Download or read book Heist eria at the Masquerade written by Ada Rayne and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2023-11-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since Faye moved to Paradise Cove to take over her aunt's metaphysical bookstore, her normal life as a PhD student has become anything but. Barely escaping a close brush with death and with their magical cat familiar happily recuperating in a nearby feline-spa of a hospital, Faye and Luke, her partner-in-crime-solving, are all set for some much deserved downtime. That is, until an invitation to a grand masquerade lands on their doorstep. Amidst the glitz and glamour, Faye discovers an uninvited guest under the catering table, and a priceless relic goes missing, causing paranoia and pandemonium. The mogul of Paradise Cove enlists Faye and Luke's help to investigate, much to the dismay of the police chief. Meanwhile, rumors ripple through the town, linking the mysterious disappearance of the relic to ancient native lore and whispers of a monstrous creature believed to be more than just legend. The plot thickens further as a palm reader emerges from the shadows and an eccentric man claiming to be the Count St. Germain adds another layer to the mystery. With the weight of ancestral myths looming, they've got their work cut out for them. Will Faye and Luke unmask the marauder and decipher the riddles of the past to save Paradise Cove's future?

Download or read book Lord of the Masquerade written by Erica Ridley and published by Erica Ridley. This book was released on 2021-08-06 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fun, fast-paced interracial romance full of banter, scandal, and devastating secrets, from a New York Times bestselling author: Entrepreneur Miss Unity Thorne helped two different men amass their fortunes—only to end up on the street. She’s scraping by at the theatre, but this isn’t the show she plans to star in. The next fortune Unity builds will be hers alone. Her masquerade-themed assembly rooms will rival the ton, but to do so, she’ll have to apprentice the most dangerous rake of all. The arrogant, sexy-and-he-knows-it Duke of Lambley’s weekly masquerade parties are decadent odes to excess: unlimited food, drink, dancing, romantic gardens, and private pleasure rooms upstairs. Everyone loves his balls, and he likes it that way. He’ll take a wife someday, but it certainly won’t be the pretty termagant who challenges him in the ballroom and the bedroom… In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses!

Download or read book Hell s Angels written by Hunter S. Thompson and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2012-08-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gonzo journalist and literary roustabout Hunter S. Thompson flies with the angels—Hell’s Angels, that is—in this short work of nonfiction. “California, Labor Day weekend . . . early, with ocean fog still in the streets, outlaw motorcyclists wearing chains, shades and greasy Levis roll out from damp garages, all-night diners and cast-off one-night pads in Frisco, Hollywood, Berdoo and East Oakland, heading for the Monterey peninsula, north of Big Sur. . . The Menace is loose again.” Thus begins Hunter S. Thompson’s vivid account of his experiences with California’s most notorious motorcycle gang, the Hell’s Angels. In the mid-1960s, Thompson spent almost two years living with the controversial Angels, cycling up and down the coast, reveling in the anarchic spirit of their clan, and, as befits their name, raising hell. His book successfully captures a singular moment in American history, when the biker lifestyle was first defined, and when such countercultural movements were electrifying and horrifying America. Thompson, the creator of Gonzo journalism, writes with his usual bravado, energy, and brutal honesty, and with a nuanced and incisive eye; as The New Yorker pointed out, “For all its uninhibited and sardonic humor, Thompson’s book is a thoughtful piece of work.” As illuminating now as when originally published in 1967, Hell’s Angels is a gripping portrait, and the best account we have of the truth behind an American legend.

Download or read book The Duke Heist written by Erica Ridley and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A woman accidentally kidnaps a duke in this fabulous Regency romp that Bridgerton author Julia Quinn hails as a "delight." Chloe Wynchester is completely forgettable—a curse that gives her the ability to blend into any crowd. When the only father she's ever known makes a dying wish for his adopted family of orphans to recover a missing painting, she's the first one her siblings turn to for stealing it back. No one expects that in doing so, she'll also abduct a handsome duke. Lawrence Gosling, the Duke of Faircliffe, is tortured by his father's mistakes. To repair his estate's ruined reputation, he must wed a highborn heiress. Yet when he finds himself in a carriage being driven hell-for-leather down the cobblestone streets of London by a beautiful woman who refuses to heed his commands, he fears his heart is hers. But how can he sacrifice his family's legacy to follow true love? "Erica Ridley's love stories are warm, witty and irresistible. I want to be a Wynchester!" —Eloisa James Publishers Weekly Best Books of 2021

