Download or read book The Seduction Charade written by Penny Jordan and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2017-06-05 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Re-read this classic romance by New York Times bestselling author PennyJordan, originally published as Substitute Lover in 1987 Gray Chalmers needed Stephanie to pose as his lover to help him resist the attractionsof a beautiful but married woman. Gray knew Stephanie, knew she didn't even like beingtouched. Yet he insisted she return to play the part of the femme fatale. Gray had never pried into the bitter marriage Stephanie had endured to his cousin. He'doffered only comfort in the ten years since its tragic ending. So Stephanie agreed to hisdemand, only to find her long buried feelings—and her body's dormant desires—fullyawakened…

Download or read book Charade written by M. J. Gayle and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-09-25 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it possible to love more than one person? In a world of strict decorum and behavior, four people defy the rules that threaten to bind them and risk everything for love.Victoria Lorenzi, Contessa di Carenza and her husband, Marco Lorenzi, Conte di Carenza share a deep and unbreakable bond that transcends any norms of society. Their lives and marriage full of love, desire and undying passion. Their sexual exploits know no boundaries. Their love unique and timeless. Heather Fleming, alone and left to fend for herself, approaches Marco for a household position. Young, but not so innocent of the ways of the world, she is attracted to the stablemaster Leone Marrone. The blond Italian baffles and bemuses her. He stirs emotions deep within her that she had never felt. However, he is not the only one turning her world upside down. She falls under the seductive spell of Victoria and Marco too. In the midst of the magic and seduction of Carnevale, the lovers will be drawn into a seductive web. Would their worlds collapse or their love flourish?

Download or read book The Charade written by Laura Lee Guhrke and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-11-23 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honor, freedom, liberty...those were mere words to Katie Armstrong, a savvy thief and indentured servant on the run in colonial Boston. For the sake of survival, she agreed to a British lord's bribe: unmask the identity of the patriot known as John Smith, or be returned to her brutal master. But soon the cagey John Smith was making the same threat -- unless she spied for him. Katie planned to play both men against each other...until, masquerading as Smith's mistress, she lost her heart to the seductive stranger she had set out to undo. Ethan Harding's steely heart was ready to risk anything to end British tyranny -- even if it meant taking on the false identity of John Smith, putting his own life in jeopardy, or blackmailing a beautiful and terrified young woman. And if that woman's angelic face made other men spill their secrets, so much the better. But now, Katie Armstrong's charms were about to betray his heart and his cause -- and his desire for the elusive temptress would turn the tables on everyone and everything he had pledged to protect.

Download or read book Mind Games written by William Walling and published by Virtualbookworm.com. This book was released on 2005-08-15 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Conditioned to enhance an inborn ability to acutely perceive another's emotional state, Klavik, security director of a massive world ruled by the sole monarchy in neohuman interstellar society, investigates the ruler's assassination while on holiday in parsecs-distant Eden, a terraformed pleasure world operated by a distant syndicate peopled by alien exotics. A pair of royal companions force themselves upon Klavik during his sojourn in Eden, where his empathic perception “sixth sense” enables him to fasten on a nervous official as a prime suspect to interrogate, but is frustrated because his energies must be channeled toward protecting his illustrious companions. Eden's planetary director, Shatterhand, ushers the threesome into a “hall of mirrors” where nothing is as it seems. After feints and ploys designed to distract or frighten he and his charges away, Klavik senses “nibblings” at the limbic fringes of his mind, and intuits the the presence of an alien telepath. Sly mental assaults persist until his charges are taken hostage, and the ultimate confrontation erupts in a rapacious battle of wills.

Download or read book The Shadow Reader written by Sandy Williams and published by Shot of Romance Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-15 with total page 373 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fae urban fantasy romance. Some humans can see the fae. McKenzie Lewis can track them. A Houston College student trying to finish her degree, McKenzie has been working for the fae king for years, tracking vicious rebels who would claim the Realm. Her job isn't her only secret. For just as long, she's been in love with Kyol, the king's sword-master--and relationships between humans and fae are forbidden. But any hope of a normal life is shattered when she's captured by Aren, the fierce and uncompromising rebel leader. He teaches her the forbidden fae language and tells her dark truths about the Court, all to persuade her to turn against the king. Time is running out, and as the fight starts to claim human lives, McKenzie has to decide once and for all whom to trust--and where she ultimately stands in the face of a cataclysmic civil war. "A fresh take on the fae, packed with suspense, surprises, and real moral dilemmas. Sexy and fun, this is a must for anyone who likes their fae modern, their stakes high, and their property damage extensive." --Seanan McGuire, New York Times bestselling author "Combines top-notch writing and world-building with characters you'll adore...and the star-crossed lovers may just break your heart." --Ann Aguirre, USA Today bestselling author Keywords: urban fantasy, urban fantasy romance, contemporary fantasy, contemporary fantasy, fae romance, fantasy, fae books, fae urban fantasy series, urban fantasy magic, sword and sorcery, epic urban fantasy, paranormal romance, fae urban fantasy, fey urban fantasy, new adult urban fantasy, enemies to lovers, urban fantasy trilogy, paranormal fae Similar Authors: K. F. Breene, McKenzie Hunter, Linsey Hall, Jaymin Eve, Bella Forrest, Annette Marie, Kim Harrison, Karen Marie Moning, Meg Xuemei X

