Alla vigilia del suo matrimonio, Lady Jessica Sheffield si ritrova ad assistere a una scena immorale e peccaminosa che nessuna ragazza innocente come lei avrebbe mai potuto immaginare. Sorpresa, ma anche stranamente eccitata, decide di non rivelare la condotta scandalosa di Alistair Caulfield e di avviarsi verso il destino che era stato disegnato per lei. Ma dopo anni di matrimonio sereno e senza complicazioni, Jessica si accorge che l'immagine di Alistair è rimasta intatta, impressa a fuoco nella sua mente, e continua ad alimentare i sogni più illeciti. Alistair si allontanò il prima possibile da quell'innocente debuttante che aveva il fuoco della passione negli occhi e fuggì nelle Indie Occidentali. Ora è un commerciante di successo e ha molto poco in comune con il libertino che lei conobbe un tempo. Rimasta vedova, Jessica si imbarca sulla nave di Alistair ma si accorgerà ben presto che il desiderio messo a tacere negli ultimi sette anni tornerà, impetuoso, a impadronirsi di lei e li consumerà entrambi...

La ricchezza a volte può essere pericolosa... Dopo la morte del padre, Eliza Martin si ritrova improvvisamente a essere una delle ereditiere più ambite dai cacciatori di dote. Tutti la lusingano e tentano di ingannarla, ma lei riesce a resistere. Fino a quando una serie di imprevisti e pericolosi incidenti la spingono a cercare una persona di fiducia che possa infiltrarsi nel gruppo dei pretendenti e capire chi si cela dietro questo ormai evidente complotto. ...proprio come gli uomini. Il cacciatore di taglie Jasper Bond è un uomo decisamente troppo rude, troppo bello e troppo pericoloso. Chi mai potrebbe credere che una donna fine come Eliza si lascerebbe sedurre da uno come lui? Ma è proprio questa la parte che lei gli chiede di recitare nel momento in cui lo assume... Soddisfare le esigenze della sua cliente diventerà per Jasper una questione di orgoglio. Dimostrarle che è lui l'uomo giusto per lei sarà un piacere...

Lady Isabel Pelham e il marchese Gerard Faulkner sono la coppia più scandalosa di Londra. Isabel è rimasta vedova da poco, Gerard è perdutamente innamorato di una donna già sposata: per sfuggire alle pressioni imposte dalla società, decidono di sfruttare la loro amicizia di lunga data per combinare un matrimonio di convenienza. Entrambi desiderano trarre il massimo beneficio da questa unione senza dover rinunciare ai rispettivi amanti e alla più sfrenata mondanità, e non hanno nessuna intenzione di rovinare tutto innamorandosi l'uno dell'altra. Del resto, Isabel sa benissimo che un libertino come Gerard non potrebbe mai fare breccia nel suo cuore. Ma un tragico evento allontana improvvisamente Gerard, confinandolo nel silenzio per quattro anni... Quando fa ritorno a casa è una persona completamente diversa: il ragazzo spensierato e irriverente di una volta ha lasciato posto a un uomo riflessivo, forte e tremendamente irresistibile. Gerard è ora un marito che desidera il corpo e l'anima della moglie e non si fermerà di fronte a niente pur di vincere la ritrosia di Isabel e conquistarla.

Gideon mi dice che sono il suo angelo, ma è lui a essere il vero miracolo nella mia vita. Il mio meraviglioso guerriero ferito, tanto determinato a sconfiggere i demoni del mio passato quanto deciso a non affrontare i suoi. Le promesse che ci siamo scambiati avrebbero dovuto legarci più di carne e sangue, invece hanno aperto vecchie ferite, ci hanno esposto al dolore e all'insicurezza e hanno permesso ai nostri acerrimi nemici di venire allo scoperto. Sento che Gideon mi sta sfuggendo, la mia più grande paura sta diventando realtà, il mio amore è messo alla prova in un modo che non sono sicura di riuscire a sopportare. Nel momento più luminoso della nostra storia, l'oscurità del suo passato ha invaso e compromesso tutto ciò per cui avevamo combattuto. Ci troviamo di fronte a una scelta terribile: la sicurezza delle vite che avevamo prima di conoscerci o la lotta per un futuro che improvvisamente sembra un sogno impossibile e senza speranza...

