The Optional Aunt
The Optional Aunt

Author: Kylie Hillman

Publisher: Daemon Blonde Publishing

Published: 2022-06-21

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13:

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All she wants is someone to choose her. Rosalie Carmichael has spent most of her life doing as she's told. She is the perfect wife, a loving mother, and the aunt everyone calls on when they need a favor. Her life is peaceful until her happy family is torn apart and she finds herself at the mercy of the Coalition once again. Scared and alone for the first time since she was sixteen, Rosalie seeks comfort in the arms of her much younger bodyguard. Together they dream of a future where they're free to love each other out in the open without fear of recriminations or bloody repercussions. And for six short months it seems as if escape might be possible. Then the Coalition requests an urgent meeting, and Rosalie is left with an impossible choice. Choose the bloodless—and loveless—option or follow her heart down the violent path to freedom? The Optional Aunt is a dark and erotic romantic suspense novel set in a world where deception is the norm and the truth can't be trusted. It is the second book in the Coalition collection, a series of interconnected standalones featuring the Ingram-Greaves, Averell, Zidane, and Du Croix crime families. *Full-length 95,000-word novel, complete with a HEA, and can be read as a standalone* mafia, new world order, bratva, clan, rich, millionaire, royalty, aristocrat, espionage, stalker, abduction, gripping, dangerous, fast-paced, thriller, alpha, antihero, wealthy, nobility, new adult, politician, billionaire, kidnap, international, interracial, dark, baby, pregnancy, amnesia, trauma, therapy, outlaw, biker, MC, motorcycle club, contemporary, family, drama, assassin, teacher, the new holy trinity, religious themes, wedding, childhood abuse survivor, workplace, music, musician, mute hero, hero with touch phobia, hero who can't be touched, heroine with pain and force kink, kickass heroine, disabled hero, sunshine and grumpy, engagement, casino, doctor, hospital, sick child, Secret Billionaire, Friends to Lovers, Stuck Together, group therapy, Forbidden Love, Second Chance, Soul Mates, Fake Relationship, love triangle, menage, older woman, younger man

Aunt Erma's Cope Book
Aunt Erma's Cope Book

Author: Erma Bombeck

Publisher: Open Road Media

Published: 2013-01-15

Total Pages: 183

ISBN-13: 1453290079

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The #1 New York Times bestseller about one woman’s doomed quest for self-improvement by a writer “blessed with the comic equivalent of perfect pitch” (The Boston Globe). As far as Erma can tell, her life is going well. Her children speak to her, her husband smiles at her, and she’s capable of looking in a mirror without screaming. But her friends know better. No matter how happy Erma thinks she is, she’s in need of help, and the only way to fulfillment is a ten-foot stack of self-improvement books. From Sensual Needlepoint to Fear of Buying, Erma will try them all. One book recommends bringing roleplay into the bedroom, so she dresses up in her son’s football pads. She tries to meditate but gets stuck in the lotus position. She spends more time in the kitchen but only succeeds in melting her son’s retainer. No matter how hard she tries to improve her family life, her schemes keep backfiring. As she soon learns, you may not always be able to fix what’s not broken—but with enough self-help books, you can break anything you want. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Erma Bombeck including rare images and never-before-seen documents from the author’s estate.

The Optional Aunt
The Optional Aunt

Author: Zoe Hill

Publisher: Pinnacle Press

Published: 2020-11-12

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780648831976

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She's the older woman. He's the man who killed her husband. Rosalie Carmichael has spent most of her life doing as she's told. She is the perfect wife, a loving mother, and the aunt everyone calls on when they need a favor. Her life is peaceful until her happy family is torn apart, and she finds herself at the mercy of the Coalition once again. Scared and alone for the first time since she was sixteen, Rosalie seeks comfort in the arms of her much younger bodyguard. Together they dream of a future where they're free to love each other out in the open without fear of recriminations or bloody repercussions. And for six short months it seems as if escape might be possible. Then the Coalition requests an urgent meeting, and Rosalie is left with an impossible choice. Choose the bloodless-and loveless-option or follow her heart down the violent path to freedom?The Optional Aunt is a dark romantic suspense novel set in a world where deception is the norm, and the truth can't be trusted. It is the second book in the Coalition series of interconnected romantic suspense novels about a secretive organization of wealthy families intent on bringing about a new world order and the motorcycle club determined to stop them. 100,000-word full-length novel. Complete story with a HEA. Can be read as a standalone.

