Download or read book Mated in the Big City written by C.D. Gorri and published by C.D. Gorri. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A NYC Shifter Tale Anthology Books 1-3 Anything can happen in New York, and for these Shifters that means finding their mates. Featuring books 1-3 in USA Today Bestselling Author C.D. Gorri’s NYC Shifter Tales series. Included: Cuff Linked A NYC Shifter cop meets a red hot pastry chef in this steamy paranormal romance… Rami Llewellyn’s blood runs blue. He’s not looking for any complications in his life. But things get red hot real fast for the litigious Lion once he meets his potential mate. Noemi Donato dreams of buying the bakery where she works from her boss who is soon retiring. But her mother wants her to move back home, away from the dangerous city she loves. All she needs is a reason to stay. Sealed Fate Can a Tiger ever change his stripes? Yasmin Malek is a talented dancer who never caught a break. Working at a gentlemen’s club three nights a week was not her ideal job, but the Lioness Shifter will do anything to make sure her son has a bed to sleep in and food on the table. Konstantin Petrov is a Siberian Tiger Shifter and owner of The Stripe Club, a members only establishment featuring top shelf liquor and the finest dancers in NYC. He’s had his eye on the gorgeous single mother for months now. His Tiger knows she is theirs, but he has yet to make a move… Virtue Saved Virtue comes in all shapes and sizes… Alina Petrova has gone from practicing ballet as an understudy in Russia to being cooped up in her big brother’s fancy house in New Jersey. She is finished waiting for the men in her life to come rescue her. Especially the big Grizzly with the gorgeous brown eyes. If he won’t claim her, then she will have to take matters into her own hands. Eduardo Valens is a Bear Shifter and an ex-mercenary working for one of the biggest, baddest Tigers in NYC. He owes the guy for saving his life more than once, which is why there is no way in hell he is going to take the man’s little sister as his mate. Until matters are taken out of his hands. Keywords: paranormal possessive romance, curvy girl shifter romance, alpha hero, instalove shifter romance, paranormal romance with strong female lead, alpha hero, loner, tortured hero, curvy heroine, plus size heroine, fated mates instalove, fated mates paranormal romance, fated mates quick reads, fated mates rejection. fated mates virgin, shifter romance, witch romance, druid magic

Download or read book Big City Pack written by Marisa Chenery and published by Marisa Chenery. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The entire Big City Pack series in one boxed set. The Canuck Werewolf Rylee doesn’t have high hopes for the Victoria Day weekend camping trip, seeing as she’s been roped into taking her brother and his juvenile friends. Her mind is changed when she spots a gorgeous man on a hiking trail. Atticus came to Elora Gorge to get away from his father and his demands that his son find a mate. The tent heats up quickly, but before Atticus can tell Rylee what he is, he discovers a member of his pack has followed him with the intention of claiming him for her own. A Werewolf at the Falls As a cocktail waitress at Fallsview Casino Resort, Jorja has been witness to some brow-raising moments, but she’s never been part of one until a hot-as-hell patron in her section pulls her onto his lap and kisses her senseless. What was supposed to be a weekend of harmless gambling takes a dramatic turn when Kian’s wolf scents his would-be mate. Consuming her lips as if his life depends on it in the middle of a crowded casino is bad enough—but giving in to his mating urge and claiming her before she knows his true nature is nothing short of a disaster. Werewolf's Treasure Treasure never dates clients. When her sexy-as-all-get-out buyer hinges his offer of purchase on her willingness to have dinner with him, she wavers. Soren hoped to secure a primo home when he arranged to view a penthouse. He didn’t expect to be taken to his knees by the scent of his would-be mate. Werewolf Claimed As werewolves go, Draven isn’t exactly a spring chicken. At fifteen hundred years old, he’s beyond ready to find his mate and settle down. Wyatt has come to Buck Lake to spend his two-week vacation. Being rescued by a man who can only be described as a walking wet dream certainly improves his outlook. Loved by a Werewolf At her cousin’s wedding, Sierra is stuck on drunk-brother patrol. When he slips out of the reception with a married woman, Sierra must go in pursuit, but her efforts are in vain and she finds herself on a hiking trail along the edge of the property. Cale knew he’d found his mate the moment he caught Sierra’s scent in his wolf form. Things don’t start off well, however, when she throws a rock at him.

Download or read book Life in the Big City written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Reform. Subcommittee on Federalism and the Census and published by Amicus. This book was released on 2005 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spiders, discusses the life of spiders and profiles different types of spiders provided by case studies examining individual species, along with facts about habitat, diet, and hunting practices. Additionally, this title features a table of contents, glossary, index, color photographs, labeled photographs, and recommended websites for further exploration.

