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Author : JL Ryan
Publisher : J.L. Ryan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 635 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Wolf Pack Protectors

Author : Liv Brywood
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781545445662
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (456 download)

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Download or read book Wolf Pack Protectors written by Liv Brywood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2017-04-22 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wolf Pack Protectors Books 1-3: The Complete Series Three tall, dark, and dangerously sexy alpha werewolves protect the BBW women they love. This complete, three book paranormal romance series is full of passion, fated mates, and suspense. Secret Seduction When a tall, dark and dangerously sexy Alpha werewolf rescues Diana from a vicious attack, she doesn't know who to fear more - her attacker or the wolf. She's heard whispered legends of a powerful werewolf but never believed such a creature could exist. Captured by the wolf, she's taken to his den, and to his bed. Feral Seduction Forced to take refuge in an abandoned cabin in the middle of the woods, Brandy thinks she's finally escaped her stalker. But she quickly realizes, she's not alone. An unimaginably sexy, and very naked, man appears in the middle of the night to offer her protection. She's captivated by his stormy eyes, until she learns his dark secret. She knows she could never tame him, but when he makes the ultimate sacrifice for her, she knows she can't live without him. The more he tries to resist her, the more she wants him and for once in her life, she intends to get what she wants. Deadly Seduction Gwen hasn't left the Silver Creek Pack's den since a devastating assault that scarred her body and still tortures her soul. But when Nosh, the alpha of the Dark Moon pack, is injured in a suspicious accident, she's forced to travel to his den. The healer-in-training draws on all her skills and saves the alpha, but soon he narrowly escapes another "accident." Someone in Nosh's pack is hell-bent on murdering him and everyone he cares about, and now Gwen has been targeted by a killer. Wolf Pack Protectors is a complete three book paranormal romance series. This is a stand-alone book series with no cliffhangers. Love scenes are fully realized and at times include explicit language.

M&M Mating Agency Boxed Set (BBW Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance)

Author : Celia Kyle
Publisher : Celia Kyle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book M&M Mating Agency Boxed Set (BBW Paranormal Shapeshifter Romance) written by Celia Kyle and published by Celia Kyle. This book was released on 2018-01-02 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All four of the M&M Mating Agency stories in one volume! Wanting a Mate - Sometimes a gal’s gotta admit defeat and decide how many cats she’s gonna have when she’s old and crazy… Hunting a Mate - Does love at first sniff exist? Archer and Paige seem to think so. Well, more like Archer says yes and Paige says no. But don’t worry, they’ll work it out in the bedroom. Protecting a Mate - Werebear Foster never imagined himself with a mate. Not when his massive animal is constantly on a hair trigger. He definitely didn’t think he’d end up with a sinfully sweet and curved in all the right places wereferret named Melanie Baxter. Buying a Mate - Mate a woman for her millions? Sign weredragon Taron Jones up! He didn’t begin life as a mercenary jerk, but being exiled from the clan tends to make a man willing to do a lot to survive. Including mating a human female who isn’t truly his mate. Or is she?

Feral Seduction

Author : Liv Brywood
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781511422062
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book Feral Seduction written by Liv Brywood and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2015-04-01 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forced to take refuge in an abandoned cabin in the middle of the woods, Brandy thinks she's finally escaped her stalker. But she quickly realizes, she's not alone. An unimaginably sexy, and very naked, man appears in the middle of the night to offer her protection. She's captivated by his stormy eyes, until she learns his dark secret. She knows she could never tame him, but when he makes the ultimate sacrifice for her, she knows she can't live without him. The more he tries to resist her, the more she wants him and for once in her life, she intends to get what she wants. Stryde, the reclusive alpha wolf of the Dark Moon Pack, doesn't believe in love. Fate claimed the life of his mate and he refuses to spend more than a few nights with any woman. But when he meets Brandy, she turns his world inside out. Haunted by the failures of his past, he's compelled to help her. Even though he wants to return to his reclusive life, he can't. Her dangerously sexy curves and feral seduction awaken his body, but he can't offer her more than a few nights of fleeting pleasure. There isn't a woman in the world that can heal his shattered soul.

