Download or read book Maternal Instinct written by Janice Kay Johnson and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2010-12-27 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother's wish: Give your child the life you didn't haveMore than anything, Officer Nell Granstrom wants to stop history from repeating itself. Born to a sixteen-year-old mother, Nell had her daughter, Kim, at the same age. Now Kim's sixteen and has a serious boyfriend. But how much weight can Nell's words have? Years of living a careful life are over, because she's made another mistake. After witnessing a terrible crime, Nell turns to her new partner for comfort—which leads to a second unplanned pregnancy. Despite his reputation, Hugh McLean will no doubt offer to do the right thing. But would marriage to a man she hardly knows (and isn't sure she likes) work? For Kim's sake, for the baby's sake, is Nell brave enough to try?

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Download or read book Cattle Baron Nanny Needed written by Margaret Way and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2009-08-01 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It's a media scandal! Flame-haired beauty Amber Wyatt has gate-crashed her ex-fiancé's glamorous society wedding! Groomsman Cal McFarlane knows she's trouble, but when Amber loses her job, the rugged cattle rancher comes to the rescue. He needs a nanny, and if it makes his baby nephew happy, he's willing to play with fire….

Download or read book Reading the Romance written by Janice A. Radway and published by Univ of North Carolina Press. This book was released on 2009-11-18 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1984, Reading the Romance challenges popular (and often demeaning) myths about why romantic fiction, one of publishing's most lucrative categories, captivates millions of women readers. Among those who have disparaged romance reading are feminists, literary critics, and theorists of mass culture. They claim that romances enforce the woman reader's dependence on men and acceptance of the repressive ideology purveyed by popular culture. Radway questions such claims, arguing that critical attention "must shift from the text itself, taken in isolation, to the complex social event of reading." She examines that event, from the complicated business of publishing and distribution to the individual reader's engagement with the text. Radway's provocative approach combines reader-response criticism with anthropology and feminist psychology. Asking readers themselves to explore their reading motives, habits, and rewards, she conducted interviews in a midwestern town with forty-two romance readers whom she met through Dorothy Evans, a chain bookstore employee who has earned a reputation as an expert on romantic fiction. Evans defends her customers' choice of entertainment; reading romances, she tells Radway, is no more harmful than watching sports on television. "We read books so we won't cry" is the poignant explanation one woman offers for her reading habit. Indeed, Radway found that while the women she studied devote themselves to nurturing their families, these wives and mothers receive insufficient devotion or nurturance in return. In romances the women find not only escape from the demanding and often tiresome routines of their lives but also a hero who supplies the tenderness and admiring attention that they have learned not to expect. The heroines admired by Radway's group defy the expected stereotypes; they are strong, independent, and intelligent. That such characters often find themselves to be victims of male aggression and almost always resign themselves to accepting conventional roles in life has less to do, Radway argues, with the women readers' fantasies and choices than with their need to deal with a fear of masculine dominance. These romance readers resent not only the limited choices in their own lives but the patronizing atitude that men especially express toward their reading tastes. In fact, women read romances both to protest and to escape temporarily the narrowly defined role prescribed for them by a patriarchal culture. Paradoxically, the books that they read make conventional roles for women seem desirable. It is this complex relationship between culture, text, and woman reader that Radway urges feminists to address. Romance readers, she argues, should be encouraged to deliver their protests in the arena of actual social relations rather than to act them out in the solitude of the imagination. In a new introduction, Janice Radway places the book within the context of current scholarship and offers both an explanation and critique of the study's limitations.

Download or read book Global Infatuation written by Eva Hemmungs Wirtén and published by Uppsala University. This book was released on 1998 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book First Comes Love written by Christie Ridgway and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2007-03-20 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book description to come.

Download or read book Then Comes Marriage written by Christie Ridgway and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Book description to come.

Download or read book Home for Love written by Ellen James and published by Harlequin Treasury-Harlequin Romanc. This book was released on 1990 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Home For Love by Ellen James released on Mar 23, 1990 is available now for purchase.

Download or read book A Nanny Called Alice written by Barbara Hannay and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-03 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She’s thousands of miles from home and intent on proving her independence… When Alice Trembath is mugged in the stark Australian outback, she has two choices: return to the US with an "I told you so" from her conservative parents and join the family business, or take a job as a nanny on a nearby cattle station. Despite being wildly unqualified, she accepts the position. She’s a fast learner and besides, she needs the money. Hotshot businessman Tom Braydon is juggling huge responsibilities. After the death of his brother, Tom took in his orphaned nieces and managed his brother’s cattle station, while simultaneously running his own thriving business in Sydney. Tom desperately needs Alice’s help, even though she has zero experience looking after children or living in the outback. He has plenty on his plate, he doesn't need the distraction of a romance. But while Alice and Tom strive to ignore the chemistry sizzling between them and focus on their separate goals, love clearly has other plans.

Download or read book Bluebird Winter written by Linda Howard and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2023-08-22 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From a New York Times–bestselling author, a classic holiday romance about a woman who gives birth in a blizzard and the doctor who comes to her rescue. When Dr. Derek Taliferro delivers Kathleen Fields’s baby during a snowstorm on Christmas Day, all his protective instincts are aroused by the sight of the beautiful mother and baby. Knowing Kathleen needs a strong shoulder to lean on, he proposes a way to keep the new family in his life a little longer. But what starts as a convenient marriage soon has him dreaming of forever . . .

