Download or read book Hot Shot written by Kelly Jamieson and published by Loveswept. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A former Navy SEAL and current bad boy bar owner learns to trust a free spirit in this steamy novel of unexpected romance from the bestselling author of Body Shot and the Heller Brothers series. Marco Solis knows that if he gets too close to people they disappear. His parents were deported back to Mexico when he was fourteen, his fiancée married someone else while he was in the military, and now his business partner’s spending more time with his girl than with Marco. For better or worse, that’s how Marco meets Carrie Garner. She’s legitimately model-hot. She’s also a nut—a wild, artsy, unapproachable nut. So why is Marco so interested in cracking her shell? Although Carrie Garner is a natural in front of the camera, her dream is to make it as a photographer. Soon she’ll be heading to Spain for design school, and she’ll miss her best friend, Hayden, like crazy. She’ll even miss Hayden’s boyfriend, Beck—but she won’t miss Beck’s partner, Marco. Bossy, brooding, and annoyingly sexy, Marco really pushes her buttons, though he obviously wouldn’t mind pushing her buttons in an up-against-the-wall, hard-and-fast kind of way. The craziest part is, if Carrie lets him do that, well . . . she may never want to leave. Kelly Jamieson’s USA Today bestselling Aces Hockey series can be read together or separately: MAJOR MISCONDUCT OFF LIMITS ICING TOP SHELF BACK CHECK SLAP SHOT PLAYING HURT BIG STICK Don’t miss any of Kelly’s alluring reads: The Bayard Hockey series: SHUT OUT | CROSS CHECK The Last Shot series: BODY SHOT | HOT SHOT | LONG SHOT The standalone novel: DANCING IN THE RAIN Praise for Hot Shot “Two beautiful, insecure, artistic protagonists resist their obvious attraction to each other . . . The lovers are likeable and their chemistry is strong. . . . Anticipatory tension [and] steamy sexual encounters.”—Publishers Weekly “Hot Shot is a charming, sexy frenemies-to-lovers story—don’t miss it!”—USA Today bestselling author Serena Bell “A great read. Sometimes love grabs us when we least expect it, and we found what we never realized we were looking for—a place, a person to belong to.”—New York Times bestselling author Melanie Moreland “Hot, sexy and so much fun! Kelly Jamieson heroes sure know how to show a girl a good time!”—New York Times bestselling author Tracy Wolff “I loved the ending of Hot Shot. Marco finally stole my heart.”—Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews “I really enjoyed the writing. . . . It was a really good book and if you love romances you should definitely read this one.”—The Girl Who Read Too Much Includes an excerpt from another Loveswept title.

Download or read book Sizzling Desire written by Kayla Perrin and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-10-01 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A combustible attraction… Flirting with a gorgeous stranger at the bar is how Lorraine Mitchell celebrates her longed-for newly single status. One-night stands usually run hot and wild before quickly flaming out, but Lorraine cannot forget her heated encounter with firefighter Hunter Holland. Weeks later, she is beyond surprised to discover that his father—a former patient of hers—has left her a large bequest! Last time Hunter was in the same room as Lorraine, they were burning up the sheets. Now he’s staring at her from across a lawyer’s office. At first, guilt and grief convince him that the beautiful nurse took advantage of his long-estranged father. Yet despite mutual mistrust, he knows this kind of chemistry only comes around once in a lifetime. And reviving their spark just might ignite a love that’s as deep and true as it is scorching…

Download or read book Hot Potato written by Allison Temple and published by Allison Temple Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Seacroft’s resident weirdo, Avery proudly flies a lot of freak flags. It’s a constant battle to be taken seriously when everything, from his red hair to his sexuality, makes him stand out in this small town. Small towns are also a terrible place to keep secrets, and Lincoln has a bunch of them. But his demons aren’t going to hold him back from his dream job at the Seacroft Fire Department. His life is finally coming together, until the red-haired twink with the big smile and fast mouth calls in an emergency. Pining for the hot firefighter is Avery’s newest flag, even if he agrees to be “just friends.” For Linc, every minute with Avery is a temptation. He needs to let go of his fear and admit the truth. Linc doesn’t want to be Avery’s friend; he wants to be his everything. But just as Linc is ready to risk it all, Avery gets an unexpected offer to spread his colorful wings and fly away. Hot Potato is an 80k slow burn friends-to-lovers contemporary MM romance. It features a fast-talking accountant who’s cooler than he thinks, the closeted firefighter who loves him more than he should, and a great big happy-sigh HEA.

