Family, friends, culture, and expectation clash in this heart–wrenching story of a broken marriage – and the battle to repair it. Gabriella Vitadini thought she had the perfect marriage until her husband Tony stopped wanting her, and started wanting other women instead. Throwing him out of the house was the only thing she could do – how does she throw him out of her heart? When a much younger man reminds her that she is still a desirable woman, Gabriella reminds herself that turnabout is fair play. But even a naughty fling can't eject Tony from her thoughts. What happened to their happy marriage? Why did Tony turn away from her? And is there any hope that they can find true love again?
"Often we confuse love with lust in order to feel loved, wanted, appreciated and most of all human. We tend to settle for the first person who smiles at us and think we are wonderful. To our surprise they have an agenda that we don't even know about. Now it's up to us to figure out our worth. Will we allow ourselves to be disrespected or mistreated for any reason?"--Publisher's description.
Damon and Octavia's marriage is further tested, as Kelly's desire for Octavia grows and Lena, believing Damin should be her man, schemes to put Octavia out of the way.
Born into a poor immigrant family, Charles works diligently to rise out of poverty. Because of this determination, he graduates from a university. While he is attending there, he meets the love of his life, Joann, who is from the opposite end of the social and economic spectrum.After graduation, Charles and Joann are married. They purchase Joann's dreamhouse, an idyllic home in the neighborhood where she grew up. The happy couple has two wonderful children, Elizabeth and Edward. Joann becomes a professor at her alma mater while Charles is a traveling salesman achieving his childhood goal of living an affluent lifestyle. Their lives cannot get any better than this! But can things get worse? After the children grow up and move away, Joann commits an "indiscretion" which causes the couple's model marriage to crumble. Charles is diagnosed with a potentially fatal disease. Will Joann be able to make the necessary amends for Charles to be willing to restore their marriage? Will Charles beat the doctor's diagnosis and go back to living the American Dream?The American Dream: Love, Lust, and Lies is a vivid, thought-provoking story that challenges the notion that the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence! But even if it is, what will it require to keep it that way?
New York Times bestselling author Jenny McCarthy gave you the unfiltered ups and downs of pregnancy, motherhood, and marriage in Belly Laughs, Baby Laughs, and Life Laughs. Now the inveterate truth teller gets to the down-and-(sometimes) dirty essence of every man/woman relationship: love and sex. Meet Tony, Jenny’s first love, the boy of her teenage dreams, and Tubby, her dirty, sexy stuffed teddy bear. Follow Jenny on a whirlwind tour of the world of aphrodisiacs and fetishes, as she explains the importance of playing doctor and other nice and naughty fantasies. Jenny is at her hilarious, no-holds-barred best in Love, Lust & Faking It, sharing stories of her outrageous true exploits—from Playboy centerfold to nightmarish bargain boob job to meeting Brad Pitt—all the while reminding us to always aim higher, be kind to ourselves, believe in true love...and to have lots of fun and sex, without faking it.
Employed by Synergy Wireless these four women work together and sometimes play together. Nicole and Kendra are best friends, co-workers and much like sisters, but their relationship is soon tested when Nicole feels threatened by Kendra. Nicole's actions reveal a secret that can ruin Kendra's marriage. Kendra's once peaceful life has now been turned upside down by the one person she thought she could always trust. Consumed with rage, she decides to beat Nicole at her own game. Hired at the same time, Carmell and Natina are fast friends learning to confide and trust in one another quickly. Natina has ulterior motives for seeking a friend in Carmell. Her intentions are soon revealed causing these close friends to become bitter enemies. Contending for the same man's affections, these once friends now rivals use old tricks and new games to outwit one another. Entangled in a web of lies, entwined in a maze of deceit, and motivated by their own selfish desires, the women of Love Lust and a Whole Lotta Distrust find there's a thin line between love and lust, and when combined distrust will soon follow.
