Download or read book HIS MERCILESS MARRIAGE BARGAIN written by Jane Porter and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-06-22 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rachel’s heart raced as the hardheaded billionaire Giovanni Marcello kissed her suddenly. She’d finally gotten her hands on the man who was supposed to be the most difficult to contact in all of Italy, but she wasn’t going to throw away her plans just because of a single kiss. And why should she? She was here to make him recognize that Michael, the child left behind by her sister, was actually a blood relative of the Marcello family. However, it was reckless of young Rachel to go to war against Giovanni. She continues to find both her body and mind toyed with in the determined, sensual trap this beautiful man has set for her…

Download or read book His Merciless Marriage Bargain written by Jane Porter and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Italian’s shock heir… Raising her sister’s child has left Rachel Bern penniless and desperate. Since her orphaned nephew’s family has ignored her attempts at contact, she has no choice but to bring him to the Marcellos’ Venetian door. Losing his brother devastated Giovanni Marcello. Rachel’s news is another bombshell, and he can’t believe that she doesn’t have an ulterior motive. One kiss should unravel her deception, until their smoldering chemistry has Gio reconsidering… Gio exacts a high price for acknowledging his heir, but Rachel cannot help but succumb to his outrageous demands. Even if it means walking down the aisle!

Download or read book The Innocent s One Night Surrender written by Kate Hewitt and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-01-01 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inexperienced young woman gives in to forbidden desire when she seeks help from her billionaire stepbrother in this sexy enemies-to-lovers romance. Stranded in Rome and desperate to escape a predatory suitor, Laurel Forrester has no one to turn to but her stepbrother, Cristiano Ferrero. A dangerous chemistry has always burned between them, even if he believes her to be exactly like her manipulative mother. And now, trapped in his luxurious penthouse, Laurel realizes how vulnerable she is to his raw magnetism . . . Cristiano desires Laurel just as much as he despises her. Intent on getting her out of his system, he proposes one night of sin. But Laurel’s surprising inexperience only increases his thirst for her, and makes Cristiano determined to entice her to surrender again . . . and again!

Download or read book The Billionaire Boss s Forbidden Mistress written by Miranda Lee and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Jason Pollack bought out Beville Holdings, he had plans for its beautiful blond receptionist. But the infamously ruthless tycoon soon discovered that his wealth and power didn't impress Leah Johanssen. She was the first woman in a long time who didn't want to chase him down the aisle! Leah's refusal of Jason's advances made him desire her all the more. He'd make her want him — he wouldn't rest until he had Leah in his bed and at his command!

Download or read book His Blackmail Marriage Bargain written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author Penny Jordan, previously published as Long Cold Winter in 1982 Yorke Laing needs a wife, and conveniently, he already has one, even if he hasn’t seen her for two years! Autumn is not the trembling innocent he married but an independent woman who claims to no longer desire him, yet her body betrays her… Autumn was a naïve girl when she wed Yorke. Cold and unyielding, her husband denied her the love she craved and the divorce she wanted. Now he is back offering freedom, but at a cost: he will grant her a divorce, but only after she agrees to be his wife in every sense of the word!

Download or read book BOUGHT TO CARRY HIS HEIR written by Jane Porter and published by Harlequin / SB Creative. This book was released on 2020-08-08 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing both her parents in an accident, Georgia becomes a paid surrogate so that she can take care of her sister. The father of the baby is Nicos, a wealthy Greek man. Six months into the pregnancy, Nicos invites her to a secluded island in Greece to stay and eventually give birth. Motivated by the extra money to provide a future for her sister, Georgia decides to look past his controlling attitude and agrees. But, being with Nicos in a distant land, she is soon captivated by his beauty and dark past…

Download or read book The Ask written by Sam Lipsyte and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2010-02-27 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this dark comic novel by the author of Home Land, a college development officer’s last chance to keep his job comes at a high cost. A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice Milo Burke—husband, father, development officer at a third-tier university—has just joined the burgeoning class of the newly unemployed. Grasping after off jobs to support his wife and child, Milo is relieved to get another chance from his former boss. All he has to do is reel in a potential donor who, mysteriously, has requested Milo’s involvement. But it turns out that the ask is Milo’s sinister college classmate Purdy Stuart. And the “give” won’t come cheap. Exploring such themes as work, war, sex, class, child rearing, romantic comedies, Benjamin Franklin, cooking shows on death row, and the eroticization of chicken wire, The Ask is a hilarious tour de force from a writer who has already shown that the deepest fictions are often the funniest.

Download or read book Secrets of Happiness written by Joan Silber and published by Atlantic Books. This book was released on 2021-08-05 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Most Anticipated Books of 2021 One of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 picks for Spring 2021 Ethan, a young lawyer in New York, learns that his father has long kept a second family - a wife and two kids living in Queens. In the aftermath of this revelation, Ethan's mother spends a year travelling abroad, returning much changed, just as her now ex-husband falls ill. Across town, Ethan's half brothers are caught in their own complicated journeys: one brother's penchant for minor delinquency has escalated and the other must travel to Bangkok to bail him out, while the bargains their mother struck about love and money continue to shape all their lives. As Ethan finds himself caught in a love triangle of his own, the interwoven fates of these two households elegantly unfurl to touch many other figures, revealing secret currents of empathy and loyalty, the bounty of improvised families and the paradoxical ties that weave through life's rich contours. With a generous and humane spirit, Secrets of Happiness elucidates the ways people marshal the resources at hand in an effort to find joy.

