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Willow Havens is 10 years old and obsessed with the fear that her mother will die. Her mother, Polly, is a cantankerous, take-no-prisoners Southern woman who lives to chase varmints, drink margaritas, and antagonize the neighbors - and she sticks out like a sore thumb among the young, modern mothers of their small conventional Texas town. She was in her late 50s when Willow was born, so Willow knows she's here by accident, a late-life afterthought.

Polly Bane After Dark is a seductive escape into the filthier corners of the imagination — kink-driven stories inspired by Polly Bane’s bestselling underground erotica.Expect forbidden fantasies, ABDL themes, power play, humiliation, and soft domination — all delivered in smooth, immersive audio episodes.These aren’t just erotic stories. They’re confessions, rituals, and whispered punishments for the late-night listener.New episodes every week.Come curious. Leave changed.

Emily Pollifax is one of a precious few gray-haired female sleuths who solve their cases through unflagging determination, moral courage and wisdom that comes with age. In "The Amazing Mrs. Pollifax", Emily answers the call of that “nice Mr. Carstairs” to go to Istanbul as a courier and search for a missing agent.

She was a bewitching young girl, that pretty Polly Marsh, and she knew it. She also knew that beauty could be her passport into the castles where she had always known she belonged. So she set her sights on a duke and joined the firm of Westerman’s as a stenographer. Surely one of that noble family would notice her, and then all her dreams would come true! The trouble with pretty Polly Marsh was that she just didn’t know her place.

Witches, cats, pumpkin pies and murder! I’m Evelyn Grayson and if you’d told me by the time I was 23, I’d have lost both my parents in a mysterious accident, moved in with the coolest Aunt ever, lived in a magical town, and I was a witch, I would have said you were crazy. Funny thing is, you’d be right. Camille Stenson, the grumpiest woman in Saltwater Cove is set on making this year’s Halloween celebrations difficult for everyone, but when she turns up dead and my best friend is on the suspect list, I have no choice but to find out whodunit and clear her name. Amongst the pumpkin...

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

He wants a Little, she wants a Daddy but that’s not as easy as it sounds… From the moment billionaire Marcus Holding meets Pearl Sinclair in Mon Addi, the upmarket jewellery store where she works as a retail assistant, he knows he’s found the Little he’s been searching for. He’s determined to claim her and be her Daddy, but does Pearl, the sweet, inexperienced country girl, even know she is a Little? Pearl can’t believe a man as gorgeous as Marcus Holding could possibly be interested in a completely inexperienced, unsophisticated, penniless country girl like her, but from the ...

It’s 1960, and the world teeters on the edge of cultural, political, sexual, and artistic revolution. On the Greek island of Hydra, a proto-commune of poets, painters, and musicians revel in dreams at the feet of their unofficial leaders, the writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston, troubled queen and king of bohemia. At the center of this circle of misfit artists are the captivating and inscrutable Axel Jensen, his magnetic wife Marianne Ihlen, and a young Canadian ingenue poet named Leonard Cohen.

POLLY Polly is a shrieking government servant who pleasures herself by making the office pawns suffer. Life is about to change for Polly, however, as greenhorn Roger enters the picture.

Thirty, independent, and considered entirely unmarriageable, Miss Margaret “Meg” Blackwell is the subject of whispered pity and pointed glances in every drawing room. She has no use for society’s approval—until the looming loss of her crumbling family estate forces her to consider the unthinkable: marriage. Lord Nathaniel Harcourt is a brooding widower with a reputation for being impossible. Pressured to remarry for the sake of appearances—and his spirited children—he has no interest in love, only a wife who will keep the gossips quiet. Meg Blackwell, sharp-tongued and ...

Zero, Nyx, and the other Pathfinder colonists have adjusted to life on Kaguya. But Earth has built much faster starships-the Dreamcatcher arrives 10 years early, and the Stargazer arrives so early it actually got there before the Pathfinder did! Now the Stargazer is a lost shipwreck, and the race is on to find it, and who should show up looking for it but Nyx's dangerous family: Big Mama, Jim, and Kratt. Nyx and Zero will face kidnappers, pirates, shipwrecks, warlords, dragons, and maybe a new ally or two on their way to save the day once again.

