New vampires and life mates Wilma and Gus have had so much to learn that they haven't had any alone time to strengthen their mating bond. There have been countless interruptions and obstacles, including Wilma's foray into witchy MMA, so when warlock Roy Bermangoggleshitz shows up requesting help from Wilma to locate his missing children in Louisiana in the midst of a storm, she's determined to use her newly freed magic for good. However, this presents yet another challenge to her relationship with Gus, who's worried about whether or not he has what it takes to be her mate. A road trip, a weather emergency, and a supernatural showdown will either bring them closer than ever, or could bring about a premature end to their forever.

Everything's Better With You is a TED LASSO-inspired sports-themed funny romance featuring two guys who've pined for each other for 15 years while their careers soared and their bodies fell apart. Retired quarterback and "nicest guy in the NFL" Leslie Payton met former college cheerleader-turned-reality-show darling Joe Judd fifteen years ago. They spent one magical night...talking. They've been pining for each other via text and phone calls ever since while their careers kept them geographically apart. When their alma mater recruits them to reinvigorate a flagging athletic program, Leslie is thrilled to finally have Joe close enough to see if their "what if" can become a reality. And the sooner the better before Leslie's history of Traumatic Brain Injury catches up to him and he's unable to be a true partner. Joe has spent their years apart dancing on reality TV, Broadway, and concert tours, knowing full well the clock is ticking on his body's...

2 best friends. 1 perfect match. Could you solve the equation for love if you've never had it yourself? Twenty-six-year-old Penny Webber has never had a boyfriend, but she's about to launch a new dating app with her best friend, Rory, designed to make dating less shallow. What could possibly go wrong? As soon as LEVEL launches, it's an immediate hit. Challenged by her team, but discouraged by Rory, she hits download on her very own app to prove a point. Alongside dating, she juggles her brother's wedding plans, mediating between divorced parents and supporting her flatmate through heartbreak. All while navigating her increasingly complicated partnership with Rory... As LEVEL sends her further down a rocky path of failed dates, Penny's faith in her ability to help others find love falters. But what if Penny is wrong about her ability to crack the equation for love? What if, all this time, it's been where she least expected it?

Life is good for metalcore guitarist Silas and his band, Hush. If only he could meet the anonymous blogger he feels so connected to. Krish has been blogging about the metal scene for years, and now he has an internship and a chance to meet his crush, Silas. Can their romance survive Krish's secret identity?

From the critically acclaimed author of Oliver Loving and The Story of Forgetting is a short story about friendship, loss and growing up.______________________Life lesson: the most soothing salve available to the man who has recently torched his own face is a regular application of wickedness with a pretty girl.The choices we make can follow us, and when half of your face is torched you can't escape the past. As a freshman in college he meets friends and attends parties, red cup in tow. His face is a Rorschach test to his friends, though he'll never tell them what really happened.In his group of friends there is Ava- sardonic, infatuating and alarmingly beautiful Ava. But he's too burnt up to be considered as anything more than a 'bestie' to a girl like her...

For precocious, self-reliant, ten-year-old Harriet Blimm, life is complicated. An absent father and a negligent mother have placed Harriet in an untenable situation. She never planned to murder anyone, but things change one ugly afternoon when Harriet kills to protect herself.Excelling in school helps Harriet thrive until she finds herself frightened and living alone in the family home at age eleven. As the situation deteriorates, she befriends two crows who become her companions.Fear causes Harriet to kill again—this time, in anger. Now with no family and only the friendship of the crows, Nevermore and Morrigan, it appears that Harriet is bound for the foster care system.The plot twists and turns as rescue appears, disappears, and appears again. Harriet struggles to understand her own emotions and those of the people around her. However, for Harriet, killing to solve a problem seems like a logical solution.As Harriet matures, she is soon caught in...

Jessie Stern's life has taken a turn to the weird. It started out great. On her 13th birthday she discovered she was going on a space bound scientific expedition with her dad. But before they even leave Earth she is chased by beings she never thought existed–the Time Shifters-a race that can control time. Along with her cousin Daniel, Jessie tries to stop the Time Shifters before they stop her.Jessie Stern's life has taken a turn to the weird. It started out great. On her 13th birthday she discovered she was going on a scientific expedition with her dad to document the death of a star and rescue the priestess that waits for them on the planet Shilona. But before they even leave Earth Jessie is chased by beings she never thought existed – the Time Shifters – a race that can control time. She learns she has a mission to stop the Time Shifters from killing the priestess. She also learns that the Time Shifters will kill anyone who gets in their way. In the mists of the danger that surrounds her Jessie learns the power of knowledge and the importance of family. Along with her cousin Daniel, Jessie tries to stop the Time Shifters before they stop her. Jessie Sterns and the Time Shifters is an action packed mix of science fiction and science fact. The reader even has a chance to "learn more about" the science facts with a glossary and hyperlinks to other sites. This is a great book for science fiction fans and science lovers alike. It is an entertaining way for children, youths, and even adults to learn science facts in the classroom, in the home school, or just for fun.

Fifty years ago, during the Vietnam War, Lee Elbridge fell in love with an Army cook nicknamed Yuletide Karol, but they haven’t seen each other since. Now, led by a clue in an old cookbook, Lee sets off on a road trip to find his lost love. He arrives on Karol’s upstate New York farm to find preparations for a handfasting in full swing, and is mistaken for the wedding planner’s assistant. As Lee is roped into folding hemp napkin goats and mashing fresh sweet potatoes, he is welcomed by Karol’s large, eccentric family of witches and pagans. When Lee and Karol finally get a moment alone, Lee tells him the truth, but it will take more than a little Yuletide magick to bring them together again after almost a lifetime.

A collection of contemporary poetry with black & white illustrations.A collection of contemporary poetry with black & white illustrations. Subjects range from agoraphobia to out of body experiences, from love to hate, from losing a pet to cloning cows, from eco-warriors to criminals, from ignoring war to suffering reprisals for taking part, from birth to death.

"What do I want? Satisfaction. Reparation. Revenge..." Though Gerald Wiscombe left for war a naive boy, he returns a man determined to claim what's rightfully his! But when Gerry suspects that his wife has been less than faithful in his absence, he intends to seek the truth. Lillian has endured all she can to protect her beloved son, until the arrival of her war-hero husband. Now, not only is Lily faced with revealing terrible secrets she has hidden for years, but also an attraction that bewitches her beyond her senses...

