Amanda Foreman

Amanda Gorman is the youngest presidential inaugural poet in US history. She is a committed advocate for the environment, racial equality, and gender justice. 
 
In 2017, Urban Word named her the first-ever National Youth Poet Laureate. Gorman's performance of her poem "The Hill We Climb" at the 2021 Presidential Inauguration received critical acclaim and international attention. The special edition of her inaugural poem debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller list and was a Sunday Times Bestseller in the United Kingdom. She is also the author of the children's picture book Change Sings. 
 
After graduating cum laude from Harvard University, she now lives in her hometown of Los Angeles.

Amanda Gorman

Amanda Gummer is a child development expert and play and parenting psychologist who has been helping children and families for over 20 years. Widely considered as THE go to expert on play, toys and child development, Amanda combines her theoretical knowledge (developing the Parent-Centred Parenting model of family life and the Fundamental Model of Child development) with a refreshingly pragmatic approach to family life, that resonates both with parents and professionals. 
 
Amanda is regularly in the media, and continues to take an active role in research, presenting a paper at the International Toy Research Association’s World Congress in Portugal in July 2014. She is often involved in government policy around children’s issues, contributing to the Bailey Report and the Childhood Inquiry. Amanda ran the research consultancy FUNdamentals for 10 years before combining that with the Good Toy Guide, the online play advice website that she set up in 2012, and the Good 
App Guide to create Fundamentally Children.

Amanda Gummer

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Amanda Hodgkinson

Amanda Holden

Amanda Holton

Amanda Jenner, a mum of three, is the toilet training expert on ITV's This Morning, the owner of the award winning My Carry Potty (the world's only 100% leak-proof potty for training at home and on the go), and has decades of experience working with parents to overcome toilet training challenges through the Potty Training Academy: www.pottytrainingacademy.co.uk

Amanda Jenner

Amanda Leask is a first-time author. She rescued Miracle the dog from Thailand in 2014 who then repaid the favour by creating a special bond with her six year old son Kyle, who was born with cerebral palsy and autism. Winners of the prestigious Friends for Life Award at Crufts 2015, Amanda lives with her husband Tobias, son Kyle and a menagerie of rescue and sled dogs near Inverness, Scotland.

Amanda Leask

Amanda Li has worked as a children's book editor for many years before becoming a freelance editor and writer. Amanda live in south-west London with her partner and two small girls.

Amanda Li

Amanda Lindhout

Amanda Ljunggren is a Swedish crochet designer. Amanda released her first collection of crocheted clothes together with Vogue 2021. She has since worked with textiles crafts that cross the border between fashion and art. With an an international background in fashion and set design, Amanda is happy to be in front of the camera in expressive clothes from well-known fashion houses and behind the camera with the silver tape (the designer’s best) in full swing.

Amanda Ljunggren

Amanda Mitchison grew up in Scotland. She has travelled widely. Her first job as a journalist was on the Egyptian Gazette in Cairo and she later worked as a radio reporter for the Vatican in Rome. She now lives in Bristol with her husband and two sons.

Amanda Mitchison

Amanda Murphy

Amanda Owen is a shepherdess, mother of nine children, TV star and bestselling author. Born in Huddersfield, Amanda is a first-generation farmer, who escaped the city for the rugged landscapes of Ravenseat, a 2000-acre hill farm in North Yorkshire. The Owen family’s TV series, Our Yorkshire Farm, captivated over 3 million viewers in the UK and aired in over 20 countries around the world. In 2023, Amanda Owen's Farming Lives launched on More4 and in October 2024 Amanda’s latest TV adventure, Our Farm Next Door: Amanda, Clive and Kids became the channel’s highest-rating series of the year and was also repeated on Channel 4. As well as TV, Amanda is a bestselling author, penning five Sunday Times bestselling books and a hugely popular public speaker, with a new theatre show in the pipeline for winter 2025. With over 800,000 followers on social media, Amanda's genuine, down-to-earth approach to life in the countryside continues to inspire and connect with a global audience. Christmas Tales from the Farm is Amanda’s first book for children.

Amanda Owen

AMANDA PETERS is a writer of Mi’kmaq and settler ancestry. A graduate of the Master of Fine Arts Program at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, she has a Certificate in Creative Writing from the University of Toronto. She is the winner of the 2021 Indigenous Voices Award for Unpublished Prose and a participant in the 2021 Writers’ Trust Rising Stars program. She lives in the Annapolis Valley, Nova Scotia. The Berry Pickers is her first novel.

