How far would you go? Jonathan Wheeler is determined to find out.

The eccentric billionaire agrees to his dying wife’s request—that he give away his fortune—but his methods are dangerously unconventional. He offers a teenager tickets to the concert of the century as long as the boy takes the school’s least popular girl. He pays a son’s tuition if the mother gives up drugs. He offers life-saving medical treatment to a man’s wife, if he walks across the country.

But there’s a catch—along with the gifts come consequences if they don’t succeed. But who will suffer the consequences when Jonathan goes too far?

How far would you go? Jonathan Wheeler is determined to find out.

The eccentric billionaire agrees to his dying wife’s request—that he give away his fortune—but his methods are dangerously unconventional. He offers a teenager tickets to the concert of the century as long as the boy takes the school’s least popular girl. He pays a son’s tuition if the mother gives up drugs. He offers life-saving medical treatment to a man’s wife, if he walks across the country.

But there’s a catch—along with the gifts come consequences if they don’t succeed. But who will suffer the consequences when Jonathan goes too far?

Dakota’s Review:

If you’re looking for a fast-paced, sexual book, April Love by the incomparable Dee Dawning is right up your alley. There is plenty of sex, multiple partners and screaming orgasms to satisfy even the most jaded of readers. A word of warning though: this implacably strong story of a woman exploring her own sexuality is definitely not for the faint of heart.

I have to say that the chemistry between the characters would have been enough to set my Kindle on fire if it had been flammable. Even at nearly 50,000 words this story flew and I was finished before I knew it. My only suggestion to those interested in reading this book is that picking up April Showers would be greatly beneficial. This book can be read by itself but I think that as a reader you’d get more enjoyment out of this book after reading the first.

Rated 4 1/2 Delightful Divas by Dakota!
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Picking up where April Showers leaves off, Randy weaves his spell of dominance and protection over beautiful blonde haired, blue eyed Angel Love as he had over equally beautiful April. Reintroducing her to the alluring, exciting, glamorous life of a high priced call girl, she had all but given up, she is anxious to please Randy and herself. Therefore, she resumes the life she, April and two other friends left behind seven years earlier, when as college juniors, the four had spent a debauched two week spring vacation as in Las Vegas.

WARNING: There are extreme sexual situations in this book.
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Excerpt
Randy stroked me with his prodigious organ and oh God, it felt heavenly. Each wondrous thrust sent spasms of lustful heat rifling through my slender frame. I was silly centimeters for the ‘big one’, the San Andres fault when he suddenly stopped and left me hanging.

“Oh, Doll Face, I was so-o-o close. What’s the matter?”

“I need help.” He called, “April?”

“Help? April’s help. I don’t understand.”

The door opened and April, now wearing a robe and a mask peaked in. “Did you call?”

“Yes. Put the cuffs on her ankles. And put the mask on her.”

She stepped into the room and closed a cuff around each ankle, then closed the cuff on my left ankle around the corresponding post on the footboard. I started kicking violently. “Wait. What are you doing that for?”

April couldn’t grab my right ankle to fasten it, but Randy did. He then grabbed my foot and locked it in place. Spread eagle on the bed and naked, I began to panic. April slid beside me, a mask in her long feminine fingers. I whimpered. “April, we’re friends. Please tell me. Please. What the f*ck is going on?” As she slipped the mask over my eyes, I blubbered. “Please. What’s going to happen?”

She stroked my hair. “You’re just going to have some fun and make some money.”

I began to breathe heavily. My pulse rate soared. I felt a tingling in my arms and face from hyperventilating. “April, Helen or whatever you f*cking name is. You don’t understand. I don’t need money.”

Randy spoke. “April, baby, send the first customer in.”

Dakota’s Review:

If you’re looking for a fast-paced, sexual book, April Love by the incomparable Dee Dawning is right up your alley. There is plenty of sex, multiple partners and screaming orgasms to satisfy even the most jaded of readers. A word of warning though: this implacably strong story of a woman exploring her own sexuality is definitely not for the faint of heart.

I have to say that the chemistry between the characters would have been enough to set my Kindle on fire if it had been flammable. Even at nearly 50,000 words this story flew and I was finished before I knew it. My only suggestion to those interested in reading this book is that picking up April Showers would be greatly beneficial. This book can be read by itself but I think that as a reader you’d get more enjoyment out of this book after reading the first.

