Download or read book 21st Century Courtesan Collection Books 1 2 written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond Media. This book was released on 2021-09-28 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play "Courtesan" series for FREE in "TO KILL A COURTESAN" interactive GAME on Storyloom! __ From the “Erin Brockovich” storyteller and USA Today Best author Pamela DuMond -- featured on “ABC 20/20.” "If Sierra Simone and Skye Warren had a book baby it would be PLAYER." USA TODAY Best Samanthe Beck -- 21st Century Courtesan Set: Books 1 – 2 ‘I'm a 21st Century Courtesan. I’m down to my last four clients: 1 wants to play me, 1 wants to buy me. 1 wants to marry me. 1 wants to murder me. Will I get out in time?’ -- THE PLAYER #1 Beautiful, broken billionaires pay ungodly sums to be with me because I’m EMPATHIC: I feel their emotions in my body. I figure out what broke them and help them heal. When Dylan McAlister, the handsome, charming heir to the Lighthouse Cathedral fortune hires me, my empathic ability returns with a fury. I feel the emotions that torment him. His shame roots in my belly. His fear stabs me in my back. It’s overwhelming but I can't abandon him -- I'm falling in love with him. Can I help Dylan heal? Or will I break him beyond repair -- just like the first boy I fell in love with? THE MOVIE STAR #2 Gorgeous movie star Jake Keller’s on track to win an Oscar. But Jake’s shutting down, going off grid. I'm traveling to Hollywood to try and help discover what -- or who -- broke Jake. But dirty little secrets prefer to stay buried -- especially the ones in my own back yard... PRAISE ★★★★★ “…original, suspenseful, mysterious, sexy, and dramatic…a captivating read….” Angela – GR ★★★★★ “… it was all so sublime. There was love and drama as well as a darkness that will thrill you…” Sarah – GR ★★★★★ “secrets, guilt, hidden agendas, and Hollywood politics, all coming into play… a crisis back home, an on-going ‘stalker’ issue… this story really takes off!!!” Angela Hayes ★★★★★ “This book grabbed me from the first page and didn’t let go until the last page…” Ashleigh – GR ★★★★★ “I actually finished this book in one sitting, I couldn’t put it down.” Michelle Austin ★★★★★ “I am ADDICTED! If I could give this book more than five stars I would.” Liz Vrchota ★★★★★ “I FLOVED this book. … It moves quietly along packing punch after punch, from beginning to end I was entranced... Maura ★★★★★ “…breath-taking, beautiful, and brilliant. A must-read…” USA TODAY bestselling author Maggie Marr ★★★★★ “… it was all so sublime. There was love and drama as well as a darkness that will thrill you…” Sarah – GR 21st Century "ADDICTING" books are NOT stand alones. Read in this order: THE PLAYER #1 * THE MOVIE STAR #2 * THE BELOVED * THE HUSBAND * THE DEVOTED FAN. 21st CENTURY COURTESAN is a sexy, dark, addictive series filled with love, lust, family loyalty, deceit, revenge, and all the sweet little things in life worth killing for... 1-Click the 21st Century Set for the first two "all so sublime" reads in this amazing journey!

Download or read book A 21st Century Courtesan written by Eden Bradley and published by Delta. This book was released on 2009-03-24 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A world of silk sheets, imported champagne, and endless delight await in A 21st Century Courtesan. She fulfills the deepest fantasies of the most powerful men in the world. Sensual, seductive, and discreet, Valentine Day is a high-class call girl, pampered and adored by her exclusive clientele. But Valentine has a secret. Always in control, she’s never experienced true pleasure outside of her work. But all that is about to change. Now the woman who’s spent a decade pleasuring others is about to embark on a journey of her own. It happens one night at the opera. Seated next to her in the dark is a stranger. As the music swells so does the sexual tension. Gorgeous, sophisticated Joshua Spencer invites her for a drink, and soon she’s fantasizing about taking him home. When they finally come together in the most tender and intense lovemaking Valentine has ever known, she’s hooked. But suddenly Valentine is questioning everything. Joshua has no idea what she does for a living. Can she risk everything—including her hard-earned freedom and one final, shattering secret—for one man? And would he still want her if he knew the truth? A 21st Century Courtesan is intended for mature audiences.

