Mad Passion


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Have you ever gotten out of a cab and noticed that right before you enter your building, he is still sitting on the corner watching you. Have you ever walked home from the train station with the strange feeling that someone is following you? You could feel his touch, hear his voice, and yet, no one is there. You start to imagine that you are going crazy. The next day you turn on the television to watch the morning weather report while you get dressed, similar to any other day, but this time instead of the weather, you see your face on the news. Her name is Karin Joseph, she lives close by you, and someone raped and murdered her in her apartment. You start to wonder how he got so close to her. Would you be afraid to step outside your home? Was it you he meant to kill? Now, one of your sisters is missing. All Chris wants is to get close to Alesha and her two sisters, but he got more than what he bargained for. He went out with Avah first because she had that devious, daring personality that hes drawn to. He wines and dines her, toys with her for a little while, and then things get out of hand]She cries rape. Avah decides to inform the police that the man she went out with name was Chris when she actually doesnt remember. It makes you wonder if Alesha really missing and if the police was sent on a wild goose chase? The only thing Chris wants is to get close to his beloved Alesha. He watches everyone that is close to her like a hawk, revealing all of her true enemies while someone new mesmerizes him.




Mad Passion


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This is a story about two men with dissimilar struggles in theirs lives, joined by the force of nature and kept together by their own irresistible passion.




A Mad Passion


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A lost loveSeven years ago, the Marquis of Thornton broke Cleo's heart, and she hasn't forgotten or forgiven him. But when she finds him standing before her at a country house party, as handsome as ever, old temptations prove difficult to resist. One stolen kiss is all it takes.A proper gentlemanThornton buried his past and his feelings for Cleo long ago. He's worked diligently to become a respected politician with a reputation above reproach. The only trouble in his otherwise perfect life is that he can't resist the maddening beauty he never stopped wanting, no matter how devastating the cost.A mad passionCleo is hopelessly trapped in a loveless marriage, and Thornton is on the cusp of making an advantageous match to further his political ambitions. The more time they spend in each other's arms, the more they court scandal and ruin. Theirs is a love that was never meant to be. Or is it?




Lady in Red


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The Victorian era was full of majestic beauty and scandalous secrets—a time when corsets were the least of a woman’s restrictions, and men could kill or be killed in the name of honor.… Lady Mary Darrel should be the envy of London. Instead, all society believes her dead. For Mary holds a secret so dangerous, her father chose to keep her locked away…and have a grave made for her near her mother’s. Driven to the edge of desperation, Mary manages to escape the asylum, only to find that her fate yet again rests in the hands of a man… Edward Barrons, Duke of Fairleigh, longs for some way to escape the torment of his father’s crimes. In Mary’s warrior spirit and haunted gaze—which so mirrors his own—he finally sees his path to redemption. He will stop at nothing to keep her safe, even as she seeks revenge. But will the passion they discover in each other be enough to save them from their demons?




The Dark Affair


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The Victorian era was full of majestic beauty and scandalous secrets—a time when corsets were the least of a woman’s restrictions, and men could kill or be killed in the name of honor… Lady Margaret Cassidy left a life of nobility behind in Ireland, forsaking her grieving homeland to aid war-ravaged men in England. Still, she never expected a cruel turn of fate to lock her into an unwanted betrothal with one of her English patients—much less one as broken and dangerous as Viscount Powers. Wrecked by his tragic past, Powers’ opiate-addled sanity hangs precariously in the balance, leaving him poised to destroy anyone who dares to utter the names of the wife and child he still so deeply mourns. So when he is forced to marry Margaret in exchange for freedom, he is shocked by the desire to earn her trust, her body, and—most alarming of all—her heart…




Vergiliana


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In Vergiliana Egil Kraggerud collects together over 100 new, revised, and previously published discussions of textual issues in Vergil’s Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid. Through these and in his Introduction, the author argues for a less conservative approach to these texts than has been fashionable among 20th century editors and commentators. This profoundly learned, engaging and valuable contribution is a critical resource for anyone working on the works of Vergil at both under- and postgraduate level, written by one of the most respected scholars in the field.




Mad, Bad & Dangerous to Know


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Discover New York Times bestseller Samira Ahmed’s romantic, sweeping adventure through the streets of Paris told in alternating narratives that bridge centuries, continents, and the lives of two young Muslim women fighting to write their own stories. Smash the patriarchy. Eat all the pastries. It’s August in Paris and 17-year-old Khayyam Maquet—American, French, Indian, Muslim—is at a crossroads. This holiday with her parents should be a dream trip for the budding art historian. But her maybe-ex-boyfriend is ghosting her, she might have just blown her chance at getting into her dream college, and now all she really wants is to be back home in Chicago figuring out her messy life instead of brooding in the City of Light. Two hundred years before Khayyam’s summer of discontent, Leila is struggling to survive and keep her true love hidden from the Pasha who has “gifted” her with favored status in his harem. In the present day—and with the company of Alex, a très charmant teen descendant of Alexandre Dumas—Khayyam searches for a rumored lost painting, uncovering a connection between Leila and Alexandre Dumas, Eugène Delacroix, and Lord Byron that may have been erased from history. Echoing across centuries, Leila and Khayyam’s lives intertwine, and as one woman’s long-forgotten life is uncovered, another’s is transformed.




Mad Love


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On a tropical island vacation, virgin Sophie Walker turns up the heat with British ​Tycoon Clayton Sinclair. But is his possessive side too much for her to handle? Twenty-three years is long enough to spend under my parent’s thumbs, bored out of my mind by law school​ and my boyfriend, ​I decide to take a much needed break. So with my two besties in tow—Maldives Islands, here we come! Then my world stops when I meet Clayton Sinclair. The gorgeous Brit comes from a world of privilege and wealth that we only read about in novels. I quickly become ensnared in Clayton's seductive web until a shocking betrayal makes me question my judgment and actions... I was ready for adventure. I was ready for anything. I wasn’t ready for him. Mad Love is book one of The Sinclair Brothers Series




A Greek-English Lexicon


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The Living Universe


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