When eighteen-year-old Emery Leclerc is taken from her home by a man who claims she has magical powers, she isn’t sure who to call first: the police or the psych ward. After discovering that the magic running through her veins is the reason her parents died years ago, Emery wants nothing to do with it. She’d like nothing more than to return to her boring, small-town life. But left unchecked, her newly awakened abilities prove dangerous. She must learn to control her magic or risk having it consume her—and dying before making it out of high school would seriously suck. Unfortunately for Emery, learning magic isn’t as easy as her new housemates make it seem. As her frustration grows, she learns that, while she may not want her magic, there’s a Wielder who does… and the hauntingly familiar and wickedly charming Remington will do whatever it takes to have it. As Emery battles him, she struggles to unravel the truth about her magical block and the undeniable pull she feels towards her enemy. They say the truth will set you free, but for Emery, it could be the very thing that kills her.
A seductive rake gets a second chance with the woman he desires in this steamy Regency romance by a New York Times–bestselling author. To her surprise, Lady Mallory Byron finds herself walking down the aisle with the last man she ever expected to ask for her hand . . . Everyone knows the Byron brothers are “mad, bad, and dangerous.” Now their sister shockingly discovers she’s the newest talk of the Ton when she marries the scandalous Earl of Gresham. Faced with a tragic loss, she’d sought comfort from him as a family friend. But soon consolation turned to passion, scandal—and a wedding! In the bridal bed, she finds pleasure beyond her wildest dreams. But can nights of wicked delight change friendship into true love? Charming rakehell Adam, Earl of Gresham, has secretly loved Mallory for years. He lost her once to another man, but now he has a second chance to win her love—and plans to do so by any means necessary. Will Mallory’s heart give him what he so dearly desires? Or is the past too much to overcome?
The seven deadly sins have provided gossip, amusement, and the plots of morality plays for nearly fifteen hundred years. In Wicked Pleasures, well-known philosopher, business ethicist, and admitted sinner Robert C. Solomon brings together a varied group of contributors for a new look at the old catalogue of sins. Solomon introduces the sins as a group, noting their popularity and pervasiveness. From the formation of the canon by Pope Gregory the Great, the seven have survived the sermonizing of the Reformation, the Inquisition, the Enlightenment, the brief French reign of supreme reason, the apotheoses of capitalism, communism, secular humanism and postmodernism, the writings of numerous rabbis and evangelical moralists, two series in the New York Times, and several bad movies. Taking their cue from this remarkable history, the contributors, including Thomas Pynchon, allowed one sin apiece, provide a non-sermonizing and relatively light-hearted romp through the domain of the deadly seven.
Wicked schemes are afoot at Westwood Hall this Christmas. And lovely, innocent Adeline Osbourne will be ensnared by dark, dashing Grant Leighton and a scandalous assignation.... Betrothed against her will, Adeline had been resigned to a loveless marriage. At the mercy of her father's wishes, she had lost all hope of experiencing what life really had to offer. But now a scandal has altered her destiny! Adeline secretly thanks the festive season for working its magic—promising pleasures long denied her....