Download or read book Beloved written by Pamela DuMond and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm a 21st CENTURY COURTESAN. Broken billionaires hire me to help them heal. I'm down to my last four clients. One wants to play me. One wants to buy me. One wants to marry me. One wants to murder me. Will I get out in time? Easton Wolfe's taking over ownership of Ma Maison Agency. Dylan McAlister wants to take his relationship with Evie to the next level. Wyatt Wolfe is taking her heart. But it's Evie's 'Devoted Fan' who wants to take her life?

Download or read book THE HUSBAND written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond. This book was released on with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play "Courtesan" series for FREE in "TO KILL A COURTESAN" interactive GAME on Storyloom! __ "ADDICTING..." "If Sierra Simone and Skye Warren had a book baby ..." USA TODAY Bestselling author Samanthe Beck __ My name’s Evelyn Berlinger. I’m a 21st Century Courtesan. Beautiful, broken billionaires pay ungodly sums of money to be with me because I’m empathic – I feel in my own body what they feel in theirs. I can heal what broke them. But I couldn’t help the man I loved the most, the man I loved forever. And when he died -- everything changed. Now a fortune is bequeathed. A darkness is revealed. A heart is broken. And a price must be paid… __ Read 21st Century Courtesan series in this order: THE PLAYER #1 — THE MOVIE STAR #2 — THE BELOVED #3 —HUSBAND #4 -- and THE FAN#5. 21st CENTURY COURTESAN is a steamy psychological thriller series filled with love, lust, family loyalty, deceit, revenge, and all the sweet little things in life worth killing for... Read the books Play the Game on Storyloom – NOW!

Download or read book THE DEVOTED FAN written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond. This book was released on 2021-05-09 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play "Courtesan" series for FREE in "TO KILL A COURTESAN" interactive GAME on Storyloom! 5 Stars "If Sierra Simone and Skye Warren had a book baby ..." USA TODAY Bestselling author Samanthe Beck -- I used to moonlight at Ma Maison. Beautiful, broken billionaires paid ungodly sums of money to be with me because I'm empathic. I helped heal what broke them. But no matter how hard I tried, I couldn’t heal my first love. When Wyatt died -- he bequeathed me the keys to his kingdom. His dogs. His house. His fortune. I might even be falling for his brother. It feels like a fresh start. A new life. And so I thought the worst was over. Believed the game was done and played. I didn’t realize karma still twisted -- twined, and tangled -- around me -- Her price was not yet paid… __ Read 21st Century Courtesan in this order: THE PLAYER #1 ★THE MOVIE STAR #2 ★ THE BELOVED #3 ★THE HUSBAND #4 ★THE DEVOTED FAN #5. __ 1 Click the conclusion to this Addicting series! Read the BOOKS! Play the Interactive Game on STORYLOOM!

Download or read book In the Company of the Courtesan written by Sarah Dunant and published by Random House. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My lady, Fiammetta Bianchini, was plucking her eyebrows and biting color into her lips when the unthinkable happened and the Holy Roman Emperor’s army blew a hole in the wall of God’s eternal city, letting in a flood of half-starved, half-crazed troops bent on pillage and punishment. Thus begins In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant’s epic novel of life in Renaissance Italy. Escaping the sack of Rome in 1527, with their stomachs churning on the jewels they have swallowed, the courtesan Fiammetta and her dwarf companion, Bucino, head for Venice, the shimmering city born out of water to become a miracle of east-west trade: rich and rancid, pious and profitable, beautiful and squalid. With a mix of courage and cunning they infiltrate Venetian society. Together they make the perfect partnership: the sharp-tongued, sharp-witted dwarf, and his vibrant mistress, trained from birth to charm, entertain, and satisfy men who have the money to support her. Yet as their fortunes rise, this perfect partnership comes under threat, from the searing passion of a lover who wants more than his allotted nights to the attentions of an admiring Turk in search of human novelties for his sultan’s court. But Fiammetta and Bucino’s greatest challenge comes from a young crippled woman, a blind healer who insinuates herself into their lives and hearts with devastating consequences for them all. A story of desire and deception, sin and religion, loyalty and friendship, In the Company of the Courtesan paints a portrait of one of the world’s greatest cities at its most potent moment in history: It is a picture that remains vivid long after the final page.

