Download or read book Dr Todson s Home for Incorrigible Women written by Riley LaShea and published by Midnight Jasmine Books. This book was released on 2021-04-13 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A gentle Victorian tale of women’s passions and power, with a sprinkle of romance, a trifle of steampunk, and heaps and heaps of quiet revolution. Caroline Ajax is an inconvenient woman. Unwell. Hot-tempered. Harboring a tragic secret she can’t share with another living soul. Dropped at an institution in the Surrey Hills by her husband, Thomas, her only objective is to survive, to endure, to make it back to what little there is of her life as soon as she possibly can. But it doesn’t take her long to discover there is something unusual about this house and its eclectic group of inhabitants. Not to mention its unconventional proprietor. Eirinn Todson is an untameable woman. Brilliant. Determined. Forging her way through the world of men as brazenly as she knows how. Her dream of becoming a doctor leads her to Dr. Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and her clinic for women and children in London, then onto Paris with her best friend and quasi-brother Rand. But an unexpected encounter and personal tragedy will change the course of Eirinn’s life and future forever. In the spring of 1886, Eirinn is now Dr. Todson, proprietor of Dr. Todson’s Home for Women. When Caroline Ajax is admitted into her care, Eirinn has every reason to believe Caroline is just another resident. Caroline has every reason to believe Dr. Todson’s is just another sadistic madhouse. But Dr. Todson’s Home harbors a treasure trove of secrets, some deeper and more dangerous than others, and Caroline’s and Eirinn’s past tragedies share a common thread. Together, they may find a sliver of justice neither of them ever thought to get.
Download or read book The Freelands written by John Galsworthy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-11-20 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original.
Download or read book Bleeding Through Kingdoms written by Riley Lashea and published by . This book was released on 2005-04 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories have all been written. Cinderella will marry a prince, allowing her to escape her heartless family. A prince will scale Rapunzels tower, eventually freeing her from the control of her sorceress mother. It will take the kiss of a prince to awaken Snow White, and they will ride off on his white horse. Right? Wrong. When Cinderella breaks an unknown rule and flees Prince Charming, the next thing she knows she is crossing into kingdoms she was never meant to discover, and encountering individuals whose existence she was never supposed to know about, including Rapunzel, Snow White and the dwarves: Big Papa, Chauncy, Mo, Sponk, Tater, Esteban, and Baby G. At first it all seems a fantastic adventure, but it doesnt take long to realize that Cinderellas joyful abandon is not sitting well with everyone. Snow Whites stepmother, the beautiful but cruel Queen Ino, now wants all three of the girls dead, but she is only a servant to the master plan. Something deeper, darker, and much more powerful is working beneath the surface, toiling to put everything back the way it was intended. As strange things begin happening and people start to disappear, it will take all of the inhabitants of the Black Forest, both decent and depraved, to seize control of their land and their destinies.
Download or read book Red Tide at Heron Bay written by Gerri Hill and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lauren Voss has a nice, quiet, orderly life running her grandmother’s Heron Bay Resort on the Texas coast. Three years removed from a break-up that left her ex—and her life—behind in San Diego, she’s adjusted to the slow pace in Rockport, seeking out neither new friends nor lovers. Vandalism at the resort’s clubhouse—and a cryptic message written in blood—brings Detective Harley Shepherd, with her obnoxious Hawaiian shirts, into her life. A tragedy sent Harley Shepherd running to the sleepy fishing village of Rockport, where violent crime is rare. So different from her life as a homicide detective in a large city, she embraced the quiet and easy-going attitude of the town, determined to put her past behind her. Was it luck or fate that had her catch a case of simple vandalism? The lovely Lauren Voss made no attempt to hide her dislike of both her—she reminded Lauren of her ex—and her Hawaiian shirts. Was the vandalism a prank, as Lauren suspects? When a body is found floating near the resort’s pier, Harley is convinced it’s related. As the formality and animosity between them changes and a friendship forms, the women find themselves growing closer as a killer terrorizes the peaceful town they both now call home.
