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Substitute Seduction: Million Dollar Baby A Texan For Christmas Substitute Seduction (Sweet Tea and Scandal #2)
by Cat SchieldShe’s serving up red-hot revenge—and might get burned. Southern women show why they shouldn’t be crossed in the Sweet Tea and Scandal series.London McCaffrey made a deal to get revenge at any cost. Her target? One of Charleston’s most influential men. But his brother, gorgeous race-car driver Harrison Crosby, stands in her way as a sexy distraction. He’s unleashed a torrent of desire that could catch London in her own web of deception. Will her best-laid plans backfire, breaking both their hearts?Praise for the novels of Cat Schield“Cat Schield knows how to write a captivating romance . . . a joy to read.” —CataRomance.com“A Cinderella story that will have readers clamoring for more.” —Harlequin Junkie“It’s charming and fluffy and full of tropes that bring comfort and delight!” —Fresh Fiction
The Substitute Sister
by Lisa ChildsGHOSTLY WHISPERSRocking chairs moving to and fro in the night...and an inherited house straight out of the eeriest of ghost stories. These were the things Sasha Michaelson found when she arrived on Sunset Island to collect the body of her identical twin...and take charge of her newly discovered niece.But even more frightening to Sasha than her sister's shadowy presence in the old house, and the killer still running loose on the small island, was the fact that Sheriff Reed Blakeslee stopped her breath and made her heart pound fast.But was the brooding lawman's determined search for answers caused by a love that hadn't stopped with death...or by a desire-for Sasha-that he couldn't deny?
The Substitute Wife
by Barbara McmahonMarriage in the making!Deanna Stephens needs a job and a place to live-and Jay Masters's advert for a live-in nanny sounds perfect. Though one look at Jay and his two adorable little girls, and Dee knows her heart is in trouble!Jay is a wary widower who doesn't want commitment with another woman. So how can Dee convince him that what he needs isn't just a substitute wife-but a real one?
The Substitute Wife
by Dallas SchulzeWhen Luke Quintain's fiancée dumped him, Catherine Lang understood immediately that she was the perfect solution to his problem. Leggy, flame haired and wise beyond her years, she decided that he should marry her instead. But even though Luke needed a wife by his thirty-sixth birthday or he would lose his inheritance, he had to say "No!" Well, that was what he tried to say, but somehow Cat left with a ring on her finger and a wedding date on her calendar. And Luke could only curse his grandfather's positively medieval blackmailing scheme...and count the seconds till the wedding night. Cat, of course, knows her own mind - and her own heart - and she wants Luke. Meanwhile, Luke is wondering how long this will play out, and hoping that it might be a little longer with each passing day. The problem is, he's quite capable of doing something very stupid - like falling for Cat. Because sometimes love just doesn't take no for an answer.
The Substitute Wife
by Dallas SchulzeWhen Luke Quintain's fiancée dumped him, Catherine Lang understood immediately that she was the perfect solution to his problem. Leggy, flame haired and wise beyond her years, she decided that he should marry her instead.But even though Luke needed a wife by his thirty-sixth birthday or he would lose his inheritance, he had to say "No!" Well, that was what he tried to say, but somehow Cat left with a ring on her finger and a wedding date on her calendar. And Luke could only curse his grandfather's positively medieval blackmailing scheme...and count the seconds till the wedding night.Cat, of course, knows her own mind-and her own heart-and she wants Luke. Meanwhile, Luke is wondering how long this will play out, and hoping that it might be a little longer with each passing day. The problem is, he's quite capable of doing something very stupid-like falling for Cat.Because sometimes love just doesn't take no for an answer.