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Amanda Ripley

Amanda Vickery is the writer and presenter of BBC2's At Home with the Georgians based on her book Behind Closed Doors: At Home in Georgian England (2009). Amanda is a Professor of Early Modern History at Queen Mary, University of London. Her first book The Gentleman's Daughter (1998) won the Wolfson, the Whitfield and the Longman-History today prizes. Amanda Vickery is also the editor of Women, Privilege and Power: British Politics, 1750 to the Present (2001) and Gender, Taste and Material Culture in Britain and North America, 1700-1830 (2006). Among her radio credits are presenting the popular Radio 4 shows A History of Private Life and Voices from the Old Bailey.

Amanda Vickery

Amanda Wakeley OBE is a celebrated British fashion designer known for her 'Clean Glam' aesthetic. With over three decades of experience, she has dressed high-profile women including two Princesses of Wales, Diana and Catherine, as well as many other global icons including Beyoncé and Angelina Jolie. She is also the host of the acclaimed podcast series, StyleDNA, where she explores fashion stories with celebrity guests.

Amanda Wakeley

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Amanda Whittington

Dr Amantha Imber is an organisational psychologist and the host of the popular business podcast How I Work. With over 3 million downloads, the show features some of the world's most successful people's habits, strategies and rituals. In 2021, she won the Thinkers50 Innovation Award (described by the Financial Times as the 'Oscars for Management Thinking'), which recognises the thinker who has contributed the most to the understanding of innovation globally over the last two years. She has been featured or published in Harvard Business Review, Forbes, Entrepreneur and Fast Company.

Amantha Imber

Amartya Sen is Professor of Economics and Professor of Philosophy at Harvard. He was Master of Trinity College, Cambridge, from 1998 to 2004, and won the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998. His many celebrated books including Development as Freedom (1999), The Argumentative Indian (2005), Identity and Violence: The Illusion of Destiny (2007), and The Idea of Justice (2010), have been translated into more than 40 languages. In 2012 he received the National Humanities Medal from President Obama and in 2020 he was awarded the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade by President Steinmeier.

Amartya Sen

Following her CIA career in the field, AMARYLLIS FOX has covered current events and offered analysis for CNN, National Geographic, al Jazeera, BBC, and other global news outlets. She speaks at events and universities around the world on the topic of peacemaking. Amaryllis leads investigations into the international drug trade for new Netflix original documentary series, The Business of Drugs, and lives in Los Angeles, CA, with her husband and two daughters.

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Ambelin Kwaymullina

Amber Chen is a Singaporean-Chinese author of SFF and contemporary fiction. She spends much of her free time living within Chinese fantasy novels and dramas, and also drinks one too many cups of bubble tea. One of her webnovels, The Cutting Edge, has been adapted for television. You can find her online at ambercwrites.com and on TikTok, Instagram, and X @AmberWrites88.

Amber Chen

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Amber Griffin

Amber Hatch is recognised as the UK's leading expert on baby-led potty training. She has successfully used the approach with her own two children and runs a monthly support group in Oxford for other families. Her articles on baby-led potty training are regularly featured in the media, including in the Independent and The Times. www.nappyfreebaby.co.uk

Amber Hatch

Amber Husain is the author of Replace Me (2021) and Meat Love (2023). Her essays have been published in Granta, New Left Review, The White Review, The Believer, Bookforum LA Review of Books and New York Times Magazine. She has a PhD in art history from UCL and teaches critical and creative writing.

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Penny Birch

Penny Birch is playing the fox in a bizarre hunting game. But all does not go according to plan, and she's found by a total stranger, Beth, who's naturally concerned at the state of her. After spending an awkward afternoon explaining herself, Penny becomes determined to seduce Beth, an innocent in all the ways of bizarre naughtiness. Penny's continued efforts get her into more and more difficulty, frequently punished and humiliated, even put on a roasting spit, until by eve she is wondering if she can take any more.

