Download or read book Rescuing Eloise written by T.O. Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2022-10-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Be With You Never Tragedy defined my life at this point. I'm dark. I'm twisted. Hell, I'm tainted. Invisible to the naked eye, blood coats my hands red. I'm just trying to survive in this game of cat and mouse. But Ryder wants to dig deeper. He wants to see who I am beneath my hard-ass exterior. I'm not letting him in. I don't let anyone in. Because it seems like every person I touch suffers. But when I become the mouse in this sick game I'm playing, Ryder's my only hope for survival. But the real question is . . . Can the bad boy save me in time? Love Together I didn't know how things went so wrong. One minute, we were good together - perfect, even. But when danger strikes once again, Ryder pushes me away. And I basically fall right into another man's grasp. This man doesn't care about me. He wants revenge, and I'm the ticket to get him everything he wants. And this time, Ryder may fail. This time, his love for me might just really be my downfall. He may not be able to save me in time. But I knew one thing for sure. I would die loving him. **Trigger warnings: antiheroine, mention of drugs, child abuse, murder, main female character with serious attitude problem, high school setting, toxic FMC, mature scenes and language** **If you do not like FMCs that do NOT change and do NOT become better throughout the book, I suggest running the other way.**

Download or read book To Sir Phillip With Love written by Julia Quinn and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except . . . she wasn't. The beautiful woman on his doorstep was anything but quiet, and when she stopped talking long enough to close her mouth, all he wanted to do was kiss her . . . and more. Did he think she was mad? Eloise Bridgerton couldn't marry a man she had never met! But then she started thinking . . . and wondering . . . and before she knew it, she was in a hired carriage in the middle of the night, on her way to meet the man she hoped might be her perfect match. Except . . . he wasn't. Her perfect husband wouldn't be so moody and ill-mannered, and while Phillip was certainly handsome, he was a large brute of a man, rough and rugged, and totally unlike the London gentlemen vying for her hand. But when he smiled . . . and when he kissed her . . . the rest of the world simply fell away, and she couldn't help but wonder . . . could this imperfect man be perfect for her?

Download or read book Saving Lucas written by T.O. Smith and published by Independently Published. This book was released on with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SOMETIMES THE UNEXPECTED CAN BE EVERYTHING YOU ABSOLUTELY NEED. Lucas Varner lived the first five years of his life with an abusive mother and a father that punished him for losing their first child to the state. Lucas knew what it was like to go hungry, to wonder when he would eat again. He knew what sex and drugs were before he could write his own name. From a young age, he had learned to never ask for help, to not ask any questions, and to stay out of everyone’s way. It was something he still couldn’t forget twelve years later. But everyone has their own times to heal, and maybe it’s time for Lucas to find the light at the end of his own dark tunnel.

Download or read book Losing Control written by Robyn Grady and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-10-01 with total page 197 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "You'll be working for me." Taking charge comes naturally to workaholic media mogul Cole Hunter. That includes dealing with headstrong TV producer Taryn Quinn. Cole may not like her idea for a travel show, but Taryn intrigues him. Enough for Cole to join her on a location-scouting trip to an isolated Pacific island, despite the family drama at home. Soon the tantalizing Taryn makes Cole forget about everything…except making love to her in the moonlight. But once reality intrudes, will he risk losing all he's worked for to keep this woman in his life?

Download or read book Rescuing Eloise written by T.o. Smith and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-20 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At fifteen, Eloise watched her mother get murdered. Now adopted by a loving and warm couple, Eloise lashes out at everyone and doesn't let anyone close. She vows to kill her father one day, but he seems to be on a rampage to make her regret running away two years ago, and Eloise is hell bent on surviving. Ryder is the bad boy of the school with a horrible reputation and criminal record. He has a bad past, but he also has connections to help rescue Eloise from her past and the trouble she manages to get herself into. So, when Brian and Grace come to him, asking him to help her, he agrees. But Eloise is against any kind of help, and is determined to make it through her hell of a life by herself. And as it turns out, Eloise is a lot more trouble than Ryder had bargained for. Follow Eloise and Ryder through their ups and downs, and the run for their lives.

