Captive Audience

Captive Audience

Author: Lucas Mann

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2018-05-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0525435557

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An intimate portrait of a marriage intertwined with a meditation on reality TV that reveals surprising connections and the meaning of an authentic life. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL. In Lucas Mann's trademark vein--fiercely intelligent, self-deprecating, brilliantly observed, idiosyncratic, personal, funny, and infuriating--Captive Audience is an appreciation of reality television wrapped inside a love letter to his wife, with whom he shares the guilty pleasure of watching "real" people bare their souls in search of celebrity. Captive Audience resides at the intersection of popular culture with the personal; the exhibitionist impulse, with the schadenfreude of the vicarious, and in confronting some of our most suspect impulses achieves a heightened sense of what it means to live an authentic life and what it means to love a person.


Captive Loving (Mills & Boon Modern)

Captive Loving (Mills & Boon Modern)

Author: Carole Mortimer

Publisher: HarperCollins UK

Published: 2015-02-01

Total Pages: 151

ISBN-13: 1474029698

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Carole Mortimer is one of Mills & Boon’s best loved Modern Romance authors. With nearly 200 books published and a career spanning 35 years, Mills & Boon are thrilled to present her complete works available to download for the very first time! Rediscover old favourites – and find new ones! – in this fabulous collection...


Love's Captive

Love's Captive

Author: Myra Nour

Publisher: New Concepts Pub

Published: 2005-07-01

Total Pages: 264

ISBN-13: 9781586086893

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When Serena awakes, after a close and unpleasant encounter with some sort of stun gun, she very quickly learns that resistance is futile and escape only a yearned for dream. She, and the other Earth women Serena meets aboard ship with her, have been captured by the Moyds, interstellar merchants ..their mission, to procure fertile wives for the men of Volarn, where their race is endangered due to the wide-spread sterility of their own women. Learning this is at least some relief to the captured women, but Serena is disgusted to realize that they are nothing in these men's eyes but baby makers. Regardless, she knows she has no choice but to face the fate that awaits her with as much dignity as she can muster. Once they arrive on Volarn, Serena learns that her assessment has not been entirely accurate. Using their power crystals in the Tarthra Ritual, the warriors approach the women with their crystals to find the mate most suited to them..a woman to love who can love them. Serena is chosen to become King Rhamus' queen, but, just as she feels herself weakening to Rhamus' romantic, passionate nature, Rhamus' enemy, Xarath, abducts her. Rating: Contains explicit sex, graphic language and some violence


The Captive Prince

The Captive Prince

Author: A. C. Fox

Publisher: Etopia Press

Published: 2016-11-20

Total Pages: 187

ISBN-13: 1944138692

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Save the land, or follow his heart? Time has run out for Lord Domlen. The Fortress of Rain has been cursed by the enemy Boa Visk, his people trapped as phantoms within its walls, and the rain ever falling across his lands. If he does not break the curse soon, the trapped spirits will become revenir, ghosts that feed upon the life force of the living. He needs a miracle. And he gets one. He learns of a ritual that can break the curse and free his people. But nothing comes without a price, and the price is one Lord Domlen cannot bring himself to pay: the ritual demands blood—royal blood. Desperate, he abducts Prince Falken of Teirlan to be his blood sacrifice on the night of the red moon and forces all gentle emotion far, far away. He must save his people, even at the cost of an innocent life. But as the time of the ritual draws near, how will he find the strength to kill an innocent man? Especially one who reignites all the emotions he believed he'd buried so deeply away? Prince Falken, sorcerer from Teirlan, needs his magic to escape the Fortress of Rain, but the shackles on his wrists have cut him off from his power. When he discovers the servants around him are actually spirits, he understands the stronghold is bound by dark forces—a curse that somehow revolves around his grim, noble captor. There is dark magic here, but how can he help the strong, enigmatic Domlen while he's trapped, his powers bound? There is greater magic than that of the curse, and Falken has resources beyond Domlen's ken. But when the ritual goes horribly wrong, how will Falken make his enemy trust him? And how will he save the man he's coming to love? Reader note: contains gay fantasy romance, enemies to lovers, male male love, and a happily ever after


