Confession of Love: A Weak to Strong Fated Mate Romance (Dragon King's Broken Angel Book 2 The End)

Confession of Love: A Weak to Strong Fated Mate Romance (Dragon King's Broken Angel Book 2 The End)
Author: Pheonix Queen
Publisher: Starlight
Total Pages: 245
Release: 2022-12-14
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

“What!!! I can’t believe this, How can Moon Goddess pair me with a piece of sh*t like you,” His words were like someone poured melting lava into Melody’s ears. “You are my mate! How can you talk like this to me?” Melody asked in disbelief. “I, Kevin Montenegro, Alpha of the Blood Moon pack, Rejected you as my mate and as Luna of this pack,” As he finished his words, Melody fell on the ground due to pain. “I…I-i accepted your rejection,” she managed to mumble, despite her breaking heart “You fu*king b*tch! You will pay for this,” he warned, gasping for breath. Leonardo was the King of the Dragon Kingdom and feared by everyone but he was a cursed king because he couldn’t find his mate. He turned twenty-eight but luck was not on his side and he was still alone. What will she choose? Revenge or Love? How can he heal her broken soul and her shattered heart? Will they learn to love each other? Will she accept a dragon as her mate?

Claimed Among the Stars: A Sci Fi Romance Charity Anthology

Claimed Among the Stars: A Sci Fi Romance Charity Anthology
Author: Kate Rudolph
Publisher: Ink Heart Publishing
Total Pages: 5835
Release: 2021-09-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1955871027

Make contact with the hottest alien anthology in the universe! Claimed Among the Stars will rocket you to reading bliss with more action, adventure, and pleasure than one planet can contain. Curl up with this collection of wild and wonderful heavenly bodies and venture to the unknown worlds that only your favorite sci-fi romance authors could create. Hearts in zero gravity are free to fall, and destiny awaits unsuspecting heroines far across the galaxy. Whether you love a trip that’s nice and easy or dark and steamy, this collaboration of more than fifty bestselling authors is guaranteed to please. Embrace the heat, the sweet, the dark, and the depraved, and grab your copy of Claimed Among the Stars today! A word of warning: this anthology is only available for a limited time, so grab your copies now before they blast off forever. The proceeds of Claimed Among the Stars will benefit The National Women’s Coalition Against Violence and Exploitation, which serves women and children in the United States and abroad. This anthology contains exclusive, never before published stories by: Kate Rudolph Zoey Draven Tasha Black Tana Stone Nancey Cummings Honey Phillips Octavia Kore Ella Maven Tamsin Ley Iona Strom V. K. Ludwig Hope Hart Alana Khan Victoria Aveline SJ Sanders Alison Aimes Jade Waltz Ava Ross V. T. Bonds Kyra Snow Annabelle Rex Amarra Skye Liz Paffel Elizabeth Stephens Olivia Riley Veronica Scott Elin Wyn Hattie Jacks Samantha Rose A. G. Wilde Alexis B. Osborne Ella Blake Stephanie West Jessica Grayson Ivy Knox Lynnea Lee Kate Stevens Julie K. Cohen Hannah Haze Sarah Johns C. Y. Croc Leslie Chase Tina Moss Ana B. Starr L. Starfyre Lilly Griffin V.C. Lancaster Loretta Johns R. L. Olvitt Julie L. Vance Kassie Keegan

The Ultimate Submission

The Ultimate Submission
Author: Zev de Valera
Publisher:
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2013-06-26
Genre:
ISBN: 9781490544526

Do you know who you are? Diego Manning thinks he does, until the high school senior enrolls in an exclusive summer study program at the Mission of San Bernardino Realino. Within the walls of this converted monastery, Diego will discover a world of sexual license and secrets with roots as old and deep as those of the Mission's winery, La Viuda Riseuna. Diego will discover that, sometimes, you don't know who you are until you lose yourself.

Cold Iron Heart

Cold Iron Heart
Author: Melissa Marr
Publisher: Melissa Marr
Total Pages: 280
Release: 2020-05-21
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

