Professor Andersen's Night is an unsettling yet highly entertaining novel of apathy, rebellion and morality. In flinty prose, Solstad presents an uncomfortable question: would we, like his cerebral protagonist, do nothing? Views: 34
Review"His brilliant debut collection, Light Lifting, is engrossing, thrilling and ultimately satisfying: each story has the weight of a novel. The young Canadian writer is already winning plaudits in his own country. He can expect acclaim far beyond ... The choice of words is spare, simple and unaffected, and the rhythm is perfect ... stunning work. Mr. MacLeod's next contribution will be eagerly anticipated."—The Economist"Across seven wide-ranging tales, lives are saved, others are lost, and redemption, both physical and spiritual, is occasionally found. Nevertheless, the world harnessed by MacLeod is also one that bursts with wonder and nostalgia, and the author lets his subjects shine with both raw power and supple beauty throughout. Each story in Light Lifting is a true marvel—there are no fillers here—and with every passing page MacLeod firmly establishes himself as a bright new talent in literary fiction." Benjamin Woodard, Rain Taxi"MacLeod's Light Lifting arrives across the Atlantic laden with praise."—Irish Times"Alexander MacLeod demonstrates a strapping writerly prowess. If literature were an athletic competition he'd certainly deserve a silver medal, and I suspect he'll soon be vying for gold." —The National Post"Alexander MacLeod looks like a heavyweight in the making."—Irish TImes"create[s] ripples in the mind of the reader"—The Independent"Alexander MacLeod's control of cadence and rhythm is so complete that it seems effortless.... [These stories] contain a rare kind of truthfulness." —Colm Toibin"Light Lifting shows MacLeod is a honed storyteller. What will surprise, and surely impress, is the fresh, imaginative subject matter. And the integral prose: MacLeod has the ability to wave his wand and paint a picture in milliseconds, carving images out of dust."—THIS Magazine"Taut to a point of richness, deft in the dark, with an understanding of narrative suspense that's somehow actually beautiful, Light Lifting is a powerful collection and the debut of a writer clearly a master of the form." —Ali Smith"To read each story in this gorgeous collection is to live a series of rich and dangerous lives along the Canadian-Michigan border. The forces threatening Alexander MacLeod’s characters include speeding trains, rip tides, lice, old age, automobile assembly lines, the exuberant despair of vacationing in Nova Scotia, and everything that lurks in the Detroit River. MacLeod is a literary rock star, and his prose is wise and rowdy music. I will recommend this book to everyone."—Bonnie Jo Campbell, American Salvage"Rarely does fiction inhabit the body—the moving, athletic body—as fully as in Alexander MacLeod’s debut story collection. Whether describing what it is to run track, to swim against a current, to build cars or to haul bricks, MacLeod brings into vivid concrete language the physical experiences that mark us as profoundly as any thought. His stories are a careful marriage of the lyric and the narrative: each unfolds around a resonant, ineffable moment, replete with history and emotion, a Gordian knot comprised of all the strands that lead up to and away from it. Sensitive and subtle, MacLeod is a writer through whose deliberately partial and quotidian pieces shimmers life’s unspoken complexity." —Giller Prize jury citation"[MacLeod’s] capacity to encapsulate entire lives in the span of a few pages rivals Alice Munro. This is one of the finest collections of short fiction to appear . . . in a long, long time." —Quill & Quire (Best Books of the Year citation)"MacLeod’s straight-up themes of endurance and frailty, boyish transgression or gnawing mid-life regret, unfold without a trace of cliché or sentiment. Muscular and uniquely voiced, these stories swim entirely in their own waters." —Globe and Mail (Best Books of the Year citation)"Few authors . . . have delved so deeply into the workplaces of [the] working-class as MacLeod, and the characters he finds there are as rich and complex as any of the cerebral exotics that populate the work of Ondaatje, Urquhart and Atwood." —Toronto Star"MacLeod’s prose is reminiscent of Annie Proulx’s: It carries much weight in its sparse, straightforward style." —Hamilton Spectator"An impressive collection . . . The diversity of characters is matched by the variety of tones." —National Post"The stories in Alexander MacLeod's Light Lifting are dense with the tragic poetry of the everyday. His narrators speak in a deceptively relaxed vernacular that reflects a fierce emotional intensity just beneath the surface of the words, the stoic heroism of the common man and woman, and MacLeod's commitment to realistic story-telling." —Danuta Gleed Jury CitationProduct DescriptionGiller Prize FinalistAtlantic Book Award WinnerA Globe & Mail, Quill & Quire, and Amazon.ca Best Book of the YearFinalist for the Danuta Gleed Award and the Frank O'Connor Award"A brilliant collection without a weak link." —Quill & QuireThis was the day after Mike Tyson bit off Evander Holyfield’s ear. You remember that. It was a moment in history – not like Kennedy or the planes flying into the World Trade Center – not up at that level. This was something much lower, more like Ben Johnson, back when his eyes were that thick, yellow color and he tested positive in Seoul after breaking the world-record in the hundred. You might not know exactly where you were standing or exactly what you were doing when you first heard about Tyson or about Ben, but when the news came down, I bet it stuck