By the author known and respected for her acclaimed books on relationships. Most of us manage to be monogamous, most of the time, but who cannot imagine themselves committing the 'crime' of adultery? Does being 'faithful' mean the same to everyone? Why DO people have affairs? Using real life testimony alongside the most current research, Our Cheating Hearts looks at the big questions around love and commitment. It lifts taboos, asks the tough questions and shows how in our progressive time monogamy has become the new ideal. Some people manage monogamy. For the countless others that don't, Our Cheating Hearts opens the debate and provides the honest approach that's essential.
MadHatter: Why so blue Alice?Blue_Alice: I want to explore a part of me I've kept hidden.MadHatter: Why?Blue_Alice: Because I don't have anything to lose.MadHatter: That's dangerous.VioletAfter sacrificing years of my life on a cheating husband, I'd had enough. I set out to quench a thirst I had ignored for years. I gave myself one year to explore my sexuality-to delve into my deepest, darkest desires. With nothing to lose and everything to gain, I would have my sexual revolution. I would have my...awakening.Diving into the world of both pleasure and pain, I was sure with Rhys I had found what I'd been missing...until he took it away._________RhysI was on my way out of the life when she came barging in with her new appetite and unrealistic expectations of what a Dom should be. All I had left to do to break free was sell the club and walk away. Now I found I had something to walk toward. And for the first time in my life, I hoped I'd be enough for a woman.Caring for a woman was easy for me. I had always cared for different women for different reasons. Loving a woman had always been quite a bit harder.Doms don't have to say I love you.
VERONICA'S SECRETS.Veronica is beautiful she speaks several languages and often travels the world in search of new Eco tourist resorts she is a journalist and she writes articles for a travel magazine. She agrees to marry Darren he is the UK Minister for Foreign Affairs. When her boyfriend uncovers an international conspiracy he fears for his life after the MI6 agent's murder. He recruits his fiancée Veronica to go on a dangerous mission to the USA and courier a flash drive to a long trusted friend Sean Deveron in the CIA. After a rogue element in the CIA prevents them from informing the US President of the conspiracy their only hope lays in Moscow with Mikhail a friend of Sean's in the KGB. During Veronica's masquerade over three continents she becomes entangled in a love triangle and experiences erotic love for the first time! Which one was her soul mate? Who will protect her? Who can she trust? She uncovers a Machiavellian plot with secrets that no-one was supposed to know! Everything has a secret! Spies are watching spies; a sexy provocative tale if intrigue, mystery, adventure and erotic passion.
Now an original series on Hulu! Catch up on Season 1...Season 2 streaming now! “A twisted modern love story” (Parade), Tell Me Lies is a sexy, thrilling novel about that one person who still haunts you—the other one. The wrong one. The one you couldn’t let go of. The one you’ll never forget. Lucy Albright is far from her Long Island upbringing when she arrives on the campus of her small California college and happy to be hundreds of miles from her mother—whom she’s never forgiven for an act of betrayal in her early teen years. Quickly grasping at her fresh start, Lucy embraces college life and all it has to offer. And then she meets Stephen DeMarco. Charming. Attractive. Complicated. Devastating. Confident and cocksure, Stephen sees something in Lucy that no one else has, and she’s quickly seduced by this vision of herself, and the sense of possibility that his attention brings her. Meanwhile, Stephen is determined to forget an incident buried in his past that, if exposed, could ruin him, and his single-minded drive for success extends to winning, and keeping, Lucy’s heart. Lucy knows there’s something about Stephen that isn’t to be trusted. Stephen knows Lucy can’t tear herself away. And their addicting entanglement will have consequences they never could have imagined. Alternating between Lucy’s and Stephen’s voices, Tell Me Lies follows their connection through college and post-college life in New York City. “Readers will be enraptured” (Booklist) by the “unforgettable beauties in this very sexy story” (Kirkus Review). With the psychological insight and biting wit of Luckiest Girl Alive, and the yearning ambitions and desires of Sweetbitter, this keenly intelligent and supremely resonant novel chronicles the exhilaration and dilemmas of young adulthood and the difficulty of letting go—even when you know you should.
