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By Elizabeth Moon. 2003
Kylara Vatta is the only daughter in a family full of sons, and her father's only child to buck tradition…
by choosing a military career instead of joining the family business. For Ky, it's no contest: Even running the prestigious Vatta Transport Ltd. shipping concern can't hold a candle to shipping out as an officer aboard an interstellar cruiser. It's adventure, not commerce, that stirs her soul. And despite her family's misgivings, there can be no doubt that a Vatta in the service will prove a valuable asset. But with a single error in judgment, it all comes crumbling down.Expelled from the Academy in disgrace-and returning home to her humiliated family, a storm of high-profile media coverage, and the gaping void of her own future-Ky is ready to face the inevitable onslaught of anger, disappointment, even pity. But soon after opportunity's door slams shut, Ky finds herself with a ticket to ride- and a shot at redemption-as captain of a Vatta Transport ship.It's a simple assignment: escorting one of the Vatta fleet's oldest ships on its final voyage . . . to the scrapyard. But keeping it simple has never been Ky's style. And even though her father has provided a crew of seasoned veterans to baby-sit the fledgling captain on her maiden milk run, they can't stop Ky from turning the routine mission into a risky venture-in the name of turning a profit for Vatta Transport, of course.By snapping up a lucrative delivery contract defaulted on by a rival company, and using part of the proceeds to upgrade her condemned vehicle, Ky aims to prove she's got more going for her than just her family's famous name. But business will soon have to take a backseat to bravery, when Ky's change of plans sails her and the crew straight into the middle of a colonial war. For all her commercial savvy, it's her military training and born-soldier's instincts that Ky will need to call on in the face of deadly combat, dangerous mercenaries, and violent mutiny. . . .From the Hardcover edition.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.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.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'...?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.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.By Dan Simmons. 1978
Jeremy Bremen has a secret. All his life he's been cursed with the ability to read minds. He knows the…
secret thoughts, fears, and desires of others as if they were his own. For years, his wife, Gail, has served as a shield between Jeremy and the burden of this terrible knowledge. But Gail is dying, her mindebbing slowly away, leaving him vulnerable to the chaotic flood of thought that threatens to sweep away his sanity. Now Jeremy is on the run--from his mind, from his past, from himself--hoping to find peace in isolation. Instead he witnesses an act of brutality that propels him on a treacherous trek across adark and dangerous America. From a fantasy theme park to the lair of a killer to a sterile hospital room in St. Louis, he follows a voice that is calling him to witness the stunning mystery at the heart of mortality.From the Paperback edition.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.By Frederik Pohl. 1985
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...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.ukBy Jack Mcdevitt. 2002
Jack McDevitt's Academy series features Priscilla Hutchins, a starship captain, and Gregory Macallister, a cynical journalist, who are both involved…
with a space development agency whose funds are being cut as Earth's government struggles with the effects of long neglected environmental problems. The Academy's starships find that planets within reach are almost devoid of intelligent life. However, scientists discover a series of extinct civilizations in a pattern that suggests that a menace from the heart of the galaxy periodically sweeps through Earth's star region with deadly effects. The series consists, thus far, of six novels, several of which have been Nebula finalists. They are, in order, as follows: The Engines of God, Deepsix, Chindi, Omega, Odyssey, and Cauldron. From the book jacket: The universe has been explored, and humanity has all but given up on finding other intelligent life. Then an alien satellite orbiting a distant star sends out an unreadable signal. Is it the final programmed gasp of an ancient, long-dead race? Or the first greeting of an undiscovered life form? Academy starship captain Priscilla' Hutchins and the once-maligned Contact Society are about to learn the answers to more questions than they could possibly conceive of asking.By Marianne De Pierres. 2004
In a world where the rich live behind the safety of a giant fortress wall and everyone else can go…
to hell, Parrish Plessis has learnt some useful survival tactics. Like don't cross Jamon Hondo - unless you want to be dead by the morning. But heck, what's a girl supposed to do when the one chance she may have of escaping from his grubby, stinking paws presents itself? Anyway, it's hard to be a saint in a city, and Parrish Plessis is sick of doing what she's told. Tonight, she's going to take her chance. Because she can't face tomorrow.NYLON ANGEL is the first Parrish Plessis novel. She will be back. When you've met her, you'll understand why.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.ukBy 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 . . .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.ukBy 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...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.ukBy 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...By Ginnie Bond. 1998
Financial necessity has forced expert wildlife photographer Jodi Barens to turn her lens on party animals instead of photographing famous…
people for the gossip pages of glossy magazines. She tracks the virile young tycoon, Dean Bentoune, hoping to catch him in flagrante with the film star he is rumoured to be seeing. But Jodi soon finds herself the prey when she and Dean are kidnapped and entrapped in a mysterious private house in Amsterdam...