An Italian widower is shocked to learn he has a surrogate—and that he loves her—in this contemporary romance by a UAS Today–bestselling author. She’s never been touched . . . But she’s carrying his heir! Seven months pregnant, innocent surrogate Rosalie realizes she can’t bear to give away the child she’s carrying for a childless Italian couple. She flies to Venice to beg forgiveness, only to discover brooding Alex Falconeri is a widower . . . and he has no idea she is expecting his baby! Alex can’t throw away this chance to know his surprise heir. But Rosalie is torturously sweet temptation . . . After his cold, loveless marriage, Alex has sworn he will not marry again. But he’s starting to think he’ll do anything to make Rosalie his!
Untouched...and carrying his heir! Surrogate Rosalie has realised she can't bear to give away the child she's carrying for a childless Italian couple. She flies to Venice to beg forgiveness--only to discover billionaire Alex is a widower...and he has no idea she's expecting his baby! Wearing the tycoon's diamond! Securing Leonie's hand in marriage will allow Cristiano to take the one thing his enemy cares about. His first step? Convincing his newest and most defiant employee to meet him at the altar!
You're going to be a daddy. Those were the last words I ever expected to hear. As one of the fabled Hamilton twins, I enjoy my life just as it is. Why wouldn't I? Check out my stats. Co-owner of Hamilton Realty, a multimillion dollar business. Doting uncle to my niece, Laurie, and my soon-to-be nephew. All-around sexy, single guy who doesn't do strings-ever. Then I went to Vegas with my sister-in-law's best friend, Sage. Choices were made. Alcoholic beverages were consumed. Virginities were taken. Hers, not mine. Then Sage announced I'd knocked her up. And oh yeah, she doesn't expect me to take an active role, because she knows I can't handle anything except my d*ck. Say what? She's so wrong, and I'm going to prove it to her. I'm going to claim my baby-and Sage. Author's note: This book is about the process of becoming a DILF. Oliver doesn't start out as a single father, but by the end of the book? Hoo boy. Author's note part deux: Claim My Baby is a standalone rom com with a romantic HEA ending and no cliffhanger.
Things I never thought I'd hear from my wife's lips: I think it's time I move out.Divorce.We can still be friends.No hard feelings, okay?No hard feelings? Is she freaking kidding me?I don't want to be her friend. She's my other half, my soulmate... my wife.Losing Mallory is unacceptable.When I put my ring on her finger and said "I do" it was for forever.Divorce isn't an option.My new mission in life is doing whatever it takes to fix this.It's time for me to claim my wife.Note: Claiming His Wife is a second chance romance novella with absolutely NO cheating and a guaranteed happily ever after!
“You will be my wife…” Esther Abbott was backpacking across Europe when she wasapproached about being a surrogate. Desperately in need of the money, Esther agreed. Butwhen the deal falls apart, she's left pregnant and alone, with no one to turn to…exceptthe baby's father! Learning he is to have a child with a woman he's never met is a scandalItalian billionaire Renzo Valenti can't afford. Following his recent bitter divorce andwith an impeccable reputation to maintain, Renzo has no choice but to claim thechild…and Esther as his wife!
Eden always heeded her mother’s warnings when it came to love. But after meeting the charming Aristide, she couldn’t help but put those doubtful thoughts behind her. Once they married, their two worlds soon began to drive them apart. To make matters worse, a car accident has caused Aristide to lose all his memories of Eden. What once felt like a one-sided love, now feels even more so. Will Aristide’s subconscious attraction to his wife spark his memories, or has their marriage truly come to an end? Because until their love is restored, Eden is holding on to a precious secret…
First published in 1993, The Virgin Suicides announced the arrival of a major new American novelist. In a quiet suburb of Detroit, the five Lisbon sisters—beautiful, eccentric, and obsessively watched by the neighborhood boys—commit suicide one by one over the course of a single year. As the boys observe them from afar, transfixed, they piece together the mystery of the family’s fatal melancholy, in this hypnotic and unforgettable novel of adolescent love, disquiet, and death. Jeffrey Eugenides evokes the emotions of youth with haunting sensitivity and dark humor and creates a coming-of-age story unlike any of our time. Adapted into a critically acclaimed film by Sofia Coppola, The Virgin Suicides is a modern classic, a lyrical and timeless tale of sex and suicide that transforms and mythologizes suburban middle-American life.
It’s 1979, and Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung are notorious at Auburn Academy. They’re an unlikely pair at an elite East Coast boarding school (she’s Jewish; he’s Korean American) and hardly shy when it comes to their sexuality. Aviva is a formerly bookish girl looking for liberation from an unhappy childhood; Seung is an enthusiastic dabbler in drugs and a covert rebel against his demanding immigrant parents. In the minds of their titillated classmates—particularly that of Bruce Bennett-Jones—the couple lives in a realm of pure, indulgent pleasure. But, as is often the case, their fabled relationship is more complicated than it seems: despite their lust and urgency, their virginity remains intact, and as they struggle to understand each other, the relationship spirals into disaster. The Virgins is the story of Aviva and Seung’s descent into confusion and shame, as re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur turned repentant narrator. With unflinching honesty and breathtaking prose, Pamela Erens brings a fresh voice to the tradition of the great boarding school novel.
"Claiming the Call to Preach traces the history of call through the nineteenth century, at a time when the question of women's call to preach, although seemingly fixed by ecclesial authority and cultural convention, was being raised by courageous women in different settings, through different genres, and to different effect. This book recovers the neglected narrative of women's call to preach through the historical accounts and rhetorical witness of four ground-breaking women preachers: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. Scholarship has been written on women who have preached in history, but not on how they managed to claim their call to preach despite the restrictions of gender inequality. This project explores the question: how did women claim their call to preach? Through feminist hermeneutics, this book examines call narratives which used rhetorical strategies to articulate effective arguments for women's call to the preaching ministry of the church. In response, these women received endorsement of their claims to pulpit places, engaged in sacred persuasive speech, and preached as ministers of the sacred office. This project examines women's call to preach-the history and theology, rhetoric and practice, struggle and success, and the necessary work of interpretation and re-interpretation through call narratives. This book concludes with practical applications for contemporary homiletics, showing how historical tradition can be re-invented in order to give women-and anyone struggling with their call to preach-rhetorical tactics and narrative scripts in order to make effective claims to preach today"--
Mina is seventeen. A virgin. And pregnant. Mina is top of her class, girlfriend to the most ambitious guy in school, able to reason and study her way through anything. But when she suddenly finds herself pregnant—despite having never had sex—her orderly world collapses. Almost nobody believes Mina’s claims of virginity. Her father assumes that her boyfriend is responsible; her boyfriend believes she must have cheated on him. As news of Mina’s story spreads, there are those who brand her a liar. There are those who brand her a heretic. And there are those who believe that miracles are possible—and that Mina’s unborn child could be the greatest miracle of all.
