Nothing is more fun than breaking the rules. Ready to fall in love with another Knight? A super steamy romance perfect for a summer night. Just sit back, relax, and let Riggs do all the work. One-click now! Knights of Texas, novella series Book Four - Riggs Garrison Riggs loves horses, comedy clubs, and throwing the rules out the window. What's the point in life without any fun? Which makes him the perfect fit for the Knights of Texas luxury male escort agency. The resident southern charmer ensures his clients always have fun, including the naughty kind. But the Marine learns just how much hidden baggage he brought back from the desert, Afghan battlefields. Which threatens to burst at the seams when he least expects it. Skylar Lucas has spent years with her nose in the books, studying to be a nurse, foregoing any fun. Now, she's desperate to live an independent life in a career she loves. But nightmares from a family tragedy hold her back. When her sister hires Riggs, Skylar never counted on the education she'd learn from him that no school could ever teach. The devoted Knight shows her what life can be like when you burn the rule book. And along the way, lights her skin-and soul-on fire. Because for a woman like Skylar, the only way to live is with no boundaries. Knights of Texas Now accepting clients. Noble protectors of pleasure bring their expertise to showing a woman her true worth. Revealing a woman’s value is their devoted mission. These southern charmers can all but guarantee kindling a woman’s heart. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone, they do not have to be read in order.
Suspense and romance combine in Susan Sleeman's thrilling new novel about an FBI agent who must team up with a beautiful therapist to stop a killer with a deadly new weapon. Some fears haunt you forever.... As the ballistics and weapon's expert for the FBI's special task force nicknamed the White Knights, Rick Cannon has known the Department of Defense was developing self-steering bullets. Rick feared these smart bullets -- which have one hundred percent accuracy that can turn even a novice into a lethal sniper -- would eventually end up in the hands of the wrong people. But since the ammunition was still in the development stage, he figured they had plenty of time before that happened. He was wrong. Dead wrong. Until they become reality. When a homeless vet is killed with a smart bullet, it's clear that the ammunition has been stolen, and the Knights are called in to find the thief and stop the killings. But they aren't the only ones desperate to find the killer. Therapist Olivia Dobbs is well known for her success in counseling military veterans with PTSD. When she discovers one of her clients moments after he is murdered, she becomes both the FBI's prime witness, and suspect. Despite the mutual attraction that immediately sparks between them, Rick can't -- no he won't -- let Olivia interfere with his investigation. But when the sniper trains his rifle on her, Rick must recall all the skills he learned as a Marine sniper to make sure the next bullet fired isn't a kill shot that takes Olivia out.
The Cardinal rule for Knights is never fall for a client. But in a business were rules are meant to be broken, how can he resist... This emotionally gripping, steamy romance starts the Knights of Texas series with the introduction of the real purpose behind these exceptionally gifted men. If you're looking for heat, tear-jerking romance, and take-your-breath-away love, click now! Book One - Renner Showing a woman her worth is his specialty. Renner Shaw’s priority as a Knight—a luxury escort with Knights of Texas—is making clients feel safe and secure. Intimacy is a perk, and one of his fortes. A position he was surprised to be well suited for with his charm and unrivaled focus. But he never expected the likes of Cassie Summer to come calling. Cassie never expected to call an escort for the sole purpose of helping her sleep after a sudden tragedy. She certainly never anticipated the sizzling Renner Shaw would be the light that helps guide her out of grief. Only, it may be too late to salvage her splintered heart. Making his client feel safe and secure is harder than Renner ever imagined, but he’s determined to fulfill his role to perfection. To change her gray and dreary world into one of colorful pleasure. Knights of Texas novella series Now accepting clients. Noble pleasure seekers bring their expertise to showing a woman her true worth. Revealing a woman’s value is their devoted mission. These southern charmers can all but guarantee kindling a woman’s heart. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone, they do not have to be read in order
He's thrives on stealing hearts, until he meets the ultimate thief. Knights of Texas, novella series Book Three - Vaughn Vaughn Ayers' stellar dance skills and a carefree attitude steal women's hearts. His dashing smile demands the spotlight, an ideal fit in the Knights of Texas-- a luxury male escort agency. Until an old high school acquaintance hires him for a job. She was a nerdy misfit back then, but not anymore. The lustrous Latina lures him to a formal event, and steals much more than his heart. Cora Castillo's career exists in gray areas, with only her lock pick and crusader mentality in her toolbox. When she shires an escort to pose as a diversion, the last person she expects to walk in the door is her former high school crush in a tux. With her cover blown, and a high-stakes target minutes away, she'll have to sacrifice more than her date to succeed. Games and cons dance these heart-stealers in circles, until they spin themselves into a seductive web from which neither can escape. Knights of Texas Now accepting clients. Noble protectors of pleasure bring their expertise to showing a woman her true worth. Revealing a woman’s value is their devoted mission. These southern charmers can all but guarantee kindling a woman’s heart. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone, they do not have to be read in order.