Rival artisans Dover and Landry sell their wares at neighboring booths at the Dickens Victorian Christmas Fair—and are secretly attracted to each other. A drunken kiss opens the door to flirtation. Could a custom-made peace offering lead to more?

Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there . . . . In the afterglow, the grid vanished, and Ryan’s breath caught in her throat when she saw what remained. There was Jean, walking through her living room just as she had imagined her. Except, this woman was outlined in a halo of blue light—a hologram with every living detail that had been Jean—when she was alive. When gifted homicide detective Ryan Mills is recruited to a top-secret FBI division known as S.P.E.C.T.E.R., the world of the supernatural becomes more real than she could have ever imagined. She is introduced to an incredible device known as LAZARUS, which can replay the events of a crime with the smallest pieces of available evidence. With the help of her new partner, Special Agent Sam Masters, and Dr. Matthew Holbrook, the research scientist who created Lazarus, Ryan is plunged into the paranormal exploration of unsolved murders. But Ryan holds a secret, one she can’t share with her partner or Holbrook. That secret comes back to haunt her when a homicide crime scene holds clues to someone from her past and has torn at the edges of an eighteen-year old cold case: the disappearance and possible murder of her own sister. The killer has scrawled a message meant only for Special Agent Ryan Mills: "Yesterday, upon the stair, I met a man who wasn’t there . . ." He's back. The only person who knows what happened to her sister. And he knows something about Ryan too . . . something even she doesn’t know—yet.

Gertrude is back! After being thrown in the clink for private investigating without a license, she's fled the state to go where her talents will be more appreciated: South Dakota. She has big plans to set up shop, but an injury halts her journey shortly after crossing The Sunshine State's state line. She and Calvin are forced to hole up in a struggling campground, and when Gertrude finds the body of the campground owner, she is certain the man has been murdered. She is the only one who is certain of this. Can she convince the sheriff that there's been a crime? Can she convince the good people of South Dakota that she is a talented investigator they should want to keep around?

His ring will rescue herAnd she'll save him from his solitudeIt's best if Sir Robert Gascoyne remains alone. That way he protects others from the curse that has plagued his family for generations. But when an injury results in Emma Harris spending a scandalous stay at his manor, wedding bells are inevitable! After losing his first wife to childbirth, Robert won't risk exposing Emma to the same fate. Yet resisting his stunning new bride is much harder than he'd expected..."Readers will enjoy the strong characters, swift pace, lively wit and the wickedly fun escapades that stubborn lovers can get into" ­—RT Book Reviews on "Her Christmas Temptation" in Regency Christmas Wishes"A triumph. Opposites attract, repel, collide and unite in this thrilling romance" ­—RT Book Reviews on A Kiss Away from Scandal

Stranded at a house partywith the mysterious duke...When a storm hits, outspoken Abigail Prescott is trapped at a house party with Benedict Moore, the Duke of Danforth—the very man she was once betrothed to! Wishing to know the man she's to marry, Abigail had called off their sudden engagement. But reunited once more, Benedict seems determined to win her back and make her his duchess. His method: irresistible seduction..."Readers will enjoy the strong characters, swift pace, lively wit and the wickedly fun escapades that stubborn lovers can get into"— RT Book Reviews on "Her Christmas Temptation" in Regency Christmas Wishes"A triumph. Opposites attract, repel, collide and unite in this thrilling romance"— RT Book Reviews on A Kiss Away from Scandal

James Merrill's audacious and dazzling epic poem, The Changing Light at Sandover, remains as startling today as when it first emerged in separate volumes over a period of several years. Individual parts won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, and the entire poem, when it was collected into one volume in 1982, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. It is now an American classic, here in a definitive new hardcover edition that includes Voices from Sandover, Merrill's recasting of the poem for the stage. The book carries us to the scene of Merrill's Ouija board sessions with his partner, David Jackson—the candlelit Stonington dining room with its flame-colored walls and the famous Willowware cup they used as a pointer in their occult travels. In a shimmering interplay of verse forms, Merrill set down their extended conversations with their familiar and guide, Ephraim (a first-century Greek Jew), W. H. Auden, W. B. Yeats, Plato, a brilliant peacock...

"A VIVID NARRATIVE . . . A splendid first-person account of the costly campaign that enabled Allied forces to wrest Guadalcanal from the Japanese in World War II's Pacific theater."—Kirkus Reviews"By reading and studying No Bended Knee, the military professional can gain an appreciation for war at the strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Twining writes as he served his corps—boldly and straightforwardly, with impeccable detail and superb understanding of things strategic."—Airpower Journal"A VIEW FROM THE NERVE CENTER COMPLETE WITH TELLING PERSONAL ANECDOTES."—Journal Inquirer (Manchester, CT)"Twining adds notably to the literature on Guadalcanal and provides one of the best accounts of war as seen from the perspective of the often maligned yet absolutely indispensable headquarters staff."—Booklist "CANDID AND REVEALING."—Publishers WeeklyFrom the...

Soccer mom Sandra and sports angel Bob are back! Peter has been cast as one of the Walton boys in a local play, giving Sandra a new chauffeur duty. When the two of them get stuck inside the remote theater during a snowstorm, and then find a dead body, Sandra calls on her old friend Bob to help. It's a kooky cast of suspicious characters, and one of them is a killer. Can Sandra and Bob figure out who it is before someone else gets hurt?

When moving on means moving out... Surely there should be a rule book to guide you through the tumultuous twenties, or a 'to do list' at the very least? Fresh out of university in Manchester and struggling to climb the career ladder in London, Flick's devastated when her boyfriend dumps her with no warning and leaves her looking for a new place to live. Being forced into a houseshare with three complete strangers isn't exactly how Flick saw things going. But the residents of Carlisle Avenue are quickly on hand to help her navigate the ups and downs of the life she's currently winging. With their help, along with her big sister, Flick manages to focus her energy on ticking off items that she's added to her 'twenties list' – the perfect bucket list for any twenty-something reclaiming their life post-break up. And all is going well, that is until her boss catches wind of it and asks her to create a new magazine column documenting her progress. Enter Teddy, a sweet guy who becomes...

