Intense

Intense
Author: C.M. Steele
Publisher: The Steele Press
Total Pages: 153
Release: 2021-09-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

The memories of your childhood can haunt you as an adult, and Roman wasn't any different. Yes, he had money, he had the looks, the dream career, but what he didn't have was trust...in women. Then along came a pretty little stepsister who just forces him to change his ways. Can he? Or will the weight of the past ruin any chance at a future? Arrogant, rude, demanding, and dreamy. Amelia had had a crush on her stepbrother before she landed in his family. Will his downright lewd behavior be enough to destroy any feelings that she has for him or can they find a way to work past the animosity?

Luciano's Willing Captive

Luciano's Willing Captive
Author: C. M. Steele
Publisher:
Total Pages: 122
Release: 2015-08-23
Genre:
ISBN: 9781517027742

Luciano Rossi is the head of his outfit. Amber McLaren is a fresh faced high school graduate. Luciano wants to possess her forever but others plot to separate them. Will they be able to be one or will the horrible events to come take away their forever?Book One in the Captive SeriesWarning: Graphic Content

The Captive Series

The Captive Series
Author: C. M. Steele
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 512
Release: 2016-08-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781537287331

The Captive Series The three original stories of insta-love with captor and captive. One captor found his captive tied up, one snatched her from her family, and the other carried her out of her bed: Luciano's Willing Captive is a dark tale of sex, romance, violence and abuse. This is a HEA story, but with a gritty center that's gut wrenching. Luciano Rossi is the head of his outfit. Amber McLaren is a fresh faced high school graduate. Luciano wants to possess her forever but others plot to separate them. Will they be able to be one or will the horrible events to come take away their forever? The Russian's Captive leaves our hero claiming the spoils of war. He believes the sister/daughter of his enemies belongs to him. Nothing will stop him from making her his own. Nikolai Rykov spent a year in America under the alias Vladimir Zarachenko; where he headed his criminal organization. Then he was betrayed and sent to prison in Russia. After the charges were dropped, he was out for revenge. All evidence pointed to the one family, he actually aided. They were in his debt, and this is how they repaid him. He would get his revenge one way or another, and the young beautiful daughter Bianca was looking like their only bargaining chip. Nikolai is rough, unapologetic and instantly in love with the enemy's own. Bianca had a secret crush. She kept her feelings about him to herself. That is, until she'd been caught by her mother. Forcing her to move on, her mother accidentally pushes her and her family into the arms of trouble. What happens when her crush becomes her captor? Sergei's Stubborn Captive finds our hero frustrated with a woman who was so stubborn, she didn't know how to quit. She had to learn, though. Claudio Santini had been wreaking havoc on all those who crossed his path. When he disappeared no one asked questions. That was until a rookie detective named Lana Grey waltzed into town looking into his whereabouts. Starting with his rivals, the Rossi and Rykov Families, she was certain they had something to do with his absence. Her superiors forced her to back off, but she only changed her tactics. Lana went after Nikolai Rykov's right hand man, Sergei Antonov. Sergei was immediately intrigued by the beautiful pain in the ass. The biggest issue he had with Miss Grey was her persistence in the search for Santini. After one too many encounters with the nosy woman, he took matters into his own hands. She became Sergei's stubborn captive. Bonus stories: Love, sex and absolute devotion. All three heroes are captivated with their brides, even when the bloom should have left the rose. Years and kids do nothing to diminish their captivation.

SEAL's Captive

SEAL's Captive
Author: Jamila Jasper
Publisher: Jamila Jasper Romance
Total Pages: 374
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Gigi Jackson’s father left enemies behind when he went six-feet-under. His bodyguard and ex-SEAL, Duke, kidnaps Gigi. Fighting against Duke for her life leads to Gigi fighting on his side. A common enemy thrusts her into the arms of the unforgiving alpha. She’s a pampered princess, he’s a stone-cold, pure-muscle, ex-Navy SEAL hero…

The Dutch Wife

The Dutch Wife
Author: Ellen Keith
Publisher: Harlequin
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2018-09-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1488098662

A sweeping story of love and survival during World War II AMSTERDAM, MAY 1943. As the tulips bloom and the Nazis tighten their grip across the city, the last signs of Dutch resistance are being swept away. Marijke de Graaf and her husband are arrested and deported to different concentration camps in Germany. Marijke is given a terrible choice: to suffer a slow death in the labor camp or—for a chance at survival—to join the camp brothel. On the other side of the barbed wire, SS officer Karl MŸller arrives at the camp hoping to live up to his father’s expectations of wartime glory. When he encounters the newly arrived Marijke, this meeting changes their lives forever. Woven into the narrative across space and time is Luciano Wagner’s ordeal in 1977 Buenos Aires, during the heat of the Argentine Dirty War. In his struggle to endure military captivity, he searches for ways to resist from a prison cell he may never leave. From the Netherlands to Germany to Argentina, The Dutch Wife braids together the stories of three individuals who share a dark secret and are entangled in two of the most oppressive reigns of terror in modern history. This is a novel about the blurred lines between love and lust, abuse and resistance, and right and wrong, as well as the capacity for ordinary people to persevere and do the unthinkable in extraordinary circumstances. Don’t miss THE DUTCH ORPHAN! Ellen's next riveting novel set about a woman who must choose between family loyalty and her own safety.

