Download or read book An Illicit Seduction written by Chencia C. Higgins and published by Chencia C. Higgins. This book was released on 2020-04-07 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I can't even see straight until I've had my face in between your legs." After a night of heavy drinking with her coworkers, Seraph succumbs to an erotic dream in where she receives pleasure beyond her wildest imagination. It's a brand of filthy that she enjoys but something about it is simultaneously wrong, though she can't put her finger on why. What she does know is that she can't deny how good it feels and isn't sure she wants it to stop. When she awakens mid-climax, she comes face to face with a nightmare that she can't escape. At every turn he's there, and he won't take no for an answer. As she is relentlessly pursued, her defenses crumble until she has no fight left in her--just as he intended.

Download or read book Seduction written by Clement Knox and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-02-04 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and men throughout history. If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the scandal of nineteenth-century American courts, or the stuff of literature across the eras, we are fascinated by stories of seduction and sex. In the first history of its kind, Clement Knox explores seduction in all its historical and cultural incarnations. Moving from the Garden of Eden to the carnivals of eighteenth-century Venice, and from the bawdy world of Georgian London to the saloons and speakeasies of the Jazz Age, this is an exploration of timeless themes of power, desire, and free will. Along the way we meet Mary Wollstonecraft, her daughter Mary Shelley, and her friend Caroline Norton, and reckon with their fight for women’s rights and freedoms. We encounter Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight champion of the world, who became entangled in America's labyrinthine and racialized seduction laws. We discover how tall tales of predatory vampires, hypnotists, and immigrants were mobilized by Nazis and nativists to help propel them to power. We consider how after seduction seemingly vanished from view during the Sexual Revolution, it exploded back into our lives as The Game became a multi-million bestseller, online dating swept the world, and the ongoing male fascinating with manipulating women was exposed. In a big-thinking cultural history told through an extraordinary range of stories and sources, Knox explores how our ideas about desire and pursuit have developed in step with the modern world. This is a bold, modern charter of seduction, from the birth of the Enlightenment to the explosion of romantic literature and right up to our contemporary moments of reckoning around “incel” culture and #MeToo.

Download or read book An Artful Seduction written by Tina Gabrielle and published by Entangled: Scandalous. This book was released on 2016-06-20 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 1815. Eliza Somerton has a dangerous secret. As the daughter of the infamous art forger who duped half the ton, she’s rebuilt her life under a new name. But when an old forgery goes up for auction, her father’s enemy, Grayson Montgomery, outbids her and presents her with an unimaginable choice: help him find her father or he’ll ruin her. For years, Grayson, the Earl of Huntingdon and one of London’s top art critics, has sought justice. His well-laid plans finally come to fruition when he learns of his enemy’s beautiful daughter. But Eliza possesses a sensuality and independent spirit that weakens his resolve, and as the heat between them sizzles, what started as revenge soon blossoms into something sinful... Each book in the Infamous Somertons series is STANDALONE: * An Artful Seduction * Real Earls Break the Rules * The Duke Meets His Match

Download or read book The Secret of My Seduction written by Caroline Linden and published by Caroline Linden. This book was released on with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rule #1: Be discreet. No one suspects Bathsheba Crawford of being the anonymous author of a wickedly scandalous series of naughty novels. But she is. Rule Number 2: Do not fall in love. When she approaches her publisher, rakish Liam MacGregor, with an indecent proposal, he's shocked. But he accepts. Rules were made to be broken… The requirements for their affair are simple: complete secrecy and no romantic attachment. But the more they see each other…the more pleasure they find in each other's arms… the harder it becomes to remember the rules… The final chapter in the Scandals series!

Download or read book Seduction on Screen The 100 Sexiest Movies of All Time written by Claudia Morgan and published by Richards Education. This book was released on with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Prepare to be captivated by the sultry allure and undeniable chemistry that have set cinema screens ablaze in "Seduction on Screen: The 100 Sexiest Movies of All Time." This steamy guide takes you on a journey through the most provocative and unforgettable moments in film history, showcasing the movies that have redefined sensuality, passion, and desire. Each chapter offers a tantalizing exploration of a different film, delving into the erotic artistry, mesmerizing performances, and sizzling storylines that have left audiences entranced. From the raw intensity of Basic Instinct to the romantic heat of Atonement and the bold sensuality of Call Me by Your Name, this book covers a wide range of genres and styles, all united by their electrifying appeal. Whether you're a film buff or simply in the mood for something a little more daring, "Seduction on Screen" is your ultimate companion to the world of cinematic seduction. This collection celebrates the films that have pushed boundaries, sparked conversations, and kindled the flames of passion, making them timeless classics in the realm of sensual storytelling. Dive into the 100 sexiest movies ever made, and let the magic of cinema sweep you off your feet.

