Eliza's Miracle: A Mate Index Alien Romance Novella

Eliza's Miracle: A Mate Index Alien Romance Novella
Author: S. J. Sanders
Publisher: Mate Index
Total Pages: 84
Release: 2019-04-03
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781092638142

Eliza is the new ambassador from Earth. It fulfills all her career ambitions, but her life is a lie. Her husband, who ruled her career with an iron fist, is not her Prince Charming in a storybook marriage that everyone assumes. He is cruel and manipulative. Living at the space station gives her some reprieve, but not entirely. When her daughter falls in love with a Tagith male, Eliza finds herself starting on a new leg of her life as a single woman, one that brings her into the company of her son-in-law's gruff father. He rubs her the wrong way, but things change and are never quite what they seem.Zerik lost his mate ten years ago and it has never stopped hurting. He doesn't approve of humans or much of anything, yet when his son persuades him into a visit on the Intergalactic Space Station, he discovers that his life still has room for one more.This slow-burn romance will take readers to the world of Tagess for an annual festival and a mating-ceremony to remember. A second-chance romance for all those who know it is never too late to fall in love.

A Kiss on Kaidava

A Kiss on Kaidava
Author: S. J. Sanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 328
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781070898469

Cara has been looking forward to her happily ever after. With no living family, it is all she has wanted for years and she thought she found it with the love of her life, Ben. When Ben has to go away on a business trip to Kaidava, her fantasies of a perfect life and the image of the man she was to marry quickly begin to unravel when Ben comms confessing that he fell in love with a local Kadesh female. To get the man she wants back Cara will do anything, even break Earth laws by illegally leaving the planet and teaming up with an unscrupulous Kadesh male to get him back.Lerix has had it with romance. Disgusted with the whole concept, he left his homeworld as a youth on a presumed mating quest to find his mate. After revolutions of getting by as a bodyguard supplemented with thievery, he is eager to return back home. The only catch is that he has to find a temporary stand in mate to get him back on Kaidava. When his plans fall through, he happily finds himself in the company of a female human also eager to make her way planet-side, to chase after a male of all things. He makes her a bargain, pose as his mate and he will help her get him back.Traveling through Kaidava as they hunt for Ben, they also find themselves the hunted when the jewels Lerix stole from his previous client puts an elite guard and assassins on their trail. To make matters worse, as time passes in her company, Lerix becomes more certain that Cara is his mate.

The Edokas' Destiny

The Edokas' Destiny
Author: S. J. Sanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 286
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781696976596

Destiny Delaine has had enough. As daughter of a former high-ranking general who now served as the Ambassador of Earth and a socialite mother, she has been reared to be the proper young woman and helpmate. Her parents had her life all planned out, right down to her arranged marriage with one of the planetary representatives under her father. No one asked her what she wanted. Determined as too fat and too old for the Mate Index, she decided to take her own destiny into her hands. She never expected that stowing away on a trade vessel would deliver her to her three destined mates.As an Edoka Clannid, A'Jular, Sha'melor and E'budar are as different as brothers can get. Sha'melor is the eldest and member of the Council of Clans and ambassador for Edokora. Unlike his carefree brothers, his life is one of rules and has to be steadfast and reliable while his brothers manage the family business, while A'Jular runs as an aggressive trader and E'budar manages the business end when not getting himself into one trouble or another. When A'Jular is frozen out of the family accounts by his brother when he tries to purchase mate-hunting rights he thinks his plans have been thwarted until he finds himself in possession of a very special stowaway-their mate. Although biologically compatible with only a single shared fated mate, they have to set aside their differences and come together to make their clannid a real family and protect their female at all cost.

The VaDorok

The VaDorok
Author: Sj Sanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2019-10-04
Genre:
ISBN: 9781796459067

SaraFirst contact changed things on Earth. It opened new, only previously imagined, possibilities. In what started as a trip to participate in a cooperative study, Sara found herself sold off as a test subject for breeding compatibility research to a species known as the Agraak. Determined that she would not submit to be bred or relocated to serve as a breeder for the rest of her life, she escaped into the wilds of a hostile subarctic planet. Not knowing who to trust, and almost dying on the ice flows, she is rescued by a male larger than life whom her body instinctually craves. VidokA warrior-priest of the VaDorok, Vidok had long given up hope of finding his ulukska, his one true mate. When he finds a tiny female offworlder on the ice flows of the far northern territory she brings forth his mating heat and his life changes. To keep her, he not only has to help her save her companions but must also face repercussions among his tribe and the Intergalactic Council.*trigger warning: bookbriefly contains some references to rape

A Winged Embrace

A Winged Embrace
Author: S J Sanders
Publisher:
Total Pages: 364
Release: 2021-08-15
Genre:
ISBN:

Diamond Shipley is a jewel thief-not a particularly successful one as far as her trade goes, but it pays the bills, or it did until someone betrayed her and her partner and landed her ass in jail after years of evading the law. Looking at years behind bars, she does what any sensible person would do. She agrees to become a bride in the Mate Index. A one-way ticket off Earth and her record expunged, it is the perfect opportunity to ply her skills somewhere fresh. Sure, she would have to get around her new mate while she got together a nice little pile of credits, but how hard can that be?She does not expect him to be a mountain of muscle and sex appeal-or head of security for that matter. Yet beneath that hard exterior is a gentle male with a heart a gold. Can she keep her eye on the prize or will she let love make a fool of het yet?Tar-denovak yielded to his mother's scheming and sent away for a bride from the Mate Index Distribution Program, but he had not expected to be so captivated by his little mate. She is so small and vulnerable that it rouses every protective instinct a male could have toward his mate, even if she has a tendency towards mischief. As head of security, he has many responsibilities, not the least of which was now keeping his mate too busy to get into trouble. As amusing as his female is, it is no laughing matter when a shipment of volatile imperium level qualath stones goes missing. With such a potentially catastrophic power supply stolen, it sends the entire space station into an uproar. Could his little mate be more dangerous than she lets on?With familial responsibilities hounding him, a small contingent of females from his mother world arriving to prepare for his mating ceremony, and a rival determined to steal all he has, Tar is divided between his responsibilities and finding the love he has always dreamed about. Can he afford to trust the one being who might lead him to ruin?

Why Love Hurts

Why Love Hurts
Author: Eva Illouz
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 191
Release: 2013-05-20
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0745672116

Few of us have been spared the agonies of intimate relationships. They come in many shapes: loving a man or a woman who will not commit to us, being heartbroken when we're abandoned by a lover, engaging in Sisyphean internet searches, coming back lonely from bars, parties, or blind dates, feeling bored in a relationship that is so much less than we had envisaged - these are only some of the ways in which the search for love is a difficult and often painful experience. Despite the widespread and almost collective character of these experiences, our culture insists they are the result of faulty or insufficiently mature psyches. For many, the Freudian idea that the family designs the pattern of an individual's erotic career has been the main explanation for why and how we fail to find or sustain love. Psychoanalysis and popular psychology have succeeded spectacularly in convincing us that individuals bear responsibility for the misery of their romantic and erotic lives. The purpose of this book is to change our way of thinking about what is wrong in modern relationships. The problem is not dysfunctional childhoods or insufficiently self-aware psyches, but rather the institutional forces shaping how we love. The argument of this book is that the modern romantic experience is shaped by a fundamental transformation in the ecology and architecture of romantic choice. The samples from which men and women choose a partner, the modes of evaluating prospective partners, the very importance of choice and autonomy and what people imagine to be the spectrum of their choices: all these aspects of choice have transformed the very core of the will, how we want a partner, the sense of worth bestowed by relationships, and the organization of desire. This book does to love what Marx did to commodities: it shows that it is shaped by social relations and institutions and that it circulates in a marketplace of unequal actors.

The Gods of Gotham

The Gods of Gotham
Author: Lyndsay Faye
Publisher: G.P. Putnam's Sons
Total Pages: 482
Release: 2013-03-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0425261255

New York City, 1845. Timothy Wilde, a 27-year-old Irish immigrant, joins the newly formed NYPD and investigates an infanticide and the body of a 12-year-old Irish boy whose spleen has been removed.

Class

Class
Author: Paul Fussell
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 212
Release: 1992
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0671792253

This book describes the living-room artifacts, clothing styles, and intellectual proclivities of American classes from top to bottom.

Invisible Man

Invisible Man
Author: Ralph Ellison
Publisher: Penguin Books Limited
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780241970560

The invisible man is the unnamed narrator of this impassioned novel of black lives in 1940s America. Embittered by a country which treats him as a non-being he retreats to an underground cell.

Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850

Women Writers and Old Age in Great Britain, 1750-1850
Author: Devoney Looser
Publisher: JHU Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2008-08-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0801887054

This groundbreaking study explores the later lives and late-life writings of more than two dozen British women authors active during the long eighteenth century. Drawing on biographical materials, literary texts, and reception histories, Devoney Looser finds that far from fading into moribund old age, female literary greats such as Anna Letitia Barbauld, Frances Burney, Maria Edgeworth, Catharine Macaulay, Hester Lynch Piozzi, and Jane Porter toiled for decades after they achieved acclaim -- despite seemingly concerted attempts by literary gatekeepers to marginalize their later contributions. Though these remarkable women wrote and published well into old age, Looser sees in their late careers the necessity of choosing among several different paths. These included receding into the background as authors of "classics," adapting to grandmotherly standards of behavior, attempting to reshape masculinized conceptions of aged wisdom, or trying to create entirely new categories for older women writers. In assessing how these writers affected and were affected by the culture in which they lived, and in examining their varied reactions to the prospect of aging, Looser constructs careful portraits of each of her Subjects and explains why many turned toward retrospection in their later works. In illuminating the powerful and often poorly recognized legacy of the British women writers who spurred a marketplace revolution in their earlier years only to find unanticipated barriers to acceptance in later life, Looser opens up new scholarly territory in the burgeoning field of feminist age studies.