Tie and Tease

Lisette Allen

A lavish 18th century-set Erotic historical 
 
It's September 1792 and France is in the throes of violent revolution. Young actress Nicole Chabrier came to Paris four years earlier to seek fame and fortune with the Paris Opera but now her life is in danger from the hordes who are venting their anger on the decadent aristocracy. Rescued by a handsome stranger who has been badly wronged by the nobility, Nicole soon becomes ruled by her passion for this man. Together they seek a reversal of fortune using their charm, good looks and sexual magnetism.

Nicole's Revenge

Monica Belle

For Sophie Page, the job of warden at Elmcote Hall is a dream come true. The beauty of the old house and the overgrown grounds speaks to her love of nature. As a venue for weddings, films and exotic parties the Hall draws curious and intersting people, including the handsome Richard Fox and his friends - who are equally alluring and more puzzling still. 
 
Sophie suspects that Fox is responsible for the sexually charged events taking place by night in the woods around the Hall. However, he is only carrying on a tradition; Elmcote's Victorian owner - the eccentric occultist, Elgar Vaughan - used the grounds for Dionysian sex rituals, and now it's Sophie's turn to find out just how much fun can be had with the old ways of worship.

Pagan Heat

Angel Blake

Stripped Bare is a collection of short stories with an acute and arousing sense of the sexual perversion that lurks just beneath the everyday. 
 
Whether it's a school-reunion disco - complete with uniforms that get out of hand - ,or recalcitrant employees who tease their bosses into taking them in hand, Angel Blake's stories show that even the deepest and most perverse sexual cravings are never far away. 
 
A policewoman who will do anything to keep her job; a nurse who loves to show it all off; a stewardess who takes revenge on a passenger with no self control. These are just three of the ten stories that show what happens when the uniforms are stripped away and women's darkest desires exposed. 
 
Ten stories that show the perverse pleasures that lie under the surface, from the prim smugness of the cosmetics stand to the adult sleaze of a school-themed disco.

Stripped Bare

Thirteen girls relate their filthy experiences with spanking fanatic Percy Ottershawm, from his headmaster's daughter to Penny herself. 
 
From 1950 to 2000, his life was dedicated to getting his girlfriends across his knee, pulling down their tight white cotton knickers and spanking their bare bottoms. Otherwise, he is polite, considerate and every bit the gentlemen, always willing to indulge the girls' wildest fantasies, from wetting their knickers in the street to being tarred and feathered.

Tight White Cotton

Olivia Christie

In 19th-century France, Gilles de la Trave persuades Colette, a young and beautiful peasant girl from one of his estates, to become his mistress and live the life of a Parisian courtesan. However, it is his son Victor that she loves and expects to marry. In a moment of passion and curiosity she confesses her sins to the local priest, unaware that the cure has his own agenda: one which involves himself and Victor. Shocked, Colette takes the only sensible option for a young girl from the provinces she flees to Paris to immerse herself in a life of wild indulgence and luxury!

French Manners

Mini Lee

Santa is a university student with a wonderful new boyfriend  and bright future. However, she's also a bad girl with a wild streak who cultivates an illicit and obsessive reationship with her law professor. The older Professor MacLean's attractions are too numerous and beguiling to avoid, and Santa cannot stop herself from teasing him with her saucy behaviour - in and out of class. Caught up in this dangerous game, she is neglecting her studies but honing her sexual skills, driving all the men around her to distraction. When MacLean sets Santa a defence assignment that mirrors their own highly charged situation, the sexual tension reaches boiling point and threatens to spill over into something far more dangerous.

Ms Behaviour

James Baron

No Pain, No Gain is a collection of short stories united around their narrator's search for satisfaction through sexual submission. The pseudonymous author, a film-industry insider has spent his own life questing after strong and beautiful women who will dominate and hurt him - sometimes for money, but mostly for love. Inspired by the results of his search, No Pain, No Gain turns the usual male memoir of sexual conquests upside-down and inside-out.

No Pain, No Gain

Cat Scarlett

Beth is an impoverished student at St Nectan's College, Oxford. When Dr Milton recruits her to an exclusive club for submissives and pony-girls, Beth's independent spirit soon gets her into trouble. Charlotte wants her last year at Oxford to ba a memorable one. Lizzie wants Dr Milton all to herself. Beth just wants to pay the rent. Pony races, perverted parties, and Victorian pornography combine to give these college girls a thoroughly indecent education

College Girls

Charlotte Royal

A lavish erotic historical set in Japan... 
 