Download or read book THE BELOVED written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond. This book was released on with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play "Courtesan" series for FREE in "TO KILL A COURTESAN" interactive GAME on Storyloom! (Link in e-book) __ Sexy, dark, addictive series filled with love, lust, loyalty, deceit, and revenge… I'm a 21st CENTURY COURTESAN. Broken billionaires hire me to help them heal. I'm down to my last four clients. One wants to play me. One wants to buy me. One wants to marry me. One wants to murder me. Will I get out in time? Easton Wolfe’s taking over ownership of Ma Maison Agency. Dylan McAlister wants to take his relationship with Evie to the next level. Wyatt Wolfe is taking her heart. But it’s Evie’s ‘Devoted Fan’ who wants to take her life… PRAISE for 21STCentury Courtesan “…densely, lusciously dark, but also so tender, and so emotionally satisfying.” Beverly Diehl "If Sierra Simone and Skye Warren had a book baby it would be PLAYER." USA TODAY Bestselling author Samanthe Beck “…breath-taking, beautiful, and brilliant. A must-read…” USA TODAY bestselling author Maggie Marr “I am ADDICTED! If I could give this book more than five stars I would. (Player)” Liz Vrchota Read 21st Century Courtesan series in this order: PLAYER #1 — MOVIE STAR #2 — BELOVED #3 — HUSBAND #4. Enter the World of 21st Century Courtesans...

Download or read book THE PLAYER written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond. This book was released on 2018-11-09 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play "Courtesan" series for FREE in "TO KILL A COURTESAN" interactive GAME on Storyloom! __ "If Sierra Simone and Skye Warren had a book baby..." USA TODAY Bestselling author Samanthe Beck —— I'm a 21st CENTURY COURTESAN. I'm down to my last four clients. One wants to play me. One wants to buy me. One wants to marry me. One wants to murder me... —— I moonlight at Ma Maison as an escort to pay for Mom's pricey psych treatments. Beautiful, broken billionaires pay ungodly sums of money to be with me because I'm empathic -- I feel in my own body what they feel in theirs. I can heal what broke them. When gorgeous high stakes poker player Dylan McAlister hires me, my empathic ability returns with a fury. I feel the emotions that torment him. His shame roots in my belly. His heartache compresses my chest. His fear stabs me in my back. It’s overwhelming, it's excruciating, but I can't abandon him -- I'm falling in love with him. Will I help Dylan McAlister heal? Or will I break him beyond repair -- just like the first boy I feel in love with? —— 21st CENTURY COURTESAN is a sexy, dark, addictive series filled with love, lust, family loyalty, deceit, revenge, and all the sweet little things in life worth killing for... PRAISE “…breath-taking, beautiful, and brilliant. A must-read…” USA Today bestselling author Maggie Marr “I am ADDICTED! ...” Liz Vrchota “…original, suspenseful, mysterious, sexy, and dramatic… a captivating read.” Angela Hayes “…was completely enthralled and blown away by this book!” Vegas Daisy One click PLAYER now!

Download or read book The Mistress of Paris written by Catherine Hewitt and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "First published in the United Kingdom by Icon Books Ltd"--Title page verso.

