![]() ![]() I yearn to know his secrets, yearn for him to surrender to me as I have surrendered to him. But there are dark places within Damien that not even our wildest passion can touch. To let the fire that burns between us consume us both. I want us to possess each other beyond the sweetest edge of our ecstasy, into the deepest desires of our souls. I have agreed to be his alone, and now I want him to be fully mine. Beautiful and brilliant yet tortured at his core, he is in every way my match. Damien Stark?s need is palpable?his need for pleasure, his need for control, his need for me. For me, it is fiercely, blindingly, real. This sexy, emotionally charged romance continues the story of Damien Stark, the powerful multimillionaire who?s never had to take ?no? for an answer, and Nikki Fairchild, the Southern belle who only says ?yes? on her own terms.For Damien, our obsession is a game. Kenner comes the second novel in the fast-paced trilogy that started with Release Me. ![]()
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![]() ![]() The narration is by one of my favorite, versatile narrators, Meghan Kelly. ![]() An easy listen, it is a great whodunit, keeping me engaged and wondering until the very end! What a surprise! The perfect weekend listen, I highly recommend it. But now given the chance by her boss to do some investigative reporting to find the killer, she is looking to advance at her job and clear herself as well as her best friend! The question is will she be able to do it? Will she find herself in the midst of something bigger? And what about the attraction between herself and her editor? Will it be a conflict? This is so much fun. Jogging is one, and this day, she finds her daughter's Algebra teacher dead in her path. There is a good story, a little humor and even a little romance! Colleen Caruso, recently divorced is trying to make some changes to her life. There is nothing better than a good cozy mystery and Jo-Ann Lamon Reccoppa delivers with New Math is Murder. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Andrew learns that she is a Bridgerton, he knows he will likely have to wed her to avert a scandal - though Poppy has no idea that he is the son of an earl and neighbour to her aristocratic cousins in Kent. But no, she is very real - and his duty to the Crown means he's stuck with her.Ĭan two wrongs make the most perfect right? Surely, his imagination is getting the better of him. Setting sail on a time-sensitive voyage to Portugal, he's stunned to find a woman waiting for him in his cabin. Known to society as a rascal and reckless privateer, Captain Andrew James Rokesby actually transports essential goods and documents for the British government. But her delight turns to dismay when two pirates kidnap her and take her aboard a ship, leaving her bound and gagged on the captain's bed. While visiting a friend on the Dorset coast, Poppy is pleasantly surprised to discover a smugglers' hideaway tucked inside a cave. ![]() Sadly, none of the fools from her London season qualify. Return to the world of the Bridgertons.įiercely independent and adventurous, Poppy Bridgerton will only wed a suitor whose keen intellect and interests match her own. ![]() ![]() I couldn’t see wel in the dim light, but I could tel this shirt wasn’t mine, or rather, wasn’t Shay’s borrowed sweater-the one I’d been wearing the night everything changed. ![]() The fabric was smooth, with no sign of rips or tears from the crossbow bolts. My fingers moved along the surface of my shirt. It took me a moment to realize that the screams had been my own, each cry clawing my throat until it was raw. Wolfsbane (Nightshade Series 2) by Andrea Robertson 4.5 (426) Paperback 11.99 12. I took a couple of painful swal ows, trying to moisten my parched mouth. The room became stil, flooded with silence. ![]() I sat up with a gasp, blinking into the shadows. A terrible weight pressed into my chest, making me struggle for each breath as I lay drowning in my own blood. ![]() To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:ĭante, PurgatorioONEI COULDN’T SHUT OUT the screams. Calla Tor wakes up in the lair of the Searchers, her sworn enemy, and shes certain her days are numbered. ![]() ![]() ![]() Grant, dedicated to Christie and her Belgian sleuth.) Right from the opening titles, viewers are plunged into a world of high deco: Suchet’s face is shattered, by means of some very 1980s VFX, into triangular shards reminiscent of Juan Gris’s fragmentary cubism a steam train straight out of a Cassandre poster rockets past the stylised silhouette of Giles Gilbert Scott’s Battersea Power Station, presumably following the highly glamorous Victoria-to-Clapham Junction rail route. (To celebrate the centenary of Poirot’s first appearance in the UK, ITV has produced an hour-long documentary, presented by Richard E. ![]() ![]() (The film from 2017, starring Kenneth Branagh with a great Nietzschean shrub of facial topiary, takes place on a reimagined fantasy version of the train that acquires an austere Bauhaus quality.) But much of the credit for the symbiotic relationship between Poirot and art deco has to go to the makers of the long-running series of ITV dramas starring David Suchet, aired between 19, which have come to be regarded as definitive adaptations. ![]() The obvious answer is that many of his most celebrated cases were written in the 1920s and ’30s, and took place in up-to-date environments such as the Orient Express, lavishly furnished in the deco style. Entrance hall of Eltham Palace, Greenwich, in 2008. ![]() ![]() The author considers all these elements within the context of Ian Gibbons’ suicide, Tyler Shultz’s and Erika Cheung’s attempts to warn others about their concerns, and Alan Beam’s reluctance to keep defending Theranos