When Annabel Smith is driven to jumping overboard from her father's Elizabethan sailing vessel, she expects to die but is instead washed up on the shores of feudal Japan and into the hands of brutal warlord Nakano. Enchanted by her naked blonde beauty, Nakano takes her to Shimoyama, his fortress home where the Mamma San is to teach Annabel the art of giving pleaser. 
 
Shimoyama is a world of political intrigue and Nakano's brother warns Annabel of the dangers that surround her. Will she ever be accepted as a barbarian Geisha, given that her sexual appetites are ravenous and go against the rules?

The Barbarian Geisha

Angel Strand

It's the 1930s, Hitler and Mussolini are building their war machine and Europe is a hotbed of political tension. Cia, a young, Anglo-Italian woman, escapes the mayhem, returning to England only to become embroiled in a web of sexual adventures. Her Italian lover has disappeared along with her clothes, lost somewhere between Florence and the Isle of Wight. 
 
Her British friends are carrying on in the manner to which they are accustomed: sailing their yachts and partying. However, this serene facade hides rivalries and forbidden pleasures. It's only a matter of time before Cia's two worlds collide - and Britain's bright young things have to face up to their responsibilities.

Undressing The Devil

Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short stories 
 
From the Manhattan skyscraper to the provincial factory, dirty minds think alike. Sex...in the Office showcases some of the best erotic writers on both sides of the Atlantic. 
This book, the first themed collection in the Wicked Words series, brings you unashamed, wildly entertaining stories which explore the forbidden lusts that abound in the work environment. When the photocopying and filing get too much for a girl to bear, there's always a stationery cupboard to sneak into with that guy who wears glasses in the accounts department...

Wicked Words: Sex In The Office

Laurell K Hamilton

To some I am Meredith Gentry, P.I. To others I am Princess Merry, heir to the throne of Faerie. And there are those who whisper that I am both of these and more. 
My aunt, the Queen of Air and Darkness, no long distracted by her sadistic pastimes, now focusses unwaveringly on me. I spend each night with my immortal guards, but still no child has come of our decadent pleasures. But something IS happening to me. I appear to have awakened a force that's lain dormant for thousands of years and I haven't the damndest idea how or why... 
It all began with the chalice. I dreamed it, and there it was - cool and hard - when I awoke. My guards know this ancient relic well - its disappearance so many ages ago stripped them of their vital powers. And here it is with us now. My touch resonates with its force. A strange, dazzling magic now courses through my half-mortal half-Sidhe body. But while my guards cherish me for this unexpected gift, there are those who loathe me for it and would rather the Unseelie court suffer than have it ruled over by me, a mongrel queen. My enemies grow in number every day. If only they knew what I am capable of. But come to that, if only I did too. 
This is the world of Meredith Gentry, a twilight world of gods, shapeshifters and immortal souls, a world full of sensuality, wild magic, treacherous deceits and latent powers about to be unleashed...

Seduced By Moonlight

(Merry Gentry 3)

Mathilde Madden

Naughty Imogen likes to watch. When her boyfriend Christian is out at work she spends her evenings spying on the neighbors through binoculars and viewing her secret porn collection. Most of all, though, she likes to go online and pretend to be Christian while she chats up men on a Manchester gay dating site. 
 
But when her latest virtual beau and borderline obsession 'Dark Knight' asks for a photograph, her voyeuristic games become complicated. Suddenly Christian is being drawn into her sleazy thrills without his knowledge. Imogen's getting more eye candy than she ever dreamed of, but at what price?

Peep Show

Marthe Blau

You'll want to scream, but you'll be gagged. 
 You'll want to cry, but you'll be blindfolded. 
 You'll want to run away, but you'll be tied up. 
 You'll have no way of begging me, I'll do what I want with you. 
 
 Sexual obsession, domination and extreme lust – Submission is the story of a young married Parisian lawyer who is drawn into a sado-masochistic relationship. A handsome stranger she meets in the courts issues her with a series of instructions which she finds herself compelled to follow. As the violence of their encounters escalates, it becomes a dangerous addiction that she can't break. But how far can she go and how much of her life will she risk in the process? 
 
 Based on the author's own experiences, this astonishing book sent shockwaves through the French establishment.

