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A Lesson in Trust (Lessons Book #1)
by Raven GenevieveApparently the saying is true; women hit their sexual peak in middle age. Marie's peak started all by herself at a highway rest stop where she was nearly caught in the act by a beautiful blue-eyed truck driver. The stranger's gentle manner, old-school charm and tender touch forever changed her expectations from men, which turned out to be life altering for her and bad news for her neglectful husband. Marie escapes her despondent marriage and starts a new life. Still on her mind is Roan, her blue-eyed gallant stranger, who pops up in surprising places. Her libido, however, has a mind of its own and begins to cloud her judgement. One of these clouds is the young, off-limits college boy, Ryan, whose scent she can't forget. One night, fate tosses Ryan into her lap, almost literally. Struggling with the age difference between her new young lover and herself, she tries to live in the moment and enjoy the ride before it ends. However, with youth comes inexperience, which Marie takes as a challenge. Can she keep herself from falling in love long enough to teach him what every man needs to know: the art of seduction, following directions, and most importantly... trust?
The Faraway Lurs
by Harry BehnTwo cultures, the Forest People (Stone age) and the Sun People (Bronze Age) are set on a collision course when the Sun People decide to take "the tree of power", one of the gods of the Forest People, to build an unsinkable ship. Further complications arise when Heather, daughter of Goodshade and Tree Woman of the Forest Tribe, falls in love with Blue Stone, a youth of the Son People, which sparks Blue Wing's jealousy, since he has planned to marry Heather, and already has her father's consent. How can the peaceful Forest People protect their tree-god? What part does the Swampwife play in the trouble? Why did the sacred spring stop? What will Blue Stone do to bring his father's tribe to accept him as leader when the old man dies? How will he prevent war with the Forest People and heal the suppressed division of his people? Will he and Heather find acceptance in either tribe?
A Woman of Thirty
by Honoré De BalzacOur heroine Julie is attending with her ailing father one of Napoleon’s reviews of his troops. It is after the debacle in Russia, but the Old Guard still knows how to put on a show. <P> <P> The lovely young girl is dazzled by Colonel Victor d’Aiglemont, a dashing young adjutant who gallops by. The father notices Julie’s fascination and shakes his head anxiously, knowing that the young man is unworthy of her
Die Leiden des jungen Werther -- Band 1
by Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheMost of The Sorrows of Young Werther is presented as a collection of letters written by Werther, a young artist of a sensitive and passionate temperament, to his friend Wilhelm. These give an intimate account of his stay in the fictional village of Wahlheim (based on Garbenheim, near Wetzlar),[citation needed] whose peasants have enchanted him with their simple ways. There he meets Charlotte, a beautiful young girl who takes care of her siblings after the death of their mother. Werther falls in love with Charlotte despite knowing beforehand that she is engaged to a man named Albert eleven years her senior.[3]
Domestic Peace
by Honoré De BalzacDedicated to the author's dear niece, Valentine Surville, this vivid and incisive novella is constructed like a classical French play, observing the three unities of time (an hour), place (a ball) and subject (the seduction of a young woman). Contrary to what the title might lead one to expect, the work is not concerned with the married life of the French bourgeoisie; it is, rather, a scintillating depiction of high society under the First Empire.
Dona Perfecta
by Benito Pérez GaldósUpon getting to know each other, Pepe and Rosario declare their eternal love, but in steps Don Inocencio, the cathedral canon, who meddles and obstructs the marriage as well as the good intentions of Doña Perfecta and her brother Don Juan. Over the course of time, several events lead up to a confrontation between Pepe Rey and his aunt Perfecta, which is caused by her refusal to allow Pepe and Rosario to marry, because Pepe is a non-believer. The novel ends up with the death of Pepe Rey due to his aunt Perfecta. Rosario, Perfecta's daughter and Pepe's love turns mad and ends up in a madhouse.
French Quarter
by Stella CameronSet in lush and languid New Orleans, FRENCH QUARTER is the story of Celina Payne, a talented and beautiful woman thrust into a harrowing world of murder and deceit, who must not only fight for her life and her future, but for the soul of a man who could fulfill her entirely--or ruin both their lives. Celina Payne still celebrates the day she met visionary New Orleans business man Errol Petrie. When Petrie hired her to represent Dreams--a company that caters to the whims of the wealthy and uses the profits to fund the wishes of dying children--he rescued her from a domineering mother and the suffocating world of high society. But Celina's new-found happiness is shattered all too soon. Arriving one morning at Petrie's opulent French Quarter mansion, Celina finds him dead--with all the evidence of a night of sexual excess around him--and is hurled into an unimaginable nightmare. The days and weeks that follow, Celina will be hounded by a cadre of scandal-hungry reporters who smell sensation in her boss's flamboyant death, and stalked by a ruthless politician who sees a way to turn her vulnerability to his advantage. But most of all, Celina finds herself fleeing Jack Charbonnet, Petrie's business partner and best friend. The bitter and volatile Charbonnet is certain that Celina is hiding something about his old friend's murder, and will stop at nothing to discover what it is. Jack is right about one thing, Celina is keeping a secret--one that makes her heart swell with tenderness and sorrow ... and one she is determined to keep. In the sultry heat of the bayou, amid the gothic buildings of the French Quarter, passions tangle, as Jack and Celina draw dangerously close to the truth about Errol Petrie--and alarmingly close to each other. And when Jack's ties to New Orleans underworld come back to haunt him, he will find himself trapped with Celina in a world more twisted, more starkly evil than even he could ever have imagined. French Quarter delivers chilling suspense, seething sensuality, and an utterly compelling love story. A tale that will draw readers into the world of a woman who dares to break more than one unwritten rule .
Evil Island
by Jennifer BlairThe name on the map was MacKenzie's Island, but Evil Island was what the local folk called the piece of wooded land with its great mansion and strange history. Here pretty, young Jean MacKenzie grew up after the horrifying death of her parents. Here she now returned, drawn back by ties of blood to this place of mystery and menace. Terror haunted her two old aunts on the island. Fear or guilt sealed the servants' lips. And as Jean soon learned, the hand of murder was poised to push her into the grave, and not even the man who loved her could come to her aid. Only Jean could unmask the danger that threatened her, and free herself at last from the dark curse that was her legacy.
Delaney's Crossing
by Jean BarrettVirile, womanizing Cooper J. Delaney was Agatha Pennington's only hope to help lead a group of destitute women to Oregon, where the promise of a new life awaited them. He was a man as harsh and hostile as the vast wilderness-- but Agatha counted on a gentleness she sensed behind his hard-muscled exterior, a tenderness lurking beneath his gruff facade. Tricked by Agatha into leading the women, at first Delaney couldn't wait to get away from the prim-and-proper old maid. But as the group battled rainstorms, renegade Indians, and raging rivers, the tall beauty's tenacity never wavered. And with each passing mile. Cooper realized he was struggling against a maddening attraction for her--until he decided, much to his surprise, that he would journey to the ends of the earth if only he could claim her untouched heart.
Desert Sand
by Margaret PedlerA fair-haired, sporting English girl loses her heart to a man of the Eastern desert forbidden to her by some fatal secret.