The Boat House Pretty Beach Books 1-3 BOXED SET. ‘Polly Babbington creates utterly magical books.’ The delightfully romantic and heartwarming tale of a new life in Pretty Beach, get ready to completely lose yourself in a cosy, old house and sweet love story on the coast this summer. A sweeping, sparkly blue beach town surrounded by water, crisscrossed with sweet old laneways, filled with wonderful characters and overlooked by a quaint old blue and white lighthouse. We meet the lovely Sallie Broadchurch and follow her bringing back to life an unloved old boathouse - pretty, forty and ...

He’s the rake she swore to avoid. She’s the lady he never meant to notice. Miss Charlotte Fairfax has one mission at this summer’s country house party—find a respectable husband with a title and a fortune. Lord Sebastian Rathbourne? Absolutely not. The scandalous rogue is handsome, infuriating, and exactly the sort of man who could ruin her prospects—and her good name. Sebastian has survived three London seasons by dodging matchmaking mamas, and he intends to do the same in the country. But when he and Charlotte are thrown together—at dinner tables, in scandalous party games, ...

The Coastguard's House Darling Island BOXED SET. (BOOKS 1 - 3) BOOK ONE - The Coastguard's House Darling Island Lucie Peachtree is living her (nearly) best life as she prepares to pack up her house to move to the country with her ever-so-handsome, teenage heartthrob boyfriend turned partner, Rob. Rob, unfortunately, forgets to mention that while Lucie was selling their house, trying to get pregnant and was doing all the things, had secured himself another life, thank-you-very-much. A life complete with a twenty-four-year-old very much pregnant work colleague and not including Lucie in any ...

Essie has grown up in the public library, raised in secret by the four librarians who found her abandoned as a baby in the children’s department. With four mothers and miles of books to read, Essie has always been very happy living there. But now that she is eleven, Essie longs for a little more freedom…and maybe a friend her own age. She seems to get her wish when her moms let her go by herself to the mall.

The Temple of Hekate is a vibrant and exciting collection of modern rituals and practices exploring the mysteries of the Goddess Hekate. In this book, Tara Sanchez draws together her knowledge of ancient practices and literature, merging it with her personal experiences and ideas.

He is society’s most scandalous duke. She is this Season’s most promising debutante. One stolen kiss could ruin them both… Miss Arabella Winthrop came to London to make a brilliant match, not to find herself compromised in the orangery with the infamous Duke of Thornbury. But when a gossip columnist exposes their indiscretion, her reputation teeters on the brink of ruin—and only one man can save her. Julian Blackwell has no intention of marrying. Known as the Devil Duke, he thrives on whispers, wagers, and scandal sheets filled with his sins. But when honor demands he wed Arabella, ...

Sie suchte nach ihrer Vergangenheit – und fand eine Wahrheit, die sie zerstören könnte ... Der fesselnde Psychothriller von Bestsellerautorin Rebekah Stoke jetzt auch als Hörbuch! Ihr Name ist Polly. Mehr verrät die schöne junge Frau nicht, die David O’Brian an einer Tankstelle mitten im Nirgendwo trifft. Sie ist seit Tagen allein unterwegs und hat kein Ziel. David weiß nichts über sie, nur, dass er sie wiedersehen muss. Eines Tages taucht Polly in Oakdale, Louisiana, auf, wo David in einer Autowerkstatt hart für seinen Traum schuftet.

A wounded Major. A relentless reformer. A city built on secrets. Fresh from the Peninsula and already limping through London’s ruthlessly glittering Season, Major Gabriel Ashbourne wants only one thing: to keep his family name out of the betting book at White’s. Miss Beatrice Hartwell wants something far more dangerous—bread, roofs, and truth—for the widows and children her little charity school refuses to abandon. When forged vouchers and a counterfeit countersignature point to a rot running from the Pay Office to the City, Gabe and Beatrice strike a bargain: his access and ...

He was only supposed to answer her letters. He wasn’t supposed to fall in love with the woman behind them. Miss Eleanor “Nell” Whitcombe has resigned herself to a quiet spinsterhood—her books, her essays, and her perfectly respectable obscurity. But when she overhears her brother mocking the notorious Lord Lucien Harrow, Nell does something wildly uncharacteristic: she writes him a letter. Under a pseudonym. For research purposes, of course. Lucien, recovering from an injury and thoroughly bored, has no reason to reply to a nameless bluestocking who challenges his every opinion. And...