Hope, a young lawyer becomes acquainted with a study group and learns of a plot to interrupt government computers. She wants answers but must decide which of three men she can trust. Two are friends, one from her past and one in her present. The third man is very determined to warn the public about the government's planned control of the populace. Just when she begins to trust one of them, he lies to her. Extreme natural disasters occur and she and the group become hated by the public and the government wants them captured and prosecuted to the fullest extent. And then there is that huge thing from Orion. Based on the warm, action-packed epic film script of the same name, it is about the events leading to the legislated 'mark of the beast' and the grand and glorious event of Christ's coming, with millions of His angels.

A storm is brewing in Assjacket, West Virginia. After being cursed for a lifetime, weather witch Wilma Wetter's magical powers were unleashed the moment she was Turned into a vampire, and now she must manage them before her haunted mansion is washed away. With her mate—singer and fellow fanger Gus Valens—his cousins, her ghostly housemate, and her new familiar by her side, anything seems possible...until a ghost from her past threatens her fangtastic crew. Wilma will have to draw on her considerable skills and the power of love to succeed. Can she defeat the foe who cursed her family generations ago? Will she and Gus get past their awkward attempts at courtship? And will Woodrow ever catch up on his shows? Join Wilma and the The Miscreants on their continuing adventures in Assjacket. *Can be read as a standalone, but reading Fang Me Three Times first is recommended.

Just how long did Sandra and her angel friend Bob think they could stay out of trouble? A softball player has been murdered in the woods behind the church. But all Bob's past sleuthing has gotten him into trouble, so he can't get involved. Should Sandra stay out of this one and let the police handle it? Nah. She tries to lie low, but then the police arrest the wrong man—and she's got a pretty good idea who the real killer is. She's just got to get her supernatural partner back in action. You'll love this heavenly whodunit, because it will keep you guessing! Get it today!

<p><strong>Bad guys beware: There's a soccer mom on your trail.&nbsp;</strong><br></p><p>Work-at-home-mom Sandra's life is a whirlwind of activity. So, why's she so bored?<br></p><p>When a referee drops dead during her son's soccer game, and a short man claiming to be an angel asks her to help investigate—suddenly, life's not so boring.<br></p><p>The angel (is he <em>really</em> an angel?) tells her to go undercover as a soccer referee, which, of course, is ridiculous. She hasn't run anywhere since high school.</p><p>But Sandra will find out she is still capable of far more than she thought—with a little help from above.&nbsp;</p>

Marianne Cross has lived a life of structure and purpose for the past twenty-four years. Now reluctantly retired from the Air Force, her life is missing those two things that have always defined her. As she struggles to decide where her future lies, she finds peace and solitude flying her vintage airplane. When an opportunity with the organization Pawsitive Flight comes along, allowing her to combine flying with a purpose, she's interested in the possibilities—especially those concerning the owner of Goth Dog Rescue, Dinah Shaw. She's tough, beautiful, and she makes Marianne want things she hasn't allowed herself to want in a long time. Flying rescue dogs to their furever homes may give Marianne new purpose, and even a home of her own in the process...if she's willing to risk her heart on a little fly-by-night romance.

Close quartersWill reveal hidden truths...Desperately hoping for a season to escape her overprotective brother, Lady Margaret convinces him to hire her a dancing master. David Castell is dashing, exciting and mysterious, yet his probing questions about her family raise Margaret's suspicions... And she discovers that her charming teacher is undercover investigating her brother for murder! Margaret's determined to prove David wrong, but their irresistible attraction is disrupting both their plans...From Harlequin Historical: Your romantic escape to the past.Secrets of the Duke's FamilyThe mysteries and passions of the aristocracy!Book 1: Lady Margaret's Mystery Gentleman

To keep the secrets of his past, successful singer/songwriter Toby insists on anonymity with lovers. But therapist Spencer Hart, Toby's playmate from Bali, tracks him down, and he might be just what Toby needs to face the coming storm.

Stranded At A House Party With The Mysterious Duke...When a storm hits, outspoken Abigail Prescott is trapped at a house party with Benedict Moore, the Duke of Danforth–the very man she was once betrothed to! Wishing to know the man she's to marry, Abigail had called off their sudden engagement. But reunited once more, Benedict seems determined to win her back and make her his duchess. His method: irresistible seduction...

Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection! This box set includes: LADY OLIVIA'S FORBIDDEN PROTECTORSecrets of the Duke's Familyby Christine Merrill(Regency) Lady Olivia's plan for a convenient elopement is thwarted when Michael Solomon is hired to watch over her. As an illicit desire emerges between them, Liv wonders if both love and her freedom might be possible... MARRIAGE DEAL WITH THE DEVILISH DUKEby Millie Adams(Regency) To reclaim her life, Lady Beatrice must risk her reputation by compromising herself. Only, she accidentally throws herself at the wrong man—determined bachelor the Duke of Brigham! A BLUES SINGER TO REDEEM HIMby Elle Jackson(1920s)

The plainest Strickland sister — in the earl's arms!Part of Those Scandalous Stricklands. To escape marriage to the newly inherited Earl of Comstock, bookish Charity must find her family's missing diamonds. She meets her match in an intellectual stranger auditing the estate...not knowing he is Lord Comstock himself! With him, Charity feels different—even desirable! But will seizing one night of passion bind her to the very man she's determined to avoid?Those Scandalous Stricklands miniseriesBook 1 — "Her Christmas Temptation" in Regency Christmas WishesBook 2 — A Kiss Away from ScandalBook 3 — How Not to Marry an Earl"Readers will enjoy the strong characters, swift pace, lively wit and the wickedly fun escapades that stubborn lovers can get into" - RT Book Reviews on "Her Christmas Temptation" in Regency Christmas Wishes"Book two in Merrill's series is a...

Stay snowed in this Christmas......with these three Regency short stories!After he broke her heart when he left for war, dare Lucy give Jack Gascoyne a second chance? Find out in Their Mistletoe Reunion by Christine Merrill. In Louise Allen's novella, exiled into the countryside following scandal, Julia Chancellor finds herself Snowed in with the Rake! And in Christmas with the Major by Laura Martin, Lady Cecilia is hiding from her controlling guardian when she encounters Major Joseph Crawley...

