Showing results by publisher "Author's Republic" in Romance

How does a man - in the face of adversity and loss - drive forward powerful actions that carve the future for himself, his family, and his country? Jacob Monroe lives during the infant stages of our Republic. Without the benefit of hindsight to see the power of his actions and the repercussions of his journey ahead, he starts out as an innocent bystander. He hopes to be a part of something bigger than even his own expansive imaginings. As he forges his way through twists and turns, he follows the path set up by our founding fathers.

Der schüchterne Kyle geht Veränderungen aus dem Weg. Um sich vor Enttäuschungen zu schützen, hat er hohe Mauern um sich herum aufgebaut. Als jedoch eines Tages der freiheitsliebende Menschenrechtsaktivist Brandon vor seinem Büro auftaucht, um gegen Kyles Arbeitgeber zu protestieren, ändert sich alles. Kyle verliebt sich Hals über Kopf in den aufrührerischen, attraktiven Surfer, und ehe er es sich versieht, kämpft er an Brandons Seite.

Sam and Scarlett have been married for a little more than a year. Scarlett has recently inherited her fathers multimillion-dollar business empire, and Sam has retired from being a private detective to help Scarlett run the business. A four-day weekend at the Windsor, designed as a "getaway" from the pressures of their new life, is interrupted by Detective Inspector Blank, who tries to entice Sam out of retirement to help him with a high-profile murder committed not far from Sam and Scarlett’s iconic hotel, The Windsor.

Seventeen-year-old Marylyn Zhasa is a very ambitious young girl who has her future all planned out. She meets Dan, a charming fellow student whose own ambition is to get her at any cost. Not the kind of girl to stand by and let things happen, Marylyn puts up her well-practiced defenses against Dan's unusual advances, in spite of which she gets sucked into a fast-paced world of danger and uncertainty, where plans don't always work out as expected....

Sophie is desperate to stitch her life back together. Quirky. Derailed. Unhinged. Untamed. Awkward. And ultimately hanging on by a thread after a life-changing car crash changes the direction of her life as she knew it. Navigating losing love, death, and finding her place in the world, she sets out on a journey to fall back in love with life. Between sewing sarcastic cross-stitches, threads of sexual tension, and a rift of spiritual revelations, Sophie finds herself forming new friendships, traveling new lands, and living in limbo between worlds.

Nils lebt ein Leben auf der Überholspur. Seinen Kollegen zeigt er, wie man Karriere macht, und seine Bedürfnisse befriedigt er in den Berliner Gay-Clubs. Gefühle? Wer braucht die schon! Doch ausgerechnet kurz vor dem Urlaub steht sein Leben plötzlich Kopf und zwingt ihn zu einem Aufenthalt in den Bergen. Doch dann trifft er den sturen, aber überaus attraktiven Johannes, der abgeschieden in einer Almhütte lebt. Schnell kommen sich die zwei unterschiedlichen Männer näher, und das Glück scheint perfekt. Aber die beiden ahnen nicht, dass die Dorf-Idylle trügt...

Imagine a future in which traditional gender roles are reversed and men have quite literally become enslaved to the capricious whims of their female masters. Irving E. Cox created a masterpiece, a futuristic story where men, and not women, are marketable products in a matriarchal, and not patriarchal, society. The role reversal as propounded in this story sounds unthinkable in our times, but it sounds plausible at some point in the distant future. This story shows how love always is a major part of life...and how it can either aid or break someone.

My audiobook is about an employee who falls in love with her boss without her boss' knowledge. Then she plays the game of leaving her job when her boss shows no interest. The boss realizes that he fell for her during her absence and knowing that he can't live without her, pursues her until he finds her and brings her home.

The Hawk Hunters, a novel set in 18th century Punjab, features the Sikhs’ resistance against Aurangzeb’s torrent of terror and torture. While a Sikh farmer-soldier is inexorably drawn into the fierce fight for freedom, he falls headlong in love with a Muslim noblewoman. Can their overwhelming love survive the tumultuous war?

Hearts Desire is the ultimate lesbian romance.

