Download or read book Two Hearts Slightly Used Mills Boon Vintage Desire written by Dixie Browning and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2012-10-19 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brace Ridgeway: Okay, I was dumped. No big deal. I'm not too upset at being single again, but the reason I got jilted was pretty embarrassing. So I escaped to North Carolina's Outer Banks to be alone, and what do I get? A woman who wants to know my business.

Download or read book ANGRY DESIRE written by Charlotte Lamb and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2011-07-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sins Wedding nerves… This was supposed to be the happiest day of Gabriella's life—her wedding day. But last night the fear had finally begun to tear her apart and she knew she couldn't go through with the ceremony. She could walk out, vanish. But Stephen would search for her until he found her. And then she would have to face the truth: that she was frightened to make love with her husband-to-be! Love can conquer the deadliest of Sins.

Download or read book THE DARK SIDE OF DESIRE written by and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2019-08-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Their fun summer together ended and Jay went abroad to study. Eighteen-year-old Rebecca believed Jay when he told her they’d get married when he returned home in a year. But when she sent a letter informing him of her pregnancy and asking for his help, she was heartlessly accused of lying in an attempt to blackmail his distinguished family. Ten years later, she finds a notice in the newspaper looking for her because her mother has fallen ill. She returns to her hometown, and Jay, a man she never thought she would see again, appears in front of her. He looks at her with the same passionate gaze he had in the past, and he’s acting as though he never hurt her!

Download or read book Sleeping Desire written by Charlotte Lamb and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Golden Fever written by Carole Mortimer and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-05-29 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author CaroleMortimer Rourke Somerville is bad news! Five years ago Clare learned just how bad. Thisnotorious playboy had a reputation for shattering hearts and Clare could have sparedherself a lot of pain, if only she had listened̷ Now Clare is a confident, internationally famous film star, engaged to a nice, safeman. Yet seeing devastatingly sexy Rourke again brings back vivid memories of theirfevered affair… Can Clare resist the allure of the bad boy from her past? Originally published in 1982

Download or read book Daughter of Smoke Bone written by Laini Taylor and published by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers. This book was released on 2011-09-27 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book in the New York Times bestselling epic fantasy trilogy by award-winning author Laini Taylor Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil's supply of human teeth grown dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherworldly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real; she's prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands"; she speaks many languages--not all of them human; and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, and she's about to find out. When one of the strangers--beautiful, haunted Akiva--fixes his fire-colored eyes on her in an alley in Marrakesh, the result is blood and starlight, secrets unveiled, and a star-crossed love whose roots drink deep of a violent past. But will Karou live to regret learning the truth about herself?

Download or read book THE SECRETARY S BOSSMAN BARGAIN written by Sami Fujimoto and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2021-01-10 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He’ll give her the money she needs, so long as she pretends to be his lover. When Virginia asks her boss to lend her money to pay for her father’s debt, she expects him to decline immediately. After all, handsome Marcos Allende is a notoriously heartless business owner. But the gorgeous tycoon easily agrees…and with a shocking condition. She must be his pretend lover! The pair head to Mexico on a business trip, where Virginia must battle her feelings for Marcos while he uses her to make his real lover jealous…

Download or read book Her Pregnancy Secret written by Ann Major (Love story writer) and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2014 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Michael North knew Bree Oliver was a gorgeous gold digger after his brother's fortune, so he seduced her in a night of lovemaking and swore he'd let her go. Then a tragic accident changed everything. Now he must honor a deathbed promise to his brother-- to protect the woman Michael can never trust."--Page 4 of cover.

Download or read book A Reason for Marriage written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2008-03-01 with total page 181 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's been six years since Jamie walked in on her lover, Jake Brierton, in bed with another woman—and walked right back out that door and out of his life. But even though Jamie has spent years working on her successful decorating business, she's never been able to fully exorcise Jake from her mind. He is, after all, her stepbrother…. When her stepdad becomes ill, Jamie is reunited with Jake on their way home for Christmas. She is shocked when Jake proposes marriage—a marriage designed to make their family happy. But when the ceremony is over, and their honeymoon in a cozy Swiss chalet begins, Jamie wonders what kind of marriage she's destined to have with the man who once broke her heart…and could easily do it again!

Download or read book TRUST IN TOMORROW written by Yuri Tajima and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2021-07-01 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All I want is for him to look at me as a mature woman… After her mother, a former top model, commits suicide, Chelsea is hounded by the media. Her father sends her to London to live with his lawyer’s son, Lucas, in order to shield her from the press. She’s known Lucas since she was a little girl, and he was even her first love, so she’s disappointed when Lucas still treats her like a child, even though she’s all grown up now! But despite his treatment of her and the fact that he has a girlfriend, Chelsea’s love for him only grows stronger…

