Download or read book Damsel in Distress for Hire written by Jessica Ackles and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-29 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claire works as a damsel in distress for hire. What began as a way to pay for her studies soon turns into an intense, dangerous journey of sexual awakening and self discovery as the lure of helpless surrender, shackles and chains threaten to take over every facet of her life.How will Claire manage her ever-evolving desires and fantasies while keeping it all a secret for the genuine hero she accidentially meets on the job?

Download or read book Corporate Punishment written by Jessica Ackles and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-24 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Emily Hall started her dream job at Stockton headquarters, she could never have imagined what awaited her. How could she have known, that stepping out of line could send her to the Basement, the harsh, cold dungeons beneath the marbled floors? And that she would be helplessly shackled when she first met the woman that would help her explore new aspects of her sexuality?"Corporate Punishment - A Dungeon Romance" is an erotic novella with hot scenes of shackled women in cold dungeons, brutal whippings and mind-blowing descriptions of bondage sex.

Download or read book Covet written by J.R. Ward and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2009-09-29 with total page 499 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Black Dagger Brotherhood series comes the first Novel of the Fallen Angels. Redemption isn’t a word Jim Heron knows much about—his specialty is revenge, and to him, sin is all relative. But everything changes when he becomes a fallen angel and is charged with saving the souls of seven people from the seven deadly sins. And failure is not an option. Vin diPietro surrendered himself to his business—until fate intervenes in the form of a tough-talking, Harley-riding, self-professed savior, and a woman who makes him question his destiny. With an ancient evil ready to claim him, Vin has to work with a fallen angel not only to win his beloved over…but redeem his very soul.

Download or read book A Cage of Gold and Lies written by Selina A. Fenech and published by Fairies and Fantasy Pty Ltd. This book was released on 2022-01-31 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this modern day, urban fantasy retelling of Rumpelstiltskin, can a young woman escape a cage of gold and lies? Growing up on the streets, Zari used to dream of a fairytale ending. Until she found out that magic was real, and witnessed the horrible consequences. On that day she learned that the billionaire who lords over the city keeps people with the gift of magic as his personal slaves. And none can escape him alive. When Zari's drunken father boasts that "his daughter" has magic, Zari will do anything to protect her little sister. Even take her place as a slave. But how long can she survive the billionaire's cruel tests and tasks when she can't cast a single spell?

Download or read book John Brown Abolitionist written by David S. Reynolds and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2009-07-29 with total page 592 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An authoritative new examination of John Brown and his deep impact on American history.Bancroft Prize-winning cultural historian David S. Reynolds presents an informative and richly considered new exploration of the paradox of a man steeped in the Bible but more than willing to kill for his abolitionist cause. Reynolds locates Brown within the currents of nineteenth-century life and compares him to modern terrorists, civil-rights activists, and freedom fighters. Ultimately, he finds neither a wild-eyed fanatic nor a Christ-like martyr, but a passionate opponent of racism so dedicated to eradicating slavery that he realized only blood could scour it from the country he loved. By stiffening the backbone of Northerners and showing Southerners there were those who would fight for their cause, he hastened the coming of the Civil War. This is a vivid and startling story of a man and an age on the verge of calamity.

Download or read book Why America Failed written by Morris Berman and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-09-13 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why America Failed shows how, from its birth as a nation of "hustlers" to its collapse as an empire, the tools of the country's expansion proved to be the instruments of its demise Why America Failed is the third and most engaging volume of Morris Berman's trilogy on the decline of the American empire. In The Twilight of American Culture, Berman examined the internal factors of that decline, showing that they were identical to those of Rome in its late-empire phase. In Dark Ages America, he explored the external factors—e.g., the fact that both empires were ultimately attacked from the outside—and the relationship between the events of 9/11 and the history of U.S. foreign policy. In his most ambitious work to date, Berman looks at the "why" of it all Probes America's commitment to economic liberalism and free enterprise stretching back to the late sixteenth century, and shows how this ideology, along with that of technological progress, rendered any alternative marginal to American history Maintains, more than anything else, that this one-sided vision of the country's purpose finally did our nation in Why America Failed is a controversial work, one that will shock, anger, and transform its readers. The book is a stimulating and provocative explanation of how we managed to wind up in our current situation: economically weak, politically passe, socially divided, and culturally adrift. It is a tour de force, a powerful conclusion to Berman's study of American imperial decline.

