Queen Move

Queen Move
Author: Kennedy Ryan
Publisher: Blue Box Press
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2020-05-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1952457025

From Wall Street Journal, USA Today Bestselling and RITA® Award-winning Author Kennedy Ryan, comes a captivating second chance romance like only she can deliver... The boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can't have… Dig a little and you'll find photos of me in the bathtub with Ezra Stern. Get your mind out of the gutter. We were six months old. Pry and one of us might confess we saved our first kiss for each other. The most clumsy, wet, sloppy . . . spectacular thirty seconds of my adolescence. Get into our business and you'll see two families, closer than blood, torn apart in an instant. Twenty years later, my "awkward duckling" best friend from childhood, the boy no one noticed, is a man no one can ignore. Finer. Fiercer. Smarter. Taken. Tell me it's wrong. Tell me the boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can’t have. When we find each other again, everything stands in our way--secrets, lies, promises. But we didn't come this far to give up now. And I know just the move to make if I want to make him mine.

Queen Move (Special Edition)

Queen Move (Special Edition)
Author: Kennedy Ryan
Publisher: All the King's Men
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2023-06-10
Genre:
ISBN: 9781957568744

From Wall Street Journal, USA Today Bestselling and RITA(R) Award-winning Author Kennedy Ryan, comes a special edition of this captivating second chance romance... The boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can't have... Dig a little and you'll find photos of me in the bathtub with Ezra Stern. Get your mind out of the gutter. We were six months old. Pry and one of us might confess we saved our first kiss for each other. The most clumsy, wet, sloppy . . . spectacular thirty seconds of my adolescence. Get into our business and you'll see two families, closer than blood, torn apart in an instant. Twenty years later, my "awkward duckling" best friend from childhood, the boy no one noticed, is a man no one can ignore. Finer. Fiercer. Smarter. Taken. Tell me it's wrong. Tell me the boy who always felt like mine is now the man I can't have. When we find each other again, everything stands in our way--secrets, lies, promises. But we didn't come this far to give up now. And I know just the move to make if I want to make him mine. *Includes a bonus epilogue.

The Queen's Gambit Declined: Move by Move

The Queen's Gambit Declined: Move by Move
Author: Nigel Davies
Publisher: Everyman Chess
Total Pages: 536
Release: 2017-11-19
Genre: Games & Activities
ISBN: 1781944091

The Queen’s Gambit Declined is one of the central pillars of chess opening theory. Virtually every world champion has played the opening with both the white and black pieces and it is a great favorite at all levels in chess. The reason for its enduring popularity is that it is rich in the classic strategic themes. Either side can end up with an isolated d-pawn, White can pursue a queenside initiative while Black counters on the other wing or White can attempt to build a powerful centre that Black hopes to undermine. The Move by Move series provides an ideal format for the keen chessplayer to improve their game. While reading you are continually challenged to answer probing questions – a method that greatly encourages the learning and practising of vital skills just as much as the traditional assimilation of chess knowledge. Carefully selected questions and answers are designed to keep you actively involved and allow you to monitor your progress as you learn. This is an excellent way to study chess while providing the best possible chance to retain what has been learnt. * Everything you need to know about the Queen’s Gambit Declined . * The Q and A approach emphasizes plans and strategies. * Written by an expert on the opening.

The Kingmaker

The Kingmaker
Author: Kennedy Ryan
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2023-05-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1728284910

From beloved, RITA-award-winning author Kennedy Ryan comes the first in her gripping All the King's Men duology. In a world of haves and have-nots, Maxim Cade's family and their oil empire have it all...and he wants nothing to do with it. At odds with his mogul father, he's determined to build his own empire, even if it means traveling far from home, painted as the black sheep. Lennix Hunter is the exception to every one of Maxim's rules. At a protest for the oil pipeline that threatens to mar her ancestral land forever, they meet in a flurry of stars and sparks, and that one moment changes everything. But Maxim's family is the one stealing from hers, and his father is the man she hates most. He has to lie in order to have her once, and despite the truth, he'll do anything to keep her. Even though Lennix tries to hate Maxim, too, their hearts are pointed in the same direction. The inexorable pull between them, across miles and years, will not be denied. And neither will Maxim.

