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EMILY I've had a crush on the grumpy Grayson for a while now and when he bids for me on the Valentine's Ball my stomach does flips. But it's got to be his misplaced sense of honor because I'm just his assistant and employee. When he tries to back down I insist we go on the date since he paid for me. However, when things get more intimate we become more aware of how others might see our relationship as: an affair. GRAYSON I've been holding the torch for Emily for a long time. When I heard she'd be auctioned I knew I couldn't bear to see her with anyone else even for charity. But what could she possibly see in me? I'm older than her and a cripple. Us getting closer sets tongues wagging. I don't want others opinions to drive us apart.
CAMILA I'm given the job of interviewing Ezra Moore, a billionaire and rumored playboy. Turns out he is not much of a playboy but he does get interested in me even though I'm just a single mother. But everything goes wrong when my ex-husband comes back, begging for a new chance. Who would want to get involved with a woman who has so much baggage from the past? Will Ezra look beyond what has been and see the possible future with us? EZRA I like Camila Miller immediately. I can't stop thinking of her and the way she has taken good care of her son even in difficult circumstances. I want to protect them and provide. But she didn't tell me about having an ex-husband. And I just know that she'll take him back, women always do, to offer a father figure. At least my mother did. Will she choose James and leave me? Maybe if I leave her first, she won't have chance to hurt me. This is a Holly Falls Billionaires Book 2. It is a short story and can be read just under an hour!
SCARLETT I fall immediately when Caleb spills his champagne on me and takes charge of the situation. The problem is that I have student debts on my back and an illness with heavy stigma attached to it. Caleb doesn't care about my problems but when I start showing symptoms, I can't help but push him away and freak out. Will my issues drive Caleb away and come between what could be a great relationship? CALEB It's electricity immediately when I see Scarlett. I see deeply wounded girl in her but also a survivor. Only thing is that Scarlett is so in her head about her problems that I'm afraid she won't lean on me when I offer it. I want to be there for her but it makes me worried when she doesn't depend on me. Will she learn to trust me and the strength of the love between us? Caleb is a sweet and steamy short story perfect for a lunch break! Trigger warning: Mental health issues, bipolar disorder
AVA I've been hired to paint a portrait of a Holly Falls billionaire, Henry Hayes. There's genuine warmth in his smiles and when he is with me, he seems lighter. But I'm only a nobody artist, nothing special in my paint-flecked leggings and oversized shirt. What could he see in me? When he asks me out, I pounce at the chance. I want to know this man better. Except when he starts to buy me things, I panic. Will others think I'm a gold digger? HENRY I've been trying to find the elusive Ava Sparrow's art around the whole United States and am shocked to learn that my friend comissioned a painting from her in my town, Holly Falls! Will she see me for who I am instead of my fortune? Once she agrees to go out with me, I can't contain myself, I want to spoil her. She deserves to thrive in every way possible and this way I can provide. When she leaves me during a trip to the jewelry store, I worry. Will the money separate us? This is the first short story in Holly Falls Verse. It's sweet and steamy, and can be read under an hour!
There are rules to every game, and then there are those who enforce the rules. Breaking one leads to penalties. Crossing the other, leads to disaster. Finn is no stranger to the first, but now that the next round of the Time Trials is underway and he’s drawn the ire of one of the Timekeepers, he’s about to find out just how vindictive one of them can be. Loyalties will be tested. Bonds will be broken. And by the end of the season, the Timekeeper will have blood, one way or another.
The East India Company at Home, 1757–1857 explores how empire in Asia shaped British country houses, their interiors and the lives of their residents. It includes chapters from researchers based in a wide range of settings such as archives and libraries, museums, heritage organisations, the community of family historians and universities. It moves beyond conventional academic narratives and makes an important contribution to ongoing debates around how empire impacted Britain. The volume focuses on the propertied families of the East India Company at the height of Company rule. From the Battle of Plassey in 1757 to the outbreak of the Indian Uprising in 1857, objects, people and wealth flow...
Aisling Moss is balanced on the crystal edge of success as one of the most sought-after wedding planners in London…until a single split-second decision sent her career crashing to the floor like a toppled tower of shattered champagne flutes. Soon after, a letter from the family solicitor arrives and she has to choose between picking up the scattered pieces of her career in London or taking the next flight to Wales to honor the last wishes of the grandmother she loved. Finn Morgan was forced to end her fighting career after a sudden injury sidelined her rise to stardom in the cutthroat world of professional women’s boxing. Her job as a short-order cook in a Brooklyn luncheonette certainly...
An alpha claim. A possible heir. A Selkie prince whose mistake might just be what the fates intended. Zale, the third alpha-born son of King Solomon, is concerned. His youngest brother, Caol, has been spending time with an unbonded omega. Being a responsible alpha, Zale feels it’s his duty to warn the omega Finn before he and Caol get into trouble. Especially since Finn had only been brought to the colony by their father in case his oldest brother’s fated mate couldn’t conceive. However, when Zale goes to Finn’s quarters to have a word with him, he isn’t expecting to discover what he does: the omega in the throes of oestrus and begging for an alpha’s assistance. Finn has nowhere ...
Once, when the world was new, God looked down on His creation and was disappointed. The skies rained down on His world for forty days and forty nights. He made Noah the inheritor of His creation. What would He think if He looked down upon us now? What would we do if it started to rain and it did not stop? Where would we run when the water is everywhere? And who would be our Noah? Nine people have been chosen to build a new ark, to survive the Second Flood, to make good God's vision of humanity. Who are these Nine? And what about everyone else? It is time. . . Sink? Or swim?