I swear to protect her life, liberty, and body… I’m done with Tilucci. I’m only doing it to give my daughter the life she deserves. I’m not the guy that Jane, that fine reporter, thinks I am. And when I say fine, I mean it more than just her work. I need to help her to get rid of this life of drugs and violence and keep my baby girl safe. I never expected Jane to like me. But after she forced herself to join me, I knew she was mine. I will keep them both safe. I don’t know if she will be okay with a single father like me. But I’ll make sure to convince her as much as I can. I always do. This is book 2 of the Omerta Series. This is a bad boy mafia romance novel. There is NO cheating, NO cliffhanger, and a guaranteed happy ending!
They are a covert, black ops team known only as Team 52. Their mission: to secure and safeguard artifacts deemed highly dangerous and classified...and protect the women who capture their hearts. When Rowan's Arctic research team pulls a strange object out of the ice in Northern Canada, things start to go wrong...very, very wrong. Rescued by a covert, black ops team, she finds herself in the powerful arms of a man with scary gold eyes. A man who vows to do everything and anything to protect her... Dr. Rowan Schafer has learned it's best to do things herself and not depend on anyone else. Her cold, academic parents taught her that lesson. She loves the challenge of running a research base, until the day her scientists discover the object in a retreating glacier. Under attack, Rowan finds herself fighting to survive...until the mysterious Team 52 arrives. Former special forces Marine Lachlan Hunter's military career ended in blood and screams, until he was recruited to lead a special team. A team tasked with a top-secret mission-to secure and safeguard pieces of powerful ancient technology. Married to his job, he's done too much and seen too much to risk inflicting his demons on a woman. But when his team arrives in the Arctic, he uncovers both an unexplained artifact, and a young girl from his past, now all grown up. A woman who ignites emotions inside him like never before. But as Team 52 heads back to their base in Nevada, other hostile forces are after the artifact. Rowan finds herself under attack, and as the bullets fly, Lachlan vows to protect her at all costs. But in the face of danger like they've never seen before, will it be enough to keep her alive.
You shouldn't mix business with pleasure.Yet pleasure seems to be the one and only thing on Charlize's mind the moment Connor steamrolls into her life. Desperate to save her family company, prove she's more than a pretty face and worthy of being CEO, pleasure is a distraction she can't afford.She doesn't want a bodyguard, especially not one whose caveman heroics kick her libido into hyperdrive. Surrounded by enemies, she's not sure if Connor is a man she can trust.Connor knows better than to get personal with clients. Yet there couldn't be anything more personal about his feelings for Charlize. He'll win her trust, preferably one orgasm at a time.With Connor in her office, her home, driving her to sweet, merciless distraction, there's only so long Charlize can resist his sexy, dominant brand of protection.WARNING: This is an Amber Bardan Alpha Romance, featuring one dirty-talking hero obsessed with his heroine, and a Happily Ever After. Full Length. No cliffhanger.
*PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED AS LEAD ME NOT* Buddies know the unwritten rule: hands off your friends’ sisters. Duncan MacGregor is reluctant to team up with his best friend’s little sister to search for her missing brother, but Bethany Redd’s determination to go it alone doesn’t leave him much choice. A Security Specialist, Duncan’s worked with plenty of beautiful women, so hands off should be easy. Especially under the circumstances... Bethany literally carries the result of her last relationship, and she blames pregnancy hormones for the absurd feelings she experiences for her brother’s gorgeous friend, adding yet another complication to her insanely complicated life. It’s her fault her brother disappeared, she has yet to tell her parents they’re about to be grandparents, and she has to prepare for the birth. Fall for Duncan? Now? Yeah, right. As Bethany and Duncan battle their emotions and growing awareness of each other, Bethany becomes the latest target for danger, leaving Duncan desperate to protect her and her unborn child while searching for answers. Maybe Duncan came into her life at the right time to keep her safe but in the end--will his failure to find her brother tear them apart? >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> best romance books, beach books, southern romance ebooks, contemporary romance books, contemporary romance authors, popular contemporary romance novels, best contemporary romance novels, myst read romances, myst read romance books, small town romance book series, must read romance books 2023, beach books for women, women's fiction romance, romance books best sellers 2023, grumpy sunshine romance, age gap romance, friendship romance novels
This volume presents the first translation of Jane Anger's pamphlet, Protection for Women, into modern English, together with exhaustive explanatory notes.
An insatiable need for sex and love. Periods of overeating or starving. A pattern of unstable and painful relationships. Does this sound painfully familiar? Trauma counselor Kelly McDaniel has seen these traits over and over in clients who feel trapped in cycles of harmful behaviors-and are unable to stop. Many of us find ourselves stuck in unhealthy habits simply because we don't see a better way. With Mother Hunger, McDaniel helps women break the cycle of destructive behavior by taking a fresh look at childhood trauma and its lasting impact. In doing so, she destigmatizes the shame that comes with being under-mothered and misdiagnosed. McDaniel offers a healing path with powerful tools that include therapeutic interventions and lifestyle changes in service to healthy relationships. The constant search for mother love can be a lifelong emotional burden, but healing begins with knowing and naming what we are missing. McDaniel is the first clinician to identify Mother Hunger, which demystifies the search for love and provides the compass that each woman needs to end the struggle with achy, lonely emptiness, and come home to herself.
A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado’s engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened to her shaped the person she was becoming. And it’s that struggle that gives the book its original structure: each chapter is driven by its own narrative trope—the haunted house, erotica, the bildungsroman—through which Machado holds the events up to the light and examines them from different angles. She looks back at her religious adolescence, unpacks the stereotype of lesbian relationships as safe and utopian, and widens the view with essayistic explorations of the history and reality of abuse in queer relationships. Machado’s dire narrative is leavened with her characteristic wit, playfulness, and openness to inquiry. She casts a critical eye over legal proceedings, fairy tales, Star Trek, and Disney villains, as well as iconic works of film and fiction. The result is a wrenching, riveting book that explodes our ideas about what a memoir can do and be.
An assignment turned deadly... Journalist Hayley Garner thought this was the chance of a lifetime. Instead, she's facing certain death. Taken hostage by terrorists, she knows she won't live to see the sun rise. That is until a Navy SEAL charges in to save her. Tall, dark, and handsome, he disappears before she can even thank him. But when her new story lands her at the Navy Training Facility, Hayley finds her sexy-as-sin SEAL. Even better, he asks her out. But not everything is going her way. Someone is after Hayley again. And the danger is as real as her feelings for Chasen. A rescue turned romance... The attack of 9/11 changed Chasen Ward. He switched career paths to become a SEAL and devote his life to fighting terrorism and protecting civilians. While that fulfils his work life, the hazards of his job are more than most women can take. The last thing he expected was to meet a woman whose job was as risky as his. He's falling fast for Hayley, but now she's in jeopardy. When Hayley is kidnapped, Chasen will turn San Diego inside out to find her. But will it be too late?
All Isabella Adamovich wanted was to open her own hotel in Vegas and contribute to the family business. How was she to know that the previous owner was an idiot and paid protection money to their rivals and those rivals would try to ruin her business if she doesn't pay more? Who's stupid enough to go against the granddaughter of one of the most powerful wolf shifters in the country? Add in a possible arranged marriage, the handsome stranger from New York that makes her head spin and secret family prophecies along with the other wolf pack becoming more violent all in the same month. What else can happen?