Download or read book King Country written by Margaret Way and published by Ulverscroft. This book was released on 1981-09-01 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Whisper To Me of Love written by Shirlee Busbee and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2011-10-24 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times–bestselling author “is back and better than ever” in this Regency romance of dangerous exploits and breathtaking seduction (Julia Quinn). She Couldn’t Escape Her Past Ripped from her dying mother’s arms, Morgana Fowler was cast into a life of desperate thievery. With a tongue even sharper than the blade she deftly wields, she has all but mastered her devious trade—until she picks the pocket of a dashing American who wrests her from the sordid streets of London. In the arms of her gallant protector, she is helpless against the longing he elicits within her . . . He Couldn’t Contain His Passion Royce Manchester basks in a world of privilege and power in the decadent British Regency, and lowborn Morgana finds in him a love she’s never known. But the secret of her true parentage threatens to bring her new life crashing down. With a sinister figure from her past ever lurking at her heels, she and Royce must confront one of Regency England’s most diabolical villains—a challenge that fans the flame of a love that knows no bounds . . . “Busbee delivers what you read a romance for.” —West Coast Review of Books Praise for Scandal Becomes Her “A scandalously delicious read that left me wanting more!” —Bertrice Small, New York Times–bestselling author “A walloping good story. Don’t miss it!” —Catherine Coulter, #1 New York Times–bestselling author “A delightful romance—altogether a wonderful book.” —Roberta Gellis, national bestselling author

Download or read book The Duke s Night of Sin written by Kathryn Caskie and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This sexy Regency romance trilogy comes to a seductive conclusion with “a dazzling combination of scintillating romance and wicked wit” (Booklist). Knowing it is time to find a bride, the Duke of Exeter is determined to locate the passionate minx who enticed him in a pitch-black library. But how can you find someone you’ve never actually seen? Then, while supervising his young ward’s education, he is irresistibly attracted to her exquisite new teacher. He keeps wondering if they’ve met somewhere before, never suspecting she’s the woman he’s never forgotten after his one night of sin. As a beloved instructress at an exclusive school for young ladies, Lady Siusan Sinclair is a model of deportment. But no one knows her secret—that she fled London for Bath, her reputation on the verge of tatters, her fortune lost. Still, no matter how hard she tries, she can’t forget the knee-weakening kiss of the man who led her astray . . .

Download or read book My Scandalous Bride written by Christina Dodd and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2004-05-16 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The passion is endless and it's only just begun in these four scintillating tales of brides-to-be by four of today's hottest romance authors... My Scandalous Bride Christina Dodd, "The Lady and the Tiger" Laura Haver will stop at nothing to find out who killed her brother-even if it means posing as the wife of notorious rogue Keefe Leighton, the Earl of Hamilton. But things go too far when Keefe engages Laura in an artful game of seduction-a game that can have only one winner... Stephanie Laurens, "Melting Ice" Once, Dyan St. Laurent Dare, Duke of Darke, dreamed of making Lady Fiona his bride. Now they're together again-at a scandalous dinner party where debauchery is the menu's main course. But will wedding bells ring after the guests get their just desserts? Celeste Bradley, "Wedding Knight" Alfred Knight will do anything to avoid a scandal-even marry a woman he barely knows. But his bride has a most titillating secret...one she'll share as soon as she conquers her temptation for the man she was never supposed to marry! Leslie LaFoy, "The Proposition" Rennick St. James, the Earl of Parnell, has four days to seduce London's most popular widow into becoming his wife-or else she'll marry another man. It won't be easy...but Rennick has been lusting after the beguiling Julia Hamilton far too long to let her go now... Look Inside for an Excerpt to Christina Dodd's brand new contemporary romance

Download or read book You Again written by Peggy Nicholson and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-07-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A handsome, sexy hero, his beautiful ex–wife, an attempted murder, a thoroughly hissable villainess and a cat. Jessica always thought that her brilliant charmer of an ex–husband married her on one of his impulses an it–seemed–like–such–a–great–idea–at–the–time finale to a champagne picnic. And Sam? Well, he figured Jessica never really loved him. He was her first man, and as sex itself is such a snazzy little concept ... In other words, had Jessica confused all that lovely feeling with love? Seven years ago Jessica and Sam divorced. Now they're together again, and fighting for their lives. But it'll take faith and love to win this particular battle and one very special cat! "...impossible to put down until the final, wonderfully satisfying page is turned." Kay Hooper "Fast, funny, romantic who could ask for anything more? I loved it!" Karen Robards "You'll never see cats or men in the same light " Peter Mandel (author of Red Cat, White Cat and The Official Cat I.Q. Test) "You Again is delectable, delightfully different in a word, magnificent!" Anne McAllister (author of the Code of the West trilogy) "Wonderfully original, thoroughly enchanting sure to please lovers of romance and cats alike." Antoinette Stockenberg (author of Emily's Ghost)