I never should have agreed to becoming his fake wife... Sinclair Amadeus Sterling aka Mr. Superior Jackass with a God complex.Who also happens to be my blackmailer... gulp.Tall, dark, gazzilionaire growly pants.The first time I met him, I kneed him in his very well endowed balls, don't ask!He had that tightly leashed, controlling air and a smoldering glare that made me damp in seconds.The only thing that sucks worse than his attitude is his (lack of) sense of humor! Honest.Sadly, he's also the one who could save my business from going bust. Hell!So when he offers me the chance to work with him, I can hardly refuse, right?Only catch? I need to be his pretend wife for hold-your-breath, thirty days.I should have turned and run right then, but...He has the connections to help my sister's failing health, not to mention the money to wipe away my debt.And yeah that... sneaky video recording of him getting me off. OMG!Besides, it's only thirty days, right?It's not like I'm in danger of falling in love with London's most notorious bachelor.Then he tells me the real reason for the charade.And everything changes... Note: This is a standalone Enemies to Lovers, Fake Marriage, Billionaire Romance featuring a hot possessive billionaire and the curvy spitfire who dares to go toe to toe with him! 1-Click NOW
The job posting had forgotten to mention that the position was for a live-in nanny. Please tell me that this is a nightmare. I need the money, yes. But am I willing to live under the same roof as my cowboy billionaire boss in exchange for it? Probably... not. Okay, maybe I should accept the 24-hour nanny position. Just hear me out. The arrangement feels wrong but it's for a good cause. It will help him get his daughter's custody. Besides, I enjoy drooling over him. Even though crushing on my billionaire boss could cost me my job. But how do I keep my distance from him while we live in the same house? Especially with his piercing eyes undressing me every single day?
In The Billionaire Cowboy Takes a Wife, Samantha Riley's grandfather gives her an ultimatum: marry or lose her inheritance. So, she strategically decides to marry her neighbor and long-time friend Jackson Stone. But when she has second thoughts, Jackson won't let her cancel their arrangement. While in Houston, Texas to choose a ring, Samantha realizes she doesn't know this tantalizing Jackson, especially when a strong desire sparks between the two of them. But in spite of the temptation, she is determined to make their marriage nothing more than a business arrangement. Jackson doesn't agree. Samantha might be strong willed and stubborn, but in him she's met her match. Will love or logic win out in the end? In The Billionaire Rancher Buys a Wife, Drake Terrell wins a bid to date Janice Dedrick. He expects a fun fling, but she refuses him and ends their date early. Drake then realizes she means more to him than he realized and decides to pursue her seriously. Janice doubts his sincerity. She gives him an ultimatum: change his career, buy a ranch, and agree to have children, and she'll consider him. She's bluffing of course. She doesn't think he'd actually agree. Meanwhile, she begins receiving threatening calls, and "accidents" begin to endanger her and Drake. Drake calls his brother to help him find the person responsible, but as the passion between Janice and Drake heats up, so does the stalker's determination. Can Drake win Janice's heart...and save her life? In The Billionaire Maverick Bargains for a Wife, Angie McElvaine is reclaiming her life. She has a four step plan, and she's already completed three of those steps. It's the last one that's giving her trouble. Brent Terrell arrives in Saddle Creek to see his brother, Drake. Angie considers him to be her step four: a temporary husband. He was only here for a visit after all. But choosing him ends up being dangerous. Angie's body instantly responds to him. Can she really have his baby, watch him walk away, and come out unscathed? She doubted it. Besides, he'd never agree to it anyway. Right? In The Billionaire Cattleman Wins a Wife, Lily Yannell is temporarily staying at the Terrell ranch. While there, her attraction--both physical and emotional--to Ty increases exponentially. But Ty Terrell doesn't seem to reciprocate the feelings. He's still grieving the loss of his wife and unborn son during childbirth, and he rejects the emotions Lily begins to stir in him. He doesn't understand how she frustrates and confuses him so. Lily believes Ty doesn't like her, so when she receives an anonymous and chilling phone call, she doesn't tell him how scared she is. But when Lily disappears, Ty is shocked to realize how much she means to him. Can he manage to get Lily back and finally let her into his heart? In A Fling with the Billionaire Cowboy, Dirk Brodie met Chelsea Pearce overseas. He proposed to her, but she refused. Still, they haven't forgotten about each other. Now, Chelsea is in danger. Dirk manages to rescue her, but she's emotionally and physically drained, so Dirk must fight his desires as he helps her heal. He takes her to his ranch to recover, and eventually they have a fling. But Dirk loves her already and tries to convince her she'd enjoy being a cowboy's wife. Chelsea grew up on a farm and doesn't have good memories. Still, she is starting to love the ranch life...and Dirk. Then, her boss offers Chelsea her dream job. She goes to New York to check it out, and Dirk is certain she'll never return. Is their love strong enough for her to choose marriage over a career? Or will she be unable to say no to the bright city lights? ** A Siren Erotic Romance Paige Cameron is a Siren-exclusive author.