Download or read book Big city Politics Governance and Fiscal Constraints written by George E. Peterson and published by The Urban Insitute. This book was released on 1994 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Big-city mayors and other political leaders face the triple challenge of assembling a winning political coalition; translating this into an effective governing coalition; and coping with a tightening local budget constraint. The challenge is still greater when elections have produced a change in ethnic control of local government, bringing into power new groups that want to use government spending to serve their constituents' demands but are resisted by those controlling the economic resources. This volume explores the political transition now going on in big cities. One group of chapters examines recent electoral politics in Chicago, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Miami, and San Antonio, where different types of ethnic and class lines have been drawn, and where different strategies have been employed to adjust political machines to the new realities. A second group of chapters considers the business of governing under the conflicting pressures of community organizations, the press, the business community, and higher levels of government. A final group of chapters examines the fiscal and budgetary constraints upon big-city governments, and the difficulty that these governments, no matter how well motivated, face in generating jobs and economic opportunity for their political constituents.

Download or read book Bright Lights Big City written by Jay McInerney and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2014-02-13 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You are at a nightclub talking to a girl with a shaved head. The club is either Heartbreak or the Lizard Lounge. All might become clear if you could just slip into the bathroom and do a little more Bolivian Marching Powder. Then again, it might not... So begins our nameless hero's trawl through the brightly lit streets of Manhattan, sampling all this wonderland has to offer yet suspecting that tomorrow's hangover may be caused by more than simple excess. Bright Lights, Big City is an acclaimed classic which marked Jay McInerney as one of the major writers of our time.

Download or read book Little Bigfoot Big City written by Jennifer Weiner and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After discovering that she is not human, twelve-year-old Alice Mayfair is on a mission to find out who and what she is, but she must do it alone because her best friend Millie Maximus, an undersized Bigfoot who lives in the forest near Alice's school in upstate New York, is focused on fulfilling her dream to sing for a nationally televised talent competition.

Download or read book Big City Politics in Transition written by H. V. Savitch and published by SAGE. This book was released on 1991-06-14 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines how government and administration in America's largest cities have changed between 1960 and 1990. Each chapter traces demographic and economic changes over this vital, and at times turbulent, thirty year period explaining what those changes mean for politics, policies and the general quality of life. Analytic and comparative chapters extract patterns and variations which emerge from the city profiles. Each profile addresses common issues in socio-economic, coalitional, institutional, process, values and policy changes in the following American cities: Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis, Atlanta, Miami, New Orleans, Denver, Houston, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Seattle.

Download or read book Purrfectly Mated A Maverick Pride Tale 1 written by C.D. Gorri and published by C.D. Gorri. This book was released on with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Maverick Point, where you will find tales featuring paranormal romance with growly Shifters and their curvy fated mates! In order to lead his pride, tiger shifter Hunter must tame his clawing inner beast by finding his fated mate. When a stranded Elissa makes her way to Hunter, he knows she’s the one. The problem? She has no idea shifters exist! He’s the leader of his Pride. She’s a normal with no idea Shifters exist. Calling a Magical Matchmaking Service isn’t exactly ideal, but Hunter Maverick is desperate to find his mate. If he doesn’t have control of the eight-hundred-pound Tiger living inside him, he can’t run the Pride. The best way to manage his beast is to claim a female as his own, but no one in his Pride calls to him. Only his fated mate will do. There’s just one problem. He has no idea who she is. Elissa Phoenix has hit rock bottom. When she’s cajoled into accepting a blind date, she finds herself in one lousy situation after another. Bad manners and lewd suggestions leave Elissa no choice but to leave on her own. Stranded in the rain on the side of the road, Elissa is startled when an elderly stranger in a limo offers her a ride. She knows she should run, but her gut says get in. With no other prospects, what does she have to lose? Uncle Uzzi has found the purrfect mate for the big bad Tiger of Maverick Point, New Jersey wandering on the side of the road, but it’s up to the growly Neta to win her heart. Can Hunter convince Elissa she’s his purrfect mate? Keywords: tiger king romance book, tiger pride romance ebook, curvy girl romance, tiger shifter fated mates, cd gorri mates, fated mates paranormal romance, tiger shifter bbw romance series, strangers to lovers, instant attraction, heat level, claiming bite, fated mates novella, soul mates, destined mates, shifter romance ebook, paranormal fiction series, strong heroine, curvy girl romance novel, shifter mates, fated mates, instalove romance short, sexy shifter book, sexy paranormal romance book, steamy paranormal romance novel, steamy wolf shifter mates, strangers to lovers, instant attraction, shifter pride romance series, urban fantasy, fantasy romance, paranormal holiday romance, shifter holiday romance,

Download or read book Big City Greens Blood Moon written by Disney Books and published by Disney Electronic Content. This book was released on 2021-07-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cricket and Tilly are excited for their first Halloween in Big City.Read along with Disney! When a spooky blood moon turns their farm animals into zombies, will their night of fun be threatened? Find out in this retelling of the series' popular Halloween episode. Come celebrate Halloween with Cricket Green, Tilly, Remy Remington and more!