The Queen's Gambit

The Queen's Gambit
Author: Walter Tevis
Publisher: Rosetta Books
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2014-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 079534306X

Netflix’s most watched limited series to date! The thrilling novel of one young woman’s journey through the worlds of chess and drug addiction.​ When eight-year-old Beth Harmon’s parents are killed in an automobile accident, she’s placed in an orphanage in Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Plain and shy, Beth learns to play chess from the janitor in the basement and discovers she is a prodigy. Though penniless, she is desperate to learn more—and steals a chess magazine and enough money to enter a tournament. Beth also steals some of her foster mother’s tranquilizers to which she is becoming addicted. At thirteen, Beth wins the chess tournament. By the age of sixteen she is competing in the US Open Championship and, like Fast Eddie in The Hustler, she hates to lose. By eighteen she is the US champion—and Russia awaits . . . Fast-paced and elegantly written, The Queen’s Gambit is a thriller masquerading as a chess novel—one that’s sure to keep you on the edge of your seat. “The Queen’s Gambit is sheer entertainment. It is a book I reread every few years—for the pure pleasure and skill of it.” —Michael Ondaatje, Man Booker Prize–winning author of The English Patient

The Chili Queen

The Chili Queen
Author: Sandra Dallas
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003-09-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1429903392

Life may have been hard on Addie French, but when she meets friendless Emma Roby on a train, all her protective instincts emerge. Emma's brother is seeing her off to Nalgitas to marry a man she has never met. And Emma seems like a lost soul to Addie-someone who needs Addie's savvy and wary eye. It isn't often that Addie is drawn to anyone as a friend, but Emma seems different somehow. When Emma's prospective fails to show up at the train depot, Addie breaks all her principles to shelter the girl at her brothel, The Chili Queen. But once Emma enters Addie's life, the secrets that unfold and schemes that are hatched cause both women to question everything they thought they knew. With Sandra Dallas's trademark humor, charm, and pathos, The Chili Queen will satisfy anyone who has ever longed for happiness. The Chili Queen is the winner of the 2003 Spur Award for Best Western Novel.

Queen's Move

Queen's Move
Author: Nikita Slater
Publisher: Nikita Slater Writing Services Ltd.
Total Pages: 324
Release: 2019-02-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

A #1 new dark romance release and an International Bestseller! He declared war, she accepted the challenge. Born to the mob, abused by the mob, Vee is queen in a beautiful and brutal city. She has risen up to take over her dead husband's territory. She leads her organization with cool logic, passionate loyalty and an iron will. She's the perfect woman for the job. Until one cartel refuses to bow to a woman, shattering her dreams. Now she is fighting for her right to rule. The Gentleman Butcher is a legend in the mafia for his efficient, gruesome and relentless takeovers. One woman stands in his way and he will dethrone her. A king in his own country, he will capture and tame the furiously independent beauty. He will seize her loyalty for himself and force her to submit to his rule. As they come together, this explosive couple will set fire to a city, a country and everything in their path. Queen's Move is the second book in The Queens dark romance suspense series. This book is standalone. Guaranteed HEA, NO cheating, NO cliffhanger. This book is a dark mafia romance with themes that some people may find disturbing. Read at your own risk! Keywords: possessive alpha male, dark romance, jealous possessive, gothic romance, seductive romance, alpha hero, female mob boss, antihero dark romance, Miami, obsessive hero, abduction to love, Venezuela, passionate lovers, feisty heroine, brutal hero, sexually romantic books, romantic suspense, capture fantasy, standalone, thriller, crime, kidnap, happily ever after, love books, love stories, contemporary mafia romance, enemies to lovers, mobster, guaranteed HEA, no cliffhangers, dark mafia romance, billionaire romance, possessive alpha romance, bad boy, no cheating, kidnapping, protective, steamy, abused heroine, dominance submission, caged, marriage, captive romance, mob boss

Queen's Move

Queen's Move
Author: Nikita Slater
Publisher:
Total Pages: 332
Release: 2021-07-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781990355165

A king in his own country, Sotza will capture Vee, seize her loyalty for himself and force her to submit to his rule.

The Vanished Queen

The Vanished Queen
Author: Lisbeth Campbell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 496
Release: 2021-11-09
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982141301

Originally published in hardcover in 2020 by Saga Press.