Always an outsider, Rafael spent his life looking in on his privileged Wolfe siblings. Determined to create the lifestyle denied to him, Rafael worked his way to the top and his marriage to the beautiful Leila was the icing on the cake! But his marriage is crumbling. Rafael chased a rainbow and made his wife feel like she was a trophy. It will now take all of his courage to win her back
A spoiled socialite and a troubled mogul share a hot night that will transform their lives forever in this contemporary romance. Everyone’s talking about Zoe Balfour—the illegitimate heiress! She flies to New York to discover more about her biological family and goes a little wild, shocking even herself by spending one night with a gorgeous stranger. . . . The gradual loss of his sight has caused Manhattan mogul Max Monroe to close himself off from the world—a wife and child are most certainly not on his agenda! How will Zoe, once just a spoiled socialite and now unexpectedly pregnant, unlock the dark heart of a man who may never see his own child?
Always an outsider, Rafael spent his life looking in on his privileged Wolfe siblings, a boy in the shadows. And so, determined to create the lifestyle and family illegitimacy denied him, Rafael punishingly worked his way to the top. His marriage to beautiful supermodel Leila was the icing on the cake of success! Now his marriage is crumbling and the vows he took seem in vain. Rafael chased a rainbow—but made his wife feel as though she was never more than a trophy.… Now it will take all of his courage to win his wife back.…
Betsy Prioleau’s biography of Gilded Age female tycoon Miriam Leslie is “an appropriately twisty tale of someone trying to outrun her origins. . . . Her story sparkles, as intoxicating as a champagne fountain that somebody else is paying for” (New York Times Book Review). Among the fabled tycoons of the Gilded Age—Carnegie, Rockefeller, Vanderbilt—is a forgotten figure: Mrs. Frank Leslie. For 20 years she ran the country’s largest publishing company, Frank Leslie Publishing, which chronicled postbellum America in dozens of weeklies and monthlies. A pioneer in an all-male industry, she made a fortune and became a national celebrity and tastemaker in the process. But Miriam Leslie was also a byword for scandal: she flouted feminine convention, took lovers, married four times, and harbored unsavory secrets that she concealed through a skein of lies and multiple personas. Both during and after her lifetime, glimpses of the truth emerged, including an illegitimate birth and a checkered youth. Diamonds and Deadlines reveals the previously unknown, sensational life of the brilliant and brazen “empress of journalism,” who dropped a bombshell at her death: she left her entire multimillion-dollar estate to women’s suffrage—a never-equaled amount that guaranteed passage of the Nineteenth Amendment. In this dazzling biography, cultural historian Betsy Prioleau draws from diaries, genealogies, and published works to provide an intimate look at the life of one of the Gilded Age’s most complex, powerful women and unexpected feminist icons. Ultimately, Diamonds and Deadlines restores Mrs. Frank Leslie to her rightful place in history as a monumental businesswoman who presaged the feminist future and reflected, in bold relief, the Gilded Age, one of the most momentous, seismic, and vivid epochs in American history. Includes Black-and-White Images
Being the wealthiest landowner on Thomas Isle was still not enough for Garrett Sutherland. He'd spent his life creating his vast fortune…and his sensational notoriety. But he wanted his biggest claim to fame to be the seduction of Princess Louisa—the infamous virgin princess. The tycoon had carefully planned his agenda. He'd insinuate himself into Louisa's heart…and then her bed. And when the news broke, he'd dutifully propose. Yet this close-hearted millionaire had not realized luring Louisa into an opportunistic marriage could cost him more than even he might be willing to pay.
A widowed Texas tycoon falls for the surrogate mother carrying his child in this sexy romance from a USA Today–bestselling author. Mr. December: Adam Blair, billionaire oil baron. Dream: Producing a much-wanted heir. Dilemma: Keeping the arrangement strictly business. The time had come to move on. CEO and widower Adam Blair was determined to find the right woman to carry his baby. And when Katy Huntly, his late wife’s sister, discovered his plan, she demanded to be the surrogate. The agreement certainly made sense—on paper. Adam had always felt a certain pull toward Katy, and those feelings only intensified the closer they grew. But falling in love had no place in this tycoon’s agenda. How could he imagine allowing their relationship to progress beyond nine months?
In the twenty-first century, the romance genre has gained a growing academic response, including the creation of the International Association for the Study of Popular Romance. Popular romance has long been so ignored and maligned that seemingly every scholarly work on it opens with a lengthy defense of the genre and its value for academic study. Even the early scholarly works on the genre approach it in ways that, while primarily respectful, make sweeping generalizations about popular romance, its texts, and its readers. This essay collection examines the position of the romance genre in the twenty-first century, and the ways in which romance responds to and influences the culture and community in which it exists. Essays are divided into six sections, which cover the genre's relationship with masculinity, the importance of consent, historical romance, representation, social status and web-based romance fiction.
Single mother Trish Melrose has been offered a rare opportunityto mix business and pleasure. While sailing the Mediterraneanaboard the luxurious Alexandra's Dream, she's to convincebusinessman Theo Catomeris to re-sign his shore excursioncompany with Liberty Line. Theo's long-estranged father has puther up to this assignment, but an undeniable attraction betweenTrish and Theo is distracting her from the business at hand. Theo's success and happiness on the island of Corfu suggest thathe's a man with blueprints to good fortune, but absentee parentshave made it difficult for him to get close to anyone. Havingdiscovered that his father has purchased the cruise line he usedto work with, Theo is more than reluctant to trust a relationshipwith him. But will meeting Trish give him a new perspective onbuilding a future and resolving his past?
An earth-shattering family scandal turned Chet Barron into a Texas billionaire overnight. But something else had rocked the former rancher's world: the incredible night of passion he'd shared with Mina Ferguson. His ultra-efficient assistant was the most desirable woman Chet had ever known. If he only knew the secret she was carrying... Mina had been hopelessly in love with her ruggedly handsome boss since day one. But how could she tell the brooding cowboy with daddy issues that he was about to become a father? It would take some trust and a lot of sweet persuasion to land this reticent Western tycoon. Because she wasn't going to give him up--not for love or money
Rhiannon’s best friend passed away not long after giving birth to a baby. Rhiannon tracked down the father, real-estate tycoon Lukas Petrakides, to tell him the news. However, he declared the baby was not his child and branded Rhiannon a blackmailer! Then, because he was so wary of the media, he whisked her away to his island in the Aegean Sea. Now that they’re all alone, what agreement can they come to?
