. .Young and rich, Kurt Nielsen is New York's most eligible bachelor. Except now he can't even bring himself to talk to a woman. How could he, after his last girlfriend took him to court? Kurt is still smarting from the injustice of it all. Sick of his anger, his friends have bought Kurt a call girl. What could be better than a high-class hooker to cheer him up? The working girl will arrive dressed as a hotel maid, with an entire scene arranged.Kurt has never paid for sex before and is uncomfortable with the idea, yet he agrees to meet her at the Hilton. But things don't go as planned when he arrives at the hotel two hours early.Unknown to Kurt, when the maid walks into his suite, she isn’t his call girl. Carmen is an actual hotel maid, with a host of secrets and problems of her own. Sex-starved, Carmen simply cannot resist the carnal magnetic allure of Kurt. Although they are complete strangers, sexual need and animal chemistry overwhelms them both. They quickly discover ecstasy together, again and again and again.But what will happen when they discover their mistake?

    It seems very remote to Miranda Martin, who thinks of nothing but the future during the Indian summer. Then Andrew, her officer brother, comes home, bringing eccentric, likeable Harry. As the summer fades, the scene is set for tragedy.

    At the center: a woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish ... Booker, the man Bride loves and loses, whose core of anger was born in the wake of the childhood murder of his beloved brother ... Rain, the mysterious white child, who finds in Bride the only person she can talk to about the abuse she's suffered at the hands of her prostitute mother ... and Sweetness, Bride's mother, who takes a lifetime to understand that "what you do to children matters. And they might never forget."

    So when Grant, an old pal, asks her to do him a favor jumping in on a last minute photoshoot in Costa Rica, she's all in for a vacation, especially from the BDSM scene at Angels and Devils. Grant can't wait to get Danica on film or into his bed. He's done with the friend zone and this trip to paradise is the perfect opportunity to show his college crush he's the man in charge, of her career and her bed. A hurricane, a treehouse, and the well-laid plans of the last guy Danica thought wanted to be more than friends has her questioning whether she can survive the storm or a vanilla relationship. All when this trip was just supposed to be a Curvy Diversion. If you like curvy girl BBW romance with some BDSM power play between a sexy photographer and a Dominatrix you'll love this book! Author Interview with Aidy Award: Q - So, what makes the Curvy Love Series special? When I set out to write the Curvy Love Series I wanted to write about a BBW (Big, Beautiful Woman) who was someone I would want to read about. My top picks are usually Romance series with kickin’ curvy women who fall in love with some hot alpha males. I like any of the thousands of spicy, contemporary romance novels featuring women like me, women I can relate to. The Curvy Love books are a great way for me to show that plus-size, rubensenque, titian, BBW, whatever you call yourself, can have an erotic romance, real love, and lots of dirty fun. We need more diversity in books and especially body positivity. My curvy heroines don’t always have it all together at the beginning of the story, but you can bet on some great growth, learning to accept themselves as amazing, and fall in love with a sexy hero along the way. Q - What order should I read the books in? A - I’ve written the series so you can read the books in any order, and all the story threads will tie up nicely by the time you're finished. There are lots of cross-overs in the timelines, so it’s fun to find re-visit your favorite characters from another heroine’s point of view. If you do want to read them in order, I'd suggest the following sequence: - Curvy Diversion - Curvy Temptation - Curvy Persuasion - The Curvy Seduction Serial - Curvy Domination (coming soon) Q - Why should readers give these books a try? A - Because the Curvy Love series is fun romantic comedy (I love to write so my readers get to laugh out loud!), but it also has lots of sexy times set in a BDSM club, so it’s also really hot. Ultimately, readers who enjoy panty-melting heroes, heroines who are real women, with a romance that keeps you reading will get a kick out of this series. Q - Can readers get the whole series in one go? A – I’ll be releasing a few bundles soon if people want to save a little moolah and grab all the books in one swoop. Check out my author page here at Amazon for more details, and a full list of my available titles. Many hugs and thanks for reading! The Curvy Love Series eBook Categories: - Romantic Comedy Humor  - Contemporary Romance - BBW Romance - Alpha Male Romance - Romantic Heroes Rich & Wealthy - Romantic Themes Beaches - Romantic Themes International - Romantic Themes Vacation - Fiction Themes

    Her mind. Her wicked laughter and unreadable eyes.She was out of my league yet I knew what she longed for.I only had two months to kill her nicotine addiction and make her crave me.I'd use every trick I had to claim her as mine.

