Download or read book Beautiful Broken Obsession written by Fiona Murphy and published by Fiona Murphy. This book was released on 2022-05-31 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You’re getting married. Milos Levin needs a wife. He heads the Russian mafia—Bratva—here in Chicago. It’s time for him to get married, he wants kids and he wants them soon.” Ice slides down my spine. Milos Levin is a man who has haunted my dreams and nightmares for the last four years. As the daughter of the Don of the Outfit, I knew this was a possibility. Yet I hoped since I made it to the ancient age of twenty-three, I was safe from a mob marriage. I’m the weird cat lady, too fat, and my mother is half Filipino. I shouldn’t have anyone asking for me—but Milos isn’t asking for me. All he wants is a woman who fits his needs, someone who will cement his relationship with the Outfit and give him the children he wants. He would take my sister if she were willing because, as he told Carlo, all women are the same in the dark. But Carlo picked me, and I’ll do anything to protect my little sister. Or so I tell myself—but that’s the biggest lie of all. The truth is four years ago I met Milos Levin on a freezing February morning, and I’ve never been the same since. I’ll marry him because I think that day, as crazy as it sounds, I fell in love with him. But I can’t let Milos know that. Ever. He’s mafia, and whatever the name, their ways are all the same: take until there’s nothing left, then leave the enemy broken. I won’t be broken by him, or anyone. I won’t become my mother, willing to endure the affairs and lies in exchange for the money and status. *** **Four years and three months—one thousand, five hundred and forty-seven days—I have known Celia was mine. I have watched over her, listened to her, protected her. There is nothing I have not done and would not do to keep her safe and mine. What it started as. I do not know. but now it can only be defined as an obsession. Celia is mine. Like me, she has known it all this time. Why she is suddenly fighting me as our wedding day draws closer, I do not understand. It does not matter. The day is nothing more than a formality. I have never claimed to be a good or patient man. For her I was. That time is at an end. My kitten is baring her claws. She will find the veneer of civility I show the world is far thinner than she ever imagined—for in the end I am Bratva. We take what we want, ruthlessly and completely, and we never let it go.** ***This is a standalone first in series that does not end in a cliffhanger. While Tony and Dominic Sabatini from the HIS: Sabatini Family series appear, you need not have read them to enjoy this. This novel includes spankings and rough sexual scenes. If such things offend you, please do not purchase. *** *Keywords: dark mafia romance, age gap romance, jealous possessive, OTT alpha, breeding kink, forced pregnancy, obsessive hero, interracial romance, curvy woman, BBW romance

Download or read book Broken Things written by Lauren Oliver and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2018-10-02 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With all the intensity and whiplash turns of Sharp Objects and One of Us Is Lying, this engrossing psychological thriller by New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver is an unforgettable, mesmerizing tale of exquisite obsession, spoiled innocence, and impossible friendships. It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods. Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly. The only thing is: they didn’t do it. On the anniversary of Summer’s death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once again. But as the lines begin to blur between past and present and fiction and reality, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those years ago—no matter how monstrous.

Download or read book Broken Obsession written by Trisha Fuentes and published by Ardent Artist. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the sequel to "Unsuitable Obsession," Amber and Eduardo become a legitimate couple, but Amber begins to see signs that her husband may be cheating on her as well. She drinks to help cope with her persistent women's intuition, and their marriage is tested with an irreversible act that is undoubtedly the repercussion of their manic obsession.

Download or read book Pretty Obsessed written by J R Gray and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-17 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pretty Obsessed is an out-for-you romance, with a dirty-talking, obsessive rockstar who falls for a cinnamon roll writer. This is book one in The Pretty Broken series. All books follow a different couple.

