Although she has never stopped referring to Aces Corral as her home, it has been two years since Diana Crawford has stepped foot on the ranch just outside Calgary, Canada. Her decision to return home was made just as abruptly as her decision to leave, but as Diana's car pulls into the long driveway, she knows it is time once again to build the family ranch into a successful business. Little does she know that waiting for her return is a man determined to change everything.

Coming home is emotional for Diana. She is thrilled to reunite with her elderly next-door neighbors, Len and Dot Mackenzie, who are the closest thing to family she has left. But when she meets their nephew for the first time, his captivating eyes and quiet strength hypnotize her. There is no mistaking the attraction, and it is not long before Barry Daniels lassoes her heart. As Diana works on reconciling her past, she knows she has a lot to learn about running a business and when Diana finds evidence of a betrayal that could destroy everything she has worked for, she is desperate to find a way to expose the scheme.

In this contemporary cowboy romance, a woman on the fringes of finding her own inner strength must expose a web of deceit before she loses everything she has ever loved.

A bitter divorce becomes the final straw in Andrew Kincaid's already troubled life. With his wife and three children gone and his self-esteem in ruins, the forty-one-year-old former sailor burns all his bridges, quits his New York City job, and outfits a thirty-eight-foot yacht for a daring solo voyage.

Once on his boat, the Picaroon, he spurns the easy route through the Panama Canal, and instead, chooses a hazardous westward rounding of the infamous Cape Horn, then a trans-Pacific passage to Sydney, Australia, via Darwin's Galapagos, and the islands of French Polynesia. Mountainous seas, hidden shoals, and dangerous coral reefs challenge Kincaid's sailing and navigation skills on his 20,000-mile odyssey.

However, a single shore leave in South America changes his life in ways he could never have imagined. There he meets the boisterous and hot-tempered ex-pat Australian, Kate Devonshire, a fugitive running from a dark past; the two begin a sexually charged romance in Rio de Janeiro. Eventually, Kincaid travels deep into the parched barrens of the Queensland outback to the scene of a psychopathic rampage that shocked a nation.

AUTHOR BIO
William Efford was born in Montreal, Quebec. A former recreational yachtsman, he has cruised in the Great Lakes and traveled widely in the United States. He lives with his wife in Wasaga Beach, Ontario, Canada, where he writes fiction.

Charlie and Eleanor Thomas made a great team; they were soul mates. Blessed with a special kind of love and caring for each other, they experienced both the ups and downs of married life. Together, through many triumphs and trials, they raised their children, Bit and Stretch.

But when Eleanor dies unexpectedly in her sleep, Charlie is not prepared for the extent of his grief and the prospect of a future without the woman he loved so deeply. His grief and despair send him spiraling down toward an overwhelming depression-until he receives help in finding the healing path from two unexpected sources: his two grandchildren, Teddy and Sarah; and his wife.

"Bittersweet" follows the Thomas family and the rich tapestry of their lives as they begin to deal with the grief of losing both a wife and a mother. Filled with both bitter and sweet memories, Charlie does what it takes to keep his family together. Eleanor would be pleased.

Seduction can be a useful tool for giving pleasure and to secure love, money and power. In the wrong hands, especially those of a young woman who has not yet learned to use the power of seductions with purpose, this gift can cause a great amount of pain and heartache.Ayana Cherry soon learns that her new home in a quiet wealthy suburb of Indianapolis has just as many opportunities for sexual intrigue and deception as the raw streets of Los Angeles. She never imagined that she would be exposed to a secret world of strippers and pimps, and the lies, infidelity, and voyeuristic lust of the family and otherwise respectable neighbors she'd at first believed were simple squares living the good life. Realizing her natural powers of seduction in this place of sexual decorum could cost her more than she can handle.

Carlos is a lover of women. He loves them passionately, intensely, and deeply, and he tries to be sincere and tender. He is sensual and caring, generous in his affection and attention, and prone to fall ardently in love. His sensual adventures, filled with the pursuit of beauty and every possible hedonistic pleasure, take him to three different countries. In each country, he loses his heart on the perpetual quest for the elusive love of his life. He knows that each woman he romances is ready to be loved, and it's up to him to unlock the mystery of her inner heart if he desires access to more. But on his lust-fueled quest, he finds an unexpected surprise in an older woman. Has he finally found the one woman he could love forever in this sophisticated and beautiful woman he meets? Is she the woman of his dreams, his fantasies, his heart's desire? Only time will tell. The heart wants what the heart wants, and Carlos knows just how far he will go to see his most fervent dreams come true.