Download or read book The Seduction of Modern Spain written by Aurora G. Morcillo and published by Bucknell University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book will be essential for scholars and students interested in Ibero-American cultural studies, gender, religion, and totalitarian politics. --Book Jacket.

Download or read book Glasses written by Chencia C. Higgins and published by Chencia C. Higgins. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They say everything happens for a reason. A chance encounter. A heart stopping series of events. An unforgettable moment with the potential to ruin Shreema’s day morphs into the beginning of a sweet journey when Major steps in and offers a hand. There is just something about the first time that two people who are destined to be soulmates lay eyes on one other.

Download or read book Alicia His Troublesome Fate written by Chencia C. Higgins and published by Chencia C. Higgins. This book was released on 2020-12-07 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the outside looking in, Brix has done a fantastic job of managing his emotions following the fallout with the Elders. He’s jumped right into life in Madow and worked tirelessly to make himself irreplaceable among the community he now called home, and he’s done so with a smile on his face and a carefree attitude. It was when he collapsed onto his bed at the end of the day that his thoughts eventually consumed him. He was haunted by the life he’d left behind and the truths that were revealed the day he left his old pack for good. The crux of the matter is that everything he knew about himself was a lie, and as he battles to create a new self-image—one he could be proud of—the tight grip he has on his sanity begins slipping. No one but his wolf could have predicted that the one woman who he’s warned to avoid would be instrumental in retaining his hold. The last few months have seen Alicia softening where everyone who knew her would have sworn she’d never budge. Once called the rudest wolf in Madow, she has made a concerted effort at keeping her past from coloring her interactions with her new alpha or the wolves she’d brought with her. It should be simple enough, but it’s harder work than she could have anticipated. A chance encounter with the man who both activates her skepticism and makes her wolf pay attention, and she is soon flooded with memories—some familiar, some…enlightening. Overwhelmed, she is shocked when the only one who can help her is the person she trusts the least. Even more jarring is the way her wolf responds to him. Two people who feel like outsiders no matter how hard they try to fit in, find that their history intersects in a way that neither can deny, and they’ll need each other to clear away the pain from their separate pasts. While working side-by-side, they discover something unavoidable building between them and suddenly there is another—more pressing—reason to make it onto the other side of their journey. Can they weather the thunderstorm of their history to make it to the rainbow they deserve?

Download or read book Holiday Honey an erotic holiday novella written by Chencia C. Higgins and published by Chencia C. Higgins. This book was released on 2019-12-24 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a city miles away from her loved ones, Kailyn is desperate not to be idle during the time of year when loneliness and depression are highest. Inspired by the age of technology, she cooks up a scheme to ensure she will be around someone's--anyone's--family, even if she has to pimp herself out to do it. Cory fields questions about his personal life from his family regularly but during the holidays those questions morph into the sort of pressure that makes it hard for him to breath. He stumbles across a find that would not only garner him reprieve on Christmas Day, but also secure radio silence for a least a couple of months. The price might be high, but the results feel worth it. Set during Christmas, this holiday addition to the JustOneNight.com series is about what can bloom when you let your guard down and lie to get folks off your back. The JustOneNight.com Series No Strings Allowed - Book 1 No Love Allowed - Book 2 The Week Before Forever - Book 2.5 No Games Allowed - Book 3 Holiday Honey: an erotic holiday novella - Book 4 K.S.L.: an erotic holiday novella - Book 5