    Lala lives on the beach with her husband, Adan, a petty criminal with endless charisma whose thwarted burglary of one of the Baxter Beach mansions sets off a chain of events with terrible consequences. A gunshot no one was meant to witness. A new mother whose baby is found lifeless on the beach. A woman torn between two worlds and incapacitated by grief. And two men driven by desperation and greed who attempt a crime that will risk their freedom -- and their lives.

    A rising homeowner set to banish all the old ways for the promise of the new, Francis was having none of it. He and his wife worked hard to secure that house, to move up from Arkansas to Detroit, to make this life possible. He would not be haunted by the past.And so a myth was born, where any one of the Turners might later repeat that phrase and be telling about so much more than haints.The Turners live on Yarrow Street for over fifty years. Their house sees thirteen children get grown and gone—and some return; it sees the arrival of grandchildren, the fall of Detroit's East Side, and the loss of a father. Despite abandoned lots, an embattled city, and the inevitable shift outward to the suburbs, the house still stands. But now, as their powerful mother falls ill and loses her independence, the Turners might lose their family home. Beset by time and a national crisis, the house is worth just a tenth of its mortgage. The Turner children are called back to decide its fate and to reckon with how each of their pasts might haunt—and shape—their family's future.A major contribution to the literature on American families, The Turner House brings us a colorful brood full of love, pride, and unlikely inheritances. It's a striking examination of the American dream and a celebration of the ways in which our families bring us home.

    Growing up in a small rice-farming village in 1980s Iran, eleven-year-old Saba Hafezi and her twin sister, Mahtab, are captivated by America. They keep lists of English words and collect illegal Life magazines, television shows, and rock music. So when her mother and sister disappear, leaving Saba and her father alone in Iran, Saba is certain that they have moved to America without her. But her parents have taught her that “all fate is written in the blood,” and that twins will live the same life, even if separated by land and sea. As she grows up in the warmth and community of her local village, falls in and out of love, and struggles with the limited possibilities in post-revolutionary Iran, Saba envisions that there is another way for her story to unfold. Somewhere, it must be that her sister is living the Western version of this life. And where Saba’s world has all the grit and brutality of real life under the new Islamic regime, her sister’s experience gives her a freedom and control that Saba can only dream of.

    But this isn't just another dating book. Drawing on her extensive expertise as a clinical psychologist, as well as the latest research, hundreds of patient interviews, and key principles in positive psychology, Dr. Jennifer Taitz challenges the most common myths about women and love (like the advice to play hard to get). And while she teaches how to skillfully date, she'll also help you cultivate the mindset, values, and connections that ensure you'll live your best, happiest life, whether single or coupled up.

    Chairman Mao has declared a new openness in society: “Let a hundred flowers bloom; let a hundred schools of thought contend.” Many intellectuals fear it is only a trick, and Kai Ying’s husband, Sheng, a teacher, has promised not to jeopardize their safety or that of their young son, Tao. But one July morning, just before his sixth birthday, Tao watches helplessly as Sheng is dragged away for writing a letter criticizing the Communist Party and sent to a labor camp for “reeducation.”A year later, still missing his father desperately, Tao climbs to the top of the hundred-year-old kapok tree in front of their home, wanting to see the mountain peaks in the distance. But Tao slips and tumbles thirty feet to the courtyard below, badly breaking his leg. As Kai Ying struggles to hold her small family together in the face of this shattering reminder of her husband’s absence, other members of the household must face their own guilty secrets and strive to find peace in a world where the old sense of order is falling. Once again, Tsukiyama brings us a powerfully moving story of ordinary people facing extraordinary circumstances with grace and courage.

