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Dark August: A Novel (Gus Monet Series #1)
By Katie Tallo. 2020
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER“Dark August is a tightly-paced cauldron of a thriller about small town corruption, murder and mayhem, in the vein…
of Sharp Objects and All The Missing Girls. A macabre and confidently twisty debut.” — Lisa Gabriele, internationally bestselling author of The WintersAn electrifying, page-turning debut about a young woman haunted by her tragic past, who returns to her hometown and discovers that there might be more to her police detective mother’s death—and last case—than she ever could have imagined.Augusta (Gus) Monet is living an aimless existence with her grifter boyfriend when she learns that her great grandmother—her last living relative—has just died. Ditching her boyfriend, Gus returns to the home she left as a young girl. Her inheritance turns out to be a dilapidated house and an old dog named Levi. While combing through her great grandmother’s possessions, Gus stumbles across an old trunk filled with long-lost childhood belongings. But that’s not all the trunk contains. She also discovers cold case files that belonged to her mother, a disgraced police detective who died in a car accident when Gus was eight. Gus remembers her mother obsessing over these very same documents and photographs, especially a Polaroid of a young ballerina.When Gus spots a front-page news story about the unearthing of a body linked to one of the cold case files from her childhood trunk, she can’t resist following her mother’s clues. As she digs deeper, determined to finish her mother’s investigation, her search leads her to a deserted ghost town, which was left abandoned when the residents fled after a horrific fire. As Gus’ obsession with the case grows, she inadvertently stirs up the evils of the past, putting her life in danger. But Gus is undeterred and is committed to uncovering long-buried secrets, including the secrets surrounding a missing geology student, the young ballerina in the Polaroid, a prominent family’s devastating legacy, and a toxic blast that blew an entire town off the map. But is Gus ready to learn the truths that culminated on one terrible August night, more than a decade earlier, when lives were taken, and secrets were presumed buried forever…? Dark August introduces a bold new voice and will leave readers guessing until the final startling conclusion.Mercy, Mercy
By Marlene Stanton. 2020
Smart, sarcastic TV reporter Mercy Pepper struggles with feelings of guilt after her cameraman dies while on assignment with her.…
A news tape that he had hidden in his personal effects contains a secretly recorded conversation, and Mercy picks up the scent of corruption. She soon finds herself mired in the muck of provincial politics—the power brokers and the opportunists and those willing to go to extreme measures for a piece of the pie. With a keen observer's eye and sharp, sparkling wit, Stanton, a former news reporter, delivers a compelling crime/mystery story with a satisfying dash of romance.The Fury of Beijing: An Ava Lee Novel: The Triad Years (An Ava Lee Novel #16)
By Ian Hamilton. 2024
Venus in Furs
By Leopold von Sacher-Masoch. 2000
Obsession, infatuation, and sexual deviance fill this controversial psychodrama Titillating and taboo, Venus in Furs tells the story of one…
nineteenth-century gentleman of means, Severin von Kusiemski, and his voracious lover, Wanda von Dunajew. Severin falls so deeply in love with his mistress that he asks the bemused paramour to enslave him. Severin gets his wish: The beautiful Wanda, who has “a real talent for despotism,” takes to her role with unsettling aplomb. Days pass, and as she debases and brutalizes Severin, Wanda transforms into the whip-cracking dominatrix of his dreams. But even while Severin settles into his fantasy, events are unfolding that threaten to disrupt the power balance. This classic tale of sexual domination is as thrilling today as it was when it was originally published more than a century ago. This ebook has been professionally proofread to ensure accuracy and readability on all devices.Valentin (Hot Pleasures)
By Emmanuelle Poigner. 2015
Valentin is a young student with a beautiful girlfriend—the only girl he’s ever loved. But when he is given the…
opportunity to study at the most prestigious business school in Paris, his eyes are opened to a whole new world . . . and a new woman.The Discipline
By Marina Anderson. 2002
You've devoured The Fifty Shades Trilogy. . . now it's time to embrace the forbidden pleasures of The Discipline.Young innocent…
