Ever since the Gods were sent to sleep for their sins against humanity, Vane, the son of Athena has been avoiding exile to the Immortal Realm. He, his dark, brooding twin and their sister have spent their lives hidden amongst humanity on Earth. According to their sister’s cryptic powers they needed to stay there for a purpose they’d yet to find. As the centuries ticked by he grew restless, recklessly tangling deeper with a very dangerous female. As one of the Guardians of the Realms it was Brianne’s duty to ensure that humanity evolved without being subjugated by more powerful beings. For too long she had succumbed to the lure of a powerfully seductive Demi-God that could never truly be hers, one that she should have exiled long ago. It was a secret that could cost her, cost them all, but the danger only added to her need.Their desire was breaking all the rules…Warning: This story is intended for a mature audience and contains explicit sex and a dominant male behaving badly. Enjoy!

    Almost a decade after her divorce, she has a lovely house, a fluffy cat, a job she adores, and plenty of supportive friends.The only thing missing in her life is a partner, but she doesn't realize it until she meets an intriguing man at a book review.Dean is handsome, kind, well-mannered and smart, and Abby is attracted to him instantly. The only problem? Dean is a big believer in domestic discipline - something Abigail has never encountered before.After years of being in control of her life, she is thrown into unexpected turmoil by the discovery of various facets of the DD subculture, as well as the realization that, in order to keep the man of her dreams, she will have to submit to his discipline as well as his passion.Is Dean's love worth relinquishing some of the control Abby has cherished for so long? Can she submit to a man who not only makes her breathless with desire, but who can - and will - put her over his knee when he feels she deserves it?Join Abby on her journey of self-discovery and sexual re-awakening to find out whether submission will set her free and whether, in the end, she will discover life's true treasures.

    She has a thing for authority."Spank and Run" One moment Claire's life was perfectly normal, in a living alone, vanilla sort of way. In the next, her casita was torn apart in a burglary, her client (the mayor of her small town) discovered her spanking implements, and she was over his knee for a bare-bottomed hair brushing! But despite her overwhelming attraction to Luis Valdez, the tall, handsome politician who had taken an interest in her backside, Claire doesn't roll that way. She wants a serious, domestic discipline relationship -- not just erotic spanky fun. Can she and the mayor come to terms?"Bootcamp" Watching his wife unravel as she faces infertility is as heartbreaking for Luis as it is for Claire, but the more he compassion he shows, the more she drifts away. Deciding to take a firm hand, he whisks her away to their mountain condo for a weekend boot camp to reaffirm their roles and reignite their passion for one another. Read these captivating domestic discipline stories from USA Today Bestselling Author Renee Rose today! Publisher's Note: These stories were previously published in the domestic discipline anthologies Coming to Terms and Milestones.

    That day has come. Returning to Boston, Carly meets former Marine Lance Glassco, a mathematician for DARPA, and Preston Kim, a celebrated chemist. Though on the surface they have nothing in common, it's clear the Grand Master thinks that together the three of them can do something amazing. And that's why he's declared that Carly, Lance and Preston must unite. In a ménage.Tempers flare as they struggle to understand each other, but their physical attraction is explosive, and the sex leaves all of them begging for more. Pushed beyond her limits, Carly runs from Lance and Preston. What she doesn't understand is that she now belongs to them, body and soul...and they belong to her, too. When Lance uncovers a dangerous crime in Preston's firm, Carly is caught in the crossfire and the struggling lovers are forced to move beyond desire…to trust.The Trinity Masters have the power to make careers and change lives, but there's a price. All members know that the day will come when the Grand Master will select them, and pair them with two others. For the Trinity Masters the strongest bond isn't a pair, but a threesome.Word Count = 45,940

