Wealthy French heiress and socialite Annick Bouchet weds supermodel Julia Spoleto. Julia, who is also an accomplished Domme, owns Manhattan’s best Italian restaurant, Julia’s Bed, which also houses a secret and exclusive harem of slaves for more private pleasures. Annick tells Julia that they need to open an outpost of the operation in Paris, although Julia is at first skeptical that an Italian restaurant can succeed in the capital of haute cuisine. But at last she gives in, and Julia’s Bed is reproduced in France, with the operation an instant success. Things look bright until a Ripper-like murderer begins killing the beautiful models making up their Parisian staff. When the police are baffled, Annick turns to private investigator Trevor Gantt. Gantt, an experienced Dom, helped the women save the business once before. Can he do so again and find the murderer before he kills again? And whose bed will he wind up in this time? Gemma Stone’s nastiest and sexiest mystery yet.

This book is about Annick Nouatins life. She is from West Africa, France, and America. She experienced some traumatic situations, including sexual abuse from her father, alcohol and drug use, the deaths of her parents and two siblings, and two attempts at suicide. In her early years, she was a lost child, because of those difficult experiences. With the help of God, Annick Nouatin learned to rise above her traumas. When Annick Nouatin came to Chicago, she was exposed to more difficult situations that made her into a spiritual woman. Those periods of her life made her stronger and stronger. Her introverted nature made her work on herself. Now, she knows her purpose in life.

Stories by writers with Southern backgrounds deal with the modern problems of life in the South

A cross between William Faulkner and John Irving, Dufresne masterfully charts the power of truth and lies and the magic hidden in the mundane in this collection of colorful stories.

When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen. Then, when their marriage broke down, they failed to protect her from sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend. After watching her adoptive mother drown on inhaled vomit, Eileen and her younger sister were taken into care, but her nightmare was to continue as she was subjected to further physical, sexual and emotional abuse. At the age of only seventeen, seven months into a secret pregnancy, she decided that the only way out was through a bottle of painkillers; when she survived and gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, he became her lifeline.

Inspired by 2002 Russian raid on Chechen terrorists. Written by a physicist/biologist. Terrifyingly realistic. A biological spy thriller.

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