Product DescriptionThe first book in the Tales of the Guardian Series - A Young Adult Paranormal Romance Imagine a moment of unseen intervention on your behalf. What would you do if you discovered invisible beings surrounding you? What if you were the key to their survival? SON OF EDEN introduces a world where unseen beings really do exist, love has no limits, and the realization of one’s self worth is pivotal. Tormented by sadness over her mother’s death, Emily Wallace wonders if life really has any purpose. Her question is answered when she meets Alexander. After transgressing the laws of his kind, Alexander reveals his true nature to Emily and the two find life without one another is not an option. But, forming such a cosmically unique relationship comes with a price. It becomes apparent that some will stop at nothing to ensure an ancient prophecy surrounding these two is never fulfilled. Is the Opposition motivated by knowledge of Alexander’s true identity? Or, are they more concerned with who Emily is destined to become.Also available for download, Daughter of Earth - Book #2 in the Tales of the Guardian series. About the AuthorBrianna Merrill grew up in Cottonwood, Arizona, and then went on to attend college in Mesa, Arizona. After marrying her husband, Brianna took a time out from college and they moved to the White Mountains to raise their family. Brianna is the proud mother of five, and loves spending time with her children. When asked if writing books was something she always wanted to do, Brianna responded, " I never aspired to be an author. I had an idea that could not be ignored. When I finally gave into it I found myself enjoying the new freedom of writing and dreaming up a whole world of my own. There were no limitations and I loved that." SON OF EDEN is Brianna's first novel, but she is currently working on the remaining two books in the Tales of the Guardian series.

Stevie Wilson is about to welcome a new life into an unsure world. Estranged from the father of her unborn child, she turns to her love of attending concerts with her vivacious best friend to deal with the stress and uncertainty. As a teacher and blogger, she counts on the magic of the music to ease her troubled thoughts of what will come next. What she wasn’t counting on was meeting a “savior” with fathomless, dark brown eyes. Aaron McShane gave up a lucrative Silicon Valley career to live the dream of owning an independent music store in downtown Hayward. His responsibilities have kept him from finding and settling down with the right person, but he wouldn’t have it any other way. With his bicultural, multigenerational family all under one roof and giving him grief, he takes on a second job doing security at his favorite venue so he can escape and be close to his first love: music. What better place, especially when one gets to rescue a pregnant damsel in distress with a gorgeous mane of fiery red hair? These two music lovers are thrust together just when they each needed something to hold on to. Can their fledgling love withstand the pressures of family, grief, and violence? Music brought them together, will it help them heal together? 

Tony-winning musician Reese Matheson resembles a natural disaster, and caregiver Jude is caught in the eye of the storm. Can the love of two opposites survive caring for an ornery octogenarian and a meddling family insistent upon tradition?

Giving in to temptation would be the ruin of them all!Having spent years believing a lie about his birth, Dr. Samuel Hastings has been condemned to a personal hell of his desire's making—his sinful thoughts of the one woman he can never touch would damn his soul for eternity.Lady Evelyn Thorne is engaged to the very suitable Duke of St. Aldric when a shocking truth is revealed—and now Sam will play every bit of the devil to seduce the woman he thought would always be denied him!

High school counselor and heavy metal fan Abra Mora spends her summer vacation traveling in her gutsy Mustang GT to escape a dark family history of depression. Late one night while making an emergency pit-stop, she comes to the rescue of an off-duty police officer in peril and saves him from a fiery end. The straight-laced, model-handsome cop happens to be running away from some major baggage of his own. These two opposites decide to run away together, but soon realize they've embarked on more than just a fling. Can their newfound love survive once their road trip is over and their realities end up on a collision course? Ages 18 and up due to adulting, road-side violence, lots of sexy time, and some pretty raunchy innuendo including a major concert fail.**

Erotica/Fantasy. 12420 words long.

Spring is coming to Mierenthia, yet coldness is still keeping a tight grip upon the world. Reinstalled as a mentor but considering himself to be the attempted murderer of his father-figure Maxim, Dominick preaches the Master's wisdom but his heart is no longer in it. One morning he loses control and does what he thinks will condemn him forever. Instead, he is awarded with a task much harder, and much more important, than that of any other mentor. Merley is now walking on the path of artificery, that of working with metal through magic. Yet, at certain moments she abhors metal and the tools and fire that mold it in ways that no Ber should. Linden and Rianor continue to search for the secrets of science and Ber magic. They are almost convinced that the two are one and the same, when suddenly fire and magic fail even in Qynnsent. This forces them to doubt their choices. They must now decide what life truly is, as well as which lives are worth saving and which ones can, or should, be sacrificed.About the AuthorLynna Merrill is the author of The Masters That Be fantasy series. The first three books---The Seekers of Fire, The Makers of Light, and The Weavers of Paths---are complete and released. She is currently working on The Shards of Creation, the fourth book in the series. Lynna is also a computer programmer and a digital 2D and 3D artist. She has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Ohio State University, and was geeky enough to write the almost 300,000 words of her first three books in the VIM text editor. She lives by lake Ontario with her husband and soulmate, Alex. Her website is http://www.lynnamerrill.com.

"Once her dying got underway, Anna could not really complain about the way the process moved along." So begins this deftly amusing, wryly perceptive look at the dying of a feisty, funny ninety-year old woman. During the four days between her death and her burial --and with the unique perception she is allowed prior to her funeral--Anna discovers certain secrets her daughters have hidden from her. She is deeply shocked by the revelation of an act that must have transpired between herself as a child and her much older brother. In her final moments of consciousness, Anna makes the last commentaries on her own secrets and crimes before stepping into eternity. PRAISE "Merrill Joan Gerber is not only one of our most underrated contemporary writers, she also may well be our least pretentious. Her utter lack of pretence is a major source of her raw power as a writer... Like Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, and some of the great Jewish comedians, Gerber extracts wry humor from embarrassing, awkward and desperate situations, even in illness and death... Like Bellow, Gerber has a genius for the irritable, the acrid and the embittered. The visitor from another planet who doesn't know what it means to kvetch would need to look no further than Gerber's fiction for superb illustration of the phenomenon... Her eyes are trained on the quotidian, but the acuity and intensity of her vision are not less extraordinary." - Merle Rubin, Los Angeles Times "Award winning writer Merrill Joan Gerber's mini-novel chronicles the unlikely but oddly believable tale of 90-year-old Anna - "dead but not buried" - during the four day interval between her passing (a word that Anna would have hated) and her burial... Readers of Gerber's previous novels and stories will recognize the characters... but that familiarity will serve to enhance the curious charm of his curious book." - Gloria Goldreich, Hadassah Magazine "Gerber is a careful observer of those thousands of details that forge family dynamics and skillfully transforms life's ordinary and gut-wrenching moments into compelling prose." - Judy Bart Kancigor, The Jewish Journal of Los Angeles

