Download or read book Blossom in Winter written by Melanie Martins and published by Melanie Martins LLC. This book was released on 2019-10-28 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immerse yourself in this utterly addictive forbidden love story that has captivated thousands of readers around the world. “We are not meant to be together. I should’ve known better. And yet…” Petra, a seventeen-year-old Dutch-American and the only heir of finance tycoon Roy Van Gatt, has always had her life rigorously planned and supervised by her strict father. From her internship at his hedge fund firm on Wall Street to her degree in Economics at Columbia University, Petra is all set for a bright future in finance. But everything falls apart when she develops a dangerous relationship with her father’s business partner and utmost confidant, Alexander Van Dieren. A Dutch nobleman, known as an unrepentant heartbreaker, twenty-three years her senior, and who is, above all else, her beloved godfather. A twisted obsession for some, unconditional love for others, but one thing is sure: it’s a relationship that might cost them everything... This book is for mature audiences. ★★★★★ "A Must Read for Romantic Thriller Enthusiasts. Blossom in Winter is a beautifully wrought and expertly woven story of forbidden love, desire, dark pasts, and the lengths one will go to protect everything that matters most to them." -- Payton H, Amazon ★★★★★ "This dark romance is just what you need to keep you warm on the cold winter nights that are coming our way, it even has a simmering slow burn going on." -- Cassandra W., Amazon UK ★★★★★ "This book has been an absolute pleasure to read. There's puppy love, genuine romance, dark and twisted erotica and moments that will leave you shocked." -- Victoria Spaulding, Goodreads ★★★★★ "I don't even have words, got to be one of the most intense books I've read in a while." -- Obsidian, Goodreads ★★★★★ "This was the most amazing book I've read in a while, it was so gripping, I really couldn't stop reading it even at 2 am when I had a Uni class the next day!" -- Sabrina, Goodreads ★★★★★ "No lies, this is the best book I've ever read! I've felt so many emotions while reading it! Can't wait for the second book!!!" -- Mariska, Goodreads ★★★★★ "This book was exceptional, it captivated me instantly." -- Christina, Goodreads ★★★★★ "A captivating page-turner of a book that you literally will not put down." - Jojo, Goodreads ★★★★★ "This was by far the most refreshing, exciting, thrilling, adventurous, and sexy book I've read." -- Amy Shaw, Goodreads ★★★★★ "Pure intensity from the very first word to the very last!" -- Dionne McCarten, Goodreads ★★★★★ "This is by far one of the best books I've read in a long time!" -- Jade, Goodreads

Download or read book Lured into Love written by Melanie Martins and published by Melanie Martins LLC. This book was released on 2021-02-14 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “It’s a nasty kind of love. The kind you can’t escape from even if you want to.” Petra should’ve known better. But her heart has always beaten for the one man that she can’t have: her beloved godfather, Alexander Van Dieren. And despite the firm disapproval from her mother, the rising politician and activist, Tess Hagen, Petra is determined to take her life into her own hands and fight for him, no matter the price. But she can only do so if Alexander will go just as far for her. So after waking up from her coma, she asked him one question. He gave her one answer. And from there, nothing will ever be the same... This book is for mature audiences.

Download or read book Lured into Lies written by Melanie Martins and published by Melanie Martins LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-14 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “They say trust is the foundation of any relationship but what if lies are the foundation of ours?” Petra and Alex have risked everything to escape those who have tried tearing them apart. After finding refuge in Bermuda, they must learn how to trust each other like never before in order to tackle the upcoming judicial battles and the ever-present, scrutinizing eye of society. But when Alex makes it clear he won't reveal anything from his past and his secrets are meant to remain his, Petra now faces the impossible choice of either marrying a man whose past she knows nothing about or fighting for a relationship on her own terms. Stubbornly committed to knowing the truth, and always so curious even when she shouldn’t be, Ms. Van Gatt has yet to say her final words. This book is for mature audiences.

Download or read book Happily Ever After 4 books written by Melanie Martins and published by Melanie Martins LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-14 with total page 998 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You know their story. But what about their happily ever after? A collection of 4 books following Petra & Alex as they face parenthood, marriage life, in-laws, scandals, and so much more will be out very soon! Stay tuned!

Download or read book Cherry Blossom Winter written by Jennifer Maruno and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After Pearl Harbor the Canadian government confiscates the possessions of all Japanese families and they are forcibly moved to small impoverished communities, including ten-year-old Michiko, her parents, and the new baby on the way.

Download or read book Winter Bloom written by Tara Heavey and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-10-12 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There would be tunnels of roses, beds of strawberries, fountains of overflowing herbs. And there might even be love. . . . In the heart of bustling modern Dublin is a littered, overgrown garden of tangled weeds and a stagnant, hidden pond. Belonging to an iron-willed elderly lady named Mrs. Prendergast, who is rumored to have murdered and buried her husband there, the garden draws Eva Madigan, a young mother struggling to move on from the pain of her past. Eva is joined by Emily, a beautiful but withdrawn college dropout; Uri, an old-world immigrant; Seth, his all-too-handsome son; and occasionally even Mrs. Prendergast herself. But what drives Eva to transform the neglected urban wilderness? What makes the others want to help her? Even as Mrs. Prendergast puts the land up for sale, the thorny lives of all the gardeners are revealed and slowly start to untangle. Overgrown secrets are dug up and shared. Choices are made; a little pruning is in order. Now Eva is about to discover that every garden is a story of growth toward a final harvest. . . .

