![]() ![]() ![]() This drama is clearly written from the heart." - PUBLISHERS WEEKLY, starred review "Taut, heart-wrenching." - THE WASHINGTON POST "A poignant and moving story." - SCHOOL LIBRARY JOURNAL Praise for THE DEADLY SISTER: * "Well-drawn characters, realistic dialogue, and suspenseful twists and turns add to the appeal. As riveting as the action is, it's the nuanced portraits of the characters, human and ape, that make the story so deeply affecting." - THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW * "Schrefer spares no detail. Praise for ENDANGERED: A 2012 National Book Award Finalist Winner of the Green Earth Prize An ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults choice "Dazzling, big-hearted. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He is obviously smart, with incredible integrity, and we get to see him in action instead of just vague corporate meetings like with many other billionaire stories. I love their cocky arrogance, but too many of them cross that line into pure asshole or worse, controlling asshole.Ĭélian (which I now find the sexiest hero name) is both cocky and a billionaire (a trope I have no real love for) and yet, what saves him from becoming an asshole is that he is very good at his job as a news director and cares passionately about his company and his employees. While I can’t get enough of the enemies-to-lovers tropes, alphaholes are tricky creatures. When he looks at me from across the room, I see the glint in his eyes, and that makes us rivals.īut it’s my heart at stake, and I fear I’ll be raising the white flag. Heir to a stack of medical bills and a tattered couch. Now he’s staring me down like I’m the dirt under his Italian loafers, and I’m supposed to take it.īut the thing about being Judith “Jude” Humphry is I have nothing to lose. I left it with more than orgasms and a pleasant memory–namely, his wallet. I could have impressed him, if not for last month’s unforgettable one-night stand. Shen, comes a new standalone, enemies-to-lovers romance. So what was the verdict?įrom bestselling author L.J. Shen novel and while it had one of my favorite tropes, it also has one of the most full-on alphaholes I’ve read in a long time. ![]() ![]() High school was back in New York City, but by the time I went to college (Brown University in Rhode Island), my family was living in Washington, D.C. ![]() I was born in Hawaii, moved from there to New York, spent the years of World War II in my mother’s hometown: Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and from there went to Tokyo when I was eleven. I was a solitary child who lived in the world of books and my own vivid imagination.īecause my father was a career military officer - an Army dentist - I lived all over the world. That left me in-between, and exactly where I wanted most to be: on my own. Little brother Jon was the only boy and had interests that he shared with Dad together they were always working on electric trains and erector sets and later, when Jon was older, they always seemed to have their heads under the raised hood of a car. ![]() My older sister, Helen, was very much like our mother: gentle, family-oriented, eager to please. "I’ve always felt that I was fortunate to have been born the middle child of three. ![]() ![]() ![]() Persie Merlin and the Dying Song (Book 21) ➜ August 31, 2020 Persie Merlin and the Witch Hunters (Book 20) Persie Merlin and the Door to Nowhere (Book 19) Persie Merlin and Leviathan's Gift (Book 18) ![]() Harley Merlin and the Mortal Pact (Book 9)įinch Merlin and the Fount of Youth (Book 10)įinch Merlin and the Djinn's Curse (Book 12)įinch Merlin and the Locked Gateway (Book 13)įinch Merlin and the Forgotten Kingdom (Book 14)įinch Merlin and the Everlasting Vow (Book 15)įinch Merlin and the Legend of the Luminary Harley Merlin and the Challenge of Chaos (Book 8) Harley Merlin and the Detector Fix (Book 7) Harley Merlin and the Cult of Eris (Book 6) Harley Merlin and the Broken Spell (Book 5) Harley Merlin and the First Ritual (Book 4) Harley Merlin and the Stolen Magicals (Book 3) Harley Merlin and the Mystery Twins (Book 2) Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven (Book 1) Sign up to Bella's New Release email list and you'll automatically be notified as soon as her next book is released: Find her on Amazon: Check out her website for a full list of her books: Here's a list of some of Bella's books: ☞ Harley Merlin 20: Persie Merlin and the Witch Hunters ☞ A Shade of Vampire: A Gate of Light (Book 91) She has sold over seven million books since her first novel was published in 2012. Bella Forrest is a lover of fantasy, romance, action, and mystery infused stories with twists you don’t see coming. ![]() ![]() And that is exactly what happens when childhood friends/enemies Charity and Griff are forced together on a trip that will end up changing their lives and giving them both a nice healthy glow by the end. You bicker, you joust, you head-but, you pout and whine and he sits there looking wonderfully brooding and utterly ravishing, you can’t do much more than a good old romp and allow the pent-up lust and frustration to let fly. What would happen if you were forced into proximity with the very man you hate yet deep down want to rip his clothes off in a very unladylike way? ![]() ![]() ![]() How Not to Chaperon a Lady by Virginia Heath.Ĭhaperoning Charity Brookes while she’s on a singing tour should be easy for Griffith Philpot-he’s spent his whole life sparring with her over her flighty ways!īut as he discovers that she’s much more than the impetuous girl he thought he knew, a passion ignites between them… Sharing a steamy kiss leaves him torn-he’s supposed to be responsible for guarding her virtue! ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This is probably one of the most interesting magic systems I’ve ever read – and also one of the most scientific, in its approach. Wrapping this story is a power known as BioChromatic magic using an essence called “breath” which, with a given number in a person, can grant a person several abilities, one of which is “awakening”, which draws color in everyday objects and using it to command another. Told through multiple POVs, it tells the story of two sister princesses, gods, and immortal beings. ![]() My Breath become yours.”Īnother really great read from Brandon Sanderson! Warbreaker, set in another world (Nalthis) inside the Cosmere Universe, tells the story of the world where color is, essentially, power. It will take considerable quantities of each to resolve all the challenges facing Vivenna and Siri, princesses of Idris Susebron the God King Lightsong, reluctant god of bravery, and mysterious Vasher, the Warbreaker. Their world is one in which those who die in glory return as gods to live confined to a pantheon in Hallandren’s capital city and where a power known as BioChromatic magic is based on an essence known as breath that can only be collected one unit at a time from individual people.īy using breath and drawing upon the color in everyday objects, all manner of miracles and mischief can be accomplished. ![]() ![]() ![]() A man who knows what he wants and goes after it. On a plane, struggling to face the devastation of losing everything again and starting over, Amy meets Liam Stone, a darkly entrancing billionaire recluse, who is also a brilliant, and famous, prodigy architect. But just when she lets her guard down, the ghosts of her past are quick to punish her, forcing her back on the run. Now years later, with a new identity as Amy, she’s finally dared to believe she is forgotten-even if she cannot forget. ![]() But how do I not when he is the reason I breathe? He is what I need.Īt the young age of eighteen, tragedy and a dark secret force Lara to flee all she has known and loved to start a new life. His touch spirals through me, warm and sweet, wicked and hot. The first book in the sexy, suspenseful Secret Life of Amy Bensen series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa Renee Jones. ![]() *The Secret Life of Amy Bensen is now a streaming series on Passionflix!* ![]() ![]() ![]() It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. ![]() Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters’ trip away-with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. Nora Stephens’ life is books-she’s read them all-and she is not that type of heroine. ![]() ![]() ![]() Next to me, my husband took a shower, dried off, put on his suit and flat shoes, and, okay, he did put lotion on his face and hands and put in one dab of one hair product in his hair. And of course a little jewelry for some added sparkle. ![]() Then on my face I did a little concealer to make my skin look a more consistent color than it really is, eyeshadow and eyeliner to alter the appearance of my eyelids, mascara to make my eyelashes look longer and thicker and black (when they’re really just brown) eyebrow gel to darken my eyebrows, (but first I tweezed them to be a different shape than they really are.) Then some bronzer to make me look like I was blushing and some lip gloss to make my lips look shinier than they are naturally. Then I put on a bra to lift my boobs higher than they naturally are, Spanx to suck my torso to look smaller than it actually is, a dress, and high heels to make me look taller than I am. I took a shower, shaved my legs and underarms, dried off, moisturized with one lotion for my body and one lotion for my face, blow-dried my recently-color-treated hair to make it straight (it naturally dries in small curls), then used a curling wand to make it have big curls. I remember one time several years ago, my husband and I were getting ready to go out somewhere fancy. Amy: Welcome to Breaking Down Patriarchy! I’m Amy McPhie Allebest. ![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone else can afford stuff and has a handle on other stuff and enough energy to deal with even more stuff. What begins as an idiosyncratic book about a bank robbery-gone-terribly-awry unfolds into an astute and beautifully rendered character study of a random group. Looking at real estate isn’t usually a life-or-death. We look around occasionally, at our place of work or at parents' meetings or out in the street, and realize with horror that everyone else seems to know exactly what they're doing. From the 1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a charming, poignant novel about a crime that never took place, a would-be bank robber who disappears into thin air, and eight extremely anxious strangers who find they have more in common than they ever imagined. We don't have time to think or breathe, we just wake up and start digging through the heap, because there will be another one dumped on us tomorrow. We open our eyes in the morning and life is just waiting to tip a fresh avalanche of "Don't Forget!"s and "Remember!"s over us. Work and pay bills, use dental floss and get to meetings on time, stand in line and fill out forms, come to grips with cables and put furniture together, change tires on the car and charge the phone and switch the coffee machine off and not forget to sign the kids up for swimming lessons. “Because the terrible thing about becoming an adult is being forced to realize that absolutely nobody cares about us, we have to deal with everything ourselves now, find out how the whole world works. ![]() |