Download or read book Point Vamp Box Set written by Victoria Blisse and published by Totally Entwined Group (USA+CAD). This book was released on 2019-07-02 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Point Vamp series The Point Love conquers all, that is the point, but can it bridge the differences between a vampire and a woman? Hugh is twenty eight. He has been twenty eight for nearly one hundred years. Hugh is a vampire. He owns a club called The Point and he pays girls to have sex with him. He then counts to ten as he sucks their blood to semi-satisfy his lust. Elizabeth is a doctor, she loves her job but likes to escape into the countryside now and then. When she twists her ankle Hugh comes to her aid. He carries her curvy form all the way back to his home. He takes care of her ankle and the rest of her body too but he goes too far and sucks her perfectly intoxicating blood. How can these two lovers have any kind of relationship? They don't know, only time will reveal the answers. Stopping Point Josh is a vampire...he just doesn't quite know it yet. He is confused and his voluptuous sire, Cara is far too busy being mysterious to really help him unlock the secrets of his Afterlife. However, he pieces it together by himself and decides to turn his best mates into Vampires too. This doesn't quite go to plan but he does discover The Point and its unique, ten-second rule. Cara does not approve of Josh visiting The Point but that night she turns up at his door bloodied and much more dead than usual, and accepts Josh's help to escape from her much older and much crazier Sire Leopold. How is Josh going to defeat an older, wiser and more powerful vampire? He hasn't a clue but for Cara he is willing to find out. The Vampire's Choice A crazy vampire or an ice-queen human, it's not much of a choice but it is the one Kyle has to make. Kyle may be undead, but he still lives at home with his Gran and works in a supermarket stacking shelves with his mates. His life hasn't changed much, apart from being dead and having to suck blood from live humans to survive. Luckily he knows The Point, a vampire bar where the humans are hot, tasty and eager to please. Well, most of them are. Janine is the exception. She is cold and distant, but from the first time he meets her, Kyle is smitten. But he has a problem. A hot but crazy female vamp has got him in her sights and she'll stop at nothing to get him all to herself. Kyle has a decision to make and it will change his afterlife forever. Who will he choose? The Point of Evil Blood and sex were all he ever wanted until love gave him something worth living an eternity for. Steve—who had been a womanizer in life and was even more so in death—prowls the Point using his vampiric wiles to get the blood and sex he craves. He's always looking for his next meal and when he sees a tall, curvy beauty with a red scarf around her neck, he thinks he's found it. Eloise is different—she's shy and needs encouragement, and Steve just can't get her out of his mind. He has to take his time, get to know her and slowly seduce her. When she disappears, leaving only a note begging him not to pursue her further, he can't help himself and ends up in the service of George Aquino, a vampire crime boss with a penchant for twisted and cruel torture and a dungeon full of prisoners. A daring rescue, a difficult choice and love against the odds. Do you dare visit the point of evil?

Download or read book Steel and Stone written by Silvana G. Sánchez and published by Second Star Press. This book was released on 2023-10-24 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if Prince Phillip failed to break Aurora's curse and Hades whisked her away to his kingdom? A princess with a secret and a cursed kingdom to save. A mysterious illness has decimated the kingdom of Stonewall, snatching the king and queen's lives. The barren Stone Keep is left in Princess Aurora's hands, sustained only by the Steelborn's coffers. But Aurora wants more than her kingdom's survival. And to lift the curse that burdens her kingdom, she must dive into the Netherworld and beg for the Dark Prince's help. The catch is, none who's traveled to the Realm of Death has ever made it back. Can she outwit the Dark Prince, and escape his island? And given the chance, will she want to? A broken prince striving to risk it all in the name of true love. When Aurora broke Prince Phillip's heart, he vowed never to set foot in the Stone Keep. But when a coup rises against the crown of Whitehaven, the threat of war reopens his old wounds. Phillip must warn the kingdom of Stonewall. Chaos ensues upon his arrival as Princess Aurora is dragged to the Netherworld, kidnapped by a dark god. To rescue the princess, Phillip will need his captain's help, as they plunge into a journey riddled with dangers—the worst of which is facing the Lord of the Netherworld himself. Will Phillip's valiant heart conquer Aurora's and defeat the god of death? Steel and Stone is the second book in the Cursed Kingdom series, packed with old gods, valiant heroes, and morally grey heroines. If you like Enemies to Lovers, Hades and Persephone's mythos, and twisted fairytales, you'll LOVE Steel and Stone! ** This is a dark and steamy Sleeping Beauty retelling featuring morally grey heroes. This is an enemies-to-lovers and fated-mates story suitable for 18+. Steel and Stone is the second book in the Cursed Kingdoms series and the story will continue through future books. **