Download or read book Blowback written by Paul V. Walters and published by Strategic Book Publishing. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: London, 2012. A deadly virus is released on a late night tube. In seconds 23 innocent commuters die a horrible death. Chief inspector Moore of New Scotland Yard's terror unit is assigned the case. However, before he can begin the investigation, another attack occurs in a Camden pub and London is now a terrorized city. Bio Defence Inc., a shadowy government organization, is enlisted to work with the terror unit to determine what appears to be an international terror attack on British soil. But is it? Moore suspects that these bio terrorism attacks are somehow connected and go all the way to the highest level of the sitting government. Miranda Phillips is back pulling the strings; hell bent on revenge in any way she can, destroying all her enemies in her quest to eliminate the ultimate prize, Jonathan Savage. Can Moore stop the deadly game of cat and mouse before the U.K. goes into meltdown? Blowback is a thrill a minute roller coaster ride and a fitting follow up to Final Diagnosis.

Download or read book Charades written by Ann Logan and published by Book Hub Inc. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mercedes Fuentes, or Mousy Mercy as she often refers to herself, has buried herself in academia in order to avoid those frightening creatures that make up the other half of the human population: MEN! When an opportunity to pay off the majority of her student debt is offered to her by a family friend, Mercy has her doubts. But how can she refuse a weeklong date with a handsome man, at the end of which she will be nearly free of all debt? Enter the seemingly innocuous, over-worked oil tycoon Wulf Rheinhart, a man in need of a fake fiancée for a week in order to close a business deal with a family-oriented Texan. One charade leads to another in this fast paced car chase of a romance where no one is who they seem to be.

Download or read book Selected Writings written by Gerard de Nerval and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1999 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This newly selected and translated collection of de Nerval's writings includes his Oriental Tales; Recollections of Valois; his prose text about cities; his autobiographical October Nights; and his work on madness, Aurelia.

Download or read book The KARMIC CHARADE written by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru and published by Adrian Gabriel Dumitru. This book was released on with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ugly events ... are always karmic ... and simple represent life lessons ... unfortunately too difficult to be digested I had times into my life ... when all was collapsing around myself. All ... all ... I could not believe it. I was living ... a non ending nightmare. I was waking up ... and first thing i was doing was to ask myself ... what the hell is going to happen to me again. Bottomline ... it was horrible. And ... i could not stand it anymore. But ... unfortunately... i could not stop those ugly energetic waves around myself. I was meditating ... asking myself ... why?! I was even praying ... saying ... "God ... stop it! Please .... I beg you!". I felt ... annoyed, frustrated ... and even cursed ... but i could not see any way out of this. I was in fact trapped ... into a storm of ugly energies... which were ruining my soul. On ... and on ... and on. So ... i've started to feel that i hate God for what was doing to me ... but i could not accept that all was actually a karmic storm ... having the purpose to remind me of all the stupid things i've done into my past. Today ... i see a friend of mine living such a scenario. He's ... actually... not a real friend... but we have a good connection. I see him .... living a similar scenario with what happened to me. His businesses are collapsing. He has huge legal problems. He even lives with the impression that he is under the observation of the secret services. All his life ... it's a nightmare. But i also know his past and all the stupid things he had been done. Which in fact ... are very similar with the mistakes ... i've done. Today ... he's annoyed, frustrated ... and feel cursed. Same as i've felt. He cannot handle anymore ... And ... i also see at him ... a very weird thing i was thinking too into my tough times. He believes .... he was a good actor on the stage of life ... and even a positive character. Seeing all like a total nonsense... instead of understanding deeper his past ... i believe that ... speaking with the Universe he asks ... "Why are you doing this to me God?! Why?! Why this charade?!" But ... all it's actually a karmic charade. A flux of extremely powerful energies ... looking like ugly events having the only purpose to destroy him. I look at him ... and i smile. I continue listening to him ... and i laugh. And ... you might say that i am a bad person ... laughing of my friend. Or ... that i am even ... evil. But ... i am laughing... not of him .... but of me. Today ... i see in his story ... my own story ... and the way i was playing into those times. I ... somehow ... start to understand the meaning of a karmic storm. And i also understand their whole meaning. Yes .... those powerful ugly energies ... destroy us ... but not the soul, as we might believe. No .... All it's actually destroying ... that ugly character i was interpreting. ... and my friend was interpreting. And ... we hated the Universe for that ... defining the karmic storm ... as a curse. But ... it was a blessing. So ... i continue laughing of my friend ... laughing in fact ... of how idiot i could be. Cause ... i really thought ... the Infinite Intelligence ... lost its compass ... but us the humans were in fact doing that ... consciously and unconsciously .... by such a long, long time.

