The Way of a Man with a Maid explores pleasure, suffering, lesbianism, and manners from the perspective of a stereotypical Edwardian gentleman. It is widely regarded as a landmark example of the erotic genre and exposes the evil side of human sexuality. It first appeared in Parisian periodicals around the turn of the century.
Do the greatest parts really come to the patient woman? In the padded room of what used to be a mad asylum, Jack created a particular space he calls “The Snuggery.” He selects Alice to finish the ornamentation, which is filled with straps, cushions, ropes, and feathers. She is tortured into obedience while being imprisoned against her choice. And in a fit of lust, when Jack refers to her as his “wife,” Alice ultimately gives up her maidenhead, yielding to the force of his unrestrained need.
An innovative, urban take on the traditional story of star-crossed lovers. Brittany Ellis had no idea that her meticulously crafted “perfect” existence is going to fall apart in front of her eyes as she enters chemistry class on the first day of her senior year. Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the opposite side of town who is compelled to work within the lab, is about to endanger everything she has fought so hard to achieve, including her boyfriend’s relationship, her impeccable reputation, and the knowledge that her home life is anything from ideal.
And Alex is aware that he is a terrible boy. So he doesn’t take it seriously when he and his pals wager that they can get Brittany to commit to them. The bet Alex made in arrogance suddenly becomes much more as he finds Brittany is a genuine person of great concern. Simone Elkeles rips down the hurdles and misconceptions that could keep Brittany and Alex apart in her impassioned tale about going past the surface.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You are the one girl that made me risk eveything for a future worth having.”
“We’re actors in our lives, pretendin’ to be who we want people to think we are.”
“I want to try making things right because picking up the pieces is way better than leaving them the way they are.”
“I want to know how to make this girl laugh. I want to know what makes her cry. I want to know what it feels like to have her look at me as if I’m her knight in shinning armor.”
“One of the things that makes me who I am is the loyalty I have to people I hold close to my heart.”
The story begins with a teenager (Emily) who feels her best friend has been murdered by a frightening man. Emily Wayborn realizes something is drastically wrong when she hears an automated phone voice from her former closest friend Amber. Emily hasn’t spoken to Amber in years, so when Amber mentions a safe word in her message that She recognizes – a term they used to get out of tough circumstances during their wild partying days – Emily knows Amber needs her aid.
When Emily goes looking for her, she learns that Amber has gone missing. So, in order to find out what happened to her closest friend, she chooses to seduce and become his mistress. She is attempting to entice a potential killer who is scary and deadly. From the first time, she meets him.
Emily suspects him of being the deadly killer who murdered her closest friend, yet she attempts to seduce him. So it’s exciting from the start and maintains you on the verge of giving up throughout the novel. You want her and this man to get together because they have such great chemistry. It’s also tense from the time you open the page, much like Verity.
This is a romantic suspense story in which the opposite attracts grumpily and lacks sunshine. Dante Torelli is an underground FBI agent tasked with safeguarding a mafia informant and his family. When the informant’s hiding spot is discovered, a merciless hitman kidnaps a newborn girl.
Dante now has three days to save the kid, find the traitor in his department, avoid different bad people, and deal with the toddler’s gorgeous aunt before the largest mafia trial in Chicago history begins. Then she must do all in her power to reclaim her niece. But what actually occurs is that she steals Dante’s automobile.
He will not allow her to get away with taking his automobile. So he’s on his way to solving crimes along the route. This novel moves at a breakneck pace, with incidents happening left, right, and center. However, passionate chemistry remains, and there are aspects of mystery, such as Verity.
Because the central character is a cam girl, it is more erotic, with more explicit sexual content (Deanna). It implies she does things for people on camera. But it simply means she needs to dwell in her apartment since she has an uncontrollable murderous urge. She wants to kill others, so she shuts herself up in her bedroom to protect them from herself.
Deanna earns a lot of money doing this. But it’s fascinating to watch how she runs her company since she has intricate contraptions in her apartment. As a result, she doesn’t have to leave her residence. But one day, a person she’s conversing with online decides he’s going to murder a small child.
She must decide whether to put herself out in the world where she may kill someone in order to stop another killer. There is some romance mixed in with the hardcore. She perceives how she will murder someone if she meets them and discovers herself acting on it. The characters and narrative are compatible with Verity.
JORDAN: When I had nothing else to do, he took me in. He doesn’t take advantage of me, mistreat me, or ignore me. He sees me, hears me, and offers protection. Over breakfast, I can sense his eyes on me, and when I see him pull into the driveway after work, my heart starts to race. I must stop right now. It is not possible. There are no good men, and if you do find one, he’s probably not available, my sister once informed me. The only person that isn’t unavailable is Pike Lawson. I am.
PIKE: He investigates how the tides of history have influenced our human societies, the plants and animals surrounding us, and even our personalities. He draws on concepts from biology, anthropology, paleontology, and economics. Has history made us happy as a result? Can we ever break away from the influences of our ancestors on how we act? And if anything, what can we do to shape the future of the centuries? Sapiens question everything we believed to be true about being human, including our thoughts, deeds, power, and future. It is audacious, all-encompassing, and controversial.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“A ship at harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.”
“Birthday wishes don’t always come true, so I don’t waste a chance when I blow out a candle.”
“I knew you were out there somewhere,” I tell her, quirking a sad smile. “The girlfriends, women I dated, Cole’s mother…. I never wanted to marry anyone, because they weren’t what I was looking for. I had started to think I had my sights set too high, and you didn’t exist.” I clasp the back of her neck and run my thumbs down her throat. “Turns out my dream girl belongs to the one person it would kill me to hurt.”
“The more you do for someone, the less they do for themselves.”
“We don’t need food to survive this life as much as we need our hearts broken at least once. But the best part is, the first break is always the worst. It’ll never feel this bad.”
