Download or read book Taken for Granted written by Earl Sewell and published by Kensington Books. This book was released on 2002 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Nina comes to terms with her unhappy marriage and underachieving adult daughter, she seeks a change, finding unlikely solace in Richard, who has own marital issues.

Download or read book Flaunting that Mistress Chaos Continues written by Jerraine Fuller and published by Writers Republic LLC. This book was released on 2022-03-25 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CaTrina is still torn between love and lies from her husband; lust, from a side piece and her rage she couldn’t control. Finding her life falling apart from hearing the promises that can’t be kept.

Download or read book Hemingway Days and Bukowski Nights written by M. W. Downs and published by Gen X Press. This book was released on 2023-06-28 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adam Blankenship, a young war correspondent embedded with the US Army is badly wounded during the early days of the Iraq War. In an attempt to save lives, he fired an auto-grenade gun to stop an inbound suicide truck bomber. His reward, returning to L.A. broken and angry after losing his job along with his lower right leg. Adam becomes a full-blown alcoholic with Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) who takes Vicodin to numb the pain. He embarks on a novel about covering the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. It might help him uncover the truth about why he was disgracefully fired from his job, then kicked out of the military hospital in Germany. It was likely because Adam ran afoul of the powerful Colonel Shilling, calling him out for chasing Jihadis into the desert rather than helping the dead and wounded after the ambush. He took what was left of their operational vehicles and security, abandoning the men. The colonel pressured authorities to classify the ambush and lawyers from the Army Criminal Investigation Division (CID) coerced Adam into signing a Non-disclosure Agreement, forcing Adam to disguise his true account of the war as fiction to please his nervous publisher. Sarah Murry, Adam's stepsister and forbidden first love, is a tall, green-eyed beauty. A B-movie actress filming a 1970's gangster movie starring one of the famous Goodwin brothers, she's not sure which one. Multitalented, she is also a painter who works long nights on large, abstract oils brimming with vibrant imagery, symbols, and pop-mythology. Sarah has loved Adam since he protected her from the mean girls in high school. She can see his struggle with pills and booze, but stands by him even after he brawls with her surfer boyfriend Johnny. They move into a hostel in Venice Beach then meet Bobby, a punk rock poet who hates the world. They become roommates, fast friends, and rivals as Adam fights to get his book published in full, risking jail time to get the truth out and clear his name. Hemingway Days and Bukowski Nights depicts three young artists who work just as hard as they play. It's also ponders the pain and stupidity of war, how to live with PTSD, carry the regrets and loss and try to live a better life after trauma. Let fear pass through you. Have the courage to tell the truth. Maybe, even find a chance at love.

Download or read book Fire Power By Kirkman Samnee 3 written by Robert Kirkman and published by Image Comics. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Things just keep getting worse for Owen, as it becomes clear that he cannot protect his family from his past. Whether he likes it or not, he's going to have to face who he is, what he's done and who he's meant to be...before it's too late!

Download or read book STRIDE written by Alex Kininmonth and published by Troubador Publishing Ltd. This book was released on 2024-10-28 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Stride doesn’t know that his new boss, Andrew Buchanan is his father. Andrew knows, but he can’t reveal the truth even when John starts an affair with his half-sister. Andrew’s bank is in grave difficulty, his marriage is in tatters, his wife is a psychopath and his general manage is plotting his downfall. John embarks on his new career torn between the integrity that the City demands and the temptation that is put before him by those plotting to use him to destroy his father. His family become caught in overlapping circles of deceit and revenge, ambition and despair, greed and disappointment from which they do not all emerge alive.

Download or read book I ll Always Belong to You written by Bianca and published by Sullivan Group Publishing. This book was released on 2016-12-26 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life could appear perfect for those who are outside looking into Dr.’s Grace, Monae, and Erica’s lives. They are smart, successful, and run their own business. Dr. Monae, and Dr. Erica are married to successful men while Dr. Grace is swearing off men. Dr. Monae is married to one of the most powerful men in Texas, Governor Greg Johnson, who is so consumed with looking good for his peers that he neglects his wife needs. When she starts having eyes for someone else, will she risk her career, and family just to feel loved? Dr. Erica knows that she could be more successful than she already is, and while working towards that goal, she neglects her husband, Bishop Duncan, needs, which is a need for children. When her husband starts to roam, will Dr. Erica, put her own selfish needs aside to give her husband what he so desperately wants? After Dr. Grace catches her soon to be ex-husband in a compromising position, she is done with love and throws herself into her work, until she meets Exodus. Will she be able to put her work aside and try to love again? Secrets, lies, and betrayal seems to be the theme in these three friends professional and personal lives. Will the secrets that each of these friends are holding ruin their lives, or make their bond stronger? This steamy novel full of lust, love, and lies is sure to leave you wanting more.