Manik Mudigonda was born into (and subsequently rejected from) a highly scrupulous Brahmin family in India's holiest city, Benares. Now, in the heady days leading up to World War I, he is a lonely colonial solicitor in Mombasa, Kenya's most multicultural, metropolitan city. He possesses numerous physical deformities, including severe, patchy depigmentation all over his body, one bright red eye, a wiry shock of waist-length white hair, and hundreds of smallpox scars. He's a complete outsider with limited coping mechanisms, and he finds comfort in primarily destructive ways-alcoholism, bulimia, and committing adultery with married women. Manik, it is safe to say, is not your typical Casanova. Yet despite it all, his greatest joy is making women happy, and he falls deeply in love, again and again. Manik suffers without end, convinced that he is utterly unable to find someone to truly love him in return. "Memories of a Mombasa Gigolo" is a complex character study written in journal style that not only provides a rich picture of cosmopolitan British colonial Africa in the early 1900s, but also explores the most intimate realm of human emotion and sexuality while painting a portrait of one of the earliest and most fascinating melting-pot cities.

Food has always been the cornerstone for love making, yet so often ignored. Typically before any relationship reaches bedroom ventures dinner dates always come first. For example, your first date what came first before any pleasures? Lunch or Dinner was served. Sometimes food is requested after you've made it to the bedroom love scene. Well, this book was designed to help enhance your love cooking. I've incorporated 88 ways to cook in any form or fashion to intensify your love life. This book is designed for the non-cooker as well as the experienced cooker. We all could use a little spice in our love life. A wise man once told me, "You never see anyone eating and frowning." I truly believe this book will keep you smiling by creating happiness in your kitchen and love life too!!!

Confessions of a Maneater is for anyone who loves to laugh, has yet to realize how amazing they are, or enjoys erotic and sexy stories. Read Samantha's sage and comical words as she recounts her sexual and relationship events for you the way she would to her friends. Conversations like these are usually only discussed in private over coffee and chocolates, but she lets you in on her secrets, her mistakes and her sharp tongue, as each opportunity has presented itself. Her punani opportunities, or "punanitunities," as she calls them. Remind yourself that life is yours. Your choice. Your terms. Your body. Your life. You're a goddess; own it! Be your sexy!

Baby girl is willing to do anything to hear those three words I love you. She realizes the one who is telling her they love her is the one killing her softly.

Cecilia doesn't know who to trust her (bff ) best friend forever or her man.

Camilla wants a man to love her wholeheartedly. She wants the passion, as well as the respect but with Gus she gets a wolf dress up in sheep clothes.

"You Nasty Dog" focuses on the physical and mental abuse of Camilla, Cecilia, and Baby Girl by those they have trusted with their heart, body, and mind. All three of the women are different from one another and do not know each other at all but in many ways they are connected by betrayal. Once these women find the strength to fight back it becomes a deadly vengeance.

Ring, a young student at a performing arts school in Guangzhou, finds herself falling in love with her beautiful and talented instructor, Crystina. Initially unable to return her feelings, Crystina, who is also married, can allow herself to be Ring's friend, but no more. As she mourns over her forsaken love, Ring becomes victim to a fellow lead dancer's violent jealousy, leaving her torn between guilt over his expulsion from the school and gratitude for her teacher's decision to protect her. Finally realizing her true feelings for Ring, Crystina reveals the passion buried deep within, igniting a torrid love affair that transforms into a bittersweet romance. But with hidden jealousy and wild accusations threatening the young couple, can Ring and Crystina keep themselves - and their past - from destroying what they so desperately sought to create? Heart-wrenching and soulfully written, Flaw of the Ring is an unforgettable journey in the pursuit of forbidden love. Author and artist Angela Lao grew up in Macau where she is currently a design student in Polytechnic Institute. She has successfully published ten books and is working on her next book entitled Tear of the Notes.