A Substitute Wife and Her Sturbon Chief: Volume 4 (Volume 4 #4)
by Zi YueYouHun"Woman, if you dare to put on a green hat for me and marry my son again, do you believe that I won't let you spend your life in bed!?" He pushed her down on the sofa, his eyes blazing. A certain woman smiled, "Brother-in-law, he isn't your son." The child: "Yes, my mommy said I gave it away as a phone bill." Lu Zhan Bei: "…" He once hated her to the bones …
A Substitute Wife and Her Sturbon Chief: Volume 5 (Volume 5 #5)
by Zi YueYouHun"Woman, if you dare to put on a green hat for me and marry my son again, do you believe that I won't let you spend your life in bed!?" He pushed her down on the sofa, his eyes blazing. A certain woman smiled, "Brother-in-law, he isn't your son." The child: "Yes, my mommy said I gave it away as a phone bill." Lu Zhan Bei: "…" He once hated her to the bones …
A Substitute Wife and Her Sturbon Chief: Volume 3 (Volume 3 #3)
by Zi YueYouHun"Woman, if you dare to put on a green hat for me and marry my son again, do you believe that I won't let you spend your life in bed!?" He pushed her down on the sofa, his eyes blazing. A certain woman smiled, "Brother-in-law, he isn't your son." The child: "Yes, my mommy said I gave it away as a phone bill." Lu Zhan Bei: "…" He once hated her to the bones …
A Substitute Wife and Her Sturbon Chief: Volume 6 (Volume 6 #6)
by Zi YueYouHun"Woman, if you dare to put on a green hat for me and marry my son again, do you believe that I won't let you spend your life in bed!?" He pushed her down on the sofa, his eyes blazing. A certain woman smiled, "Brother-in-law, he isn't your son." The child: "Yes, my mommy said I gave it away as a phone bill." Lu Zhan Bei: "…" He once hated her to the bones …
A Substitute Wife and Her Sturbon Chief: Volume 7 (Volume 7 #7)
by Zi YueYouHun"Woman, if you dare to put on a green hat for me and marry my son again, do you believe that I won't let you spend your life in bed!?" He pushed her down on the sofa, his eyes blazing. A certain woman smiled, "Brother-in-law, he isn't your son." The child: "Yes, my mommy said I gave it away as a phone bill." Lu Zhan Bei: "…" He once hated her to the bones …
A Substitute Wife and Her Sturbon Chief: Volume 8 (Volume 8 #8)
by Zi YueYouHun"Woman, if you dare to put on a green hat for me and marry my son again, do you believe that I won't let you spend your life in bed!?" He pushed her down on the sofa, his eyes blazing. A certain woman smiled, "Brother-in-law, he isn't your son." The child: "Yes, my mommy said I gave it away as a phone bill." Lu Zhan Bei: "…" He once hated her to the bones …
A Substitute Wife and Her Sturbon Chief: Volume 9 (Volume 9 #9)
by Zi YueYouHun"Woman, if you dare to put on a green hat for me and marry my son again, do you believe that I won't let you spend your life in bed!?" He pushed her down on the sofa, his eyes blazing. A certain woman smiled, "Brother-in-law, he isn't your son." The child: "Yes, my mommy said I gave it away as a phone bill." Lu Zhan Bei: "…" He once hated her to the bones …
SubSurdity: Vignettes From Jasper Lane (SubSurdity Series #1)
by Eric ArvinSubSurdity: Book OneJasper Lane is a well-off neighborhood, not much different in appearance than most, with a tree-lined drive, manicured lawns, and crystal clear ponds. But underneath the pleasantry, a completely different world lurks. Cassie Bloom, the grand dame of Jasper Lane, has a missing son and husband and throws gay porn parties that are the social events of the year. Her best friend, a transsexual named Vera, owns a nightclub. Melinda Gold is the resident religious fanatic whose views clash with that of her son Patrick. Sandy and Steve Jones are the stereotypical all-American couple (except Steve acts in gay-for-pay porn unbeknownst to his pregnant wife). Rick Cooper just moved in, and despite his qualms about another relationship (having literally lost an eye in the previous one), he falls for ex-soldier, James. And David and Cliff are the most "normal" couple on the block... never mind that David helped Cassie with some past nefarious deed and that Cliff is the biggest gay porn star in the biz. Throw a dog named Gayhound and a dead body into the mix, and Jasper Lane may just be the gayest neighborhood in town!
Subsurface (Posthumanities)
by Karen PinkusA bold new consideration of climate change between narratives of the Earth&’s layers and policy of the present Long seen as a realm of mystery and possibility, the subsurface beneath our feet has taken on all-too-real import in the era of climate change. Can reading narratives of the past that take imaginative leaps under the surface better attune us to our present knowledge of a warming planet?In Subsurface, Karen Pinkus looks below the surface of texts by Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, George Sand, E. T. A. Hoffmann, and Jules Verne to find the buried origins of capitalist fantasies in which humans take what they want from the earth. Putting such texts into conversation with narrative theory, critical theory, geology, and climate policy, she shows that the subsurface has been, in our past, a place of myth and stories of male voyages down to gain knowledge—but it is also now the realm of fossil fuels. How do these two modes intertwine?A highly original take on evocative terms such as extraction, burial, fossils, deep time, and speculative futurity, Subsurface questions the certainty of comfortable narrative arcs. It asks us to read literature with and against the figure of the geological column, with and against fossil fuels and the emissions warming our planet. As we see our former selves move into the distance, what new modes of imagination might we summon?