Download or read book Clean Start at Forty Seven written by Nora Phoenix and published by Nora Phoenix. This book was released on with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m done hiding who I am. Pretending to be straight, to be the loving, devoted husband and successful ER doctor everyone wanted me to be has been exhausting. I numbed the pain any way I could, and in the end, it cost me everything. My job, my marriage, the relationship with my grown kids. But now I’m in recovery, and for the first time, I’m living my true life as an out gay man. I need to get my act together, to get healthy again. Benoni is my new personal trainer…twenty years my junior. He makes my mouth water and certain other body parts react. Oh, and he’s also my son’s best friend. I’m forty-seven years old. It’s time for a clean start. But where does Benoni fit in? Clean Start at Forty-Seven is part one of a duology, an emotional MM romance with an age gap, first time gay, loads of hurt/comfort, and the beginnings of a beautiful Daddy/boy relationship. It contains themes of opioid addiction and religious homophobia. Please check the trigger warnings in the front of the book.

Download or read book Yanko written by Yanko and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2004 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is not a book for those seeking profound words or thought-out phrases and dialogues. No, it is mainly a story, my story with its many sad, happy, humorous moments, from a short and specific part of my life. A life somehow different to most others, for I was born at a certain time in Chile, South America, where things happened, political events which uprooted me and made me go elsewhere in search of a safer and better life. Instead, I found adventure, friends, lovers and all kinds of interesting people and places. Life itself did not get any better or worse, but fuller, richer and more interesting. I chose to write about those specific seven years of my life, for I believe that in that short period of time, I lived life in full, from riches to rags and again from rags to riches. From a cattle rancher's life in South America, to a top international male model's life in Europe, from a jet setter, to a prisoner in Carabanchel, Spain. Travelling, living and working, in a never ending search for happiness. Always finding an excuse to keep on moving, the country, the work, the people. Different circumstances deciding for me, urging me on, to look elsewhere, in search of that perfect place, the right person, my longed for "Querencia." A home.

Download or read book The Alpha s Surprised Mate Book 1 of Silver Moon Series written by Saphyre_Dragyn and published by Singapore New Reading Technology Pte Ltd. This book was released on with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mykayla believed she was a normal human even if she lived in a world with supernatural beings. After moving to a new state and city for a fresh start with her younger sister she is into the supernatural world even more than before. After her new boss turns out to be her mate she finds she is the target of a revenge plot. However, what she doesn't know is that a much higher power is going to help her pack protect their luna. Soon family secrets are revealed and she finds out that she and her sister are the daughters of a god. Soon the pack has goddesses assisting to protect and the beta of the pack happens to be the mate of one of the goddesses. New allies join the pack and even more secrets and powers are revealed. While this alpha thought that he found his mate in an ordinary human woman, never did he in his wildest dreams know what surprises his mate had for him.

Download or read book I Stand In The Light I ve Cast written by Stephine Garner and published by Fulton Books, Inc.. This book was released on 2021-07-22 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Denise has always been the apple of her father's eye. She keeps her head down, she works hard, and she studies harder. She is taught at an early age that you perpetually give your best. Denise is a young lady who lives an ordinary, dull life. One day, she meets a guy who blows her away. Over time, she falls in love. Ever since then, her life becomes chaos. His name is Winston. However, everyone knows him as J.R. He has been in the street life since his preteens with no plans of getting out. J.R. has a son, whom he doesn't know about until the child is two years old. When he does find out, he thinks it is best to hide his son from Denise. He falls in love with her from the first time he lays eyes on her. Denise is eventually kidnapped. The only thing that gives her some piece is knowing he is looking for her. Denise is very reserved, very strong-willed, and very independent. These very well may be the only things that will keep her alive throughout this endeavor. Winston needs them to see he is not a child but a grown man at fourteen. He must go in hard on every job. He must be better. He must be smarter, and more importantly, he must be faster than the best in the set to be taken seriously. Things in his crew start to fall apart. As an alternative to trying to keep it together, he chooses for once to put himself first and to search for the woman who has given him purpose. His soul mate is taken on his watch, and he will set out to take her back. Everyone who is involved will pay with their lives.

Download or read book Forty Seven Duology The Collection written by Nora Phoenix and published by Nora Phoenix. This book was released on 2024-04-26 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I’m done hiding who I am. At forty-seven years old, I’m finally free to live my authentic life as a gay man. I’m in recovery from my addiction, and it’s time for a clean start. The question is where Benoni, my personal trainer, fits in? He’s hot and perfectly bossy, but also twenty years my junior…and my son’s best friend. As needy as I am, Benoni loves it, and we somehow fit. But when our dynamic changes and Benoni wants to be my Daddy, everything I’ve ever believed about myself is shaken. With the age gap between us, how can we ever make this work? This box set contains the Forty-Seven Duology, an emotional daddy kink duology (Clean Start at Forty-Seven and New Daddy at Forty-Seven) with a younger Daddy and an older boy, plus first time gay, loads of hurt/comfort, and best friend’s father. Also included in this box set is a bonus novella featuring secondary characters from the duology called Perfect Daddy at Fifty-One. Please mind the trigger warnings, listed at the beginning of each book.

