Izzy’s pregnant, and Sam is desperate to keep it a secret from everyone until the paternity of the baby is determined. With King out of town and Cash sniffing around Izzy like a dog in heat, there’s no way he can hide Izzy’s pregnancy for long, but Izzy doesn’t feel the same way about the situation as Pops, and she won’t be able to hide things from King for long, especially when she goes to visit him in New York. King is determined to find a way to break free from his family. He is in love with Izzy, and the added pressure he’s feeling from his mother is causing a deeper wedge between them. His heart belongs to Izzy, and he intends on asking her to be his wife when the six months is over for his internship. There are so many lies, secrets, and scandals that plague the McDaniels family. Will they be able to sustain their dynasty, or will one woman be the cause of all of it crashing down?

Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including "The Canterville Ghost," "The Fisherman and his Soul," and "The Remarkable Rocket." Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Stephen Crane to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the "Summer of the Short Story." A story from Simon Van Booy's forthcoming collection, LOVE BEGINS IN WINTER, will be printed at the back of this volume.

An extensive history of the Roman Empire, from the third to the fifteenth century, delineating the personalities and events that determined Rome's eras of splendor and degradation.