Poisoned Vows

Poisoned Vows
Author: Clifford L. Linedecker
Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
Total Pages: 312
Release: 2014-07-01
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1466874856

***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** Jill Coit was a voluptuous, dark-skinned beauty--as sultry and unfathomable as the Louisiana bayou where she was born and raised. But beneath the glamour of the one-time fashion model was a woman of insatiable desire who used her cover-girl looks to prey on eligible, well-meaning men. Married ten times, she vowed her undying love. But her life was a series of betrayals involving flagrant adultery, and even bigamy. She battled to get her hands on her ex-husbands' bank accounts, family inheritances and valuables. Across at least five states, she used more than a dozen names to spin a tangled web of marriages and money. But was she on a heartless quest for more and more wealth--one that led to the cold-blooded murder of two of her husbands and attempts on the life of another? And did she go so far as to try to involve her own son in a plot to murder husband number nine? Find out in Poisoned Vows, from investigative journalist and true-crime author Clifford L. Linedecker.

Poisoned Vows: A Dark Mafia Standalone Romance

Poisoned Vows: A Dark Mafia Standalone Romance
Author: M. James
Publisher: PNK Publishing
Total Pages: 368
Release:
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

Read this steamy mafia series by dark romance author M. James. For fans of dark romance authors Nicole Fox, Maggie Cole, and BB Hammel... I've never been anything but a means to an end. But now the most powerful man in Chicago wants to make me his…forever. All my life I knew one thing about my father–that he wanted to be more than he was. More than a low-level nobody for the Chicago Bratva. And all my life, he's groomed me to be his ticket to a seat at the table. When he barters my innocence for that seat, the pakhan takes him up on his offer. I'm meant to be a plaything for the Bratva heir. Thrown away and discarded, all for a powerful man's pleasure. Except Nikolai Vasilev takes one look at me, and decides I'm his. Forever. He doesn't just plan to take me to his bed. He demands that I marry him. He'll stop at nothing to own me, mind, soul and body. No matter how broken I am, no matter how I fight. He's determined to make me his bride in every way–not just in name. And when he discovers what my father's plan has been all along–he'll stop at nothing to avenge me. When passion and devotion meet violence and sin, there's only one thing left to find out– Can a lasting love spring from poisoned vows like these? Poisoned Vows is a full-length standalone dark mafia romance featuring an alpha hero and a feisty heroine who fall in love hard. If you like enemies to lovers, forced marriage, and happily ever afters, you'll love this new book!

Savage Love

Savage Love
Author: M. James
Publisher: PNK Publishing
Total Pages: 396
Release: 2023-07-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

They say be careful what you wish for. I never understood that until now. I should be happy. I’m safely in Boston, reunited with my sister, and on the verge of a future I never dreamed was possible for myself. My life should look brighter than ever, on the other side of the dangers we faced in Rio. But Levin is gone. And without him, it feels like nothing is as it should be. Until the unexpected happens–the one thing that could bring him back to my side. I’m pregnant. Levin is a good man. An honorable one. There’s never any question that he’ll come back to me, be a father to our child–and marry me, if that’s what I want. But Levin is still a man haunted by past loss. He wants to make me happy, but the one thing I want is the one thing he can’t give me. His heart. Levin is the man I want. And I’m willing to fight for this love. Savage Love is book three in The Savage Trilogy. The series is complete. The reading order is as follows: Savage Assassin, Savage Princess, Savage Love.

Summary of Christina Lauren's The Unhoneymooners

Summary of Christina Lauren's The Unhoneymooners
Author: Milkyway Media
Publisher: Milkyway Media
Total Pages: 26
Release: 2024-08-07
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN:

Buy now to get the main key ideas from Christina Lauren's The Unhoneymooners Olive and Ami Torres are twins. Olive considers herself an unlucky pessimist, while Ami is the exact opposite. In The Unhoneymooners, a romance novel by Christina Lauren, Ami’s meticulously planned wedding to Dane Thomas implodes when everyone at the reception gets food poisoning except Olive and Ethan, the groom’s judgmental brother. Despite not liking each other, Olive and Ethan decide to take their siblings’ nonrefundable honeymoon trip to Maui together. They have to pose as newlyweds to avoid fraud charges, even when they run into Olive’s new boss and Ethan’s ex-girlfriend. Ethan and Olive begin falling for each other, but their new feelings are tested when Ethan reveals Dane’s infidelity to Ami. Olive must decide what to do with the information. Will she risk both her new relationship and her deep bond with her twin?