Colin Hancock is making the most of his second chance. He has a history of violence and poor choices, but he’s eager to walk a straight line despite the prospect of going to jail following him at all times. Colin interprets that as putting all of his effort towards getting his teaching credential while staying away from anything that caused him to harm in the past. He constantly reminds himself of the lessons he has learned the hard way, so a committed relationship is the last thing he wants.
Maria Sanchez, a devoutly successful Mexican immigrant’s daughter, epitomizes conventional success. She is a dark-haired beauty with a job at a prominent business in Wilmington and a degree from Duke Law School. Her professional record appears to be faultless. Maria, however, has a painful past of her own, one that forced her to go back to her hometown and made her doubt a lot of the things she used to believe.
A fortuitous encounter on a wet road will change Colin and Maria’s life, upending long-held beliefs about one another and, eventually, about themselves. They dare to imagine what a future with one other would be like as an unexpected love grows between them, but then ominous flashbacks about Maria’s past start to emerge.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I think you can do whatever you want. In the end, we all live the life we choose for ourselves.”
“In the end, the only one you can ever really please is yourself. How others feel is up to them.”
“That’s why they say ‘falling in love’ and not something like ‘floating toward love.’ Falling is scary.”
“Experience was the most painful of teachers.”
“Why study or try to change the world on a Friday afternoon when you could be out enjoying the sun?”
How do I start? Oh. Yeah. There was a time. Don’t all wonderful fairy tales begin in this manner? Maximo and I were also unquestionably out of a fairy tale. Not the polished, sterile ones where issues were resolved with a song and a grin. We were the traditional type. The dark stories included violent endings, murder, and other horrible things.
So perhaps we weren’t a conventional fairy tale. Maximo was after all more of a villain than a prince. He was eerily seductive. delightfully sinister. Possessive, menacing, and in control. Particularly when it involved me. His tiny dove God help anyone who attempted to set me free from my prison cell.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“No one takes you from me, little dove,” Maximo growled. “No one opens your cage.”
“I didn’t need a charming prince at my side. I needed a villain at my back. I needed someone who would love me with obsessive reassurance. Someone who wasn’t afraid to get his hands dirty because I knew firsthand that the world was far from a fairy tale.”
“As long as I’m spending the day with you and the night ends with you riding my face, I don’t give a damn what we do.”
“Can I stay here and sleep?” “Yes.” “Will you come in and spoon me?” “As soon as fucking possible.”
“And if you ever try to leave after sex, I’ll take that to mean I haven’t fucked you hard enough. I’ll make sure to rectify that until you can’t even think about standing. That, or I’ll tie you to the bed.” Either sounds good to me.”
Back in 2009, Vivienne Jones took care of her broken heart the way any young witch would: with vodka, somber music, bubble baths… along with a curse on the awful guy. Vivi is aware that she shouldn’t use her magic in this manner, but because she only has an “orchard hayride” fragrance candle available, she isn’t concerned that it will give him more than a few bad hair days.
That is, until Rhys Penhallow, a heartbreaker and annoyingly attractive as always, arrives at Graves Glen, Georgia, a descendant of the town’s progenitors. A brief journey to refuel the town’s ley lines and make a cameo appearance at the yearly fall festival goes horribly wrong.
As disaster after disaster befalls Rhys, Vivi comes to the conclusion that maybe her foolish little Ex Hex wasn’t so benign after all. Suddenly, lethal wind-up toys, an angry ghost, and a talking cat with some fascinating things to say are attacking Graves Glen. To preserve the village and discover a method to end the break-up curse before it’s too late, Vivi and Rhys must put aside their incredible chemistry and work together.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You almost ran your ex-boyfriend over with a car, and then left him lying in the literal dirt on the side of the road. It is such a big deal, you absolute queen.”
“the best cure for anything was candles and a bath,”
“I like how my job is the only one with any real threat of danger,” Gwyn said, but off Vivi’s look, she lifted her hands in defeat. “Okay, okay, Operation Soothe the Muggles, I’m on it.”
“The Full Potter,” he repeated. “Not finding out you’re a witch until you’re older, not growing up with it. ‘Yer a witch, Vivi,’ the sort of thing.”
“Gorgeous blue skies, rolling green hills, the kind of day that made one want to take up painting or maybe develop some kind of poetry habit.”
August, a pessimistic 23-year-old, believes that going to New York City will demonstrate her point that there is no such thing as magic or romantic movies and that living alone is the only sensible course of action. She finds it hard to believe that living with too many strange housemates and working the register in a pancake cafe open 24/7 could alter that. There is also little chance that her daily subway ride will be anything other than a tedious slog through fatigue and electrical outages.
Then, on the train, there’s this stunning girl. Jane. Amazing, endearing, enigmatic, and difficult Jane. When August needed someone to save the day the most, it was Jane, with her rugged edges, swoopy hair, and sweet smile. August’s crush on a fellow commuter turns into the highlight of her day, but soon she realizes there is a serious issue: Jane doesn’t simply have the appearance of an old-school punk rocker.
August will need to use all she wanted to leave in her own past to aid her because she is literally stuck in the 1970s. It might be time to start having some faith after all. One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston is a fantastical, seductive, and big-hearted romance in which August makes every effort in her ability to save the girl trapped in time, making the seemingly impossible possible.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“But, you know, that feeling? When you wake up in the morning and you have somebody to think about? Somewhere for hope to go? It’s good. Even when it’s bad, it’s good.”
“Sometimes the point is to be sad, August. Sometimes you just have to feel it because it deserves to be felt.”
“When you spend your whole life alone, it’s incredibly appealing to move somewhere big enough to get lost in. Where being alone looks like a choice.”
“Maybe I don’t know what fills it in yet, but I can look at the space around where I sit in the world, what creates that shape, and I can care about what it’s made of, if it’s good, if it hurts anyone, it makes people happy, if it makes me happy. And that can be enough for now.”
“Of course I love you. I could go back in time and have a whole life and get old and never see you again, and you would still be it. You were— you are the love of my life.”