From humble beginnings, Jess Turner transformed her life. Not in the traditional way, but by fighting to secure a future more in keeping with her aim of marrying into wealth. Quickly realising her first goal to secure a drudge free future was unattainable, Jess moved toward her horizon using every ounce of guile and tenacity she possessed. Obstacles forced a decision in another direction, one where her friend, ally and business partner Julia, played an invaluable roll.

What do you do when you are involved in a love triangle? What if the situation continues even when one partner dies? Sophie has been living a life of duplicity in a love triangle for decades, so that she could save her marriage. Now her grand-daughter, Karen, faces a different challenge and a love triangle in her marriage. Karen has a near-death experience which changes her life and her marriage. The only way to for everyone to make sense of their situations is to accept supernatural experiences. Love has different facets, and not all of them can be explained rationally.

Eine total verrückte Lovestory aus Liverpool. Ich hätte wissen müssen, dass ein Musikcasting, bei dem es die »Goldene Bratwurst« zu gewinnen gibt, in die Hose geht. Mir hätte klar sein müssen, dass man die Bandauswahl nicht einer rappenden Fleischereifachverkäuferin überlassen sollte. Und ich hätte auch ahnen können, dass die skurrilen Fetischfotos, zu denen ich mich hatte überreden lassen, nach hinten losgehen.

Fatima, a Brazilian head teacher, is being threatened as a consequence of a decision she made some time ago. Then, she dismissed a pair of untrustworthy coaches from her school, which prompted the clampdown on an organs' traffic mafia with a fatal outcome, whereas Clara, a British investigative journalist, strives to pay back some members of a Bacchus sect which abducted and raped her in Majorca.

Expelled for her intolerance. Seduced by a dangerous attraction. One woman must risk her life to open her heart. The stubborn, spoiled, favored granddaughter of the Devi goddess Astoreth, Moreva Tehi has failed to perform her sacred duty and now she must be punished for her transgression. Temporarily banished from É life, she is dispatched to Mjor - a backwater village in the Syren Perritory - to assume the roles of custodian of the landing beacon as well as the spiritual leader and commander of Astoreth’s garrison stationed there.

Fragmented into 16 excerpts, stories, or scenes, this brief work by León focuses on the breakup of a couple of unnamed lovers without explicit gender, swept away by the gale of passion and desire, with the moon as their sole spectator and accomplice, and the presence of a cat that serves as witness to the impulses of a love that is hopelessly undone in the misunderstanding of bodies scorched by the fire of the sexes. The work is a heartbroken cry of a lonely, proud individual, overpowered by his own ego in the face of the loss and abandonment of the one who filled his days.

Call of the Seagull is a love story set in the time of the French revolution. The adventure begins as the heroine finds herself pursued by a government agent with evil intent. She meets a young English man who is involved with an anti-revolutionary group, and he tries to help her escape the blood-lust frenzy and dark shadow of la guillotine. She falls in love with him, but is already engaged to a friend of her father's....

Just when you thought it was safe to come out of the kitchen, a fatal accident leads five survivors to the doors of the newly appointment Aged Care Facility, Hideaway House, where Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones rules the roost much to the irritation of some of the residents. When a Category 5 Cyclone compounds the problem, all hands are called to prepare the Home for the blast. But cyclones are not predictable and all the preparation in the world could not prepare them for the worst.

Rosehill Home for the Elderly is run by the almost evil Joan Holloway-Potts-Jones-Bristowe. The same crowd is in residence, but nothing is quite what it seems. With an eye on the income revenue, Joan decides to turn the clock back after a devastating fire, and redecorates the whole home in retro style, with furniture and music from the '60s, and one extra ingredient grown in the garden.

Nach dem College will Jason Ward nur eins: Texas hinter sich lassen und in New York neu anfangen. Doch der Autounfall seines Bruders, den Jason hätte verhindern können, lässt seine Träume platzen. Geplagt von Schuldgefühlen, vertritt Jason seinen Bruder in dessen Wäscherei, als eines Tages der traurig wirkende Landon Reed einen Aushilfsjob in dem maroden Familienbetrieb annimmt. Schnell fühlt Jason sich zu dem ebenso attraktiven wie verschlossenen Landon hingezogen. Doch obwohl Landon diese Gefühle teilt, setzt er alles daran, Jason auf Abstand zu halten.