Claiming His Call Girl


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She’s a hostess at an exclusive gentlemen’s club. He’s a cop with a grudge. Sparks? That would be an understatement. Michelle: I’m a hostess for an exclusive all-male clientele and it’s fun. I dance for the men. I sing, and even play my flute. But that’s where things get naughty because … … this isn’t just any flute. Instead, I sway under the hot spotlights … … my gleaming instrument in hand … … and soon, a different type of music is rising to the Heavens! But a dark man catches my eye one night. He’s sitting in the back with piercing blue eyes that take in every detail. He’s gorgeous with broad shoulders, a heavily muscled chest, and a smirk that makes me want to slap him and kiss him at once. Even more, he says he could use a woman with my talents. Please, handsome. Every man wants a woman with my particular skills. But then his true identity comes out … … and soon, my flute’s on the ground while he puts his baby is in my belly! This story is a follow-up to Trapped By My Boss. Yes, Michelle was insane when we met her back then, but she’s fully recovered now and ready to play! But is the feisty woman in over her head when it comes to criminals, undercover cops, and an adventure that surpasses her wildest dreams? Read and find out! No cheating, no cliffhangers, and always a HEA for my readers. All of my books are standalones, and do not need to be read in order.




Call Girl Confidential


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You’ve probably heard of Anna Gristina, the notori­ous “Soccer Mom Madam,” who allegedly operated a multimillion-dollar escort service with clients from the Forbes billionaires list to Capitol Hill. But you haven’t heard of the woman who helped bring the Soccer Mom Madam down—until now. Call Girl Confidential is Rebecca Kade’s compelling, intimate account of her career as an escort...and her work as an undercover agent for the Manhattan District Attorney’s Office. Strictly raised as a Southern Baptist, Rebecca Kade never dreamed she would compromise her values by someday becoming a high-priced escort. But when her rock star former lover took her to court in a drawn-out custody battle for their daughter, Rebecca’s legit day job barely covered her exorbitant legal fees. She needed to make money and lots of it—fast. Rebecca first became an escort for Kristin Davis, aka “The Manhattan Madam,” and her classic beauty made her an instant favorite with the host of wealthy, powerful men who were willing to pay thousands to sleep with her. When she went to work for Anna Gristina, the stakes were even higher and the clientele more prominent. From Wall Street bankers and CEOs to famous U.S. politicians and Middle Eastern princes as well as Grammy winners, Rebecca met the world’s most influential movers and shakers. Then her deepest fears came true. Kristin Davis was arrested, and Anna Gristina also landed on authori­ties’ radar after going undetected for fifteen years. Rebecca had two choices: refuse to cooperate and go to jail—risking never seeing her daughter again—or com­ply fully, even if it meant giving up Gristina, who trusted Rebecca implicitly. She agreed to go undercover for the DA’s office. And the more incriminat­ing evidence she collected, the more she placed herself in danger. Candid and fascinating, this revealing memoir gives readers a glimpse into the little-known life of a high-priced escort turned confidential informant.




A Woman's Guide to Claiming Space


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For too long, women have been told to confine themselves-physically, socially, and emotionally. Eliza VanCort says now is the time for women to stand tall, raise their voices, and claim their space. Women fight the pressure to make themselves small in private, professional, and public spaces. VanCort, a teacher, consultant, and speaker, provides the necessary tools for women to rewrite the rules and create the stories of their choosing safely and without apology. VanCort identifies the five key behaviors of all Space-Claiming Queens: use your voice and posture to project confidence and power, end self-sabotage, forge connections, neutralize unsafe spaces, and unite across differences. Through personal narrative, research, and actionable strategies, VanCort provides how-tos on combating challenges, such as antimentors and microaggressions, and gives advice for building up your old girls club, asking for what you're worth, and owning your space without apology. Bold, fun, and enlightening, this book is birthed from VanCort's incredible story. Having a mother with schizophrenia forced VanCort to learn to be small and invisible at an early age, and suffering a traumatic brain injury as an adult required her to rethink communication from the ground up. Drawing on these experiences, and those of real women everywhere, VanCort empowers women to claim space for themselves and for their sisters with courage, empathy, and conviction because when we rise together, we rise so much higher.




Cop to Call Girl


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Here's the book the LAPD tried to supress--the no-holds-barred story of an intelligent, courageous woman who chose to leave her middle-class life of law enforcement and cross the line into prostitution--letting the chips fall where they may. Photographs.