Since the fifth grade, Misha and Ryen have been pen pals. Their unusual names led their teachers to believe that Misha and Ryen were of different sexes. When Ryen and Misha start writing to each other over time, they realize that Ryen is actually a woman and Misha is a man. They became unique people they could open up to and confide in ways they couldn’t with anyone else since they lived in towns next to each other and talked about everything that happened in each other’s life.
They also exchange concepts and lyrics for Misha’s band, though they would also argue frequently. However, they always agreed to keep their correspondence private by refusing to look each other up, text each other, or accept Facebook friend requests that would allow them to see each other’s appearances. They enjoyed how anonymous it was. Up to their senior year of high school, they continue.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“We’re all ugly, Ryen. The only difference is, some hide it and some wear it.”
“She can be a nightmare, but this still feels better than any dream.”
“It gets better, you are important, and you can’t be replaced. Hang on. You’ll fing youre tribe.”
“I’m going to hell. I’m pretty sure she’d going to drag me there herself.”
“I have no life there if you’re not in it. You’re part of everything good I’ve ever done, Ryen. Please.”
A fierce bookworm. a persistent Casanova. And a chemical lesson that was too controversial for class. Hanna Bergstrom is determined to take on her overprotective brother’s implied assignment to get out, meet friends, and start dating when she hears him lecture her about ignoring her social life and immersing herself in graduate school. And who better than her brother’s stunning best friend, Will Sumner, a venture capitalist and unrepentant playboy, to transform her into the seductive siren every guy desires?
Will takes chances for a living, but he has his doubts about Hanna’s challenge. up till the wild night when his innocently attractive student tries to convince him into bed and gives him some advice on how to have a woman he won’t soon forget. Will must demonstrate that he is the only man Hanna will ever need now that she has realized the power of her own sex appeal.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I like it when you ask me to come!” he called after me. “I can’t wait to come tonight, Ziggy! Should I come around eight? Or do you want me to come around ten? Maybe I’ll come both times?”
“It’s about finding the woman who gets you thinking. She’ll be the one who’ll change your mind about everything.”
“All that is rare for the rare.”
“Hanna, I don’t know if I’ve ever wanted something more than I want you.”
“In the end one loves one’s desire and not what is desired.”
The genetics professor who serves as the narrator of this humorous, feel-good novel is an oddly charming but socially awkward man on a peculiar quest: to discover whether or not he is capable of genuine love.
Professor of genetics Don Tillman has never gone on a second date. He is a man whose longstanding trouble with social rituals has led him to believe that he is simply not built for romance. He can count all of his pals on the fingers of one hand. Therefore, he is shocked when a friend says that he would make a “great” spouse. However, he must admit that there is likely someone out there for everyone, so he starts The Wife Project. Don sets out to locate the ideal companion in the methodical, empirical way he handles everything. She won’t be a bartender, a smoker, a drinker, or a latecomer; rather, she will be on time and logical.
Rosie Jarman, though, is all of these things. She is also seductive, fierce, smart, and on a personal journey. She is trying to find her biological father, and a particular DNA expert might be able to assist her in her endeavor. The Father Project takes precedence over Don’s Wife Project, and an odd romance develops. This forces the scientifically inclined geneticist to face Rosie and the insight that love is not always what it seems on paper.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“But why, why, why can’t people just say what they mean?”
“I asked you here tonight because when you realise you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.”
“Humans often fail to see what is close to them and obvious to others.”
“I haven’t changed my mind. That’s the point! I want to spend my life with you even though it’s totally irrational. And you have short earlobes. Socially and genetically there’s no reason for me to be attracted to you. The only logical conclusion is that I must be in love with you.”
“If you really love someone,’ Claudia continued, ‘you have to be prepared to accept them as they are. Maybe you hope that one day they get a wake-up call and make the changes for their own reasons.”
Hello, my name is Bree Camden, and my best friend and star quarterback Nathan Donelson and I are over heels in love. Admitting is the first step, right? But I can never tell him since I know he doesn’t view me that way and I don’t want things to grow awkward between us.
Nothing except good ol’ fashioned platonic friendship between us, no touching the hottest man alive, please! Everything is just the way I prefer it to be! Yes. Good. (I’m simply peeling an onion; I’m not sobbing.) How am I supposed to pretend to date Nathan for three weeks without anything altering between us? Particularly when it almost-sort-of-sorta seems like he’s battling for an entirely different result?
Send aid.
Bree, XO
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Bree is everything I aspire to be, everything I love, everything I desire. She holds my heart, and, with all that I am, I hope she never gives it back.”
“Your soul is my favorite in this entire world,”
“I think some things are worth waiting for, no matter how long it takes.”
“I love you too,” he whispers over and over again. “I love you, Bree. I love you. I always have.”
“Bree, hope is healthy. Even if you prepare yourself for the worst in life, it will never make the fall hurt less.”
It is 1960. Jennifer Stirling can’t remember anything when she wakes up in the hospital—not the horrible automobile accident that led to her being there, not her husband, nor even who she is. Until she comes upon a passionate letter encouraging her to leave her husband, written simply “B,” she feels as though she is a stranger in her own life.
Years later, in 2003, a reporter by the name of Ellie finds the same mysterious letter in an unopened file in the newspaper’s archives. She becomes fixated on the narrative and believes it will save her waning career. If the story of these two lovers ended happily, perhaps she will also find happiness in her own convoluted love life. Ellie’s quest will modify history and enable her to understand the reality of her own contemporary romance. The Last Letter from Your Lover is a captivating, seductive love story with a stunning conclusion that will appeal to the same fans who bought bestsellers like One Day and The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Know that you hold my heart, my hopes, in your hands.”
“Somewhere in this world is a man who loves you, who understands how precious and clever and kind you are. A man who has always loved you and, to his detriment, suspects he always will.”