Download or read book Five Island Cove Boxed Set written by Jessie Newton and published by AEJ Creative Works. This book was released on 2022-07-11 with total page 871 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a vacation any time of year in the seaside town of Five Island Cove! Meet five best friends as they reunite after years apart and rekindle their strong bond with one another, weather storms, and uncover secrets that have been lying dormant for decades... This set includes the first 3 novels in the series from USA Today bestselling and Kindle All-Star Author Jessie Newton. For fans of Pamela Kelley, Rachel Hanna, Judith Keim, Brenda Novak, Susan Mallery, Kristin Hannah, RaeAnne Thayne, Jan Moran, Lily Mirren, and Susan Wiggs! 1. The Lighthouse: After the death of a childhood loved one, 5 best friends reunite in the small coastal town of Five Island Cove. One doesn't expect to find love with a high school crush. Another isn't prepared to find the strength she needs to take control of her life. And none of them are ready for the secrets they'll uncover at the lighthouse... As the truth comes to light, these five best friends will learn what really matters: friendship, family, and faith. 2. The Summer Sand Pact: These five best friends made a Summer Sand Pact as teens and have only kept it once or twice—until they reunite decades later and renew their agreement to meet in Five Island Cove every summer. Get ready for more secrets to come to light in Five Island Cove, and for these five women to show each other what it means to love and support someone through thick and thin. 3. The Cliffside Inn: Spend another month in Five Island Cove and experience an amazing adventure between five best friends, the challenges they face, the secrets threatening to come between them, and their undying support of each other.

Download or read book Grandmothering While Black written by LaShawnDa L. Pittman and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Grandmothering While Black, sociologist LaShawnDa L. Pittman explores the complex lives of Black grandmothers raising their grandchildren in skipped-generation households (consisting only of grandparents and grandchildren). She prioritizes the voices of Black grandmothers through in-depth interviews and ethnographic research at various sites--doctor's visits, welfare offices, school and day care center appointments, caseworker meetings, and more. Through careful examination, she explores the various forces that compel, constrain, and support Black grandmothers' caregiving. Pittman showcases a fundamental change in the relationship between grandmother and grandchild as grandmothers confront the paradox of fulfilling the social and legal functions of motherhood without the legal rights of the role. Grandmothering While Black illuminates the strategies used by grandmothers to manage their legal marginalization vis-à-vis parents and the state across a range of caregiving arrangements. In doing so, it reveals the overwhelming and painful decisions Black grandmothers must make to ensure the safety and well-being of the next generation.

Download or read book A Matter of Hive and Death written by Nancy Coco and published by An Oregon Honeycomb Mystery. This book was released on 2022-03-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a bee wrangler is bludgeoned, Let It Bee honey shop owner Wren Johnson makes it her beeswax to solve the crime in Nancy Coco’s second Oregon Honeycomb Mystery… For the picturesque town of Oceanview on the Oregon Coast, May brings blossoming fruit trees and the annual UFO festival. As Aunt Eloise tries out alien costumes on their Havana brown cat Everett, Wren is off to meet with a bee wrangler, her go-to guy for local fruit tree honey. But when she arrives, Elias Brentwood is lying on the ground amidst destroyed hives and a swarm of angry bees. The bees didn’t kill him, a blow to the head did. As blue-eyed Officer Jim Hampton investigates and the town is invaded by its own swarm of conspiracy theorists and crackpots, Wren and Aunt Eloise decide the only way to catch the bee wrangler’s killer is to set up a sting…

Download or read book The Teacher s Pet The Kids in Ms Colman s Class 1 written by Ann M. Martin and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2016-09-27 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the bestselling author of the generation-defining series The Baby-sitters Club comes a series for a new generation! School is always fun in Ms. Colman's class!It is the first day of school. All the kids in Ms. Colman's class can't wait. Except Nancy Dawes. Nancy doesn't have a best friend. Her friend Karen Brewer is not in her grade. Nancy doesn't have a pet, either. And Ms. Colman's class is having pet day! Can the kids in Ms. Colman's class help Nancy?

Download or read book The Knight s Conquest written by Juliet Landon and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Proud and beautiful, she would be no man's prize! To the victor the spoils…Offered as the delectable prize at a jousting tournament by the King, the proud and beautiful Lady Eloise Gerrard is far from gaining the freedom to command her own destiny that she so ardently desires. Shocked to discover the King has every intention of winning the prize for himself, Eloise turns in desperation to the challenger. Sir Owain of Whitecliffe had once awoken all her youthful passions…and then heartlessly deserted her. Can she truly now wish to see him the victor—the conqueror laying claim to his prize?

Download or read book Charlie Glass s Slippers written by Holly McQueen and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2014-08-05 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this delightful, clever spin on Cinderella, Charlie Glass—a heroine as loveable as Cannie Shapiro and Bridget Jones—inherits her father’s shoe empire and snatches up a drop-dead-gorgeous, multi-millionaire Prince Charming. But is he truly the key to her happily ever after? When Charlie’s beloved father, iconic shoe designer Elroy Glass, dies after a long illness, everyone expects that he’ll leave his business to his glamorous wife and eldest daughters. After all, they’ve been running the company for years. But Elroy surprises everyone from beyond the grave: at the will reading, it’s announced that his fashion empire has been left to Charlie, his youngest—and plumpest—daughter. Before she can run the company, Charlie decides she needs to make a few changes in her life. After several weeks at a California boot camp, she returns to London a new woman: thinner, blonder, and ready to revitalize the Elroy Glass brand. But as she’ll soon discover, a good esthetician and a killer pair of stilettos can only go so far, and there’s more to reinvention—and running a fashion empire—than meets the eye. Endlessly entertaining, surprising, and ultimately inspiring, Charlie Glass’s Slippers is a modern-day fairytale about finding your own magic and transforming yourself from within.

