When downtrodden supermarket worker Joan gets kidnapped by a man who believes she's his 'empress', she has enough low self-esteem to find pleasure in his strange devotion. So when he is caught and Joan rescued, she finds herself defending him to police and the court, to the perplexity of those around her. But then Joan rceives a piece of hate mail that makes her believe her captor has an ally who blames her for his capture and is out for revenge...

When Henry Mayall buys a forge, he also claims the right of the blacksmith to ride over Gorsedown Manor. His niece, Ann, finds sanctuary here and becomes a successful blacksmith. But a religious sect try to stop Ann riding over the park, reverting to brutal means to overturn her rights...

Gloriana Mayall was the prettiest of the two daughters. Her mother, despairing of ever making Ann in any way feminine, concentrated imparting her wide experience with men on Glory. As a child she was cossetted and spoilt, as a teenager she took her first steps towards her eventual career as a theatre designer, as an Art School student she learned how to supplement her income by dispensing perverted sex to perverted men.Somewhere along the way she revealed enough of herself to be bl...

Celia has never been the most diligent of aunts. Even when her brother died she didn't pay very much attention to her niece, Tamsin, and now it is too late. Tamsin is dead, found hanged in woodland near her home and leaving behind an enigma about her passing.Devastated by her death and ridden with guilt by her own neglect, Celia is determined to discover what would have caused her to take her own life. Then she learns that Tamsin was pregnant. Everything she is told by Tamsin's mot...

In the heart of bustling New York City lies the prestigious law firm of Moore, McKenna & Crane, where ambition knows no bounds.Legal Partners delves into the high-stakes world of legal sex play, where aspiring lawyers will stop at nothing to claim the coveted partner's corner office.Amidst the ruthless competition, the story exposes the naked truth of the legal profession, where sexual use and abuse are wielded as weapons by both males and females.A...

An American and Indian boy are pen pals and learn that their lives are not so different in this award-winning story.Elliot lives in America, and Kailash lives in India. They are pen pals. By exchanging letters and pictures, they learn that they both love to climb trees, have pets, and go to school. Their worlds might look different, but they are actually similar. Same, same. But different!

The Daily Joy devotional inspires women to engage with God's word every day, allowing the truth of the gospel to transform their lives throughout the year. Featuring content from the ESV Women's Devotional Bible, Scripture meditations and articles are written by more than 50 Christian writers and pastors including Joni Eareckson Tada, Lydia Brownback, Dane C. Ortlund, Jen Wilkin, Sam Storms, and Nancy Guthrie. Focused on biblical teaching and God's transforming grace, the...

Ann Mayall, blacksmith of Anford, and her sister Glory have survived and prospered since the evil sect which nearly cost them their lives have been removed from the adjoining land. The forge is beginning to thrive and Ann's reputation is bringing her an enjoyable diversity of orders. She has formed a deep emotional attachment with Arno and views the future with contentment. Then her lover leaves her and in rudderless despair she agrees to a passionless marriage, and a disastrous partnershi...

Lonely Planet's local travel experts reveal all you need to know to plan the trip of a lifetime in this latest edition of our guide to Algeria.Discover Algeria's most popular experiences and best kept secrets from sandboarding or quad biking in the spectacular desert oasis of Timimoun; to exploring Tlemcen, an architectural jewel of medieval mosques and palaces; and gazing in awe at the 15,000 prehistoric petroglyphs at Tassili N'Ajjer National Park.

The second novel in bestseller Maureen Lee's outstanding Liverpool sequence about family life during the Second World WarSeptember 1940 - the cruellest year of war for Britain's civilians as the Luftwaffe mercilessly blitz their cities. In Pearl Street, near Liverpool's docks, families struggle to cope the best they can.A nasty surprise for ever-cheerful dressmaker Brenda Mahon, and flighty Sean's love for little Alice, show how life goes on even when it ap...

Born on a Somerset pea-field in 1941, the second of eight children in a Romani family, Maggie Smith-Bendell has lived through the years of greatest change in the travelling community's long history. As a child, Maggie rode and slept in a horse-drawn wagon, picked hops and flowers, and sat beside her father's campfire on ancient verges, poor but free to roam. As the twentieth century progressed, common land was fenced off and the traditional ways disappeared. Eventually Maggie married a hou...

A Manchester lad's life in the early twentieth century - the slums, Smithfield market and the search for love...Billy Hopkins bases his engaging novel, Tommy's World, on the fascinating and inspiring life of his father Tommy, born in a Manchester slum in 1886. Perfect for fans of Lindsey Hutchinson and Maureen Lee.'The characters will stay with you after you've finished the book, but what you won't be left with is the sickly sweet ...