Rated 4 1/2 Delightful Divas by Dakota!
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Picking up where April Showers leaves off, Randy weaves his spell of dominance and protection over beautiful blonde haired, blue eyed Angel Love as he had over equally beautiful April. Reintroducing her to the alluring, exciting, glamorous life of a high priced call girl, she had all but given up, she is anxious to please Randy and herself. Therefore, she resumes the life she, April and two other friends left behind seven years earlier, when as college juniors, the four had spent a debauched two week spring vacation as in Las Vegas.

WARNING: There are extreme sexual situations in this book.
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Excerpt
Randy stroked me with his prodigious organ and oh God, it felt heavenly. Each wondrous thrust sent spasms of lustful heat rifling through my slender frame. I was silly centimeters for the ‘big one’, the San Andres fault when he suddenly stopped and left me hanging.

“Oh, Doll Face, I was so-o-o close. What’s the matter?”

“I need help.” He called, “April?”

“Help? April’s help. I don’t understand.”

The door opened and April, now wearing a robe and a mask peaked in. “Did you call?”

“Yes. Put the cuffs on her ankles. And put the mask on her.”

She stepped into the room and closed a cuff around each ankle, then closed the cuff on my left ankle around the corresponding post on the footboard. I started kicking violently. “Wait. What are you doing that for?”

April couldn’t grab my right ankle to fasten it, but Randy did. He then grabbed my foot and locked it in place. Spread eagle on the bed and naked, I began to panic. April slid beside me, a mask in her long feminine fingers. I whimpered. “April, we’re friends. Please tell me. Please. What the f*ck is going on?” As she slipped the mask over my eyes, I blubbered. “Please. What’s going to happen?”

She stroked my hair. “You’re just going to have some fun and make some money.”

I began to breathe heavily. My pulse rate soared. I felt a tingling in my arms and face from hyperventilating. “April, Helen or whatever you f*cking name is. You don’t understand. I don’t need money.”

Randy spoke. “April, baby, send the first customer in.”

Matthew Sterling is a man on the way up. As the assistant city manager in a small rural community, Matt thought the twenty-first century looked promising.  After all, he had passed the bar exam and met the apple-of-his-eye. Kasia Sumerset was a brilliant graduate student pushing back the frontiers of genetic biology, but her beauty-plus her enticing English accent-was the only chemistry Matt could appreciate.

Returning to New York on family business Matt discovers the historic journal of Major Andrew McBride, his sixth-great grandfather, plus a Revolutionary War manuscript that uncloaks a true patriot, unjustly pilloried and cast into public shame.

As a modern-day political scandal unfolds and Matt's professional standing is challenged, Kasia wonders if he is the man she thought she loved. The similarity to Matt's early American ancestor challenges everything he believes about fairness, integrity, and justice. But when Kasia reveals her astonishing DNA discovery, she demonstrates that life may well be influenced by Love, Honor, & Consequence.

Matthew Sterling is a man on the way up. As the assistant city manager in a small rural community, Matt thought the twenty-first century looked promising.  After all, he had passed the bar exam and met the apple-of-his-eye. Kasia Sumerset was a brilliant graduate student pushing back the frontiers of genetic biology, but her beauty-plus her enticing English accent-was the only chemistry Matt could appreciate.

Returning to New York on family business Matt discovers the historic journal of Major Andrew McBride, his sixth-great grandfather, plus a Revolutionary War manuscript that uncloaks a true patriot, unjustly pilloried and cast into public shame.

As a modern-day political scandal unfolds and Matt's professional standing is challenged, Kasia wonders if he is the man she thought she loved. The similarity to Matt's early American ancestor challenges everything he believes about fairness, integrity, and justice. But when Kasia reveals her astonishing DNA discovery, she demonstrates that life may well be influenced by Love, Honor, & Consequence.

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.


From the Trade Paperback edition.

"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks.

This anthology is a thorough introduction to classic literature for those who have not yet experienced these literary masterworks. For those who have known and loved these works in the past, this is an invitation to reunite with old friends in a fresh new format. From Shakespeare s finesse to Oscar Wilde s wit, this unique collection brings together works as diverse and influential as The Pilgrim s Progress and Othello. As an anthology that invites readers to immerse themselves in the masterpieces of the literary giants, it is must-have addition to any library.

Politics can be murder...

Lieutenant Sam Holland has no sooner accepted Senator Nick Cappuano's proposal than she's back on the job. A woman has been found brutally murdered and evidence points to Henry Lightfeather, a senator and close friend of Nick's. While Sam investigates, Nick stands by his friend—complicating his own bid for reelection, and causing tension between the couple.