nun Chloe Reynolds is collecting money for Brazilian orphans when she meets sophisticated playboy Carlos. When Carlos opens Chloe's eyes to the corruption behind the charity she is working for, she leaves the Church and heads home to England, thoroughly disillusioned.Even an Ocean can't keep Carlos away from Chloe and she is equally desperate to again be in his dominating presence. Carlos's new mission is to seduce Chloe and to teach her that submitting to his sexual desires will bring her untold pleasures. But is Chloe ready to become a slave to 'the discipline'...?Sinner Takes All
By Roxanne Morgan. 2000
When the editors of two rival magazines are overheard by their boss arguing over whose readers are the more sexually…
adventurous, he decides to settle things his own way. They are presented with a series of bets - they or their staff must prove their sexual daring in increasingly outrageous ways.Forbidden Desires
By Marina Anderson. 2012
You've devoured The Fifty Shades Trilogy. . . now lose yourself in the heady ecstasy of Forbidden Desires.After her wedding…
to film director Lewis James, Harriet Radcliffe is dismayed to learn that her husband has invited another couple, his married friends Noella and Edmund, to join them on their honeymoon. It soon emerges that Lewis is planning to make another of his hugely successful cinema verite films, using real life as his material. Knowing that Harriet finds Edmund attractive, he plans to explore her forbidden desires. However, Edmund has designs on Harriet, and Lewis's plan goes awry as he finds himself competing to regain his bride . . .The sequel to Dark Secret.Murder at the Mendel
By Gail Bowen. 1991
As a child Joanne was friends with Sally Love and her parents, but the friendship languished after Sally's father died…
and she moved away, eventually becoming a very controversial artist. When the Mendel Gallery opens an exhibition of Sally's work, Joanne is eager to attend and to renew their friendship. But it's not so easy being Sally's friend anymore, and soon Joanne finds herself ensnared in a web of intrigue and violence. When the director of a local private gallery is brutally murdered, Joanne finds that the past she and Sally share was far more complicated, and far more sordid, than she had realized.From the Paperback edition.Dark Secret
By Marina Anderson. 2012
You've devoured The Fifty Shades Trilogy . . . Now prepare yourself for incredible sensual revelations in a... Dark Secret.Harriet…
Radcliffe is bored with her life. At twenty-three, her steady job and safe engagement seem very dull. If she is to inject a little excitement into her life, she realises, now is the time to do it.But the excitement lying in wait for Harriet is beyond even her wildest ambitions. Answering a job advertisement to assist a world-famous actress, Harriet finds herself plunged into an intense and secret world of sexual obsession - playing an unwitting part in a very private drama, but discovering in the process more about her own desires than she had ever dreamed possible . . .The prequel to Forbidden Desires.Lessons In Lust
By Emma Allan. 1997
Asked to produce the latest film from Hollywood's hottest screenwriter, British producer Caroline has only one problem - the film…
needs a male star. Sean Sadler would be ideal, but hasn't made a film for three years and is living as a recluse. So when Caroline makes the journey to Sadler's luxurious private estate in Mexico, she has to teach the world-famous star some lessons in lust...Hotel of Love
By Dorothy Starr. 2001
He was one of the sexiest, most desirable men she'd ever met . . . As Dani considered this, a…
piquant idea occurred to her; something she knew she ought to dismiss out of hand, yet which felt more irresistible as every second passed . . .The luxury hotel of Bouvier Manor nestles near a spring whose mineral water is reputed to have potent aphrodisiac qualities. Whether its powers are real or not, Dani Stratton, the hotel's feisty receptionist, finds concentrating on work rather tricky, particularly when Mitch, the muscularly attractive new porter, is around to provoke her. Even as a mysterious consortium threatens to take over the Manor, staff and guests alike seem quite unable to control their insatiable passions . . .Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.ukThe 27-Ingredient Chili Con Carne Murders (Eugenia Potter Mystery #4)
By Nancy Pickard, Virginia Rich. 1993
When a dinner guest of Eugenia Potter is found poisoned, supposedly from Mrs. Potter's famous twenty-seven-ingredient chili, the flabbergasted hostess…
knows she must act quickly before someone else is murdered.From the Paperback edition.Searching For Sex
By Emma Allan. 1999
Kate Hailstone is alone following a disastrous marriage which ended when she found her husband in bed with another man.…
But she has always liked sex, and is missing it a great deal. So, after a long period of licking her wounds at home, she determines to try playing the field again. When the newsagent delivers the wrong paper one day, Kate discovers the lonely hearts column, Kindred Spirits, and decides this is the perfect way to get what she wants: sex without strings. She places an ad and is deluged with replies. And the more gratification she gets, the more she wants . . . Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.ukTwo Women
