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Book Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels

Download or read book Moulding the Female Body in Victorian Fairy Tales and Sensation Novels written by Laurence Talairach-Vielmas and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurence Talairach-Vielmas explores Victorian representations of femininity in narratives that depart from mainstream realism, from fairy tales by George MacDonald, Lewis Carroll, Christina Rossetti, Juliana Horatia Ewing, and Jean Ingelow, to sensation novels by Wilkie Collins, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Rhoda Broughton, and Charles Dickens. Feminine representation, Talairach-Vielmas argues, is actually presented in a hyper-realistic way in such anti-realistic genres as children's literature and sensation fiction. In fact, it is precisely the clash between fantasy and reality that enables the narratives to interrogate the real and re-create a new type of realism that exposes the normative constraints imposed to contain the female body. In her exploration of the female body and its representations, Talairach-Vielmas examines how Victorian fantasies and sensation novels deconstruct and reconstruct femininity; she focuses in particular on the links between the female characters and consumerism, and shows how these serve to illuminate the tensions underlying the representation of the Victorian ideal.

Book Mile High 2

    Book Details:
  • Author : Felicia Rose
  • Publisher : New Dawning Bookfair
  • Release :
  • ISBN : 1370533373
  • Pages : 103 pages

Download or read book Mile High 2 written by Felicia Rose and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Sister Laurel   the Atheist

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dee Dawning
  • Publisher : New Dawning Bookfair
  • Release : 2014-04-01
  • ISBN : 1452402809
  • Pages : 134 pages

Download or read book Sister Laurel the Atheist written by Dee Dawning and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since her teens, Laurel wanted to become a Religious Sister, doing God's work. With only three weeks until she's to say her permanent vows, dashing Julian, an atheist crashes into her life. Drawn to each other like moths to a flame, they become lovers then get engaged but big trouble is in store. Will love survive? For erotic version of this story see Fresh Cut Romance

Book The Bastard Preacher

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dee Dawning
  • Publisher : New Dawning Bookfair
  • Release : 2014-07-01
  • ISBN : 1452451206
  • Pages : 171 pages

Download or read book The Bastard Preacher written by Dee Dawning and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLURB Smooth and handsome, sociopath, Jamie Lee Vincent decides there's easy money in religion after attending a big tent revival in his home town of Tyler, Texas. Catching the interest of Reverend Sonny Riverton's youngest daughter, the lovely and vivacious, Missy, Jamie Lee worms his way into the Riverton clan and rides it for all it's worth into a world of fame and fortune. EXCERPT Bert set the beer down. "That'll be two-fifty." Jamie Lee handed him three bucks. "Keep it." Bert nodded. Jamie Lee picked up his lager and rotated his bar stool. Looking through the smoky haze, his gaze zeroed in on a cute blonde girl in the booth on the other side of the bar. She wore her hair up with curls draped over a pink ribbon. She sat with three others, a girl and two men all wearing western clothes. Unabashed, Jamie Lee stared at the lady. She is delicious. She glanced up and when he caught her gaze, she quickly averted her eyes. After whispering something to her companion, he nodded and slid out of the booth. She scooted out and headed in the direction of the restrooms, which were opposite of where they sat. While she glided in their direction, Jamie Lee studied her. She was average in height with blue eyes. She wore a short tight jean skirt, which accentuated the positives and cowboy boots. The creamy skin of her midriff laid exposed, her full breasts covered by a tied off, floral blouse. I've gotta taste that luscious morsel. She must have noticed Jamie Lee staring at her, because she seemed to hold back a smile and several feet from the restroom, her graceful glide turned into a sexy sashay. Jamie Lee elbowed Tommy and hitched his chin in the direction of the approaching blonde. "Who's the blonde bombshell?" Tommy followed his stare. "Somebody told me she's Sonny Riverton's daughter. They're in town you know. For a tent revival. You nevah answered me, Bud. You gonna take her out again?" Staring at the hot blonde, he asked, "Take who out?" Tommy rolled his eyes. "Cheryl." "Naw, she's too inexperienced. Now, I'll bet that sweet little thing over there isn't inexperienced. Who's Sonny Riverton, anyway?" "You never heard of Reverend Riverton? He's on the TV every Sunday." Tommy bit down on a pretzel. "So you wouldn't mind if I asked her out?" Jamie Lee took a big swig of his beer. "And that's his daughter?" Tommy slammed his empty beer glass down on the bar. "Damn it, Jamie Lee!" He turned to Tommy. "What?" Tommy's gaze rose to the ceiling as if looking for help from a higher power. "Do you care if I ask Cheryl out?" He did care. Had unfinished business, but when the Reverend's daughter peered at him with that twinkle in her eye and offered a friendly smile, just before turning into the restroom vestibule, he completely forgot about Cheryl. He shook his head. "Naw. You go ahead. But after tonight, I'd make sure she gargles with Listerine before I kiss her." He punched Tommy lightly on the shoulder and chuckled. "Now, tell me about this tent revival." "I don't know about this one, but they had another one here two summers ago. The TV station I sometimes work for sent me to film it, which was fine with me, seeing as how I wanted to find out what it was like. Don't you remember it?" "Naw, musta missed it. Oh, wait, now I remember. I worked as a camp counselor that summer.

