Soiled Doves


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Soiled Doves tells of the grey world of prostitution and the women who participated in the oldest profession. Colorful, if not socially acceptable, these ladies of easy virtue were a definite part of the early West -- Wearing ruffled petticoats with fancy bows, they were glamorous and plain, good and bad and many were as wild as the land they came to tame.




Their Soiled Dove


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When she decided to auction her virginity to the highest bidder, she never dreamed it would be purchased by two handsome cowboys. After losing her family and her home to a devastating fire, Faith MacGregor is forced to go to work in a brothel in order to save her younger sister. She thinks that she's prepared to become a soiled dove. But when two handsome brothers win the right to claim her virginity and her body for an entire week, she learns things about herself that she never imagined were possible. Eric McKenzie isn't looking for love, and he doesn't expect to ever find a wife. He's always shared women with his brother, and he's content using the services of experienced whores. After all, no decent woman would consent to being dominated or shared by two sexual sadists. But when he lays eyes on Faith while she's being auctioned to the highest bidder, he knows that he's found the one woman he wants to keep for his own. He's determined to win her, no matter the cost. The two brothers use pain and pleasure to teach Faith all about dominance and submission. But with her innocence and courage, she teaches them about love. Eric soon realizes that if he wants to capture her heart, he'll have to make the hardest choice he's ever faced. Publisher's Note: This steamy, historical ménage contains a theme of power exchange.







The Soiled Dove Nest


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The Soiled Dove Nest: To Jonas and Cameo Lucky 13 was a little piece of heaven on earth. Cindy, a nineteenaEUR"yearaEUR"old homeless girl who had spent the better part of five years on the street, had been beaten and left to die and had been rescued by Jonas and Cameo. So is this like a soiled dove nest or something? Cindy asked. The love continues. Fangels of Sharadan: The beautiful Fangel of Sharadan Magdaleana lay dying from the sting of the scorobat! Can the healing power of the light that Josiah holds heal her wounds completely? Slumberland Key: Even at my young age of twelve years old, little did I realize just how mysterious or what fantastic adventures would be forthcoming from this mysterious box! Edenaria: In a waraEUR"ravaged far eastern land of indescribable beauty, dreams and visions keep pulling, enticing, drawing me back to I know not what! Then So Shan Tu appears!




The Ruby Queen


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Mattie Wallace is rejected by her family and her community, when she refuses to marry one brother - because she loves the other. Labeled a trollop and run out of town, she finds herself on the road with meager possessions and little money. Soon, Mattie meets Roxana: a woman in the Trade. Mattie is impressed with Roxie's confidence, independence, and her lovely wardrobe, and also with the fact that Roxie has made herself a life that is not dictated by a man. Mattie joins Roxie on her way to a new and profitable life in the West, where women are few and men are willing to pay for their company. Making her way to Abilene, Kansas - a cow town where cowboys spend their money on whiskey and women - Mattie soon learns the ways of the women in the Trade, and the hazards of the west. This book contains graphic sex and violence, and is not suitable for readers under the age of 18.




Temple Houston and the Soiled Dove Speech


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This is a short account (Federal Writers' Project) of the life of Temple Houston, youngest child of noted Texan Sam Houston. It also includes the "Soiled Dove" speech, also known as the "Plea for a Fallen Woman" speech delivered by Temple Houston in defense of Minnie Stacy, a prostitute, in Woodward, OK in 1899. Addendums include a bibliography and the obituary of Laura Cross Houston, wife of Temple Houston.




The Deception


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Soiled doves are being systematically killed in Denver, Boulder, and other towns in Colorado.Governor Evans understands the mindset of the insane and knows the killer must be stopped. He calls on Denver Marshal Seth Stewart, appoints him as a Special Investigator and U.S. Marshal, and tasks him with the responsibility of finding the killer and bringing him to justice.Everything points to one of two men; both seemingly are around the town on the day that a killing occurs. The two men look a great deal alike, dress somewhat alike, and even ride similar colored horses. Three attempts are made on Marshal Stewart's life. Two paid assassins end up dead without revealing the man who hired them; the third got away.It seems that the more Marshal Stewart discovers, the less he knows. Finally there are two witnesses hundreds of miles apart; one who saw the killer and the other who survived his attempt to strangle her.Armed with information from the eye witnesses, Seth finally gets his man after an investigation that covers more than three years. The question is does he really have the right man?The Deception - The Soiled Dove Murders is a classic mystery set in the 1860s in Denver, Colorado and the small mining communities near what is now the capitol of the state. There are twists and turns and several action filled sub-plots intermingled with the search for the killer of the prostitutes. The final solution to the mystery adds another twist to the story.




Wicked Women


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This collection of short, action-filled stories of the Old West’s most egregiously badly behaved female outlaws, gamblers, soiled-doves, and other wicked women by offers a glimpse into Western Women’s experience that's less sunbonnets and more six-shooters. Pulling together stories of ladies caught in the acts of mayhem, distraction, murder, and highway robbery, it will include famous names like Belle Starr and Big Nose Kate, as well as lesser known characters.




Brothels, Bordellos & Bad Girls


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This look at prostitution in Colorado, 1860-1930, uncovers the lives and woes of "working girls" in mining towns such as Cripple Creek.




Frog Music


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From the New York Times bestselling author of Room, a young French burlesque dancer living in San Francisco is ready to risk anything in order to solve her friend’s murder—but only if the killer doesn’t get her first. Summer of 1876: San Francisco is in the fierce grip of a record-breaking heat wave and a smallpox epidemic. Through the window of a railroad saloon, a young woman named Jenny Bonnet is shot dead. The survivor, her friend Blanche Beunon, is a French burlesque dancer. Over the next three days, she will risk everything to bring Jenny's murderer to justice—if he doesn't track her down first. The story Blanche struggles to piece together is one of free-love bohemians, desperate paupers, and arrogant millionaires; of jealous men, icy women, and damaged children. It's the secret life of Jenny herself, a notorious character who breaks the law every morning by getting dressed: a charmer as slippery as the frogs she hunts. In thrilling, cinematic style, Frog Music digs up a long-forgotten, never-solved crime. Full of songs that migrated across the world, Emma Donoghue's lyrical tale of love and bloodshed among lowlifes captures the pulse of a boomtown like no other. "Her greatest achievement yet . . . Emma Donoghue shows more than range with Frog Music—she shows genius." —Darin Strauss, author of Half a Life.