When Miss Milner announces her passion for her guardian, a Catholic priest, she breaks through the double barrier of his religious vocation and 18th-century British society's standards of proper womanly behavior. Like other women writers of her time, Elizabeth Inchbald concentrates on the question
Worker Iroedh was confused. Though she was a lover of antiquity, she really could put no faith in the Oracle's prophecy. It was true that strange being, Terrans, had come from beyond the heavens. But these "men" were no gods. Had not she seen them making fools of themselves over a silly
On the isle of Mauritius at the turn of the century the young Alexis L’Etang enjoys an idyllic existence with his parents and beloved sister – sampling the pleasures of privilege, exploring the onstellations and tropical flora, and dreaming of treasure buried long ago by the Unknown Corsair. But
WARNING: This book will mess with your mind. It is a very dark, sexy, twisted romance novel. 18+ only. Blake: I am a brother I am a police detective I am a contract killer I don’t want to love I don’t want to feel I don’t want … EMPATHY. They say some people are born with decreased activity in the
For over ten years Joe Matt has been notorious in cult circles for the embarrassing frankness with which he reveals his distressing habits and predilections. Utterly unabashed and completely self-absorbed, Joe Matt writes with an exhibitionists enthusiasm for his favorite subject, himself. In his
Two strangers are bonded by a lust for revenge—and each other—in this novella from Christine Feehan's "erotic, gripping series that has defined an entire genre." (J. R. Ward) Blaze McGuire knows who killed her father and she has merciless plans for payback. Until a phone call from a
Seduction that kills. Pleasure to die for. She just can’t resist . . . Guardian Riley Jenson always seems to face the worst villains. And this time’s no different. For it’s no ordinary sorceress who can raise the dead to do her killing. But that’s exactly what Riley expects to find at the end of a
In An Introduction to Childhood, Heather Montgomery examines the role children have played within anthropology, how they have been studied by anthropologists and how they have been portrayed and analyzed in ethnographic monographs over the last one hundred and fifty years. - Offers a comprehensive
Power, it comes down to this... those who have it, those who want it. Revenge, the need for it is a fire in the soul, a goad for the unwise. Hunted, the fate of the foolish when they think to become the hunter. The Lord of the Midwest is dead, and the powerful vampires of North America are
Life is a river and each of our myriad destinies a tributary which itself creates tributaries, which in turn creates tributaries. That is the nature of Chaos, forever creative, forever fecund, forever unchecked. Rose von Bek travels many of London's byways glimpsing many lives and many worlds. At
