She definitely wasn’t in the mood to deal with a man! Jade DeSantis could ignore the intense attraction for the handsome Detective Simon Kershaw! Yes, she could do it. She’d moved to Wyoming to start a new life! Unfortunately, the guy kept coming around. Granted, he had a mystery to solve, but…with each visit from the overly muscular, shockingly attractive detective, he was shattering those newly minted vows? Detective Simon Kershaw thought that the gorgeous woman shooting a BB gun at a spider was…fascinating. Crazy, but entrancing! The attraction was obviously there and very much mutual. So what was stopping the beautiful woman from enjoying the sparks that flew around them like fireworks every time they looked at each other? Was there some way to convince Jade to take a chance? Or had someone hurt her so deeply that she was a lost cause?

Just how far is the lady willing to go… Lady Triana Abernathy knew she was destined to be a spinster ever since the scandal surrounding her father the night of her debut ball. It’s only through her brother’s good connections that their family is even accepted in polite society. While Triana cares nothing for the ton, the arrival of the Duke of Chiltern changes everything. He is everything she might have ever dreamed of in a husband, but she knows that something isn’t quite right about his sudden resurgence in London. Thankfully, she’s willing to do her part in uncovering his secrets. To learn what the gentleman is hiding? Gabriel Wilde, the Duke of Chiltern, is on an undercover mission to find out who is behind the illegal smuggling in the city. Upon his father’s death, he returns to society under the perfect guise of assuming the title, believing the culprit to be within the ton. With the help of a trusted colleague, Gabriel believes that when he’s done, he can move on with his life – away from England and the unpleasant memories that go along with it. But when he meets Triana, he finds he’s not quite as eager to leave as he once was. Unfortunately, the only problem is trying to keep her out of trouble. So he does the only thing he can think of to keep her occupied – seduction.

Take your shoes off and have a seat next to me. Let the cool morning breeze tell a story to your skin and promise you a lifetime of love. Come closer; listen to the birds singing to the sun, making love to her vivid tiers.Let us took beyond the stars and find the things we cannot see; Let us enrapture the night's beauty with the palm of our hands and suppress the fears within. And as the days ahead subside, come along with me, to a trip, a walk, a stroll down memory lane. Let me cascade you with the pages of Scarlet.The night is settling in. The songs are beginning to dim, the voices are starting to fade, the crimson waves are greeted by an enchanting sunset, let the pages of this red silhouette encircle you while you lose yourself....This is an Anthology of Poetry, 200 pages of Bliss for the world to indulge. Scarlet is Maria Abdool's 5th book of Poetry that she is sharing with the world. Become one with the enchanted experiences and swim between the pages of this book!

PASSION... In a tale as timely as Scruples, as compelling as Dazzle, as intriguing as Mistral's Daughter, Judith Krantz launches three innocent beauties on the city of fashion and love.... SCANDAL... It's the hottest thing that's ever happened to Loring Model Management. Three of its unknown models have been chosen to star in the debut spring collection of bad-boy designer Marco Lombardi--and one of them will win an exclusive, multimillion-dollar contract. But the agency's owner, Justine Loring, is furious. Only she knows that Lombardi's billionaire backer, Jacques Necker, has set her up, hoping to manipulate her into chaperoning her models to Paris, and meeting him face-to-face. GLAMOUR... But Justine isn't about to play his game. She dispatches these three sensational girls--the classic Minnesota blond, the African-American goddess, and the moody Tennessee redhead--in care of her second-in-command, fiery, droll Francesca Severino. Little does Justine know how their two weeks of discovery and love affairs will be matched by an explosive encounter in Manhattan that will change her own life. SOME THINGS ARE ALWAYS IN STYLE.

