Do You LOVE HOT STEAMY Romance? ''Sweet Desire'' Will Awaken Your Senses and Satisfy Your Every Fantasy This Deeply Moving Erotic tale Will make You Laugh and Cry and Hope for More 'til the last page. FORBIDDEN. DENIED. UNREQUITED. Noah was everything she ever wanted, everything she ever dreamed about, and yet he was the one she could never allow herself to have. Her best friend's brother. DESIRED. CHOSEN. CONTROLLED. She was too sweet, too innocent, too fragile for someone like him. Someone whose tastes ran on the darker side. Someone broken and cynical, steeped in shadows of his past. Someone who exuded control in every aspect of his life, craved and needed it more than he needed to breathe. She could never handle all he would demand of her. Or so he thought. FOR HIM SHE WOULD SURRENDER. Sophie fought so hard to establish control over her life, to diminish the damage her messed-up childhood left behind. The scars that no one could see, and yet they held so much power, contained so much pain. She struggled for years to defeat the shadows choking her from the inside out. To distance herself from the dysfunctional life she was forced to live. And she promised herself she would never give anyone else control over her life. She would never allow anyone else the chance to break her. And then he came back into her life. Will these two broken hearts find a path to happiness or will dark secrets of the past tear them apart forever? Will the shadows surrounding them be too much for them to overcome? Will those who wish them torn apart succeed? Or will they find a way to be together after all? This HOT & STEAMY Erotic tale will Move You, Amuse You and Capture Your Attention 'til the very end. Sweet Desire will stay With You long after the last page is read.

To save her family, lovely Katherine Overton agrees to marry Richard Warwick, the mysterious and powerful Earl of Devonshire. Richard awakens Kate to passion, making her yearn for a different kind of life than the one she's always known. Unfortunately, Richard abandons Kate shortly after their wedding, leaving her alone in his impressive manor house. Kate cannot help feeling that she must be destined for more. Furious with Richard's betrayal, Kate journeys to London, never suspecting that an unknown adversary has another agenda in mind. As danger draws ever closer, Kate pursues the truth about her birth and a love more rare than the finest jewels. Come and be swept away in this tale of love and desire, danger and intrigue.

Written texts of the Iliad and the Odyssey achieved an unprecedented degree of standardization after 150 BCE, but what of the earlier history of Homeric texts? This volume draws on scholarship from outside the discipline of classical studies to offer a comprehensive study of Homeric texts from the Archaic to the Hellenistic period.

Single mother and successful songwriter Regina Lovejoy finds her thoughts occupied by her sexy new neighbor, widower Thomas Simmons, and as they grow closer together, passion rages between them, but the past threatens to tear them apart. Original.

Before they were written down, the poems attributed to Homer were performed orally, usually by rhapsodes (singers/reciters) who might have traveled from city to city or enjoyed a position in a wealthy household. Even after the Iliad and the Odyssey were committed to writing, rhapsodes performed the poems at festivals, often competing against each other. As they recited the epics, the rhapsodes spoke as both the narrator and the characters. These different acts—performing the poem and narrating and speaking in character within it—are seldom studied in tandem. Homer in Performance breaks new ground by bringing together all of the speakers involved in the performance of Homeric poetry: rhapsodes, narrators, and characters. The first part of the book presents a detailed history of the rhapsodic performance of Homeric epic from the Archaic to the Roman Imperial periods and explores how performers might have shaped the poems. The second part investigates the Homeric narrators and characters as speakers and illuminates their interactions. The contributors include scholars versed in epigraphy, the history of art, linguistics, and performance studies, as well as those capable of working with sources from the ancient Near East and from modern Russia. This interdisciplinary approach makes the volume useful to a spectrum of readers, from undergraduates to veteran professors, in disciplines ranging from classical studies to folklore.