Flavor of the Month - Bianca Sarble When Cate Gallagher thinks her day can't get any worse, Patrick Garrett comes along to prove her wrong. The sexy stranger awakens her long forgotten libido but she knows from past experiences his type is best avoided at all costs. Patrick is sure the chemistry between them will set the sheets on fire, if only she would give him a chance. He hatches a seduction plan to show her exactly how right they could be. But getting the girl isn't the only obstacle to their Happy Ever After. Misunderstandings and assumptions bring their heat level to boiling point and threaten to scorch their love. Can Cate overcome her past and let Patrick show her she's not just the Flavor Of The Month? The Chocolate Affair - Imogene Nix Deanna has one love. The Scheherazade Chocolate Factory. When it's bought out by an off world consortium, they send someone to inspect their purchase. JD Ruan is their expert investigator. But JD has a secret. He's a demon. And not just any kind of demon -a Pleasure Demon. Secrets, abilities and hidden truths will find their way... especially when chocolate is involved My Lord's Table - Alysha Ellis Gently-bred Susan arrives in 18th century London starving, penniless and desperate to find a job. When a chance-met acquaintance offers to help, Susan happily accepts a position as housekeeper in the home of Lord Winslade. But the position is not what she expects it to be. She is greeted by a grim manservant, who locks her in a room and orders her to wear the scandalous costume she finds there. She is forced to attend an erotic banquet of carnal and epicurean delights, presided over by the darkly sinister Lord Winslade. Susan's expectations of domestic service shatter as she is seduced into fulfilling appetites of an entirely different order. The Banquet - Kate Belle Banquet is a moment in the life of James, a less than attractive chef and restaurant owner who is obsessed with celebrity chef, Sheba. Sheba's famed erotic recipes have saved James from a life of involuntary celibacy. After impressing Sheba with a special dessert of his own creation, James finds himself invited to the most exclusive and mysterious event on the hospitality calendar. Everyone who's anyone in the hospitality industry knows of it, but the banquet itself is shrouded in secrecy. Nervous and out of his depth, James attends and is introduced to a world where the boundaries between food and sex are entirely blurred. Never on a Sundae - Seanna Smythe Delicious delights you've dreamed of, but Never on a Sundae. Would his beloved Evie cater for the kind of party Aidan had in mind? The sign advertised catering for parties, but he doubted they catered for the kind of party he had in mind... Evie is running away from love and when things get a little too hot with Sydney-sider, Aidan, she disappears to Newcastle to buy an ice-cream parlor, Never on a Sundae. But fate conspires against her, and she finds herself out of business and places to run. As she's wrapping up things up, Aidan rides into town on his Harley looking for a unique idea for an ice cream cake for his brother's bachelor party. He's been searching for months for the only woman who can do wicked things with chocolate...and his heart.
This book explores young adults' experiences and understandings of sexualised violence within licensed venues. Although anecdotally common, unwanted sexual attention in pubs and clubs has been the focus of relatively little criminological analysis. This text provides the first exploration of how and why unwanted sexual attention occurs in licensed venues. Using wide-ranging research from over two hundred participants, Fileborn argues that what 'counts' as unwanted sexual attention is highly context-dependent and situated within a complex assemblage of a venue's culture, environment, and community. Dealing with issues such as the roles gender, sexuality, space, and social belonging play in shaping young adults' experiences, this book recounts how young people make sense of unwanted sexual attention within a culturally complex, alcohol-fuelled, and sexually-charged environment. A thorough and thought-provoking text, this book will be of particular interest to scholars of criminology, sociology, and political science.
This book examines the cultural relations between the Spanish and Austrian Habsburg monarchies in the seventeenth century and explores the central role of transnational aristocratic networks in cultural transfer processes between Spain and Central Europe. It tells the story of Central European aristocrats who embraced new foreign fashions, commodities, and practices to demonstrate their wealth and superior social position, thereby contributing significantly to the emergence of a cosmopolitan aristocratic Baroque culture. It shows that a new type of aristocrat emerged during this period: the cultured and educated aristocratic connoisseur, who knew how to use cultural imports and practices for his own strategic ends. However, the book also shows that not everyone was equally enthusiastic about the growing cultural imports, but that the boundaries between acceptance and rejection were often fluid. Covering a wide range of topics that span from early modern luxury consumption and food culture to collecting painting and the emergence of early modern aristocratic libraries, the book will appeal to a broad academic audience, including social and cultural historians, art historians, and cultural anthropologists alike. With its transnational scope, the book will be relevant to scholars interested in exploring the cosmopolitan nature of the early modern aristocracy also beyond the Austrian Habsburg monarchy.
A high school dropout with a husband and baby finds her life at a dead end. She realizes the responsibility for growth is her own, but where does one begin?
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