with you. When Tyson bit off Holyfield’s ear, that cut right through the everyday clutter. —from "Miracle Mile"Two runners race a cargo train through the darkness of a rat-infested tunnel beneath the Detroit River. A drugstore bicycle courier crosses a forbidden threshold in an attempt to save a life and a young swimmer conquers her fear of water only to discover she's caught in far more dangerous currents. An auto-worker who loses his family in a car accident is forced to reconsider his relationship with the internal combustion engine.Alexander MacLeod is a writer of "ferocious intelligence" and "ferocious physicality" (CTV). Light Lifting, his celebrated first collection, offers us a suite of darkly urban and unflinching elegies that explore the depths of the psyche and channel the subconscious hopes and terrors that motivate us all. These are elemental stories of work and its bonds, of tragedy and tragedy barely averted, but also of beauty, love and fragile understanding. Views: 34
Church secretary and praise team leader, Aria Robbins isn't happy when she has to work with the new youth minister. She also has to grin and bear it when he moves into the cottage next to hers at Heart's Haven. . . but she doesn't have to like him. Truth is, she'd be much happier if Corbin Bishop would take his charm and his big, fancy ideas right back to Austin where he belongs. When a spiritual attack on Angel Falls lands Aria and Corbin on the battlefront as part of a team of prayer Warriors in God's Service (WINGS), they must fight for their town, their church, and their pastor, and Aria sees Corbin in a whole new light. But emotional scars from an unspeakable childhood have distorted Corbin's acceptance of certain Scriptural truths, and Aria won't trust her heart in the hands of a man whose faith is unsure. Aria wraps her prayer wings around him tightly. Will Corbin finally trust God to heal his soul? Views: 34
Hamilton's classic coming-of-age tale: The National Book Award– and Newbery Award–winning novel about a young man who must choose between supporting his tight-knit family and pursuing his own dreams Mayo Cornelius Higgins perches on top of a homemade forty-foot tower, considering two destinies. Behind him is his family's beloved house at the foot of a mountain that strip mining has reduced to loose rubble. In front of him, the beautiful Ohio River Valley and the great world beyond. As M.C. weighs whether to stay with the family and home he loves or set off into the world on his own, there appear on the horizon two strangers who will make his decision all the more difficult. Views: 34
Meet Daniel Garneau, your average gay hockey player from small-town Ontario. After moving to Toronto to attend university, Daniel meets David, a bike mechanic whose Catholic Italian mother talks to her dead husbands. Their chemistry is immediate, but Daniel is still drawn to his ex-boyfriend Marcus, a performance artist whose grandfather was a book-burning Nazi. A Boy at the Edge of the World is a rollicking dramedy that explores the compulsive and (ultimately) universal human pursuit of intimacy, sex, and love. Views: 34
Ethan and Devin have finally gotten the puppy of their dreams! Even better, taking their new pup to the dog park near the lake means the chance to explore a new Pokémon GO habitat!But the energetic puppy chews on everything in sight, including a map she pulled down from a PokéStop. When they pull the ruined map from the puppy's jaws, Ethan and Devin are shocked to discover a mysterious code on its back. Is someone using the map to send secret messages about the best places to fish? Or better yet, to hunt Water-type Pokémon? Looks like a case for Team Mystic!Fans of Pokémon GO will love putting the clues together—and cracking the code—in this compelling fourth book in the Unofficial Adventures for Pokémon GO Players series! Views: 34
"Happiness is our honeymoon, no matter what may come next.And to think that I almost gave it all up..." Fall in love with three fabulous new authors – Nikki Moore, Brigid Coady and Teresa F Morgan – and these gorgeously poignant short stories about love in all its forms. Go on, treat yourself this Valentine's Day! Praise for Brigid Coady: 'Poignant, funny, realistic yet romantic... I loved them.' – Katie Fforde 'A little literary canapé – one delicious bite and it's gone but it certainly left me wanting more.' – One More Page Praise for Teresa Morgan: 'A perfect read for anyone who has their head in the clouds for love.' – Pajama Book Girl 'This book encompasses all the elements of a truly fantastic chick-lit novel.' – Cosmochicklitan Views: 34
A pioneer of modern reconstructive and cosmetic surgery, Dr. Wilfred B. Icove, is found dead in his office-murdered in a chillingly efficient manner: one swift stab to the heart. Struck by the immaculate condition of the crime scene, Dallas suspects a professional killing. Security disks show a stunningly beautiful woman calmly entering and leaving the building-the good doctor's final appointment. Known as "Dr. Perfect," the saintly Icove devoted his life to his family and his work. His record is clean. Too clean for Dallas. She knows he was hiding something and suspects that his son-and successor-knows what it is. Then, like father, like son, the young Dr. Icove is killed . . . with the same deadly precision. But who is the mystery woman-and what was her relationship with the good doctors? While her husband, Roarke, works behind the scenes, Dallas follows her darkest instincts into the Icoves' pasts. What she discovers are men driven to create perfection-playing fast and loose with the laws of nature, the limits of science, and the morals of humanity. Views: 34
