[Siren Allure: Erotic Interracial Romance, non-conforming/atypical hero and heroine, HEA] Set against sun-drenched Lake Garda, church mouse Tamsin Heriot, an English rose, pairs off with privileged Luca Leopoldo di Monte Valli, who's half Italian, half Somali. But Luca isn't what he seems... Orphaned at seven when his childhood in Mogadishu is brutally destroyed, Luca is left emotionally broken. Ragged and starving he seeks refuge in Italy where kindly aristocrats adopt him. Ever since she was fifteen, Tamsin has had a crush on Luca and the summer before she goes to university, she's determined to lose her virginity to him. It's eight years before their paths reconverge. Tamsin, still lusting after Luca, receives devastating news that triggers her return to the dilapidated family casa, and fate steps in when an unexpected bond develops between her and Luca's widowed, adoptive mother. But a strange inheritance alters what started as a dalliance. There's no shortcut to love, and with everything to lose, the relationship between two wounded people, Luca and Tamsin, is pushed to the breaking point. ** A Siren Erotic Romance
[Siren Allure: Erotic Contemporary Romance, HEA] Crave sexcitement? Satisfaction is just a tap away. When dreams of marriage and children are dashed, auctioneer Felicity Hume recklessly plays a dangerously different dating game. Little does she suspect that the one-night -stand with red-hot tycoon Seth Duggan will not only prove unforgettable but will zing her life into the fast lane and turn her humdrum existence upside down. As Seth lays down new rules and demands a lot, the emotional tension between them reaches the tipping point. The biological clock is counting down and, desperate to take charge of her life, Felicity embarks on the fraught path of freezing her eggs. After a business deal turns sour, Felicity's new world, divided between London and the mysterious Mediterranean island of Malta, looks as fragile as ever, just as Seth's touch still taunts her. But losing's never an option for Seth. Has Felicity met her match? ** A Siren Erotic Romance
[Siren Classic: Erotic Contemporary Romance, HEA] Violinist Char needs cash fast when her reckless court case against ruthless broker Jude fails and she is left with no choice but to accept his cynical job offer. Unbeknownst to her, Jude has decided he can easily mix business with pleasure. Why should it matter to Char that Jude is apparently involved with Heather, his married colleague? Equally, why should Jude mind when Char strikes up a friendship with luthier, Steve? When Jude goes to Portugal to investigate an ecological survey in the Algarve, Char, who accompanies him, is unprepared when, in the simple quinta, a new understanding burgeons between them. Back in London, old tensions surface and Char, aware that she is in love with Jude, is faced with a dilemma. The online music business she and Steve establish flourishes and this coupled with an unexpected windfall presents Char with an agonizing choice. Can she risk her heart or should she claim her freedom? ** A Siren Erotic Romance
[Siren Classic: Erotic Contemporary Romance, HEA] Seared by a bigamous love cheat, designer Deborah Tremaine backs off sex. But when wealthy Serbian Zoran Pavlovi, who wants to demolish an old London cinema she's campaigning to save, crosses her path she's up for a fling. Zoran has clawed his way out of Serbia's turbulent past but believes his background means he won't find happiness simply because he can't trust a woman to cherish him for who he is-a Serb. But he's a hot-blooded Slav up for no-strings sex and Deborah sends him into overdrive. Deborah's finances are in meltdown when a customer goes bust. Zoran dangles a business deal based in Belgrade that she can't refuse. She's confident the job won't compromise the campaign and decides that Zoran is the guy who can jump-start her love life. They embark on a sizzling affair, but tension, erotically sexual and work related, skyrockets. Incidents trigger the revelation of their personal demons. Can they escape the black holes? ** A Siren Erotic Romance
The past and the present interweave, from the last days of the Raj to the present day, and from the small railway town of Ajeemkot and the princely state of Walipur to the cutting edge of the modern city of Delhi, and Sivalik - a pine scented hill station in the foothills of the Himalayas.In this atmospheric, passionate and poignant account of a clash of cultures, caste and creed, divided family loyalties, wealthy heartthrobs and the power of love, the story is told through three women whose lives entwine. Hermie - a headstrong and bewitching Anglo-Indian - turns her back on the Anglo-Indian community and reinvents herself only to find that a dark secret threatens to send her life spiralling out of control and cost her everything. Sharp-witted Edith, exiled in India from her native Germany by Nazi persecution, faces stark choices in a future very different from that she envisaged. Kay, separated by more than a generation from Hermie and Edith, is haunted by a family mystery and risks her prospects in London to pursue a quest for roots in India where fate hurtles her in an unexpected direction. Can they confront the storms or are their dreams destined to shatter?
Focusing on the work of twentieth-century women playwrights, this book recuperates for feminism the notions of realism and mimesis, and proposes new readings of modern women's plays. It claims that modern women playwrights establish a new form of mimesis. Drawing on theories of French feminist Luce Irigaray, the author calls this dramatic structure "labial mimesis," marks its difference from the traditional structure based on a male hero, and emphasizes its hospitality to the representation of trust, love, friendship, and erotic intimacy among women. She offers a fresh perspective in the lively debate about the viability of realism for feminist writing.
Art dealer Francesca Marsham can't avoid Rafe Rostov, a famous painter, who is in London to exhibit his work. In Italy, nine years earlier, their burgeoning romance had been abruptly terminated by his sudden and unexplained departure.
During the early years of the Iraq War, the US Army was unable to translate initial combat success into strategic and political victory. Iraq plunged into a complex insurgency, and defeating this insurgency required beating highly adaptive foes. A competition between the hierarchical and vertically integrated army and networked and horizontally integrated insurgents ensued. The latter could quickly adapt and conduct networked operations in a decentralized fashion; the former was predisposed to fighting via prescriptive plans under a centralized command and control. To achieve success, the US Army went through a monumental process of organizational adaptation—a process driven by soldiers and leaders that spread throughout the institution and led to revolutionary changes in how the army supported and conducted its operations in Iraq. How the army adapted and the implications of this adaptation are the subject of this indispensable study. Intended for policymakers, defense and military professionals, military historians, and academics, this book offers a solid critique of the army’s current capacity to adapt to likely future adversary strategies and provides policy recommendations for retaining lessons learned in Iraq.
Crying Tears of Teal is a compelling collection of poetry that travels the paths of those battling gynecological cancer, caregivers, grieving families and those who survived! This book chronicles the travails of diagnosis, prognosis, the battle, the love, the healing, grief and the victory of those who survive. It is dedicated to the warriors, their families and loved ones. You will smile, cry, meditate, and pray as you read this poetic novel. Written from the bedside perspective of a caregiver, as Serena lovingly tended to her mother who battled ovarian cancer. This book will help raise awareness of ovarian cancer and other gynecological cancers. "Serena Wills is a thoughtful writer who honestly shares her poetry through the lens of her spiritual beliefs and descriptive reflections on life and relationships." Dr. Khadijah Ali-Coleman, Artist and Founder of Liberated Muse
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