Brock Harper has his heart set on vengeance and is willing to do whatever it takes to get it. After suffering at the hands of the local drug crew, he's now back as an active Port Divine Police Officer. He hits the drug crew hard, following up on any intelligence that points in the direction of Casey Daniels or his crew. He never thought it would lead him to Faith McLeod. She was a sassy, colourful and genuine woman and he'd pretty much run from her the last time he'd seen her. Now, there was no running from her. Her life was in danger. And he was the reason behind it. He had to protect her. But would he be able to keep his heart protected from her?
Aimee Carruthers is unprepared for the violent nature of the man before her. His cunning to attack her so brazenly is frightening but it hardly compares to the self-possession she can see on his face. It’s clear to her that he is unafraid and completely intent on doing her harm like he had his three other victims. Honour Bound, a romance/action novel, is set in the fictional city of Port Divine on the east coast of Australia. The tough, smart mouthed, stubborn heroine is Aimee Carruthers, a Senior Constable with the Port Divine Police. Her life as a cop began five years ago, when she requested Port Divine as her training ground, an area the rest of her fellow probationary constables had retreated from with a hint of disgust and a large dose of fear. Aimee has a point to prove. Port Divine is a tough city, riddled with drugs, prostitution, organised crime and delinquents. Aimee lives and breathes the life of a cop and so far she’s had a somewhat turbulent but successful career. She’s self sufficient. She doesn’t need anyone looking out for her - especially not Tactical Response Group Officer Xavier Symonds. Aimee is drawn into an impossible situation when her life is threatened by a fellow officer, an officer she respected. An officer she has worked with for the past five years. Aimee faces the brutal truth about her vulnerability as a cop and as a living breathing human being. No one has ever succeeded in doing that before now unless she considered Xavier Symonds and the vulnerability he made her feel as a woman. Forces come together to find a way to combat the enemy. To keep Aimee out of harm’s way. She refuses to go home to her family. She’s a Port Divine Police Officer, something she takes great pride in. She isn’t about to let some turncoat officer tarnish the name of the Port Divine Police, or the reputation of the honourable officers that put their lives on the line every day. She’s adamant she’s staying, regardless that her life remains in danger. But relying on others to keep her safe doesn’t come easily. As much as she wants to believe she can live her life alone and protect herself, having Xavier by her side without question has her thinking that life without him wasn’t going to cut it. Facing the traitor who wants her dead Aimee relies on her instincts, drawing on her courage, and her reserves of strength to get her through. It’s not the only time she’ll need them. She has something to share with Xavier, something she didn’t know she so dearly wanted until now.
Midnight, January 1: time for a big change. Time to make a New Year’s resolution to find romance—or else! Say Yes by Christie Ridgway Cautious florist Ashley Walker is excited to embark on her “Year of Yes” no matter what happens. But accepting a surprise job offer leads to an awkward discovery: she’s hot for her millionaire boss, Chase Bradley! No More Bad Girls by Leslie Kelly Scorched by a string of nightmare ex-girlfriends, Lex Rollins resolves to date only nice women…then is lured by siren Lia before midnight! But Lia is really Amelia, a good girl playing naughty for a night. Can a blind date as their real selves uncover their true desires? Just a Fling by Tanya Michaels Shy, insecure Erin Cross makes two bold resolutions: (A) get on a plane, and (B) have a fling. In pursuit of Option A, she’s mistaken for a key witness in a mob trial and whisked away by a sexy FBI agent! Which just leaves Option B…
Three bad boys return to their Texas hometowns, where three women discover bad boys can change their ways in this sizzling trio of stories from acclaimed romance authors Jane Graves, Dorien Kelly, and Tanya Michaels. Includes bonus features. Original.