Your Own Song to Sing (Volume 2)

Your Own Song to Sing (Volume 2)
Author: Saverio
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2011-04-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1456887734

Writing has taken over my life.. in a good way. My thoughts continually are geared towards my next song. Sometimes I get a few lines in my head when I am driving and I have to pull over the car and write them down! No matter where I am, I get the urge to write. I could be talking to a neighbor, or be in the middle of mass at church and a word or phrase will pop into my head and whoa! -a new song is born! More than anything I love, love, love, the peace of mind songwriting allows me to have. Most of my lyrics take me 15 to 30 minutes to write. There was a time when I was writing 6-8 lyrics in a day. Sometimes I would sit there and stare at my pencil asking why did you stop? I swear at times the pencil kept moving like I wasnt even thinking of what to write. This is my first edition. I hope to continue with future editions as I am still writing new songs everyday. Someday I hope to put my lyrics to my own music and I recently started taking piano lessons. Hey, we all know life is a learning process; a learning curve, we need to experience the turns with the ride! I wish you all success with this book and look forward to seeing some of you with me when it comes to award times!

Sivakami's Vow 4: Shattered Dream

Sivakami's Vow 4: Shattered Dream
Author: Kalki
Publisher: Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages: 275
Release: 2023-09-18
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9357082891

To meditate lifelong at the feet of our lord-Kalki's choice of Thirunavukkarasar's words to end his magnum opus, Sivakami's Vow, is indicative of the shift from romance to reflection, from the mundane to the spiritual. Nine years have passed since Narasimha Varmar has ascended the throne to the Pallava kingdom ... nine years that the dancer Sivakami has spent as a captive of the Chalukya emperor, Pulikesi. In that time, the Pallava emperor has been preparing to wage a bloody war against the Chalukyas-to fulfil his promise to Sivakami and his father. But the duties of a sovereign have driven him to make difficult choices in his personal life. Will friendships and allegiances change on account of this? With the passage of so much time, does Sivakami still yearn for vengeance? And what have the last nine years meant for the Pallava commander-in-chief, Paranjyothi, and the conniving bikshu, Naganandi? As Kalki expertly weaves together various strands of honour, love and friendship in this fourth and final volume of Sivakami's Vow, he takes the reader through a gamut of emotions. It is no surprise that this novel is considered a classic.

Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath

Nectar Gaze and Poison Breath
Author: Aditya Malik
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 578
Release: 2005-02-24
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0198034202

This book offers a detailed study of the oral narrative of Shri Devnarayan along with the first English translation of this popular Rajasthani folk narrative. The narrative extolling the deeds of Lord Devnarayan is performed by itinerant singers during all night vigils in front of a 9-meter long, elaborately painted cloth scroll that depicts scenes and characters from the story. Aditya Malik uses the narrative to explore and ask a range of innovative questions relevant to the study of Indian folk culture and Hinduism as a whole: How is orality conceptualized and practiced? What is the relationship between spoken and visual signs? How do Devnarayan's devotees create multiple discourses concerning religion, community, and history within and though the medium of the narrative? Malik's analysis suggests that the narrative provides a framework for establishing linkages between different communities, past and present, spoken word and visual image, as well as contending religious ideologies. His interpretation is interspersed with excerpts from interviews with devotees and singers, other tales and texts, and observations from his field research that together invoke the worlds created by the narrative.

The Christmas Promise

The Christmas Promise
Author: Richard Paul Evans
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2021-11-23
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1982177438

This holiday season, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Noel Collection returns with another heartwarming story of secrets, heartbreak, forgiveness, and the true meaning of Christmas. On the night of her high school graduation, Richelle Bach’s father gives her and her identical twin sister, Michelle, matching opal necklaces. “These opals look identical,” he tells them, “but the fire inside each is completely unique—just like the two of you.” Indeed, the two sisters couldn’t be more different, and their paths diverge as they embark on adulthood. Years pass, until—at their father’s behest—they both come home for Christmas. What happens then forever damages their relationship, and Richelle vows never to see or speak to her sister again. In their father’s last days, he asks Richelle to forgive Michelle, a deathbed promise she never fulfills as her twin is killed in an accident. Now, painfully alone and broken, caring for the sickest of children in a hospital PICU, Richelle has one last dream: to be an author. The plot of her book, The Prodigal Daughter, is a story based on her sister’s life. It’s not until she meets Justin Ek, a man who harbors his own loss, that a secret promise is revealed, and Richelle learns that the story she’s writing is not about her sister, but about herself.

The Man Who Killed Boys

The Man Who Killed Boys
Author: Clifford L. Linedecker
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2013-06-11
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1466847921

***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** A true story of mass murder in a Chicago suburb. Successful businessman, community benefactor, good friend and neighbor-- and perverted mass murderer. Over a period of three years, John Wayne Gacy, Jr. sexually tortured and murdered 33 boys. His friends and neighbors in his unassuming Illinois community never suspected a thing. Gacy was a Jekyll-and-Hyde figure, leading an outwardly normal life, but secretly brutalizing dozens of young men in a hidden lair, and concealing their bodies under the floorboards of his suburban home. Through extensive personal interviews with those who knew Gacy, veteran true-crime scribe Clifford L. Linedecker takes us on a shocking ride through Gacy's life, delving deep into the man's troubled past, recounting his appalling series of murders, and recreating the drama of his trial-- which resulted in his execution by lethal injection in 1994. Gruesome and horrifying, The Man Who Killed Boys reveals stark terror set amid the daily lives of an ordinary community.