Download or read book To Break a Vow written by Chencia C. Higgins and published by Chencia C. Higgins. This book was released on 2019-09-04 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This was an incredible love story filled with self-discovery." - Reviewer "It is definitely a MUST READ and worth every millimeter of those 5 stars given." - Reviewer "I totally enjoyed this down-to-earth novel. I loved the real family feel of the novel, along with the development of the characters." - Reviewer How can something so innocent cause a chain reaction of events? Lisa Sutton enjoys her simple but satisfying life in the southeastern Arkansas town that she settled in after graduating from college years ago. There, she met a man who enriches her life and makes her believe in fairy tales, gave birth to her sometimes too intelligent daughter, and curated a tribe of loving and dependable people. If there is a more perfect existence on the planet, she hasn't found it. She isn't just happy, she's content. All of that changes when she takes a weekend trip with her girlfriends. For Jeremiah Hawkins, nothing could make his life more perfect than it already is. Well...almost nothing. The only thing missing from his life is an "I do" from his longtime girlfriend and the mother of his daughter. That, and another baby. This time, a son. He bides his time on one, and makes plans for the other, but things don't always go according to plan. In the span of one evening, everything he knows is swept from underneath him and now he has to scramble to find his footing in a world that doesn't make much sense. The Vow Series To Buy a Vow - Book 1 To Build a Vow - Book 2 To Break a Vow - Book 3 Things Hoped For - Book 4

Download or read book The Space Between written by Heidi L. Maibom and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-07-08 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Barack Obama nominated Sonia Sotomayor to the US Supreme Court, his comments that a judge should have the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it's like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it's like to be poor or African-American or gay, disabled, or old caused a furor. Objective, reasoned, and impartial judgment were to be replaced by partiality, sentiment, and bias, critics feared. This concern about empathy has since been voiced not just by conservative critics, but by academics and public figures. In The Space Between, Heidi Maibom combines results from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to argue that rather than making us more biased or partial, empathy makes us more impartial and more objective. The problem is that we don't see the world objectively in the first place, Maibom explains. We see it in terms of how we are placed in it: as an extension of our interests, capabilities, and relationships. This is a perspective and it determines what we pay attention to, how we interpret events, and what matters to us individually. It is not private, however. By means of the imagination, Maibom contends, we can place ourselves in another person's web interests, capabilities, and relationships and, viewing the world from there, experience a new way of interpreting and valuing what happens. This broadens and deepens our understanding of others and the world around us. It also helps us understand the greater reality of who we are ourselves. Maibom's book weaves together results from philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to provide a positive up-to-date view of what it really means to take another person's perspective, and how empathy, rather than being the enemy of objectivity, is the foundation of it.

Download or read book Fast Breaker written by Chencia C. Higgins and published by Chencia C. Higgins. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is a man to do after ending a vow of abstinence? Three years ago, Lewis St. James vowed to abstain from sex in what was initially a show of support for his baby brother. The decision took him on an unexpected journey of self-realization that he never would have experienced on his own. His very understanding of intimacy and relationships was challenged, morphing into a new normal as he evolved into someone who was no longer interested in casual hookups for the sake of getting off—as getting off for the sake of getting off no longer interested him. Now that the reason for his abstinence has disappeared, his status as a single man needs to be corrected and he has just the woman in mind to help him facilitate that change. Hopefully, the Toy he’d put on the shelf was still ready to be played with.

Download or read book The Phoenix Endangered written by Mercedes Lackey and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2008-09-16 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Phoenix Endangered, second in The Enduring Flame by Mercedes Lackey and James Mallory, Tiercel, a budding High Mage, and Harrier, a reluctant Knight-Mage, develop greater power--and learn of the evils of war when they see the devastation caused by the fanatical armies of the Wild Mage Bisochim. The desert tribespeople led by young Shaiara flee Bisochim's evil, seeking a legendary oasis deep in the desert--a refuge that may hold the key to stopping Bisochim and preserving the Balance between Light and Darkness . . . or that may be the cause of Light's ultimate downfall. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Download or read book D Vaughn and Kris Plan a Wedding written by Chencia C. Higgins and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2022-01-25 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NEW YORK TIMES BEST ROMANCE OF 2022 A TODAY SHOW BEST ROMANCE PICK FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR JASMINE GUILLORY D’Vaughn and Kris have six weeks to plan their dream wedding. Their whole relationship is fake. Instant I Do could be Kris Zavala’s big break. She’s right on the cusp of really making it as an influencer, so a stint on reality TV is the perfect chance to elevate her brand. And $100,000 wouldn’t hurt, either. D’Vaughn Miller is just trying to break out of her shell. She’s sort of neglected to come out to her mom for years, so a big splashy fake wedding is just the excuse she needs. All they have to do is convince their friends and family they’re getting married in six weeks. If anyone guesses they’re not for real, they’re out. Selling their chemistry on camera is surprisingly easy, and it’s still there when no one else is watching, which is an unexpected bonus. Winning this competition is going to be a piece of wedding cake. But each week of the competition brings new challenges, and soon the prize money’s not the only thing at stake. A reality show isn’t the best place to create a solid foundation, and their fake wedding might just derail their relationship before it even starts. Carina Adores is home to romantic love stories where LGBTQ+ characters find their happily-ever-afters.