    There are the usual inline tables of contents and links after each text/chapter to get back to the respective tables. The dates of first publication are noted.-------------Typee: A Romance of the South Seas. (1846)Omoo: Adventures in the South Seas. (1847)Mardi: and A Voyage Thither. (1849)Redburn: His First Voyage. (1849)White-Jacket: or, The World in a Man-of-War. (1850)Moby-Dick: or, The Whale. (1851)Pierre: or, The Ambiguities. (1852)Israel Potter: His Fifty Years of Exile. (1855)The Piazza Tales (1856): The Piazza, Bartleby, Benito Cereno, The Lightning-Rod Man, The Encantadas; or, Enchanted Isles, The Bell-TowerThe Confidence-Man: His Masquerade. (1857)Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War. (1866)Clarel: A Poem and Pilgrimage in the Holy Land. (1876)John Marr and Other Sailors with Some Sea Pieces. (1888)Timoleon and Other Ventures in Verse. (1891)The Apple-Tree Table, and Other Sketches (1922): The Apple-Tree Table, Jimmy Rose, I and my Chimney, The Paradise of Bachelors and The Tartarus of Maids, Cock-a-Doodle-Doo!, The Fiddler, Poor Man’s Pudding and Rich Man’s Crumbs, The Happy Failure, The ’Gees.Billy Budd, and Other Prose Pieces (1924): Billy Budd, Sailor (An Inside Narrative), The Two Temples, Daniel Orme.Weeds and Wildings, With a Rose or Two. (1924)Essays: Fragments from a Writing Desk No. 1 & 2, Etchings of a Whaling Cruise, Authentic Anecdotes of “Old Zack,” Mr Parkman’s Tour, Cooper’s New Novel, A Thought on Book-Binding, Hawthorne and His Mosses.Uncollected Poems: Marquis de Grandvin at the Hostelry, Naples in the Time of Bomba, Immolated, Madam Mirror, The Wise Virgins to Madam Mirror, The New Ancient of Days, The Rusty Man, Thy Aim, Thy Aim?, The Old Shipmaster and his Crazy Barn, Camoens, Camoens in the Hospital, Montaigne and his Kitten, Falstaffs Lament over Prince Hal, Shadow at the Feast, Merry Ditty of the Sad Man, Honor, Fruit and Flower Painter, The Medallion, Time’s Long Ago!, In the Hall of Marbles, Gold in the Mountain, In Shards the Sylvan Vases Lie, In the Jovial Age of Old, A Spirit Appeared to Me, Give Me the Nerve, My Jacket Old, In the Old Farm-House, To ——, A Battle Picture, Old Age in his Ailing, Hearts-of-Gold, Pontoosuce, Epistle to Daniel Shepherd, Inscription for the Slain at Fredericksburgh, The Admiral of the White, To Tom, Suggested by the Ruins of a Mountain-Temple in Arcadia, Puzzlement, The Continents, The Dust-Layers, A Rail Road Cutting near Alexandria in 1855, A Reasonable Constitution, Rammon, Ditty of Aristippus, In A Nutshell, Adieu.

    It doesn't help that her mother is always ready to disapprove of everything about her—from the car she drives to the clothes she wears—constantly insisting that if only Abby would grow up and be normal, life would be better for her. Abby has a secret: she doesn't want to be grown-up. Thus, when a chance encounter leads her to Mr. Green, a mysterious man who specializes in a unique form of matchmaking, she agrees to let him pair her with a daddy—someone to love and cherish her just as she is even while he teaches her discipline and self-control with a firm hand applied to her bare bottom. Chris Antonopoulos is Abby’s bad-boy fantasy come to life. The Greek god that delivers balloons to her at work takes her breath away, but only later does she learn that he’s the daddy she’s been promised. He delights her with rock concerts, motorcycle rides, cute pajamas, bath crayons, and more, but Abby lives to push buttons. It isn’t long before she puts herself in real danger, and when she does, Abby learns that a naughty girl who disobeys her daddy can expect to be punished with much more than just a spanking. As Abby begins to accept who she is, she sheds the insecurities and defenses that held her back for so long. Chris has a secret of his own, though, and he worries how Abby will react when she finds out about it. Can Abby bring herself to trust her newfound daddy no matter what, or will he lose her for good? Publisher’s Note: Disciplining Little Abby is a stand-alone sequel to Disciplining Little Josey. It is an erotic novel that includes spankings, anal play, sexual scenes, exhibitionism, age play, medical play, and more. If such material offends you, please don’t buy this book.

    But when he gets a call from the US Men’s Soccer team, asking him to play in the Olympic Games, he’s thrust back into the world he’s tried so hard to distance himself from. Julian doesn’t want back in the league, especially when the dubious details of the arrangement are revealed, but accepting could give him a chance to reform his tarnished image. And, if he plays by the rules, he may have a shot at winning not just a gold medal but the heart of his first love, star forward of the Women’s team, Melina Diaz. Focused and determined, Melina is skeptical that Julian can change his destructive ways. She plans to have little to do with her ex until the stress of the Games get to her and she finds herself falling back on the one person that knows her the best. This August, all eyes will be on Brazil for the 2016 Summer Olympics as the world’s elite athletes come together to compete in the most prestigious sporting event of their lifetime. The Games will bring the world together but may tear Julian and Melina even further apart.

    She has to be-as a tactical emergency medic for the St. Louis SWAT team and a trauma nurse at Blymore Memorial. The daughter of a violent ex-cop she prefers wits over weapons. Then one of her patients, a psychotic former FBI agent known as Montana Bob, dies in the ER from superficial wounds following a botched stand-off-but not before revealing a secret about Blymore...It's called The List-a chillingly precise run-down of expendable citizens and patients. And one by one, under Maggie's care, they're dying from inexplicable causes. With each one comes another step in framing Maggie...with each step comes Maggie's fear that no colleague or friend is above suspicion-including her lover, police officer Sean Delaney. With no one left to trust but herself, her investigation takes her into the darkest recesses of a killer's mind bent on a vengeance that targets Maggie as the final victim.