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Bad Night Stand I’d brought him home thinking that for once in my life I would live a little. Then he’d walked out, and I’d chalked the experience up to a bad one-night stand. Now weeks later I was puking my guts up and had a pink stick with a plus sign on it declaring my future. And because my life was my life, I was pregnant, alone, and starting a new job. And whose company was I working for? Jordan. Jordan O’Keith. The man who’d I’d brought home that night. The man whose baby was currently residing in my belly. The man I hadn’t recognized… And the man who was my father’s arch enemy. Bad Breakup Twice he’d broken her. CeCe was supposed to be traveling the world, taking the vacation she had always dreamed of, living the life she’d always hoped for. Not pushing away an ex who was determined to have her again. Not finding it harder and harder to resist Colin at every turn. But she was. Finding it harder to turn him away, harder to steel her heart against him. Especially when she found out exactly why the past had torn them apart. Because just like before she was falling hard. Falling fast. Falling deep. Bad Husband He was her mortal enemy in the business world. But in the real world? He had a soft spot…and it was only for her. And when sexy, smart, and oftentimes cold Clay Steele showed that soft part to her, Heather forgot to be the smart, calculated businesswoman she was. In fact, Heather got stupid. And stupid had her waking up hungover and naked in Clay’s bed. With a giant diamond ring. On her left hand. Oh hell— What had she done? Bad Date: A Never Before Released Novella Blind dates were the absolute worst. Awkward, filled to the brim with small talk, and they never, ever worked out. Kay knew all that. Yet for some reason, she still had agreed to let Heather set her up. And when the date came, Kay found herself stood up. Yup, that was just perfect. Her night was shot, she was behind on her word count, but then…she quite literally ran into tall, dark, and handsome outside the restaurant. One look at him and Kay thought that perhaps her night might be salvaged after all. Until she discovered tall, dark, and handsome was a jerk. Until she discovered that jerk was her missing blind date—her rude and insufferable date who blew right by her as if she didn’t exist. What. The. Hell?
Dante Liakos had yet another challenge to overcome in securing his business empire’s future, but this one was much more personal in nature – the need for a wife and an heir. Without them, he could lose control of the empire he had worked so hard to rebuild and expand. However, as he had found so many times before, turning a challenge into a success was about recognizing the right opportunity and acting upon it decisively. In Jayden Hart, he saw such an opportunity, enclosed in the rare combination of innocence, beauty and brilliance - a combination he couldn't resist despite his attempts to remain aloof from the relationship! Normally poised and self-assured, Jayden’s world had taken an alarming turn. What initially had seemed like a nuisance was quickly becoming a significant threat to her business, her family, and her whole way of life! And she had no idea how to avoid catastrophe. Dante’s suggested solution presented a potential lifeline, but with what strings attached? Would the solution be worse than the crisis that had required it? And how was she to avoid falling in love with her secret husband?
The Bonfire of the Vanities defined an era--and established Tom Wolfe as our prime fictional chronicler of America at its most outrageous and alive. With A Man in Full, the time the setting is Atlanta, Georgia--a racially mixed late-century boomtown full of fresh wealth, avid speculators, and worldly-wise politicians. Big men. Big money. Big games. Big libidos. Big trouble. The protagonist is Charles Croker, once a college football star, now a late-middle-aged Atlanta real-estate entrepreneur turned conglomerate king, whose expansionist ambitions and outsize ego have at last hit up against reality. Charlie has a 28,000-acre quail-shooting plantation, a young and demanding second wife--and a half-empty office tower with a staggering load of debt. When star running back Fareek Fanon--the pride of one of Atlanta's grimmest slums--is accused of raping an Atlanta blueblood's daughter, the city's delicate racial balance is shattered overnight. Networks of illegal Asian immigrants crisscrossing the continent, daily life behind bars, shady real-estate syndicates, cast-off first wives of the corporate elite, the racially charged politics of college sports--Wolfe shows us the disparate worlds of contemporary America with all the verve, wit, and insight that have made him our most phenomenal, most admired contemporary novelist. A Man in Full is a 1998 National Book Award Finalist for Fiction.
The story of gay rights has long been told as one of single-minded focus on the fight for sexual freedom. Yet its origins are much more complicated than this single-issue interpretation would have us believe, and to ignore gay liberation's multidimensional beginnings is to drastically underestimate its radical potential for social change. Ferguson shows how queer liberation emerged out of various insurgent struggles crossing the politics of race, gender, class, and sexuality, and deeply connected to issues of colonization, incarceration, and capitalism. Tracing the rise and fall of this intersectional politics, he argues that the one-dimensional mainstreaming of queerness falsely placed critiques of racism, capitalism, and the state outside the remit of gay liberation. As recent activism is increasingly making clear, this one-dimensional legacy has promoted forms of exclusion that marginalize queers of color, the poor, and transgender individuals. This forceful book joins the call to reimagine and reconnect the fight for social justice in all its varied forms.
