Act of Passion

Act of Passion PDF

Author: Georges Simenon

Publisher: New York Review of Books

Published: 2011-10-18

Total Pages: 241

ISBN-13: 1590175549

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For forty years Charles Alavoine has sleepwalked through his life. Growing up as a good boy in the grip of a domineering mother, he trains as a doctor, marries, opens a medical practice in a quiet country town, and settles into an existence of impeccable bourgeois conformity. And yet at unguarded moments this model family man is haunted by a sense of emptiness and futility. Then, one night, laden with Christmas presents, he meets Martine. It is time for the sleeper to awake.

Passion's Fury (Author's Cut Edition)

Passion's Fury (Author's Cut Edition) PDF

Author: Patricia Hagan

Publisher: ePublishing Works!

Published: 2019-02-08

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1644570246

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An Extraordinary Wager Becomes a Gamble on Love in Passion's Fury a Civil-War Era Historical Romance by Patricia Hagan --1860s, Alabama - American Civil War-- Horse breeder and scoundrel, Rance Taggert, makes an incredibly reckless horse-racing bet and wins an extraordinary payoff--April Jennings, a beautiful southern belle kidnapped from her plantation home. Rance seduces April to submit to passion, but she vows to never submit to loving him. When April escapes, Rance is determined to find and reclaim his property. Betrayed into bondage by her resentful twin sister, April is determined to return to her plantation home and rescue her ailing father from her sister's duplicitous schemes, all the while unable to deny that, despite her fury and resentment over Rance's refusal to free her, he possesses her heart and soul. April struggles across thunderous battlefields, risking injury and worse at the hands of brutal men. Rance follows in relentless pursuit, risking his own death in battles with the Union army. Now, his purpose goes much deeper. He wants her as he has never wanted another woman, knowing she hates him and that he must fight to win her heart. Publisher's Note: This is an Author's Cut edition of a previously published work, revised and updated for today's audience. Contains graphic sexual situations and violence in keeping with the horrors of war. This story will be enjoyed by fans of Scarlett Scott, Kathryn Kelly, Paula Millet, Kathleen E. Woodiwiss and Gone with the Wind. THE SOULS AFLAME SERIES by Patricia Hagan This Rebel Heart This Savage Heart OTHER TITLES by Patricia Hagan Say You Love Me Starlight Simply Heaven Orchids in Moonlight Final Justice Forbidden to Love

Hell Hath No Fury

Hell Hath No Fury PDF

Author: Bryna Taubman

Publisher: Macmillan

Published: 1992-09

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 9780312929381

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Betty Broderick, a wealthy California woman, brutally kills her husband and his new girlfriend - was it cold-blooded murder or the desperate revenge of a wronged woman?

Further Than Passion

Further Than Passion PDF

Author: Cheryl Holt

Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks

Published: 2007-04-01

Total Pages: 356

ISBN-13: 1429905654

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Kate Duncan agrees to help her young cousin land a husband though she draws the line when she learns the foolish girl wants to use an apothecary's love potion to snag the notorious Marcus Pelham! To prove the elixir a fake, Kate drinks it herself-and experiences the most erotic moment of her life when she stumbles upon Marcus in a most compromising position. Every nerve in Kate's body sings as she watches from the shadows, but is her response a result of the potion...or the man? Luckily, Marcus is far too busy to notice Kate's spying-or so she thinks... As the Earl of Stamford, Marcus has his choice of willing ladies to share his bed. Yet nothing has ever aroused him as much as the image of Kate watching him. Marcus tries to have a little fun with Kate by drinking the elixir-and then appearing to lose all control every time she's near. But the prank goes awry when Marcus finds himself wildly and truly attracted to the innocent Kate. As he teaches her the passionate art of seduction, will he lose his heart for the very first time?

The Fury and Cries of Women

The Fury and Cries of Women PDF

Author: Angèle Rawiri

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2014-07-07

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 0813936047

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Gabon’s first female novelist, Angèle Rawiri probed deeper into the issues that writers a generation before her—Mariama Bâ and Aminata Sow Fall—had begun to address. Translated by Sara Hanaburgh, this third novel of the three Rawiri published is considered the richest of her fictional prose. It offers a gripping account of a modern woman, Emilienne, who questions traditional values and seeks emancipation from them. Emilienne’s active search for feminism on her own terms is tangled up with cultural expectations and taboos of motherhood, marriage, polygamy, divorce, and passion. She completes her university studies in Paris; marries a man from another ethnic group; becomes a leader in women’s liberation; enjoys professional success, even earning more than her husband; and eventually takes a female lover. Yet still she remains unsatisfied. Those closest to her, and even she herself, constantly question her role as woman, wife, mother, and lover. The tragic death of her only child—her daughter Rékia—accentuates Emilienne’s anguish, all the more so because of her subsequent barrenness and the pressure that she concede to her husband’s taking a second wife. In her forceful portrayal of one woman’s life in Central Africa in the late 1980s, Rawiri prompts us not only to reconsider our notions of African feminism and the canon of francophone African women’s writing but also to expand our awareness of the issues women face across the world today in the workforce, in the bedroom, and among family and peers.

A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion

A Wild Surge of Guilty Passion PDF

Author: Ron Hansen

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 1451617569

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Based on a true story from 1920s Manhattan, a latest historical work by the National Book Award finalist author of Atticus follows the affair between voluptuous Ruth Snyder and undergarment salesman Judd Gray, whose plot to kill Ruth's husband triggers an explosive police investigation.