A believer that does not know what the Word says will be ineffective in the Lord's vineyard because this believer cannot grow spiritually by being ignorant of the Word of God. The Word reveals the great promises God has for His children and it also motivates and empowers us to be victorious Christians here on earth. God has already given us everything we need to succeed in this world, and we will be ignorant of the potentials we have in us to live righteous lives if we do not study the Word and strive to emulate the examples of Jesus Christ and those faithful saints that laid the foundation for our faith in God. This book will motivate and empower the reader to read the Bible every day; to depend on God, to pray and also to strive to live above temptation and sin. God is holy and anyone that truly desires to serve God must be holy unto Him. "As a Christian and a Journalist, I have tremendous respect for Mrs. Noyo Anthonia Kubeyinje-Edem's knowledge of the Word of God. This book will give all of those who read it a reason to stay eternally connected to the Word of God, the Bible. Patience Edremoda CEO & Founder Vision 1 International Inc. Newark, New Jersey "You are already Clean" will be a valuable resource to anyone that desires to be fruitful in the Lord's vineyard. This book depicts the benefits of faithfully serving God, relying on His promises and living righteously as God wants us to do. The writer emphasizes that it is possible for us to be holy unto God if only we strive to imitate the lifestyles of the saints and Jesus Christ. Bishop Isaac Thomas Founder and Spiritual Head El-Shaddai Deliverance Gospel Ministries Italy, Nigeria and Finland Mrs. Noyo Anthonia Kubeyinje-Edem has been a Children's Ministry Sunday School teacher for the past seventeen years. Mrs. Edem taught at the Upper Room Baptist Church, Ketu, Lagos, Nigeria, the Love of Jesus Family Church, Orange, New Jersey and RCCG Agape House of Worship, Roselle, New Jersey. Noyo and her husband currently serve in the Ushers/Greeters Ministry of the Love of Jesus Family Church, Orange, New Jersey. Noyo is a prayer warrior and intercessor who believes faithfully in the promises in the Word of God. Mrs. Edem is the founder of Hope for the Family Inc. Hope for the Family is a Christian Outreach Ministry in Linden, New Jersey. Hope for the Family has been sending out daily devotional messages from the Bible to an online audience for almost three years since the inception of the ministry. Noyo Edem is married to her husband, Mr. Etinwa-Okon Edem, for 25 years and are both blessed with three children - Timma, Eskor and Omatsola. Noyo and her family reside in Linden, New Jersey.
“It feels like I take one step forward, two steps back. Yet some people seem to move from one golden opportunity to the next.” Could these remarks be observations of the effects of modern-day curses and blessings? The Bible has much to say on the subject. Bless, and Curse Not will open your understanding to the Biblical principles of blessings and curses. In it, you will learn of the destructive power of generational curses, hereditary curses, word curses, and self-curses. You will also learn how to change, for the better, the circumstances of those you love by the power of blessings. Subjects covered include: Curses need to be removed The cause of a curse must be removed Our responsibility in removing curses The power and authority of the believer to bless What blessings can we make? Whom should we bless? Identify curses operating in your life Identify your own special familial blessings Containing over three hundred pages of Scriptural curses and blessings arranged in tabular form by symptoms, this book allows you to pinpoint the curses hindering you and your family and the blessings to replace them. Bless, and Curse Not by Gary W. Grout is comprehensive in its coverage of the subject, clear in its presentation, and practical in its application to our lives.
Award-winning author Jillian Hunter spins a captivating tale of sweet mystery, reckless temptation, and scandalous desire. Adrian Ruxley may be a ruggedly charming rogue, but he’s not a man to stand idly by while a lady is accosted—even at a wedding organized by the lady herself, Emma Boscastle, instructress in the social graces at her London academy for young gentlewomen. Adrian confronts the offender, a scuffle ensues, and now this smooth-talking heir is left to recuperate under Emma’s very roof, delighted to see the deep concern in her lovely face. She has a charm no scoundrel can resist. Emma is scandalized by her own behavior—seduced by a handsome stranger, indeed! How will she be able to hide her indiscretion from the perceptive Boscastle siblings? The divine passion that Adrian has unleashed, and the sensual delights he has shown her, have suddenly turned Emma’s days at the fledgling academy into a display of impropriety and her nights into a velvet abyss of sensual abandon. But as their intimacy reveals Adrian’s turbulent secrets, Emma is inspired to her most ambitious endeavor: redeeming a rake.
Paris Stories gathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. Perhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores, and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eyewitness account of the horrors and glories of the French Revolution. Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the growing metropolis’s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle its glittering literary circles; and Huysmans describes a memorable evening at the Folies Bergère. Colette recounts the sensual adventures of a young girl in the decadent Paris of the early twentieth century, while F. Scott Fitzgerald revels in its urban glamour. Jean Rhys’s lost heroines wander from café to café, James Baldwin celebrates the city’s sexual freedoms, and Raymond Queneau gleefully reinvents the language of the street. In more recent decades, Michel Tournier’s North African immigrant walks a camel along the boulevards and Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano nostalgically maps the famed Parisian arrondissements. Theatrical and elegant, seamy and intellectual, Paris has never lost its alluring power, richly evoked in these compelling and seductive tales.
