Jenna is a jewelry designer who unexpectedly meets Adam Roth, a man who belongs to the family that tricked her brother and stole a fortune from him! That family is prestigious and aristocratic, but it’s made up of people who will do anything for money! Jenna complains and tells Adam to repay the money. He doesn’t believe her story but promises to look into things…on one condition. For one month he wants Jenna to pretend to be his girlfriend! She pegged him as a playboy, but what is this about? They should hate each other, but his kisses are unexpectedly sweet…
Jenna is a jewelry designer who unexpectedly meets Adam Roth, a man who belongs to the family that tricked her brother and stole a fortune from him! That family is prestigious and aristocratic, but it’s made up of people who will do anything for money! Jenna complains and tells Adam to repay the money. He doesn’t believe her story but promises to look into things…on one condition. For one month he wants Jenna to pretend to be his girlfriend! She pegged him as a playboy, but what is this about? They should hate each other, but his kisses are unexpectedly sweet…
Jenna is a jewelry designer who unexpectedly meets Adam Roth, a man who belongs to the family that tricked her brother and stole a fortune from him! That family is prestigious and aristocratic, but it’s made up of people who will do anything for money! Jenna complains and tells Adam to repay the money. He doesn’t believe her story but promises to look into things…on one condition. For one month he wants Jenna to pretend to be his girlfriend! She pegged him as a playboy, but what is this about? They should hate each other, but his kisses are unexpectedly sweet…
Jenna is a jewelry designer who unexpectedly meets Adam Roth, a man who belongs to the family that tricked her brother and stole a fortune from him! That family is prestigious and aristocratic, but it’s made up of people who will do anything for money! Jenna complains and tells Adam to repay the money. He doesn’t believe her story but promises to look into things…on one condition. For one month he wants Jenna to pretend to be his girlfriend! She pegged him as a playboy, but what is this about? They should hate each other, but his kisses are unexpectedly sweet…
High–Society Secret Baby He'd done his late brother the ultimate favour and now Dominic Roth was paying the price. The tycoon could not declare Cassandra Roth's child his own – society would know the baby only as his niece. So when the opportunity arose for Dom to lay claim to both mother and child, he played his cards. Yet even when Dom finally had the woman he'd secretly coveted, he knew he could never reveal their daughter's true parentage. For the billionaire daddy dared not risk destroying his tenuous hold on true happiness. High–Society Seduction He needed a mistress. A pretend mistress, that is. So when Jenna Branson confronted playboy billionaire Adam Roth, he saw his opportunity. The proposition seemed simple, but soon their game of seduction was no longer just for show. Then a high–stakes confrontation forced them to choose between family loyalty...and their chance at forever.
Through its examination of Balzac's and Sand's representations of seduction from the perspectives of feminism, psycho-analysis, and cultural studies, this book sheds lights on erotic relations and the ways in which they are embedded in wider issues of subjectivity and political and social structures."--Jacket.
He'd done his late brother the ultimate favor and now Dominic Roth was paying the ultimate price. The tycoon could not declare Cassandra Roth's child his own—society could know the baby only as his niece. So when the opportunity arose for Dominic to lay claim to both mother and child, he played his cards. Yet even as Dominic finally had the woman he'd secretly coveted, he knew he could not reveal their daughter's true parentage. For the billionaire daddy dared not risk destroying his tenuous hold on true happiness.
The dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo, who ruled the Dominican Republic from 1930 until his assassination in 1961, was one of the longest and bloodiest in Latin American history. The Dictator’s Seduction is a cultural history of the Trujillo regime as it was experienced in the capital city of Santo Domingo. Focusing on everyday forms of state domination, Lauren Derby describes how the regime infiltrated civil society by fashioning a “vernacular politics” based on popular idioms of masculinity and fantasies of race and class mobility. Derby argues that the most pernicious aspect of the dictatorship was how it appropriated quotidian practices such as gossip and gift exchange, leaving almost no place for Dominicans to hide or resist. Drawing on previously untapped documents in the Trujillo National Archives and interviews with Dominicans who recall life under the dictator, Derby emphasizes the role that public ritual played in Trujillo’s exercise of power. His regime included the people in affairs of state on a massive scale as never before. Derby pays particular attention to how events and projects were received by the public as she analyzes parades and rallies, the rebuilding of Santo Domingo following a major hurricane, and the staging of a year-long celebration marking the twenty-fifth year of Trujillo’s regime. She looks at representations of Trujillo, exploring how claims that he embodied the popular barrio antihero the tíguere (tiger) stoked a fantasy of upward mobility and how a rumor that he had a personal guardian angel suggested he was uniquely protected from his enemies. The Dictator’s Seduction sheds new light on the cultural contrivances of autocratic power.
