Bargaining for King’s Baby Maureen Child Just twenty more acres and millionaire Adam King would’ve restored his family ranch to its former glory. He even considered marrying the girl next door. Then Gina decided to make a deal with Adam herself. She’d marry the ice-cold rancher. He’d get the land. And she’d get King’s baby.

For security expert Garrett King, rescuing a damsel in distress is routine. He knows sexy, desirable Princess Alexis left her castle to look for independence and true love – and she thinks she’s found it in him. But he’s no white knight, he’s been hired to protect her during her adventure and he doesn’t do happily ever after...

With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver In the late nineteenth century, when the great powers in Europe were tearing Africa apart and seizing ownership of land for themselves, King Leopold of Belgium took hold of the vast and mostly unexplored territory surrounding the Congo River. In his devastatingly barbarous colonization of this area, Leopold stole its rubber and ivory, pummelled its people and set up a ruthless regime that would reduce the population by half. . While he did all this, he carefully constructed an image of himself as a deeply feeling humanitarian. Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize in 1999, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of this man’s brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. It is also the inspiring and deeply moving account of a handful of missionaries and other idealists who travelled to Africa and unwittingly found themselves in the middle of a gruesome holocaust. Instead of turning away, these brave few chose to stand up against Leopold. Adam Hochschild brings life to this largely untold story and, crucially, casts blame on those responsible for this atrocity.

Risking life and love

An exploration of the fast food industry in the United States, from its roots to its long-term consequences.