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It's the night before Emily's wedding. She should be thrilled. Instead, she's burning with guilty desire. Sean, her fiance's father, is a silver fox. Tall and dangerous, he's used to getting what he wants. Emily's helplessly attracted to this older man, and he knows exactly what to say to turn her on. She wants to resist, but her lust leads her astray. She likes being a bad girl, and her fiance’s too good to treat her like one. Tonight, the father is going to cuckold the son!

Become your own home decorator! Feng Shui your way to harmony and balance! Feng Shui is very well known for its sophisticated purpose. Many people actually depend on Feng Shui to keep their home in perfect harmony. However, not many really understand and know how to exactly practice Feng Shui. Feng Shui allows humans to interact with their environment to achieve specific life enhancement. And who doesn't want that?

Ellie's friend on the police force asks her to enquire about some deaths which might or might not be suicide. Unbeknown to the police, an elderly lady with dementia has come across some drugs and is using them to ease people in pain out of their misery. At the same time, the project to turn the quirky, turreted Pryce House into a hotel is dogged by problems and suspicion falls on the difficult twelve-year-old boy Mikey who Ellie has taken in.

A lady Venus Culpepper le gusta adaptar la realidad a su propia conveniencia. No es ninguna mentirosa, lo que sucede es que las circunstancias la obligan a decir una cosa u otra en favor de sus propios intereses. Ella, por sí sola, constituye las dos caras de una misma moneda. Durante la mayor parte del tiempo es la correcta hermana de un duque importante que al fin está asentado y es feliz. De hecho, en estos momentos en los que Hardcastle no la tiene atada en corto, Venus puede moverse con mayor facilidad por las peligrosas calles de Londres. Sus aventuras nocturnas no son ningún juego...

My heart had always done funny things around Dawson when we were teenagers, but I never knew if I was his type. And now, after all this time, he's back from Afghanistan. And boy has he filled out. When his dad put me in charge, I knew that working with him at the ranch this summer could be tense. I had no idea just how heated things would get.

Greater Than a Tourist: Santiago de Queretaro, Mexico by Veronica Rudich offers the inside scoop on Queretaro. Most travel books tell you how to travel like a tourist. As part of the Greater Than a Tourist series, this book will give you travel tips from someone who has lived at your next travel destination. You will discover advice that will help you throughout your stay. This book will not tell you exact addresses or store hours but instead will give you excitement and knowledge from a local that you may not find in other travel books.

There’s nothing sinister about Zander’s request for Bea Abbott to accompany him on an errand to a grieving widow, but it’s an awkward situation. Zander exposed a scam that his boss Denzil had been running on the Tudor Housing Trust…after which Denzil had, unexpectedly, died. His widow wants to sue the Trust, while the paperwork that could have proved her husband’s guilt has gone missing. Oliver, Bea’s computer geek of an assistant, is delighted to delve into the mysteries left on Denzil’s computer.

Velma is charm itself, especially when she's being inexact with the truth. Now she wants Bea, widowed owner of the Abbot Agency, to check up on her stepson Philip - he's somehow acquired a valuable picture last seen in the flat of an elderly lady who's been murdered. Maggie, Bea's assistant, moves into a flat in Philip's building, to investigate. However, Rafael a professional art thief who aims never to leave his victims alive, is also after the picture.

Bea Abbot's domestic agency does not investigate murder...that is, until she finds herself in the company of a dead man dressed as a pantomime dame. It looks like suicide, but why don't his red-spangled shoes fit? Matthew Kent was an entertainer known to be a modest man in private, so why had he staged this grotesque charade in death? And why is his daughter so keen to hustle away his remains?

While Bea Abbot worries that she’s lost control of her domestic agency, she’s asked to find some domestic help for an eccentric little musician falsely accused of murder. She doesn’t realize how dangerous this might be until Jeremy - fleeing from attempts on his life - lands up on her doorstep. Researching the gang who’d used an attractive girl to entrap Jeremy, Bea finds traces of them throughout high society. Can Bea keep Jeremy - and herself - alive, while all he thinks about is composing a song for pretty, dead Josie?