Submission

Robyn Russell

Eden Sinclair is director of the exclusive Galerie Raton in Atlanta's prestigious mid-town district. As summer temparatures soar she finds it increasingly difficult to adhere to her self-imposed celibacy and spends a lot of time fantasising about the attractive young artists who pass through the gallery. 
 
Among them is Michael MacKenzie, the flame-haired sculpture whose sexy masculinity sets her pulse racing. Almost delirious with unrequited passion, Eden sets out to seduce him - despite her professional promise never to become involved with her clients. Things become even more charged when she finds out gallery owner Alexander is having an affair with her best friend. In downtown Atlanta it's going to be a summer of saucy suprises and steamy encounters.

Eden's Flesh

Talented chef Juliet Eden imagines she has the perfect marriage to Toby - a titled aristocrat - and no need to stray from her vows of fidelity. Yet when temptation comes in the form of rough sex with the barely civilised gamekeeper, Ian Marsh, she finds it surprisingly easy to give in. 
 
Naughty Juliet persuades her husband to accept an invitation to a boating holiday, only to discover that the hosts are also offering the lure of saucy delights. Neither Juliet not Toby is able to resist. But once on board, there's a clash of sexual personalities. There's a foxy minx called Annabelle in the crew, and she's got her eye on Toby. However, everyone is determined to get to grips with the notorious rogue who calls himself the spanking Major. It's full steam ahead for an orgasm-packed excursion

Wild By Nature

Zoe Le Verdier

When Natalie Crawford is offered the job as manager of a tennis club in a wealthy English suburb, she jumps at the chance. There's an extra perk, too: Paul, the club's coach, is handsome and charming, and  she wastes no time in making him her lover. Then she hires Chris, a coach from a rival club, whose confidence and sexual prowess swiftly puts Paul in the shade. Natalie cannot believe the tactics Chris uses to get female club members to improve their game. And when he embroils Natalie into his kinky sex capers, will she be able to keep control of her business aims, or will her lust for the arrogant sportsman get out of control?

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Black Lace short collections are a showcase of the finest contemporary women's erotica anywhere in the world. With the contributions from the UK, USA and Australia, the settings and stories are deliciously daring. Fresh, cheeky and upbeat, only the most arousing fiction makes it into a Wicked Words anthology.

Wicked Words 5

Primula Bond

Club Crème, where anything goes – as long as it’s behind closed doors 
 
Debonair Sir Simeon founded the exclusive gentlemen's club in London for men who like to indulge in old-fashioned frolics and nights of intimate abandon. When he hires spirited young Suki Summers as a housekeeper, she’s an instant hit with his punters, his enigmatic secretary Miss Sugar – and even himself. 
 
Suki revels in her new found sexual awakening, but when she has a close encounter with Sir Simeon's son, it is one step too far for her boss. Overcome with sexual jealousy, he sets an ultimatum: she must decide where her sexual loyalties really lie.

Club Crème

Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short stories 
 
Outrageous sex and lust-filled liasons are plentiful yet again in the third volume of Wicked Words short stories. 
Written by women at the cutting edge of erotic literature, the series is the best in contemporary fiction aimed at women who desire unashamed, indulgent fantasies. Fun, delicious, daring and seductive, the anthology combines imaginative writing and wild hilarity, making Wicked Words collections the juiciest erotic stories to be found anywhere in the world.

Wicked Words 3

Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short stories 
 
This is the best in contemporary sexy fiction - characters who know what they like and stories that dazzle and delight.The series is a showcase of writing by women at the cutting edge of erotic literature, pushing the boundaries of desire to bring you fantasies of unashamed indulgence. Seductive and daring, imaginative and sensual, Wicked Words collections are the juiciest erotic stories to be found anywhere in the world.

More Wicked Words

A Black Lace Short Story Collection

Jade, confident but submissive, is struggling to come to terms with the demands of her lesbian lover, AJ, to become her lifestyle slave, Matters aren't helped when her participation at a wet kinky cabaret goes to far, bringing its shifty management after her, intent on sexual revenge. 
 
 With the added distraction of her lewd friend Jeff Bellbird, and extra toppings from Doughboy the pizza man, Jade looks less likely that ever to resolve her dilemma.

