FROM BESTSELLING AUTHOR AMELIA KINGSTON Book four in the So Far, So Good series An endearingly irreverent love story. To Jackie Ryan, insults are foreplay and love is war. What the feisty redhead lacks in stature, she makes up in attitude. She's made more than one grown man cry and she's damn proud of it. Little does the rowdy barista know she's about to meet her match in the shape of a walking, talking pair of starched khakis. When unassuming Eddie Jaworski stumbles into a quirky coffee shop, he isn't expecting a battle of wits with the maniac behind the counter. Still, he can't help be intrigued by the endearingly irreverent human enigma. She's brash, but considerate. Closed off to most, but fiercely loyal to a few. Everything is a joke, except those things that are sacred. Jackie doesn't trust easily and if he wants to get close, he's going to have to work for every inch. Good thing he's up for the challenge. But Eddie has a secret—one he didn't mean to keep—that's going to tug at the delicate strings weaving the pair together. When everything begins to unravel, Jackie must decide just what she's willing to risk for love.
A painfully awkward love story. Incomprehensibly awkward Elizabeth Wilde is desperate for love. Connection. Intimacy. After a lifetime of romantic failures, the twenty-one-year-old gamer realizes she needs help. Professional help. She needs... A sex tutor. The devastatingly hot jock Austin Jacobs is just the man for the job. As the reigning campus sex god, he has the playboy act down pat. But underneath those six-pack abs beats a broken heart. He doesn't trust people and he sure as hell doesn't believe in love. The odd couple strike a deal. Four weeks of &‘tutoring' for five thousand dollars. When Austin coaxes Elizabeth out from behind her computer screen, the attraction they feel is undeniable. They're both a little broken, but somehow their jagged edges fit. And when their world comes tumbling down on top of them, they each have to decide if this weird thing called love is worth fighting for. Reader advisory: This book includes references to inadequate parenting, parental death, a parent with addiction. There are also scenes including the use of performance drugs.
A mutated biological agent escapes from Porton Down weapons testing establishment outside Portsmouth, England. Superficially, the mutant appears to be a butterfly. The story revolves around a couple of University lecturers who stumble unwittingly on the agent, thinking it a new species. Through their research, the authorities are alerted to the possible publication of its origin and take ruthless steps to prevent this. Murder, political intrigue and big-business machinations occur against a background of increasing social awareness of danger and unrest, whilst a number of dedicated opponents of the system struggle for recognition of humanitarian values. Underlying the development of the characters and the action is an awareness of the interconnectedness of all life and a strong philosophical argument for the effects of inertia on ecological systems and on social conventions, no matter how violently these are disturbed.
Amelia Ann Blandford Edwards (1831- 1892) was an English novelist, journalist, traveler and Egyptologist. A night on the borders of the Black Forest, 1890 In the days of my youth. A novel, 1874 Monsieur Maurice, and other tales, 1876 The Phantom Coach and other stories
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