Download or read book Seduced by the Sicilian An Interracial Billionaire Romance written by Yuwanda Black and published by Inkwell Editorial Publishing. This book was released on 2020-10-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PREVIEW A birthday vacation. A cheating boyfriend. A betrayal by a best friend. Stranded in a Foreign Land An unexpected windfall in the form of a big, fat bonus comes right on time for twenty-nine year-old Laura Hallaway. Her relationship with her boyfriend of three years is on the rocks, and she believes this is just the ticket to get it back on track. As she, her best friend, and her boyfriend board the plane from New York’s JFK airport to Palermo, Italy, Laura has no idea that that would be the only part of her trip that would go according to plan. *** Betrayed and stranded in a foreign land, she lands in the clutches of Alessandro de Luca, a wealthy Italian in need of a bride to attain his inheritance. He decides that Laura fits the bill perfectly, and makes her an offer she categorically rejects. Dangerously sexy, disgustingly wealthy, and doggedly determined, Laura went through a range of emotions dealing with the unpredictable Sicilian. Her first instinct was to ignore him. Her second was to fear him. Her third was ... to become his bride. Everything about their relationship is fake, except the very real passion that erupts between. Their desire burns hot; every touch igniting a flame that threatens to consume them. Becoming the wealthy Sicilian’s bride would forever change the trajectory of Laura’s life, and set fire to the love in her heart. A fire that only he could control. And one she had no desire to, especially after she was ... Seduced by the Sicilian.

Download or read book A Kiss of Color A BWWM Interracial Romance Book 1 written by Cristina Grenier and published by Monster Media LLC. This book was released on with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Helena has been trying to escape her past her entire life. At Antioch University, she finally gets a chance to shine, and follow in the footsteps of her late father. However, when resident celebrity Xavier Thompson discovers her darkest secret, she will have to deal with him more intimately than she ever imagined. He will teach her how little her past matters, and how much one man’s love can mean when the entire world seem against you. Xavier has long been a playboy, using his family name to coast through school. In his undergraduate years, however, he finds himself moving away from the restrictions his parents impose on him to start his own IT business. Just when he thought things couldn’t get more difficult, Helena Graves is thrown into the mix. The devastating beauty instantly captures his attention – and may very well serve to be his salvation, even as he becomes hers.

Download or read book Seduced in Spain written by Devika Fernando and published by Devika Fernando. This book was released on 2016-03-29 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sometimes all that two people need to make things right is a second chance… Nine years ago, Alejandro broke Emily's heart, but a business trip to Spain forces her to be in his company again. Old wounds are reopened and new temptations complicate things even more. When life leaves her no choice, she realizes that sometimes the heart doesn’t listen to the brain. Will Emily win the battle against her forbidden desire and Alejandro’s charm, or will history repeat itself? WHAT READERS SAY 5 stars – “A delightful read. Recommended for readers of sweet contemporary, with a twist of multicultualrism.” (Susan R., Author) 5 stars – “Every book I’ve read by Devika Fernando I’ve loved, and this one is no exception. It will keep you entertained from beginning to end. I read it in one sitting.” (CLM, Reviewer) 5 stars – “Seduced in Spain is a fantastic summer read, especially if you have never been to Spain.” (Carly C., Author) 5 stars – “As a Spanish person, I congratulate the author for the research done about places and meals in Spain. Loved it from A to Z.” (Ana, Reader) *If you enjoyed this book, you’ll love the author’s other multicultural romance novels like SAVED IN SRI LANKA too!

Download or read book To Seduce a Stranger written by Susanna Craig and published by Lyrical Press. This book was released on 2017-04-11 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Craig is really making a name for herself as a rising historical author!" —RT Book Reviews “An elegant new voice in historical romance!” —New York Times bestselling author Meredith Duran Desire waylays the plans of a man with a mysterious past and a woman with an uncertain future, in Susanna Craig’s unforgettable series set in Georgian England. After her much older husband dies—leaving her his fortune—Charlotte Blakemore finds herself at the mercy of her stepson, who vows to contest the will and destroy her life. With nowhere to turn and no one to help her, she embarks on an elaborate ruse—only to find herself stranded on the way to London. . . More than twenty years in the West Indies have hardened Edward Cary, but not enough to abandon a helpless woman at a roadside inn—especially one as disarmingly beautiful as Charlotte. He takes her with him to the Gloucestershire estate he is determined to restore, though he is suspicious of every word that falls from her distractingly lush lips. As far as Charlotte knows, Edward is nothing more than a steward, and there’s no reason to reveal his noble birth until he can right his father’s wrongs. Acting as husband and wife will keep people in the village from asking questions that neither Charlotte nor Edward are willing to answer. But the game they’re each determined to play has rules that beg to broken, when the passion between them threatens to uncover the truth—for better or worse. . .