Download or read book ACES High written by Stan Pinato and published by FriesenPress. This book was released on 2021-02-05 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this riveting tale of erotic historical fiction, intrigue, action, love, romance, and sex come together to form a plot that will carry readers into the past and keep them guessing from beginning to end. In 1862, Pope Pius IX, attempts to reverse the decline of Christianity in the Middle East. Assembling a round table with three of his archbishops, he labels the secret group, the “Alliance for a Christian Engineered Society” (ACES). Their objective is to eliminate the head priest of the Zoroastrians in India and guide the lost sheep to salvation. The society finds a potential assassin in a jail cell in Mexico, Immanuel Cortez Esteban, otherwise known as the ICE man. ICE trains under Maria Sanchez, and the two fall in love before sailing to Bombay. Can the ACES pull off such an ambitious mission? Will someone betray the team? Do Maria and ICE survive? What is a Parsi? Adults of all ages will love this first installment of what is sure to be an erotic, entertaining, and educational epic trilogy.

Download or read book Written in the Sand written by R.J. Groves and published by R.J. Groves. This book was released on 2019-03-29 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if your one-night stand took your job? Wren's life is going according to plan. But when her fiancé runs off with someone else a week before her wedding, a large part of her plan falls through. At least she still has a promotion to look forward to, despite her bad taste in men. It started as a one-night stand… It wasn't supposed to happen, and she was never supposed to see him again. He wasn't supposed to sweep into her life and turn her whole world upside down. Nate isn't the one-night stand kind of guy. But there's something about her—something that made him lose himself around her. He thought he'd never see her again. She'd made it clear what they had when she left his bed early, and she sure as hell didn't leave anything out when he got the job she'd worked hard for. Office romances are tricky. Messy. But Nate's not the kind of guy to give up, especially when he sets his sights on something. It might just be his downfall…

Download or read book Bliss written by Shay Mitchell and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shay Mitchell, star of ABC Family's #1 rated show Pretty Little Liars, and best friend Michaela Blaney team up to write this sharp, sexy, and entertaining romp through the imperfect world of 21-year-old BFFs Sophia, Demi, and Leandra. Sophia Marcus, 21, has already mapped out every aspect of her glamorous life as a Hollywood actor on her vision board. But her life right now in Toronto is anything but exciting. Attending fruitless auditions during the day and working at a douche-y club at night, Sophia is starting to feel like she's going nowhere...slowly. Demi Michaels, Sophia's best friend, didn't go to college after high school. Short of ideas for her own future, she puts her energy into building the perfect relationship with an older man. And when that relationship crashes and burns, Demi is left to pick up the pieces. Sophia's friend (and Demi's frenemy) Leandra Hunting doesn't give a crap about hard work or a loving relationship. She has other plans for her future. After college graduation, Leandra sets out to travel the world in the yachts, planes and limos of ridiculously wealthy men. Will any of them be able to show her what love really means-if she can take off her Chanel sunglasses long enough to see it? Set in the exotic, intoxicating worlds of Hollywood, Thailand, and London, Shay Mitchell and Michaela Blaney's Bliss paints a relatable portrait of life in your early twenties with equal parts optimism and fear, hope and disappointment, expectation and reality. It's the Age of Uncertainty when you can count on nothing, but, if you're lucky enough to have one truly great friend, you can survive just about anything.