Download or read book Beautiful Broken Things written by Sara Barnard and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-02-11 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beautiful Broken Things is a moving story of friendship from debut author Sara Barnard, shortlisted for the YA Book Prize and selected as part of Zoella's Book Club. Now with a bold cover look. I was brave She was reckless We were trouble Best friends Caddy and Rosie are inseparable. Their differences have brought them closer, but as she turns sixteen Caddy begins to wish she could be a bit more like Rosie – confident, funny and interesting. Then Suzanne comes into their lives: beautiful, damaged, exciting and mysterious, and things get a whole lot more complicated. As Suzanne's past is revealed and her present begins to unravel, Caddy begins to see how much fun a little trouble can be. But the course of both friendship and recovery is rougher than either girl realizes, and Caddy is about to learn that downward spirals have a momentum of their own. 'I felt like I was living this book' - Zoella 'This book is exquisite, and exactly what YA needs . . . This author is one to watch!' - Holly Bourne, author of Am I Normal Yet?

Download or read book Obsession written by Lennard J. Davis and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2009-05-15 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We live in an age of obsession. Not only are we hopelessly devoted to our work, strangely addicted to our favorite television shows, and desperately impassioned about our cars, we admire obsession in others: we demand that lovers be infatuated with one another in films, we respond to the passion of single-minded musicians, we cheer on driven athletes. To be obsessive is to be American; to be obsessive is to be modern. But obsession is not only a phenomenon of modern existence: it is a medical category—both a pathology and a goal. Behind this paradox lies a fascinating history, which Lennard J. Davis tells in Obsession. Beginning with the roots of the disease in demonic possession and its secular successors, Davis traces the evolution of obsessive behavior from a social and religious fact of life into a medical and psychiatric problem. From obsessive aspects of professional specialization to obsessive compulsive disorder and nymphomania, no variety of obsession eludes Davis’s graceful analysis.

Download or read book Shattered Obsession written by Roxy Sinclaire and published by Roxy Sinclaire. This book was released on 2019-01-28 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He took me at gunpoint He wants me in his fantasy life. I need that knight in shining armor, and fast. Time was running out. But I had no clue what was waiting for me around the corner... Praise for Roxy Sinclaire's Shattered Obsession "Deep, dark, and intense!" - Lisa, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Unpredictable and suspenseful!" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "The plot twists and turns are terrifying—yet you can’t stop flipping those pages" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Mindblowing end" - Heidi, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "It definitely won't disappoint" - Diane, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "You'll be on the edge of your seat from page one" - Amber, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "You need to read this book" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "This story will keep you riveted until the very last page and leave you begging for more" - Charleann, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "What a way to end ig!" - Stephanie, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "This story will keep you on the edge of your seat and enthralled until the last page" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "The series will definitely stick with me the whole yea" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Captivating ending to this series!" - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "If you are a dark romance lover you will not be disappointed!! " - Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Tthe whole thing will blow you away" - Sara, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "This story will keep you biting your nails and holding your breath" - Judi, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Believe me you will not regret it." - Michelle, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★ "Kept me trapped and reading avidly " - Dora, Amazon Reviewer ★★★★★

Download or read book City of Bridges written by David Michael Belczyk and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-12-09 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ancient city steeped in myth but searching for truth, a courier is killed while crossing a bridge. A century later, three friends join the city’s search for the item the courier carried, but they are drawn deeper into the unsolved mystery of the courier’s death.

Download or read book Captivating the Captain written by Trisha Fuentes and published by Ardent Artist Books. This book was released on 2020-01-27 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who will Abby Choose? Miss Abigail Spencer was once engaged to Captain Henry Waterford until a war broke out and he was called for duty to fight the Gunboat War. Four years pass and believing the Captain is never coming back, Abigail accepts another’s hand in marriage. When Captain Waterford unexpectedly returns, he battles with her new intended, and Abigail is forced to make a decision between a cold-hearted war veteran, or her charming fiancé. A Regency Standalone Novella