Download or read book To Build a Vow written by Chencia C. Higgins and published by Chencia C. Higgins. This book was released on 2018-06-18 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lisa Sutton enjoys her simple but satisfying life in the southeastern Arkansas town that she settled in after graduating from college years ago. There, she met a man who enriches her life and makes her believe in fairy tales, gave birth to her sometimes too intelligent daughter, and curated a tribe of loving and dependable people. If there is a more perfect existence on the planet, she hasn’t found it. She isn’t just happy, she’s content. All of that changes when she takes a weekend trip with her girlfriends. For Jeremiah Hawkins, nothing could make his life more perfect than it already is. Well…almost nothing. The only thing missing from his life is an “I do” from his longtime girlfriend and the mother of his daughter. That, and another baby. This time, a son. He bides his time on one, and makes plans for the other, but things don’t always go according to plan. In the span of one evening, everything he knows is swept from underneath him and now he has to scramble to find his footing in a world that doesn’t make much sense. How can something so innocent cause a chain reaction of events?

Download or read book Unruly Spirits written by M. Brady Brower and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2010-10-07 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unruly Spirits connects the study of séances, telepathy, telekinesis, materializations, and other parapsychic phenomena in France during the age of Sigmund Freud to an epistemological crisis that would eventually yield the French adoption of psychoanalysis. Skillfully navigating experiments conducted by nineteenth-century French psychical researchers and the wide-ranging debates that surrounded their work, M. Brady Brower situates the institutional development of psychical research at the intersection of popular faith and the emergent discipline of psychology. Brower shows how spiritualist mediums were ignored by French academic scientists for nearly three decades. Only after the ideologues of the Third Republic turned to science to address what they took to be the excess of popular democracy would the marvels of mediumism begin to emerge as legitimate objects of scientific inquiry. Taken up by the most prominent physicists, physiologists, and psychologists of the last decades of the nineteenth century, psychical research would eventually stall in the 1920s as researchers struggled to come to terms with interpersonal phenomena (such as trust and good faith) that could not be measured within the framework of their experimental methods. In characterizing psychical research as something other than a mere echo of popular spirituality or an anomaly among the sciences, Brower argues that the questions surrounding mediums served to sustain the scientific project by forestalling the establishment of a closed and complete system of knowledge. By acknowledging persistent doubt about the intentions of its participants, psychical research would result in the realization of a subjectivity that was essentially indeterminate and would thus clear the way for the French reception of psychoanalysis and the Freudian unconscious and its more comprehensive account of subjective uncertainty.

Download or read book Birthing a Nation written by Susan J. Rosowski and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2015-10 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Birthing a Nation is about national identity and the American West. If it is a truism that facing west was the American male version of invoking the Muse, what happened if you were female? Most past interpretations of western American literature have echoed Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier hypothesis, emphasizing the conflict of wilderness and civilization, the hero of rugged individualism, the act of returning to origins and reemerging as the reborn American Adam. In this reading of western American women writers who responded to the challenge to give birth to a nation, Susan J. Rosowski proposes an alternative, more hopeful affirmation of our cultural history and perhaps our cultural destiny. Rosowski begins by tracing the birth metaphor through three and a half centuries of American letters. She reexamines the premises underlying the telling of the literary West and posits a female model of creativity at the genesis of American literature. She follows four authors on a multigenerational journey, beginning with Margaret Fuller in 1843, moving on a generation later to Willa Cather, advancing to Jean Stafford, and ending with Marilynne Robinson. In her reading of these writers who most directly and deeply believed in literature as a serious and noble form of art and who wrote to influence how the country perceived itself, Rosowski contributes to the ongoing process of remapping the literary landscape