Tyler has devoted his life to protecting people, first as a police officer and now as the head of Club Wicked’s security. So when the beautiful Nora needs his help, he quickly comes to her rescue. His interest in her is further piqued when he finds out sweet, shy, and funny Nora has a guest application pending at Club Wicked. But when he reads her background check, he realizes his princess has been badly hurt, and will need a caring Daddy to help her heal. After enduring two years of constant mental abuse from her ex-boyfriend/Dom, Nora finally flees her hometown in Oklahoma for the sunny beaches of southern California. She hopes to start a new life, one free of dread and anxiety; but it seems her past just won’t let go. Her relationship fears make it impossible for her to see strange men as anything other than a threat, so she avoids dating like the plague. Until she meets Tyler. He’s the Daddy every princess dreams of, and Nora soon finds herself wondering why such an amazing man would want a damaged woman like herself. Tyler will have to convince Nora to trust him before it’s too late, or risk losing his princess to her demons forever.

My entire life has been a lie... And the one person I allowed myself to trust has shattered any illusion I had left about who I was and where I came from. The men around me have proved just how unworthy they really are, and now I'm caught in the middle of something far more dangerous than I ever could have imagined. The secrets. The lies. They all tangle together. My father had to know this day would come. That his past would catch up with both of us. Sebastian wanted me as pawn, and then for himself, but he seems to have forgotten who he's dealing with. I'm Stella Doukas... mafia princess. I bend for no man. Not even the one who's stolen my heart.

In the scorching finale of Anna Randol's wickedly tempting Trio series, the Wraith takes on a mission— and a princess— he'll never forget . . . Ian Maddox, aka the Wraith, is happy to leave his life as a spy— as soon as he discovers who's been trying to kill his friends. All clues lead him to the bedroom of an exiled princess. Yet Princess Juliana isn't the simpering royal he expects, and this irresistible beauty agrees to give him the information he seeks . . . for a price. Princess Juliana has never cowered—not even as she fled her burning castle in the midst of a rebellion—so she won't tremble before the darkly charismatic man who appears in her bedchamber and holds a knife to her throat. Instead, she bargains with the infamous spy to help her retrieve sensitive documents and restore her kingdom. But Juliana quickly finds that Ian is no humble servant, and she never imagines that lessons in thievery will lead to schooling in seduction.

Meagan Fenwick hasn't had a happy Christmas since the death of her parents. Any hopes of this season being different are dashed when her stepbrother gambles away their estate--and her hand in marriage. Shy Meagan would rather die than wed Lord Rothchild--until she discovers she can't resist his charms.

Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson, the first Norwegian Nobel laureate, presents 'Three Dramas' in this collection of plays, featuring 'The Editor', 'The Bankrupt', and 'The King'. The second play tells a tragicomedy of money, and a plea for honesty that ends up producing a stirring and entertaining play. Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1903 for his versatile and noble poetry. He was a prolific polemicist and highly influential in Norwegian public life and Scandinavian cultural debate.

Reproduction of the original: The Necklace of Princess Fiorimonde and Other Stories by Mary de Morgan