“I was once told by someone wise that writing is perilous as you cannot always guarantee your words will be read in the spirit in which they were written.”
“If all we are allowed is hours, minutes, I want to be able to etch each of them on to my memory with exquisite clarity so that I can recall them at moments like this, when my very soul feels blackened.”
“It was indeed a gift to have someone to love.”
Denny, Kiera’s partner of over two years, has been all she could have ever wished for: caring, tender, and passionately devoted to her. Everything seems to be going well for them as they move to a new city to begin their lives together, Denny at his dream career and Kiera at a prestigious institution. The happy pair are then split apart by an unexpected duty.
Kiera seeks solace from an unlikely person when she is feeling sad, confused, and alone: a local rock sensation named Kellan Kyle. He is at first just a buddy she can rely on, but as her loneliness deepens, so does their connection. Then, all of a sudden, everything changes, and nobody will ever be the same again.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If I’m yours and you’re mine…then I will take you, wherever and whenever I can.”
“Do you really think anyone in this world, compares to you in my eyes?”
“He said I was his heart, and you don’t leave your heart behind. You can’t live without your heart.”
“I want to be someone’s everything. I want fire and passion, and love that’s returned, equally. I want to be someone’s heart.”
“I don’t know how to let you back in.” My heart beat spiked and I closed my eyes when he whispered,” I don’t know how to keep you out either.”
Unrequited love wounded Maurice’s heart and led him to discover his own gender orientation. He defies society’s frequently unstated restrictions of status, wealth, and politics in trying to be true to himself.
Forster knew that, if published when he finished it in 1914, his ode to same-sex love would likely put an end to his career. As a result, Maurice sat in a cabinet for fifty-seven years until being published at the author’s request following his passing. Since it was published in 1971, Maurice has received a lot of attention and appreciation. It has been and is still being adapted for significant theatrical performances, including the Hugh Grant and James Wilby-led 1987 Oscar-nominated film version.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You confuse what’s important with what’s impressive.”
“I am an unspeakable of the Oscar Wilde sort.”
“You do care a little for me, I know… but nothing to speak of, and you don’t love me. I was yours once till death if you’d cared to keep me, but I’m someone else’s now… and he’s mine in a way that shocks you, but why don’t you stop being shocked, and attend to your own happiness.”
“A happy ending was imperative. I shouldn’t have bothered to write otherwise. I was determined that in fiction anyway two men should fall in love and remain in it for the ever and ever that fiction allows, and in this sense, Maurice and Alec still roam the greenwood.”
“After all, is not a real Hell better than a manufactured Heaven?”
The best home remodeling company in town is managed by Georgette Castle’s family, but since she chose balloons over plans, they haven’t taken her seriously. She is simply done with it. Georgie enjoys organizing kids’ birthday celebrations and making others laugh, but not at her expense. She is adamant about being a Woman of the World, whatever that may entail.
Georgie must accept the fact that she hasn’t been on a date in, well, ever if she wants to live her best life. That much is certain: no one is asking the local clown out for a night of steamy sex. Perhaps if people believe she is engaged in a passionate relationship, they would realize she is more than just the “little sister” who paints people’s faces for a livelihood.
And also who better to assist in shattering that perception than the local sports hero and favorite of the tabloids? When an injury interrupted his career, Travis Ford was the hottest rookie in major league baseball. He is currently flipping houses to keep himself busy and attempt to forget his heyday. However, he is constantly having his biggest hits recapped as he attempts to cross the street. Or by joking about his… bat. Then there is Georgie, who is no longer a child but is the sister of his best buddy. He agrees when she suggests a crazy plan—that they pretend to date in order to surprise her family and aid in his search for a new position. The lady Travis used to tease is now a hilarious, vibrant person, and his desire for her is genuine.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“You have to fight for what you deserve. What you want is no more or less important than what anyone else wants.”
“Why do women believe they need an occasion to dress up? Dress up for life, goddammit!”
“We’re not about cutting people out of our lives. We’re about refusing to accept anything less than what we deserve. About realizing that we’re all important here despite mistakes or bad relationships or lackluster careers.”
“Maybe it was the way she only reached his shoulder that sent protectiveness surging up to his jugular, while somehow—at the very same time—he wanted to seek refuge in her.”
“Every man I date either cheats or can’t commit. Or is already way too committed to his mother. Or PlayStation.”
Roman Chandler, a foreign correspondent who has lived abroad all of his life, is selected as the sibling to manage his mother’s matchmaking antics because she is in poor health. He has to find a wife quickly because of a coin flip. In slumbering Yorkshire Falls, where women swarm to snag a Chandler guy, it shouldn’t be that difficult.
But Roman is only interested in the one woman who escaped. Charlotte Bronson has returned to her hometown to establish roots and launch her lingerie company. She doesn’t care about her past or a man who preferred to follow breaking news to the ends of the planet over her. Regardless of how effective they once were or how explosive their chemistry was, they still burn. Roman must persuade Charlotte that he has changed and is here to stay.
Millions of people love pop star Oakley, who is attractive. He has girls lined up for him, but Vaughn doesn’t. She will have to assist him in shedding his bad boy persona. The bestselling author of The Royals book series, Erin Watt, has written an enthralling new book titled When it’s real. Millions of people love pop star Oakley, who is attractive. The paparazzi love to photograph his antics. But Oakley needs to change his image if he desires to be taken seriously in the music business. Who better than the typical Vaughn could assist him with that? She only needs to act like she is his brand-new girlfriend. Vaughn, though, believes Oakley to be a conceited dickhead. He’s attractive, sure, but don’t expect her to fall in love with him.
Best Quotes from this Book:
Who better than the typical Vaughn could assist him with that? She only needs to act like she is his brand-new girlfriend. Vaughn, though, believes Oakley to be a conceited dickhead. He’s attractive, sure, but don’t expect her to fall in love with him.
