The Ballroom Blitz


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The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke. September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to, and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for them each night. Home on leave and still reeling from the tragic events at Dunkirk, the dashing Raymond de Guise struggles to define his role in this new world, and to do his duty both to his country, and his beloved wife Nancy- who needs him now more than ever. With profiteers skulking the London streets, and devious rivals plotting the Buckingham's downfall, the hotel staff must all hold onto what matters most- and decide where their loyalties truly lie. As the bombing intensifies and Christmas fast approaches, somehow the show must go on...




Ballroom Blitz


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"Ballroom Blitz" by Veronica Schanoes is a contemporary fairy tale about a young man, who with his eleven brothers, have been cursed to remain in a rock club for their bad behavior. Their only shot at freedom might be the twelve sisters who one day enter the club. "I really like what the author has done with the fairytale material, inverting the storyline to focus on the brothers, not the sisters."--Locus At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.




Ballroom Blitz


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She’s got the rhythm, but he’s got all the right moves. After years on the road, rock drummer Jon White Feather is home from tour to reassess his music career. When his shy niece begs him to take a ballroom dancing class, Jon agrees, aware he’s not Fred Astaire material. Still, it stings when his sexy-hot instructor—who makes his heart do the cha-cha—deals his ego a low blow: he has no rhythm. Maggie Buchanan is doing everything to make ends meet since her IT career fizzled, including teaching couples dancing at the community center. She’s prepared for anything—except her immediate attraction to the bad boy rocker who doesn’t know his right foot from his left. As Jon sets out to prove he can rock his body—and hers—their sexual chemistry burns a path across the dance floor, straight to the bedroom. And Maggie wasn’t expecting a man with limited dance skills would know exactly how to sweep her off her feet.




Ballroom Blitz


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In the glamorous world of ballroom, love and dancing do not always mix. Professional dancer Anita Goodman has learned that lesson the hard way. With her studio and her reputation on the line, she has to take a chance on the last person she ever wanted to partner with: her best friend. Patrick O’Leary has loved Anita since high school, but he has languished in the Friend Zone for long enough. He will take this last chance to prove to her that love is greater than winning. Neither of them realize that conquering their rising attraction won’t be their biggest obstacle. Someone does not want them to be together, and will stop at nothing to get their way. Love, dance, and danger. It’s a Ballroom Blitz.




Ballroom Blitz


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Anjali and Mikhail go on a Valentine’s Day date. Trouble ensues. Once, Anjali Patel and Mikhail Grikov were soldiers on opposing sides of an intergalactic war. They met, fell in love and decided to go on the run together. Now Anjali and Mikhail are trying to eke out a living on the independent worlds of the galactic rim, while attempting to stay under the radar of those pursuing them. It’s Valentine’s Day and so Mikhail and Anjali enjoy a well-deserved romantic dinner. But their date is rudely interrupted, when they find themselves caught in the crossfire of a turf war between two rival gangsters. This is a Valentine’s Day novella of 23200 words or approximately 78 print pages in the “In Love and War” series by Hugo finalist Cora Buhlert, but may be read as a standalone.




Ballroom Blitz


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The Ballroom Blitz


Book Description

The stunning new Buckingham novel from Sunday Times bestselling author Anton Du Beke. September 1940. As the skies split apart and bombs rain down on London, it's all the staff at the famed Buckingham Hotel can do to keep their guests in the luxury they're accustomed to, and evoke the magic of the Grand ballroom for them each night. Home on leave and still reeling from the tragic events at Dunkirk, the dashing Raymond de Guise struggles to define his role in this new world, and to do his duty both to his country, and his beloved wife Nancy- who needs him now more than ever. With profiteers skulking the London streets, and devious rivals plotting the Buckingham's downfall, the hotel staff must all hold onto what matters most- and decide where their loyalties truly lie. As the bombing intensifies and Christmas fast approaches, somehow the show must go on...




Legend of the Mighty Sparrow


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Bonnies greatest fears have come true: unemployed, homeless, bankrupt, as well as alienated from family and friends. In a desperate effort to salvage her life, she flees California in search of long-lost New York girlfriends. However, she soon discovers them trapped in a complex real -estate scam, as one of them purchased a rundown Gilded Age mansion at the edge of a remote as well as fiercely disputed forest, a place with a reputation; people enter and mysteriously return unfit to live. Unknown to them, this remote forest represents a truly great real-world experiment of the bizarre and grotesque, a neologic syncretism, a frontier without pesky checks and balances, the darker side of free enterprise, the side of obsession and addiction, a brave new world, and a place controlled by powerful special interests too big to fail, controlled by the ultimate insiders, who seem hell bent on a leap fifty years ahead of the competition, in search of pure profit and tremendous control over the world economic system. So they obsessively tinker with nature and ignore the fundamental rules, a tyranny of small decisions, and this great experiment goes wrong, and these ultimate insiders create a magnificent freak, a true techno glory, and yet a serious affront to nature, a gross mockery of nature law, as well as sick abomination associated with a dystopia, and creature or thing far ahead of everyone, beyond foresight, and before black site powers-that-be realize the full potential and implications, and the device gains control over the creator.




If This Vortex Doesn't Slow Down


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The pain and the glory to be an exception—that is one definition of Bella. Then add her political predictions, ramifications, and implications will amaze the readers as to the timing and years ahead of the rest of the country she is but all predictions come true. Now add the story. This is the mothership of all cruises to take with Bella who uses her sunshine, giggles, and color to pull her through a story we all are horrified, cry, cheer, and then laugh out loud till crying she is so hilarious and eventually want to pick her up and carry her into our own lives. One exceptionally undefinable girlie like no one you will ever meet again shares her ability to survive through some one the most indescribable certifiable kidnapping scenes only for her to turn them into comedic skits to gain strength and amaze all of her survivalist nature we all could learn from. Did you ever meet someone who’s story was just so unimaginable and you cannot picture how they ended up speaking the English language forward not backward in the end she has one of the most hilarious vicious sense of humor with one of the truest hearts, biggest compassion, God-fearing , God-loving, and love of country. Bella’s voice, passion, and unrelenting prophetic political side that drives her Earnhardt speed and unnerving clairvoyant prediction to the realism of the heartbeat and destruction of our own country. The story threads one girl’s journey to get out of abusive relationships and her desire to pull our country along with her out of the abusive plot taking Life and Liberty Away from The Big Girlie and our girlie gains hers back.




Cielo


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The choice should be easy for Shay. She may be falling in love with Roman but he has the one thing that makes him off-limits—a girlfriend. Then Kyle walks into her life. He’s a handsome distraction with perfect timing to save her. Until things start to go wrong. As Shay’s life falls apart around her, it becomes clear that nothing with either man was what it seemed. While one will stop at nothing to keep her safe, the other is a monster, hidden in plain sight and stalking her. And if he can’t make her smile, he’ll have to make her cry.