Download or read book Small Corners in a Big City written by Yoshimasa Ogawa and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Each story in this collection unveils a struggle with everyday problems in the big city. A bankrupt entrepreneur flees in the middle of the night, considers suicide, then has a chance encounter with someone who provides a ray of hope. Members of a high-school judo club are tortured by the uncompromising regimen of the new coach, but a turn of events reveals the man's true character and qualities. A foreign student, successful as a long-distance runner, returns home and witnesses a phenomenal change that had taken place during his absence. A quiet young woman is dumped by her selfish fiancé--and ridiculed by her colleagues--so she takes revenge in a unique but clever way. A young employee at a prestigious company badmouths a homeless man living by the river but is then is forced to confront his own biases. the problems and issues in these accounts give a multifaceted view of various sections and strata of Tokyo.

Download or read book Dragon Mated written by Godiva Glenn and published by Godiva Glenn. This book was released on 2024-05-13 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Demyan, Leo, and Myron have spent their lives underground and secluded as part of a dragon shifter race thought long extinct. One thing can make them sneak out from the safety of their clan, risk exposure after hundreds of years in secrecy, and head into the unknown—the chance at finding their one. They seek the mate that will complete the spiritual bond formed at their births. Mara is the “all work and no play” type, but when she kicks back, she knows what she wants: Strong drinks, tasty food, and watching shifters compete in fighting tournaments. Then a night of fun is derailed when she catches the scent she knows to be her mate's. Its trail leads her into the hands of a mischievous paranormal matchmaker. For the sake of finding her soul mate, Mara’s pride is forced to take a back seat as she begs the matchmaker for help. Too bad that help guides her onto a path as surprising as it is confusing. Everything is changing, and nothing is as expected. What compromises will they make to entwine their four paths into one?

Download or read book The Twins mate book 1 written by Emmarentia Snyman and published by Infinite Joy. This book was released on 2021-06-01 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sebrina looks at Josh as he stands in front of her. She knows what he is going to say. She knows he will reject her for her more beautiful blond twin sister. She and Leona can not be more different, and everyone can not believe they are twins. Her parents always loved Leona more than her as she had red hair and green eyes and freckles, while Leona was the pretty one with blond hair, blue eyes and perfect skin. Sebrina has learned not to ask her parents for love and attention from a young age as all their love and attention went to the cute child. They ignored her like she did not exist. It made Sebrina push people away from her, and that is why she is standing here in front of Josh, her mate waiting for him to reject her. It is not uncommon for twins to have the same mate. It happened before. Sebrina being the rebel she is, smiles as she waits for Josh's words. "I, Josh Norton, future alpha of the Red Wood Pack, reject you, Sebrina Dawson, as my mate," Josh says. Everything inside Sebrina feels like it is dying a slow death, her wolf is whimpering, but she quiets her down. "I, Sebrina Dawson, accept your rejection, future alpha of the Red Wood Pack. I hope you and Leona will be happy," Sebrina says with a sarcastic smile on her face. She knows her sister, and she knows she is spoiled rotten. "You are just going to accept it like that?" Leona asks from the side. Sebrina knows her sister wants a fight, but she will not give her the satisfaction. Sebrina looks at Leona as smiles. "Best of luck to the two of you," Sebrina says. My father is the beta to Josh's father, and Sebrina knows her life is not worth a dime after today. Leona will want her dead to make sure Josh stays hers forever and that he does not change his mind in the future. Sebrina knows she is risking her life to leave her pack, but going away or staying in the same for her. If she stays, she will die, but she might have a chance out there in the big evil world. So she runs away, not knowing what adventure waited for her and that she will meet her biggest nightmare—the Alpha of all Alphas, Blaze Walker and she have to run not only from her sister but also from Blaze.

Download or read book The Mating Season written by Alex Brunkhorst and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2013-12-10 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An enchanting, extraordinarily imaginative novel, The Mating Season tells the story of the romance between two geniuses who have created their own fantastical worlds to cope with the pain of isolation. Zorka Carpenter lives a life completely devoted to animals. In a glass house on a hill she spends her days absorbed in her menagerie. Enigmatic architect Richard Dorsey has spent his life trying to escape the fame he garnered in his youth. Living in a world of his own construction, he finds solace only in the past. When these two worlds collide in a magical tryst both Zorka and Richard are challenged to escape their isolated worlds and find connection in the hearts of one another. Astonishingly inventive, Alexandria Brunkhorst's The Mating Season is a dazzling work of the imagination, and a piercing look at the human heart.