By Emma Allan. 2011
Caroline Beck and Adrianne Rhodes had been friends since university days but have drifted apart. Caroline has become a successful…
TV producer but has not had huge success with men.When the two women meet again unexpectedly, Adrianne tells Caroline that she is a kept woman, the mistress of a wealthy businessman. Fascinated, Caroline accepts an invitation to go out on the town with Adrianne, her businessman, and his friend. And when she discovers that the friend assumes she's been laid on for him, finds to her surprise that the whole experience gives her a sexual high unlike any other she has experienced before . . .Midnight Starr
By Dorothy Starr. 1996
The way he pressed himself to me let me know that we really were back in those glorious, desire-filled times.…
I could fell how he wanted me, And in an instant, I realised how much I'd never stopped wanting him . . .A beautiful silk basque which revives a fading love affair; a hot summer night's fantasy which surprisingly comes true; an emergency dash to the hospital with an unusual Santa Claus; an elevating encounter with a mysterious man in black . . .In this first-ever collection of her short fiction, Dorothy Starr, author of Hotel Aphrodisia, provides a feast of erotic entertainment, a perfect bedside companion guaranteed to produce sweet dreams . . .Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.ukBlack Stockings
By Emma Allan. 1999
Letitia pulled on the basque and fastened the hooks into the eyes, using the tightest of three possible positions. As…
the feeling of constriction increased she felt her excitement growing with it. Settling her breasts into the bra cups, she looked at herself in the mirror. She had never worn lingerie like this...'Letitia Drew's new job at Black Stockings Lingerie is the opportunity she has always wanted. But when she finds herself strongly attracted to her charismatic Managing Director, Matthew Silverstone, it soon becomes clear that the feeling is mutual. When his wife Ursula discovers them together, she demands to join in the steamy action. With the power to sack Letitia unless she co-operates, Ursula plans to take her on a roller-coaster ride of new sexual experiences...Sin and Seduction
By Emma Allan. 1996
His hand ran over her belly. His skin was rough like a workman's, calloused and hard. He caressed her thighs,…
smoothing over the contours of her muscles, down to her knees, then up again on the soft inner surface . . .When Nadia Irving meets artist Jack Hamilton at an exhibition of his paintings, she feels an overwhelming urge to proposition him - to seduce him and break free from the orderly, celibate and emotionally safe existence she has created for herself.A night of the best sex Nadia has ever had ensues, but when next morning she discovers Jack is married - a fact he must have believed she knew - she is horrified. She knows she should never see Jack again, but the night before is hard to forget. The solution, however, when Nadia eventually finds it, is quite different from anything she could ever have imagined . . .Discover Piatkus Entice: temptation at your fingertips - www.piatkusentice.co.ukBroken Home: Two sisters. A murdered father. And a lifetime of lies
By Roberta Kray. 2011
If you don't care about her, who will?Hope Randall leads a quiet life, but that peace is about to be…
shattered. When a stranger turns up on her doorstep, bringing news of a half-sister she never knew she had, he's going to change her world for ever. Connie's in deep trouble and the mysterious Flint needs Hope's help in finding her. Returning to London, Hope is forced to confront old demons - and new ones. To find her sister, she'll have to toughen up and fast. But when she enters the dark underworld of the East End, it's not only the notoriously savage Street family she'll have to worry about: there's also a psychopath on the loose, attacking working girls. If Connie's going to be saved, Hope may have to get close to the enemy ...Teaching The Temptress
By Ginnie Bond. 1997
Oh my God,' she whispered as tears came into her eyes, and her whole body began to quiver. Then he…
rose and placed a line of little licks up her stomach to her breasts. Each nipple was taken in its turn and teased tenderly with in-turned lips...'Ferne Daville is twenty-five, extremely wealthy, and runs the family conglomerate with an iron hand. Schooled to this from birth, she lives for the business at the expense of her happiness, her feelings held in tight check.But after a highly charged encounter at a masked ball she had no wish to attend, Ferne finds herself propelled from one erotic experience to the next, as if by design; as if someone is deliberately intent on melting her icy façade, and as if someone is determined to teach Ferne how to become a temptress...