Download or read book Defying Gravity A Forbidden BWWM Interracial Romance Novel written by A. M. Kusi and published by Our Peaceful Family. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Black nurse with a teenager to raise. A white cop hiding a tender heart. Do they have what it takes to indulge their forbidden passion? Caregiver Belle Jones always puts her own needs last on the list. As a busy nurse and sole provider for her teenage brother, she has no time for meaningless hookups. And when her younger sibling arrives home in the backseat of a police car, the fury she feels for his strutting uniformed escort far outweighs her spark of desire. Sheriff Bently Evans works hard to protect his town… and keep his emotions locked away. When it comes to relationships, that means burying his real feelings behind crass humor and his flirtatious playboy reputation. But after driving a stranded African American teen home, he meets a stunning woman who makes it impossible to sustain his act. As Belle slowly falls for the rugged lawman’s true gentle nature, she fears he’s not the type to ever commit. And just as Bently is ready to be vulnerable, an ominous warning forces him to push the woman he desires away from a deadly risk. Will a judgmental society drive a wedge between them, or can they conquer all with their powerful love? Defying Gravity is the tantalizing third standalone novel in the Shattered Cove contemporary romance series. If you like off-limits passions, socially relevant reads, and couples who triumph over adversity, then you’ll adore A. M. Kusi’s page-turning tale. Buy Defying Gravity to find hope and healing today! ***No cheating. HEA guaranteed.*** ---------- Keywords related to this contemporary romance novel: Forbidden interracial romance, forbidden interracial romance novel, enemies to lovers romance, bwwm romance book, police romance, small town sheriff romance, sheriff romance, contemporary romance novel, interracial romance books, multicultural romance books, nurse romance, racism romance, strong female lead, abused heroine romance bwwm, strong women, beach reads, strong heroine, wmbw romance, bwwm romance, small town romance, interracial romance books, romance ebook, white man black woman interracial romance, IR romance books, contemporary romance series, wmbw, romance series book, african american romance, ir, IR romance books, romance novels to read, love story, love story books, interracial relationship, tortured hero romance, police brutality romance books, small town romance series, shattered cove series, new adult romance books, new adult romance,

Download or read book Dark Romance Novel Storybuilder written by Kit Tunstall and published by TnT Author Service. This book was released on with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dive into the daring world of Dark Romance with our meticulously crafted Storybuilder! Whether you're a novice writer or a seasoned author looking to explore new territories, this Storybuilder guides you to construct riveting stories of love in the face of intense adversity. Delve into the intricate layers of your characters and design enthralling redemption arcs that keep your readers on the edge of their seats. While the Dark Romance Storybuilder encourages you to explore unconventional love narratives, it also reminds you to ensure a balance between the darkness and the love that ultimately shines through. It's time to push boundaries and unleash your creativity. Build your captivating dark romance with us.

Download or read book An Honest Love A BWWM Interracial Romance written by K. Victoria Chase and published by K. Victoria Chase. This book was released on 2015-06-27 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honesty isn't always the best policy... Keisha Richards has uncovered a family secret--a revelation that shakes her to her core and has her questioning who she is, and who she could've been. But her job sometimes requires her to keep secrets, and the man she's tasked to investigate has her wondering if the lies are worth it. Major Ryan "Tank" Carter failed his best friend and he's making it up the only way he knows how: in service to wounded veterans. His facility needs funding and when a striking journalist comes to interview his team, it's an opportunity he can't pass up--and neither is the reporter...

