Beware, sexy curves ahead. Briley knows love exists. She just doesn't want it touching any part of her well-ordered life. Until her computer blinks the blue screen of death and flips her life out of control. She's forced to Carter Moore's computer shop, where she starts drooling over the back of his neck without bothering to see the front of him. Carter knows Briley's different from every other woman. She's smart, funny and has more luscious curves than a fun house. Curves he can't wait to get his hands, tongue and other body parts on. He's head over heels in love with the sexy business owner. Unfortunately Briley's resistant to his honesty, so Carter needs to come up with another way to start Beguiling Briley.
FROM POPULAR ROMANCE AUTHOR ALLIE STANDIFER If you enjoy getting involved in a series that has well built characters and engaging storylines you won't want to miss Allie Standifer's women of Club Botticelli ~ Whipped Cream Reviews Ordering Olivia is absolutely awesome! I adore the idea that the women in this story are curvy and sexy, not stick figures...another great book from Allie Standifer. Ordering Olivia definitely has the ooh-la-la factor going on here!~ Dark Diva Reviews Club Botticelli &– the complete box set 1 - Ordering Olivia Former supermodel Olivia Paisley seduces Ethan as part of a play-or-pay game, but can her heart live with the consequences of walking away from him. 2 - Enticing Emma To win back the woman he loves, Brock's prepared to break all the rules. 3 - Beguiling Briley Beware, sexy curves ahead. 4 - Teasing Trinity Some mistakes can never be forgotten, especially when they turn up looking hotter and sexier than ever. 5 - Romancing Recee Love is never easy between two people determined to avoid heartbreak. At Club Botticelli, lush women with wicked fantasies can find the sinfully sexy men to help them live out their dreams. Because real men aren't afraid of curves.
'Melting the Ice' by Desiree holt When an elf and an alpha male collide at the frozen South Pole, will the heat they generate melt the ice? Sonia Snowflake, one of Santa's elves and warriors, hates her new assignment—go to the South Pole with a team of three and scout a location for a new toy factory. It's bad enough that it's one week before Christmas, but they also have to dodge an angry Cupid who wants to downgrade Christmas, and three alpha military males who are also there on a mission. Sonia's grumbling lasts only until the very alpha Jaguar Martin is literally blown into her tent. The explosive chemistry between the two is so intense they can't keep their hands off each other. Their situation is complicated even more by the drug, Thermavan, that Jaguar and his team are testing. Created to maintain body temperature at a steady 98.7, it has a side effect of maintaining constant sexual arousal. How will this effect their respective missions, and what happens when the interlude comes to an end? 'Trapped by Ice' by Allie Standifer Christmas, magic, elves and the military. Let the games begin... Kendil Jolly is an elf satisfied with her immortal existence. She dives off icebergs, swims with seals and has a hefty bet riding on Dasher in the reindeer games this year. The one thing she doesn't need in her world is a pesky breakable mortal. Too bad she'd been assigned to protect the ones encroaching on her territory. Teague Jester has landed in the coldest place on earth to test out a new military cold weather drug. He's a not afraid of anything except maybe a strange women with hair the color of tinsel and weird pointed ears. Or the crazy female in a cat suit shooting weird arrows at him. Two beings who never should have met end up falling for each other in the most hilarious ways possible all because Christmas Goes Camo and Kendil and Teague end up Trapped By Ice. 'Tempered by Ice' by Brenna Zinn Not even the extreme cold of the South Pole can cool down one of Santa's sexy female battle elves and an Army officer when they're busy making their own heat. After years of attending military boarding schools and a career as an Army medical researcher, Lieutenant Colonel Axel Cole's long awaited retirement from the world of physical fitness tests and any type of committment will come to an end with the end of his next and last mission. Only a week before Christmas, he'll determine if his experimental drug, Thermavan, maintains his internal body temperature at 98.7 degrees in the severe cold climate while he participates in training exercises at the South Pole, without the extreme sexual arousal and hallucinations of having wild sex with a six-foot warrior elf that he experienced the last time he tested the drug at the North Pole. Tasha Tinsel, an accident prone member of Santa's elite warrior force, the B.E.L.L.S.(Battle Elves trained in Logic warfare and Land defense Scouts), is just not like the other elves in Santa Claus' crew. The product of a human father and an overbearing elf mother who wants nothing more than to see her daughter working in the toy factory like a regular elf, Tasha stands six foot in her green stockinged feet and towers above everyone in Santa's village. Though she's only a snowman's breath away from losing her beloved position in the B.E.L.L.S. she'll stop at nothing to stay on the force, help locate Santa's second workshop on the South Pole, and then protect the site from anyone who stands in her way.