The Cowbear's Curvy Valentine

Author : Liv Brywood
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781530177493
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (774 download)

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Download or read book The Cowbear's Curvy Valentine written by Liv Brywood and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-03-05 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: After losing the trial of the century, disgraced lawyer Abigail Holt flees the unforgiving press in Dallas. With only the clothes on her back, she ends up driving to the small town of West Yellowstone. She needs to hide for a while, just long enough to figure out how she's going to move forward with her life. The Curvy Bear Ranch seems like the perfect place to retreat. But when she meets Cody Grant, a tall, sexy cowboy with bedroom eyes and a panty-melting six-pack, she wonders if she's headed for another disaster. She has no idea that the man she secretly craves is hiding a huge, furry secret. When Cody meets Abby, her curves set his body on fire. His bear can't wait to claim her as his mate, but Cody isn't ready to commit. He's not interested in dating another broken woman. With his last, failed relationship in mind, he agrees to her no-strings-attached proposition. But after one mind-blowing night together, he agrees with his bear. He'll do whatever it takes to convince his fated mate that they belong together. And he's very, very convincing with his naughty tongue. This is the fifth book in the paranormal bear romance series - Curvy Bear Ranch. This is a stand-alone book with NO CLIFFHANGERS. Love scenes are fully realized and at times include explicit language.

The Empath

Author : Bonnie Vanak
Publisher : Silhouette
ISBN 13 : 1426810067
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book The Empath written by Bonnie Vanak and published by Silhouette. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE WOLF MUST HAVE A MATE TO SURVIVE... Nicolas was the strongest and fiercest of the Draicon, until he was banished for a trumped-up crime. Now the werewolf has only one path to redemption: find the Draicon's long-lost empath, the woman who will save the pack--and Nicolas himself--from terrible danger. Maggie Sinclair is a veterinarian, dedicated to healing. She has no idea of her true nature, the magic waiting in her soul--or the man coming to claim her. The survival of their pack depends on them finding each other, on their ability to become one. But their enemies have also found Maggie, and will kill to stop her awakening to an all-consuming passion...

Willful Depravity

Author : Ingrid Hahn
Publisher : Entangled: Scorched
ISBN 13 : 1640637567
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Willful Depravity written by Ingrid Hahn and published by Entangled: Scorched. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Giles Warrington Hale, Marquess of Ashcroft, was born to do two things. Paint and rut. But lately, nobody but Miss Patience Emery has inspired him. The moment he sees her, he knows he must paint her and have her-- anywhere and everywhere. After a lifetime of trying to appear smaller, Patience no longer cares what anyone thinks. She’s resigned herself to a life having a man in her dreams only. But when the mysterious Lord Ashcroft approaches her with a chance to act on her bold, scandalous, and depraved desires, she suddenly sees her opportunity to indulge in every wicked fantasy she’s ever had... Note: This erotic romance features a BBW heroine and a scandalous hero.

Beautiful Disaster Signed Limited Edition

Author : Jamie McGuire
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1476719071
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Beautiful Disaster Signed Limited Edition written by Jamie McGuire and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2012-11-27 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abby Abernathy is re-inventing herself as the good girl as she begins her freshman year at college, which is why she must resist lean, cut, and tattooed Travis Maddox, a classic bad boy.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Author : John Berendt
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 0679429220
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (794 download)

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Download or read book Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil written by John Berendt and published by Random House. This book was released on 1994-01-13 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A modern classic of true crime, set in a most beguiling Southern city—now in a 30th anniversary edition with a new afterword by the author “Elegant and wicked . . . might be the first true-crime book that makes the reader want to book a bed and breakfast for an extended weekend at the scene of the crime.”—The New York Times Book Review Shots rang out in Savannah’s grandest mansion in the misty, early morning hours of May 2, 1981. Was it murder or self-defense? For nearly a decade, the shooting and its aftermath reverberated throughout this hauntingly beautiful city of moss-hung oaks and shaded squares. In this sharply observed, suspenseful, and witty narrative, John Berendt skillfully interweaves a hugely entertaining first-person account of life in this isolated remnant of the Old South with the unpredictable twists and turns of a landmark murder case. It is a spellbinding story peopled by a gallery of remarkable characters: the well-bred society ladies of the Married Woman’s Card Club; the turbulent young gigolo; the hapless recluse who owns a bottle of poison so powerful it could kill every man, woman, and child in Savannah; the aging and profane Southern belle who is the “soul of pampered self-absorption”; the uproariously funny drag queen; the acerbic and arrogant antiques dealer; the sweet-talking, piano-playing con artist; young people dancing the minuet at the black debutante ball; and Minerva, the voodoo priestess who works her magic in the graveyard at midnight. These and other Savannahians act as a Greek chorus, with Berendt revealing the alliances, hostilities, and intrigues that thrive in a town where everyone knows everyone else. Brilliantly conceived and masterfully written, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is a sublime and seductive reading experience.