Book The Wicked Preacher

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dee Dawning
  • Publisher : New Dawning Bookfair
  • Release : 2014-07-03
  • ISBN : 1310480605
  • Pages : 165 pages

Download or read book The Wicked Preacher written by Dee Dawning and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on 2014-07-03 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLURB With the acquisition of Babe's Galore, Jamie Lee's pursuit of Cheryl gets serious. Offering high paying jobs to his friend and his wife, Tommy becomes the stage manager and Cheryl becomes Jamie Lee's personal aide (with benefits) Jamie Lee's fabulous run of luck continues when, per doctor's instructions, Sonny Riverton relinquished control of the ministry to Jamie Lee. EXCERPT Cheryl tied her bikini top strap in place after finishing her final set and counted her take for the set. One-hundred-ninety-seven dollars. That gave her over eight hundred for the night—her best night yet. The hard-core roosters were quite generous not to mention especially rowdy tonight and she had gotten particularly worked up—more than usual. Only thirty minutes to go until I get off and can go home to Tommy. God, I feel frisky. I hope he's as keyed up as I am. As she entered the dressing room at closing time, Mike—the new manager—waited for her by her locker. "What are you doin' in here?" she asked in an accusing tone. "Hey doll, don't get your pretty puss in an uproar. There's one last live one in the VIP Dance Room for you to take care of." She turned her face and scrunched her nose and lips. "Aw, Mike, do I have too. I really need to get home." "C'mon babe, you know the rules. The customer is king and this one's paying extra." "Yeah. How much?" With a smile as wide as Texas Stadium he held up five fingers. Cheryl's eyes grew wide and her mouth opened wide. "Five hundred?" Appearing to hold back a chuckle, Mike took hold of her shoulders. "Baby, tonight you are the five…thousand…dollar…lady." Excitement shot through her. "God all mighty, what in tarnation does he want?" Mike shrugged. "Don't know, but he says you know him." Mike counted out ten hundred dollar bills and handed them to her. "Here's a thousand. He said he'd pay the rest when the dance was over." I wonder who… Cheryl smiled and cheerfully said, "I guess I better get in there." Since Joe had first forced her to do lap dances, to her surprise, she'd grown to like them. Turning the customer on turned her on and since she'd started doing them topless, she'd even allowed a few of the customers—the ones she especially liked—to fondle her.She didn't think it was wrong because no one but Tommy had ever put their thing in her—nor would they. Now, she was about to get five thousand dollars for doing a lap dance. She couldn't wait. Heading toward the VIP Room, a tall bull of a man stood beside the door watching Cheryl as she approached. "What are you doing here?" The man looked her up and down. "You Cheryl?" She nodded. "Ah-huh." He opened the door. "Go on in." She stepped in, and the door closed behind her. Was that a lock click? She shrugged. Panning the room left to right, she thought the room was empty until she spotted him in the right corner—Jamie Lee. "What do you want?" she snarled.

