Get your Taboo Romance fix NOW with this steamy standalone Forbidden Romance between a sweet and sexy BBW and her hot Billionaire Best Friend.When Amelia gets invited to a party she's reluctant to go because it feels like she's just trying to relive the glory days of college. But when she finds out that her old best friend Jack is going to be there, a knot suddenly twists in her gut. The two of them used to have a bond that went deeper than anything else she'd ever known but ever since graduating high school they had lost touch. Now she felt like she had lost her way, while he was a billionaire. Would he even remember her? Would they recapture the magic that had appeared just before they said their last goodbyes...? Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers. Views: 56
A Passionate, Profoundly Funny First Novel from "the Best Literary Critic of His Generation" (Adam Begley, Financial Times)Thomas Bunting, the charming, chaotic, and deeply untruthful narrator of James Wood's wonderful first novel, is in despair. His marriage is disintegrating and his academic career is in ruins: instead of completing his philosophy Ph.D. (still unfinished after seven years), he is secretly writing what he hopes will be his masterwork, a vast atheistic project he has privately entitled "The Book Against God."But when his father suddenly falls ill, Thomas returns to the tiny village in the north of England where he grew up and where his father still works as a parish priest. There, Thomas hopes, he may finally be able to communicate honestly with his father, a brilliant and formidable Christian example, and sort out his own wayward life. But Thomas is a chronic liar as well as an atheist, and he finds, instead, that once at home... Views: 53
The war has begun, and we are losing.
The grey men and their agents pursue us relentlessly. Our only hope is finding the mythical Hall of Records, where we hope to uncover the secrets of the Builders.
Our journey begins in Cairo, and will take us further than anyone could imagine. If we succeed the human race has a chance. If not, our race will be extinguished.
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Prayers for the Living is a novel both grandiose in its vision and loving in its familiarity. Presented in a series of conversations between grandmother Minnie Bloch and her companions, Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio commentator on All Things Considered, unfolds a layered family portrait of three generations of the Bloch family, whose members are collapsing under everyday burdens and brutal betrayals. Her son Manny is a renowned, almost legendary rabbi. Respected by his congregants and surrounded by family, no one suspects that he yearns for a life of greater personal glory but when an oracular bird delivers what Manny believes to be a message from his deceased father, he abandons his congregation in pursuit of a life in business and his entire life spirals out of control.As Manny's fortunes rise in the corporate realm, he falls deeper into an affair with a congregant, a Holocaust survivor, his wife sinks deeper into alcoholism and depression and his daughter,... Views: 51
Get your Taboo Romance fix NOW with this naughty standalone Older Man Younger Woman Romance between a BBW teacher and her Dad's Sexy Doctor Best Friend.Jan’s life is ordinary and she likes it that way. She goes to her job, teaching children, and then home to her comfortable apartment. It may be the status quo, but that is just fine with her. Her generous curves haven’t had the boys flocking to her, but she’s happy being single.When one of Jan’s students is injured, the hospital visit brings her face to face with Dr. Keith, her father’s best friend. Jan has known him forever, but their attraction explodes on this tense night. Find out what happens when the two of them discover their desire for each other, even if it might be a little taboo… Warning: contains mature themes and language. Intended for 18+ readers only.Standalone. No Cliffhangers. Views: 50
BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Steven Pressfield's The Profession. I have always been a soldier. I have known no other life. So begins Alexander's extraordinary confession on the eve of his greatest crisis of leadership. By turns heroic and calculating, compassionate and utterly merciless, Alexander recounts with a warrior's unflinching eye for detail the blood, the terror, and the tactics of his greatest battlefield victories. Whether surviving his father's brutal assassination, presiding over a massacre, or weeping at the death of a beloved comrade-in-arms, Alexander never denies the hard realities of the code by which he lives: the virtues of war. But as much as he was feared by his enemies, he was loved and revered by his friends, his generals, and the men who followed him into battle. Often outnumbered, never outfought, Alexander conquered every enemy the world stood against him--but the one he never saw coming. . . . Views: 50
