Lily Snowe is the brightest diamond in London's society, but her brilliance hides a scandalous past. Her every step skirts the shadow of her secrets. Her only confidants, the Mandeville brothers, have finally returned to London. Is this Lily's chance, at last, to find freedom from the past and true love? Ralph Mandeville is honor bound to protect his family and to protect Lily's trust. But from the minute he sees her again, his passion threatens to overcome his sensibilities. The delicate dance of their courtship is thrown into chaos by a single cryptic phrase: The Mandevilles have been chosen. How can their bright new love defeat a dark past and a sinister conspiracy?

"Best series I've read in a long time." Reader review What happens when your old flame turns out to be a killer? A ritzy steeplechase. A terrible commotion in one of the stalls. A beautiful young horse breeder found dead. Newbie private investigator Miranda Steele knows she shouldn't get involved. But when the dead woman's sister begs her to take the case, Miranda can't resist the powerful need to set things right. Was the young woman's bizarre death an accident or murder? And why is her sexy, ace investigator boss so aloof about the case? Is he hiding something? Miranda is determined to find out. You'll love this intriguing mystery, because it's a book readers say they can't put down. Read it now. THE MIRANDA'S RIGHTS MYSTERY SERIES Someone Else's Daughter Delicious Torment Forever Mine Fire Dancer Thin Ice Related Authors: J.D. Robb, Sandra Brown, Harlan Coben, Stephanie Bond, Tami Hoag, Catherine Coulter, Allison Brennan, Mary Stone, Blake Pierce, A.J. Rivers, Lisa Regan, Elle Gray, D.K. Hood, Melinda Leigh, Drew Strickland, Stacy Claflin, Tony Urban, Dominika Best, Gregg Olsen, Karen McQuestion, Mary Burton, Rita Herron, Melissa F. Miller, Kendra Elliot, Carolyn Arnold Search Terms: Mystery series, thriller series, romantic suspense, romantic thriller, serial killer mystery, private investigator, duo detectives, crime fiction

The second in a series of novels by bondage connoisseur Alison Tyler features heroine Samantha progressing with her predilections and exploring the deepest recesses of her master's dungeon and her heart. The Delicious Torment is a Story of O meets 9 1/2 Weeks coming-of-age tale fueled by lust, longing, and based on the author's personal diaries. The Delicious Torment takes readers to Sunset Strip, way up in the sky in a penthouse apartment overlooking Los Angeles with a love affair ensconced in an S&M relationship filled with corsets, crops, and plenty of kink. In the introduction Tyler notes, "This is a novel with me at the center. That is, my heroine is based on me. I’ve sketched her with broad strokes, but at our core we are the same. She’s gotten herself entwined with an older man — nothing new there. But now she has to learn how to maneuver a 24/7 relationship."

A rollicking adventure-romance set against the beautiful city of San Diego, Anam Cara (which is Gaelic for "friend of the soul") tells the story of ex-patriot T.J. Jameson, who has left her revolutionary days in Ireland behind to start a new life in the states. When she runs into Camryn Wells, the cute blonde photographer turns T.J.'s world upside down. Life could be great, if only T.J. can keep her ex-husband and his drug-dealing friends out of her bar and her romance. And if only she can admit that Camryn is more than a pal, she is T.J.'s Anam Cara.

An intensely erotic, epic love story that goes into and beyond the original Greek myths - THE HUNTER OF THE DEAD ... and The Kiss of Persephone - returns to the classical tale of Hades and Persephone for a fresh look from a thoughtfully considered perspective. What begins as an act of petty malice by Zeus changes the whole world when he instigates the fateful encounter between the fearsome hunter Eros and the Lord of the Underworld Hades that leads to the abduction of Kore. Unable to change her fate, Kore becomes Persephone, Queen of the Underworld, arbitrator between the realms of the Living and the Dead, and the Consort of Hades. Their union is tested by the fateful consequences when a foul entity - UPIR LIKHYI - escapes the Underworld and becomes Vampyr, one who is determined to remain free even if it means usurping the Underworld and seizing Persephone for himself. This is a darker, companion novel to the comedy DEUS EX MACHINA: A DIVINE COMEDY. ISBN - 978-0-9789507-9-8

In 1920, an unknown journalist named Katherine Anne Porter first sojourned in Mexico. When she left her "familiar country" for the last time in 1931, she was the celebrated author of Flowering Judas and Other Stories and had accumulated a wealth of experiences and impressions that would inspire numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, as well as the opening section of her only novel, Ship of Fools. In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican experiences, Thomas Walsh traces the important connections between those events and her literary works. Separating fact from the fictions that Porter constantly created about her life, he follows the active role that she played in Mexican political and intellectual life—even to the discovery of a plot to overthrow the Mexican government, which eventually figured in Flowering Judas. Most important, Walsh discerns how the great swings between depression and elation that characterized Porter's emotional life influenced her alternating visions of Mexico. In such works as "Xochimilco," Porter saw Mexico as an earthly Eden where hopes for a better society could be realized, but in other stories, including "The Fiesta of Guadalupe," she depicts Mexico as a place of hopeless oppression for the native peoples. Mexico, Porter once said, gave her back her Texas past. Given the unhappiness of that past, her feelings toward Mexico would always be ambivalent, but her Mexican experiences influenced all her subsequent works to some degree, even those pieces not specifically Mexican in setting. Walsh's study, then, is an essential key for anyone seeking greater understanding of the life or works of Katherine Anne Porter.