Download or read book Drakonheim City of Bones written by Matthew Hanson and published by . This book was released on 2017-07 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To save the city from disaster, Drakonheim made a deal with a cabal of necromancers. Now this cabal, the Gray Society, holds the real power in the city.Drakonheim is a fantasy city full of intrigue and surrounded by dangers. Goblins dwell in the sewers, undead walk the streets, and aristocrats scheme for greater power. Hobgoblins ride across the northern plains, lizardfolk rule the southern swamps, and all manner of monsters hunt in the western mountains.Drakonheim is a system-free setting; you can use it with any fantasy roleplaying game. It can serve as a quick stopping point, or as the center of an entire campaign.

Download or read book Lord of Chance written by Erica Ridley and published by WebMotion. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Electronic Safety and Soundness written by Thomas C. Glaessner and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication discusses the key factors necessary to foster a secure electronic environment and establish sound international financial systems. It defines electronic finance and electronic security (e-security), reviews the emerging global security industry, and develops a risk management framework regarding tradeoffs and risks inherent in using an open network infrastructure (including examples with respect to technological innovations, privacy, quality of service, and security in the design of an e-security policy framework). It also outlines key issues regarding the legal, regulatory, and enforcement framework; external and internal monitoring of e-security practices; public-private sector co-operation; and the business case for practicing layered e-security.

Download or read book Lord of Temptation written by Erica Ridley and published by WebMotion. This book was released on 2018-03-30 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Lord Hawkridge inherits a penniless marquessate, he must abandon his courtship of the lowborn girl he loves. Years later, she rises from commoner to textiles heiress. Hawk has never banished her from his heartheres their chance to share his home! But how can he convince a woman whose trust he destroyed that he desires her far more than her money? Faith Digby’s chaotic world is too full to bother with men. She controls half a boarding school, one life-endangering secret, and two recently gentrified parents. Theres no time for the old flame roaring back into her life. Not when admitting she still loves him would imperil everything and everyone she holds dear...

Download or read book Secrets of a Super Hacker written by Knightmare and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Secrets of a Super Hacker" is an extraordinary manual on the methods of hacking. It covers brute force attacks, social engineering and reverse social engineering, spoofing, superuser abuser, screen stealing, data delivery, stair stepping, and more. The Super Hacker reveals all his secrets: Trojan horses, viruses, worms, trap doors, and dummy accounts. No system can withstand the assaults of The Knightmare. And no person concerned with computer security should miss this amazing manual of mayhem.

Download or read book Lord of Pleasure written by Erica Ridley and published by WebMotion. This book was released on 2017-05-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Rogues to Riches historical romance series, Cinderella stories aren’t just for princesses… Sigh-worthy Regency rogues sweep strong-willed young ladies into whirlwind romance with rollicking adventure. Nondescript “good girl” Miss Camellia Grenville only ever opens her mouth when forced to sing at her family’s musicales. That is, until the night she infiltrates the ton’s most scandalous masquerade ball on behalf of her sister, and finds herself in the arms—and the bed—of the one man she’d sworn to hate. Irresistibly arrogant and unapologetically sensuous, infamous rake Lord Wainwright always gets his way. When he accepts a wager to turn his rakish image respectable in just forty days, he never anticipates falling for an anonymous masked lover...or that discovering her identity would destroy them both.

Download or read book Iranian Cinema written by Hamid Reza Sadr and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2006-09-29 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recent, post-revolutionary Iranian cinema has of course gained the attention of international audiences who have been struck by its powerful, poetic and often explicitly political explorations. Yet mainstream, pre-revolutionary Iranian cinema, with a history stretching back to the early twentieth century, has been perceived in the main as lacking in artistic merit and, crucially, as apolitical in content. This highly readable history of Iran as revealed through the full breadth of its cinema re-reads the films themselves to tell the full story of shifting political, economic and social situations. Sadr argues that embedded within even the seemingly least noteworthy of mainstream Iranian films, we find themes and characterisations which reveal the political contexts of their time and which express the ideological underpinnings of a society. Beginning with the introduction of cinema to Iran through the Iranian monarchy, the book covers the broad spectrum of Iran's cinema, offering vivid descriptions of all key films. "Iranian Cinema" looks at recurring themes and tropes, such as the rural versus the 'corrupt' city and, recently, the preponderance of images of childhood, and asks what these have revealed about Iranian society. The author brings the story up to date explaining Iranian filmmaking after the events of September 11, from Mohsen Makhmalbaf's astonishing Kandahar to Saddiq Barmak's angry work Osama, to explore this most recent and breathtaking revival in Iranian cinema.