Download or read book Chicago Bratva Books 1 3 written by Renee Rose and published by Burning Desires. This book was released on 2022-03-23 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVE INTO DANGEROUS ROMANCE WITH THE CHICAGO BRATVA This 3-Book starter set contains the USA Today Bestseller The Director, as well as The Fixer and The Enforcer--all stand-alone romances with guaranteed happily-ever-afters. Set includes: THE DIRECTOR The lovely attorney kept a secret from me. A baby she’s been carrying since Valentine’s night. THE FIXER He’s back to take my inheritance. My life. Not through murder, but marriage. And my own father arranged it. THE ENFORCER She’s my weakness, my obsession. And now my prisoner.

Download or read book Down to this written by Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall and published by Univ. of Queensland Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some young men, climbing Everest or sailing solo into polar seas isn't the biggest risk in the world. Instead it is venturing alone into the deepest urban jungle, where human nature is the dangerous, incomprehensible and sometimes wildly uplifting force that tests not only your ability to survive but also your own humanity. One cold November day, Shaughnessy Bishop-Stall heads out on just such a quest. He packs up a new tent, some clothes, his notebooks and a pen and goes to live in Tent City, twenty-seven lawless acres where the largest hobo town on the continent squats in the scandalized shadow of Canada's largest city. The rules he sets for himself are simple: no access to money, family or friends, except what he can find from that day on. He'll do whatever people in Tent City do to get by, be whatever bum, wino, beggar, hustler, criminal, junkie or con man he chooses to be on any given day. When he arrives, he finds a dump full of the castaways of the last millennium, human and otherwise. On the edge of the world, yet somehow smack in the middle of it all, fugitives, drug addicts, prostitutes, dealers and ex-cons have created an anarchic society, where the rules are made up nightly and your life depends on knowing them. Not only does Bishop-Stall manage to survive until the bulldozers come, but against all odds his own heart and spirit slowly mend. An astonishing account of birth, suicide, brawls, binges, tears, crazed laughter, good and bad intentions, fiendish charity and the sudden eloquence and generosity of broken souls, Down to This is Bishop-Stall's iridescent love song to a lost city like no other. "From the Hardcover edition."

Download or read book Can Salvat written by Jeff Engberg and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-09-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Disillusioned by Amerika at the end of the 1980s, Jess packs a bag and heads for Europe not knowing what he will find in his search for Bohemian ideals of Truth, Beauty, Love and Freedom. This quest of a young man's search for himself leads the young artist from California to an art school in Norway and on to Spain where he befriends a coterie of bohemian artists that give him everything he ever dreamed of, and much more. This Kerouacian road trip drowns Jess in wine, drums, horses, love, devotion, adventure, Hemingwayesque festivals, questionable gurus, fireworks, and finally a home.

Download or read book Chicago Bratva Complete Set written by Renee Rose and published by Renee Rose Romance. This book was released on 2023-08-30 with total page 1844 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVE INTO DANGEROUS ROMANCE WITH THE CHICAGO BRATVA This 9-Book set contains the USA Today Bestseller The Director, as well eight other stand-alone romances with guaranteed happily-ever-afters. Set includes: THE DIRECTOR The lovely attorney kept a secret from me. A baby she's been carrying since Valentine's night. THE FIXER He's back to take my inheritance. My life. Not through murder, but marriage. And my own father arranged it. THE ENFORCER She's my weakness, my obsession. And now my prisoner. THE SOLDIER I should give her up--set her free THE HACKER She betrayed my Family--I will make her pay THE BOOKIE I bargained with the bratva--My brother's life for my own THE CLEANER I’ve captured the Crime Lord’s daughter. She will pay the price for her father's sin. THE PLAYER My Bratva brother will kill him if he touches me. I'm so damaged, I'm not even capable of a relationship. He might be the perfect antidote. THE GATEKEEPER She’s my captive. My prisoner. I will make her talk. In the end: she will be mine.