Sometimes temporary lust leads to a more permanent emotion. Clever Cajun Remy Douget knows he screwed up with lovely CEO Kelli Brach several months ago. So when she calls his IT company looking for help he knows this might be his only chance to claim the woman he can't get off his mind. Expecting anyone but Remy to show up at her office Kelli's shocked at the company owner's blatant proposal. One night to burn their passion, she agrees. Too bad their single night leads to more complications than she counted on. Like a permanent complication from a Temporary Fix.
Some mistakes can never be forgotten, especially when they turn up looking hotter and sexier than ever. Last year Trinity made a mistake. She had one night filled with the best sex of her life. In the morning he was gone. Gone as in left the country gone. Hunt ran from the best thing he'd ever had, but now he's tired of running and denying the woman who haunts his every thought. Time to play dirty. Trinity wakes up in another country, alone on a desert island except for the one man she can't forget or forgive. There's a long way to go before Hunt can get the woman of his dreams back in his arms, but the more she balks the less he can resist Teasing Trinity.
Love is never easy between two people determined to avoid heartbreak. Experience has taught Recee Williams that love causes nothing but pain. Her past has proven her right time and again. She's content to live her life alone with no one but her friends. They may be close to the legal line of insanity, but they're her true family. Garen's interest in the most lethal and unstable member of Club B's owners is nothing but foolish. Knowing that doesn't stop him from rushing to her 'rescue' when an ex threatens Recee's life. But Recee is more than capable of taking care of herself. After one night together Garen knows he'll never be able to let this prickly woman go, but he'll need more than charm and great talent between the sheets. Somehow Garen needs to find the perfect way to start Romancing Recee.
She lived at full throttle on stage, screen, and in real life, with highs that made history and lows that finally brought down the curtain at age forty-seven. Judy Garland died over thirty years ago, but no biography has so completely captured her spirit -- and demons -- until now. From her tumultuous early years as a child performer to her tragic last days, Gerald Clarke reveals the authentic Judy in a biography rich in new detail and unprecedented revelations. Based on hundreds of interviews and drawing on her own unfinished -- and unpublished -- autobiography, Get Happy presents the real Judy Garland in all her flawed glory. With the same skill, style, and storytelling flair that made his bestselling Capote a landmark literary biography, Gerald Clarke sorts through the secrets and the scandals, the legends and the lies, to create a portrait of Judy Garland as candid as it is compassionate. Here are her early years, during which her parents sowed the seeds of heartbreak and self-destruction that would plague her for decades ... the golden age of Hollywood, brought into sharp focus with cinematic urgency, from the hidden private lives of the movie world's biggest stars to the cold-eyed businessmen who controlled the machine ... and a parade of brilliant and gifted men -- lovers and artists, impresarios and crooks -- who helped her reach so many creative pinnacles yet left her hopeless and alone after each seemingly inevitable fall. Here, then, is Judy Garland in all her magic and despair: the woman, the star, the legend, in a riveting saga of tragedy, resurrection, and genius.
First published in 1960, this book by former newspaperman, author and Louisianan native, Richard Briley III, deals with the untimely demise of Huey Long, aka “The Kingfish,” an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana (1928-1932) and as a member of the U.S. Senate from 1932 until his death by assassination in 1935. A Democrat, “The Kingfish” was an outspoken populist who denounced the wealthy and the banks and called for a “Share Our Wealth” program. As the political leader of the state, he commanded wide networks of supporters and was willing to take forceful action. He established the long-term political prominence of the Long family. Long’s Share Our Wealth plan was established in 1934 under the motto “Every Man a King.” It proposed new wealth redistribution measures in the form of a net asset tax on corporations and individuals to curb the poverty and homelessness endemic nationwide during the Great Depression. To stimulate the economy, Long advocated federal spending on public works, schools and colleges, and old age pensions. He was an ardent critic of the policies of the Federal Reserve System. Under Long’s leadership, hospitals and educational institutions were expanded, a system of charity hospitals was set up that provided health care for the poor, massive highway construction and free bridges brought an end to rural isolation, and free textbooks were provided for schoolchildren. He remains a controversial figure in Louisiana history, with critics and supporters debating whether or not he could have potentially become a dictator or was a demagogue.