“You’re the one person in my life who wants nothing but me and it’s terrifying and awesome at the same time. Don’t ever leave me. I love you. You’re my heart.”
“The good ones put your character to the flame and burn away all the rest of the shit until you come out a better you.”
“I wrap my arms around her shoulders. She snuggles into my side and I swear, my damn heart flips over because I want her to be my girl. For real.”
“Yeah, wow. For the right guy, Vaughn, it’s worth getting hurt.”
Welcome to the century’s worst wedding, to which you are graciously invited. Sydney Evans is accustomed to working hard. It is the only consistency in her life. Additionally, it has been simple for her to devote her entire being to her job as general counsel for Blackstone Holdings because she has no family or friends to speak of.
She doesn’t lack anything. till her boss presents her with a once-in-a-lifetime chance. She only needs to wed his useless son in exchange. Scott Blackstone once indulged in partying. Excuse me, party animal. But it’s been a while since he was that guy. Not since he relocated to Wyoming, acquired a struggling cattle ranch, and successfully turned it around. It’s all good until his peaceful, uncomplicated life is threatened by a call from his father. Get married or lose it all. And not even to a lady who despises him. Scott won’t surrender easily, though. He won’t ever return to Manhattan. If he can avoid it, no.
Brennan, Troy That moniker is well-known among Boston’s Southies. the deceased mobster’s son. the ravishing man with steel blue eyes. In this metropolis, “The Fixer” has the power to make or ruin you. Oh, and my brand-new spouse. Raynes, Sparrow I am that. Before he suddenly entered my life, no one appeared to remember my name. And then he imprisoned me. I was abducted. That eliminated any opportunity I would have had to flee the area where we lived. Troy Brennan, to put it simply, clipped my wings. I have huge aspirations, but I don’t think he’ll always let me pursue them. I don’t know why he chose to make me his wife. I do, however, know that it will not serve me to enrage this man.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He gave me lies, and for him, I closed my eyes.”
“He gave me lies, and I ate them from the palm of his hand.
He gave me lies, and for him, I closed my eyes”
“Real love was cancer. All it took was one blink, and it would spread inside you like wildfire and consume you. But that was okay, because I had a feeling that unlike cancer, real love didn’t die. Ever.”
“Fear is a prison, and in prison you played by different rules to survive.”
“For you, I’ll stop the rain from falling and the thunder from cracking and the wind from fucking blowing. And”
Jasmine Santos would undoubtedly choose a four-letter word, to sum up the previous few years of her life if somebody were to ask her to. She knows her chance to participate in figure skating is closing after seventeen years—and numerous broken bones and broken promises.
Jasmine may have to change her mind about everything when the opportunity of a lifetime is presented by the conceited moron she has spent the last ten years fantasizing about ramming into the path of an oncoming bus, Ivan Lukov among others.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Because I’m okay with you having ten other people be your favorite. But you’re always going to be my favorite person.”
“I love you so much I spend all day with you, and it still isn’t enough for me,” he kept going. I stopped breathing. “I love you so much, if I can’t skate with you, I don’t want to skate with anyone else.” Holy. Fuck. “I love you so fucking much, Jasmine, that if I broke my ankle during a program, I would get up and finish it for you, to get you what you’ve always wanted.”
Dawson Cole and Amanda Collier, two seniors in high school, experienced a profound and enduring love affair in the spring of 1984. But as their senior year’s summer came to an end, unexpected circumstances would split the new couple apart and send them down radically different roads.
Twenty-five years later, Tuck Hostetler, the mentor who had provided refuge for Amanda and Dawson’s high school romance, is laid to rest, and Amanda and Dawson are called to return to Oriental for the burial. Both have not lived the lives they had envisioned.
Everything Amanda and Dawson believed they understood turns out to be false when they follow the instructions Tuck left for them. The two ex-lovers will come face to face with unpleasant memories and learn the unavoidable facts about their decisions. They will ask the living and the dead this question over the course of one intense weekend: Can love really erase the past?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Don’t take my advice. Or anyone’s advice. Trust yourself. For good or for bad, happy or unhappy, it’s your life, and what you do with it has always been entirely up to you.”
“There’s a lot of magic between you too, ain’t no denying that. And magic makes forgettin’ hard.”
“Change isn’t always for the best.”
“I gave you the best of me, he’d told her once, and with every beat of her son’s heart, she knew he’d exactly done that.”
“Love, after all, always said more about those who felt it than it did about the ones they loved.”
The owner of The Manor, Mr. Jesse Ward, has scheduled the first consultation with young interior designer Ava O’Shea. On arrival, nothing else would suggest anything other than the overweight, well-to-do countryman she is only expecting to see. How could she be in error? This man is stunningly attractive, endearing, and self-assured. Additionally, he is a pretentious, hedonistic playboy who has little regard for propriety. Even though Ava passionately tries to resist her attraction to him, she is powerless over it. She runs because she is being driven to do so by every instinct, but Jesse Ward is not so eager to let her go. He is adamant about getting her because he wants her. Even though she is aware that she is headed for heartbreak, how can she escape when he won’t allow her?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Just tell me one thing before you leave, Ava.” His voice prickles at my senses… His face is serious, but still stunning. “How loud do you think you’ll scream when I fuck you?”
“I want to look after you forever.” He whispers, pressing his lips against my temple.”
“Ava, you should know that once I’ve had you, you’re mine.”
“Ava, the sexual tension batting between you and that man was so fucking super charged, even I was horny!”
“I don’t want to be pencilled in anywhere, pencil can be erased.”
When Veronica “Ronnie” Miller, then 17,’s parents split up and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina, her world was completely flipped upside down. When her mother decided it would be better for everyone if she spent the entire summer in Wilmington with her father, she is still bitter and estranged from her family three years later, especially her father. Former concert pianist and teacher Ronnie’s father leads a quiet life in the beach town while working on a piece of art that will be the focal point of a nearby church.