Download or read book Riding the Black Ram written by Susan Heinzelman and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-25 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unruly women are not often represented in a good light. Whether historical, or fictional, disruptive women with their real or imagined excesses have long provided the material for literary and legal narratives. This probing new work analyzes a series of literary, legal, and historical texts to demonstrate the persistence of certain gender stereotypes. In her 1820 adultery trial, Queen Caroline was depicted in a cartoon riding into the House of Lords on a black ram that had the face of her Italian lover. As this book reveals, a number of women, remembered largely for their insubordinate presence, have metaphorically "ridden the black ram" in the last 700 years. Heinzelman's historicized understanding of the relationship between law and literature reveals a disquieting pattern in the legal and literary representations of women and provides a new recognition of the significance of sexuality and gender in the way we narrate our world.

Download or read book Desert Passions written by Hsu-Ming Teo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2012-11-15 with total page 355 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Sheik—E. M. Hull’s best-selling novel that became a wildly popular film starring Rudolph Valentino—kindled “sheik fever” across the Western world in the 1920s. A craze for all things romantically “Oriental” swept through fashion, film, and literature, spawning imitations and parodies without number. While that fervor has largely subsided, tales of passion between Western women and Arab men continue to enthrall readers of today’s mass-market romance novels. In this groundbreaking cultural history, Hsu-Ming Teo traces the literary lineage of these desert romances and historical bodice rippers from the twelfth to the twenty-first century and explores the gendered cultural and political purposes that they have served at various historical moments. Drawing on “high” literature, erotica, and popular romance fiction and films, Teo examines the changing meanings of Orientalist tropes such as crusades and conversion, abduction by Barbary pirates, sexual slavery, the fear of renegades, the Oriental despot and his harem, the figure of the powerful Western concubine, and fantasies of escape from the harem. She analyzes the impact of imperialism, decolonization, sexual liberation, feminism, and American involvement in the Middle East on women’s Orientalist fiction. Teo suggests that the rise of female-authored romance novels dramatically transformed the nature of Orientalism because it feminized the discourse; made white women central as producers, consumers, and imagined actors; and revised, reversed, or collapsed the binaries inherent in traditional analyses of Orientalism.

Download or read book The Romance of Race written by Jolie A. Sheffer and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the United States miscegenation is not merely a subject of literature and popular culture. It is in many ways the foundation of contemporary imaginary community. The Romance of Race examines the role of minority women writers and reformers in the creation of our modern American multiculturalism. The national identity of the United States was transformed between 1880 and 1930 due to mass immigration, imperial expansion, the rise of Jim Crow, and the beginning of the suffrage movement. A generation of women writers and reformers—particularly women of color—contributed to these debates by imagining new national narratives that put minorities at the center of American identity. Jane Addams, Pauline Hopkins, Onoto Watanna (Winnifred Eaton), María Cristina Mena, and Mourning Dove (Christine Quintasket) embraced the images of the United States—and increasingly the world—as an interracial nuclear family. They also reframed public debates through narratives depicting interracial encounters as longstanding, unacknowledged liaisons between white men and racialized women that produced an incestuous, mixed-race nation. By mobilizing the sexual taboos of incest and miscegenation, these women writers created political allegories of kinship and community. Through their criticisms of the nation’s history of exploitation and colonization, they also imagined a more inclusive future. As Jolie A. Sheffer identifies the contemporary template for American multiculturalism in the works of turn-of-the century minority writers, she uncovers a much more radical history than has previously been considered.

Download or read book The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction written by Jayashree Kamblé and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 553 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Popular romance fiction constitutes the largest segment of the global book market. Bringing together an international group of scholars, The Routledge Research Companion to Popular Romance Fiction offers a ground-breaking exploration of this global genre and its remarkable readership. In recognition of the diversity of the form, the Companion provides a history of the genre, an overview of disciplinary approaches to studying romance fiction, and critical analyses of important subgenres, themes, and topics. It also highlights new and understudied avenues of inquiry for future research in this vibrant and still-emerging field. The first systematic, comprehensive resource on romance fiction, this Companion will be invaluable to students and scholars, and accessible to romance readers.

Download or read book New Approaches to Popular Romance Fiction written by Sarah S.G. Frantz and published by McFarland. This book was released on 2014-01-10 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Despite the prejudices of critics, popular romance fiction remains a complex, dynamic genre. It consistently maintains the largest market share in the American publishing industry, even as it welcomes new subgenres like queer and BDSM romance. Digital publishing originated in erotic romance, and savvy online communities have exploded myths about the genre's readership. Romance scholarship now reflects this diversity, transformed by interdisciplinary scrutiny, new critical approaches, and an unprecedented international dialogue between authors, scholars, and fans. These eighteen essays investigate individual romance novels, authors, and websites, rethink the genre's history, and explore its interplay of convention and originality. By offering new twists in enduring debates, this collection inspires further inquiry into the emerging field of popular romance studies.

