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Le destin m’en veut. Il m’a envoyé un vétérinaire humain pour rester dans le dortoir. Avec moi. Je n’ai peut-être pas l’odorat du loup, mais j’en ai l’ouïe. J’apprends qu’elle est vierge. Je lui offre deux semaines. Deux semaines où je lui montrerai un grand animal. Un auquel elle ne pourra pas résister. Ou au moins un qui ne pourra pas lui résister.

On m’appelle peut-être Sir Loin de bœuf, mais quand je vois Kaitlyn pour la première fois, plantez une fourchette dans ma peau, je suis cuit? Mais je ne la revendiquerai pas seul. Jed Cassidy et moi partageons tout et cela l’inclut. Si l’adorable petite bibliothécaire n’est pas prête à être prise par deux champions du rodéo, alors nous devrons la dompter doucement et lentement. Elle est à nous. Nous la séduirons - corps et âme - et quand cela sera fait? Eh bien, disons juste que nous la chevaucherons avec ardeur.

As an archeologist for the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Syd Walker spends her days in Rhode Island trying to protect the land's indigenous past, even as she’s escaping her own. While Syd is dedicated to her job, she’s haunted by a night of violence she barely escaped in her Oklahoma hometown 15 years ago. Though she swore she’d never go back, the past comes calling. When a skull is found near the crime scene of her youth, just as her sister, Emma Lou, vanishes, Syd knows she must return home.

The late French actress Maria Schneider is perhaps best known for playing Jeanne in the provocative film Last Tango in Paris, directed by Bernardo Bertolucci and released to international shock and acclaim in 1972. It was Maria’s first major role, alongside film legend Marlon Brando, when she was barely eighteen years old. The experience would haunt her for the rest of her life, traumatizing her and sparking a tabloid firestorm that only ceased when she began to retreat from the public eye nearly two decades later.

This new guide to plotting and planning romantic fiction demonstrates creative strategies for using your own personality and experiences to create powerful characters who evoke strong emotions in both you as the writer, and your audiences.... Whatever kind of romance you want to write, and whether romance is the primary focus of your story or a sub-plot for your mystery, science fiction, fantasy, historical or futuristic novel - the 21st century is calling on you to create a story with characters readers can believe in; characters who are emotionally and psychologically true.

Dahlia Lenox is tired of the rules and restrictions of ranch life. The poker table is her domain and the only place she yields to no one. The biggest win of her life - a prize that could free her from her small town - is calling, and she can’t wait to claim the prize. But taking the next stagecoach west means leaving the only man who ever made her ache to be his, the ever handsome Garrison Lee. Surrendering to him is not an option.

When Laurel Sinclair’s uncaring father seeks to pawn her off in marriage as part of a business deal, she seeks to avoid her fate by fleeing. But running away in a Montana blizzard proves to be a terrible mistake. When handsome ranchers Mason and Brody find the stranded redhead next to her injured horse, they take her in and immediately decide to make her theirs, convinced they can convert the beautiful stranger to an unusual arrangement of marrying them both.

Rebecca Montgomery never expected to leave London and go to the American West, but this was how her brother saves her an impending marriage of convenience. She also never expected her brother to marry her by proxy to a trusted friend before dying on the journey. She quickly discovers that the Montana territory is a far cry from England, and so are the expectations of a wife at Bridgewater Ranch, for she’s married not just to Dashiell, but also to his friend and fellow Scot Connor MacDonald.

Are you so busy fulfilling everyone else's expectations that you've lost touch with yourself? Do you find yourself filling up your "free" hours with mundane tasks and rushing around, never getting it all done? For many women, it's the same kind of story-we hustle to overachieve at work and at home, all in the hopes that we can "crush it" until we finally feel fulfilled. Vanessa Loder invites you to consider this question: "What if the point isn't to crush it in life, but to savor it?"

When Abigail Carr returns to Bridgewater after long years away at Finishing School, Gabe and Tucker Landry will not be dissuaded from the only woman who’s held their attentions - and affections - for years. They’re done waiting. When Abigail claims she must return to Butte, and to her fiancé, Gabe and Tucker refuse to give up so easily. Since she doesn’t have a wedding band on her finger, nor love in her heart, they consider Abigail free for the taking. And seduce her they do....