Download or read book Living In Atlanta written by David Rector and published by David Rector. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Living in Atlanta is a page turner that will make you laugh, cry and believe in love again. Living in Atlanta takes place in Atlanta, Georgia. The handsome Dude Hardy and the lovely Baby Winterhaven find love where most couples are looking for love. You'll also meet the hilarious Wollfred Clark and his not so lovely wife, Shitterria. While you're reading this book you'll tell a friend, "You've got to read this book."

Download or read book Risk written by Elana Dykewomon and published by Bywater Books. This book was released on 2012-10-16 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Praise for Beyond the Pale by Elana Dykewomon: “One of the most compelling novels I have ever read. . . . A work of remarkable importance.”—The Village Voice “One of the best books of the year. . . . Compelling, honest and unselfconscious.”—The Toronto Star “Truly great novels aren’t written very often, but Beyond the Pale deserves all the glowing adjectives available.”—Bay Area Reporter “A moving chronicle.”—Publishers Weekly “A page-turner. . . . Recommended for all collections.”—Library Journal Elana Dykewomon’s extraordinarily well-received novel Beyond the Pale was first published in 1997 and won both the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award. It is firmly established as a classic text in the canon of lesbian literature. Risk is the longed-for follow-up from Dykewomon. Risk is a beautifully told story that spans the years from the mid-eighties to the post-9/11 world. Carol is an idealistic, Berkeley-educated, Jewish lesbian living in Oakland, California. Downwardly mobile, the Berkeley grad makes her living by tutoring high school students. Through Carol’s life, Dykewomon explores the changing times and values in America. Elana Dykewomon is an activist, author, and teacher, and she has a fiercely dedicated readership that has been eagerly awaiting her next novel for a dozen years. One of the finest thinkers—and writers—the women’s movement has produced, Dykewomon has worked for the last fifteen years as an editor and teacher of composition and creative writing, both independently and for San Francisco State University.

Download or read book The Queen of Hamburger Row A Reluctant Prostitute written by R. Harper Mason and published by BWM Books. This book was released on 2011-12-15 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Transcension written by Damien Broderick and published by Gateway. This book was released on 2020-05-21 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aleph is a machine mentality overseeing a future Earth largely bereft of humans, most of whom have sublimed into a virtuality.Remaining are the smug but cautious adherents of science. Amanda, still a teen at age 30, is a skilled violinist and mathematician but craves the applause of the Mall for some daring exploit. In a nearby enclave live the rustic, non-scientific people who worship the god of their choice. In the center of their poly-religious valley a wicked tower has emerged, surely a tool of evil temptation. Far below, a supersonic railroad is being constructed. Amanda conceives a dangerous feat: to enter the valley and descend to the rushing train, hitching a mad ride to the next city. Using a cyber "Liar bee," she buzzes the ear of young Matthewmark, who chafes under the restrictions of his own narrow society. He agrees to aid Amanda and her friend Vikram Singh, but the scheme goes horribly wrong. Vik dies; Matthewmark's brain is seriously damaged, although he recovers with advanced neurological prostheses. This treatment, condemned by his own people, allows him contact with the AI Aleph. In a series of startling moves, Amanda graduates to adulthood (and her modish clipped speech patterns give way to this new sophistication), while Matthewmark explores uncanny and sometimes very funny opportunities in the Alephverse, climaxing in the dismantling of the solar system and its embrace by the hyperuniverse beyond ours. This is the Singularity, at last, the Transcension, and everyone lives happily ever after, for rather mindboggling values of "lives" and "happily."

Download or read book Dark Wave written by Lana Guineay and published by Seizure. This book was released on 2020-09-02 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: George hasn’t heard from his ex, Paloma, since she returned to her family home on Songbird Island in the Whitsundays. Now she’s asking for his help to uncover the mystery of who is stealing the family’s wealth, but what they discover is much worse than a case of fraud. With luscious prose and a sumptuous setting, Lana Guineay’s debut novella is a brilliant reworking of the classic crime novel. WINNER OF THE 2020 VIVA LA NOVELLA PRIZE

Download or read book Turning Forty written by Mike Gayle and published by Hodder. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How to turn forty: 1. Set yourself a personal challenge. 2. Clear wardrobe of all age inappropriate clothing. 3. Relax. How not to turn forty: 1. Have a complete meltdown . . . High flier Matt Beckford's sole ambition is to turn forty with his life sorted. And with a Porsche on the drive and a job that requires him to spend more time in BA's club lounge than his own lounge, it looks like things are going in the right direction. But when Matt's wife unexpectedly calls time on their marriage, a chain of events is set in motion that very quickly sees him facing forty broke, homeless and completely alone. But all is not lost because Matt has a plan . . . Wise, witty and wonderful . . . a triumph! Jenny Colgan Look out for Mike's new novel, Half a World Away, available to pre-order now!