Red-hot attraction is dangerous in this new Prescott Bachelors romance by New York Times bestselling author Cindy Dees To help his brothers, marine pilot Archer Prescott goes undercover to find out who's sabotaging their movie set. But the die-hard bachelor isn't ready for what he finds in the High Sierras: his doe-eyed, girl-next-door camerawoman is the prime suspect. Marley Stringer isn't as innocent as she seems. As Marley turns irresistible and the aerial "accidents" turn deadly, Archer begins to wonder who's more dangerous--the perfect woman who threatens his heart...or the desperate killer who threatens his life.
"Alexander de la Grip is known in the tabloids and gossip blogs as a rich, decadent, jet-setting playboy who spends most of his days recovering from the night before. With a string of beautiful conquests, he seems to care about nothing and no one. Isabel Srenson has treated patients in refugee camps and war zones, and is about to depart Sweden for a pediatric hospital in Chad. Devoted to her humanitarian work, she cares almost too deeply. Especially when she learns that Alexander is withholding desperately needed funds from her aid foundation"--Amazon.com.
This is the first book to focus on James Bond’s relationship to the playboy ideal through the sixties and beyond. Examining aspects of the Bond phenomenon and the playboy lifestyle, it considers how ideas of gender and consumption were manipulated to construct and reflect a powerful male fantasy in the post-war era. This analysis of the close association and relations between the emerging cultural icons of James Bond and the playboy is particularly concerned with Sean Connery’s definitive Bond as he was promoted and used by the media. By exploring the connections that developed between Bond and Playboy magazine within a historical framework, the book offers new insights into these related phenomena and their enduring legacy in popular culture.
Charles Ferguson's hilarious, hard-boiled journey into the heart of high-tech darkness has become the signal book of the start-up generation. Charles Ferguson started Vermeer Technologies and turned his very big idea into FrontPage, the first software product for creating and managing a website. Ferguson took a good idea, started a company, and sold it to Microsoft for $133 million -- all in less than two years. High Stakes, No Prisoners is both a blistering inside account of how he did it and a brilliant tour of the brutally competitive and utterly unique world of Silicon Valley. - Publisher.
Susan Monroe never, ever, wants to see her big brother's best friend again. Small problem: a killer from her past has found her, and only the Blackjacks--including Special Forces operative, Mac Conlon--can save her. When Mac shows up at Susan's ranch to take over protection duty, he hopes he can make amends for leaving her the way he did ten years ago. But Susan has grown up, and she's having nothing to do with forgiving him. As a dangerous assassin chases them across the wilds of west Texas, Mac and Susan walk a fine line between life and death, love and hate.
NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, Cindy Dees, is back with her latest sizzling hot military romance series, the Blackjacks... PRAISE FOR CINDY DEES Wow! You have to read Cindy Dees! I laughed. I cried. I laughed some more. Left me breathless. Can’t put her books down! --The Romance Reader Review-- Lovers of Dees’ high-stakes, fast-paced action will find exponentially increasing tension in each scene and pulse-pounding adventure that will keep readers enthralled. --Romantic Times Book Reviews-- Special Forces operative and Blackjack medic, Joe Rodriguez, has a simple job: rescue Carina Ferrare from her father, crime lord, Eduardo Ferrare. Problem: the man’s house is an impregnable fortress, and he’d rather kill his daughter than let her leave. Solution: marry Carina, infiltrate Ferrare’s house, and break her out. But the biggest problem of all for Joe and Carina may not be her deadly father. It may be the attraction exploding between them and threatening to make their fake marriage all too real…
Ken Singleton is a broken man. A Navy SEAL, he was held prisoner and tortured for over a year by a madman before his teammates were found and rescued him. Now, he just wants to sit on a mountaintop in Tennessee and be alone. But then graduate of the Valkyrie Ops program and female SEAL, Lily VanDyke, shows up at his house. Her mission: kick Ken’s butt and get him to come back to Team Reaper. She blows into his life like a hurricane, upending his world and forcing him to face his demons as attraction explodes between. Then someone tries to kill them and Ken’s worst nightmare comes true. His captor isn’t dead and has come looking for revenge. Ken and Lily will have to confront their feelings for each other while confronting one of the most dangerous criminals on the planet. Live or die, this mission is going to be an all or nothing proposition… With over two million books sold worldwide, Cindy Dees is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of 100+ books. A 2-time RITA winner and five-time RITA finalist, she writes thrillers, military romance, and romantic suspense. Cindy is also the creator and executive producer of a major television show based on her Helen Warwick thriller novel series. A former U.S. Air Force pilot and part-time spy, Cindy draws upon real-life experience to fuel her stories of life and love on the edge of danger. Praise for Beyond the Limit: “The characters are strong, bold, and take no prisoners…the chemistry between these two is off the charts magnetic…volcanic passion…fast-paced plot…a powerfully explosive and emotionally gripping read.” “Lovers of Dees’ high-stakes, fast-paced action will find exponentially increasing tension in each scene and pulse-pounding adventure that will keep readers enthralled.”
NEW YORK TIMES and USA TODAY BESTSELLING AUTHOR, Cindy Dees, is back with her latest sizzling hot military romance series, the Blackjacks... A mortal enemy back from the dead. An urgent mission to stop an international crime lord from resurfacing. Sniper, Jake “Howdy” Harrington, is shut down emotionally but must come out of his shell to complete this last, impossible assignment. A woman hiding from her attacker, hiding from life. And then a stranger appears at her door, asking to move in with her, to use her home as a surveillance post. Sucked into a deadly game of cat-and-mouse between two killers—one good, one bad—Shannon McMahon must choose to hide forever or risk her life with the man of ice in her home…a man who melts her with passion… PRAISE FOR CINDY DEES: Lovers of Dees’ high-stakes, fast-paced action will find exponentially increasing tension in each scene and pulse-pounding adventure that will keep readers enthralled. -- Romantic Times Book Reviews Ten stars is not enough for Dees’ books! -- Harriet Klausner, Amazon Top Reviewer Wow! You have to read Cindy Dees! I laughed. I cried. I laughed some more. Left me breathless. Can’t put her books down! -- Romance Reader review