Download or read book Always a Gentleman Never a Duke written by Jessie Clever and published by Someday Lady Publishing, LLC. This book was released on 2024-05-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Having already spent two seasons on the Marriage Mart without a single flutter of her heart, Lady Eloise Bounds has given up on ever finding a love match and accepts the reality of her situation. When the Duke of Ardley expresses interest in having her for his wife, Eloise has no choice but to put away her childish dreams and become the duchess her mother wants her to be. But when an accidental encounter reignites her hope for a love match, she can’t help but fall…for the wrong man. When his brother is killed because of the effects of a massive solar storm, the Honorable Mr. Tucker Ryan makes it his mission to study the aurora borealis, unearth its secrets, and prevent further needless deaths. But without a benefactor for his expedition, he must take up his cousin, the Duke of Ardley’s offer to spend the season in London, searching for someone to fund his research. Except he finds Eloise instead. Fighting their growing attraction to each other, Tuck and Eloise are forced together again and again as Tuck’s cousin courts Eloise to make her his wife. But the two will soon learn, love will not be ignored. Always a Gentleman, Never a Duke is the third book in the steamy, heart-stopping historical romance series, Dueling for Dukes. If you love sexy, spellbinding romance and heartwarming humor, don’t miss this captivating series from bestselling author Jessie Clever. Discover adventure and romance when you download Always a Gentleman, Never a Duke today.

Download or read book The Harvester Saga written by Susanne Matthews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 1496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Join Boston's crack detective team as its members track down the most heinous serial killer to ever strike the city, the Harvester. Clues and cults, dead ends and danger await these expert crime solvers as they team up with the flames they left behind and race against time to save everything they love. The White Carnation: The last person disgraced reporter Faye Lewis wants back in her life is Detective Rob Halliday, the man she blames for ruining her career and breaking her heart. But when she finds an old friend murdered, he's assigned the case. Can they set their troubled past aside and work together, or will the Harvester serial killer and his cult followers reap another prize? The White Lily: With kidnapped babies on the line, FBI cult specialist Lilith Munroe puts aside her emotional scars and offers her profiling skills to the Harvester task force. She's assigned to work with Australian millionaire and law enforcement officer Jacob Andrews, who returned to the United States only to learn his family was a casualty of the commune he eventually escaped. Uneasy partners, the pair must learn to trust each other even as they fight their growing attraction. But when Lilith's greatest fears materialize, will Jacob be able to overcome his anger and save the woman he loves? The White Iris: Time's running out for Special Agent Trevor Clark and his task force as the killer's threats to unleash possible biological warfare could mean death for all of them. His only recourse is to swallow his pride and reach out to his former fiancee, the CDC's renowned virologist, Dr. Julie Swift. She has to put her faith and her safety, as well as that of countless others, into the hands of a man she doesn't trust. Can they forget their differences long enough to stop the Harvester and rediscover the love they once lost? Sensuality Level: Sensual

Download or read book The White Lily written by Susanne Matthews and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-10-12 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Harvester is out there...watching, waiting, biding his time. FBI cult specialist Lilith Munroe lives in dread that one day the man who tortured her when a case went bad will find her again. So leaving her sanctuary in Quantico to join the Harvester Task Force in Boston is her version of hell. But the Harvester is kidnapping babies, and Lilith's profiling skills may mean the difference between life and death for the most innocent in society. Australian millionaire and former member of the New Horizon commune Jacob Andrews returns to the United States searching for his sister. Instead of the happy reunion he expects, he discovers she is dead and his twin brother may be responsible. He agrees to lend his law enforcement skills to help find his former cult leader before the man can implement his plan to kill millions. Now uneasy partners, Jacob and Lilith must learn to trust each other even as they fight their growing attraction. But when Lilith's greatest fears materialize, will Jacob be able to set aside his anger and save the woman he loves? Sensuality Level: Sensual

Download or read book The Halloween Cat Spell written by Morgana Best and published by Best Cosy Books. This book was released on 2023-10-29 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The excitement of Halloween settles in Bayberry Creek, signalling the arrival of Marina Mercer and her yearly request for a Halloween spell. But this October is a little stranger than the others. While Amelia grants Marina's wish, she does not suspect the chaos it will unleash. The fate of Baby, the taxidermied cat, seemed sealed. But who could have expected the secret that unfolded? Book 20 in the bestselling The Kitchen Witch series of fun paranormal cozy mysteries from USA Today Bestselling author, Morgana Best.