The story that emerges is a fascinating tale of love in its many manifestations, such as first love and the love shared by parents and children. As Nicholas Sparks’ book can, it depicts the various ways that deeply felt connections can both tear and mend our hearts.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes you have to be apart from people you love, but that doesn’t make you love them any less. Sometimes you love them more.”
“I mean, if the relationship can’t survive the long term, why on earth would it be worth my time and energy for the short term?”
“Truth only means something when it’s hard to admit.”
“you have to love something before you can hate it.”
“In the end you should always do the right thing even if it’s hard.”
The heart’s history cannot be undone. Macy Sorensen is getting used to her ambitious but emotionally reserved routine: put in a lot of effort as a brand-new pediatrics resident; arrange her marriage to an older, well-off man; and hold her head down and heart hidden.
But when she crosses paths with Elliot Petropoulos, her one and only love, the meticulous bubble she had built starts to burst. Before he broke her heart the night he confessed his love for her, Elliot was once Macy’s entire world. He had evolved from being her gangly, bookish buddy to the man who helped her heart heal following the death of her mother.
The story of young Elliot and Macy, who spend weekends and leisurely summers together in a house outside of San Francisco reading books, sharing favorite words, and talking through their teething problems and triumphs, is told in alternating timelines between Then and Now. Prior to their unexpected reunion, they were unknown to one another as adults. Elliot will learn the truth behind Macy’s ten-year quiet, despite the pain of what happened that night so many years ago clouding their recollections. He will have to battle his own past and his own self to restore Macy’s trust in the potential of an all-consuming love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I never got to fall out of love. I just had to move on.”
“Don’t spoil her with toys; spoil her with books.”
“I’ve been waiting for you to come home for eleven years. I’ll go anywhere you go.”
“I like your kind of quiet. Your heart isn’t quiet.”
“Well, you’re more, too. You’re my best everything.”
In this heartwarming tale, two teenagers fall in love with the exception of a small danger that prevents them from being within five feet of one another. Stella Grant prefers to be in charge, despite the fact that she has spent the majority of her life in and out of the hospital due to her completely uncontrollable lungs. At this time, Stella needs to exert maximum control over maintaining herself away from anybody or anything that could spread an illness and put her chances of receiving a lung transplant in jeopardy.
Will Newman just wants to have control over one thing: leaving this institution. He gave neither his medical treatments nor a glitzy new clinical medication study a second thought. He will soon turn eighteen, at which point he will be able to unplug all of these devices and travel outside of hospitals.
Stella needs to keep away from Will specifically. Stella might be removed from the transplant list if he even breathes on her. Either of them could pass away. The sole means of survival is seclusion. Six feet suddenly doesn’t feel safe, though. It has a punitive feeling. What if they were able to reclaim a tiny portion of the room that their damaged lungs had taken from them? If it prevents their hearts from shattering too, would being five feet apart truly be so dangerous?
Best Quotes from this Book:
“If I’m going to die, I’d like to actually live first.”
“How long will I live my life afraid of what-ifs?”
“I’m tired of living without really living.”
“If this year has taught me anything, it’s that grief can destroy a person.”
“I’m tired of living without really living. I’m tired of wanting things. We can’t have a lot of things. But we could have this.”
General George Washington was given a crown by the American people after their victory in the Revolutionary War. The House of Washington is still in power today, 255 years later. The obligation Princess Beatrice has embraced her entire life now feels oppressive as she approaches becoming America’s first queen pregnant. Princess Samantha doesn’t care much about anything, either, save from the one boy who is clearly off-limits to her, because no one cares about the spare until she’s breaking the rules.
Prince Jefferson, Samantha’s twin, is another. He would have been first in line for the throne if he had been born a generation earlier, but the new rules of succession place him third. The majority of Americans think their prince is shockingly attractive, but two completely distinct girls are vying for his affection.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Who said anything about forgetting? The point of forgiveness is to recognize that someone has hurt you, and to still love them in spite of it.”
“That was the thing about success, it could be even more draining than failure.”
“All she knew was that one day she woke up and her love for him was simply there, like newly fallen snow. Maybe it had been there all along.”
“Writers got to pick the endings of their novels, but Beatrice wasn’t living a story. She was living history, and history went on forever.”
“The point of forgiveness is to recognize that someone has hurt you, and to still love them in spite of it.”
Hailsham appears to be a lovely English boarding school removed from urban influences. Its pupils receive excellent care and support, instruction in literature and the arts, and development into the kind of individuals that the world desires. Curiously, however, they have minimal exposure to and no instruction about the outside world.
Kathy develops from a young girl to a lady while living on the grounds of Hailsham, but it’s not until she and her companions Ruth and Tommy leave the secure confines of the school (as they always knew they would) that they fully comprehend what Hailsham is.
Never Let Me Go transcends the restrictions placed on literary novels. It is a compelling mystery, a lovely love tale, as well as a biting indictment of human conceit, and a moral investigation of how we handle the weak and diverse members of our society. Ishiguro writes his most poignant and potent novel to date by tackling the idea of a potential future while examining the themes of recollection and the influence of the past.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Sometimes I get so immersed in my own company, if I unexpectedly run into someone I know, it’s a bit of a shock and takes me a while to adjust.”
“We took away your art because we thought it would reveal your souls. Or to put it more finely, we did it to prove you had souls at all.”
“All children have to be deceived if they are to grow up without trauma.”
“You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple? ”
“She always wanted to believe in things.”
The closest thing to a royal this side of the Atlantic is First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz. The White House Trio, made up of his intrepid sister and the brilliant granddaughter of the Veep, is a lovely millennial marketing tactic for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. The drawbacks of being an international socialite include when images of a conflict with Prince Henry, a lifelong enemy, at a royal wedding endanger US-UK relations. Damage control strategy: pretending that the First Son and the Prince are buddies.