Download or read book The Client written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond. This book was released on with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "(...laugh out loud funny), witty, and sexy (sosohot)." A second chances, STAND ALONE Romantic Comedy from USA Today bestselling author Pamela DuMond. I'm an underpaid assistant working at a matchmaking agency, surviving on Insta-Ramen and dreams. How is it possible that I made a love match that resulted in the society marriage of the year? Christmas season is upon us and I plan on enjoying this gorgeous wedding by drinking too much Champagne, eating 5 star food, and relaxing for a change. I don't plan on running into the smoking hot, tuxedo-clad brick wall of a man. I don't plan on him stopping my fall by grabbing onto my boob and Not. Letting. Go. I most definitely don't plan on this gorgeous man being my new CLIENT. Joe is heir to the Delacroix Hotel fortune, whip smart, hilariously funny, and so yummy. I am tempted to… good God I want to... but sleeping with clients is a big, fat ‘No-No.’ Aren't some rules meant to be broken? PRAISE: "Funny, witty, and hot, hot, HOT!..." ~ Ann Charles, USA Today Bestselling Author. "A captivating love story; simply have no words to describe how beautiful it is." ~ Sofia Beddable Reads "2 Thumbs up for a great heart warming story..." ~ Barbara - A. Reviewer "Lots of feels, terrific secondary characters, drama, comedy, angst, this book has it all!" ~ Melissa P. "Sexy, effervescent banter ..." ~ Mia Hopkins Author "The initial meeting between Charlotte and Joe is downright hilarious." ~ My Book Filled Life "The perfect balance of funny (like laugh out loud funny), witty, and sexy (sosohot)." ~ Sweet Red Reader 1-click a Pamela DuMond Romantic Comedy today!

Download or read book His American Princess written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond. This book was released on with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Too filthy to be a fairy tale… A few years ago, I was an impoverished cocktail waitress struggling to pay the bills. Now I’m marrying gorgeous Maximillian Rochartè, the Prince of Bellèno. Or at least I’m trying to. Pompous windbag Archbishop Causesdesperdeus claims we’re not legally wed. Says we have to track down the unauthorized priest who performed our ceremony, convince him to scrub his name off the license, and get re-married before the paparazzi blows the scandal wide open. But Max must serve his obligatory Guard duty, so it falls on Leo, his brother the Crown Prince -- who recently admitted he’s 'got feelings' for me, the Ladies-in-Waiting, and me to travel to Italy and do whatever it takes get this messy, sexy job done. What could possibly go wrong? PRAISE for THE CROWN AFFAIR "O-M-Freaking-G!!!... I loved this one! I just couldn’t read it fast enough." BCherry 27 "... thanks to the … very dirty mind of a very hot ginger prince." Rae Sonethyn "...heart all mushing, sexy and delightfully entertaining romantic comedy." A. Reviewer One click this LOL, gorgeous, smutty, Rom-Com. The American Princess © 2018 is the re-imagined, ‘smuttier’ version of Royally Wed: The Poser © 2017. Additional content has been added to the original story.

Download or read book THE MOVIE STAR written by Pamela DuMond and published by Pamela DuMond. This book was released on 2019-01-30 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Play 21st Century Courtesan series for FREE in "TO KILL A COURTESAN" Interactive GAME on Storyloom! (Link in e-book) __ "If Sierra Simone and Skye Warren had a book baby..." USA TODAY Bestselling author Samanthe Beck __ I’m a 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN. I'm down to my last four clients. One wants to play me. One wants to buy me. One wants to marry me. And one wants to murder me. Will I get out in time... Gorgeous movie star Jake Keller’s on track to win an Oscar. But Jake’s shutting down, going off grid, doing nothing to help promote his chances. I'm traveling to Hollywood to try and help discover what -- or who -- broke Jake. But dirty little secrets prefer to stay buried… 21st CENTURY COURTESAN is a sexy, dark, addictive series filled with love, lust, family loyalty, deceit, revenge, and all the sweet little things in life worth killing for... PRAISE for 21ST CENTURY COURTESAN “…breath-taking, beautiful, and brilliant. A must-read…” USA Today bestselling author Maggie Marr “I am ADDICTED! ...” Liz Vrchota “…original, suspenseful, mysterious, sexy, and dramatic… a captivating read.” Angela Hayes “…was completely enthralled and blown away by this book!” Vegas Daisy One-click Movie Star now!

Download or read book Courtesans and Fishcakes written by James N. Davidson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2011-06-30 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As any reader of the Symposium knows, the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates conversed over lavish banquets, kept watch on who was eating too much fish, and imbibed liberally without ever getting drunk. In other words, James Davidson writes, he reflected the culture of ancient Greece in which he lived, a culture of passions and pleasures, of food, drink, and sex before—and in concert with—politics and principles. Athenians, the richest and most powerful of the Greeks, were as skilled at consuming as their playwrights were at devising tragedies. Weaving together Greek texts, critical theory, and witty anecdotes, this compelling and accessible study teaches the reader a great deal, not only about the banquets and temptations of ancient Athens, but also about how to read Greek comedy and history.