Download or read book The Ultimate Submission written by Zev de Valera and published by . This book was released on 2013-06-26 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do you know who you are? Diego Manning thinks he does, until the high school senior enrolls in an exclusive summer study program at the Mission of San Bernardino Realino. Within the walls of this converted monastery, Diego will discover a world of sexual license and secrets with roots as old and deep as those of the Mission's winery, La Viuda Riseuna. Diego will discover that, sometimes, you don't know who you are until you lose yourself.

Download or read book One Fell Sweep written by Ilona Andrews and published by NYLA. This book was released on 2016-12-20 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the New York Times #1 bestselling author, Ilona Andrews, comes a new tale from the Innkeeper Chronicles “Ilona Andrews’s books are guaranteed good reads.”—Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Fire Touched Dina Demille may run the nicest Bed and Breakfast in Red Deer, Texas, but she caters to a very particular kind of guest... the kind that no one on Earth is supposed to know about. Guests like a former intergalactic tyrant with an impressive bounty on her head, the Lord Marshal of a powerful vampire clan, and a displaced-and-superhot werewolf; so don’t stand too close, or you may be collateral damage. But what passes for Dina’s normal life is about to be thrown into chaos. First, she must rescue her long-distant older sister, Maud, who’s been exiled with her family to a planet that functions as the most lawless penal colony since Botany Bay. Then she agrees to help a guest whose last chance at saving his civilization could bring death and disaster to all Dina holds dear. Now Gertrude Hunt is under siege by a clan of assassins. To keep her guests safe and to find her missing parents, Dina will risk everything, even if she has to pay the ultimate price. Though Sean may have something to say about that!

Download or read book The Slave That I Am written by K. A. Young and published by . This book was released on 2019-01-16 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hunters. A species forged between a pureblood vampire and a human. Turned against their creators for their sheer humanity, the hunters fight for those who cannot protect themselves, the sentinels of the humankind. Among those born to this species, a gifted trait, a rarity in its own rite: blood magic. What the vampires live for, turned into a magical weapon, blood magic is feared and cautioned by the vampire society.Annika Larson, a hunter born with the blood magic trait, is given the opportunity when she's thirteen to observe what the hunters are responsible for. That night changes the course of her life, watching as her older sister, Alyssa, is killed for being bitten by a pureblood vampire. As Annika watches her sister's existence flicker out, she defends her life with the use of her blood magic from another seeking to end it.After that night, Annika quits her training and moves to live with her grandparents, her blood magic but a distant memory as she lives her life among humans. That is, until her twenty-first birthday, when she's faced with a demon from her past. Captured for what she is, it's up to her to discover what she should have trained all those years ago for......to end those who torment the weak.How can she save others when she can hardly fight for herself?

Download or read book Destruction of Obsession written by Catherine Miller and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Phantom of the Opera, Gaston Leroux wrote of a kiss and the mingled tears that changed the mind of a madman. But with the absence of that single gesture, when Christine turns the Scorpion her life is forever altered. Bound by the vows she made before God and faced with new challenges that accompany being Erik's wife, she must learn how to let go of her past and embrace the future she has chosen with a man she simply cannot hate.