Download or read book Resisting the Sicilian Playboy written by Amanda Cinelli and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2015-10-01 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An ambitious wedding planner goes to great lengths to give her clients their dream wedding in Sicily, including date the suave owner of a castle. Leo Valente is as notorious as the tabloids make him out to be. But feisty wedding planner Dara Devlin isn’t deterred. She needs his family castle for her top client, so she boldly accepts Leo’s outrageous challenge to be his fake girlfriend. If Dara thinks her sensible suit and unwavering professionalism will discourage him, she’s mistaken. They only make Leo want to get beneath her buttoned-up exterior even more! Surrounded by the imposing walls and haunting memories of his opulent Sicilian castello, Leo finds seducing Dara is the perfect diversion—and claiming her will be this playboy’s ultimate prize. And the story continues in the included bonus novella! The debut novel from SYTYCW winner Amanda Cinelli. Praise for Resisting the Sicilian Playboy “An enjoyable romance. Dara is a strong heroine and I loved how feisty and fierce she was. . . . I am definitely looking forward to reading more from Ms. Cinelli.” —Harlequin Junkie

Download or read book Love and the Novel written by G. Paizis and published by Springer. This book was released on 1998-09-07 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of romance fiction is such that it constitutes nearly one quarter of new paperback fiction printed in the world. Its success depends on its ability to reflect and articulate the reader's aspirations for a better life and stands at the same time as a testament to her alienation. This fresh look at the romantic fiction seeks to discover the reason for its appeal by combining analysis of the poetics of the genre with a study of the real reader's intervention.

Download or read book AN INDEPENDENT WOMAN written by Natsumi Matsumoto and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2024-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A red thread links the fate of two people together. Julia lost her parents and lives a hard life taking care of her two older sisters. Her sisters will be getting married and leaving home soon, but who is she going to marry? At a party, Julia is approached by Professor Gerard, a Dutch aristocrat and the head of the medical world. His impression of her is terrible when she teases him about the dress he made by tailoring the curtains.She never wants to see him again. But it's also the professor who gives her a hand when she loses her job and her house. Is he a tease, or is he kind?

Download or read book After the Greek Affair written by Chantelle Shaw and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Billionaire tycoon Loukas Christakis has learned the hard way never to trust a woman. The only female he cares about is his soon-to-be-married little sister. And that's why he's reluctantly allowed struggling designer Belle Andersen to make the wedding dress on his private island—where he can keep an eye on her! Alone together as she works, innocent Belle becomes an unexpected temptation to the virile Loukas. But what should just have been a short paradise affair has consequences. And, as Belle is about to find out, Loukas will do whatever it takes to secure what he feels is rightfully his….

Download or read book The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction written by Alan Jacobs and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011-05-26 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years, cultural commentators have sounded the alarm about the dire state of reading in America. Americans are not reading enough, they say, or reading the right books, in the right way. In this book, Alan Jacobs argues that, contrary to the doomsayers, reading is alive and well in America. There are millions of devoted readers supporting hundreds of enormous bookstores and online booksellers. Oprah's Book Club is hugely influential, and a recent NEA survey reveals an actual uptick in the reading of literary fiction. Jacobs's interactions with his students and the readers of his own books, however, suggest that many readers lack confidence; they wonder whether they are reading well, with proper focus and attentiveness, with due discretion and discernment. Many have absorbed the puritanical message that reading is, first and foremost, good for you--the intellectual equivalent of eating your Brussels sprouts. For such people, indeed for all readers, Jacobs offers some simple, powerful, and much needed advice: read at whim, read what gives you delight, and do so without shame, whether it be Stephen King or the King James Version of the Bible. In contrast to the more methodical approach of Mortimer Adler's classic How to Read a Book (1940), Jacobs offers an insightful, accessible, and playfully irreverent guide for aspiring readers. Each chapter focuses on one aspect of approaching literary fiction, poetry, or nonfiction, and the book explores everything from the invention of silent reading, reading responsively, rereading, and reading on electronic devices. Invitingly written, with equal measures of wit and erudition, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction will appeal to all readers, whether they be novices looking for direction or old hands seeking to recapture the pleasures of reading they first experienced as children.

Download or read book His Unlikely Duchess written by Amanda McCabe and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Money can buy her marriage But will it lead to love? Miss Lily Wilkins hopes her American money will compensate for her lack of etiquette, as she needs a prestigious marriage to save her sisters’ prospects. Raised to believe wealth was her greatest attribute, she’s stunned when her unconventional ways catch the eye of the notorious Duke of Lennox. He’s far from the safe, sensible match she’d planned on—but Lily might just discover he’s the one she needs! From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past. Dollar Duchesses Money for Marriage into London Society Book 1: His Unlikely Duchess

Download or read book Forbidden Hawaiian Nights written by Cathy Williams and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2021-02-01 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Simmering desire leads to a red-hot island fling! Let USA TODAY bestselling author Cathy Williams sweep you away to paradise with this out-of-bounds workplace romance. Once they give in to attraction… ...there’s no telling how long it will burn! For brooding tycoon Max Stowe, Hawaii is no vacation. He must track down his missing sister and take over running his island hotel until she reappears. His first task? Enlisting the help of headstrong landscape gardener Mia Kaiwi… Max is everything Mia shouldn’t want—commanding and completely off-limits as her temporary boss! But there’s no escape from temptation working so closely together. And when Max declares his desire, it’s up to Mia—dare she explore their connection, even if just for a few scorching nights? From Harlequin Presents: Escape to exotic locations where passion knows no bounds. Read all the Secrets of the Stowe Family books: Book 1: Forbidden Hawaiian Nights Book 2: Promoted to the Italian's Fiancée Book 3: Claiming His Cinderella Secretary