Alex finds himself rushing into a secret connection with Henry as President Claremont launches her reelection campaign. This romance has the potential to ruin the campaign and upend two countries. What merits making a sacrifice? How can you do as much good as you can? The most crucial factor is how history will remember you.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“That’s the choice. I love him, with all that, because of all that. On purpose. I love him on purpose.”
“Sometimes you just jump and hope it’s not a cliff.”
“Straight people, he thinks, probably don’t spend this much time convincing themselves that they’re straight.”
“You are”, he says, “the absolute worst idea I’ve ever had.”
“But the truth is, also, simply this: love is indomitable.”
A lovely and energizing debut book that shows that there isn’t enough information available to determine what will warm your heart. According to Stella Lane, the only thing that connects the cosmos is math. She develops algorithms to forecast client purchases, a career that has made her richer than she understands what to do while giving her significantly less dating experience than the typical 30-year-old.
The fact that Stella has Asperger’s and compares French kissing to a shark having its teeth cleaned by pilot fish doesn’t help. She came to the conclusion that she needed a lot more practice—with an expert. This is the reason she employs Michael Phan as an escort.
The stunning Swedish-Vietnamese woman can’t afford to decline Stella’s offer, so she accepts to assist her in covering every subject on her lesson plan, from foreplay to more than just a missionary posture.
Soon, Stella not only comes to love his kisses but also grows to seek all the other emotions he is making her experience. Their no-nonsense alliance soon begins to make an odd sort of logic. Stella will be persuaded by the emerging pattern that the best type of logic is love.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“All the things that make you different make you perfect.”
“Michael was mint chocolate chip for her. She could try other flavors, but he’d always be her favorite.”
“She didn’t know how to be semi-interested in something. She was either indifferent . . . or obsessed.”
“When you love someone, you fight for them in every way you know how.”
“How did one not obsess over something wonderful? How did one like something a reasonable amount?”
The fresh Good girl Abby Abernathy is. She has the right quantity of cardigans in her wardrobe and doesn’t drink or swear. Abby thinks she has enough distance from her terrible past, but when she and her best friend arrive at college, Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand throws a wrench in her plans for a fresh start.
The person Travis Maddox needs to avoid—and wants to avoid—is Travis, who is trim, slim, and covered in tattoos. He spends his days being the perfect college campus charmer and his nights fighting for cash in a floating boxing ring. Travis lures Abby into his life with a simple bet because he finds it intriguing that she rejects his advances. He has to abstain for a month if he loses. If Abby loses, she’ll have to spend the same length of time in Travis’s residence. Travis is unaware that he has faced his match in each case.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“He won’t hurt you, Pigeon,” Travis said. “I won’t let him.”
“I’ll never love anyone the way I love you, Pigeon.”
“Look at him,” she said, shaking her head. “Travis Maddox: Mr. Mom.”
“I had died and woken up in High School Musical”
“I loved him, and no matter what my reasons were to live without him, I knew it wasn’t what I wanted.”
In order to attend her sister’s wedding, Catalina Martin needs a date bad. especially now that her small white lie regarding her boyfriend in America has gotten out of hand. Now everyone she knows will be there and anxious to meet him, including her ex and his fiancee.
She has just four weeks to locate a person who will travel across the Atlantic and help her trick people. It takes a while to get from New York to Spain, and her boisterous family won’t be simple to mislead. Enter her tall, attractive, and pompous colleague Aaron Blackford, who suddenly offers to take over. Never has a man been more irritable, blood-curdling, and intolerable; she would like to decline.
However, Catalina is in a dire situation, and as the marriage date approaches, Aaron seems to be her only bet. And she starts to suspect he may not be as bad outside of work as he is there.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“I’ll give you the world,” he said against my mouth. “The moon. The fucking stars. Anything you ask, it’s yours. I’m yours.”
“Because it was all you were willing to give me. And I’d rather have you hating me than not have you at all.”
“When I finally kiss you, there won’t be any doubt in your mind that it is real.”
“You feel complete in my arms. You feel like my home.”
“If you get any more perfect, I’m going to believe you were made just for me.”
Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.
Even though Lily hasn’t always found it easy, she’s never let that stop her from striving to live the life she desires. She had graduated from college, relocated to Boston, and launched her own business. She has traveled a long way from the small Maine hamlet where she was raised. So everything in Lily’s life appears almost too beautiful to be true when she gets a spark with a stunning neurosurgeon called Ryle Kincaid.
Ryle is aggressive, obstinate, and perhaps a little conceited. He is also intelligent, sensitive, and completely infatuated with Lily. And it surely doesn’t hurt that he looks good in scrubs. Lily is unable to shake him from her mind. But Ryle’s utter distaste for partnerships is unsettling. Lily cannot help but wonder what made him such a person in the first place, even as she finds herself breaking his “no dating” rule.
Her first love and a reminder of the past she left behind, Atlas Corrigan, comes to mind as uncertainty about her new relationship overwhelms her. He served as both her ally and defender. Everything Ryle and Lily have created together are in danger when Atlas arrives out of nowhere.
Joshua Templeman and Lucy Hutton are hostile to one another. not aversion. not reluctantly put up with. Hate. And since they are executive assistants to the co-CEOs of a publishing company, they have no issue acting out their emotions through a sequence of ritualistic passive hostile gestures while they sit next to one another. Lucy finds it difficult to comprehend Joshua’s dreary, rigid, and exacting approach to his work. Joshua is obviously perplexed by Lucy’s eccentric behavior, excessively bright attire, and upbeat outlook.
They are now competing for the same position, and Lucy is refusing to give in even though their latest installment could lose her dream job. However, the conflict between Lucy and Joshua also has intensified, and Lucy is starting to realize that she might not actually despise Joshua. Perhaps he doesn’t despise her either. Or perhaps this is simply a game.
American author Madeline Miller published The Song of Achilles in 2011. It is an adaption of Homer’s Iliad recounted from Patroclus’ viewpoint, and it is set in the Greek Heroic Age.