Book Manhattan Miracle

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dee Dawning
  • Publisher : New Dawning Bookfair
  • Release : 2014-03-19
  • ISBN : 1310708258
  • Pages : 226 pages

Download or read book Manhattan Miracle written by Dee Dawning and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLURB Brad takes leave of his work buddies at Libation Station, and soon after makes the acquaintance of Ginger, the most stunningly gorgeous woman he's ever seen. He's bedazzled, but taken aback when she reveals she's a paid escort. Even so, he's celebrating a promotion and this beauty is who he wants to end the night with. It's all good... After a wondrous time on the town and an unforgettable night in a Manhattan hotel room, the couple awakes to a mind-numbing realization. A frazzled, inept newbie angel, based on a throwaway comment made in the heat of their lovemaking, has switched their brain power from one body into another. Now Brad is Ginger and Ginger is Brad. The flummoxed pair are outraged, angry, and totally baffled. In the heat of the confusion, Brad remembers he must be at work within the hour to receive his big promotion--and he needs Ginger to make it happen. And that's just the beginning... EXCERPT I felt a slight brush of my hair, accompanied by the pleasant a floral fragrance of a woman's perfume. I turned my head to follow the retreating sound of a woman's high heels and was rewarded with a visual treat. Long blonde hair and a classic coke-bottle shape rode upon perfectly formed legs. It was as if Barbie doll had come to life. When she turned and ducked into the ladies room, I elbowed Lew. "Did you see that?" He raised his eyebrows and nodded slow and precise. "The blonde?" I nodded. "Yeah! Nice!" "Did you see her face?" "Ah-huh. She's gorgeous. I watched when she and her equally hot friend came in. They must be models or something." "Where? Where's her friend?" I surveyed the lounge. "She's sitting at the bar. Tall, with auburn hair, wearing a short teal shift, and legs up to her waist." I looked over and sighed. "She is stunning. Can you imagine what it must be like to look like that? To be that desired. If I was a woman and looked like that, I'm afraid I would be a real slut." Lew laughed. "From what I can tell, you're a slut now." I laughed. "I'd like to be a slut, but I don't have the sex appeal. Men are so restricted, suits or sports coats and ties, while women like these, exude their sexuality through their clothing, hair and makeup, manicures, pedicures. It's not fair." "Sounds like you'd like to be a woman." "No, I'm happy as a man. I just think it might be a blast to be a sexy, trendy woman—to dress to your personality—to have guys come to you instead of having to go to women." Lew started to answer me, but I put a hand across his to shush him as the blonde came out of the ladies room and strolled toward us. Lew was right, she was gorgeous. I stared straight at her and she smiled. She passed and my head turned to follow her gait as she wove her way back to the bar and her friend. "Well, what do you think?" Jimbo asked, obviously privy to our conversation. "Extraordinary." "I know. If I wasn't married… But I am so… What about you Brad? You're not married, and as far as I know you're not involved." Lew chirped in. "No, Brad's not involved. He's a player, aren't you?" Don't I wish? "I play around occasionally, but lately I've been in a drought." Lew frowned. "A man of the town has to make their own breaks. You're getting a big promotion tomorrow and have every reason to celebrate." He hitched his head toward the lovely ladies, "And I'd start right over there. Give it a try." ~ * * ~ I smiled at Amber and took my seat. "So, when is your Thursday date…what's his name again?" "Fritz." "That's right. Reminds me of a potato chip or a drink." I snickered. "I'll have a wine fritzer. When's he supposed to be here?" Amber shook her head. "Only you. Fritz will be here any minute. So how'd your trip to the restroom go? Did you stir up any interest?" "I don't know. Mostly, I got the usual inane pickup lines. But I have a good feeling about one guy. His eyes undressed me as I walked by." "I know. Doesn't it feel great when they do that? Which one?" "The brown haired guy, partially blocking the aisle with his chair over by the ladies room." "Oh, yeah. He scoped me out, too, while you were in the rest room. From what I could tell, he wasn't bad to look at." Amber's brow rose and she stuck her hand over mine. "Don't look now, dear, but he's on his way over here."

