--- When a match meets gasoline. ---Mona. Mafia princess. Rebellious Italian beauty. Runaway bride.Rain. Motorcycle club president's daughter. Androgynous biker goddess. After her sister was forced into an arranged marriage, Mona vowed she would never suffer the same fate. She would do whatever she had to, even set the church on fire, catch the first bus to nowhere without a dollar in her pocket while still wearing her wedding dress.Away from her controlling family, Mona intends to fight for her financial independence on the stripping pole at the Smoke Valley Motorcycle Club. Her plan is to earn enough cash for further travels, but once she gets closer to Rain, and becomes more comfortable on the back of her bike than she ever was in the world of privilege, staying in the middle of Nowhere, Nevada no longer sounds so bad.Rain doesn't do girlfriends. Her biker lifestyle means secrecy and unsavory deeds no girl she's met would roll with. Her only goal is to smash the glass ceiling of her family-run biker gang and become the first female member. She does do flings though, and the Italian beauty who crashes her birthday party is perfect for one of those. But Mona sticks around. Rain can't stay away, and all rules go out the window when Rain finds out Mona is the runaway daughter of a mafioso. Maybe she could just be the kind of woman who understands living outside the lawWhen the mafia comes after Mona, Rain has to choose between loyalty to the club and the woman of her dreams. One thing is certain - there will be no escape without mayhem.POSSIBLE SPOILERS: Themes: mafia, organized crime, marriage, forbidden love, danger, motorcycle club, biker chick, family, rebellion, independence, first relationship, self-discoveryGenre: F/F romance, suspenseContains explicit, scorching hot scenes.Length: 60,000 words (STANDALONE novel)
Prostitutes make up one of the most engaging chapters in the story of the American West. Upstairs Girls opens a window on the lives of these women for hire. Historian Michael Rutter offers a thorough and fascinating history of prostitution in the West, with details on why women turned to this profession and what their lives were like. Chapters on the notorious madams, the tragic Chinese sex trade, occupational hazards, rowdy dancehall girls, and the efforts of the ''Moral Purity Movement'' supplement the heart-breaking and sometimes humorous profiles on some of the most famous madams and prostitutes in history.
Eleven-year-old Sallie March is a whip-smart tomboy and voracious reader of Western adventure novels. When she and her sister Maude escape their self-serving guardians for the wilds of the frontier, they begin an adventure the likes of which Sallie has only read about. This time however, the "wanted woman" isn't a dime-novel villian, it's Sallie's very own sister! What follows is not the lies the papers printed, but the honest-to-goodness truth of how two sisters went from being orphans to being outlaws—and lived to tell the tale!
This is book 1 of the Vicious Thrills MC series! Books 2 and 3 are available everywhere now! A ride on the outlaw got her pregnant. He’s a bearded, tatted, whiskey-drinking rogue. And he’s the only thing keeping me alive. If I want to keep my baby safe, I have to do one thing and one thing only: Whatever the hell he wants. BLADE I won’t apologize for what I do. I’m an outlaw biker, not a goody-two-shoes. I own a strip club – and it’s not the kind where you’re gonna find a bachelorette party acting like drunken fools. This is the kind of place where the women on stage are bare, ready, and willing – if you can pony up the cash. And of course, I always get my cut of the transaction. But I don’t touch any of the girls in my stable. Never get high on your own supply, isn’t that what they say? Screwing with my strippers would be a recipe for disaster. But then she walked in, and every rule went out the window. I’ve always controlled myself. Along with every aspect of my life in this little slice of the criminal underworld. But one sight of her broke me. I knew I should’ve turned her away. Hell, I did at first - but then my black little heart got the best of me. So I decided to make her a deal. I’ll keep her around. But not just in my club. She’s gonna be sharing my bed. Serving my needs. So when I tell her to fall to the ground and please me… She’d better get right to work. LUCY Desperate is an understatement. I’m pregnant and alone. Abandoned by my boyfriend, disowned by my parents. Reduced to begging for jobs at a filthy strip club. How could things possibly get worse? One answer: Blade. He says he’s helping me out. But he knows damn well I don’t have a choice. I have to accept his deal. Part of me hates him for it. He’s a cold-hearted man. A biker, a killer, a truly reckless outlaw. But the other part of me is… excited? That can’t possibly be right, can it? There’s no denying that Blade is sexy. He’s tall and tatted and rugged, like he stepped right out of my darkest wet dream. But when he pulls me close and whispers in my ear what he wants to do to me, I know… I’m falling into bed with the devil himself. *** Do you love dark, sexy bad boy biker romance with a twist? Then check out OUTLAW’S RIDE by bestselling author Sophia Gray. This hot romance series is about a sexy bad boy biker alpha male who knocks up an innocent girl. The story has sex, love, action, and excitement on every page. You’ll love this romance pregnancy love story.
Can the right woman really make a bad boy change? Janelle and Outlaw's love story was birthed through struggles that neither one of them ever saw coming but just when they thought they’d reached their happily ever after, their picture-perfect love story comes crumbling down. Janelle's dreams are all set to come true when she gets the chance to become the District Attorney of New York City. The only thing making her have second thoughts is the fact that she’s married to the city’s ultimate bad boy, Luke ‘Outlaw’ Murray. With no one around who understands her ambitious goals, she finds a friend in a woman who truly only wants to bring her down. The saying ‘keep your friends close and your enemies closer’ always rings true but once Janelle finally realizes that her enemy is right in front of her, will it be too late? Luke ‘Outlaw’ Murray is the bad boy who no one ever imagined could be tamed. Now that he’s a family man, his reckless lifestyle has changed, but the savage in him is very much alive. With Janelle focused on her own dreams, he turns his attention back to running the streets... only to meet someone he would have never expected: Chloe Harvarty, the sister of Chris Harvarty, a man whose life he ended in order to protect the woman he loved. His guilt plagues him when he sees the way that his actions have utterly devastated her life and, against his better nature, he’s caught up—feeling obligated to help a woman he begins to feel responsible for. When a simple friendship begins to cross the line over into a lane that he knows he shouldn’t explore, will Outlaw stand strong or will he turn back into his old self and fall back into his womanizing ways?
Working Girls offers a series of case-studies designed to provide a feminist investigation of the thematic concerns and discursive formations of the contemporary Hollywood cinema.
For use in schools and libraries only. In her quest to connect with Robin Hood, the father she has never met, 13-year-old Rosemary disguises herself as a boy, befriends a half-wolf, half-dog, a runaway princess, and an overgrown boy whose singing is hypnotic, and makes peace with her elfin heritage.
With her faithful dog Caesar, 12-year-old Eliza Yates heads for Colorado to find her father, who left years ago to seek his fortune. Along the eay, Eliza puts on a boy's clothes, chops off her braids, and transforms herself into Elijah Bates. When "Eli" teams up with young Calvin Featherbone, none of their adventures turns out quite as expected.