Download or read book Seacroft Stories Complete Series written by Allison Temple and published by Allison Temple Books. This book was released on with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welcome to Seacroft, North Carolina. Population 15,832, give or take a few thousand when tourist season rolls around. Seacroft is known for its sprawling beaches and sunshine, but the real stories happen when the tourists go home. The town’s residents have their secrets and their scars, and while they’ll come together to help a neighbor in need, it takes a certain kind of love to help everyone find their place in the sun. This collection contains all three Seacroft novels, including Top Shelf, Cold Pressed and Hot Potato.

Download or read book Jaylin s World written by Brenda Hampton and published by Urban Books. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Real estate magnate Jaylin Jerome Rogers is happily married to his one and only love, Nokea. They've got adorable kids and a lovely home in Miami Beach. The biggest mistake of Jaylin's life, his affair with Scorpio Valentino, is behind him—or so he believes. But beneath the still waters of marital bliss, drama is bubbling up! Jaylin thought Scorpio was just a short-term jump off, but his world is rocked when she reveals that he is her year-old son's father. Suddenly both of their marriages are on the rocks, as Jaylin tries to be a father to his newfound son, and Scorpio moves to Miami intent on reigniting their affair. While Nokea builds a new life for herself, her husband hatches a desperate plan to win her back.

Download or read book Church of Lies written by Flora Jessop and published by John Wiley and Sons. This book was released on 2009-01-08 with total page 301 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Preface: "My name is Flora Jessop. I've been called apostate, vigilante, and crazy bitch, and maybe I am. But some people call me a hero, and I'd like to think they're right too. If I am a hero, maybe it's because every time I can play a part in saving a child or a woman from a life of servitude and degradation, I'm saving a little piece of me, too. I was one of twenty-eight children born to my dad and his three wives. Indoctrinated to believe that the outside world was evil, and that I resided among the righteous, I was destined to marry a man chosen for me by the Prophet. I would then live in harmony with my sister-wives, bear many children, and obey and serve my future husband in this life and throughout eternity. But my innocence didn't last long. While still a child, I understood that the church of the righteous was nothing but a church of lies. When I was eight years old my father sexually molested me for the first time, raping me when I was twelve. I tried to kill myself. Beaten, molested, taunted, and abused by family members alleging they only wanted to save my soul became a daily routine, I ran from this abuse more than once in my early teens--even attempting to cross the desert on foot. My family hunted me down. I thought government agencies would provide me safety if I reported my father. Instead, police and social services colluded with the FLDS to return me to my family and I ended up back inside polygamy, right where I started." Flora goes on from there to tell the dramatic true story of how she ultimately escaped and has been fighting against frustrating obstacles with hard fought successes in rescuing women and children from the FLDS. It's a story you can't put down.

Download or read book One Hot Summer written by Melissa Cutler and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-04-05 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wedding planner Remedy Lane plans to lay low in Texas working at the Briscoe Ranch Resort while renewing her professional image after a Hollywood scandal sent her packing, but after butting heads with fire chief, Micah Garrity, she might discover why everything is hotter in Texas.

Download or read book Boundaries Within Book I written by Holly A. Kellison and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2016-10-07 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Tess is sixteen, her parents are murdered and she and her sisters are adopted by their mother's friend, Jonathan McGowan. After Tess falls for his son Colin, he introduces her to mercenary work. Now years later, Colin is incapable of committing and Tess is quickly becoming one of the world's top assassins-and seductresses. When Tess makes the decision to separate from Colin, fate leads her to meet his nemesis, the handsome and irresistible Matthew Taylor. Unable to resist breaking her rule to never become emotionally involved while working on an assignment, Tess's life slowly begins to unravel as she falls in love with Matthew and Colin reappears. As she attempts to put her life back into perspective, Tess suffers a series of losses without any idea that her biggest challenge is yet to come. In this action adventure, a female assassin who relies on seduction tactics to steal from and manipulate others must try to find a way to juggle her work with her love for two very different men.