Subtle Bodies (Vintage International)
by Norman RushIn his long-awaited new novel, Norman Rush, author of three immensely praised books set in Africa, including the best-selling classic and National Book Award-winner Mating, returns home, giving us a sophisticated, often comical, romp through the particular joys and tribulations of marriage, and the dilemmas of friendship, as a group of college friends reunites in upstate New York twenty-some years after graduation. When Douglas, the ringleader of a clique of self-styled wits of "superior sensibility" dies suddenly, his four remaining friends are summoned to his luxe estate high in the Catskills to memorialize his life and mourn his passing. Responding to an obscure sense of emergency in the call, Ned, our hero, flies in from San Francisco (where he is the main organizer of a march against the impending Iraq war), pursued instantly by his furious wife, Nina: they're at a critical point in their attempt to get Nina pregnant, and she's ovulating! It is Nina who gives us a pointed, irreverent commentary as the friends begin to catch up with one another. She is not above poking fun at some of their past exploits and the things they held dear, and she's particularly hard on the departed Douglas, who she thinks undervalued her Ned. Ned is trying manfully to discern what it was that made this clutch of souls his friends to begin with, before time, sex, work, and the brutal quirks of history shaped them into who they are now--and, simultaneously, to guess at what will come next.Subtle Bodies is filled with unexpected, funny, telling aperçus, alongside a deeper, moving exploration of the meanings of life. A novel of humor, small pleasures, deep emotions. A novel to enjoy and to ponder.
Subtle Revenge
by Carole MortimerIn this classic romance by a USA Today–bestselling author, a woman seeks to ruin the son of the man who destroyed her father.Twelve years ago, in a notorious embezzlement trial, Lori’s father was destroyed by ruthless lawyer Jacob Randell. Overcome with shame, her father committed suicide—protesting his innocence to the end.Randell ruined Lori’s life, and she is determined to make him pay! When she meets Jacob’s son, Luke, she finally sees a way to take the ultimate revenge. But when sinfully sexy Luke ignites a fire in her she’s never experienced before, she discovers there are sweeter things than revenge . . .Originally published in 1983
The Suburban Frontier (The Vaqueras #1)
by Gordon L. RottmanAldonza Krause is a superhero. She just doesn’t know it yet. The seventeen-year-old, half-Angelo, half-Mexican high school junior has spent every summer on the family ranch in Mexico. Raised by rough and tumble vaqueros and uncles, she can take on any ranch job and possesses abundant outdoor skills. Her no-nonsense, practical-minded outlook perplexes many, and she has difficulties relating to some people. Capable and confident on the open range and in the wilderness, she finds herself mystified when it comes to the chaos of high school in suburban Houston, Texas. To cope, Aldonza has gathered a “posse” of friends in an effort to achieve some stability, La Vaqueras. Influenced by the Vaqueras de las Cinco Manantiales —Ranch Girls of the Five Springs in Mexico, they are not just “cowgirls” of the dime store variety. The group lives by a motto, El Honor, la Tradición, la Lealtad—Honor, Tradition, Loyalty. Anticipating an upcoming summer trip to Mexico, Aldonza has to deal with a science project gotten out of hand, a resentful popular diva who she almost drowned with in a flash flood, and any number angst-producing teen dramas that most teens handle with aplomb but Aldonza is just bewildered by. When the unexplained death of a horse causes her to be quarantined from her job, La Vaqueras uncovers a deadly conspiracy involving environmental pollution that could spell disaster for the open range she loves so well and the suburban jungle Aldonza is learning to navigate.
Suburbilicious: Vignettes From Jasper Lane (SubSurdity Series)
by Eric ArvinSequel to SubSurditySubSurdity: Book TwoTake another turn down Jasper Lane, the well-off neighborhood where gay porn parties, fresh cheesecake, and friendly busybodies welcome newcomers while a dog named Gayhound helps with the landscaping. Cassie Bloom is thrilled her son Jason is home, but she's worried about the secrets buried around the house, especially when a scary-looking stranger starts spying on her! Rick and James are basking in the blush of love--or is it the flush of jealousy as Rick's rugby teammate starts hanging around?--and the flamboyantly gay Terrence is off bonding with his newly discovered son, Christian. Melinda, divorced from her stuffy husband, is looking to dip her toe in the dating pool, but she's got one problem: her potential date's embarrassing last name. Steve and Sandy Jones are now proud parents, but Sandy's got to find something to do with herself, and running for office in the Gay Porn Wives Club may be just the ticket. And remember, it's a do-unto-others mentality on Jasper Lane, so when lesbian couple Asha and Keiko move in and Sandy helps Keiko get a directing job at Steve's gay porn film company, it's par for the course!I loved it; plain and simple. Suburbilicious is pure fun with a healthy dose of suburban absurdity. 4.75 or 5 stars Teagan S. Boyd @ Bookwenches
Subversion: A Ménage Paranormal Romance (NEON #1)
by Allyson LindtDahlia Being hunted by the gods has never been hotter.I was trained as an assassin for some of the oldest names in mythology. When I decided I wanted out, the gods in question weren't having it.Screw them.Fortunately, I’ve made some influential and supernatural friends over the years, including Freyr, a god of fertility, and Fenris, a wolf shifter with a heavenly heritage. They share my strong distaste for the other gods. They also own NEON, the hottest burlesque club in the Underground, and want me to be their new opening act.Will that put me right in the public eye, and tell those hunting me exactly where I am?Freyr, Fen, and I hope so. Plus, I'm not complaining about the scorching benefits that come with being hidden by two smokin' hot immortals.As long as I get to my hunters before they get to me.Author's Note: NEON is its own series in Allyson Lindt's Valkyrie universe. You can take your first step into this world here. However, this series does contain spoilers for the Valkyrie's Legacy series by Allyson Lindt. This series will give you multiple happily ever afters, for multiple MMF polyamorous triads… But getting there will be one hell of an angst-filled ride.