Download or read book The Sweet Shrub Inn written by Hilah Roscoe and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-15 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining a captivating romance with a cast of all-too-human characters, Hilah Roscoe's The Sweet Shrub Inn is an unforgettable tale of love, loss, family, and Southern charm. In less than twenty-four hours, young therapist-in-training, Cora Graham, is dumped by her boyfriend in Chicago and notified that her estranged father is suffering from early onset Alzheimer's. It's been years since Cora has visited the small Mississippi town of her birth, and the wounds she suffered there still ache. Two years earlier, at her best friend's wedding, she finally made her feelings known for Jensen Mabry, the town heartthrob, only to be turned down. Despite her anxieties at seeing those who played such an integral role in her flight from home, Cora returns to discover her ill-tempered father has purchased the old Sweet Shrub Inn, which she must renovate and sell to pay for his increasing medical costs. Though Jensen offers to loan her the money through his family's construction company, something feels amiss. Has reuniting with her long-lost love in a town that holds so many ghosts clouded her judgment? Or is there another, more suspicious reason for his kindness? As she navigates her rekindled passions and her father's terrifying illness, Cora must face her heart's ultimate dilemma: should she return to her old life in Chicago or stay in a town she's learning to love again?

Download or read book The Darkest Fae written by Ana Calin and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-21 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the last thing a girl expects on a peaceful summer break at the lake house? That she'll get kidnapped, transported to another realm, and delivered to a warrior fae prince as his FATED MATE.That's what happened to little ole' me, Eve Stone. Only that it's not love that the breathtakingly handsome fae wants from me. Aradaen Starlight wants to save his kingdom, and for that he needs my virginity. Mating with me will make him invincible, but that will be that. He can't get serious with me, because he's bound to further his race with a woman of his kind, not to mention that I, as a human, am way beneath fae royalty. To his courts, it's a jest of nature that I of all people should be the Starlight prince's fated mate. But when it turns out that I have magic in my blood, I become interesting to them. The prince and I make an agreement in order to save our worlds, but we cannot fall in love. If we do, the world may fall apart.

Download or read book Sworn to Him written by Delilah Fawkes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-05-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The steamy, sizzling, fun and quirky fifth book in the best-selling series THE BILLIONAIRE'S BECK AND CALL, is now available as a full novel! This romance has an HEA, no cheating, and can be enjoyed as a standalone for those who haven't read the other books in this beloved series! Damien Black... And to think, when I woke up this morning, head splitting from the wild night before, I worried today might be boring. Then again, when you were a billionaire with nothing to do except whatever you pleased, that was always your greatest fear: that boredom would creep into your life with no cure in sight. When you've seen it all and done it all, every party tends to look the same--every supermodel blends in with all the others, and each bottle of fine champagne is identical to the last. And in the end, all you have to show for your day is a hangover and the fact that you kept boredom at bay for one more day... barely. But this--this little thief with her big dolls eyes and her tight little body squirming in my arms--this was something new. Something exciting. No one ever dared cross me, the heir to the Black family's steel empire, or my family, for that matter. We ran this town, and everything and everyone knew it. No one messed with Damien Black... which is why I couldn't just let this little lady go. No, no. She was far too interesting to just set free. And beneath those baggy clothes and boy's baseball cap, she was far, far too pretty... Lilly Maverick... Stealing's easy. It's living honestly that's hard, which is why I stick with what I know. I was taught how to lift a wallet before I learned how to throw a ball or ride a bike, and over the years I got damn good at it. They say if you're good at something, you should make a living out of it, and you'll never work a day in your life... or something like that. Who the hell knows what normal folk do, with their 9-to-5's and their white picket fences? I sure ain't one of them, and I make my way the best way I know how. That's how I came to be in possession of the wallet of Mr. Damien Black, billionaire playboy, on that fateful June day, and how he suckered me into being his. Normally, I wouldn't spit on a man like him if he were on fire, even if he was the most gorgeous man I'd ever seen in my life. Folks like him and folks like me didn't mix, and that was that. Well, usually. But when I bumped into him as we waited in a crowd together at the crosswalk, we made eye contact for the briefest of moments. And it was then, I knew, my life was about to change forever... This often funny, devilishly charming romance has it all--lust, lies, love, and above all, an ending that you'll remember long after you put this book down! Don't miss this incredible ride from best-selling author, Delilah Fawkes! **This 58,000 word novel comes with a FREE BONUS STORY in the back: "Hitched to Him, Part 1: Roped (The Billionaire's Beck and Call, Book Six)"! Don't miss the other novels in this sizzling series, available now! The Billionaire's Beck and Call, Book One Bound to Him: The Billionaire's Beck and Call, Book Two Tied to Him: The Billionaire's Beck and Call, Book Three Unmasked: A Billionaire's Beck and Call Short Story Run to Him: The Billionaire's Beck and Call, Book Four Hitched to Him: The Billionaire's Beck and Call, Book Six (A Current Series) And a NEW bad boy biker billionaire romance: HE RIDES HARD! (Dangerous Billionaires)

