Download or read book Tinsel Texts and Temptation written by Glyn Timmins and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-11 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tinsel, Texts and Temptation Julia Carter disliked Christmas. She didn't hate it, she just disliked it. For thirty-something Julia Christmas had begun to epitomise life, big on hype and expectation, low on delivery. She was ten years into a marriage that had begun to grind along like the wheel-rim of a burst tyre on the long, pot-holed road of marriage. The only glimmer of light on the horizon was Andy, the good-looking, glib-tongued young man who worked for a rival company. With Andy she was a few weeks into a blossoming relationship of snatched moments, steamy texts and breathless anticipation. Julia felt bad ... and good! Bad because her husband hadn't done anything particularly wrong, it was just that he had struggled to do anything particularly right over the past few months. Bad because she didn't feel the way she did when he had swept her off her feet more than a decade before. Bad because, her marriage was becoming like the Christmases of her childhood, a fading myth based on warm, long passed memories. She felt good because a new man had stepped in to massage her faltering ego and tickle her more or less redundant fancy. Her titillating, text driven romance thrived as Christmas raced relentlessly into view. The tinsel and glitter of the season added sparkle and spice to her dangerous game. Every lingering meeting brought a decision about her future closer. Julia craved the happiness and light-headed thrill she had felt when love had first come to visit, and she was sure that Andy heralded its return ... wasn't she? If only there was someone, somewhere she could take fully and completely into her confidence, someone who could share her joy and her pain, someone to show her the way ... but she had no one close enough to take on that massive role in her life just now. As Christmas week began it was as if a countdown timer had begun. With each passing second Julia was drawn towards the decision that would shape her life for the years that lay ahead of her. It was a strange and perplexing week, a sequence of days that seemed to have almost been taken out of her control. A series of messages on her 'phone began to take her places she didn't expect to go. It was a week that would flick open some of the pages in the book of life and invite to her to read what she would from it; but what, if any, lessons would she learn?

Download or read book Tinsel written by Kris Bryant and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2019-12-10 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking up is hard to do, but three weeks before Christmas it’s even more painful. Jessica Raymond isn't in love with her ex-girlfriend anymore; she just hates to emotionally limp through the holidays. When a cute gray kitten shows up on her doorstep, Jessica panics. She doesn’t have time for a pet. Finding sexy Veterinarian Dr. Taylor Mitchell intriguing isn’t part of the plan either, but both manage to turn her world upside down. Taylor Mitchell isn’t going to let a beautiful woman with a bad attitude bring her down. It’s the holidays and she’s determined to show some much-needed Christmas spirit and help a lonely cat find a good home. A few kitten-induced mishaps bring them closer and sharing the same space suddenly isn’t so bad. Chatting is actually pretty nice. Did this sweet kitten show up to help them find each other? Or is the holiday spirit to blame for their special connection?

Download or read book A Very Merry Temptation written by Kimberly Kaye Terry and published by Kimani Press. This book was released on 2013-09-24 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Three contributors to the Harlequin Kimani Romance series combine to provide a sizzling three-story anthology, just in time for the holiday season.

Download or read book The Temptation of Elizabeth Tudor written by Elizabeth Norton and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2015-11-05 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England, late 1547. Henry VIII is dead. His 14-year-old daughter Elizabeth is living with the old king's widow Catherine Parr and her new husband Thomas Seymour. Ambitious, charming and dangerous, Seymour begins an overt flirtation with Elizabeth that ends in her being sent away by Catherine. When Catherine dies in autumn 1548 and Seymour is arrested for treason soon after, the scandal explodes into the open. Alone and in dreadful danger, Elizabeth is closely questioned by the king's regency council: Was she still a virgin? Was there a child? Had she promised to marry Seymour? In her replies, she shows the shrewdness and spirit she would later be famous for. She survives the scandal. Thomas Seymour is not so lucky. The Seymour Scandal led to the creation of the Virgin Queen. On hearing of Seymour's beheading, Elizabeth observed 'This day died a man of much wit, and very little judgement'. His fate remained with her. She would never allow her heart to rule her head again.

Download or read book Temptation written by Kris Bryant and published by Bold Strokes Books Inc. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cassie Miller is broke. Her parents cut off all funding when she dropped out of medical school, and graduate school is expensive. A full-time nanny job at the Wellington estate is the answer to her problems, except working for beautiful, successful Brook Wellington wasn’t in the job description. Brook has always had a head for business. Born into a global shipping empire, she sits at the helm running it with skill and savvy. But success comes at a cost. Her priority is her six-year-old son, but she can’t be in two places at once. Hiring a nanny isn’t the perfect solution, but it would certainly help, and Cassie came highly recommended. If only she wasn’t so damn attractive. Can Cassie and Brook deny their growing attraction and keep things professional? Or will they sidestep propriety and give in to temptation?