The Beach Hut follows the stories of the families who come to Everdene each year, people who fall in – or out – of love, remembering their pasts, or trying to forget them…There’s Jane Milton, left only debts by her husband, and forced to sell the beloved beach hut that holds so many happy memories; Sarah; for whom fidelity has lost its appeal; and Harry, suffering from the anguish of first love when he falls for Florence – who has grown up to be far more alluring than she ever used to be.

Drawn to his abandoned temple on the banks of the Nile by an enchanting song, Sobek the Crocodile God is even more captivated by the sight of the singer herself. Appearing to her as a man, he learns she is Merys, a descendant of his last priestess. Though filled with lust, Sobek believes Merys deserves to be more than just his mistress. But the rules that govern the Egyptian pantheon forbid anything beyond a physical joining of a Great One and a human.

When Ellie Quicke's friend, Felicity, witnesses a Pitbull savage a young mother in the park, she goes into shock and calls on Ellie for help. Ellie's enquiries indicate that the dog and its owner are strangers to the neighbourhood, but soon there are other attacks...and after each one, the dog vanishes.

In the second book of the Carve the Mark duology, globally bestselling Divergent author Veronica Roth reveals how Cyra and Akos fulfill their fates. The Fates Divide is a richly imagined tale of hope and resilience told in four stunning perspectives. The lives of Cyra Noavek and Akos Kereseth are ruled by their fates, spoken by the oracles at their births. The fates, once determined, are inescapable.

The last thing my son and I needed were distractions. Patrick McShannon seems like everything a woman could ever want. He's gorgeous and kind and rich and my son adores him. But even with all of that going for him he has one thing going against him that I can't ignore...he's a man, and in my world, men mean trouble. As much as I want him, what if my ex finds out?

Ellie Quicke, although comfortably re-married, is still inclined to act hastily. But when she took in a young rape victim, she didn’t expect it to become an invitation to murder. When she was released from the hospital, Mia had nowhere to go. Mia is threatened by violent deaths which dog her every move . . . and Ellie’s. But who is responsible for these terrifying “accidents”? Ellie has other things on her mind as well, after being asked to help organise the weddings of both her best friend and her daughter.

John is a bad boy. He's too handsome, too smart, and way too good in bed. That's great for Jessica, Mona's bimbo roommate, but it's driving Mona crazy. She can't stop thinking about this dominating alpha male! Things take a turn for the kinky when Jessica begs Mona to break up with John for her. Mona agrees to do it (she's tired of pretending to be asleep during their sexual antics), but that means she'll have to be alone with this horny beast. Will she allow John to seduce her? Doesn't she want him to?

Adele: I had no idea that meeting a man like him would change me forever. It's already hard enough chasing reports throughout London. Now I have to deal with those piercing blue eyes, and the danger that lurks nearby. Maddox: The beautiful journalist sent to me was quite a surprise. Smart, strong, and independent, I've never met a woman like her in or out of the boardroom, bedroom or anywhere else. I'll never fight for something as badly as I'll fight for her.

Listeners first encountered Tobias Eaton as "Four" in Divergent. His voice is an integral part of Allegiant. Listeners will find more of this charismatic character's backstory told from his own perspective in Four: A Divergent Collection. When heard together, these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias Eaton's life.

Christopher Clay tuvo una infancia difícil. Nacido en Rusia y abandonado por sus padres, fue adoptado por una familia americana con la que se crio en los Estados Unidos. Pero nunca olvidó sus orígenes y regresó a su país convertido en Vasily Federov, un hombre de negocios inmensamente rico, decidido a recolocar a su país en el centro del poder mundial. Frente a él, Frances Coffey, legendaria agente de la CIA y su equipo de agentes especiales. Entre ellos, Aubrey Argylle, cuyo oscuro pasado familiar le capacita para una misión tan peligrosa como sofisticada.