Download or read book Above All Honor written by Radclyffe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2004-09-15 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in the Honor series, Above All, Honor introduces single-minded Secret Service Agent Cameron Roberts and the woman she is sworn to protect—Blair Powell, the daughter of the President of the United States. Cam’s duty is her life -- and the only thing that keeps her from self-destructing under the unbearable weight of her own deep personal tragedy. However, she hasn’t counted on the fact that the beautiful, willful first daughter will do anything in her power to escape the watchful eyes of her protectors, including seducing the agent in charge. Both women struggle with long-hidden secrets and dark passions as they are forced to confront their growing attraction amidst the escalating danger drawing ever closer to Blair. From the dark shadows of rough trade bars in Greenwich Village to the elite galleries of Soho, each must balance duty with desire and, ultimately, choose between love and honor.
Download or read book Love and Chaos written by Poppy Woods and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second collapse changed the world forever.Cris has spent her entire life in her Tribe. Safe from the pollution that still clings to more populated areas, they grow crops to sell in the Cities, they hunt for their meat, and they take care of their own. Their rural way of life ensures the politics of the Cities doesn't reach them.Until one day, it does. Like all orphans, Love Ward was conscripted into the Venus Guard as a child. She has done her best to take the opportunity and make it into a career, something she can be proud of. The Venus Guard is her family. But the New Republic has secrets, the kind of secrets that can get a low-ranking officer like Love reassigned and even killed if she's not careful. When chaos erupts around them, the two women find themselves at odds but with only each other to rely on. Their shared past and the growing attraction between them can only serve as a distraction as they fight for their lives.Can a guard from the Cities and a girl from the Tribes expose the New Republic's dirty secrets? Can they change their world without losing their lives-or their hearts?
Download or read book Innocent Hearts written by Radclyffe and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2005-10-08 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kate Beecher, a young woman from Boston, looks ahead with a sense of restless longing to the life her family and friends expect her to embrace. She doesn't know what she wants, or who, until she moves with her family to the wild Montana Territory of the 1860's. Just eighteen and quietly struggling against the social constraints of the era, Kate meets a woman who fires first her imagination, and then her dreams. Jessie Forbes, a fiercely independent but touchingly tender rancher, finds in Kate the passion she had unknowingly sought all her life. This is the story of their struggle to love in a land and time as cruel as it was beautiful.
Download or read book The Ocean in Winter written by Elizabeth de Veer and published by Blackstone Publishing. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable story about grief, love, and what it means to be haunted, The Ocean in Winter marks the debut of a remarkable new voice in fiction. The lives of the three Emery sisters were changed forever when Alex found their mother drowned in the bathtub of their home. After their mother’s suicide, the girls’ father shut down emotionally, leaving Alex responsible for caring for Colleen and little Riley. Now the girls are grown and navigating different directions. Decades may have passed, but the unresolved trauma of their mother’s death still looms over them, creating distance between the sisters. Then, on a March night, a storm rages near the coast of northeastern Massachusetts. Alex sits alone in an old farmhouse she inherited. The lights are out because of the storm; then, an unexpected knock at the door. When Alex opens it, her beautiful younger sister stands before her. Riley has long been estranged from their family, prompting Colleen to hire the private investigator from whom they’d been awaiting news. After her mysterious visitation, Alex and Colleen are determined to reconcile with Riley and to face their painful past.
Download or read book Femme Tales written by Anne Shade and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beast: Former hip-hop artist Ebony “The Beast” Trent has wrapped her persona around herself like a protective wall of bitterness. Belinda Jansen is confident, intelligent, sexy, and—to Ebony's fascination—not the least bit intimidated by Ebony’s beastly demeanor. Can Beauty truly tame The Beast? Awaken: Local celebrity chef Chayse Carmichael has achieved a level of success she’d only imagined while learning to cook. But when free-spirited Georgia peach Serena Frasier walks into her restaurant, Chayse realizes that success doesn’t always bring happiness if you don’t have someone special to share it with. Does love at first sight truly exist? Stiletto: Music mogul Cass Phillips barely has a moment to sleep, let alone build a relationship. But an unexpected encounter with shoe designer Faith Shaw leads her to believe that maybe fairy tales do come true. Can true love really conquer all? Six women find themselves in their own real-life fairy tales when true love finds them in the most unexpected ways.