Download or read book Falling For the Mark written by Dominique Davis and published by Dominique Davis. This book was released on 2023-04-11 with total page 377 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A mother-daughter con artist duo have finally met their match. Maya is the daughter of Nicole, a cunning grifter who has been deceiving people since she was a teenager. Together, they have perfected the art of scamming people out of their money without guilt. Their most successful con sees Nicole duping affluent men into wedding her. But when the time is right, Maya lures the mark into her bed, getting them to break their prenuptial agreement. The duo then disappear with an impressive divorce settlement. Never to be heard from again. What should be another routine con soon turns out to be anything but. Kennedy, the daughter of their new mark, is skeptical of the pair upon their arrival. She suspects they are after her father’s money and she's determined to find proof of it. Matters are further complicated when Maya and Kennedy begin to develop feelings for each other. Though both have their reasons for why they shouldn’t cross the line, their growing attraction is too strong to be denied. But when the truth is revealed, both stand to lose more than they ever could have imagined.

Download or read book The Seduction of Lady X written by Julia London and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-03-27 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The would-be Earl of Ashwood sets his romantic sights on a forbidden prize inthe enchanting third novel in London's addictive, sexy new series. Original.

Download or read book Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter s Fiction written by Darlene Harbour Unrue and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2008-12-01 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My stories are fragments of a larger plan, Katherine Anne Porter once wrote. And on another occasion she praised a critic who perceived that all her work, from the very beginning, was part of an "unbroken progression, all related." In Truth and Vision in Katherine Anne Porter's Fiction, Darlene Unrue examines the encompassing themes that underlie Porter's shorter fiction and that combined to create the haunting events of her complex metaphorical novel, Ship of Fools. Porter believed that men and women are compelled toward discovering the truth about their existence, but that the nature of our world makes those truths difficult to discern. In her writing, Unrue finds, Porter explored not only this basic human need to confront the truth, but also the bewilderment and suffering that are so often the results of failing to fulfill that need. Often in Porter's fiction the movement toward truth is obstructed by the hollow beliefs and illusions that abound in the world--by the seductions of ideology and dogmatic religion, by romantic love or the vision of a golden past. Clinging to such illusions, using them to lend a false coherence to their lives, Porter's characters are led away from the hard realization that truth requires accepting the existence of the unknowable at the center of life, and that what is knowable lies within themselves. Drawing on essays, reviews, letters, and notes, as well as on the intricate fabric of the fiction, this study traces Porter's pursuit of the truth through the creation of a body of fiction in which, from fragments of life, she could assemble an honest vision of the world.

Download or read book Federico Garc a Lorca written by Maria M. Delgado and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-03 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Immortalized in death by The Clash, Pablo Neruda, Salvador Dalí, Dmitri Shostakovich and Lindsay Kemp, Federico García Lorca's spectre haunts both contemporary Spain and the cultural landscape beyond. This study offers a fresh examination of one of the Spanish language’s most resonant voices; exploring how the very factors which led to his emergence as a cultural icon also shaped his dramatic output. The works themselves are also awarded the space that they deserve, combining performance histories with incisive textual analysis to restate Lorca’s presence as a playwright of extraordinary vision, in works such as: Blood Wedding The Public The House of Bernarda Alba Yerma. Federico García Lorca is an invaluable new resource for those seeking to understand this complex and multifaceted figure: artist, playwright, director, poet, martyr and in the eyes of many, Spain’s ‘national dramatist’.

Download or read book Fast Girls written by Emily White and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Has she done the things of which she is accused? How is her reputation created in the first place? She is the high school slut, and Fast Girls explores her experience and her legacy." "In this fusion of reportage, criticism, and memoir, Emily White provides an in-depth look at the girls who were labeled high school sluts and the culture that perpetuates the myth."--BOOK JACKET.