In the near future, the debt-laden U.S. owns a technology that renders it "the world's best-defended Third World country." The only real outer-space planning is in Common Europe, so young American "space cadet" Jerry Reed goes to work in Paris. He falls in love with and marries Soviet career bureaucrat Sonya Gagarin and the story jumps ahead 20 years, blending world events with a focus on their family. Sonya's star has risen with the Euro-Russians' while Jerry has been stymied by pervasive anti-Americanism. Daughter Franja has her father's space fever and enrolls in a Russian space school; son Bob, fiercely curious about an earlier, admired America before it was run by xenophobic "Gringos," enters Berkeley. Ten years later the U.S. is a pariah, Euro-Russia the pet of the civilized world and the Reeds scattered - politics forced Jerry and Sonya's divorce, Franja speaks only to her mother and Bob is trapped in "Festung Amerika." A series of odd, occasionally tragic events brings the family (and the world) together. Despite some tech-talk this is not science fiction: the first two-thirds of this hefty book is chillingly logical, if sometimes very funny, and while the "happy" ending may seem forced, Spinrad ( Bug Jack Barron ) gives us a wild, exhilarating ride into the next century.

He loves me not. He loves me? Lady Arietta Greenville has long been infatuated with Griffin Barlowe, the Earl of Uxbridge. He is frequent visitor, and particular friends with her father, the Marquess of Hillhouse. The problem is that he doesn’t appear to know that she even exists, although he is perfectly polite whenever he’s in her presence. It isn’t until she visits a new seamstress and starts to wear bolder gowns, that the earl starts to give her more notice, but not in the way she might hope. Griffin has always felt uneasy in Lady Arietta’s presence, but he never really knew why. To combat his unease, he takes it upon himself to find her a husband, not knowing that beneath her shell beats the heart of a confident woman. When Arietta seduces him one fateful night, he realizes what he has been missing, but it’s too late. However, if there is one thing Griffin was never good at, it was giving up, and this is one lady he’s got his sights set on.

Reveals the effects of the cultural unconscious or "world soul" in human experience.

Lady Genevieve St. Giles yearns for adventure, something more exciting than her staid, proper life. When she reads about an illicit house party hosted by the Duke of Argyle, she finds the solution to two of her problems—boredom and being consistently overlooked by the duke. Hopefully, with her attendance at this house party, she will finally gain his notice. When she succeeds, it doesn’t go quite as she’d hoped. But determination runs strong in her family, and she will stop at nothing to gain his loyalty—and his love. Cortland Beaumont, the Duke of Argyle, is a loyal member of the Wayward Duke’s Alliance. When Lady Genevieve stumbles into Cortland’s manor after stealing her grandfather’s invitation, coincidentally, the founder of the alliance, Cortland fears that his membership will be revoked if her reputation is ruined. Thus, he approaches the lady with a proposal, which she firmly rejects. A game of cat and mouse ensues, and although Cortland tells himself he’s not chasing after Lady Genevieve because he’s infatuated with her, his heart soon convinces him otherwise.

Lady Olivia Bevelstroke, the youngest of her half-sisters, has never cared much for the glittering social whirl of London. When her siblings decide to embark on a plan for independence without the strictures of marriage, they assumed she was just as excited about the prospect as they were—only she wasn’t. Olivia prefers the quiet solitude of her books, rather than the company of others, but she misses her father’s estate, Marlington Hall, most of all. There, she felt safe and loved and she is determined to return, whether it’s in the midst of a snowstorm, or if the new heir wants her there or not. Miles Stone, the Duke of Gravesend, is a scarred recluse who wants nothing more than to leave his former life behind, as well as all the unpleasant memories that go along with it. The problem is the lady who has been on his mind ever since he pulled her from the freezing waters of the Thames and saved her life. When fate thrusts him into her path one winter’s night, he is determined to ignore the stirrings of desire within him—until he realizes she has no idea who he is. Not only is it a blow to his pride, but he finds himself reluctant to tell her the truth. When he introduces himself as the new estate manager to the new Duke of Marlington, they embark on an unlikely friendship. But will the lies that separate them destroy it all?