Stephanie Spicer's Great Sexpectations: Volume Two


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Just how much emotional heartache can a single blonde stand when her special lover is taken from her? Beautiful creative agency director, Stephanie Spicer, is set on a collision course with romantic destiny in this second trio of red-hot erotic romance stories, Love Plus One, Soul Tattoo and Dangerous Beauty, where passion and sex are just a heartbeat away from the perilous gameplay of corporate business. As Stephanie’s romantic future is thrown into free fall, she finds solace in the arms of those closest to her and meets hot new partners that set passions blazing. Flying high, she discovers the joys of sex on an airplane, the intimacy of a close encounter on a train and the thrill of a public tryst in a voyeur’s play-tent. Yet all the while, behind the professional persona, she is forced to make impossible relationship decisions when her sole desire is to be with the one true love that seems to be forever beyond her reach. Emotions run high as games of love and lust are played out to the backdrop of a business world. But can Stephanie’s emotional wreckage ever be mended, and can the special lover she craves find a way to remain in her heart? For this special anthology, the second trio of Stephanie Spicer novellas are joined by a special short story, Yours Until Tomorrow, plus an exclusive interview with the author about her background, writing and influences. Stephanie Spicer's Great Sexpectations: Volume Two is a 61,000-word bundle.




A Long Long Way


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A powerful new novel about divided loyalties and the realities of war from “master storyteller” (Wall Street Journal) Sebastian Barry, author of Old God's Time In 1914, Willie Dunne, barely eighteen years old, leaves behind Dublin, his family, and the girl he plans to marry in order to enlist in the Allied forces and face the Germans on the Western Front. Once there, he encounters a horror of violence and gore he could not have imagined and sustains his spirit with only the words on the pages from home and the camaraderie of the mud-covered Irish boys who fight and die by his side. Dimly aware of the political tensions that have grown in Ireland in his absence, Willie returns on leave to find a world split and ravaged by forces closer to home. Despite the comfort he finds with his family, he knows he must rejoin his regiment and fight until the end. With grace and power, Sebastian Barry vividly renders Willie’s personal struggle as well as the overwhelming consequences of war.




In the Country of Men


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Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond games on the hot pavement outside his home beyond the loving embrace of his parents. He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business - but then he sees his father, standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses. Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie and questions go unanswered. In his father's worrying absence, Suleiman turns to his mother, who, under the cover of night, entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood. And, as lies and fears intensify, it feels as if the walls of Suleiman's home will break with the secrets held within it.




Selfless Cinema?


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In Selfless Cinema?, Sarah Cooper maps out the power relations of making, and viewing, documentaries in ethical terms. The ethics of filmmaking are often examined on largely legalistic terms, dominated by issues of consent, responsibility, and participants' or film-makers' rights, but Cooper approaches four representative French film-makers - Jean Rouch, Chris Marker, Raymond Depardon, and Agnes Varda - in a far less juridical way, drawing on the ethical philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas. She argues that, in spite of Levinas' iconoclastic, anti-ocular thinking, his concept of visage is richly applicable to film, and especially to documentary.




The Line of Succession 2: Acts of Treason


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Four months have passed since the birthday party where Princess Katyn came into James’ life and gave the country hope of a royal wedding. Andrew is now a journalist, but he’s still up to his old tricks, spinning stories of the impending engagement of James and Katyn. Fortunately, the public are lapping up the fairytale royal romance. In reality, James and Andrew’s relationship is struggling to survive the weight of their separation, always one bad headline away from disaster. The expected engagement has cornered James, and he’s acting out in ever more dangerous ways. The Queen has made it crystal clear she wants a wedding and an heir, and will stop at nothing to achieve it…not even murder. As Princess Alexandra ramps up her feminist plan to forever shift the line of succession, she tasks her husband Faisal with roping in Andrew to her schemes by promising him a normal life with James. Only, it comes with a high price…treason. Meanwhile, Lizzie pursues her own, far deadlier agenda. She’s finished holding onto secrets, and these particular secrets are the kind which, if they ever got out, could blow the entire line of succession wide open.




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All The Lovers


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Still hung up on ex-boyfriend Shawn, Nick tries, tries, and repeatedly fails to find a meaningful connection in a parochial gay society still defined by closets and cruising. With fabulous best friend Mylo and straight-laced flatmate Jenna by his side, Nick's journey to self-discovery forces him to confront not only his own demons, but those of all his lovers as well.All The Lovers is a sexy, hilarious, and eye-opening chronicle of Nick-a working class teenager from the North of England exploring love and sex in a pre-Grindr world.




A Gay Polyester High School Romance


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The year is 1973. It's the time of Watergate and the E.R.A. Social change is in the air, and for 15-year-old Shawn Stuart, that means coming to terms with feelings for his best friend, Brad.Brad has been his best friend since preschool. The two have always been close, so it seems natural enough that, as a new term of high school begins and Brad begins questioning his sexuality, he decides to show his feelings for his best friend...by laying a kiss on him.Shawn is a straight boy, with eyes on a girl who seems to have eyes on him too, but after the kiss with Brad, he's not so sure of his sexuality. As the big school dance comes up, and Shawn goes steady with his girl, he wrestles with the question: how can he like girls and like guys the same way? The answer isn't obvious in a society where such things are not talked about, even between the closest of friends.Shawn and Brad must hide behind the veil of their secret, yet might there be a way for their future to be defined by the calling of the heart? And, in the winds of social change, can Shawn be true to himself, while also fitting into the expectations of the world?




Wolf Heart


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It’s been years since Elias has seen his childhood rival and friend Julian. The last time they were together, Elias kissed him, sending Julian running away. And by morning, he was gone. Since then, Elias has kept his secret close to his chest, hoping Julian would do the same. But Julian is back now, and simultaneously a string of mysterious animal attacks have struck the town, rousing superstitions about a Beast that swept through before Elias was even born. A Beast that was only stopped by Elias’s grandmother. Elias may have been keeping his own secret, but as he and Julian reconnect, what secrets will he discover about Julian’s family…or his own?




Frankenstein Builds a Boyfriend


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Victor Frankenstein is having the suckiest junior year at Fangville High.He'd always been content with his place in school-he has his best friend Igor, the occasional date with a cute werewolf, and his grades are decent. It's never really bothered him that he's on the lowest level of the school's social hierarchy.But all of that changes when an incubus wants to make out with him. Not just any incubus, but the hunkiest and most popular incubus at school. Just as Victor thinks his life is going to get way better, it all comes crashing down when he learns this is all a joke and the punchline is Victor being humiliated in front of the entire school.Now he's on a mission-to exact revenge on the incubus, to score an even hotter boyfriend, to climb to the top of the social ladder, and to claim his destiny as the most awesome mad scientist ever.How will he accomplish all this? By building the boyfriend of his dreams from spare parts he and Igor dig up at the cemetery.That'll work.Right?