Download or read book Image and Power written by Sarah Sceats and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-11 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Image and Power is an important work of literary and cultural criticism. This collection of essays focuses on some of the major issues addressed by women's writing in the twentieth century, concerning genre, subjectivity and social and cultural expectations, issues which in the past have been regarded from an essentially male perspective. The text introduces women writers whose novels have been widely read and provides an important contribution to the debate about women in literature.

Download or read book The Seductive Impostor written by Janet Chapman and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2004-04-15 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first in a dazzling duo of romances featuring two sisters from the ruggedly beautiful Maine coast...and the men who sweep them away. Rachel Foster wishes Sub Rosa—the seaside mansion she helped her father build and the scene of a terrible tragedy—would crumble into the sea. But Keenan Oakes, Sub Rosa's new owner, is moving in and stirring up the dark secrets of the cliff-perched manor.... In the heat of a sizzling attraction, can Rachel clear her family's name while risking her heart on Keenan...and on a passionate love like nothing she's ever known?

Download or read book Roman s Gold written by Ann Gimpel and published by Ann Gimpel Books, LLC. This book was released on 2016-04-23 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shifters keep their friends close and their enemies closer in a shadowy world where the line between hunter and hunted thins, blurs, and finally shatters Author's Note: Roman's Gold is the kickoff volume for the Underground Heat Trilogy. All three books are full length shifter romances with happy-ever-after endings! You can buy the books individually, or in the boxed set titled Underground Heat. Once respected members of society, shifters are running for their lives. In a futuristic world where resources are scarce, Kate uses her human form to work as a sex surrogate. Furious at what looks a lot like genocide for her people, she joins the shifter underground. Devon’s been a cop for a long time. He has shifter blood, but not enough to change into anything, at least not until the police department insists on a series of infusions to make him better at tracking shifters so they can be imprisoned—or killed. Devon’s latest assignment is Kate. From the moment he sees her, he can’t get her out of his mind. But she’s the enemy he’s sworn to eradicate. As he tracks her, the line between hunter and hunted explodes. Against reason and wisdom, Kate and Devon defy the rules. If their passion doesn’t save them, it’ll doom them forever. PRAISE FOR THE UNDERGROUND HEAT SERIES: “What a great read!! This one combines two of my fav things sci-fi and shifters!! Oh and loads of steamy action!!” Goodreads review “Ann Gimpel does it again, another fantastic shifter book! I loved the futuristic spin on the shifter tale, it's the first I've read of its kind. The characters were loveable, the story engaging. Romance Readers Retreat” “Ann Gimpel is frickin awesome!!!!!!!! I cannot explain how much I loved this book, the way she writes is so expressive, imaginative and real!” Goodreads Review “Excellent start to a new series by Author Ann Gimpel. I love her take on shifters and a futuristic California. The story is easily followed yet rich and complex” Crystal’s Quirky Reviews Fans of the following books and series are known to enjoy this futuristic paranormal romance & fantasy series: a kingdom of exiles a shade of vampire academy of magic dragon's gift accidentally in love attack by magic dragon's gift awakening dragon born in fire burning tower call of the dragon choose love covert fae crime of magic dragon's gift crimes against magic dark stranger the dream darkness bound dragons of the darkblood secret society druid enforcer ghostwater goddesss choice golden age greyriver shifters hotbloods hour of darkness house of darken iron and magic jinn's dominion junkyard druid Kate Daniels’ Magic Series master of magic dragon's gift natural mage natural witch obsidian son raised in fire rogues of magic shadow keeper shadow kissed space knight 4 twisted fate unchained undercover magic dragon's gift war god's mantle wheel of time wild hunger Keywords related to this epic urban fantasy series: Futuristic, Science Fiction, Science fiction romance, Fantasy Books, Epic Sagas, Epic Urban Fantasy series, Werewolves and Shifters, Animals & Nature, Popular Series, Paranormal Fantasy Books, Top Rated Books, Tricks, Fantasy Omnibus, Epic of Gilgamesh, Spells & Charms, Romance Books, Wizards, Fantasy Romance Books, Essential Reads, Epic Fantasy, Omnibus Bundle, Paranormal Romance Series, Adventure Books, Mythology and Folklore, Top Rated Fantasy Collection With Shapeshifters, Fantasy Bundle, Heroine, Supernatural and Occult, Sword And Sorcery, Shifter Romance, Fantasy Stories, Shifter Series, Fantasy, Shifter Omnibus, Best Rated Omnibus, Omnibus Collection, Paranormal Romance Books, Magical Adventures.