Download or read book Sold to the Mob Boss Lavrin Bratva written by Nicole Fox and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-26 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innocent girl like her... sold to a beast like me.NikitaAs the boss of the Bratva, I live my life by a code: Always stay in control.But I broke my own rule on the night I bought Annie.She was so delicate and desperate up on that stage.I'd pay any price it took to own her.She says she can't be bought.But she doesn't know how this game is played.In my world, everything has its price.And like it or not, she's mine now - my property, my possession.I'll claim her. I'll break her. And I'll protect her until the end...Even if it costs me everything.An innocent college student is dragged into the city's underworld when she is taken and sold to the boss of the Russian Bratva mob in this standalone, bad boy mafia romance from author Nicole Fox. Nikita will go to war to safeguard his fragile prize... but when the tables are turned, he discovers that there is far more to Annie than meets the eye.Find out more in Sold to the Mob Boss.

Download or read book 24690 written by A. A. Dark and published by . This book was released on 2016-07-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Buried deep below the everyday life of our society lives an underground world of nightmares-of violence and murder no one dares speak about. Contracts and laws weave the web of our culture together. Our Masters walk amongst us. They can be our friends, or the ones to make us disappear forever. Where I once had found peace within my existence, it all ended with the death of my cruel, yet caring owner. My world shattered and I was taken back to the one place I had hoped to never see again-the cells of Whitlock-a subterranean fortress for slaves who await their new placement. Now I have no rights. I have no say. My feelings and wellbeing are meaningless. Escape is impossible, but I have nothing left to lose.To stand any chance of survival, I must give my life as collateral to the highest bidder: Soul for Sale.slave 24690

Download or read book Winterset Hollow written by Jonathan Edward Durham and published by Credo House Publishers. This book was released on 2021-09 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Everyone has wanted their favorite book to be real, if only for a moment. Everyone has wished to meet their favorite characters, if only for a day. But be careful in that wish, for even a history laid in ink can be repaid in flesh and blood, and reality is far deadlier than fiction . . . especially on Addington Isle. Winterset Hollow follows a group of friends to the place that inspired their favorite book-a timeless tale about a tribe of animals preparing for their yearly end-of-summer festival. But after a series of shocking discoveries, they find that much of what the world believes to be fiction is actually fact, and that the truth behind their beloved story is darker and more dangerous than they ever imagined. It's Barley Day . . . and you're invited to the hunt. Winterset Hollow is as thrilling as it is terrifying and as smart as it is surprising. A uniquely original story filled with properly unexpected twists and turns, Winterset Hollow delivers complex, indelible characters and pulse- pounding action as it storms toward an unforgettable climax that will leave you reeling. How do you celebrate Barley Day? You run, friend. You run. Jonathan Edward Durham was born near Philadelphia in one of many rust-belt communities where he read voraciously throughout his youth. After attending the College of William & Mary, where he received a degree in neuroscience, Jonathan waded into the professional world before deciding he was better suited for more artistic pursuits. He now lives in California where he writes to bring a unique voice to the space between the timeless wonder of his favorite childhood stories and the pop sensibilities of his adolescent literary indulgences.

Download or read book The Billionaire s Beck and Call written by Delilah Fawkes and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2013-01-04 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Isabeau Willcox is just the temp at the front desk so when the mysterious, sexy and notoriously ill-tempered CEO, Chase Drake asks her to be his executive assistant, she's sure there's been some sort of mistake. However, Mr. Drake wants her, and Mr. Drake always gets what he wants.