[Siren Classic: Erotic May-December Romance, public exhibition, sex toys, HEA] When Lacey Fulton wakes up to find a young, mouth-watering hunk in her bed, she thinks she's died and gone to heaven. While the sexy, carefree, playful and much younger bartender meets none of the requirements on her Mr. Right checklist, Lacey figures he could be her Mr. Right Now. Reilly Callaghan wants Lacey in his bed and not just for a short time. He will stop at nothing to have her, including exploring all of Lacey's X-rated fantasies. From the bed to the shower and every room in between, the normally shy and self-conscious Lacey transforms into a bold, confident woman. Now Reilly must convince her that he is Mr. Right and to forget her damn list. When things go from casual to complicated, Lacey must decide whether to play it safe or take a chance. Can she let go of her past and find happiness with Reilly? ** A Siren Erotic Romance
Love, Tanya is the first book from YouTube sensation Tanya Burr. Hi everyone and welcome to Love, Tanya! This book is really close to my heart, because it's inspired by my journey to becoming confident and feeling happy about who I am. I wanted to write a book to share the things I've learnt with you - to reveal my top tips on fashion, beauty, love, friendship, YouTube... and loads more! Plus, there is room for you to list your own hopes and dreams alongside mine - so get creative and get involved! I'd love it if this book became a keepsake you can turn to whenever you need some guidance or a little pick me up. I hope you enjoy it! Love, Tanya
ERFÜLL MIR MEINE FANTASIEN von MICHAELS, TANYA Netzstrümpfe, Highheels, eine ultraheiße Korsage: Daniel bekommt einen trockenen Mund. Das ist doch Mia! Schon im College ging sie ihm unter die Haut. Damals war er viel zu schüchtern - jetzt muss er schnell handeln, wenn er die Kellnerin beim Junggesellenabschied verführen will ... WILD, HEIß - UNWIDERSTEHLICH! von HAVENS, CANDACE Brodys intensiver Blick verrät Mari, woran er gerade denkt: Sex. Das macht sie heiß! Ihren neuen Nachbarn, diesen durchtrainierten Marine, würde sie gern sehr viel besser kennen lernen. Da kommt ihre große Valentinsparty gerade recht: Er soll bleiben, wenn alle anderen gehen ... SCHOCKVERLIEBT IN SAN FRANCISCO von STEVENS, KELLY Aber hallo! Ein junger, nackter Mann öffnet Kristen die Tür. Eigentlich ist sie hier mit einem Kunden verabredet, für den sie das Haus umbauen soll. Stattdessen lässt sich Kristen auf einen Quickie mit dem unwiderstehlichen Adonis ein. Nicht ahnend, wer er wirklich ist ... UNDERCOVER MIT 007 von LEIGH, JO Als jemand in sein Hotelbett schlüpft, glaubt FBI-Agent Ryan Vail, seine Kollegin Jeannie sei angereist, mit der er undercover als Ehepaar ermittelt. Irrtum! Das Office hat ihm Angie Wolf in das Luxushotel geschickt. Sexy und verführerisch - das wird ein harter Fall für Ryan ...
Friend against friend. Brother against brother. Is there any hope for a merry Christmas? At just twelve years old, Thomas can feel the weight of the Kelly family crumbling down around him. All he wanted for Christmas was to spend time with his sick mother, but due to doctor's orders, that precious gift wasn't to be. Instead, he's stuck with the Kelly's, watching them behave like children instead of folks he's supposed to look up to and learn from. When Charlotte and Liam Kelly decide to take in young Thomas Brennan while his mother recovers from a life-threatening illness, their hearts are in the right place. Charity begins at home, after all. Until that is, Charlotte invites the entire family back to Kelly's keep to celebrate the holiday season. Tensions are high and tempers are near boiling, leaving Charlotte to question everything. Can Thomas's sweet and rambunctious nature remind these headstrong Kellys of the true meaning of Christmas?
Goggle Man and his trusty sidekick, Banjo, save the day again! This time, Goggle Man's sister, Casey, is along for the ride. Come along on their adventure!
A tantalizing selection of stories from some of the best female authors who’ve helped define the modern vampire. Bram Stoker was hardly the first author—male or female—to fictionalize the folkloric vampire, but he defined the modern iconic vampire when Dracula appeared in 1897. Since then, many have reinterpreted the ever-versatile vampire over and over again—and female writers have played vital roles in proving that the vampire, as well as our perpetual fascination with it, is truly immortal. These authors have devised some of the most fascinating, popular, and entertaining of our many vampiric variations: suavely sensual . . . fascinating but fatal . . . sexy and smart . . . undead but prone to detection . . . tormented or terrifying . . . amusing or amoral . . . doomed or deadly . . . badass and beautiful . . . cutting-edge or classic . . . Blood Sisters collects a wide range of fantastical stories from New York Times bestsellers Holly Black, Nancy Holder, Catherynne M. Valente, and Carrie Vaughn, and critically acclaimed writers Chelsea Quinn Yarbro and Tanith Lee, all of whom have left their indelible and unique stamps on the vampire genre. Whether they are undeniably heroes and heroines or bloodthirsty monsters (or something in between), the undead are a lively lot. This anthology offers some of the best short fiction ever written by the “blood sisters” who know them best: stories you can really sink your teeth into.
It's Kelly's turn in school for show-and-tell. She takes along her favourite thing and talks about where it came from and how. It's small and light and shiny all over. And, it never goes to waste but keeps coming back. It's Al, the can! Let Kelly take you on a can's journey from nature to your home!