Download or read book Lost Daughters written by J.M. Redmann and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2009-03-01 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Micky Knight, a bayou-bred and out-of-the-closet New Orleans private investigator, takes on the cases of a widowed mother looking for her daughter and a tough gay boy hunting for his biological mother. When a young woman patient is murdered at Dr. Cordelia James’s clinic, it seems to be just a bizarre coincidence. But when another woman, also a patient, is murdered, these events reveal the frightening possibility that the crimes are more than just random chances. Even more alarming, the killer seems to know too much about the victims. As the killer circles ever closer to Micky—and the lost daughter she is trying to find—the coincidences become a grisly reality: the one characteristic all the victims share is that they dare to love other women. The fourth book in the Micky Knight mystery series.
Download or read book Behind the Pine Curtain written by Gerri Hill and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jacqueline Keys was ostracized from her small hometown of Pine Springs, Texas when she was seventeen, sent away because she was gay. Her family was the largest employer in the county, owning Pine Springs Lumber, and her father was mayor of this small town. Her mother could not accept the fact that her only child was gay, could not tolerate the gossip about her family. So, with a hundred dollars in her pocket and a one-way bus ticket out of town, Jacqueline was told not to come back until she had come to her senses. And that included being prepared to marry the son of a business associate of the family. Fifteen years later—long after she'd hitch-hiked to Los Angeles, long after she'd worked nights to put herself through college, and long after she'd written her first best seller, No Place For Family—Jacqueline is persuaded to go back to the tiny town of Pine Springs after her father's death. The quick trip she'd envisioned for the funeral turns into weeks as she learns her father's business is suddenly hers to manage. And she is also again face-to-face with the woman who, as a teen, had been Jackie's first crush. She and Kay had been inseparable as kids, and later as teens. They find themselves falling back into their old habits, and Jackie is soon fighting the same feelings she'd had when she was seventeen. But living behind the pine curtain, Kay is afraid of her love for Jackie, afraid of what her family will say, afraid of how the town will react. Jackie refuses to hide, refuses to crawl back into the closet, so once again, she leaves Pine Springs...alone.
Download or read book Of Wulf and Wynd Part 1 written by Lexa Luthor and published by Luthor Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02-04 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Princess Tharon and Princess Roswynd were best of friends as pups; now they are enemies and forced to marry each other. The Kingdom of White Sommer and the Kingdom of Wyndfeld had been united and strong. Princess Tharon of White Sommer grew up with her best friend Princess Roswynd of Wyndfeld, both having vowed to always be together. But it all came crashing down when Tharon’s mother was murdered by Roswynd’s family. The two kingdoms plunged into a dark, bloody war of revenge and hatred. After ten long years at war, the kingdoms agree to a ceasefire, but under the condition of a forced marriage between the two princesses. Tharon becomes the Prince and Lord Commander of the White Sommer Army and a knight known as the Black Wulf. She has dedicated her life to conquering Wyndfeld and avenging her mother’s murder. Even better, she finally gets to claim Roswynd as her Omega. Now nothing can stop her from having it all. Roswynd grew up broken and enraged over Tharon’s betrayal of their friendship pact. Now forced to marry Tharon, she is at a loss with her new wife, finding no remnants of her best friend under Tharon’s cold exterior. She gives her wedding vows to Tharon, but she knows their vows are based on lies. She will protect her kingdom from Tharon. As Tharon and Roswynd play the game, they both discover they must choose between honoring their wedding vows or their vows to their kingdom. * * * Part 1, The Vows of Marriage, is the first of three parts to the Of Wulf and Wynd novel from The Kingdoms of Gyldren series. It includes F/F Omegaverse*, Fantasy Romance, Royalty & Nobility, Enemies-to-Lovers, G!P*, and a cliffhanger. Words: 114,000 *See the author's blog for more details about Omegaverse and related terms.
