Her life runs on precision. His world thrives on improvisation. But when a school project forces them together, they'll learn that the perfect formula for love... might be a little offbeat.Allison Hale lives by the numbers—or the notes—and likes it that way. Routine. Control. No surprises. So when she has the opportunity to leave her very sheltered life in Denver to teach middle school math in rural Leadville, she's both excited and terrified.Enter Julian K...

Have you ever wondered who makes sure fairytales end happily ever after?That's Lyric Reed's brand-new job.Her first assignment: a candy-covered cottage and beigely brought-up children with a baffling aversion to sugar.Her second: a kitchen catastrophe that sparks a scandal so wild it becomes known forever as The Spaghetti Incident.Armed with questionable instincts, a rapidly crumbling rulebook, and a talking snake with far too many opinions,...

In this sweeping and beautiful biography of a city, Artemis Cooper tell the story of the cultural life of Paris.A View of Paris is a story which covers the great sprawling novels of Balzac and Hugo to those of Gide and Camus; painting from the revolutionary but strictly neo-classical David, through the new ways of seeing developed by the Impressionists and the Surrealists to the wild exuberance of Picasso; fashion from Worth to Channel; architecture from Haussmann to the Ei...

Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923-2014) wrote brilliant novels about what love can do to people, but in her own life the lasting relationship she sought so ardently always eluded her. She grew up yearning to be an actress; but when that ambition was thwarted by marriage and the war, she turned to fiction. Her first novel, The Beautiful Visit, won the John Llewellyn Rhys prize - she went on to write fourteen more, of which the best-loved were the five volumes of The Cazalet ...

Elizabeth David was born into a upper-class family and pursued a rebellious and bohemian life as a student of art and then an actress in Paris, before running off with a married man to Greece and then settling in Cairo, where she worked for the British government. After the Second World War, she returned to England, where she was shocked by poor food into writing first articles, then books on Meditteranean cooking. A Book of Mediterranean Food was published in 1950, inspiring a co...

Patrick Leigh Fermor (1915-2011) was a war hero whose exploits in Crete are legendary, and above all he is widely acclaimed as the greatest travel writer of our times, notably for his books about his walk across pre-war Europe, A Time of Gifts and Between the Woods and the Water; he was a self-educated polymath, a lover of Greece and the best company in the world.Artemis Cooper has drawn on years of interviews and conversations with Paddy and his cloest friends as...

Post liberation Paris – an epoch charged with political and conflicting emotions. Liberation was greeted with joy but marked by recriminations and the trauma of purges. The feverish intellectual arguments of the young took place amidst the mundane reality of hunger and fuel shortages. This is a stunning historical account of one of the most stimulating periods in twentieth century French history.

AN AMAZON EROTICA TOP 70 BESTSELLER! Small town girl Beth Tyrell has always planned on losing her virginity on her marriage bed to a man who would love and cherish her forever. But when she meets her new boss, the stunningly handsome and mercurial CEO, Chris Morton, she experiences an all-encompassing, gut-wrenching libidinous 'I want to be taken right here on your desk' desire that she has never known. What's happening to her? Especially since Chris is a damaged entity who...

400 years from now, Kendra is a ranger at the inter-planetary park on Io, where it is her job to make sure that no foreign creatures penetrate her territory. She gets a shock, however, when she discovers that one particular interloper has already set up home in her reserve. Now he wants to set up home inside her...This erotic short story of 5,000 words contains adult themes, impregnation, slippery tentacles and birth, and is intended for readers over 18 years of age. Scenes are exp...

For troops in the desert, Cairo meant fleshpots or brass hats. For well-connected officers, it meant polo at the Gezira Club and drinks at Shepheard's. For the irregular warriors, Cairo was a city to throw legendary parties before the next mission behind enemy lines. For countless refugees, it was a stopping place in the long struggle home.The political scene was dominated by the British Ambassador Sir Miles Lampson. In February 1942 he surrounded the Abdin Palace with tanks and at...

What Would You Sacrifice To Make Fate Your Bitch?The InBetween, a subterranean haven created by the goddess Hecate for persecuted paranormals and ruled by twelve formerly-human princes, has been hidden for centuries, their numbers growing, and their hatred for humans festering. So when the paranormal children are stolen, and the evidence implicates humans, the paranormals are called to rise out of the darkness and into the light to get retribution.Imprisone...

Tamsin is an archaeologist who has been left to excavate alone in a cave system - a cave system inhabited by an ancient creature. When a handsome, feathered dinosaur decides to mate with her, she cannot resist, but the results are odd in the eggstreme.This erotic short story of 4,000+ words contains adult themes, impregnation, egg-laying and dino sex, and is intended for readers over 18 years of age. Scenes are explicit and graphic.