Download or read book Scandalous Desires written by Elizabeth Hoyt and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2011-11-03 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can a pirate learn that the only true treasure lies in a woman's heart? Widowed Silence Hollingbrook is impoverished, lovely, and kind - and nine months ago she made a horrible mistake. She went to a river pirate for help in saving her husband and in the process made a bargain that cost her her marriage. That night wounded her so terribly that she hides in the foundling home she runs with her brother. Except now that same river pirate is back . . . and he's asking for her help. 'Charming' Mickey O'Connor is the most ruthless river pirate in London. Devastatingly handsome and fearsomely intelligent, he clawed his way up through London's criminal underworld. Mickey has no use for tender emotions like compassion and love, and he sees people as pawns to be manipulated. And yet he's never been able to forget the naive captain's wife who came to him for help.

Download or read book Death Doesn t Bargain written by Sherrilyn Kenyon and published by Tor Books. This book was released on 2018-05-08 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second title in the Deadman's Cross series. Where Deadman tell their tales, and every soul is damned -- or redeemed by the final choices they make.

Download or read book Confess written by A Zavarelli and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-09-24 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lucian A life free from sin. For seventeen years, I have lived and breathed those words. But there is no balm to the war inside my soul. Until her. The mysterious beauty too lethal to taste. She

Download or read book Louis Agassiz written by Christoph Irmscher and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2013 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A provocative new life restoring Agassiz--America's most famous natural scientist of the 19th century, inventor of the Ice Age, stubborn anti-Darwinist--to his glorious, troubling place in science and culture.

Download or read book Luck Be a Lady written by Meredith Duran and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2015-08-25 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romance sizzles between a famous heiress and an infamous crime lord in this fourth sexy novel in the Rules for the Reckless series from the USA TODAY bestselling author of Fool Me Twice. THE WALLFLOWER They call her the “Ice Queen.” Catherine Everleigh is London’s loveliest heiress, but a bitter lesson in heartbreak has taught her to keep to herself. All she wants is her birthright—the auction house that was stolen from her. To win this war, she’ll need a powerful ally. Who better than infamous and merciless crime lord Nicholas O’Shea? A marriage of convenience will no doubt serve them both. THE CRIME LORD Having conquered the city’s underworld, Nick seeks a new challenge. Marrying Catherine will give him the appearance of legitimacy—and access to her world of the law-abiding elite. No one needs to know he’s coveted Catherine for a year now—their arrangement is strictly business, free from the troubling weaknesses of love. Seduction, however, is a different matter—an enticing game he means to ensure she enjoys, whether she wishes to or not. . . .

Download or read book Bound to Her Desert Captor written by Michelle Conder and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2018-07-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kidnapped by a sheikh. Seduced by his touch. Desperation drives one man to do the unthinkable—and find an impossible love—in this touching romance. Certain that Regan James has information on his sister’s disappearance, Sheikh Jaeger steals her away to his palace. He doesn’t expect compliance from his beautiful captive, but when defiant Regan accidentally causes a media storm, it must be resolved. How? He’ll have to marry her! Their engagement is for appearances, but the electricity sparked by their passion feels exquisitely—dangerously—real . . . “This book was such an interesting and extremely fascinating read, as the hero is royalty and finding his perfect match has never been a possibility . . . really captivating . . . I would recommend Bound to Her Desert Captor by Michelle Conder, if you enjoy the opposites attract trope.” —Harlequin Junkie

Download or read book His Monkey Wife written by John Collier and published by eNet Press. This book was released on with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A schoolmaster in the heart of Africa takes his best and most attentive student, a chimp, to England. The chimp, Emily, has learned to read and obtained a classically trained mind. We listen as her thoughts become a searchlight upon the English culture of the 1920s. A remarkable social satire, and a best seller.

Download or read book Crossroads written by Jonathan Franzen and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page 679 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘His best novel yet ... A Middlemarch-like triumph’ Telegraph

Download or read book Billionaire s Wife on Paper written by Melanie Milburne and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2020-01-01 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: ‘I need a temporary wife.’ Logan McLaughlin can’t lose his Scottish family estate. But to rescue it, his grandfather’s will demands he wed! Logan avoids real relationships, having failed so significantly at love before. So when housemaid Layla suggests he take a convenient wife, he’s intrigued… Untouched Layla never imagined Logan would choose her! With her scars, she feels far from the perfect bride. Yet to protect the only home she’s ever known, she’ll wear Logan’s ring…but can she ignore the burning connection threatening to destroy their paper-only arrangement? Mills & Boon Modern – Seduction, glamour and sinfully seductive heroes await you in luxurious international locations.