Tickle Torture

Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short stories 
 
Wicked Words 10 is an editor's choice of the best stories published over the past five years of this immensely popular series. Fun, irreverent and deliciously decadent, this arousing anthology of erotica is a showcase of the diversity of modern women's erotic desires. 
Lively and entertaining, seductive and daring, Wicked Words 10 combines humour and attitude with wildly imaginative writing. This is the most entertaining erotic fiction for women to be found anywhere in the world.

Wicked Words 10

Julie Hilden

Maya and Ilan have an unusual marriage: Maya agrees to tolerate Ilan's chronic infidelity as long as she can participate and he will never stray without her. To her surprise, she finds their threesomes as arousing as they are disturbing and, for a while, everything seems fine. But as Maya's writing career takes off and she becomes more independent, Ilan feels threatened, and opts for another kind of sexual experimentation - one that plays on Maya's fear and ultimately threatens her life. 
 
Meanwhile, Maya is drawn into another relationship with a fateful third character. When her new liaison begins to mirror her marriage to Ilan, Maya discovers that her lover, seemingly a stranger, knows far more about her past than she has revealed. 
 
A compelling chronicle of obsession and power, 3 brings new immediacy to a timeless question: what is the greatest sacrifice you would make for love?

Wicked Words - a collection of saucy and compelling short stories 
 
Wicked Words 9 is the latest in our ever-popular series of Black Lace short story collections. 
Fun, filthy and sizzling with horny action, this arousing anthology represents the diversity of modern women's erotic desires. Lively and entertaining, seductive and daring, this volume combines humour and attitude with wildly imaginative writing. 
The hugely successful Wicked Words collections showcase the most entertaining erotic fiction for women to be found anywhere in the world. You can be sure that only the best in cutting-edge erotica is chosen for a Black Lace anthology.

Wicked Words 9

Deanna Ashford

Helen Dawson is a dedicated doctor who has taken a short-term assignment at an exclusive private hospital that caters for every need of its rich and famous clients. The matron, Sandra Pope, ensures this includes their most curious sexual fantasies. When Helen forms a risky affair with a famous actor, she is drawn deeper into the hedonistic lifestyle of the clinic. But will she risk her won privileges when she uncovers the dubious activities of Sandra and her team? 
 
This story of naughty nurses getting busy behind the screens will set temperatures soaring!

Doctor's Orders

Niall Griffiths

A bar in Liverpool January 2nd 200: 
VICTOR meets a girl. Some time later that night he is in her bed. This, he thinks, is the best sex he's ever had. 
KELLY meets a boy. Some time later that night he is in her bed. This, she thinks, is the best sex she's ever had. 
 
So the story of Kelly + Victor progresses, through two mirror-image narratives: a story of the growth and spiralling intensity of sexual obsession, traced to its inevitable, devastating conclusion. Set against a backdrop of urban despair, spiritual absence and a world swamped with pornography, this is a novel about yearning for union, for purity, and for magic and mystery in a world that denies them all. And it is, above everything, a love story - or all that 21st century Britain will allow of one.

Kelly + Victor

She is Princess Meredith and she is heir to a throne - IF she can stay alive long enough to claim it. Unlike most of her kind, Merry is part human and all too mortal, as her cousin and arch rival knows only too well. For a deadly game is being played in the Faerie court and whoever produces an heir first wears the crown. But as she auditions her royal guard - illustrious warriors equally at home with gun and blade or spell - for the role of future king and father of her child, Merry is somewhat distracted from her career as a private investigator. 
 
Then, in her adoptive home, in the City of Angels, people start dying in mysterious, frightening ways. What the human police don't realize is that the killer is hunting the Fey as well. It seems chaos awaits, threatening the very existence of the place known as Faerie is in grave danger and Merry finds herself facing an ancient evil that threatens the very fabric of her world. And that's just the day job...

A Caress Of Twilight

Urban Fantasy (Merry Gentry 2)

Gustave Flaubert

Emma Bovary is beautiful and bored, trapped in her marriage to a mediocre doctor and stifled by the banality of provincial life. An ardent reader of sentimental novels, she longs for passion and seeks escape in fantasies of high romance, in voracious spending and, eventually, in adultery. But even her affairs bring her disappointment and the consequences are devastating. Flaubert's erotically charged and psychologically acute portrayal of Emma Bovary caused a moral outcry on its publication in 1857. It was deemed so lifelike that many women claimed they were the model for his heroine; but Flaubert insisted: 'Madame Bovary, c'est moi'.

Madame Bovary

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