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Gabrielle has spent her entire life as a secret, closeted lesbian, and in her early 30s she feels she's missed her opportunity to explore her hidden fantasies. She works as a maker of dresses, largely as a means of showing her admiration for the female form, and begins to think that her job is as much a meaningless aspect of her life as any. There is one bright spot in her routine, however, and that comes in the form of her brightest and most chipper regular customer, 22-year-old blonde bombshell Elizabeth.

Mike and Nathan quickly fall in love with the house during an open house. However, they soon find that another bidder has offered a considerably higher amount for the home a few hours before. Can they come up with a counter-offer in order to seal the deal?

I'm lying in bed one night, staring up at the ceiling, unable to sleep from anxiety. In a few hours, I'll be starting my new job at a successful company, and I'm concerned that my first day there could either make or break me. Soon, however, I find myself drifting off to sleep, and when I do, I have quite the Freudian nightmare. For whatever reason, I have the strangest dream of becoming intimate with my new boss, Mr. Jones, right in the middle of my new office, and I wake up screaming and soaked with sweat. And other fluids....

Duncan MacDougal is on his way to marry the woman he has chosen to spend his life with. With the nagging of his mother and other family members, he knows that it is time to give the clan an heir. But first he must find a wife. Sheena was a beautiful woman when he last saw her, years before. She was gentle, serene, and quiet, and exactly what he needed for his clan. However, he is wed to another - her younger sister. To complicate things, he must share with her a secret that could devastate her.

A mysterious highlander takes her by surprise - a wild man with a warrior's fury and a hidden magic, introducing her to the realm of sensual love. Her people had long known of the wolves in the Black Wood near her clan's territory, but what they didn't know, was the werewolf secrets deep within the heart of the forest. Ailsa meets adventure and misfortune, battling for her independence and for love.

Being a single mother is not an easy task. I thought when I got married that things would stick, and that I'd married the man of my dreams. I didn't expect to be running around on my own with two kids trying to get them to and from day care and practices, and all sorts of different things.

I'm staying late at the office one evening, when before you know it, I'm pushing way more than just pencils. For the longest time, I've been pretty damn overwhelmed by life. The son of a rich family, I've always gotten into quite a bit of unsavory behavior to compensate for my general dissatisfaction, much to my family's dismay. Little do they know, however, that the reasons for my acting out are my suppressed homosexual urges, for which I simply cannot seem to find an outlet.

Die Gruselkabinett Box 35 beinhaltet die Hörspiele Aus finsterer Tiefe, Die Ratten in den Wänden, Der Rabe, Runenzauber.

A stranger rides across the Kentish countryside when his attention is called to a cottage where violence is being done to an elderly couple. The knight, for such he appears to be, rushes to their aid. Soon after, the strange and prophetic Sir Cesar appears on the scene and foretells of danger ahead. We follow this knight as he encounters an evil landowner; the good and faithful Longpole, son of the elderly couple; the beneficent Duke of Buckingham - or is he a traitor? - and the coquettish Lady Katrine.

I sneak out of the tent during the first night of my camping trip to get away from my boyfriend, when suddenly I find myself cornered by four snarling, raging grizzly bears....

As young Lord Hadley and his companion Edward Dudley travel along a dark, coastal road, they encounter a young girl pinioned by a fallen wall. They rescue her and alert her father, stationed on the cliff-top, apparently watching for something or someone, before continuing their journey to the home of Sir Arthur Adelon. What was the girl doing out alone at night? What was her father's business on the cliff? Who is the sinister-looking stranger that young Edgar Adelon spots at the home of his beloved? And does Dudley have a chance with the beautiful heiress Eda, or have her affections been won by his wealthy patron?

I never really knew just how life-saving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation could be. By all means, I shouldn't be feeling nearly as pissy over the course of this vacation as I am. The atmosphere is sublime, the circumstances are almost surreally beautiful in some ways, and I'm about as spoiled and as pampered as I could possibly hope to be. But, in many other ways, I feel as though I'm being seriously left in the lurch. My husband, Darren, has spent the entirety of this week-long getaway talking business on his cell phone.

Four Highlander romance stories that will keep you on the edge for hours.

Allison - a modest, driven political aspirant - is struggling with finding satisfaction with her desk job when what she really wants is to be in the political arena. When her boss asks her to attend a masquerade thrown by a local politician, whom Allison both loathes and admires, she balks at the requirement that all female guests, dress in revealing costumes. Secretly though, she is intrigued by the idea of playing exhibitionist for an evening.

Art. The greatest standard bearer of what the human condition really is? Or emperor’s clothes, cheap gimmicks displayed as all-knowing? When it comes to writing we have our favourite authors. But what of the authors themselves? What are they keen to write of? For our classic authors, from Poe to Lovecraft, from Woolf to Fitzgerald, art in their words is something to be admired. From many angles, many views, their stories, their characters interact with art, and the consequences fall as they may.

In this work, set in 17th century France, we follow the adventures of young Louis, heir to the Count of Bigorre, after an encounter with the vindictive Marquis de Saint Brie forces him into exile. The tale wends its way inexorably towards the Battle of Marfee in the 30 years War and the death of the Count of Soissons in a failed coup against the much hated minister, Cardinal de Richelieu. Young love, a brush with the law, card sharks, a deadly avalanche - life is definitely interesting for the young adventurer.

This mindset of having to be a good little girl has made things difficult for me in the sexually charged atmosphere of the university campus, my v-card proving an impossible thing for me to get rid of due to my deeply enforced prudish nature. Things are about to change, however, when I follow up on an advertisement posted on a local bulletin board, thinking that I'm about to sign up for a medical study...when in actuality I find myself in the clutches of a green-skinned alien life form, whose probing of me will prove to be quite the intimate affair....