50th Anniversary Edition Do you know the history of the pushcart war? The REAL history? it's a story of how regular people banded together and, armed with little more than their brains and good aim defeated a mighty foe. Not long ago the streets of New York City were smelly, smoggy, sooty, and loud. There were so many trucks making deliveries that it might take an hour for a car to travel a few blocks. People blamed the truck owners and the truck owners blamed the little wooden pushcarts that traveled the city selling everything from flowers to hot dogs. Behind closed doors the truck owners declared war on the pushcart peddlers. Carts were smashed from Chinatown to Chelsea. The peddlers didn't have money or the mayor on their side, but that didn't stop them from fighting back. They used pea shooters to blow tacks into the tires of trucks, they outwitted the police, and they marched right up to the grilles of those giant trucks and dared them to drive down...

Danyl Fitzhugh needs a woman. After his latest leading lady leaves both his theatre and his bed for another company, he vows to prove he can turn any woman in London into an actress - and sets his sights on Sarah Branford. He's immediately drawn to her innocence and beauty, and their unexpected attraction soon leads to an audition for the stage and as his mistress. But with Christmas approaching and their passion growing, will their relationship last when Danyl learns Sarah is much more than she seems?

The wife he doesn't know...When William Felkirk opens his eyes, the past six months are blank. What happened? And who is this beautiful woman claiming to be his wife and caring for his broken body?Justine will do anything to protect her sister, even if that means pretending to be a stranger's wife. She must guard the reasons for her deception with her life. But with every passing day, William unlocks her heart just a little more, and Justine knows she won't be able to hide the truth forever...."Merrill delivers another juicy, scandalous romance." --RT Book Reviews on The Fall of a Saint

A ten-year chronicle of domestic violence and crises, the book recreates the pathology of one Flatbush family in the mid-1940s and early 1950s told in the voice of the girl child. From Publishers WeeklyIn this brutally candid, semiautobiographical novel, Gerber again (as in King of the World ) corrosively delineates the heinous abuses inflicted in the name of love, and a victim's ambivalence toward her abuser. Issa grows up in the WW II era in a claustrophobic household consisting of her parents, Grandma and her adored aunt Gilda, who runs a beauty shop upstairs, "where real life is." Issa's gentle father, wreathed in the caramel smoke of his pipe, struggles as an antiques dealer, carting home intriguing junk (and coveted books) to furnish the house. Her piano-playing mother, pampered and stingy, dishes out savage verbal/emotional cruelty: she ignores dying Grandma's plight, mocks the lonely, acne-scarred Gilda, humbles her husband and inflicts Issa with fears of death. Food is a main issue. Her mother harries Issa to eat to the point of nausea; she herself disobeys Jewish dietary laws. Though consuming forbidden foods may provoke thunderbolts of holy retribution, Issa and her friends--Jewish girls "without a Jewish worry"--gobble ham in a luncheonette. As the family dynamic emerges, Issa hates her baby sister, while her father and Gilda love each other with aching despair. Far from sovereign Brooklyn with its tragedies and "treasured provinces" lies the deadly limbo of Florida, to which Issa's mother wants to uproot the family. Yet her mother's verbal power invades Issa's desires, and Issa cannot deny emulating her. Gerber aptly conveys the visceral travail of the child (the grinding gut, the swinging heart). Her wry purity of style packs psychological dynamite. Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library JournalGerber, winner of the Pushcart Editor's Book Award for King of the World ( LJ 1/90) and frequent contributor to Redbook magazine, explores the tensions and angers that bind families. The story is told from the perspective of a young girl, Issa, from age three through high school. An astute observer, Issa learns unintended lessons, especially from her self-centered mother. While her mother verges on being a caricature of evil and anger, the strength of this work is in the clarity of Issa's vision. Her thoughts and perceptions reveal the bitterness hovering at the edges of life. With dark humor and compassion, Issa struggles with the need to belong and to be loved. From the descriptions of neighborhood girls to the death of her grandmother, Issa's voice captures the essence of growing up. Recommended for most fiction collections.- Jan Blodgett, St. Mary's Cty. Records Ctr. & Archives, Leonardtown, Md.Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.

In Teacher, Jesse Martin gets sucked into the vortex that is the life of Danny Black, rock god and lead singer of the metal powerhouse, Blackened. She thought she was just taking a home instructor position for the summer, but things got complicated quickly as she and Danny fell madly in love. In Act Two, the lovers maneuvered the tricky path from dating to living together, with pitfalls at every turn. At the end of Act Two, we left our lovers on a dark precipice. Jesse’s doubts and the chaos of Danny’s life threatened to tear them apart. Instead, they are now closer than ever and ready to take that next step. But nothing will ever be easy for our teacher and her rock god, including planning the perfect wedding. A jilted colleague from Danny’s past, a desperate ex, a potentially fatal tragedy, a remodel, a parent-teacher conference, illness, a drag queen, and many many more obstacles are piled in their path. Will Jesse and Danny ever find their happily ever after or will they forever be as those famous doomed lovers, kept apart by circumstances beyond their control? FOR READERS 18+ Due to language, incredibly steamy sexual situations, and continued hijinks by the hairy, perverted neighbors!**

The past is not past for Katharine Merrill. Even after two decades of volatile marriage, Katharine still believes she can have the life that she felt promised to her by those first exhilarating days with her husband, Frederick. For two months, just before Frederick left to fight in World War II, Katharine received his total attentiveness, his limitless charms, his astonishing range of intellect and wit. Over the years, however, as Frederick's behavior and moods have darkened, Katharine has covered for him, trying to rein in his great manic passions and bridge his deep wells of sadness: an unending project of keeping up appearances and hoping for the best. But the project is failing. Increasingly, Frederick's erratic behavior, amplified by alcohol, distresses Katharine and their four daughters and gives his friends and family cause to worry for his sanity. When, in the summer of 1962, a cocktail party ends with her husband in handcuffs, Katharine makes a fateful decision: She commits Frederick to Mayflower Home, America's most revered mental asylum.There, on the grounds of the opulent hospital populated by great poets, intellectuals, and madmen, Frederick tries to transform his incarceration into a creative exercise, to take each meaningless passing moment and find the art within it. But as he lies on his room's single mattress, Frederick wonders how he ever managed to be all that he once was: a father, a husband, a business executive. Under the faltering guidance of a self-obsessed psychiatrist, Frederick and his fellow patients must try to navigate their way through a gray zone of depression, addiction, and insanity.Meanwhile, as she struggles to raise four young daughters, Katharine tries to find her way back to Frederick through her own ambiguities, delusions, and the damages done by her rose-colored belief in a life she no longer lives. Inspired by elements of the lives of the author's grandparents, this haunting love story shifts through time and reaches across generations. Along the way, Stefan Merrill Block stunningly illuminates an age-old truth: even if one's daily life appears ordinary, one can still wage a silent, secret, extraordinary war.