Book Gender Wars

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dee Dawning
  • Publisher : New Dawning Bookfair
  • Release : 2014-03-21
  • ISBN : 1452430586
  • Pages : 174 pages

Download or read book Gender Wars written by Dee Dawning and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on 2014-03-21 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disgusted with the GOP War on Women, a group of determined women take matters into their own hands & form a women's political party. Initially discounted by established political parties, they change their tune when women & men join in droves. GENDER WARS is a Political Chick-lit story, tied to the Republican 'War on Women' that would appeal most to politically middle and right of center readers

Book Alice in Eroticland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dee Dawning
  • Publisher : New Dawning Bookfair
  • Release : 2014-03-31
  • ISBN : 1458109585
  • Pages : 48 pages

Download or read book Alice in Eroticland written by Dee Dawning and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on 2014-03-31 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years after her initial visit to Wonderland, Alice returns on her Twenty-first birthday. Only it's no longer Wonderland or Crazyland as you Alice thought of Wonderland. Now, it was Eroticland and the prurient Ruby, the Queen of Diamonds is now in charge. Follow Alice as she winds her way through the sexual experience of a lifetime. Warning: Alice in Eroticland contains extreme sexual situations

Book French Kiss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Aimee Friedman
  • Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
  • Release : 2010-02-01
  • ISBN : 0545231221
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book French Kiss written by Aimee Friedman and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2010-02-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Get your drama on as the girls from the NEW YORK TIMES bestseller, SOUTH BEACH, strut back into the limelight in another sizzling spring break tale of romance, friendship, and crushes gone bad.Two beautiful girls. One sexy city. Endless opportunities for l'amour.When ALEXA ST. LAURENT falls in love, she falls hard. Can she keep her cool after meeting a French guy who's too good to be true and too hard to resist? For HOLLY JACOBSON, being in love with her boyfriend, Tyler, is as natural as breathing. But there's no denying that Alexa's Parisian cousin Pierre takes Holly's breath away....On a whirlwind rendezvous in Paris, the City of Love, Alexa and Holly are about to discover that everything sounds sexier in French.

Book Alison s Wonderland

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alison Tyler
  • Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
  • Release : 2013-09-01
  • ISBN : 1488739099
  • Pages : 384 pages

Download or read book Alison s Wonderland written by Alison Tyler and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2013-09-01 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the past fifteen years, Alison Tyler has curated some of the genre's most sizzling collections of erotic fiction, proving herself to be the ultimate naughty librarian. With Alison's Wonderland, she has compiled a treasury of naughty tales based on fable and fairy tale, myth and legend: some ubiquitous, some obscure–all of them delightfully dirty. From a perverse prince to a vampire–esque Sleeping Beauty, the stars of these reimagined tales are–like the original protagonists–chafing at desire unfulfilled. From Cinderella to Sisyphus, mermaids to werewolves, this realm of fantasy is limitless and so very satisfying. Penned by such erotica luminaries as Shanna Germain, Rachel Kramer Bussel, N. T. Morley, Elspeth Potter, T. C. Calligari, Sommer Marsden, Portia Da Costa and Tsaurah Litzsky, these bawdy bedtime stories are sure to bring you (and a friend) to your own happily–ever–after.

Book Suite Encounters

    Book Details:
  • Author : Rachel Kramer Bussel
  • Publisher : Cleis Press
  • Release : 2012
  • ISBN : 1573447900
  • Pages : 219 pages

Download or read book Suite Encounters written by Rachel Kramer Bussel and published by Cleis Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suite Encounters features hotel erotica in all its forms from honeymooners having sex on the beach to loving couples on holiday to co-workers meeting for secret quickies to the exhibitionist thrills (and chills) of getting it on in the pool on the roof at The Standard Hotel in front of everyone! Award-winning editor Rachel Kramer Bussel knows the winning formula of stories of sex in every possible setting - from luxury hotels to seedy motels and everything in between.

