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I first saw the Folk when I was a little boy, when they started appearing in my garden, with their unnatural, cruel beauty and honeyed words and veiled taunts. I grew up with big green eyes watching me from the forest. Whispers from the trees. Shimmering skin darting between the bushes. Black creatures always lurking in the shadows. While they were here, I thought nothing of them. It wasn’t until they were gone that I realise it wasn’t…normal. But it isn’t until I’m twenty-one, when my life is in ruins, that they come back to take me away.

FBI forensic profiler Agent Alexandra Darling is known for her unsettling affinity for murderers and their victims. As she joins a task force assigned to capture a notorious duo of killers, her forbidden fascination with the twisted motivations behind their crimes takes a dangerous turn. Delving deep into the darkness, she finds herself entangled in a dangerous game that blurs the lines between hunter and hunted, love and obsession. One that would forever redefine her understanding of desire and the depths of her own soul.

Gejagt von einem Monster, das keine Gnade kennt! Jemand, der die dunkle Gesellschaft für immer zerstören will! Eine unerschütterliche Liebe, die selbst in dunklen Zeiten nicht zerbricht. Als Madison erfährt, dass die Lords im Gremium gefangen genommen wurden, bleibt ihr nur eine Wahl: Sie nimmt Diabos Angebot an und flieht. Doch sie ahnt nicht, welchen Preis diese Entscheidung fordern wird. Ihr Vater lebt! Und er ist ihr dicht auf den Fersen. Getrieben von Rache jagt er jedes einzelne Mitglied der dunklen Gesellschaft, entschlossen, sie alle zu Fall zu bringen.

Grit, determination, and a will of steel have propelled Hudson Stone through life. No case he faced as Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard went unsolved. But nothing could have prepared the implacable investigator for inheriting a dukedom. Even more maddening than his ducal obligations is Lady Elysande Collingwood, the previous Duke of Wycombe’s betrothed. Worst of all, the debts Hudson has been bequeathed along with the title mean he needs to marry an heiress to save his estates from ruin, and the cheerful, dazzling Lady Elysande is the only one he knows.

Luxo, obsessão e lealdade. Quinto livro da série Reis do Pecado, Rei da Inveja é um romance com desejo proibido e um protagonista de moral duvidosa. Ele tem tudo que poderia desejar... menos ela. Vuk Markovic odeia socializar. O bilionário cheio de cicatrizes raramente fala e não tem qualquer interesse em estabelecer relações fora do seu pequeno círculo íntimo. A única exceção? Ela. A bela Ayana Kidane. O foco de sua obsessão.

Tara: "I'm not interested in getting involved with a nice guy. No more serious relationships! I just want to enjoy. This time it's going to be my rules, my way." Sneha: "Who cares whether he is a nice guy or a bad guy? As long as he is a guy, you need to enjoy him and move on. At least, that's what I do." Dheeraj: "This can just be our way to fulfil our dark temptations. Is that what you wanted to hear? So you just take care of the time we plan to share, and leave the rest to a rich rascal like me."

Everyone says I’m a bad girl. They’re only partly right - I don’t let fear rule me, and I certainly don’t care what people think. But I draw the line at sleeping with the enemy. As the daughter of Briar’s head hockey coach, I’d be vilified if I hooked up with a player from a rival team. And that’s who Jake Connelly is. Harvard’s star forward is arrogant, annoying, and too attractive for his own good. But fate is cruel - I require his help to secure a much-coveted internship, and the sexy jerk isn’t making it easy for me.

It's a crazy day for Shanaya and work seems to be never-ending. Looking for a break, Shanaya bumps into Sameer at an unexpected moment. They have known each other for a while and their mutual attraction can be sensed from quite a distance. With Shanaya's love for crazy adventures, what follows is a hot and steamy session of sex in the most unexpected place. More than words, the bodies speak.