Product DescriptionLord Kenton is surprisingly happy to be lured to a moonlit gazebo, held at gunpoint by the delectable Cynthia Banester and forced to marry her. The only finger he's had to lift is the one that's caressed the neckline of her dress. She's claimed a title—he's secured a fortune. There are just two problems—he's not the real Lord Kenton, and she's not rich!Bound by their own deceptions, Cynthia and Jack decide to make the best of a bad deal. They may not have two coins to rub together, but consummating their vows proves deliciously satisfying…. About the AuthorChristine Merrill wanted to be a writer for as long as she can remember. During a stint as a stay-at-home-mother, she decided it was time to “write that book.” She could set her own hours and would never have to wear pantyhose to work! It was a slow start but she slogged onward and seven years later, she got the thrill of seeing her first book hit the bookstores. Christine lives in Wisconsin with her family. Visit her website at: www.christine-merrill.com

Anna in Chains is a collection of stories about the reality of being an elderly woman in the modern world and all the struggles that go with it. Anna Goldman, nearly eighty years old, widowed and living on her own in the Fairfax Area of Los Angeles, struggles to remain independent as she moves through the modern world. Jewish, but disenchanted with religion in any guise, Anna eats bacon to dare God's wrath. Living in a mixed ethnic neighborhood, Anna pronounces her prejudices against all foreigners wondering where the values of the world she remembers have gone. PRAISE "Gerber has created a colorful and memorable character. Her prose is richly detailed, and along the way we learn much about the nature of loneliness and aging. The title story, set in a nursing home is truly moving... Happily, Gerber has dramatized Anna in these stories..." - Hadassah Magazine "Widowed Anna, with her short skirts, her tart tongue, her two pianos (Mozart is her 'religion') and her practiced cynicism about men, moves from her apartment in Los Angeles' Fairfax District to a retirement home, fully aware that it's her next-to-last stop. She stares Death in the face, and he almost seems to wink...There are funny stories that nonetheless bear our Anna's belief that 'we live on the verge of catastrophe, and the natural state of life should reasonably be terror.'" - Los Angeles Times "Prolific Gerber creates... a character who rages eloquently against the coming of the night... Full of antic, bittersweet detail." - Kirkus Reviews "Merrill Joan Gerber's work is distinguished by the precision of its insights and the elegance of her deceptively forthright style. No one is better at rendering the complications and frustrations of ordinary lives. Her touch is light, but her work is powerful." - Robert Stone "Merrill is, above all and underneath all, a crucially honest writer... She is one of those writers who discover us to ourselves, and move us almost more than we can bear." - Cynthia Ozick

The Bers have ruled Mierenthia with fire magic and an iron fist for hundreds of years, but now their magic is failing. The firepipes are dry. The firewells gape cold and empty, and the factories are shutting down. Light, warmth, and food are scarce. Strange creatures appear not only in the distant forests but even in the cities, the Bers' own strongholds. Amidst this chaos arises Linden, a young commoner woman who dares oppose a Ber with forbidden magic of her own. She is joined by Rianor, the High Ruler of Qynnsent, who defies what the Bers call a noble's greatest responsibility. The two tamper with the half-ridiculed, half-forbidden idea of science and believe that there is more to science than the Bers and mentors would have people think. Dominick, a young mentor, one of the priestly class who keep people from thinking aberrant thoughts, starts to question the Ber world even as he is trying to save it. Merley, a young Ber woman who sees things that others cannot, saves a condemned boy and seeks out a reprobate old witch. As these young people choose the paths rarely taken and make paths of their own, others try to pull their strings and shape the world according to their own wills.About the AuthorLynna Merrill is the author of The Masters That Be fantasy series. The first three books---The Seekers of Fire, The Makers of Light, and The Weavers of Paths---are complete and released. She is currently working on The Shards of Creation, the fourth book in the series. Lynna is also a computer programmer and a digital 3D artist. She has a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from the Ohio State University, and was geeky enough to write the almost 300,000 words of her first three books in the VIM text editor. She lives by lake Ontario with her husband and soulmate, Alex. Her website is http://www.lynnamerrill.com.

The engagement escapade!This season, all eyes are on biddable, well-connected Lady Belle. And for ambitious Benjamin Lovell, she's the perfect candidate for a convenient marriage. First, though, he must contend with her fiercely protective sister, Lady Amelia Summoner.Amy is determined that only the right man will win her sister, and rakish Benjamin is certainly not that. Every move he makes, she'll be one step ahead! Until the games get out of handand Amy realizes she's broken her own rules and fallen for Ben herself!"

Outspoken Lady Priscilla is the only woman in London brave enough not to simper at Robert Magson. As the Duke of Reighland, he needs a wife and this captivating woman would surely keep life interesting!Despite the obvious sexual attraction between them, Lady Priscilla doesn't wish to marry--ever--for she hides a shameful secret. Surely a duke deserves more than a ruined woman? But once Robert sets his sights on something beautiful, he will do anything in his power to claim it!

Following the widely celebrated Collected Poems, this second volume in the series of James Merrill's works brings us Merrill as novelist and playwright. Just as in his poems we come upon prose pieces, dramatic dialogue, and even a short play in verse, in his novels and plays we find the rhythms of his poetry reflected and given new form.Merrill's first novel, The Seraglio, is a daring roman à clef derived in large part from his early life as the cosmopolitan son of Charles Merrill, one of America's most famous twentieth-century financiers. Written in a highly refined prose that owes something to Henry James, the book is a compelling portrait of the luxury and treachery swirling around the Southampton beach house of an irrepressible family patriarch, with his many mistresses and ex-mistresses in attendance, told from the point of view of his lively but troubled son. At the other end of the narrative spectrum we find The (Diblos) Notebook,...