Download or read book Let the Dark Flower Blossom written by Norah Labiner and published by Coffee House Press. This book was released on 2013-04-30 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An existential murder mystery about two rival writers willing to do anything—lie, steal, kill—to get the perfect story.

Download or read book Fletcher and the Springtime Blossoms written by Julia Rawlinson and published by Greenwillow Books. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mitten written by Alvin Tresselt and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1989-10-26 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Deep in the woods on the coldest day of winter a little boy drops his mitten. And that lost mitten stretches and stretches -- and stretches -- to provide shelter for many woodland creatures. A Ukrainian folk tale.

Download or read book Blossom The Opossum s Awesome Winter Surprise written by Teresa Posey Carey and published by Posey Patch Publishing. This book was released on 2020-11-30 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wintery tale about friendship and fun that is sure to warm your heart! Poor little Blossom is having a really tough day. She is stuck inside all alone and can't go out to play! But luckily, her friends have a big surprise in store... Could it be everything that Blossom's been hoping for?

Download or read book Blossom and Boo written by Dawn Apperley and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2009-09-26 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Blossom the Rabbit and Boo the Bear are best friends. They play in the forest together, make gifts for each other, and giggle a lot. But when it comes time for Boo to hibernate, Blossom worries how she will get through the long winter alone. Dawn Apperley's soft, beautiful illustrations bring to life this touching story of strength found through friendship, that all young children will identify with.

Download or read book A Cherry Blossom in Winter written by Ron Singerton and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-06 with total page 408 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Moscow and St. Petersburg, aristocrats advance their political interests and have affairs as factory workers starve. Young Alexei Brusilov, son of an ambassador, accompanies his father to Japan and, there falls in love with the daughter of a Japanese war hero.

Download or read book When the Cherry Blossoms Fell written by Jennifer Maruno and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2009-03-27 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Michiko Minagawa's father is exiled and she and her family must move to a desolate internment camp in the middle of British Columbia, where she must deal with the prejudices of her schoolmates.

Download or read book Winter Stars written by Larry Levis and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 1985-03-15 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the appearance of his first book in 1972, Larry Levis has been one of the most original and most highly praised of contemporary American poets. In Winter Stars, a book of love poems and elegies, Levis engages in a process of relentless self-interrogation about his life, about losses and acceptances. What emerges is not merely autobiography, but a biography of the reader, a “representative life” of our time.

Download or read book Sun Bread written by Elisa Kleven and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-03-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winter's gray chill has set in and everyone misses the sun-especially the baker. So she decides to bring some warmth to the town by making sun bread. And as the bread bakes, rising hot and delicious, everyone comes out to share in its goodness. Everyone, including the sun itself. With a lilting, rhyming text, colorful illustrations, and a recipe for baking your own sun bread, this tasty treat from the illustrator of the best-selling Abuela is just right for all ages to enjoy.

Download or read book The Cherry Blossom 3 Book Bundle written by Jennifer Maruno and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 2015-12-05 with total page 675 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Short-listed for the 2012 Pacific Northwest Young Readers Choice Award and for the 2011 Hackmatack Children’s Choice Award (When the Cherry Blossoms Fell) This special bundle contains all of Jennifer Maruno’s Cherry Blossom novels about the internment of Japanese-Canadians, viewed through the eyes of nine-year-old Michiko Minagawa. Includes: When the Cherry Blossoms Fell Nine-year-old Michiko bids her father goodbye. She doesn’t know the government has ordered all Japanese-born men out of the province. Ten days later, her family joins hundreds of Japanese-Canadians on a train to the interior of B.C. She must face local prejudice, the worst winter in forty years, and her first Christmas without her father. Cherry Blossom Winter After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, ten-year-old Michiko’s family’s possessions are confiscated and they are sent to a small community. After a former Asahi baseball star becomes her new teacher, life gets better. Baseball fever hits town, and when Michiko challenges the adults to a game with her class, the whole town turns out. Cherry Blossom Baseball — NEW! After her family is forced to move by Canada’s racist wartime policies, Michiko is the only Japanese kid at school. One nice thing is that she’s a hit at the local baseball tryouts. There’s just one problem: everyone thinks she’s a boy. What is she to do when they find her out — do as she’s told and quit, or pitch like never before? “Maruno brings to life this tragic part of Canadian history while showing that, among the poverty and loss experienced by the internees, strong communities were still able to grow.” — Quill & Quire

Download or read book Bean Blossom written by Thomas A. Adler and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2011-05-23 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bean Blossom, Indiana is home to the annual Bean Blossom Bluegrass Festival, founded in 1967 by Bill Monroe, the father of bluegrass. Here, Adler discusses the development of bluegrass music, the many personalities involved in the bluegrass music scene, the interplay of local, regional, and national interests, and more.