"You aren't playing fair," I said, and my breathing hitched. I wanted to stop him but his long, tempting fingers danced erotically over my skin."I play to win baby."She was fire, he was ice. She burns him with her gaze. He makes her shudder with his mere touch. She was a sweet spasm. He was a cruising pain. He was all about Wrath and Money. She was all about Passion and Love. When fire and ice meet, will they smother, or ignite into a blazing fire? Arjun, the CEO of India's largest textile group, the most powerful man in town, held all of it. Fame, money, and models who boundlessly bestowed themselves, were something he had in copious amounts but never got bored of. All of it multiplied especially when the news of his divorce broke. He was arrogant but captivatingly handsome. All he cared about was himself and a satisfying fuck for his nights. Maya was delicate, young and intelligent. She was endowed with beauty. Following the footsteps of her adopted parents, she turned out to be a successful Chartered Accountant. She was that happy bride in her marriage but not for long. It all just mounted up when her husband, whom she loved the most, demanded a divorce. But, she redeemed herself. She was not going to let her heart flicker for she lost all the trust she had on love. She transformed into a tough and a feisty woman. But most importantly, she was now the ex-wife of Arjun as well. But, why did they get divorced? Was there something that was still stored away that blew their marriage out? What will happen when Arjun is pushed into Maya's life all over again? Will the history repeat itself, will Arjun break Maya forever?This is a sequel to my first book I'm All Yours, but it can also be read as a stand alone.

Mehr Dubey expected nothing but betrayal, deception and disloyalty from men. Sold into prostitution as a child by her stepfather, she breathed keeping the hatred alive in her. She was raped, assaulted, and treated as a commodity by hundreds of men, but what was she to expect in return? Money, just money . Every time she was fucked, she lost a part of herself to those men who used her mercilessly. She was soulless. She didn't know how to care or how to love. She was only trained to sleep with those men who came to her for the night.She was going to fuck a countless number of clients until she repaid her stepfather's debts. Then she would flee from the brothel where she was held captive for years. She had her life all mapped out until she was booked for the night by 'The Client'- Abhimanyu Raghavan, the Vice-captain of the Indian Cricket Team. He was filthy rich with impeccable taste in women. He lived life on the edge- fast, hard, and without protection. He was calculative, incapable of remorse. He demanded her soul, her body.He was thawing her frozen heart, her resistance was crumbling down. Was Mehr playing with fire while she was warming his bed night after night? Was he going to stab her in the heart like every other man in her life? After all, the Vice-captain of the Indian Cricket Team would want nothing to do with a prostitute, or would he?

“Amidst a thousand tirades against the excesses and waste of consumer society, What’s Mine Is Yours offers us something genuinely new and invigorating: a way out.” —Steven Johnson, author of The Invention of Air and The Ghost Map A groundbreaking and original book, What’s Mine is Yours articulates for the first time the roots of "collaborative consumption," Rachel Botsman and Roo Roger's timely new coinage for the technology-based peer communities that are transforming the traditional landscape of business, consumerism, and the way we live. Readers captivated by Chris Anderson’s The Long Tail, Van Jones’ The Green Collar Economy or Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point will be wowed by this landmark contribution to the evolving ecology of commerce and sustainability.

The #1 New York Times bestselling (mostly true) memoir from the hilarious author of Furiously Happy. “Gaspingly funny and wonderfully inappropriate.”—O, The Oprah Magazine When Jenny Lawson was little, all she ever wanted was to fit in. That dream was cut short by her fantastically unbalanced father and a morbidly eccentric childhood. It did, however, open up an opportunity for Lawson to find the humor in the strange shame-spiral that is her life, and we are all the better for it. In the irreverent Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, Lawson’s long-suffering husband and sweet daughter help her uncover the surprising discovery that the most terribly human moments—the ones we want to pretend never happened—are the very same moments that make us the people we are today. For every intellectual misfit who thought they were the only ones to think the things that Lawson dares to say out loud, this is a poignant and hysterical look at the dark, disturbing, yet wonderful moments of our lives. Readers Guide Inside