The Book of Unholy Mischief

The Book of Unholy Mischief
Author: Elle Newmark
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2009
Genre: Apprentices
ISBN: 038561537X

It is 1498, and the whole of Venice is abuzz. Hidden somewhere in the labyrinthine city is an ancient book, rumoured to contain thorny heresies and secrets of immeasurable power. Luciano, a penniless orphan, has been plucked from the street and taken on as apprentice to the chef at the doge's palace. While learning the alchemy of cooking, he quickly finds himself entangled in the search for the ancient tome, even suspecting the chef, his maestro, may be concealing valuable information. But lurking in the wings are some of the most powerful, dangerous men in Venice, and Luciano's secret will lead him through a perilous maze to the centre of an intrigue that will test his deepest desires and loyalties.

We Can Be Mended

We Can Be Mended
Author: Veronica Roth
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2018-01-09
Genre: Young Adult Fiction
ISBN: 0062861956

Globally bestselling author Veronica Roth returns to the world of Divergent in this revealing short-story epilogue that takes place five years after the stunning events of Allegiant. As Tobias struggles to understand and move past his fears, the world he once knew has changed beyond recognition. Fringe-dwellers, ex-faction members, Bureau dropouts, and migrants now coexist in the rebuilt streets of Chicago. It’s a new, better world—one where he isn't sure how to belong. As everyone else seems to move forward, Tobias is still haunted by those who couldn’t. But new connections from old friends help him begin to heal—and mend. And don't miss The Fates Divide, Veronica Roth's powerful sequel to the bestselling Carve the Mark!

Our Dear-Bought Liberty

Our Dear-Bought Liberty
Author: Michael D. Breidenbach
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 369
Release: 2021-05-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 067424723X

How early American Catholics justified secularism and overcame suspicions of disloyalty, transforming ideas of religious liberty in the process. In colonial America, Catholics were presumed dangerous until proven loyal. Yet Catholics went on to sign the Declaration of Independence and helped to finalize the First Amendment to the Constitution. What explains this remarkable transformation? Michael Breidenbach shows how Catholic leaders emphasized their churchÕs own traditionsÑrather than Enlightenment liberalismÑto secure the religious liberty that enabled their incorporation in American life. Catholics responded to charges of disloyalty by denying papal infallibility and the popeÕs authority to intervene in civil affairs. Rome staunchly rejected such dissent, but reform-minded Catholics justified their stance by looking to conciliarism, an intellectual tradition rooted in medieval Catholic thought yet compatible with a republican view of temporal independence and church-state separation. Drawing on new archival material, Breidenbach finds that early American Catholic leaders, including Maryland founder Cecil Calvert and members of the prominent Carroll family, relied on the conciliarist tradition to help institute religious toleration, including the Maryland Toleration Act of 1649. The critical role of Catholics in establishing American churchÐstate separation enjoins us to revise not only our sense of who the American founders were, but also our understanding of the sources of secularism. ChurchÐstate separation in America, generally understood as the product of a Protestant-driven Enlightenment, was in key respects derived from Catholic thinking. Our Dear-Bought Liberty therefore offers a dramatic departure from received wisdom, suggesting that religious liberty in America was not bestowed by liberal consensus but partly defined through the ingenuity of a persecuted minority.

The Manchurian Candidate

The Manchurian Candidate
Author: Richard Condon
Publisher: RosettaBooks
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2013-11-25
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0795335067

The classic thriller about a hostile foreign power infiltrating American politics: “Brilliant . . . wild and exhilarating.” —The New Yorker A war hero and the recipient of the Congressional Medal of Honor, Sgt. Raymond Shaw is keeping a deadly secret—even from himself. During his time as a prisoner of war in North Korea, he was brainwashed by his Communist captors and transformed into a deadly weapon—a sleeper assassin, programmed to kill without question or mercy at his captors’ signal. Now he’s been returned to the United States with a covert mission: to kill a candidate running for US president . . . This “shocking, tense” and sharply satirical novel has become a modern classic, and was the basis for two film adaptations (San Francisco Chronicle). “Crammed with suspense.” —Chicago Tribune “Condon is wickedly skillful.” —Time