At the dawn of the 19th century, men on either side of the Atlantic seek cunning ways to prevail over the harrowing dangers of the high seas to exploit the potential of international trade. Stewart Chamberlain is one such entrepreneur. Born into Boston society, his vigor and thirst for adventure have attracted him to a life far more difficult and rewarding than his pedigree would require. When he meets Lady Sarah Tremont, the bluestocking daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Weston, her brains and beauty entice him as no other woman’s. But it is her chaste arrogance that makes her a challenge he cannot resist. Lady Sarah is confused and beset by the handsome rake, who sees beyond the maiden to the woman she is yearning to become. Though Sarah is determined to keep him at bay, all the world conspires against her resolve, even her father, who decides to send her to America with Chamberlain as her escort. Captives’ Charade is the dangerous game Lady Sarah and Stewart are forced to play when his schooner is overtaken by a malicious band of Caribbean pirates. With their lives in grave danger, Stewart seeks to protect Sarah by pretending to be her devoted husband. But impending doom inspires a far-too-convincing performance -- and Sarah is helpless but to become Stewart’s wife in more than name. When they finally escape, the lovers struggle over whether to conclude – or continue – what danger and passion have spawned.From the Back CoverAt the dawn of the 19th century, Stewart Chamberlain is an American entrepreneur determined to maintain trade routes across the Atlantic despite political upheavals. Born into Boston society, his thirst for adventure has attracted him to a life far more difficult than his pedigree would require.When he meets Lady Sarah Tremont, the bluestocking daughter of the Duke of Weston, her brains and beauty entice him as no other woman's.  But it is her chaste arrogance that makes her  a challenge he cannot resist."Captives' Charade" is the dangerous game Lady Sarah and Stewart are forced to play when they are kidnapped by Caribbean pirates. With their lives in grave danger, Stewart seeks to protect Sarah by pretending to be her devoted husband. But impending doom inspires a far-too-convincing performance -- and Sarah is helpless but to become Stewart's wife in more than name.When they finally escape, the lovers struggle over whether to conclude -- or continue -- what danger and passion have spawned.About the AuthorSusannah Merrill wrote "Captives' Charade" during a two-year period of unemployment. When her career got back on track and her family demands overtook her spare time, she left "Captives' Charade" to languish among the dust bunnies. She decided to resurrect the manuscript and publish the compelling story at last. Readers will be delighted with her decision. The passionate love story of Sarah and Stewart is a sensual historical romance you will savor again and again. Product DetailsPaperback: 338 pagesPublisher: Foliage Press, LLC (May 26, 2011)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0615446574ISBN-13: 978-0615446578 Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches Shipping Weight: 1 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,868,799 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) Would you like to update product info, give feedback on images, or tell us about a lower price?Customer Reviews3.0 out of 5 stars(4)3.0 out of 5 stars5 star24 star03 star02 star01 star2See all 4 customer reviews Share your thoughts with other customersWrite a customer reviewMost Helpful Customer Reviews3 of 3 people found the following review helpful1.0 out of 5 stars Story might be good, but be prepared to decipher September 16, 2012By glojeanFormat:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified PurchaseI am only @ 3% of book and agree with Anna Parson. This book appears to be unedited! It slows the story when I come to a sentence that runs together or missing letters. The author might be a great storyteller, but all of the mistakes ruin the story! Comment | Was this review helpful to you?YesNo3 of 3 people found the following review helpful1.0 out of 5 stars award for worst edited book ever September 14, 2012By ANNA LARSONFormat:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified PurchaseIf I could get away with a rating of Zero stars that would be nice. I haven't even reached 7% in this book and cannot believe the lack of editing. Not only are full sentences strung together without any spacing, other sentences are flipped around and you have to decipher the order of them. I don't even know if story is any good because I can't get past the bad edit. Comment | Was this review helpful to you?YesNo2 of 2 people found the following review helpful5.0 out of 5 stars A fun read. February 7, 2012By P. MeierFormat:Paperback|Amazon Verified PurchaseI read mostly nonfiction but fate put the ebook in my hands and I began reading. The characters were solid and there was action, intimacy, and unexpected turns. What pleased me was that when there was a significant time lapse between putting the book down and picking it up again, I knew immediately where I was in the story. I was pleasantly entertained by this book. Comment | Was this review helpful to you?YesNo› See all 4 customer reviews Write a customer reviewMost Recent Customer Reviews5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent readVery acurate historical romance with lots of action and some very nice steamy sections. Loved the plot twist. 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Harry Pennyngton, Earl of Anneslea, is surprised when his estranged wife, Elise, arrives home for Christmas, especially as she is still intent on divorce! The festive house party is in full swing when the guests are snowed in, and Harry and Elise find themselves together beneath the mistletoe.

"A dazzling novel about love, loss, and the mysteries of the mind." — David Ebershoff, Bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife"A breathtaking tale of tragedy and redemption... A triumph" — PeopleA family in crisis, a town torn apart, and the boy who holds the secret has been cocooned in a coma for ten years.One warm, West Texas November night, a shy boy named Oliver Loving joins his classmates at Bliss County Day School's annual dance, hoping for a glimpse of the object of his unrequited affections, an enigmatic Junior named Rebekkah Sterling. But as the music plays, a troubled young man sneaks in through the school's back door. The dire choices this man makes that evening —and the unspoken story he carries— will tear the town of Bliss, Texas apart. Nearly ten years later, Oliver Loving still lies wordless and paralyzed at Crockett State...

Everyone deserves a second chance in life. After receiving yet another pink slip, teacher Jesse Martin is desperate for a way to make ends meet. When her principal offers her a Home Instructor position for the summer, she finds herself giving a second chance to an angry, reclusive, rock god living in the Hollywood Hills. Danny Black should have it all. But an unbalanced ex-wife, a troubled daughter, and a threat to his livelihood have him ready to make some major changes. Never one to back down from a challenge, he'll take on this stubborn, beautiful teacher who seems immune to his “gimme” smile, and attempt to win her heart in the process. Can Jesse accept that this time, offering someone a second chance will change her life as well? Will she embrace the life Danny is offering her and discover that when it comes to life’s lessons, sometimes love is the best teacher?