Alpha's Prey

Author : Renee Rose
Publisher : Midnight Romance, LLC
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alpha's Prey written by Renee Rose and published by Midnight Romance, LLC. This book was released on 2021-05-24 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BENDING HER TO THE BEAR’S WILL The human thinks I’m stalking her. Maybe I am. But I’m not the only one. There’s something evil in these woods and it preys on single women. I’m not about to let the sexy scientist fall into its lair. Even if that means holding her prisoner in my cabin. Keeping her where I can see her at all times. Bending her to my bear’s will. Just until the storm passes. Until her research is finished. Then I’ll let her go. I swear. Publisher’s Note: Alpha’s Prey is a stand-alone book in the Bad Boy Alpha’s series. HEA guaranteed, no cheating. This book contains a grouchy, manly bear with a penchant for protecting and dominating his female. If such material offends you, do not buy this book.

The Scorpion's Mate

Author : Susan Trombley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781095479162
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (791 download)

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Download or read book The Scorpion's Mate written by Susan Trombley and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-16 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a full-length, science-fiction, alien abduction romance that was previously released as part of a two-book collection introducing the first books in two series. Each book is now being released separately. This revised edition of The Scorpion's Mate has some small changes from the original. Claire has never really fit in with everyone around her, but she's carved out a life for herself using her own unique style and artistic ability to support herself on the Internet. The last thing she expects is to be abducted by aliens and dropped into a research facility, where a genetically-engineered alien soldier chooses her as his life-mate. Thrax's pheromones are compelling, and his status as a fellow unwilling test subject makes them allies, but Claire isn't certain she can trust someone who is convinced she belongs to him, when all she wants to do is find a way to return home to Earth-a place that her devoted alien can never follow, because there's no way the scorpion-like alien would ever be able to pass for human. Still, she'll accept help where she can find it, so she doesn't hesitate to escape with Thrax from the facility, though their time running from their pursuers in the warrens beneath the research facility will forever change Claire, and could make it impossible for her to return to Earth. But will there be anywhere else in the galaxy they can go where their love will be accepted?Author's Note: 18+ only, this book contains scenes of graphic intimacy and violence that are not intended for younger readers. Also, please note that the hero in this book is not human-looking and possesses an appearance and attributes that may not be comfortable for some readers to read about.

The Emperor of All Maladies

Author : Siddhartha Mukherjee
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439170916
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book The Emperor of All Maladies written by Siddhartha Mukherjee and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2011-08-09 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and a documentary from Ken Burns on PBS, this New York Times bestseller is “an extraordinary achievement” (The New Yorker)—a magnificent, profoundly humane “biography” of cancer—from its first documented appearances thousands of years ago through the epic battles in the twentieth century to cure, control, and conquer it to a radical new understanding of its essence. Physician, researcher, and award-winning science writer, Siddhartha Mukherjee examines cancer with a cellular biologist’s precision, a historian’s perspective, and a biographer’s passion. The result is an astonishingly lucid and eloquent chronicle of a disease humans have lived with—and perished from—for more than five thousand years. The story of cancer is a story of human ingenuity, resilience, and perseverance, but also of hubris, paternalism, and misperception. Mukherjee recounts centuries of discoveries, setbacks, victories, and deaths, told through the eyes of his predecessors and peers, training their wits against an infinitely resourceful adversary that, just three decades ago, was thought to be easily vanquished in an all-out “war against cancer.” The book reads like a literary thriller with cancer as the protagonist. Riveting, urgent, and surprising, The Emperor of All Maladies provides a fascinating glimpse into the future of cancer treatments. It is an illuminating book that provides hope and clarity to those seeking to demystify cancer.

The Teen Years Explained

Author : Clea McNeely
Publisher : Jayne Blanchard
ISBN 13 : 0615302467
Total Pages : 125 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Teen Years Explained written by Clea McNeely and published by Jayne Blanchard. This book was released on 2010-05 with total page 125 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guide incorporates the latest scientific findings about physical, emotional, cognitive, identity formation, sexual and spiritual development in adolescent, with tips and strategies on how to use this information inreal-life situations involving teens.