Book Tyler s Woman

    Book Details:
  • Author : Jan Springer
  • Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
  • Release : 2017-01-11
  • ISBN : 9781542487580
  • Pages : 376 pages

Download or read book Tyler s Woman written by Jan Springer and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-01-11 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fast-acting virus has killed a majority of the world's female population. With so few women on Earth, a new law is created. The Claiming Law allow groups of men to stake a claim on a female-as their sensual property. The Outlaw brothers are returning from the Terrorist Wars fully intent on declaring ownership of the women they love...and they'll do it any way they can. Laurie Callahan has always experienced red-hot pleasure and passionate love in Tyler Outlaw's arms. But when he's pronounced MIA, presumed dead in the Terrorist Wars, her world is shattered and her heart broken. For years Tyler Outlaw and his best friend Hunter Brown endured brutal torture and worse in a terrorist prison. Finally free of their hell, they return home intent on seducing Laurie into their erotic-filled fantasies. Shocked to discover Tyler is alive and he's taken a male lover, Laurie is thrust into a sensual world of sizzling seductions, scorching ménages and the carnal desires that both men crave. But she fears Tyler won't want her when he discovers she's not the same woman he left behind. Caution: Some scenes may be too intense for sensitive readers. Reader discretion is advised. The Outlaw Lovers series 1. Jude Outlaw 2. The Claiming 3. Colter's Revenge 4. Tyler's Woman 5. Resistance

Book The Mammoth Book of Erotica

Download or read book The Mammoth Book of Erotica written by Maxim Jakubowski and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 599 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This gathering of writings from well-known authors is a celebration of sensual love from classic times to the present day. Representing some of literature's brightest lights, this anthology aptly fulfills the many purposes of erotic writing. Included here are selections from Anais Nin, Anne Rice, Pat Califia, Alice Joanou, and many others.

Book The Savior s Book Caf   Story in Another World  Manga  Vol  1

Download or read book The Savior s Book Caf Story in Another World Manga Vol 1 written by Kyouka Izumi and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2021-12-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this charming tale, a woman gets transported to a fantasy world and pursues her own quest: opening a book cafe! Tsukina is a single, thirty-something office worker whose favorite thing is curling up with a good book. When a god tells her that she must go to another world to become its magical savior, Tsukina isn’t interested. She has zero desire to go on some grand hero’s journey. So when she arrives in this strange new land, she decides to use her magical powers to create a cozy little book café instead. Her first customer is a handsome soldier who loves reading almost as much as she does. But when a fellow “savior” starts causing trouble, Tsukina might have to play the hero after all!

Book Forever Young

    Book Details:
  • Author : Marcel Danesi
  • Publisher : University of Toronto Press
  • Release : 2003-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780802086204
  • Pages : 156 pages

Download or read book Forever Young written by Marcel Danesi and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2003-01-01 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excessive worship of adolescence and its social empowerment by adult institutions is the deeply rooted cause of a serious cultural malaise. So argues semiotician Marcel Danesi in Forever Young, an unforgiving and controversial look at modern culture's incessant drive to create a 'teen-aging' of adult life. Written for the general reader and based on five year's worth of interviews with over 200 adolescents and their parents, Danesi begins by asserting that one of the early causes of this crystallization of adolescence as an age category can be traced back to theories of psychology at the turn of the twentieth century. Since then, the psychological view of adolescence as a stressful period of adjustment has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. This, in tandem with the devaluation of the family by the media and society at large, has led to a maturity gap - a fissure in family dynamics that is eagerly and ably exploited by the mass media. Unlike many academic digressions into the malaise of modern culture, Forever Young provides concrete answers on how the 'forever young syndrome' can be addressed. One solution is to dispel the myth that experts and professionals are the people best equipped to give advice on raising children. The second is to recognize the value of family, in all its different combinations, as the primary institution of child-rearing. The third is to challenge the pervasive notion that teen culture is a sophisticated endeavour - that, for example, pop music can claim to have produced some of the best musical art in the world, surpassing Mozart or Bach. By laying bare the misguided tenets that have brought about, and continue to promote, a 'forever young' mentality, Marcel Danesi demonstrates that the 'teen-aging' of culture has come about because it is, simply put, good for business. Teen tastes have achieved cultural supremacy because the western economic system requires a conformist and easily manipulated market, and has thus joined forces with the media-entertainment oligarchy to promote a deterministic 'forever young' market.