    Lonely, and looking for someone special, she dates men from dating websites with horrible results. Now,she's done with men! That is, until she and her friends stumble upon a gimmicky website called e.Vampire.com. and she sees Dorian Taylor's profile. There's just something in his eyes that seems to reach out and touch her very soul.Dorian Taylor is gorgeous,enigmatic, yet elusive, brilliant and owns a highly successful business. He's also a real vampire! A self-admitted adrenaline junkie, he has a "taste" for thrills of all kinds, including adventurous sex! He seems to have it all and yet, he doesn't have the one thing he craves more than immortality itself: someone to share his life with. On a dare, Jennifer goes to one of the websites meet and greet masked balls, hoping to meet this "make believe" vampire, Dorian Taylor, unaware that e.Vampire.com is really an exclusive BDSM club. and the vampires are real.When Jennifer first sets eyes on him at the dance, he literally takes her breath away. Dorian sees something special in Jennifer. Could she be the one he's been searching for?Although, Jennifer finds Dorian a little intimidating, she wants him. And he wants her. Jennifer and Dorian's worlds are about to collide in ways neither of them could have imagined as they embark on a wildly passionate, soul-wrenching affair, filled with sins and secrets which could be the ruin of them both!Could their only hope of love and redemption lie within each others arms?

    She’s done with men. Period. But sex? No damn way. When she goes home for thanksgiving, she checks out a local club the first night she meets a hot young stud, the second night she meets another handsome guy, and another. She finds out the three guys are friends, and they want her to choose between them, but she can't. She wants all of them. Separately. Together. All the above. Life is short and being with someone new is so reviving, so good. Especially when it’s three times the fun.

    Why? Because her husband set her user restrictions so low that he reduced her to a walking, talking, coupon calculator. And after seven years of marriage, sex has become just another mechanical chore for Cookie. With housewifery as her only permitted creative outlet, she turns to bananas and bakes drugs that help calm her nerves.Cookie craves affection and desperately wants to rise out of domestic servitude. After a tall, dark, and handsome stranger crashes her ladies-only book club, all the New Stepford wives start to malfunction. But then Cookie meets a brazen policewoman who shamelessly flirts with her at the grocery store. Officer Maggie seems to have the answer to all her problems—breaking her submission program by joining an inhuman fight club. But when Cookie finally throws the first punch, she winds up igniting a provocative rivalry that could wind up killing all the men.Has Cookie found true liberation or just another fatal error?Imagine a next-gen, stream of consciousness Stepford Wives as written by Chuck Palahniuk with a dash of Breaking Bad and a pinch of Westworld—and you’ve got ALPHA BOTS a bold, new science fantasy featuring a love-hate relationship between two android women. This postcyberpunk feminist slipstream novel introduces a charming, unreliable narrator who the late great Virginia Woolf would’ve fallen in love with. ALPHA BOTS takes William Gibson into the kitchen and whips up something completely fresh. Vive la cyberprep!

    James:This is not a fairytale. This is not a story of a woman who is perfect. This is not the story of a perfect couple that sails off into the sunset. This is gritty. This is frustrating. This is heartbreaking. This is my story, hard as it may be to tell.**********My name is Sullivan Beal – at least, that’s what I tell people – and I live life by my own rules. Most of my adult life has been spent hiding from my past. That is, until I meet him face-to-face.Ben Hayes is the demanding C.O.O. who is hell-bent on having me for himself. But, I’m wrong for him. I know it, the universe knows it.If he ever found out who I really am, how utterly tainted I am, he wouldn’t waste his time wanting me.There are things in my past that would destroy everyone in my wake.But Ben is relentless, trying to break down the walls around my heart that a messy past has caused me to construct. It’s a pity he doesn’t know…I am too tainted for love. “Love isn’t for me, and my kind of love is too tainted, too blemished to share with anyone.” For mature readers ONLY

    With beautiful homes, fulfilling careers, and two adoring husbands, their joy could not be greater, their worlds could not be richer. But suddenly, shattering truths about the loving men they thought they knew turn happiness into anguish and rage. For Karen and Regina, nothing they believed in or cherished can ever be the same as it was.Yet, in the painful process of starting over, new doors will open, and two women who once had it all will rediscover the power of honesty and friendship ... and learn the true scope and meaning of love.