Download or read book A Stranger in the House of God written by John Koessler and published by Zondervan. This book was released on 2009-08-30 with total page 227 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Growing up the son of agnostics, John Koessler saw a Catholic church on one end of the street and a Baptist on the other. In the no-man’s land between the two, this curious outside wondered about the God they worshipped—and began a lifelong search to comprehend the grace and mystery of God. A Stranger in the House of God addresses fundamental questions and struggles faced by spiritual seekers and mature believers. Like a contemporary Pilgrim’s Progress, it traces the author’s journey and explores his experiences with both charismatic and evangelical Christianity. It also describes his transformation from religious outsider to ordained pastor. John Koessler provides a poignant and often humorous window into the interior of the soul as he describes his journey from doubt and struggle with the church to personal faith

Download or read book The Great Texts of the Bible I Corinthians written by James Hastings and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Once Tempted written by Laura Moore and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sweeping passions, family drama, and searing scandal play out at the magnificent Silver Creek Ranch as the heirs to a powerful dynasty seize their legacy of love. Oldest son Ward Knowles feels the sprawling California ranch in his blood. And now that the family business has expanded to include a popular resort, he’s working harder than ever. Silver Creek is his legacy and his life, which is fine for the ruggedly sexy ladies’ man and committed bachelor. Love and trust don’t come easily for Ward since he lost his heart to a gold digger—until he meets a shy, unpretentious beauty whose sweet grace is about to turn his jaded heart into a hungry one. Tess Casari has found sanctuary at Silver Creek, working as an assistant to Ward’s mother, Adele. Grateful for her busy new life running the ranch’s spa and resort, Tess can escape the heartbreak, humiliation, and secret shame of her failed marriage. The last thing she needs is temptation—especially from a man who reminds her so much of the husband who shattered her faith in love. But passion and destiny are about to change the rules for two people who have stopped believing in the healing power of love. Praise for Once Tempted “[Laura] Moore’s first in her new Silver Creek series is packed with plenty of great, realistic dialogue and features two main characters whose actions and choices are easy to sympathize with. The glimpses of the hero’s two siblings will leave readers eager for their stories.”—RT Book Reviews “When I read [Moore’s] books, I'm transported to the peaceful countryside with ranch homes and barns dotting the landscape. Once Tempted has all that and more.”—USA Today “Ward is the perfect cowboy hero for a twenty-first century romance.”—Heroes and Heartbreakers “Moore is a fantastic storyteller ensnaring your interest from the first page.”—Fresh Fiction “Once Tempted is a sexy new read by author Laura Moore that not only gives us a tantalizing tale of undeniable love but also is a great start to a new series that's sure to speak to contemporary romance lovers everywhere.”—The Romance Reviews

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Download or read book A Slender Thread written by Diane Ackerman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-08-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An astonishing book by the prize-winning, bestselling author of A Natural History of the Senses that reveals her parallel lives as an observer of the wildlife in her garden and as a telephone crisis counselor. "(Ackerman) brings a luminous and illuminating combination of sensuality, science, and speculation to whatever she considers." —San Francisco Examiner

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Download or read book Grief and Genre in American Literature 1790 1870 written by Desirée Henderson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the role of genre in the formation of dominant conceptions of death and dying, Desirée Henderson examines literary texts and social spaces devoted to death and mourning in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century America. Henderson shows how William Hill Brown, Susanna Rowson, and Hannah Webster borrowed from and challenged funeral sermon conventions in their novelistic portrayals of the deaths of fallen women; contrasts the eulogies for George Washington with William Apess's "Eulogy for King Philip" to expose conflicts between national ideology and indigenous history; examines Frederick Douglass's use of the slave cemetery to represent the costs of slavery for African American families; suggests that the ideas about democracy materialized in Civil War cemeteries and monuments influenced Walt Whitman's war elegies; and offers new contexts for analyzing Elizabeth Stuart Phelps's The Gates Ajar and Emily Dickinson's poetry as works that explore the consequences of female writers claiming authority over the mourning process. Informed by extensive archival research, Henderson's study eloquently speaks to the ways in which authors adopted, revised, or rejected the conventions of memorial literature, choices that disclose their location within decisive debates about appropriate gender roles and sexual practices, national identity and citizenship, the consequences of slavery, the nature of democratic representation, and structures of authorship and literary authority.