Single Daddy To Go


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The growly, gorgeous single dad wants more children, and the curvy girl would be the perfect mommy to his kids. Rob Lockhart’s daughter is in my pre-school class. When he comes in to pick her up, the breath exits my lungs. After all, the alpha male is tall, gorgeous, and so eligible with intense blue eyes, chiseled features, and a physique that would make an Olympic swimmer jealous. But one day when he picks up his daughter, his jacket flies open and I see … ohmygod. There’s an enormous tool in his pocket that’s reserved for good times. I gasp, growing hot. Is that for me? Evidently so, because this single dad wants more kids. In fact, he wants a dozen to form a hockey team. A dozen? The thought makes me catch my breath. I’d be more than delighted to give this possessive, demanding billionaire dozens of children. But are my curves right for Rob Lockhart? Or will he be a single daddy forever? Come and say hello to the most eligible bachelor on the block! This OTT alpha male drives our heroine crazy, but she’s a feisty one who gives as good as she gets. The stork gives our couple a gift just in time for Christmas, and they’re ecstatic to meet the new bundle of joy. No cheating, no cliffhangers, and always an HEA for my readers.




Civil Rights in the White Literary Imagination


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The statement, "The Civil Rights Movement changed America," though true, has become something of a cliché. Civil rights in the White Literary Imagination seeks to determine how, exactly, the Civil Rights Movement changed the literary possibilities of four iconic American writers: Robert Penn Warren, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, and William Styron. Each of these writers published significant works prior to the Brown v. Board of Education case in 1954 and the Montgomery Bus Boycott that began in December of the following year, making it possible to trace their evolution in reaction to these events. The work these writers crafted in response to the upheaval of the day, from Warren's Who Speaks for the Negro?, to Mailer's "The White Negro" to Welty's "Where Is the Voice Coming From?" to Styron's Confessions of Nat Turner, reveal much about their own feeling in the moment even as they contribute to the national conversation that centered on race and democracy. By examining these works closely, Gray posits the argument that these writers significantly shaped discourse on civil rights as the movement was occurring but did so in ways that--intentionally or not--often relied upon a notion of the relative innocence of the South with regard to racial affairs, and on a construct of African Americans as politically and/or culturally na*ve. As these writers grappled with race and the myth of southern nobility, their work developed in ways that were simultaneously sympathetic of, and condescending to, black intellectual thought occurring at the same time.




Made for Houston


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Leah Kennedy is as wary of people as she is strikingly beautiful. However, the shocking death of her father that forever changed her girlhood has left her terrified of the very love she desperately longs for. Only in the untamed splendor of the Scottish crags does she feel safe from the feelings she stirs in men and the cruel mockery of Selkirk's villagers. Debonair, well-educated doctor Houston Stuart has turned his back on social privilege along with professional honors to set up a medical practice in the lowlands of Scotland. There, serving those who need him the most, he hopes to forget the bitter memories and disillusionment that disturb his days. Coincidence brings the cultured doctor and this fey mountain girl together. Something as bizarre as destiny disrupts the obstacle of birth and breeding, stubborn pride and fear which has kept them apart...as each seeks to heal the other's wounds with a raw passion neither can deny and all the odds against them cannot defeat.







Claiming the Call to Preach


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"Claiming the Call to Preach traces the history of call through the nineteenth century, at a time when the question of women's call to preach, although seemingly fixed by ecclesial authority and cultural convention, was being raised by courageous women in different settings, through different genres, and to different effect. This book recovers the neglected narrative of women's call to preach through the historical accounts and rhetorical witness of four ground-breaking women preachers: Jarena Lee, Frances Willard, Louisa Woosley, and Florence Spearing Randolph. Scholarship has been written on women who have preached in history, but not on how they managed to claim their call to preach despite the restrictions of gender inequality. This project explores the question: how did women claim their call to preach? Through feminist hermeneutics, this book examines call narratives which used rhetorical strategies to articulate effective arguments for women's call to the preaching ministry of the church. In response, these women received endorsement of their claims to pulpit places, engaged in sacred persuasive speech, and preached as ministers of the sacred office. This project examines women's call to preach-the history and theology, rhetoric and practice, struggle and success, and the necessary work of interpretation and re-interpretation through call narratives. This book concludes with practical applications for contemporary homiletics, showing how historical tradition can be re-invented in order to give women-and anyone struggling with their call to preach-rhetorical tactics and narrative scripts in order to make effective claims to preach today"--




The Texan's Contested Claim


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He was a man you didn't refuse Billionaire Garrett Miller had arrived in Texas under false pretenses. He told innkeeper Ali Moran that his stay at her bed-and-breakfast was strictly business. But the high-powered businessman's true agenda was to uncover all of Ali's secrets… and use them to his best advantage. For all of her wide-eyed innocence, Garrett couldn't believe Ali was unaware of the claim she was holding, the potential power she held over his family. And yet, soon all he could think about was staking his own claim…on her.