Download or read book Free at Last written by Juan Battle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As this volume indicates, the issues facing black America are diverse, and the tools needed to understand these phenomena cross disciplinary boundaries. In this anthology, the authors address a wide range of topics including race, gender, class, sexual orientation, globalism, migration, health, politics, culture, and urban issues-from a diversity of disciplinary perspectives.

Download or read book The Johnson Family Series box set books 1 5 written by Delaney Diamond and published by Garden Avenue Press. This book was released on with total page 1161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Family. Wealth. Power. Romance. Books 1-5 of the Johnson Family series—available in a box set! • Unforgettable: Ivy Johnson is stunned when Lucas Baylor makes an appearance at her family’s event in Seattle. Avoiding him is a must. She can’t let him uncover her secret, but Lucas won’t be denied. • Perfect: Cyrus Johnson is rich, powerful, and used to getting his way. When his estranged wife shows up at his office demanding a divorce once and for all, he not only refuses, he makes a demand of his own. • Just Friends: Alannah Bailey is tired of being the boring best friend of Trenton Johnson and decides on a makeover. After the changes, she starts dating, but instead of being happy, Trenton wants to keep her under lock and key. • The Rules: Terri Slade learned the hard way to play by her own set of rules. Rule number one, maintain control. Rule number two, never fall in love. Then she met Gavin Johnson and broke both her rules. • Good Behavior: For years, Xavier Johnson rejected his family’s wealth and dedicated his life to helping others, earning him the nickname, “the good one.” Yet underneath the cordial exterior beats the heart of a Johnson, and this Johnson wants Diana Cambridge.

Download or read book Cinema Colonialism Postcolonialism written by Dina Sherzer and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this first major study of French colonial and postcolonial cinema, Dina Sherzer compiles essays by some of the foremost scholars on the subject who interrogate and analyze the realities behind the images of the nation's past and present. Through an examination of France and its colonies, multiethnic contemporary France, and cinematic discourses which have been and are being produced about France's colonial past, these authors explore how the images relay underlying assumptions and their relation to historical and political facts. A variety of subjects and viewpoints inform these studies, which cover the entire range of films on that topic. The authors expound upon the role French and Francophone films are currently playing in reconstructing and imagining France's colonial past. Not only do the essays examine how French cinema has represented the encounter of French citizens with individuals from former colonies during the colonial era; they examine how French cinema has portrayed and has come to terms with the immigration of former colonial subjects to France. In addition, the book features another postcolonial facet by analyzing films of directors from the former colonies who give their own representation of colonialism and presentation of their culture. This study is a major contribution to postcolonial research. Race, gender, and geography are central themes throughout this book that presents innovative material that contributes to the history of French cinema and emphasizes how cinema participates in and is a part of national culture.

Download or read book Intimacy and Family in Early American Writing written by E. Burleigh and published by Springer. This book was released on 2014-05-21 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through the prism of intimacy, Burleigh sheds light on eighteenth and early-nineteenth-century American texts. This insightful study shows how the trope of the family recurred to produce contradictory images - both intimately familiar and frighteningly alienating - through which Americans responded to upheavals in their cultural landscape.

Download or read book Unsettling Narratives written by Clare Bradford and published by Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Children’s books seek to assist children to understand themselves and their world. Unsettling Narratives: Postcolonial Readings of Children’s Literature demonstrates how settler-society texts position child readers as citizens of postcolonial nations, how they represent the colonial past to modern readers, what they propose about race relations, and how they conceptualize systems of power and government. Clare Bradford focuses on texts produced since 1980 in Canada, the United States, Australia, and New Zealand and includes picture books, novels, and films by Indigenous and non-Indigenous publishers and producers. From extensive readings, the author focuses on key works to produce a thorough analysis rather than a survey. Unsettling Narratives opens up an area of scholarship and discussion—the use of postcolonial theories—relatively new to the field of children’s literature and demonstrates that many texts recycle the colonial discourses naturalized within mainstream cultures.