Beau Diesel...He was my "one". My one that I would sacrifice everything for. My one that I wanted to be with until I took my final breath. My one that completed me. I wanted him. I needed him. But he was off limits. I knew this, but the risk of consequences didn't outweigh the depth of my desire. So, I fought for our love. But, I wasn't Beau's "one". So, he fought against our love. He fought so hard, eventually I had to give up. I had to admit defeat. But, that's the thing about love - when you're down and out, true love wins. It prevails...and it raises you up. **This is a stand alone novel, with a happy ever after**

Her smiles brought my own to life. Her beautiful face was what made me get out of bed every morning. Looking into her eyes was my favorite part of the day. She was in my every thought, in every passing second.My lips craved her lips, and my hands yearned to touch her beautiful skin. My heart called out her name with every beat, and I only had eyes for her.Her. My life, my soul, my personal Heaven-on-Earth. She was everything I had ever wanted, but everything I could never have.

Discusses portrayals of domestic violence in six major works of mid-nineteenth-century literature.

Pleasure that destroys all thought. Love that shatters all barriers. Outlawed Realm, Book 2 Once a sex slave marked for termination, Lukan was miraculously liberated from E4’s Pleasure Palace, where E2’s fine, upstanding rulers secretly indulge their cravings for every imaginable vice. But freedom is not enough. He left his heart behind with Arez. Within her fragrant, heated caress, he knew everything denied him. Rapture, contentment, tenderness…and love. Desperate to have her back in his arms, he embarks on a dangerous mission to deliver his untamed temptress from the certain death she does not know awaits her. Within her velvet cage Arez knew only carnal submission and loneliness—until Lukan. But he has disappeared, and she senses something different in the way the supreme ruler is using her. Then, as if Lukan felt her longing for his strong arms and fevered kisses, he is there to sweep her from this twilight dimension to another. But true freedom lies just out of his grasp. To reach the last portal—and their destiny—Lukan and Arez must first outwit an army of predators that hunt them. Human, subhuman…and monsters. Warning: Features a lusty guy who makes Greek gods look wimpy, and a wanton woman who lives for scorching sex. When these two get it on, watch out, they ain’t playing at lust or love.

A history and social psychology of punk music.