Successful Flirting: Flash
by Sam Van RoodThe books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Successful Flirting is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to the art of making an impression and charming people in any situation. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover how to hold the attention of others, chat easily and confidently, and possibly even win over their future love.MASTER THE BASICSBOOST YOUR SOCIAL LIFECHARM THE OPPOSITE SEXMAKE NEW FRIENDSFLIRT YOUR WAY TO THE TOPBECOME A SUCCESS
Successful Flirting: Flash
by Sam Van RoodThe books in this bite-sized new series contain no complicated techniques or tricky materials, making them ideal for the busy, the time-pressured or the merely curious. Successful Flirting is a short, simple and to-the-point guide to the art of making an impression and charming people in any situation. In just 96 pages, the reader will discover how to hold the attention of others, chat easily and confidently, and possibly even win over their future love.MASTER THE BASICSBOOST YOUR SOCIAL LIFECHARM THE OPPOSITE SEXMAKE NEW FRIENDSFLIRT YOUR WAY TO THE TOPBECOME A SUCCESS
Succession: An Academy Why Choose YA/New Adult Paranormal Bully Romance (Fallen Fae Academy #6)
by Rachel AngelIt was the Final Year at Fallen Fae Academy, and the War in the Faery Realm has taken on a Dark turn. Can we all survive? "At Fallen Fae Academy, the magic will either complete you or kill you." My name is Harley, as in Harlequin. Plucked from my home from Las Vegas, NV, and placed into an University on an arts scholarship, suddenly I am the girl the four hottest and most popular boys have decided to "initiate". This is no ordinary "hazing" ritual, and these boys are no ordinary boys. This mysterious University looks like any ivy league campus, but it isn't. Step in and you are transported beyond your wildest imagination. I should be ecstatic being here. Except surviving "Initiation" is going to take everything I've got. Don't let the beauty of the four fae boys fool you. They are as dangerous as they are beautiful. And underneath everything, runs a deep secret. One I need to find out before Initiation kills me. They think a human is weak. They think I shouldn't be at this university. I'm about to prove them wrong. **Succession is the sixth book in the Fallen Fae Series with a badass heroine, four deadly, striking fae princes, heart-pounding action, super steamy love scenes, and great romance.
Successor's Promise: The thrilling fantasy adventure (Book 3 of Millennium's Rule) (Millennium's Rule #3)
by Trudi CanavanInternational No. 1 bestselling author Trudi Canavan returns with the third instalment in the Millennium's Rule series - her most powerful and thrilling adventure yet.Five years have passed since the Rebels confronted the Raen. Five years, in which Qall - the boy Rielle rescued - has grown up among the Travellers, with no memory of the life that was stolen from him. Five years of chaos, barely contained by Baluka and the Restorers. Worlds are at war, some overrun by deadly machines, some drained of magic by power-hungry sorcerers.As Qall comes of age, and Rielle and Tyen's hard-won peace is threatened, their loyalties are tested - and Qall's very existence is at stake. Because Dahli is still determined to restore Valhan to power, and he will stop at nothing to succeed. Escape to a new world. Discover the magic of Trudi Canavan.
Succubi Like It Hot
by Jill MylesJackie Brighton's life as a succubus is going great: she's gone from mousy to bombshell, and although she has to have sex every forty-eight hours or die, she has two hot guys--the vampire Zane and the angel Noah--to scratch her Itch. But then her Itch accelerates to every twenty-four hours, and she's suddenly waking people's unconscious just by touching them. Something's out of control so she and Remy, her mentor, go on an adventure-filled road trip to New Orleans to consult with the oldest succubus in the United States. Jackie learns she's been cursed by a vampire queen--and reversing the curse demands a price she's not willing to pay.