Caleb Tanner is a playboy millionaire with an aversion to weddings–only, he's surrounded by women scheming to get him to the altar! Caleb needs a decoy: a bride on loan...
Trisha August is determined to be independent and will do anything–well, almost anything–for enough money to set up her own business. She can't believe her luck when hotshot Lassiter Dragan promises to give her a loan.... But there's a catch–she has to become his temporary "wife" for the Christmas holidays!
Nobody could put Rafe Allman in his place...until a corporate challenge put Shelley Sinclair in the position to teach the control-freak corporate bigwig what it's like to take orders for a change!
When Greek shipping magnate Alexandros Kouros wed Kallie Demarchis, media photos showed them madly in love. But behind the happy scenes lay a different story. Love had nothing to do with it; Kallie had married Alex to save her family’s business. For the mistake that had destroyed their youth, Alex sought great pleasure in taking revenge and taking Kallie as his arranged bride!
A billionaire bent on vengeance marries his enemy’s daughter, but when their arrangement becomes intimate, the marriage begins to feel all too real. Billionaire Zaccheo Giordano walks out of prison into the chilling winter wind with only one thing on his mind: revenge on the treacherous Pennington family who put him there. And he’ll start with his ex—fiancée, Eva Pennington. When Zaccheo demands she wear his ring again to save her family from his wrath, Eva agrees. At least a marriage in name only allows her to keep her infertility secret. Until Zaccheo makes it clear their marriage will be real in every sense, including giving him an heir . . .
"Oh, good God," he kept saying with great relish. "Good God..." 'Gooseberries' is accompanied here by 'The Kiss' and 'The Two Volodyas' - three exquisite depictions of love and loss in nineteenth-century Russia by Chekhov, the great master of the short story form. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions. Anton Chekhov (1860-1904). Chekhov's works available in Penguin Classics are The Steppe and Other Stories, Ward No. 6 and Other Stories, The Lady with the Little Dog and Other Stories, The Shooting Party, Plays and A Life in Letters.