Book French Kiss

    Book Details:
  • Author : Dee Dawning
  • Publisher : New Dawning Bookfair
  • Release : 2014-03-24
  • ISBN : 1452464901
  • Pages : 77 pages

Download or read book French Kiss written by Dee Dawning and published by New Dawning Bookfair. This book was released on 2014-03-24 with total page 77 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BLURB An admissions department snafu at Manhattan’s prestigious Juilliard School for the Arts, pairs a lovely African American girl in the same dorm room with a blond blue eyed Frenchman, both ballet students. Maybe it’s karma, but sparks of frustration turn into the heat of attraction and within the week the pair are involved in an interracial romance with plenty of sex. But just when things start really heating up, cruel fate steps in at Christmas vacation, when, after a second snafu, the lovebirds are separated the by an ocean of despair—the Atlantic Ocean. EXCERPT When we got back to our room, Rene headed to one of the baths we would be sharing with three other students, while I simply threw on a nightshirt and hopped in bed. I just lay there and reflected on what Tami said. I'd naively thought I had my future at Juilliard mapped out. Rene would be my roommate and best friend for this year. For the next three years since the dorms were mostly for freshmen, I figured we could share an inexpensive two bedroom, New York flat. I wasn't naive, I knew those seven words, an inexpensive two bedroom, New York flat, created an oxymoron, but I'm an optimist. In the middle of my contemplation, Rene returned. His hair, now darkened and damp, hung uncombed, but that wasn't what caught my attention. The only thing that kept him from standing naked before me was a white towel wrapped around and tucked in his waist. He smiled. "Turn your head, ma chere, while I put my pajamas bottoms on." I did, but I snuck a peek. My mouth watered as he turned his backside to me and dropped the towel. His broad shoulders and muscular chest veed into a narrow waist and ultra-sexy taut buns and that wasn't all. One at a time, he lifted a foot into each pajama leg, his shoulder muscles rippling, but before he pulled them up into place, every ounce of oxygen in my lungs exhaled and my vagina muscles clenched. From betwixt his muscular legs, the underside of his sex, the tip of his penis and his pinkish mauve scrotum, beckoned to me and I couldn't catch my breath. Finally when I thought I would pass out from oxygen deprivation, I gasped a breath of life. Rene swung around, concern etched on his beautiful face. "Are you all right?" My eyelids rose and I gasped again as blood rushed to my core. His long, thick male member dangled from the opening in his pajamas. He looked down and quickly inserted himself. "Sorry," he uttered, but the damage had been done. The damage, of course, was to my idyllic concept of how we could be platonic friends and roommates for the next four years. "Girl, you're going to be the horniest dancer in Juilliard. And what about him? Is he supposed to go without for four years?" What Tami had been trying to tell me slammed into my mind like a head on collision. Why hadn't this been a problem last night? Because, you idiot, you both fell asleep in your clothes after talking half the night. He smiled. "Are you going to sleep?" "If I can." "Would it bother you if I did some things on my computer?" Apparently on the way to losing my mind, I blurted out, "This wouldn't be a problem if you weren't so God damned good looking," and rolled over to face the wall. "What?" My head turned back part way. "Never mind, forget I said that." The mattress sank behind me and then a tender stroke brushed my arm. "No, mon amour, what is bothering you?" I turned back over onto my back and raised up on my elbows. "I'm sorry, I'm so mixed up right now, it's driving me crazy."

Book Mistress of Souls

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michelle Zink
  • Publisher : Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
  • Release : 2012-06-19
  • ISBN : 0316227684
  • Pages : 55 pages

Download or read book Mistress of Souls written by Michelle Zink and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2012-06-19 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second of three haunting novella spin-offs to Prophecy of the Sisters to be published as original eBooks. After the tragic events of Prophecy of the Sisters, Lia Milthorpe left Birchwood, leaving her twin behind. Alice spent months isolated in the estate, her story of solitude untold. Until now. Alice Milthorpe barely eats. Now that her sister, Lia, has left Birchwood, her brother dead, her family gone, there is no one left to keep her from doing what she's always wanted to do. She sits every hour and wills her spirit to travel to the Otherworlds, where the Souls welcome her, where the demon Samael gives her companionship. If she could only persuade Lia to open the Gate and let him into the mortal realm, she would be happy. But she is not in the Otherworlds. She is here, on earth, in Birchwood, chained by a prophecy she would undo and a body she must care for. When she encounters James, her sister's fiancé, his kindness and understanding are the first human touch to reach her in months. She may have found her anchor to the physical world, after all.