Download or read book The Courtesan s Arts written by Martha Feldman and published by OUP USA. This book was released on 2006-03-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Courtesans, hetaeras, tawaif-s, ji-s--these women have exchanged artistic graces, elevated conversation, and sexual favors with male patrons throughout history and around the world. In Ming dynasty China and early modern Italy, exchange was made through poetry, speech, and music; in pre-colonial India through magic, music, chemistry, and other arts. Yet like the art of courtesanry itself, those arts have often thrived outside present-day canons and modes of transmission, and have mostly vanished without trace.The Courtesan's Arts delves into this hidden legacy, while touching on its equivocal relationship to geisha. At once interdisciplinary, empirical, and theoretical, the book is the first to ask how arts have figured in the survival or demise of courtesan cultures by juxtaposing research from different fields. Among cases studied by writers on classics, ethnomusicology, anthropology, and various histories of art, music, literature, and political culture are Ming dynasty China, twentieth-century Korea, Edo and modern Japan, ancient Greece, early modern Italy, and India, past and present. Refusing a universal model, the authors nevertheless share a perception that courtesans hover in the crevices of space, time, and practice--between gifts and money, courts and cities, subtlety and flamboyance, feminine allure and masculine power, as wifely surrogates but keepers of culture. What most binds them to their arts in our post-industrialized world of global services and commodities, they find, is courtesans' fragility, as their cultures, once vital to civilizations founded in leisure and pleasure, are now largely forgotten, transforming courtesans into national icons or historical curiosities, or reducing them to prostitution.

Download or read book The Dancing Girls of Lahore written by Louise Brown and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An unforgettable and compassionate look at the lives of the residents of Lahore’s pleasure district The Dancing Girls of Lahore inhabit the Diamond District in the shadow of a great mosque. The 21st century goes on outside the walls, this ancient quarter, but scarcely registers within. Though their trade can be described with accuracy as prostitution, the dancing girls have an illustrious history: beloved by sultans, their sophisticated art encompassed the best of Mughal culture. The modern day Bollywood aesthetic, with its love of gaudy spectacle, music, and dance, is their distant legacy. But the life of the pampered courtesan is not the one now being lived by Maha and her three girls. What they do is forbidden by Islam, though tolerated; but they are, unclean, and Maha’s daughters, like her, are born into the business and will not leave it. Sociologist Louise Brown spent four years in the most intimate study of the family life of one Lahori courtesan. Beautifully understated, it turns a novelist’s eye on a true story that beggars the imagination. Maha, at fourteen a classically trained dancer of exquisite grace, had her virginity sold to the Sultan of Dubai; when her own daughter Nena comes of age and Maha cannot bring in the money she once did, she faces a terrible decision as the agents of the Sultan come calling once more.

Download or read book Courtesans written by Katie Hickman and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 2003 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This title focuses on the stories of four outstanding women, each told as a mini-biography. Harriet Wilson, Elizabeth Armistead, Cora Pearl and Catherine Walters were women of very different personalities and talents. Spanning just over a 100 years, their lives exemplify the existence of the courtesan.

Download or read book Courtesans and Tantric Consorts written by Serinity Young and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-03-01 with total page 299 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The wisest teachings of Buddhism say that, like all oppositions, one must move beyond gender. But as Serinity Young shows in this enlightening work, the rhetoric of Buddhist texts, the symbolism of its iconography, and the performative import of its rituals, tell different, and often contradictory, stories. In Courtesans and Tantric Consorts, Serinity Young takes the reader on a journey through more than 2000 years of biographical writings, iconographic depictions, and ritual practices revealing Buddhism's deep struggles with gender. Juxtaposing empowering images of women with their textual repudiation, beginning with the Buddha himself who abandoned his wife; tantric courtesans who are considered necessary to male enlightenment with fertility rituals designed to ensure male offspring; tales of gender-bending gods and goddesses with all male heavens; Serinity Young draws on a vast range of sources to reveal the colourful, and often troubling, mosaic of beliefs that inform Buddhist views about gender and sexuality.