Download or read book Tell Me Something Good written by Jarrett Earnest and published by David Zwirner Books. This book was released on 2017-11-21 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 2000, The Brooklyn Rail has been a platform for artists, academics, critics, poets, and writers in New York and abroad. The monthly journal’s continued appeal is due in large part to its diverse contributors, many of whom bring contrasting and often unexpected opinions to conversations about art and aesthetics. No other publication devotes as much space to the artist’s voice, allowing ideas to unfold and idiosyncrasies to emerge through open discussion. Since its inception, cofounder and artistic director Phong Bui and the Rail’s contributors have interviewed over four hundred artists for The Brooklyn Rail. This volume brings together for the first time a selection of sixty of the most influential and seminal interviews with artists ranging from Richard Serra and Brice Marden, to Alex Da Corte and House of Ladosha. While each interview is important in its own right, offering a perspective on the life and work of a specific artist, collectively they tell the story of a journal that has grown during one of the more diverse and surprising periods in visual art. There is no unified style or perspective; The Brooklyn Rail’s strength lies in its ability to include and champion difference. Selected and coedited by Jarrett Earnest, a frequent Rail contributor, with Lucas Zwirner, the book includes an introduction to the project by Phong Bui as well as many of the hand-drawn portraits he has made of those he has interviewed over the years. This combination of verbal and visual profiles offers a rare and personal insight into contemporary visual culture. Interviews with Vito Acconci, Ai Weiwei, Lynda Benglis, James Bishop, Chris Burden, Vija Celmins, Francesco Clemente, Bruce Conner, Alex Da Corte, Rosalyn Drexler, Keltie Ferris, Simone Forti, Andrea Fraser, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Suzan Frecon, Coco Fusco, Robert Gober, Leon Golub, Ron Gorchov, Michelle Grabner, Josephine Halvorson, Sheila Hicks, David Hockney, Roni Horn, House of Ladosha, Alfredo Jaar, Bill Jensen, Alex Katz, William Kentridge, Matvey Levenstein, Nalini Malani, Brice Marden, Chris Martin, Jonas Mekas, Shirin Neshat, Thomas Nozkowski, Lorraine O’Grady, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge, Joanna Pousette-Dart, Ernesto Pujol, Martin Puryear, Walid Raad, Dorothea Rockburne, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Robert Ryman, Dana Schutz, Richard Serra, Shahzia Sikander, Nancy Spero, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Sarah Sze, Rirkrit Tiravanija, James Turrell, Richard Tuttle, Luc Tuymans, Kara Walker, Stanley Whitney, Jack Whitten, Yan Pei-Ming, and Lisa Yuskavage Special thanks to Furthermore, a program of the J.M. Kaplan Fund, for their support of The Brooklyn Rail.

Download or read book Wrapped in Love written by Lexi Ryan and published by Lexi Ryan. This book was released on 2018-12-04 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A one-night stand with the boss was never in her plans. Neither was falling in love . . . Return to Jackson Harbor for this sweet and sexy standalone Christmas romance. The rumors are true. I’m a hot mess with an awful track record at love. Single mom. Down on her luck. Yeah, I’m bad news. If the hardest part of moving back home to Jackson Harbor was going to be people talking, I’d be fine. I’ve kept my chin up through worse than their decade-old gossip. I was wrong. The hardest part is resisting my boss. Brayden Jackson is the very picture of tall, dark, and handsome. And thanks to an ill-advised one-night stand we had seven months ago, I know exactly what I’m missing when I turn him down. Every. Single. Delicious. Inch. But I have my son to care for and my job to keep, so I’ll keep on saying no. Until my string of bad luck continues, and suddenly my precious four-year-old and I find ourselves with nowhere to live. At Christmas, no less. It’s for my son that I accept Brayden’s offer to stay at his place. One by one, my defenses are falling, as fast as I am. If Brayden was smart, he’d run, because it’s only a matter of time before he realizes he deserves better than what a girl like me can offer. Unless, for once, my bad luck is leading me exactly where I need to be.