In an unorthodox approach, Georgetown University professor Cal Newport debunks the long-held belief that "follow your passion" is good advice, and sets out on a quest to discover the reality of how people end up loving their careers. Not only are pre-existing passions rare and have little to do with how most people end up loving their work, but a focus on passion over skill can be dangerous, leading to anxiety and chronic job hopping. Spending time with organic farmers, venture capitalists, screenwriters, freelance computer programmers, and others who admitted to deriving great satisfaction from their work, Newport uncovers the strategies they used and the pitfalls they avoided in developing their compelling careers. Cal reveals that matching your job to a pre-existing passion does not matter. Passion comes after you put in the hard work to become excellent at something valuable, not before. In other words, what you do for a living is much less important than how you do it. With a title taken from the comedian Steve Martin, who once said his advice for aspiring entertainers was to "be so good they can't ignore you," Cal Newport's clearly written manifesto is mandatory reading for anyone fretting about what to do with their life, or frustrated by their current job situation and eager to find a fresh new way to take control of their livelihood. He provides an evidence-based blueprint for creating work you love, and will change the way you think about careers, happiness, and the crafting of a remarkable life.

From Sunday Times and #1 New York Times bestselling author of Things We Never Got Over Dominic: I got her fired. Okay, so I'd had a bad day, but there's nothing innocent about Ally Morales. Maybe her colourful, annoying, inexplicably alluring personality brightens up the magazine's offices that have felt like a prison for the past year. Maybe I like that she argues with me in front of the editorial staff. And maybe my after-hours fantasies are haunted by her brown eyes and sharp tongue. She's working herself to death at half a dozen dead-end jobs for some secret reason. And I'm going to fix it all. Don't accuse me of caring. She's nothing more than a puzzle to be solved. If I can get her to quit, I can finally peel away all those layers. Then I can go back to salvaging the family name and forget all about the dancing, beer-slinging brunette. Ally: Ha. Hold my beer, Grumpy Grump Face.

Denmark, Tennessee, stinks. The smell hits Horatio Wilkes the moment he pulls into town to visit his best friend, Hamilton Prince. And it's not just the paper plant and the polluted river that's stinking up Denmark: Hamilton's father has been poisoned and the killer is still at large. Why? Because nobody believes that Rex Prince was murdered. Nobody except Horatio and Hamilton. Now they need to find the killer, but it won't be easy. It seems like everyone in Denmark is a suspect. Motive, means, opportunity--they all have them. But who among them has committed murder most foul?

In his trademark straight-talking style, legendary auto executive Lee Iacocca speaks his mind on the most pressing issues facing America today: the shortage of responsible leaders in the business world and in government; the nation's damaged relations with its longtime allies; the challenges presented by the emergence of China and India on the world's economic stage; the decline of the American car business; and the state of the American family. Iacocca shares the lessons he's learned from a lifetime of hard work and adventure, of spectacular successes and stunning defeats, of integrity and grace and good old-fashioned American optimism.

FROM THE WINNER OF THE SOMERSET MAUGHAM AWARD & GRANTA BEST YOUNG BRITISH NOVELIST "What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours . . . boasts ambitious stories written masterfully by an adventurous author." New York Times The stories collected in What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours are linked by more than the exquisitely winding prose of their creator: Helen Oyeyemi's ensemble cast of characters slip from the pages of their own stories only to surface in another. The reader is invited into a world of lost libraries and locked gardens, of marshlands where the drowned dead live and a city where all the clocks have stopped; students hone their skills at puppet school, the Homely Wench Society commits a guerrilla book-swap, and lovers exchange books and roses on St Jordi's Day. It is a collection of towering imagination, marked by baroque beauty and a deep sensuousness. PRAISE FOR WHAT IS YOURS IS NOT YOURS "Oyeyemi's imagination is impressive and vast . . . Her ability to conceive her stories on such a grand scale is what makes her work so magnetic, sucking the reader into any number of netherworlds." Guardian "Alluring . . . the style and peculiar authority of this exceptional young writer will carry you carefully through the labyrinth and into a new and exciting literary landscape." Daily Mail "Ethereal beauty and unexpected humour" Independent on Sunday

Olivia Bailey was happily working as the personal assistant of Wilson Alexander, the owner and CEO of Alexander Corporation, when he suddenly died of heart failure. Grief-stricken over the loss of her boss, who was like a father to her, Olivia was left to deal with Wilson's dashing estranged son, Pierce. She can't stand Pierce, and he doesn't seem to trust her. But they eventually develop a mutual respect that turns into an intense attraction to each other. Is a long-term romance possible? Or, is it too much for them to handle on top of the pressure from work and their personal lives?