Fat Girl

Author : Leigh Carron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780993844904
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (449 download)

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Download or read book Fat Girl written by Leigh Carron and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Years after fleeing small-town Springvale, Illinois, Deanna Chase has picked up the pieces of her shattered heart and built a new life for herself as a child advocacy lawyer. Her food addiction is quasi under control, her secrets are buried, and she has even made a tenuous peace with her plus-size body. Until...Micah Peters--the very sexy and now famous man she fled-- walks through her office door and sends Dee reeling. His demand that she help a young boy caught in a custody battle will reunite her with the past she left behind.Torn between duty and self-preservation, Dee isn't easy to convince. But when obligation wins, the former lovers get more than they bargained for--a searing passion that burns hotter than ever and startling revelations about what really happened the fateful night she left.Will the truth set Dee free to love again? Or will past hurts and lingering insecurities destine her to walk away from her heart again, this time for good?FAT GIRL is the first book in this provocative two-part series about love and self-acceptance.

Guilty Pleasures

Author : Laurell K. Hamilton
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1101146389
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Guilty Pleasures written by Laurell K. Hamilton and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2002-09-24 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meet Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter, in the first novel in the #1 New York Times bestselling series that “blends the genres of romance, horror and adventure with stunning panache”(Diana Gabaldon). Laurell K. Hamilton’s bestselling series has captured readers’ wildest imaginations and addicted them to a seductive world where supernatural hungers collide with the desires of the human heart, starring a heroine like no other... Anita Blake is small, dark, and dangerous. Her turf is the city of St. Louis. Her job: re-animating the dead and killing the undead who take things too far. But when the city’s most powerful vampire asks her to solve a series of vicious slayings, Anita must confront her greatest fear—her undeniable attraction to master vampire Jean-Claude, one of the creatures she is sworn to destroy... “What The Da Vinci Code did for the religious thriller, the Anita Blake series has done for the vampire novel.”—USA Today

White Women, Black Men

Author : Martha Hodes
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300173679
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book White Women, Black Men written by Martha Hodes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2014-07-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first to explore the history of a powerful category of illicit sex in America’s past: liaisons between Southern white women and black men. Martha Hodes tells a series of stories about such liaisons in the years before the Civil War, explores the complex ways in which white Southerners tolerated them in the slave South, and shows how and why these responses changed with emancipation. Hodes provides details of the wedding of a white servant-woman and a slave man in 1681, an antebellum rape accusation that uncovered a relationship between an unmarried white woman and a slave, and a divorce plea from a white farmer based on an adulterous affair between his wife and a neighborhood slave. Drawing on sources that include courtroom testimony, legislative petitions, pardon pleas, and congressional testimony, she presents the voices of the authorities, eyewitnesses, and the transgressors themselves—and these voices seem to say that in the slave South, whites were not overwhelmingly concerned about such liaisons, beyond the racial and legal status of the children that were produced. Only with the advent of black freedom did the issue move beyond neighborhood dramas and into the arena of politics, becoming a much more serious taboo than it had ever been before. Hodes gives vivid examples of the violence that followed the upheaval of war, when black men and white women were targeted by the Ku Klux Klan and unprecedented white rage and terrorism against such liaisons began to erupt. An era of terror and lynchings was inaugurated, and the legacy of these sexual politics lingered well into the twentieth century.

The Leaving

Author : Tara Altebrando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 1619638045
Total Pages : 412 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (196 download)

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Download or read book The Leaving written by Tara Altebrando and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six were taken. Eleven years later, five come back--with no idea of where they've been. A riveting mystery for fans of We Were Liars. Eleven years ago, six kindergartners went missing without a trace. After all that time, the people left behind moved on, or tried to. Until today. Today five of those kids return. They're sixteen, and they are . . . fine. Scarlett comes home and finds a mom she barely recognizes, and doesn't really recognize the person she's supposed to be, either. But she thinks she remembers Lucas. Lucas remembers Scarlett, too, except they're entirely unable to recall where they've been or what happened to them. Neither of them remember the sixth victim, Max--the only one who hasn't come back. Which leaves Max's sister, Avery, wanting answers. She wants to find her brother--dead or alive--and isn't buying this whole memory-loss story. But as details of the disappearance begin to unfold, no one is prepared for the truth. This unforgettable novel--with its rich characters, high stakes, and plot twists--will leave readers breathless.