Reckless Measures. . . Lord Richard Harcourt has devised a master plan for ridding himself of debt. The notorious rake will abduct a wealthy heiress. But beneath her meek, prim exterior, Richard discovers a shrewd and exciting temptress he can't resist touching. . . Ignite Reckless Desires. . . After a night alone in a coach with her captor, Bethany Dallison knows she must wed him if she wishes to keep her reputation intact. Though she cannot control her fate, Bethany can control her impulses. She refuses to yield her body to Richard--no matter how seductive his kisses. But as their nuptials approach, Bethany finds her resolve quickly melting under his caress--while Richard finds that fortune is the last thing on his mind. . . A lover of historical romance since picking up her first Georgette Heyer novel at the age of 10, Ann Stephens lives in the Midwest with her husband, two beautiful daughters and two cats. She learned the value of a good story and great characters while earning her theater degree. History fascinates her, and she enjoys researching her stories almost as much as writing them.
M. Stephens has meticulously placed the events of a life of love and betrayal into a most incredible novel. It is a story that's never been told. It is the story of love lost, a love gained and a love that unwittingly gets betrayed before it ever began. And yet, there is another. There is another love that has been waiting in the wings for decades...waiting for Lilli to see into the heart of a man that would wait for eternity if that's what it takes. Can Lilli truly love again after so great a loss? You'll identify with the decisions that Lilli has to make as you walk with M. Stephens in this most terrific tale called Lilli's Story. "That dark, wet night not only took Elgin's life away, but now it seems as if Lilli's life was gone, too." "After two years, while she was still sad, she was also happy because she was doing exactly what her husband had told her to do, LIVE LIFE!" "She could feel his hard, muscular body against her." -------- from Lilli's Story
After ten years of ballet lessons, Jordan Walker has finally landed her first principal role in Romeo and Juliet. Sweeter yet, "Romeo" has asked her to the May Fling Ball at Winston High. But a massive Texas earthquake triggered by the fracking activity nearby tears apart the community and Jordan's future as a dancer. The Walker family survives the earthquake, but wake up the next morning utterly invisible. On the run from a military with nefarious plans, Jordan and her family are forced to abandon their old lives and flee to Galveston. It isn't until she meets Caleb, a blind musician, that Jordan dares to hope again. And the more their secret friendship develops, the more Jordan understands the danger she's placed everyone in.
Infuriating, Imperious. . . Proud Scottish lord Kieran Rossburn doesn't relish the idea of a marriage of convenience, but he'll do what he must to preserve the family estate. Worse, the bride he's been saddled with--the daughter of a crass, unrefined, American merchant--is far too weak-willed for his tastes. Or so it seems at first. . . And Entirely Irresistible. . . After a lifetime under the thumb of her domineering parents, Diantha Quinn can't believe she's being shipped across the ocean to be locked away yet again. Now, to gain any sort of power in her life, she must resist Kieran's seductions and keep the marriage in name only. Yet how can she keep from falling in love, when she is wed to the most tempting man in all of Scotland? Praise for Ann Stephens's To Be Seduced "An engaging and breathtakingly romantic tale. I savored every well-crafted word!" --Celeste Bradley, New York Times Bestselling author
In Black Empire, Michelle Ann Stephens examines the ideal of “transnational blackness” that emerged in the work of radical black intellectuals from the British West Indies in the early twentieth century. Focusing on the writings of Marcus Garvey, Claude McKay, and C. L. R. James, Stephens shows how these thinkers developed ideas of a worldwide racial movement and federated global black political community that transcended the boundaries of nation-states. Stephens highlights key geopolitical and historical events that gave rise to these writers’ intellectual investment in new modes of black political self-determination. She describes their engagement with the fate of African Americans within the burgeoning U.S. empire, their disillusionment with the potential of post–World War I international organizations such as the League of Nations to acknowledge, let alone improve, the material conditions of people of color around the world, and the inspiration they took from the Bolshevik Revolution, which offered models of revolution and community not based on nationality. Stephens argues that the global black political consciousness she identifies was constituted by both radical and reactionary impulses. On the one hand, Garvey, McKay, and James saw freedom of movement as the basis of black transnationalism. The Caribbean archipelago—a geographic space ideally suited to the free movement of black subjects across national boundaries—became the metaphoric heart of their vision. On the other hand, these three writers were deeply influenced by the ideas of militarism, empire, and male sovereignty that shaped global political discourse in the early twentieth century. As such, their vision of transnational blackness excluded women’s political subjectivities. Drawing together insights from American, African American, Caribbean, and gender studies, Black Empire is a major contribution to ongoing conversations about nation and diaspora.
Ann Sophia Stephens (1810-86) was an American novelist and magazine editor. She was the author of numerous "dime" novels and is credited as the progenitor of that genre. She married Edward Stephens, a printer from Plymouth, Mass., in 1831 and they relocated to Portland, Maine where they co-founded, published and edited the Portland Magazine, a monthly literary periodical where some of her first work appeared. The magazine was sold in 1837 and the couple moved to New York where Ann took the job of editor of The Ladies Companion. Over the next few years she wrote over 25 serial novels plus short stories and poems for several well known magazines including Godey's Lady's Book and Graham's Magazine. Her first novel to be published in book form, Fashion and Famine, appeared in 1851 and in 1856 she started her own mangazizne, Mrs Stephens' Illustrated New Monthly, published by her husband. Her novel Malaeska, the Indian Wife of the White Hunter, which had originally been serialised in the Ladies Companion in 1839, became the first title to be published in Beadle & Adams's Beadle's Dime Novels series in June 1860, and was swiftly followed by many others following its huge popular success. This novel was first published in 1869.
This carefully crafted ebook is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents. Malaeska – Story of what happened when a Native Indian woman tried to break conventions and married a white man... Excerpt: "At the time of our story, the beautiful expanse of country which stretches from the foot of the Catskill mountains to the Hudson was one dense wilderness. The noble stream glided on in the solemn stillness of nature, shadowed with trees that had battled with storms for centuries, its surface as yet unbroken, save by the light prow of the Indian's canoe. The lofty rampart of mountains frowned against the sky as they do now, but rendered more gloomy by the thick growth of timber which clothed them at the base..." Ann S. Stephens was an American novelist and magazine editor. She was the author of dime novels and is credited as the progenitor of that genre.
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