Download or read book Lord of Secrets written by Erica Ridley and published by WebMotion. This book was released on 2018-06-15 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some secrets should never be unveiled… Heath Grenville is the problem-solver for London's elite. Unmask the devious cretin skewering the ton with audacious caricatures? With pleasure. His success should keep the powerful happy. But when his work leads him to a young lady outside his class, surely he won’t do anything so scandalous as to fall in love... By day, Miss Eleanora Winfield is a proper, unremarkable paid companion. By night, Nora’s skillful hands sketch the infamous penny caricatures rocking high society. Nora desperately needs the money…and her anonymity. But how can she keep them both, when she’s fallen for the one man whose livelihood and reputation requires him to expose her?

Download or read book Lord of Night written by Erica Ridley and published by WebMotion. This book was released on 2017-07-22 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Eclipse Phase written by Jaym Gates and published by Posthuman Studios. This book was released on 2016-01-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a world of transhuman survival and horror, technology allows the re-shaping of bodies and minds, but also creates opportunities for oppression and puts the capability for mass destruction in the hands of everyone. Other threats lurk in the devastated habitats of the Fall, dangers both familiar and alien. These fantastic stories explore the vastness and intricacies of the Eclipse Phase RPG universe and are a great read for science fiction fans, especially those leaning towards transhuman sci-fi. The complete list of authors includes: Madeline Ashby, Rob Boyle, Davidson Cole, Nathaniel Dean, Jack Graham, Georgina Kamsika, Ken Liu, Karin Lowachee, Kim May, Steven Mohan, Jr., Andrew Penn Romine, F. Wesley Schneider, Tiffany Trent, and Fran Wilde.

Download or read book Ten Days with a Duke written by Erica Ridley and published by Erica Ridley. This book was released on 2020-11-13 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times bestselling author: a second chances, enemies-while-lovers reunion romance where nothing is as it first appears, and everyone’s motives are suspect… Olive Harper's family has been feuding with the Westons for decades. The Westons’ stud farm is the biggest, but the Harpers’ is the most famous... and she's the sole heiress. Or was, until her father brokers a truce by offering the Weston heir the Harper farm. The only way to get it back is to marry the knave who kissed her and humiliated her, twice—or prove to her father that some rifts can never be healed. Scholar and botanist Elijah Weston is dreadful at feuding. For one, he prefers horticulture to horses. For two, he's been desperately in love with his mortal enemy ever since he kissed her—and, yes, publicly destroyed her—all those years ago. When he's given ten days to win Olive's heart, he arrives with marriage license in hand. But where lies and double-crosses abound, how can lifelong rivals learn to trust their hearts? The 12 Dukes of Christmas is a series of heartwarming Regency romps nestled in a picturesque snow-covered village. Twelve delightful romances… and plenty of delicious dukes!

Download or read book Adept of Chaos written by Benjamin Medrano and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-10-11 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn's deeds are coming back to haunt her. Free to travel among the stars, the former warlord is enjoying her freedom, even if she's occasionally exasperated by the women who've attached themselves to her. They accompany her as she encounters wonders, from dryad terraforming ships to the orcish arenas of Skaloth. Yet Evelyn has enemies, and they have not forgotten her. They target one of the few people she truly cares about, knowing that Evelyn will come. When she does she may be drawn into a trap from which even she can't escape.

Download or read book Too Wicked to Kiss written by Erica Ridley and published by WebMotion. This book was released on 2019-10-30 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A thrilling gothic romance spiced with danger and forbidden love from a New York Times bestselling author: "Sensual and witty... A delicious treat!" - Eloisa James HIS TOUCH HOLDS HER CAPTIVE From the ravens circling its spires to the gargoyles adorning its roof, Blackberry Manor looms ominously over its rambling grounds. And behind its doors, amid the flickering shadows and secret passageways, danger lies in wait… TO HIS EVERY DARK DESIRE Evangeline Pemberton has been invited to a party at the sprawling estate of reclusive Gavin Lioncroft, who is rumored to have killed in cold blood. Initially, his towering presence and brusque manner instill fear… until his seductive attentions and unexpected vulnerability conquer her resistance. But when a guest is murdered, Evangeline is torn. Could the man to whom she is so powerfully drawn, also be a ruthless killer?