His Captive, His Conquest

His Captive, His Conquest

Author: Ashe Barker

Publisher: Independently Published

Published: 2021-09-21

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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I want her. She intrigues me, this fiery Scottish wench. I mean to have her. I shall survive. I will not weaken. This English lord can do as he will with me, but I shall never surrender. It is the year 1490. Stephen Parnell, Marquis of Otterburn, has been sent by Henry VII, the new Tudor monarch, to guard his northern shires against the ferocious Scots. Battle-hardened by years spent in the service of his king, Stephen is more than equal to the task and has no hesitation in hunting down the rievers who have laid waste to his people's crops. However, his skills as a warlord are no use to him when faced with the fiery little Scottish wench he captures in battle and decides to keep as his own, for a while at least. Flora MacKinnon is used to taking charge. Her ailing father needs her, and she is determined to do what must be done to serve her clan. She does not expect to be taken captive by a mighty English warlord and certainly does not intend to anger him so much that she finds herself lashed to a post awaiting a whipping. But events take an unexpected turn. Will the mighty Marquis of Otterburn follow his heart or his head? And, when tragedy threatens, can Stephen protect those dearest to him? Warning: This book contains sexually explicit content which is only suitable for mature readers. If such content upsets you, please do not purchase this book.


King's Captive

King's Captive

Author: Amber Bardan

Publisher: Carina Press

Published: 2017-02-13

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 1488020175

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A deliciously twisted romance from Amber Bardan, HEA guaranteed! Julius King: Powerful. Wealthy. Dangerous. For three years, he’s been my captor on a private island. Despite his fearsome reputation, he’s been almost careful with me. He’s never laid a hand on me—and despite myself, I desperately want him to. I’m drawn to him, irresistibly and totally. But after three years together, I don’t know him at all. He’s hiding something. Something bigger than both of us, that stretches back to the fateful, bloody day we met. I made a promise to him then, and the clock is almost up. Before I run out of time, I have to find out the truth: Who is Julius King?


Captive Love

Captive Love

Author: Joni Martins

Publisher:

Published: 2017-12-29

Total Pages: 213

ISBN-13: 9781976757556

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When an obsessive admirer takes love to a whole new level, life takes a bizarre turn for 24-year old Lydia. She finds it difficult to adjust to and escape her new circumstances.Her housemate Rob becomes more and more concerned about her when she does not return home from a night out with her friends.Can Lydia escape or will she be forced to adjust to living her life in someone else's fairy tale?


Love Among the Ruins

Love Among the Ruins

Author: Angela Thirkell

Publisher: Virago

Published: 2024-03-07

Total Pages: 460

ISBN-13: 0349018642

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'You read her, laughing, and want to do your best to protect her characters from any reality but their own' New York Times It's the summer of 1947, and peacetime has brought new challenges to Barsetshire. Beliers Priory, once a military hospital during the War, has now become a flourishing preparatory school for boys run by Leslie and Philip Winter. When Charles Belton is hired as the new school master, six young people are thrown together in a web of flirtations and misunderstandings: Charles and his elder brother, Naval Captain Freddy Belton; Susan Dean, now Red Cross Depot Librarian, and her glamorous sister Jessica, an actress in thrall to the theatre; pragmatic Lucy Marling and her brother Oliver. And with the old social order in ruins, the scene is set for a delicious summer of comic - and romantic - possibilities. Love Among the Ruins is a delightful, clever and wryly poignant classic, and the 17th novel in Angela Thirkell's beloved Barsetshire series.


Willing Captive

Willing Captive

Author: Belle Aurora

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2014-08-21

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781500749750

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Delilah "Lily" Flynn is used to her drab existence. Lily's been living it for twenty two years. Her boring life is suddenly turned on its head when she's rudely kidnapped from her bedroom. Or so she thinks. Nox Taylor is far too high up in his field to be assigned a babysitting job. There's nothing more he wants than to complete his mission so he can be rid of the smartass tomboy, Lily. Day after day, Nox watches Lily and her strange ways. She's unlike any woman he's ever met. Getting close to the girl is purely for her own protection...right? Lily never imagined she'd make her first real friends in captivity. To what lengths would she go to keep them?