The best of Tor.com original fiction, with stories published through 2012.A curated list of 10 short stories that were written for, acquired by and originally published on Tor.com. Three of these stories were nominated for Nebulas. Featuring:Earth Hour by Ken MacLeodEve of Sin City by Sylvia DayThe President’s Brain is Missing by John ScalziOvertime by Charles StrossFirstborn by Brandon SandersonDown on the Farm by Charles StrossAfter the Coup by John ScalziThe Finite Canvas by Brit Mandelo Swift, Brutal Retaliation by Meghan McCarron Portrait of Lisane da Patagnia by Rachel Swirsky

Max Westin. Sex incarnate. She could smell it, feel it with his proximity. Everything about him was a little rough, a little gritty. A primitive creature. Just like she was.

He held her hand a little too long, his thickly-lashed gaze clearly stating his intentions to have her. To tame her . . .

'Victoria.'

Her name, just one word, but spoken with such possession she could almost feel the collar around her neck.

'It's in your nature,' he murmured. 'The desire to be taken.'

In this game of cat and mouse, everything is an illusion but the passion is as real as it gets . . .

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#1 New York Times bestselling author Sylvia Day, America's premier author of provocative fiction, delivers the debut novel from Cosmo Red-Hot Reads from Harlequin.The realization that Jax still affected me so strongly was a jagged pill to swallow. He'd only been part of my life for five short weeks two years ago. But now he was back. Walking into a deal I'd worked hard to close. And God, he was magnificent. His eyes were a brown so dark they were nearly black. Thickly lashed, they were relentless in their intensity. Had I really thought they were soft and warm? There was nothing soft about Jackson Rutledge. He was a hard and jaded man, cut from a ruthless cloth.In that moment I understood how badly I wanted to unravel the mystery of Jax. Bad enough that I didn't mind how much it was going to cost me...

When Nicholas James draws Stephanie Martin's name in their law firm's Secret Santa exchange he knows he's in for a merry Christmas - if he can figure out what to give the woman he's wanted for months. When he works late and finds a crumpled piece of paper listing Steph's personal wish list, he knows he's in luck. Because all Steph wants for Christmas is him, in a number of naughty ways. And not-so-saintly Nick is going to make every one of her carnal wishes come true.

Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn’t stay away. I didn’t want to. He was my addiction…my every desire…mine.My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We’d never work. It was too hard, too painful…except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate love were the most exquisite insanity.We were bound by our need. And our passion would take us beyond our limits to the sweetest, sharpest edge of obsession…“A steamy read that will have you furiously flipping pages.” — Glamour“I can’t wait to see what happens next to Gideon and Eva.” — The Book Reading Gals“When it comes to brewing up scorchingly hot sexual chemistry, Day has few literary rivals.” — Booklist“If I were to recommend any book today to readers who enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey…[Bared to You] would be the first one I would offer…Scorching love scenes.” — Dear Author

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When Lady Jessica Sheffield makes a transatlantic voyage on Alistair Caulfield's ship, she decides to act upon the fantasies she has been having about this scandalous man whom she encountered years earlier in a compromising position.

Sapphire, who has been exiled by her former lover, the King of Sari, receives a wounded Crown Prince Wulfric into her home, until the prince, an enemy of the king, decides to make her his concubine, only to discover that he is falling in love.