Julia Duke is hungry for some Grade-A Beefcake. And she's going to get it. A combo meal with double the meat. Remember: With a Vanessa Vale book, one cowboy is never enough. In this smokin' hot series, each heroine gets an extra helping (or two) of Grade-A Beefcake.

It's been 10 years since Parker Drew and Gus Duke have seen each other, but it's like no time has passed. They were hot and heavy back then, and the spark's still there now. But they're no longer fumbling kids, and they know what they want, what they need. For Parker, that's giving up control to more than one guy. Gus is more than willing to deliver, because he wants to share a woman with Kemp and Poe. One look, and he knows that's Parker. All three big cowboys are going to give her everything she ever imagined - times three.

Emily Woodhouse is a penniless, homeless widow thanks to her recently deceased husband. His gambling ways have placed her in a desperate situation. Faced with working off his debt in the basest of ways, she chooses instead to accept Tyler and Xander’s unconventional marriage proposal. She won’t be marrying one man, but two.

Lady Sabrina Bell has never been so embarrassed in her life. Not only did her new suitor fail to appear for their morning rendezvous in Hyde Park, but a thief pushed her into the Serpentine. Being rescued by a burly Highlander just adds to her humiliation. Nor is he content with rescuing her just once. Even when Sabrina travels to Edinburgh as part of King George's entourage, Graeme Kendrick is there, interfering, exasperating, and so very tempting....

Charlotte "Charlie" Stewart would rather don a kilt and ride her horse than simper in a ballroom. But with her younger sister about to be wed, she can't escape the pressure to be next. A husband has been chosen, and Charlie's fate seems set. Until an afternoon gallop sends her horse colliding with Kade Kendrick, the broad-shouldered Highlander who was once her childhood pal . . .

Meet - or should I say meat - Porter Duke. He serves up a large portion of big beef all alone, but he doesn't want to claim Jillian Murphy by himself. Liam Hogan has what it takes to satisfy the hungriest appetite - and their woman is insatiable. When Jill's life is in danger, should she go to the DA and new sheriff who have stolen her heart? Or should she protect her men from the one thing that could destroy them - herself? Remember: With a Vanessa Vale book, one cowboy is never enough. In this smokin' hot series, each heroine gets an extra helping (or two) of Grade-A Beefcake.

J’ai cherché aux quatre coins du continent, me suis rendu à des jeux d’accouplement, mais je n’ai toujours pas trouvé la louve qui m’est destinée. Je suis déjà devenu trop sauvage au lit. Je ne suis pas inoffensif - pas pour les femmes normales. Et encore moins pour celle qui vient d’emménager dans le ranch voisin. Elle est beaucoup trop tentante. Et je suis beaucoup trop dangereux. Il faut que je garde mes distances. Je n’ose pas l’approcher.

The Bridgewater way of two men marrying one woman is uncommon in the Montana territory. But three men marrying one woman? That is unheard of, especially for beautiful Olivia Weston. Her fate, it seems, will have her married to one man - a man she doesn’t love. But when her betrothed treats her in a cruel manner, she rejects him and not long afterward catches the eye of three handsome and virile ranchers. Cross, Rhys, and Simon are as different as three men can be. But they have one thing in common; they are determined to offer Olivia the protection of marriage....

Welcome to the Ovarian Cancer Education Podcast, a podcast centered around a cancer diagnosis and what that means, a podcast created to help physicians and patients learn from each other, connect, and share stories and knowledge. Each episode will be centered around a topic connected to ovarian cancer. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An heir on the run. In one month, Aoife Cascade will turn 20 and take her seat on the Council of Cregah, an honor she's been preparing for her whole life. But when she lets a secret slip to her mother with devastating consequences, all her plans for the future crumble. Believing her people to be better off without her, she flees Cregah, stowing away aboard a pirate ship bound for dangerous waters. Captain Declan McCallagh is young compared to the pirate lords, but after 12 years on the grueling sea, he has earned a well-respected ship and the attention of the lords.