    Their actions must be regulated. Their passions must be controlled.Love is a crime, and when a man dares to take a lover of his own choice, he must be punished. It's time for a change and the only way to alter this grim future is to journey back to the past...And change a few small details.A brilliant time-travel adventure by bestselling author Piers Anthony and Roberto Fuentes, Dead Morn explores the infinite possibilities of breaking the time stream...and creating or destroying the path of human destiny.

    A little wish upon a star for a life of love and acceptance... A love that transcends time and space, filled with healing, hope and mystery.... And a bottom that seems to spend an awful lot of time over the lap of a very loving, but also very strict, handsome alien man who wishes to be called 'Daddy'...Mesethius is blessed with position, power, intelligence, great looks, very unusual (and popular) anatomical attributes that him the ability to meet ALL a woman's physical needs like no human man can.  NASA test pilot Lt. Tabitha Gold is finally achieving her lifelong ambition to go into outer space. A fluke accident sends Tabby's ship hurtling out of orbit, giving Seth the opportunity to come to her rescue and take her as his own. She awakens in his protective arms and calmed by his warm voice, leaving her to wonder if she is experiencing space psychoses.But no, he is as real as the amazing planet he takes her to; as real as the way he awakens her body to sensuality and fulfilled desires; and as real as the painful discipline she requires to learn valuable lessons about obedience and safety. He also gives her what she has always longed for; a caring, attentive Daddy, who brings out the scared little girl within and gives her the strength to conquer the demons of her past and learn to trust her future.Can Seth use love, devotion, lust and discipline to break down Tabby's guard and teach her to trust in the power of love? Will she gain the courage and confidence to not only face her biggest adversary but also submit to a partner who not only sees in her a potential mate, but also a little girl who needs to be cherished, adored and even taken in hand by a loving Daddy?Best-selling author of the science-fiction fantasy Skylar's Guardians and Moving A Little Heart, Breanna Hayse, brings you this action-packed, loving tale of what could happen if we take just a little time to Wish Upon a Star...This story contains spanking, anal play, age-play, submission and other strong erotic elements. If such material offends you, please do not buy this book.

    She lives her life virtually through the experiences of Julian, a boy who was chosen as a role model for the Pathers of Quadrant 1 - troubled children who have been 'rescued' by the government and put 'on-Path'. But one day Lona finds she can think for herself. And on top of that, the face of a familiar boy appears on her screen - Fenn, who she thought had moved on to a different stage of the Path last year. But he didn't. Fenn and other rebels like him have strayed from the Path, and now Lona must stray too. But life off-Path is strange and difficult, and Lona uncovers a secret that will threaten all their lives. Can there really be life after the Path?

    Now, Madeline is free to enter the home of a notorious gambler, and pretends to be meek, humble, and competent with an iron. She is, of course, none of those things; she simply is resolved to win her family's fortune back. Just when she thinks matters can't get worse, she meets Gabriel Ansell, the earl of Campion, and they do. Horribly worse.Four years ago, Madeline was engaged to Gabriel, and worshipped his arrogant kisses. Now, being forced to marry a man she doesn't know pales in comparison to the ordeal of facing Gabriel again, the man who betrayed her -- Gabriel, the only man she ever loved.

    He has come back to his small town in the Idaho Panhandle to lay his mother to rest.Trey Mitchell is the self-assured girl next door who has loved him for as long as she can remember.After a night of secret and undeniable passion, Cade leaves her sleeping in order to return to his unit and to keep her safe from the dangers that lurk everywhere in Looking Glass Falls.When their paths cross in the Capitol, will Cade and Trey find the courage to face down the evil that kept them apart?

    Until one semester in college, nagtagpo ulit ang landas nila. As their unusual relationship unfolds, Astrid’s ordinary life slowly turns into something she wasn’t expecting. Idagdag pa ang pagbabalik ni Harold—her first love and her first heartbreak—sa eksena.Amid the backdrop of an exciting university life, maraming pagdadaan si Astrid as she learns a lot of things beyond her academic endeavors: love, forgiveness, friendship, trust, and even secrets—secrets that may actually cause her another heartbreak.Will Astrid’s relationship with Karl blossom sa gitna ng maraming pagsubok? Or will she find happiness in someone else’s arms?

    Eureka 40 10 4 400 30 9 30 70 100 5 200 30 10 40 1 80 5 100 400 40 10 50 10 200 300 100 8 70 9 1 50 300 10 20 800 10 300 10 200 0051172543672An eminent Oxford professor is murdered—but the authorities are calling it a suicide. Beautiful young don Catherine Donovan refuses to believe the official verdict, especially after she receives a cryptic note sent just before the professor's death, along with a collection of priceless antique maps. Teaming up with classicist James Rutherford, she embarks on a journey which takes them from the dreaming spires of Oxford to the ancient wonders of Peru and Egypt. With a deeply sinister organization determined to stop them, can Catherine and James unlock the mystery of the ancients before they become the killers' next victims? And can it really be possible that these clues are warning of an imminent cataclysm—one that puts even more than their lives in peril?