Quando Tate Collins trova il pilota Miles Archer svenuto davanti alla sua porta di casa, non è decisamente amore a prima vista. Non si considerano neanche amici. Ciò che loro hanno, però, è un'innegabile reciproca attrazione. Lui non cerca l'amore e lei non ha tempo per una relazione, ma la chimica tra loro non può essere ignorata. Una volta messi in chiaro i propri desideri, i due si rendono conto di aver trovato un accordo, almeno finché Tate rispetterà due semplici regole.

Lorenzo Damiani. Tall. Dark. Handsome. Seductive. Enigmatic. Dominant. He was my knight in shining armor that fateful morning in Naples. When he invited me to his tiny Italian island paradise, I was too far under his spell to say no. For one full week, I was uninhibitedly his. No ties. No pressure. The best-laid plans... Now, I'm back home in Seattle. I'm definitely tied...and the pressure is on. I have a tiny surprise that will last forever. But Lorenzo is the heir to a dark legacy he wants no part of. What will he do when he finds out he has an heir of his own?

Damen is a warrior hero to his people and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos, but when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave. Beautiful, manipulative and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent.

As Father Magnus Falke, I suppress my cravings. As the headteacher of a Catholic boarding school, I’m never tempted by a student. Until her. I became a priest to control my impulses. Then I meet Tinsley Constantine. The bratty princess challenges my rules and awakens my dark nature. With each punishment I lash upon her, I want more. In my classroom, private rectory, and bent over my altar, I want all of her. There’s no absolution for the things I’ve done. One touch risks everything I stand for. My faith. My redemption. And even my life. As if that could stop me.

For the first time, listen to all three books in the Cityscape Affair series in one collection. The Cityscape Affair box set includes three full-length novels: Come Undone, Come Alive, and Come Together.

My cock has an appetite. A huge and very particular appetite: blond, curvy, and preferably not a f--king liar... (Although that's a story for another day.) As a high-profile lawyer, I don't have time to waste on relationships, so I fulfill my needs by anonymously chatting and sleeping with women I meet online. My rules are simple: one dinner. One night. No repeats. This is only casual sex. Nothing more. Nothing less. At least it was until Alyssa...

Sensual, rebellious Anna falls deeply and passionately in love with the handsome Count Vronsky. When she refuses to conduct the discreet affair that her cold, ambitious husband - and Russian high society - would condone, she is doomed. Set against the tragic love of Anna and Vronsky, the plight of the melancholy nobleman Konstantine Levin unfolds. In doubt about the meaning of life - a mirror of Tolstoy’s own spiritual crisis - Konstantine is haunted by thoughts of suicide.

ユリアナは義弟アロイスが生家の公爵家に戻される際、自分の前世の記憶を思い出す。彼は好きだったマンガの最推しキャラだった。当て馬役で死ぬ彼を助けたいユリアナだが、アロイスは物語とは違いユリアナに執着する｡｢俺はあんたのことを女としてしか見ていない」情熱を傾けられ幸せを覚えた夜。だが彼が命を落とす戦の予兆が近付いて!?

Even after the "I do's" are said, relationships change and need work to grow and thrive. Aaron has found himself increasingly drawn to the idea of taking his and Greg's BDSM-lite games to the next level. Unsure if he can fully unleash his inner sadist without losing complete control, he seeks out a professional Dom to teach him the literal and figurative ropes.

“Bowles’s tales are at once austere, witty, violent, and sensuous. They move with the inevitability of myth. His language has a purity of line, a poise and authority entirely its own.” —Tobias Wolff An American cult figure, Paul Bowles has fascinated such disparate talents as Norman...

Miranda’s back, but she’s not sticking around for long. In an attempt to regain her mojo, she’s packing up her whips, chains and thigh-high boots to leave London, and set out on a road trip unlike any other. With her best frenemy, and fellow dominatrix, Mistress Laveen in tow, she heads out to see what delights – and displeasures – they can dish out from the “comfort” of budget hotel rooms across the UK.

Meet Miranda. She is a cheerful and happy-go-lucky single girl who just happens to be a dominatrix with a dungeon in her flat where she services clients with flogging and extreme correction and (if she's lucky) gets the occasional slave to pay her for the honour of doing her vacuuming.