How far would you go to escape fate? In this prequel to the international bestselling WICKED LOVELY series (over a million copies sold), the Faery Courts collide a century before the mortals in Wicked Lovely are born. Thelma Foy, a jeweler with the Second Sight in iron-bedecked 1890s New Orleans, can see through the glamours faeries wear to hide themselves from mortals, but if her secret were revealed, the fey would steal her eyes, her life, or her freedom. But when the Dark King, Irial, rescues her, Tam must confront everything she thought she knew about faeries, men, and love. Unbeknownst to Tam, she is the prize in a centuries-old fight between Summer Court and Winter Court. To protect her, Irial must risk a war he can’t win--or surrender the first mortal woman he's loved. "What a delight to discover how much I loved being back in the Wicked Lovely world, discovering details about beloved characters that made me want to race back for a series reread. This is Irial's story set in 1890s New Orleans, brimming with faerie court drama and steamy romance. Can we. and should we, outrun fate? And if so, are we prepared for the consequences? I could not put it down." --Angela Mann, Kepler's Books, Menlo Park CA "Set 100 years before the events in Wicked Lovely, Cold Iron Heart finds Irial, the king of the Dark Court, in New Orleans and entranced by a mortal. Is his interest in Thelma Foy just a passing fascination, or could it change the course of her life and the world forever? Melissa Marr masterfully rises to challenge of writing a prequel by both expanding on the mythology of the original series while telling a story that exists wholly on its own. Fans of the series will inhale this delicious glimpse into Irial’s past.”--John McDougall of Murder by the Book, Houston TX

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance

Luxury Arts of the Renaissance
Author: Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher: Getty Publications
Total Pages: 292
Release: 2005-10-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0892367857

Today we associate the Renaissance with painting, sculpture, and architecture—the “major” arts. Yet contemporaries often held the “minor” arts—gem-studded goldwork, richly embellished armor, splendid tapestries and embroideries, music, and ephemeral multi-media spectacles—in much higher esteem. Isabella d’Este, Marchesa of Mantua, was typical of the Italian nobility: she bequeathed to her children precious stone vases mounted in gold, engraved gems, ivories, and antique bronzes and marbles; her favorite ladies-in-waiting, by contrast, received mere paintings. Renaissance patrons and observers extolled finely wrought luxury artifacts for their exquisite craftsmanship and the symbolic capital of their components; paintings and sculptures in modest materials, although discussed by some literati, were of lesser consequence. This book endeavors to return to the mainstream material long marginalized as a result of historical and ideological biases of the intervening centuries. The author analyzes how luxury arts went from being lofty markers of ascendancy and discernment in the Renaissance to being dismissed as “decorative” or “minor” arts—extravagant trinkets of the rich unworthy of the status of Art. Then, by re-examining the objects themselves and their uses in their day, she shows how sumptuous creations constructed the world and taste of Renaissance women and men.

The Well of Loneliness

The Well of Loneliness
Author: Radclyffe Hall
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Total Pages: 464
Release: 2015-04-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1473374081

This early work by Radclyffe Hall was originally published in 1928 and we are now republishing it with a brand new introductory biography. 'The Well of Loneliness' is a novel that follows an upper-class Englishwoman who falls in love with another woman while serving as an ambulance driver in World War I. Marguerite Radclyffe Hall was born on 12th August 1880, in Bournemouth, England. Hall's first novel The Unlit Lamp (1924) was a lengthy and grim tale that proved hard to sell. It was only published following the success of the much lighter social comedy The Forge (1924), which made the best-seller list of John O'London's Weekly. Hall is a key figure in lesbian literature for her novel The Well of Loneliness (1928). This is her only work with overt lesbian themes and tells the story of the life of a masculine lesbian named Stephen Gordon.

The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism

The Ascetic Imperative in Culture and Criticism
Author: Geoffrey Galt Harpham
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 344
Release: 1992-02-15
Genre: Art
ISBN: 0226316920

In this bold interdisciplinary work, Geoffrey Galt Harpham argues that asceticism has played a major role in shaping Western ideas of the body, writing, ethics, and aesthetics. He suggests that we consider the ascetic as "the 'cultural' element in culture," and presents a close analysis of works by Athanasius, Augustine, Matthias, Grünewald, Nietzsche, Foucault, and other thinkers as proof of the extent of asceticism's resources. Harpham demonstrates the usefulness of his findings by deriving from asceticism a "discourse of resistance," a code of interpretation ultimately more generous and humane than those currently available to us.

The Varieties of Religious Experience

The Varieties of Religious Experience
Author: William James
Publisher: The Floating Press
Total Pages: 824
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1877527467

Harvard psychologist and philosopher William James' The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature explores the nature of religion and, in James' observation, its divorce from science when studied academically. After publication in 1902 it quickly became a canonical text of philosophy and psychology, remaining in print through the entire century. "Scientific theories are organically conditioned just as much as religious emotions are; and if we only knew the facts intimately enough, we should doubtless see 'the liver' determining the dicta of the sturdy atheist as decisively as it does those of the Methodist under conviction anxious about his soul. When it alters in one way the blood that percolates it, we get the Methodist, when in another way, we get the atheist form of mind."