We all know and love Ramona, Matilda, and Harriet the Spy. Now meet Ernestine.Ernestine Montgomery is the kind of kid who gets things done. She's smart, prepared, and always knows just what to do. But there's big trouble brewing inside the walls of the rambling old mansion where she lives... and only Ernestine can decipher the clues that point in one direction-murder! Can Ernestine solve the mystery before catastrophe strikes?

The thought of Robert Breton's touch fills Anne Clairemont with a delicious, scandalous heat—but her family's happiness depends on her going through with her planned marriage to his wealthy, cold business partner. Then Robert gives her a searing kiss beneath the mistletoe that changes everything. Soon he's showing Anne the intimate pleasures they could share, determined to fan the flame of their desire and convince her to call off her engagement. But can she disappoint her parents to be with Robert, or will she break her own heart first?

Dashing Duke, Bluestocking Bride! Shy heiress Miss Penelope Winthorpe was only trying to escape her bullying brother. She didn’t mean to wed a noble lord over a blacksmith’s anvil! Adam Felkirk, Duke of Bellston, had no intention of taking a wife. But then Penelope’s plight moved him. Now the notorious rake has a new aim – to shock and seduce his prim and proper bride. But the gorgeous Duke will be taught a lesson of his own as scholarly Miss Winthorpe becomes his seductive duchess!

A thousand years ago, the Navigator crossed the great deep in ships lit with sixteen stones touched by Oum'ilah, the God of Gods. Over time, the stones were scattered and a prophecy arose declaring that a "child of no man" would gather them again, and he would be given immortality and reign forever as god and king of Kandelarr.Now, in an age of chaos, the time has come for the prophecy to be fulfilled. Light and darkness have each chosen a champion to claim the legendary stones:The sorceress of the cult of shedragon has chosen Drakkor, a warrior and mercenary who travels with bandits and a corrupt stone of darkness...

In this hilarious collection of personal essays, New York Times bestselling author Merrill Markoe reveals, among other things, the secret formula for comedy: Start out with a difficult mother, develop some classic teenage insecurities, add a few relationships with narcissistic men, toss in an unruly pack of selfish dogs, finish it off with the kind of crystalline perspective that only comes from years of navigating a roiling sea of unpleasant and unappeasable people, and--voilà!--you're funny!But in Cool, Calm & Contentious, Markoe also reveals something more: herself. This is by far her most personal, affecting collection yet--honest, unapologetic, often painful, but always shot through with the bracing, wicked sense of humor that has made her such a beloved and incisive observer of life, both human and canine. In Cool, Calm & Contentious, she goes there: from the anal-retentive father who once spent ten minutes lecturing Markoe's...

In this powerful love story that takes place on a Turkish sailing vessel, Lily, a professor at a Florida college, finds herself required to be the companion of her newly widowed mother as they take a cruise along the Turkish coastline on a small sailing ketch. Expecting to endure, though not enjoy, this trip among her mother’s friends, Lily instead finds herself falling in love with Izak, the charismatic Turkish captain of the boat, a man whose powers of kindness, strength and tenderness touch Lily in a way that awaken longings in her she had given up long ago.Lilly’s infatuation with Izak surprises her and at first she resists her feelings, knowing that it would be nearly impossible for an American college professor and a Turkish sailor to find a meeting place to join their lives. However, one day while the others are on a trip away from the boat taking a tour to see the sights, Lily finds herself alone with Izak and their passion reveals itself.About the AuthorMerrill Joan Gerber is a prize-winning novelist and short story writer. Among her novels are The Kingdom of Brooklyn, winner of the Ribalow Award from Hadassah Magazine for “the best English-language book of fiction on a Jewish theme,” Anna in the Afterlife, chosen by the Los Angeles Times as a “Best Novel of 2002” and King of the World, which won the Pushcart Editors’ Book Award. She has written five volumes of short stories. Her stories and essays have appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, Mademoiselle, The Sewanee Review, The Virginia Review, Commentary, Salmagundi, The American Scholar, The Southwest Review, and elsewhere.Her story, “I Don’t Believe This,” won an O. Henry Prize. “This is a Voice From Your Past” was included in The Best American Mystery Stories.Her non-fiction books include a travel memoir, Botticelli Blue Skies: An American in Florence; a book of personal essays, Gut Feelings: A Writer’s Truths and Minute Inventions; and Old Mother, Little Cat: a Writer’s Reflections on her Kitten, her Aged Mother . . . and Life.Gerber earned her BA in English from the University of Florida, her MA in English from Brandeis University, and was awarded a Wallace Stegner Fiction Fellowship to Stanford University. She presently teaches fiction writing at the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, California. 

THE ONLY WOMAN WHO CAN MAKE HIM REPENT! Honorable--and handsome to boot!--Michael Poole, Duke of St. Aldric, has earned his nickname "The Saint." But the ton would shudder if they knew the truth. Because, thrust into a world of debauchery, this saint has turned sinner! With the appearance of fallen governess Madeline Cranston--carrying his heir--St. Aldric looks for redemption through a marriage of convenience. But the intriguing Madeline is far from a dutiful duchess, and soon this saint is indulging in the most sinful of thoughts...while his new wife vows to make him pay for his past. The Sinner and the Saint Brothers separated at birth, brought together by scandal

Mistress or Wife?  Independent Margot de Bryun has no intention of giving a man control of her life! Although handsome rake Stephen Standish, Marquess of Fanworth, does pique her interest… Maybe a man can offer other advantages?  Stephen sees Margot as perfect marriage material—talented, intelligent and alluring. But when a stolen family ruby is traced to the jewelry shop Margot owns, Stephen is infuriated and demands she become his mistress. Except Margot's not one to be easily tamed—and whether she be mistress or wife, sparks will certainly fly!   

Born into poverty, Joseph Stratford's clever mind has made him a rich mill owner, but he has earned himself a wicked reputation among the villagers of Fiddleton. Only firebrand Barbara Lampett can see beyond the cold heart of this gentleman in disguise.When visited by ghosts of Christmas past, present and future Joseph is brought down to earth with three thumps! But as the clock strikes midnight on Christmas Eve, has Joseph left it too late to claim the beautiful Barbara and enjoy learning the most delicious Christmas lesson of all?