Download or read book Mating Season Collection 1 written by Drusilla Swan and published by Drusilla Swan. This book was released on 2023-11-23 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 3 steamy MFM pairings featuring dominant werewolf billionaires and their innocent fated mates. Nothing will stop these powerful shifter CEOs from claiming the woman who belongs to them. All of the Mating Series books are standalone stories with a HEA. Each book can be read independently in any order. **BOOK 1: Owned by the Billionaires** Fiona Bell will do anything to become a successful painter, even if it means working as a maid and practically being homeless. The last thing she needs is a distraction in the form of love. That is until she finds herself trapped between two overbearing billionaires. Alpha werewolves Huxley Cain and Derek Fox never expected to find a mate. That is until they meet her. From the moment they catch her sweet scent, they know she is the one to give them an heir. They will stop at nothing to claim her. She is theirs to protect. Theirs to share in pleasure. Theirs to claim together. They will never let her go. **BOOK 2: Captured by the Billionaires** Josephine's life is going to change forever with her move to the big city, but not in the way she thinks. On the run after escaping prison, Samuel and Liam couldn't have asked for a better getaway driver than a sweet little lamb like Josephine. One look at her and they knew she was theirs. They will destroy those who have hurt her. They will protect her with their lives. She is their captive, to do with as they please. She will become theirs in every way. Once they've had her, they will keep her...forever. **BOOK 3: Mated to the Billionaires** Raised in a cult and cut off from the outside world for her entire life, April dreams of getting out. That is, until her escape crash lands at her feet in the form of two giant werewolves. The price of freedom: her complete submission to their mating claim. After a lifetime of hacking, fraud, and forgeries, Evan and Lawrence live on the outskirts of society and the law. Nothing could have prepared them for the woman they capture from a farm in the middle of nowhere. With no past and no identity, it would be so easy for them to keep her forever. She is the perfect mate for them to breed and claim as their own. They can train her to crave their brutal and insatiable touch, but will they ever capture her heart?

Download or read book Protecting Her Mate written by Ariel Marie and published by RNB Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robin Nova was a wolf shifter longing to find her mate. Settling wasn’t in her vocabulary, but her animal was getting restless. She didn’t desire a relationship of convenience, she wanted the one person whom fate had designed for her. A night out with a few friends and she meets a beautiful human who caught her wolf’s attention. Heather Wright, whose sweet scent drew Robin to her. The pull to mate was strong, but she had to tread carefully. Heather wasn’t a shifter and would have to be taught their ways. But it would seem Robin wasn’t the only person enthralled by the beautiful accountant. Deadly rogue wolves who blew into town and set their sights on Heather. They didn’t abide by the laws of shifters and that made them extremely dangerous. Robin vowed to do everything in her power to keep Heather safe. As long as she had breath in her body she would defend Heather.

Download or read book No Worries Mate written by Ken Ewell and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Worries, Mate is the journal of a modern-day swagman on a manly adventure in the land down under. Follow his manful exploits as he closes the pubs of Sydney, tramps about the Blue Mountains of New South Wales, cruises Victoria's Great Ocean Road, searches for the elusive Tasmanian devil, surfs the shores of Queensland, dives along the Great Barrier Reef, explores Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory, and as he manfully climbs Ayers Rock. Follow him also as he hones his manly virtues on the beach, around the barbie, at the track and in the Australian Outback. Needless to say, his are feats seldom seen in these, less than manful times.

Download or read book A Mating of Hawks written by Jeanne Williams and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful dynasty founded in Arizona’s frontier past faces a grave threat in the stunning conclusion to a Spur Award–winning historical romance series. Years have passed since Tracy Benoit last set foot on Rancho del Socorro. Now she returns to the magnificent spread in the shadows of Arizona’s Santa Rita Mountains to say goodbye to the ranch’s dying patriarch, Patrick O’Shea. But her visit stirs deeper emotions than Tracy anticipates, because Shea, Patrick’s handsome Vietnam veteran son, has come home as well. Just when the electricity between Tracy and Shea is about to ignite, Patrick dies. There is no time to mourn, however, as Shea’s half-brother, Judd, has sinister plans to the sell the ranch for a quick profit. But Judd wants to control more than the land; he has a dark desire to possess Tracy as well, and will destroy everything his ancestors worked so hard to build in order to make his wicked fantasies a reality. Can Tracy and Shea stop such a reckless and powerful enemy, or is their love doomed to die along with Patrick’s legacy? The sensational final chapter in a powerful saga inspired by the turbulent history of the Southwest, A Mating of Hawks is a masterpiece of romantic fiction from a bestselling author with “a clear-voiced style that transcends genre” (TheKansas City Star).