An FBI agent must protect the woman who can identify a terrorist bomber in bestselling author Susan Sleeman's riveting romantic suspense novel. Each day could be her last. . .but not if he can help it. Tara Parrish is the only person ever to survive an attack by the Lone Wolf bomber. Scared and emotionally scarred by her near death, she goes into hiding with only one plan -- to stay alive for another day. She knows he's coming after her, and if he finds her, he will finish what he started. Agent Cal Riggins has had only one goal for the past six months -- to save lives by ending the Lone Wolf's bombing spree. To succeed, he needs the help of Tara Parrish, the one person who can lead them to the bomber. Cal puts his all into finding Tara, but once he locates her, he realizes if he can find her, the Lone Wolf can, too. He must protect Tara at all costs, and they'll both need to resist the mutual attraction growing between them to focus on hunting down the bomber, because one wrong move could be fatal.
Dorian breaks all the rules of a Knight. Life's too short to be bound by stupid rules, anyway. Marines, tattoos, and dark charm steal the limelight in the next installment of the Knights of Texas luxury male escort series! Dorian's humorous edge and off-the-cuff charisma will have you grinning and blushing like a romance reader virgin! If you want a super steamy romance and melt into the arms of a muscular, tattooed Marine, click now! Knights of Texas novella series Book Two - Dorian He thrives on temptation. Dorian West is the living embodiment of dark suave and charm, a role he relishes with the Knights of Texas—a luxury male escort agency. He’s determined to make every client feel her value, and enjoy life through seduction and vibrance. But despite his life of pleasure and showing women a good time, his true fascination is his neighbor, the captivating woman in 9C, Grace Evans. Grace’s sole focus is her job, and she avoids romantic connections at all costs. Her distaste for Don Juans and Casanovas makes her distrust all flirtatious men, despite Dorian’s persistence and enticing, muscular physique. Through chance and misunderstanding, she begrudgingly agrees to pretend to date Dorian to avoid the acidic limelight from her celebrity friend. But things go from chaos to catastrophe in the flash of a camera, and Dorian’s charm and talents are tested beyond its limits. Knights of Texas novella series Now accepting clients. Noble protectors of pleasure bring their expertise to showing a woman her true worth. Revealing a woman’s value is their devoted mission. These southern charmers can all but guarantee kindling a woman’s heart. Each book in the series can be read as a standalone, they do not have to be read in order
Centuries ago, when the earth was still young and sorcerers and fairies were believed to roam the misty forest, a mortal man changed history. Arthur, born into a dark world of savage violence, united the Britons against their enemies at the battle of Mount Badon. For centuries, Britons shared Arthur s story around their campfires. Eventually, the story passed out of the Dark Ages and into modern literature. Follow Arthur, his wife Guinevere, and the knights of the Round Table as the story evolves from a world of warlords and bloodshed into a kingdom of mythical medieval knights, sorcerers, love, and ultimately, betrayal.
Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote is a deep consideration of the intellectual environment that gave rise to Cervantes’ seminal work. Susan Byrne demonstrates how Cervantes synthesized the debates surrounding the two most authoritative discourses of his era – those of law and history – into a new aesthetic product, the modern novel. Byrne uncovers the empirical underpinnings of Don Quixote through a close philological study of Cervantes’ sly questioning of and commentary on these fields. As she skilfully demonstrates, while sixteenth-century historiographers and jurists across southern Europe sought the philosophical nexus of their fields, Cervantes created one through the adventures of a protagonist whose history is all about justice. As such, Law and History in Cervantes’ Don Quixote illustrates how Cervantes’ art highlighted the inconsistencies of juridical-historical texts and practice, as well as anticipated the ultimate resolution of their paradoxes.
Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast to the modern belief that identity precedes social performance and, indeed, that performance falsifies the true, inner self. Susan Crane resists the longstanding convictions that medieval rituals were trivial affairs, and that personal identity remained unarticulated until a later period. Focusing on England and France during the Hundred Years War, Crane draws on wardrobe accounts, manuscript illuminations, chronicles, archaeological evidence, and literature to recover the material as well as the verbal constructions of identity. She seeks intersections between theories of practice and performance that explain how appearances and language connect when courtiers dress as wild men to interrupt a wedding feast, when knights choose crests and badges to supplement their coats of arms, and when Joan of Arc cross-dresses for the court of inquisition after her capture.
Geoffrey Chaucer was arguably fourteenth-century England's greatest poet. In the nineteenth century, readers of Chaucer's early dream poems - the Book of the Duchess, House of Fame, and Parliament of Fowles - began to detect a tripartite model of his artistic development from a French to an Italian, and finally to an English phase. They fleshed out this model with the liberation narrative, the inspiring story of how Chaucer escaped the emasculating French house of bondage to become the generative father of English poetry. Although this division has now largely been dismissed, both the tripartite model and the accompanying liberation narrative persist in Chaucer criticism. In Chaucer's Queer Poetics, Susan Schibanoff interrogates why the tripartite model remains so tenacious even when literary history does not support it. Revealing deeply rooted Francophobic, homophobic, and nationalistic biases, Schibanoff examines the development paradigm and demonstrates that 'liberated Chaucer' depends on antiquated readings of key source texts for the dream trilogy. This study challenges the long held view the Chaucer fled the prison of effete French court verse to become the 'natural' English father poet and charts a new model of Chaucerian poetic development that discovers the emergence of a queer aesthetic in his work.
Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.
This second book in the four-volume narrative history series for elementary students will transform your study of history. The Story of the World has won awards from numerous homeschooling magazines and readers' polls—over 150,000 copies of the series in print! Now more than ever, other cultures are affecting our everyday lives—and our children need to learn about the other countries of the world and their history. Susan Wise Bauer has provided a captivating guide to the history of other lands. Written in an engaging, straightforward manner, this revised edition of The Story of the World: History for the Classical Child, Volume 2: The Middle Ages weaves world history into a story book format. Who discovered chocolate? What happened to the giant Fovor of the Mighty Blows? Why did the Ottoman Turks drag their war ships across dry land? The Story of the World covers the sweep of human history from ancient times until the present. Africa, China, Europe, the Americas—find out what happened all around the world in long-ago times. Designed as a read-aloud project for parents and children to share together, The Story of the World includes each continent and major people group. Volume 2: The Middle Ages, is the second of a four-volume series and covers the major historical events in the years 400 to 1600 CE, as well as including maps, illustrations, and tales from each culture. Each Story of the World volume provides a full year of history study when combined with the Activity Book, Audiobook, and Tests—each available separately to accompany each volume of The Story of the World Text Book. Volume 2 Grade Recommendation: Grades 1-6.
Baldwin of Boulogne was born the youngest of three sons and marked out for a clerical career, yet in turn he became a First Crusader, first Latin count of Edessa and the founder of the Latin kingdom of Jerusalem. Nevertheless, remarkably, he has never been the subject of a full-length biography. This study examines in detail the stages of Baldwin’s career, returning to the contemporary evidence to discover the qualities that enabled him not only to succeed his brother as ruler in 1100 but to maintain and expand the new kingdom of Jerusalem through the next eighteen years in the face of aggression from Muslim enemies and rivalry from fellow crusaders.
Discusses the drama that led to the Taft-Hartley Act being passed and the effect this piece of legislation has had in the development of the United States.
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