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Gideon Cross came into my life like lightning in the darkness…He was beautiful and brilliant, jagged and white-hot. I was drawn to him as I’d never been to anything or anyone in my life. I craved his touch like a drug, even knowing it would weaken me. I was flawed and damaged, and he opened those cracks in me so easily…Gideon knew. He had demons of his own. And we would become the mirrors that reflected each other’s most private wounds…and desires.The bonds of his love transformed me, even as I prayed that the torment of our pasts didn’t tear us apart...“Bared to You obliterates the competition…Unique and unforgettable.” — Joyfully Reviewed“If I were to recommend any book today to readers who enjoyed Fifty Shades of Grey…this would be the first one I would offer…Scorching love scenes.” — Dear Author“An erotic romance that should not be missed.” — Romance Novel News“Hot…page-meltingly hot.” — Darhk Portal

Dear Listener, In 2004, I was chosen as the Readers’ Choice winner of the Lori Foster Brava Novella Contest with my entry, “Stolen Pleasures,” which you’ll find inside this audiobook. Kensington published the winning entry in what became my debut release, Bad Boys Ahoy! Since then, Kensington and I have released eight other novels (and another anthology), with more on the way, but a writer’s first book always holds a special place in his or her heart. I’m thrilled that Bad Boys Ahoy! has now been updated with a new title — Scandalous Liaisons — and a new cover, with the award-winning stories inside remaining just as they were first written. If you’re just discovering Lucien, Sebastien, and Hugh for the first time, I hope you love them as much as I do. And if you’ve fallen in love with them before, I hope you do so again.All my best,Sylvia“Wickedly entertaining.” — Booklist “It’s wonderful and passionate and, oh yeah, really hot.” — WNBC.com “Three of the most virile and sexiest men that I have ever read about.” — Historical Society Reviews

Three devilishly dashing scoundrels take polite society and three beautiful women by storm in this collection that includes 'Stolen Pleasures,' in which Sebastian Blake, an aristocrat-turned-pirate, gets more than he bargains for when the ship he captures yields a woman claiming to be his bride. Original.

Wealth has its dangers... There are disadvantages to being an heiress, as Eliza Martin knows well. Fortune hunters flock to her, acquaintances lie and pander, and lately, someone is engineering ' accidents' to propel her to the altar. But Eliza will not be bullied, and she will get to the bottom of this plot. All she needs is a man to infiltrate her assemblage of suitors and find the culprit. Someone not easily noticed; a proficient dancer, quiet, and even-tempered.

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WEALTH HAS ITS DANGERS...SO DO CERTAIN MENJasper Bond turns (female) heads wherever he goes. He can’t dance, isn’t known for his restraint, and his blood heats whenever he’s near his latest employer, the unwittingly sexy Eliza Martin. She insists no one will believe an intellectual like her could be seduced by a man of action like Jasper, but the combination of his desire and her mystery makes the case one he can’t resist. Client satisfaction is a point of pride and it’s his pleasure to prove he’s just the man she needs after all... Praise for Sylvia Day and her novels“Bared to You obliterates the competition… unique and unforgettable.” — Joyfully Reviewed “The undisputed mistress of tender, erotic romance.” — Teresa Medeiros“A flawless blend of captivating characters, clever plotting, and searing sensuality.” — Booklist on Pride and Pleasure

Before Fifty Shades of Grey there was Story of O, the notorious novel of dark obsession that introduced the world to erotic fiction.

How far will a woman go to express her love? In this exquisite and taboo novel of passion and desire, the answer emerges through a daring exploration of the deepest bonds of sensual domination. “O” is a beautiful Parisian fashion photographer, determined to understand and prove her consuming devotion to her lover, René, through complete submission to his every whim, his every desire.

It is a journey of forbidden, dangerous choices that sweeps her through the secret gardens of the sexual underground. From the inner sanctum of a private club where willing women are schooled in the art of subjugation to the excruciating embraces of René’s friend Sir Stephen, O tests the outermost limits of pleasure. For as O discovers, true freedom lies in her pure and complete willingness to do anything for love.