As Sam's investigation reveals a scandal that rocks the capital, Nick and Sam discover that the biggest threat to their future might be someone from her past...

96,000 words

Politics can be murder...

Lieutenant Sam Holland has no sooner accepted Senator Nick Cappuano's proposal than she's back on the job. A woman has been found brutally murdered and evidence points to Henry Lightfeather, a senator and close friend of Nick's. While Sam investigates, Nick stands by his friend—complicating his own bid for reelection, and causing tension between the couple.

As Sam's investigation reveals a scandal that rocks the capital, Nick and Sam discover that the biggest threat to their future might be someone from her past...

96,000 words

Beyond Consequences, Logic, and Control covers in detail the effects of trauma on the body-mind and how trauma alters children's behavioral responses. The first four chapters help parents and professionals clearly understand the neurological research behind the basic model given in this book, deemed, 'The Stress Model.' While scientifically based in research, it is written in an easy to understand and easy to grasp format for anyone working with or parenting children with severe behaviors. The next seven chapters are individually devoted to seven behaviors typically seen with attachment-challenged children. These include lying, stealing, hoarding and gorging, aggression, defiance, lack of eye contact, and yes, even a chapter that talks candidly about how parents appear hostile and angry when they work to simply maintain their families from reaching complete states of chaos. Each of these chapters talks in depth on these specific behaviors and gives vivid and contrasting examples of how this love-based approach works to foster healing and works to develop relationships, as opposed to the fear-based traditional attachment parenting approaches that are being advocated in today's attachment field. The authors end with a Parenting Bonus Section: true testimonials from parents who have been able to make significant changes in their homes with this model of parenting, giving real-life examples of how they have been able to find the healing, peace, and love that they had been seeking prior to working through the techniques outlined in this book.

Nico Eliades is back on the idyllic Greek island of Xanos to uncover long-buried family secrets. He can't help but notice a bride in a crumpled wedding dress sitting on the steps of his hotel.

Constantine's orchestrated marriage is over before the wedding night. A humiliated virgin bride, she longs to feel desired, and at Nico's skilled hands she experiences white-hot passion.

But their one night brings more than just shame on Constantine and her family…. Constantine has no choice but to reveal her bombshell to Nico—yet still her fingers tremble as she dials the number for Eliades Enterprises….

During the war-time German occupation of Jersey, Irene Binet gets rich, seriously rich. In 1947 her ex-lover returns to the island on an archaeological dig; but what is he really digging for? Half a century later, on a Devon hillside, the body of what police originally think is a Hell’s Angel biker turns out to be a wartime Luftwaffe officer with three bullet holes in his skull and, nearby, an archaeological dig reveals the wreckage of a Heinkel aeroplane. Meanwhile, at a writers’ conference, the wife of an eminent archaeologist is murdered and he disappears: clearly not all those attending the conference have literature on their minds…
Are they after a strong box containing millions of pounds’ worth of gold and diamonds? Rumour has it that such a box was smuggled into wartime Britain, intended for followers of the Duke of Windsor who believed that, after the successful invasion of England by Germany, he would return to claim the British crown.
But the archaeologist is seeking something far more important to him than gold and diamonds…

During the war-time German occupation of Jersey, Irene Binet gets rich, seriously rich. In 1947 her ex-lover returns to the island on an archaeological dig; but what is he really digging for? Half a century later, on a Devon hillside, the body of what police originally think is a Hell’s Angel biker turns out to be a wartime Luftwaffe officer with three bullet holes in his skull and, nearby, an archaeological dig reveals the wreckage of a Heinkel aeroplane. Meanwhile, at a writers’ conference, the wife of an eminent archaeologist is murdered and he disappears: clearly not all those attending the conference have literature on their minds…
Are they after a strong box containing millions of pounds’ worth of gold and diamonds? Rumour has it that such a box was smuggled into wartime Britain, intended for followers of the Duke of Windsor who believed that, after the successful invasion of England by Germany, he would return to claim the British crown.
But the archaeologist is seeking something far more important to him than gold and diamonds…

The book is about a young lady by the name of Taniesha Alexander, she owns a salon with three of her best friends. Life is pretty good, except for a a few problems with her current boyfriend, Damien. That is until a Trey comes into the salon to have his daughters hair done and falls for Taniesha. After explaining to him she has a boyfriend, she thinks this will be the end of this crush until, he tells her that he isn't going to give up. She turns to her boyfriend, who ends up having a physical altercation with Trey. Which makes the situation worst.