Michael Hadley had it all. Fast cars, money and beautiful women. He was a billionaire and a champion Speedway racing driver. Life in the fast lane was good until a temptress from his past reappeared and caused him to spin out of control. Willow Roth had beauty, brains and class. She was his sister’s best friend and now in his employ. She was also off limits - the one he couldn’t have. “Next time you prod me in the chest, you better be ready to drop your panties.” Love was never factored into the equation of Michael’s sexual exploits. For Willow, love and sex represented the dualities of life. One could not exist without the other. Through the heartache and regrets of their collusive past, they would eventually reunite to understand their place together in an imperfect world.

Michael Hadley had it all. Fast Cars. Fast money. Fast women.He was a billionaire and a champion racecar driver. Life in the fast track was good; until a temptation from his past resurfaced to turn it upside down.Willow Roth was intelligent, gorgeous and absolutely luscious.His sister's best friend.Also, his newest employee.The one he couldn't have."Next time you prod me in the chest, you better be ready to drop your panties." She was the temptation he couldn't give into and the challenge he couldn't resist. The chemistry between them was a tangible thing; denied for too long. Resistance was futile. But love isn't an option for Michael. Love is the only option for Willow. It's a battle of wills, emotions, love, passion and . . . deceit.Michael and Willow have to journey together, through heartache and regrets; until they realize how perfectly imperfect they are, for each other.

“Our relationship is inevitable. The sooner you realize and accept it, the better.” Allison Hadley did not entertain Tiaan Sheppard when he made that statement. He was a notorious bachelor. A skirt-chaser of note and his exploits had been splashed all over the media. No, she burned her fingers once before and she had no intention of repeating that embarrassing mistake. Tiaan Sheppard was the co-owner of the most sought after auditing firm in the US and he wanted the beautiful, luscious Orthodontic surgeon from the moment he first met her. So much so, that he booked an appointment under an assumed name and ended up drinking whiskey out of a straw at dinner. Sparks ignited between the two and they soon became lovers, but fate has a way of intervening when least expected. This time fate intervened cruelly, threatening their relationship and testing the strength of their new-found love.

"Makes a reader feel like a time traveler plopped down among men who were by turns vicious and visionary."—The Christian Science Monitor The modern American economy was the creation of four men: Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay Gould, and J. P. Morgan. They were the giants of the Gilded Age, a moment of riotous growth that established America as the richest, most inventive, and most productive country on the planet. Acclaimed author Charles R. Morris vividly brings the men and their times to life. The ruthlessly competitive Carnegie, the imperial Rockefeller, and the provocateur Gould were obsessed with progress, experiment, and speed. They were balanced by Morgan, the gentleman businessman, who fought, instead, for a global trust in American business. Through their antagonism and their verve, they built an industrial behemoth—and a country of middle-class consumers. The Tycoons tells the incredible story of how these four determined men wrenched the economy into the modern age, inventing a nation of full economic participation that could not have been imagined only a few decades earlier.

Through studying images of blood in film from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1960s, this path-breaking book explores how blood as an (audio)visual cinematic element went from predominately operating as a signifier, providing audiences with information about a film’s plot and characters, to increasingly operating in terms of affect, potentially evoking visceral and embodied responses in viewers. Using films such as The Return of Dracula, The Tingler, Blood Feast, Two Thousand Maniacs, Color Me Blood Red, Bonnie and Clyde, and The Wild Bunch, Rødje takes a novel approach to film history by following one (audio)visual element through an exploration that traverses established standards for film production and reception. This study does not heed distinctions regarding to genres (horror, western, gangster) or models of film production (exploitation, independent, studio productions) but rather maps the operations of cinematic images across marginal as well as more traditionally esteemed cinematic territories. The result is a book that rethinks and reassembles cinematic practices as well as aesthetics, and as such invites new ways to investigate how cinematic images enter relations with other images as well as with audiences.