against complaints from unhappy doctors. It also details a string of employees who were disillusioned with the company or left it. The rest of the story then covers Theranos’s financial growth, commercial success, and scientific struggles. It also discusses how one of the engineers who worked for Theranos became suspicious about what he saw happening there, eventually leaving his job as well.” ![]() ![]() The story then shifts to Elizabeth Holmes’ childhood and describes how that influenced her desire to make a lot of money and do good for people. The book begins by describing how the author was fired from her job at Theranos after she raised concerns about the company’s practices. The final quarter of the book describes events surrounding John Carreyrou’s writing about Theranos for the Wall Street Journal. The first three quarters of the book are written from a journalistic perspective and describe how Theranos came to be, as well as its meteoric rise to fame. ![]() ![]() The following book is an in-depth look at Theranos, a Silicon Valley startup that was lead by Elizabeth Holmes. ![]() ![]() A small, neglected dog who desperately deserved a forever home. ![]() ![]() It's there where he discovers Halley her daughter, a girl with a bright personality, warm and wonderfully written, who is determined to fight her diagnosis. So Ben spends his free time nestled within bookshelves at the library with Mrs Lorentz to keep him company. Their relationship was breathtakingly beautiful, so when their cosy little family of two soon became three, I was so emotionally overwhelmed and placed my faith in that When Friendship Followed Me Home wouldn't destroy me.īut it did, and I loved each and every moment.īen is compassionate and sensitive young man who not only is the target of an aggressive school bully, but is hesitant to form friendships as he and Tess plan to move to Florida shortly. ![]() He's only twelve, but such an old soul who now feels a sense of family thanks to Tess, a kindhearted speech therapist who adopted Ben two years prior. When Friendship Followed Me Home is an incredibly poignant yet beautiful middle grade read that proves even in the darkest moments throughout our lives, someone is always willing to leave the light on.įrom the first instance readers are introduced to Ben, you can feel how remarkable this young man is. ![]() ![]() (Among the book’s many pleasures are the ways Mantel evokes her protagonist’s shifts in persona, from trusted minister to cruel inquisitor to gentle mentor, brilliantly capturing the teasing bonhomie of young men at work and play.)Ĭromwell’s wounded inner child spurs him on as he seeks to loosen England from the iron grips of pope and aristocracy, a transformation not without peril: “These broils begin the same, and from age to age they end the same. He’s wildly successful: beheading nobles, burning monks at the stake, liquidating abbeys, racking up title after title while enriching his household. ![]() The novel unfolds over the last four years of Cromwell’s life, opening in the aftermath of Anne Boleyn’s execution as he pursues power for power’s sake. It’s a stunning capstone to an epic that’s both engrossing history and an unsurpassed literary achievement. Her new book, “The Mirror and the Light,” brings home Mantel’s trilogy to the place where she began: Cromwell calculating the odds against him as enemies plot in the shadows. In “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” both winners of the Booker Prize, Hilary Mantel charted the rise of Thomas Cromwell - lowborn son of a blacksmith, sometime mercenary and protégé of the illustrious Cardinal Wolsey - to the king’s adviser and alter ego. ![]() ![]() From his first wife, Katherine of Aragon, to his sixth and final spouse, Catherine Parr, the Tudor monarch Henry VIII married for love as well as for politics, but his most potent and enduring union was with another man. ![]() ![]() ![]() Vino & Veritas, the series, provides the reader with more opportunities to explore Sarina Bowen’s wonderful True North world. I think the answer lies somewhere on Whit’s lips… Like why a straight man suddenly can’t stop thinking about kissing another guy. Whit challenges me in every aspect of my life, from my hatred of hockey to the new questions I’m asking myself. Watching him flirt with other guys made things complicated. ![]() He’s newly out and desperate to meet someone, but his eagerness seems to scare potential hook-ups away.Īgreeing to be his wingman should’ve been simple. ![]() He’s a hockey player, and I hate everything to do with the sport that broke my heart.īut I can’t help feeling sorry for the guy. When I first met Whit, I couldn’t get away from him fast enough. A straight guy gives gay hookup tips to a virgin. ![]() ![]() ![]() Nonetheless, with a little help from her friend Belinda and a handsome but enigmatic gentleman named Darcy O’Mara, Georgie manages not only to survive but to solve a murder. Alas, the Rannoch family-although rich in property-hasn’t a farthing to its illustrious name due to the unfortunate gambling habits of the first duke, Lady Georgie’s father.Īnd as a member of the royal family, Georgie can’t just go out and get a job, because the only destiny approved by her lofty relatives is to marry the fish-faced Prince Siegfried, who doesn’t even like women. It’s 1932, and Lady Georgiana Rannoch, a 20-something who is “thirty-fourth in line to the British throne,” has fled her ancient but drafty ducal castle in Scotland for the family mansion in London. ![]() I picked it up, opened it, and fell in love. ![]() Back in the days when brick-and-mortar bookstores were common in suburban America, I was browsing the shelves at my local Borders when a title caught my eye: Her Royal Spyness by Rhys Bowen. ![]() |