Download or read book My Passion Became My Obsession written by Doris Cowan and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2022-09-16 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My name is Doris Cowan (Rake) My current job titles include Activities Officer at RFBI, Owner of “Get Up And Go Fitness” – Personal Training and Founder of 3R’S Homeless Shelter project in Coffs Harbour. I was born and bred in Orange NSW and left there to try and get away from the memories of my Dad’s suffering before his death in 2005. Although I still undertake studies on occasion, my highest level of education is an Advanced Diploma of Hospitality Management. My ideal audience that I would like to target with my written journey on anorexia would be youth and athletes of all ages and patients of eating disorder institutes in an attempt for prevention of anorexia rather than cure, but also hope as once ED takes hold it is very difficult to overcome yet not impossible. I have many personal goals such as opening a Homeless Shelter to help with the current housing crisis in Coffs Harbour, yet one of my priority goals to follow on from the launch of my book would be to be an advocate for education and prevention of eating disorders on a global level. My professional goals include all of my current job titles having a similar purpose, and that is to keep learning about the people I work with in an attempt to assist them in becoming the best version of themselves in the present. I have been fortunate enough in my life before anorexia to achieve many wonderful accomplishments such as owning my own business, completing the Kokoda trail and possible the most rewarding was being a single mum to the most amazing son and daughter any parent could wish for.

Download or read book An Indecent Obsession written by Colleen McCullough and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Indecent Obsession has descriptive copy which is not yet available from the Publisher.

Download or read book The Essential Guide to Overcoming Obsessive Love written by Eileen Bailey and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2011-06-07 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When love consumes, here's the solution. When does love become an obsession? What are the warning signs? What does it take to guard against it and prevent it from taking over one's life? A psychotherapist who specializes in this condition and a survivor of obsessive love team up to answer these questions and many others in the most current and important book on this phenomenon. With fascinating and helpful advice drawn from real-life case studies and personal experience, this expert team discusses: • The difference between healthy love and obsessive love. • The psychological and societal causes of obsessive love. • Obsessive love from both the obsessor's and the obsessee's points of view. • Proven techniques to avoid falling into the obsessive love cycle. • Concrete steps to break the cycle.

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Download or read book Cinema of Obsession written by Dominique Mainon and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2007 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cinema of Obsession traces the history of obsessive love and erotic fixation. Seminal works of obsession, The Blue Angel, Peter Ibbetson, and Phantom of the Opera are seen as setting the groundwork for films that follow. The book defines and surveys examples of the explosive nature of amour fou, issues of male control (no matter how tenuous), and the fugitive couple - love on the run - in such films as Romeo and Juliet, Last Tango in Paris, Vertigo, Basic Instinct, and Wild at Heart. Male masochism is explored through film noirs, including Criss Cross, The Killers, Gilda, and The Postman Always Rings Twice. The book shifts gears in its finale and concentrates on the female gaze, films of female obsession: Jane Eyre, The Piano, The Lover, Fatal Attraction, and Vanilla Sky.

Download or read book Savio written by L.K. Ryan and published by 304 Publishing Company . This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Enjoy this steamy arranged marriage, Dark Italian Mafia Billionaire Romance.... He hated me before I even walked through the door. Savio Calabresi is a force to be reckoned with when we first meet. The Don of The Calabresi family liked things his way and didn’t want anyone to interrupt. Until I came along and shook up his world. Not only did my career cause a problem, but knowing a secret that could hurt him and his family only leaves one thing for him to do. He forced me into an arranged marriage, or I compromised the safety of my family. An arranged marriage, age gap, kidnapping Dark Mafia romance, Book 1 in an interconnecting stand-alone series, and guaranteed to have an HEA. Other readers J.T. Geissinger: Shanna Handel, Zoe Blake, Willow Fox,Bella J, Stella Gray,Serena Akeroyd

Download or read book The Broken Connection written by Robert Jay Lifton and published by American Psychiatric Pub. This book was released on 1996 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The unique human awareness of our own mortality enables us to ensure our perpetuation beyond death through our impact on others. This continuity of life has been profoundly shaken by the advent of wars of mass destruction, genocide, and the ever-present threat of nuclear annihilation. In The Broken Connection, Robert Jay Lifton, one of America's foremost thinkers and preeminent psychiatrists, explores the inescapable connections between death and life, the psychiatric disorders that arise from these connections, and the advent of the nuclear age which has jeopardized any attempts to ensure the perpetuation of the self beyond death.