Deadly Appetites


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A playboy and an ice princess make a seductive bargain while the secrets of his past stalk them both… Victoria: Cassian is exactly the kind of charming playboy I hate. Smooth talker. Game player. Heartbreaker. I’ve been burned by his kind in the past. But he takes it to the next level with his sultry gaze and hard, powerful build. He’s got an Achilles’ heel though—there’s a dark secret from his past threatening to destroy his empire. And he comes to me for help. But he’s not getting me for free. Cassian’s going to teach me all his tricks of seduction. Once I’ve cracked his code, I’ll beat the bad boys at their own game. Except with a single, sizzling kiss, Cassian tears down all my defenses. And suddenly I’m in over my head and falling fast. Cassian: Victoria’s ice-princess act doesn’t fool me. Inside that beautiful, frosty facade, I know I’ll find a woman made of pure fire. But no matter how much she tries to maintain her distance, I need her. She’s going to help me keep the secrets of my past where they belong—buried deep. Victoria agrees to help if I give her lessons in seduction. Little Miss Uptight wants to learn how a bad boy operates? She’s about to get a lesson she’ll never forget. As I unwrap more of the real Victoria though, I’m realizing I want to do more than teach her—I want her for my own. Forever. Band of Billionaires: A tragic secret binds them together… Revealing the truth could tear them apart. Binge read the complete series now! Primal Bargains (Book One, Gideon’s Story) Deadly Appetites (Book Two, Cassian’s Story) Covert Sins (Book Three, Archer’s Story) Forbidden Loyalties (Book Four, Gage’s Story) Lost Hearts (Book Five, Bishop’s Story) Necessary Betrayals (Book Six) forced proximity romance billionaire office billionaire wealthy suspense suspence romantic alpha club books series boys workplace office banker male steamy hot sizzling novel enemies lovers thriller adventure silicon valley tech venture capitalist tycoon standalone




Deadly Appetites


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Exotic Appetites


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Exotic Appetites is a far-reaching exploration of what Lisa Heldke calls food adventuring: the passion, fashion and pursuit of experimentation with ethnic foods. The aim of Heldke's critique is to expose and explore the colonialist attitudes embedded in our everyday relationship and approach to foreign foods. Exotic Appetites brings to the table the critical literatures in postcolonialism, critical race theory, and feminism in a provocative and lively discussion of eating and ethnic cuisine. Chapters look closely at the meanings and implications involved in the quest for unusual restaurants and exotic dishes, related restaurant reviews and dining guides, and ethnic cookbooks.




Works


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Savage Appetites


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A “necessary and brilliant” (NPR) exploration of our cultural fascination with true crime told through four “enthralling” (The New York Times Book Review) narratives of obsession. In Savage Appetites, Rachel Monroe links four criminal roles—Detective, Victim, Defender, and Killer—to four true stories about women driven by obsession. From a frustrated and brilliant heiress crafting crime-scene dollhouses to a young woman who became part of a Manson victim’s family, from a landscape architect in love with a convicted murderer to a Columbine fangirl who planned her own mass shooting, these women are alternately mesmerizing, horrifying, and sympathetic. A revealing study of women’s complicated relationship with true crime and the fear and desire it can inspire, together these stories provide a window into why many women are drawn to crime narratives—even as they also recoil from them. Monroe uses these four cases to trace the history of American crime through the growth of forensic science, the evolving role of victims, the Satanic Panic, the rise of online detectives, and the long shadow of the Columbine shooting. Combining personal narrative, reportage, and a sociological examination of violence and media in the 20th and 21st centuries, Savage Appetites is a “corrective to the genre it interrogates” (The New Statesman), scrupulously exploring empathy, justice, and the persistent appeal of crime.




Over the Teacups


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