A pledge to protect… That will be tested at the altar! After tragedy strikes, Daniela Avelar steps up as CEO to her brother’s global yacht empire. But to prevent corporate mutiny, she needs the help of his business partner, Valerio Marchesi. Little does Daniela know that Valerio has already sworn to keep her safe. And when the tycoon discovers she’s in grave danger, he insists she become his bride! He’ll risk the unavoidable chemistry that sparks every time they lock eyes. Because this engagement of convenience is anything but… It’s a red-hot fire burning out of control!
This comparative literature study explores how writers from across Ireland and Latin America have, both in parallel and in concert, deployed symbolic representations of the dead in their various anti-colonial projects. In contrast to the ghosts and revenants that haunt English and Anglo-American letters—where they are largely either monstrous horrors or illusory frauds—the dead in these Irish/Latinx archives can serve as potential allies, repositories of historical grievances, recorders of silenced voices, and disruptors of neocolonial discourse.
I met the devil in broad daylight. He was cold, dangerous, and nothing I knew I wanted. I should’ve known better. But I couldn't stay away from everything I never thought I’d need. So we made a deal—just our bodies. But the lines blurred without warning, and I soon found myself making another deal. I made the mistake of asking for forever, never knowing just how much the cold could burn. Now, I’m afraid that lies dressed as kisses are all we’ll ever have.
An ambitious wedding planner goes to great lengths to give her clients their dream wedding in Sicily, including date the suave owner of a castle. Leo Valente is as notorious as the tabloids make him out to be. But feisty wedding planner Dara Devlin isn’t deterred. She needs his family castle for her top client, so she boldly accepts Leo’s outrageous challenge to be his fake girlfriend. If Dara thinks her sensible suit and unwavering professionalism will discourage him, she’s mistaken. They only make Leo want to get beneath her buttoned-up exterior even more! Surrounded by the imposing walls and haunting memories of his opulent Sicilian castello, Leo finds seducing Dara is the perfect diversion—and claiming her will be this playboy’s ultimate prize. And the story continues in the included bonus novella! The debut novel from SYTYCW winner Amanda Cinelli. Praise for Resisting the Sicilian Playboy “An enjoyable romance. Dara is a strong heroine and I loved how feisty and fierce she was. . . . I am definitely looking forward to reading more from Ms. Cinelli.” —Harlequin Junkie
Stepping into the spotlight… As the desert king’s queen! Khalil’s motivation for marriage is politics, not passion. So when his intended bride marries for love and her sister, shy Princess Cressida, agrees to take her place, Khal travels to London to retrieve his replacement queen! Yet their sizzling encounter changes everything. Since losing his first wife, Khal keeps all emotion on lockdown, but the desire innocent Cressida ignites is too hot to resist… Lose yourself in this seductive royal romance…
The woman he loved died. And I’m what’s left standing. I didn’t know I would fall for him. He is, after all, my enemy. I set out to break his heart. And that’s what I plan to do. Splatter it into a million pieces. He’s an asshole, you see. He runs this town. And he thinks he can run me too. Well, he can’t. And he can think again. Most women don’t fall at the feet of a man like him. No, they grovel. Except, I can’t. Because I hate him. Even with his rugged good looks and a demanding presence, he can’t win me. Because I’ve played this game well. And I will win.
His something borrowed...is the bride! After the news Greek playboy Eros has just shared about her convenient groom, Priya can’t walk down the aisle of her Manhattan wedding. To save he father’s business, she must flee in her white dress...and wed Eros instead!
Petition For Divorce... Denied! Diana Taylor’s marriage to playboy Coburn Grant was short and passionate, and it blazed brightly until the reality of their different worlds set in. Now, years later, Coburn has finally agreed to a divorce. Except one last pleasurable night together seals their fate – with a baby!
Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.