The ruthless ocean goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus’ son Achilles, known as “the best of all the Greeks,” is a powerful, fast, and alluring figure who makes an impression on all who meets them. The awkward young prince Patroclus was banished from his country following a stunning act of violence. By coincidence, they meet and develop an unbreakable friendship while running the risk of incurring the wrath of the gods.
When word spreads that Helen of Sparta has been abducted, all the Greek heroes are summoned upon to lay waste to Troy in her honor. They are schooled in the arts of war and medicine by the centaur Chiron. Achilles supports their cause after being drawn in by the prospect of a bright future, and Patroclus, divided between love and dread for his buddy, follows. They have no idea that the harsh Fates will put them both through a test unlike any other and require a horrific sacrifice.
The plot of Call Me by Your Name centers on a young man and a summer visitor to his parents’ hillside mansion on the Italian Riviera who develops a spontaneous and intense affair. Both initially pretend to be unconcerned since they are unprepared for the effects of their attraction. However, in the restless summer weeks that follow, as they examine the charged ground between them, uncompromising buried currents of addiction and dread, amazement and desire, intensify their passion. What emerges from the depths of their souls is a romance that lasts just around six weeks but leaves a lasting impression on both of them.
For what the two learn on the Riviera and during a steamy night in Rome is the one thing that they both worry they may never fully find again: complete intimacy. In André Aciman’s frank, unsentimental, and heartbreaking elegy to human passion, the psychological tricks that go along with attraction are deftly captured. Clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable, Call Me by Your Name is.
Rainbow Rowell’s debut young adult book is titled, Eleanor & Park. The story is told in parallel narratives by Eleanor and Park, two outcasts who lived in Omaha, Nebraska, between 1986 and 1987, and was published in 2012.
“Bono met his wife in high school,” Park says. “So did Jerry Lee Lewis,” Eleanor answers. “I’m not kidding,” he says. “You should be,” she says, “we’re 16.” “What about Romeo and Juliet?” “Shallow, confused, then dead.” “I love you,” Park says. “Wherefore art thou,” Eleanor answers. “I’m not kidding,” he says. “You should be.”
Eleanor & Park is the journey of two star-crossed freaks who are courageous and desperate enough to pursue first love despite knowing it virtually never lasts. It is set over the course of one school year in 1986.
Ali Hazelwood’s romance book, The Love Hypothesis, will be available on Berkley Books’ website on September 14, 2021. Olive Smith, a third-year Ph.D. student, doesn’t think long-lasting love relationships exist, but her best friend believes so, which is how she ended up in this predicament. It was always going to require more than just hand-wavy Jedi mind tricks to persuade Anh that Olive is dating and is well on her way to a happily ever after.
Scientists need evidence. Olive panics as a result and kisses the first man she sees, just like any self-respecting biologist. Adam Carlsen, a hotshot young professor, and notorious ass is the one and only. Because of this, Olive is delightfully shocked when Stanford’s top lab tyrant offers to be her pretend lover and keep Olive’s farce a secret.
However, when a significant scientific conference goes awry, Olive’s profession is pushed to the back burner, Adam shocks Olive once more with his unconditional support and his even more unwavering… six-pack abs. Their small experiment feels as though it might explode at any moment. Olive also learns that examining her own heart is the one thing that is trickier than a theory on love.
Molly Jennings lives in a small town and writes naughty, gorgeous romance books behind a pen name so that no one knows who she is. She’s still a little cautious and discreet about her work, which is understandable in a tiny town where everyone gossips. Someone is observing her in her house. As a result, she is attempting to stay alert and detect any potential risk. Ben is dispatched to explore several things surrounding her.
But he feels a magnetic draw towards her and can’t seem to get her out of his head. It’s really cute and comfy to see this connection grow. Romance is drawn to opposites. She has a grouchy character that wants her to survive the day and needs to preserve her. Molly and Verity have numerous behavioral similarities.
In the novel Ugly Love, Colleen Hoover – the author opens the story with Tate Collins recognizing that she didn’t fall in love with airline pilot Miles Archer at first sight. Even if they were to consider themselves pals, they wouldn’t. There is no denying that Tate and Miles are attracted to one another. They understand they have the ideal situation once their wishes are made clear. The only option left is sex because he doesn’t want love and she doesn’t have time for love. If Tate can follow the two guidelines Miles has for her, their arrangement might be surprisingly easy.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Never ask about the past. Don’t expect a future. They think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all. Hearts get infiltrated. Promises get broken. Rules get shattered. Love gets ugly.”
With the exception of their daughter Clara, the Wheatons are notorious among the elite of the east coast for their lack of self-control. She embodies the ideal socialite: overachiever, polite, and predictable. However, each Wheaton has a weakness. When Clara’s childhood sweetheart extends an invitation to move across the nation, she finds it impossible to refuse. Unfortunately, it’s also untruely good.
Clara is forced to share a lease with a beautiful stranger after being tricked. Josh might be a little too perceptive—not to mention attractive—for comfort, but there’s a decent chance that if Clara hadn’t searched him up online, they could have managed to share a summer sublet.
Clara thinks that moving in with Josh might become the Wheaton family’s most sensational tale to date once she discovers how Josh has established his name for himself. She is motivated by his professional success to take matters into her own hands and combat the stigma associated with feminine desire. Josh and Clara may not always agree, but they both think that women should have better sex. The course of action they take will alter not only their own lives but also if they’re lucky, the lives of everyone else.
Best Quotes from this Book:
“Every body is different, but none of them are wrong.”
“Isn’t that what all of us want deep down? Someone to hold us at the end of the line?”
“the scary things, the ones you spend the most time and energy talking yourself out of, are the ones that make life worth living.”
“Some fears kill us. They drain us our whole lives, and we die filled with regret. But this isn’t one of those fears. Make a plan.”
“Loving you is like sinking into a warm bath after a lifetime of feeling cold down to my bones.”