The Aunts' Book
The Aunts' Book

Author: Caroline Hughes

Publisher: Michael O'Mara Books

Published: 2011-05

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781843174592

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Mums, dads, grannies, grandads and lovers everywhere have been entertained and delighted by the bestselling 'Best of Everything' series. Now you can show your favourite aunt just how much you care with The Aunts' Book, a celebration of aunties everywhere, featuring the best quips, tips and anecdotes to amuse any aunt for hours. Including: anecdotes about famous aunts - both moving and funny; why an aunt is the most important ally to have in the family; fantastic present ideas for nieces and nephews; how to be the coolest aunt - keeping up with all the trends; inspiration for great activities and days out with nieces and nephews; from shopping and museums to jaunts in the country; true stories of amazing aunts, ranging from the sublime to the ridiculous. This is a delightful and heartwarming gift that will charm any favourite aunty!

Our Gracie Aunt
Our Gracie Aunt

Author: Jacqueline Woodson

Publisher: Turtleback Books

Published: 2007-06-01

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9781417791217

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For use in schools and libraries only. When a brother and sister are taken to stay with their aunt because their mother neglects them, they wonder if they will see their mother again.

My Aunt Came Back
My Aunt Came Back

Author: Pat Cummings

Publisher: HarperFestival

Published: 1998-02-28

Total Pages: 14

ISBN-13: 9780694010592

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A young girl's aunt brings her back special gifts from each exotic place she visits around the world.

Good Night, Aunt Lilly
Good Night, Aunt Lilly

Author: Margaret Madigan

Publisher:

Published: 1983

Total Pages: 32

ISBN-13: 9780307602183

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The Mouse sisters, unable to sleep on a visit to Aunt Lilly's, recite the names of all the people who love them.

Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold
Aunt Dimity and the Heart of Gold

Author: Nancy Atherton

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2020-10-06

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 0525522700

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In this new installment of the bestselling Aunt Dimity series, a dreary Christmas leads to hidden treasure and new friendships It's almost Christmas in the small English village of Finch--and everyone is sick. Though many of the villagers regretfully decline their invitations to Emma Harris's annual Christmas bash, Lori Shepherd has no intention of missing it. When the winter weather takes a turn for the worse, it's agreed that none of the guests will leave until morning. There's general merriment as the Christmas party becomes a pajama party--until a car appears in the winding driveway and promptly slides off the slick pavement and into a ditch. Matilda "Tilly" Trout--a lost and scatterbrained, middle-aged woman--is mercifully unhurt and invited to stay the night. While she catches her breath, Emma asks her other guests if they would like a tour of the Manor--including an odd room that puzzles her. Several guests put forth guesses as to its purpose, but it's Tilly who correctly identifies the room as a chapel. Placing a palm on one of the ornately-carved panels, Tilly finds a hidden compartment concealing a pile of glittering treasure--including an exquisitely decorated heart made of solid gold. Where did it come from, and why does it look so different from everything else in the chapel? Why didn't Emma even know about this hidden compartment in her own home until now--and how did Tilly? With Aunt Dimity's otherworldly help and Tilly's bewildering store of knowledge, Lori and friends set out to unravel the mystery behind the heart of gold. And, against all odds--and Christmas finally comes to Finch!

All Aunt Hagar's Children
All Aunt Hagar's Children

Author: Edward P. Jones

Publisher: Harper Collins

Published: 2006-08-29

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 0060557567

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In fourteen sweeping and sublime stories, five of which have been published in The New Yorker, the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Known World shows that his grasp of the human condition is firmer than ever Returning to the city that inspired his first prizewinning book, Lost in the City, Jones has filled this new collection with people who call Washington, D.C., home. Yet it is not the city's power brokers that most concern him but rather its ordinary citizens. All Aunt Hagar's Children turns an unflinching eye to the men, women, and children caught between the old ways of the South and the temptations that await them further north, people who in Jones's masterful hands, emerge as fully human and morally complex, whether they are country folk used to getting up with the chickens or people with centuries of education behind them. In the title story, in which Jones employs the first-person rhythms of a classic detective story, a Korean War veteran investigates the death of a family friend whose sorry destiny seems inextricable from his mother's own violent Southern childhood. In "In the Blink of God's Eye" and "Tapestry" newly married couples leave behind the familiarity of rural life to pursue lives of urban promise only to be challenged and disappointed. With the legacy of slavery just a stone's throw away and the future uncertain, Jones's cornucopia of characters will haunt readers for years to come.