Download or read book Death by the Riverside written by J. M. Redmann and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Finally back in print - the first Micky Knight mystery. It should have been the perfect case for Micky Knight - a simple missing person trace. But this case turned from simple to complex to dangerous to deadly, leading Micky from a bar in the French Quarter to a plantation on the Mississippi, and into the murky water bayous of her youth. She is finally led back into the past that she has tried so desperately to avoid.
Download or read book Under the Harvest Moon written by Robin Hale and published by . This book was released on 2019-06-21 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Laurel Pearson is ready for adventure. The sort of adventure that means finding your people and discovering yourself and — well, it turns out that her adventure mostly looks like a studio apartment in a new city, a job at a quirky little bookshop, and humiliating herself in front of the most gorgeous woman she’s ever seen. Typical. But Laurel can’t shake the feeling that there’s more going on. The bookshop sells silver amulets and dried herbs alongside their truly impressive poetry section, and that gorgeous woman crackles with secrets. And the bookclub? It might be a coven. There’s something coming. Something changing. And Laurel would swear that Rhea Barnes — the gruff, hot gardener with the intriguing scars — is the key to understanding all of it. Can Laurel convince Rhea to take a chance on her and find out what’s pulling them together? Under the Harvest Moon is a complete F/F romance with grumpy gardeners, curious bookshop clerks, magic, and kisses in the moonlight!
Download or read book The Schuyler House written by Cade Haddock Strong and published by Bella Books. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattie Pearson has a secret—one that has left her on the run from her life, her friends, and the law. As Mattie settles into her new apartment in Washington, DC, her life takes a turn for the better when she meets Alex Holland. The two fall into an easy friendship and before long Mattie finds herself wanting much more from her new friend. Certain that nothing more will ever develop, Mattie is determined to keep her feelings under wraps. As she agonizes over being honest with Alex about her feelings and about her past, Mattie soon realizes she may lose Alex no matter which path she chooses. Is losing everything worth the risk of being honest with the woman she’s falling for?
Download or read book Shadows of Aggar written by Chris Anne Wolfe and published by Windstorm Creative. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diana n'Athena is an Amazon working for the Terran empire on the medieval planet of Aggar. Her mission: Rescue a downed pilot and spy from Aggar's badlands. But Aggar is not part of the Terran empire and before Aggar's Council will allow the journey, Diana must be bonded to a Shadowmate. That's when things get interesting. Shadows are exceptional guides, field companions and fighters. However, Elana is also something more -- she's gifted with the magic of the Blue Sight, a sixth sense that allows her to read and manipulate intentions through the shifting colors of an individual's amarin. She's also been gifted with dreams. Dreams of a certain Amazon. Aided by friends and flying eitteh, haunted by Changelings, madmen and laser guns, Diana and Elana cross the vast and varied lands that are Aggar. In their race against time to prevent an all-out intergalactic war, the two women become erotically entangled. But all too soon they discover that when the stakes are this high, nothing is ever easy and choices are never simple.
Download or read book Matzo Match written by Roz Alexander and published by Roz Alexander. This book was released on 2021-03-15 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a meddling matchmaker help two broken hearts to love again? Sam is ready for a lot of things: spring, hosting on her own again, and a casual fling or two. Sam is definitely not ready for anything real, but her best friend Virginia has decided she's been heartbroken for too long. When loving encouragements aren't enough, Virginia takes fate into her own hands. With Passover just around the corner, will a surprise blind date, three celebrations in eight days, and a vineyard's worth of wine be enough to finally move on? After one taste of the hard-bodied, immaculately dressed butch Jordan, it just might be time. Too bad Jordan has her own baggage to work through. Matzo Match is a steamy lesbian age gap love story and the first entry in the "Hot for the Holidays" series of standalone sapphic romances.