First as a doe-eyed ingénue with “As Tears Go By,” then as a gravel-voiced phoenix rising from the ashes of the 1960s with a landmark punk album, Broken English, and finally as a genre-less icon, Marianne Faithfull carved her name into the history of rock ’n’ roll to chart a career spanning five decades and multiple detours. In Why Marianne Faithfull Matters, Tanya Pearson crafts a feminist account that explains the musician’s absence from the male-dominated history of the British Invasion and champions the eclectic late career that confirmed her redemption. Putting memoir on equal footing with biographical history, Pearson writes about Faithfull as an avid fan, recovered addict, and queer musician at a crossroads. She’s also a professional historian unafraid to break from the expectations of the discipline if a “titty-centered analysis” or astrology can illuminate the work of her subject. Whether exploring Faithfull’s rise to celebrity, her drug addiction and fall from grace as spurned “muse,” or her reinvention as a sober, soulful chanteuse subverting all expectations for an aging woman in music, Pearson affirms the deep connections between listeners and creators and reveals, in her own particular way, why Marianne Faithfull matters.
Explores the proliferation of true crime audiovisual texts across multiple media platforms. Justice on Demand: True Crime in the Digital Streaming Eraoffers a theoretical rumination on the question asked in countless blogs and opinion pieces of the last decade: Why are we so obsessed with true crime? Author Tanya Horeck takes this question further: Why is true crime thought to be such a good vehicle for the new modes of viewer/listener engagement favored by online streaming and consumption in the twenty-first century? Examining a range of audiovisual true crime texts, from podcasts such as Serialand My Favorite Murderto long-form crime documentaries such as The Jinxand Making a Murderer,Horeck considers the extent to which the true crime genre has come to epitomize participatory media culture where the listener/viewer acts as a "desktop detective" or "internet sleuth." While Facebook and Twitter have re-invigorated the notion of the armchair detective, Horeck questions the rhetoric of interactivity surrounding true crime formats and points to the precarity of justice in the social media era. In a cultural moment in which user-generated videos of real-life violence surface with an alarming frequency, Justice on Demandaddresses what is at stake in the cultural investment in true crime as packaged mainstream entertainment. Paying close attention to the gendered and racialized dimensions of true crime media, Horeck examines objects that are not commonly considered "true crime," including the subgenre of closed-circuit television (CCTV) elevator assault videos and the popularity of trailers for true crime documentaries on YouTube. By analyzing a range of intriguing case studies, Horeck explores how the audience is affectively imagined, addressed, and commodified by contemporary true crime in an "on demand" mediascape. As a fresh investigation of how contemporary variations of true crime raise significant ethical questions regarding what it means to watch, listen, and "witness" in a digital era of accessibility, immediacy, and instantaneity, Justice on Demandwill be of interest to film, media, and digital studies scholars.
**Shortlisted for the 2021 Ned Kelly Award for True Crime** Shocking real-life stories of murderous women who used rat poison to rid themselves of husbands and other inconvenient family members. For readers of compelling history and true crime, from critically acclaimed, award-winning author Tanya Bretherton. After World War II, Sydney experienced a crime wave that was chillingly calculated. Discontent mixed with despair, greed with callous disregard. Women who had lost their wartime freedoms headed back into the kitchen with sinister intent and the household poison thallium, normally used to kill rats, was repurposed to kill husbands and other inconvenient family members. Yvonne Fletcher disposed of two husbands. Caroline Grills cheerfully poisoned her stepmother, a family friend, her brother and his wife. Unlike arsenic or cyanide, thallium is colourless, odourless and tasteless; victims were misdiagnosed as insane malingerers or ill due to other reasons. And once one death was attributed to natural causes, it was all too easy for an aggrieved woman to kill again. This is the story of a series of murders that struck at the very heart of domestic life. It's the tale of women who looked for deadly solutions to what they saw as impossible situations. The Husband Poisoner documents the reasons behind the choices these women made - and their terrible outcomes.
The Body Life Skills program offers a simple, practical, user friendly and life changing 3-step process that brings about lasting behaviour change. Individuals, families and industries related to challenging and/or unwanted behaviour, mental health and psychological well-being are reporting a steady rise in negative statistics. This is concerning and suggests the current and traditional approach is clearly not working. The Body Life Skills program presents a series of books that will revolutionise Behaviour Change, Psychological Well-Being and Mental Health for all those ready and willing to take an honest look at the current approach and appreciate we need another way. The Body Life Skills program, when implemented successfully, brings about positive and lasting change for individuals, families, groups, organisations and government departments, even in cases when other attempts have failed. This series is for those who are serious about bringing true and lasting change. The Body Life Skills program is suitable for anyone ready to truly understand and change unwanted behaviour used by self or any other person right across the board.
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