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After our parents' accident, I vowed to pay for my brother's college, but with my mounting debt, I couldn't even afford my own life, let alone his. I needed cash. Fast. An auction. One night. No feelings. No strings attached. I just needed enough to get by until my new job started. A million dollars. A perfect, unforgettable night. It seemed like the solution to all my problems. Until I showed up for my first nanny job... and the same, deliciously hot older woman answered the door.

They all want her. Only four will succeed. They say being convicted to the prison planet of Veenith is a life sentence. Melina Archer would argue that point. Granted, she’s stuck there for the rest of her life, With hundreds of rapists and murderers. But her ex can’t touch her there. The only ones who will be touching her Are the four prisoners who’ve taken her. The soldier who wants revenge against her, The mute bodyguard who kills with no remorse, The con man who sees her as the ultimate deal to line his pockets, And the man who holds almost as many secrets as the prison planet. She...

Birdie wants nothing more than to escape the clutches of her cruel and wicked stepmother, and to be with the only person she’s ever truly loved—her stepsister, Violet. When her stepmother threatens to auction off Birdie’s hand in marriage to the highest bidder, Birdie sees it as her only way out. Her stepsister has a plan… Enlist the help her rich and powerful ex, Alaric Stone, to bid on their behalf. But when things go awry at the auction, and Birdie is forced give away far more than she expected, Alaric decides he’s playing for keeps.

The Sex Slave Auction – A Tale of Power, Manipulation, and Betrayal In a world where money is meaningless and power is the only currency, Victor St. James and his wife Helena reign over the Black Orchid—an underground club where the world’s most elite trade in human desires, submission, and control. They are untouchable, or so they believe. But when a mysterious stranger enters their domain, the game changes. Uninvited, unpredictable, and dangerously calm, he doesn’t come for money or pleasure—he comes for power. What starts as an exclusive auction of flesh turns into a high-stakes...

Ten years ago, I broke the heart of the girl I loved, and she ran from me, never giving me a chance to explain, leaving me devastated. Now Lottie is back and working in my club. Which gives me the chance to put things right. I know she's hiding a secret, but I can't walk away. When she enters an auction to sell her body, I refuse to let another man touch what is mine. I offer her a way out, a marriage of convenience that will benefit us both. The contract says we'll stay married for a year. But she was mine then, she's mine now, and I'm never letting her go again.

A much older Pakhan buys me like a commodity and forces me into marriage. He’s my best friend’s older brother, and he broke my heart because I’m too innocent for his world. But when I’m lifted from my dorm and sold at an auction, he buys me to protect me. The next thing I know, he takes my virginity and knocks me up with his heir. I didn’t know he’s been shadowing and monitoring me, obsessed with my every move. I’m just a psychology student, unaware of the lengths he’ll go to, to get what he wants. I’m bound to a chair and disoriented when he shows up as a knight in ...

Desperate times lead to desperate measures . . . That's how I ended up in an auction. The money from it would be my way out. My last chance. Then I saw him, and hope flashed through my mind when he placed a bid. It shouldn't have. Because I didn't know about the dark edges that surrounded his soul, the ones that should never see the light of day.

Although it is among the oldest of market institutions, the auction is ubiquitous in today's economy, used for everything from government procurement to selling advertising on the Internet to course assignment at MIT's Sloan School. Yet beyond the small number of economists who specialize in the subject, few people understand how auctions really work. This concise, accessible, and engaging book explains both the theory and the practice of auctions.

When my best friend Kinsley's animal shelter holds a charity fundraiser, I'm only happy to help. When she puts me up on the auction block? The bidding ends in a three-way tie. Enter Christian, the strapping Hollywood lawyer, as well as Shane and Darius, two ex-Army brothers in arms. All three of them are willing to share me for the night, and what a night it is! The places they take me and the things they do leave me breathless and fantasizing about them...all the way back to New York.

Destroying my partner became sweeter when his daughter stepped on stage at a charity auction. But I don’t want her for a month. I’m upping my bid to make her sign for a year. Her strong will, independence, and defiant attitude toward her family indulges my carnal desires and need for revenge.

America 2272 - The Office of Reproductive Oversight dictates laws for women and men. In a society where babies have become a source of government income, laws designed to push up the birth rate are enacted that strip women and men of the most basic of human rights: The right to choose when to have a child, the right to choose whom to marry, and the right to raise her biological child. Logical computer programmer Jane overindulges at a graduation party, winds up pregnant, and is forced to marry a near stranger. Drama queen Angelica bets a gay guy in a bar that he couldn’t “do it with a ...

The queen of dark mafia romance, Sadie Kincaid, returns with a brand new series - now in duet narrated audio! The Auction delivers electric duet narration featuring Grayson Owens and June deBorahae. In this scorchingly sexy and suspenseful dark mafia romance, Beauty and the Beast meets organized...

5-⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Reviews. Wow! Book #8 in the series is another page-turner. Can Mario bend the rules enough to solve this case? Detective Mario DeLuca never thought he would hear from his ex-fiancée, Kate Fontenot, again. But when she asks for his help with an urgent matter, he can't turn her away. Together with Detective Howard Blitz, they are assigned to investigate a case at Rockford Auction House. As they dig deeper, they realize they are being watched by multiple agencies and a dangerous criminal organization involved in human trafficking. Howard, who is believed to be an assassin, ...

Billionaire Lucas Oliver is hell-bent on revenge. And his plan begins when Sydney Blake - the stunning daughter of his enemy - is tricked into bidding on him at a bachelor auction. Then he serves up a little blackmail...followed by a marriage proposal Sydney has no choice but to accept. Sydney has been controlled by her family her whole life. When Lucas threatens to reveal her father's shady business, she is once again forced to do her duty for her family. But worse - oh so much worse - is the rush of lust that Lucas ignites in her blood.

An auction seemed like the perfect way to have some fun and make a little extra cash. Until my anxiety whispered that no one would ever want to buy someone like me. But even my inner critic couldn't have predicted who would actually win me. One million dollars. One night. With the girl who tormented me throughout high school. This time, let's just hope I don't fall in love again.

I came to a charity auction to move on. I left belonging to my ex’s pack. Two years ago, Cole Reid broke me. Not with cruelty—with absence. He was intense, possessive, and incapable of meeting me halfway. I loved him anyway, until I couldn’t. I’ve spent every day since pretending he doesn’t exist. Then my best friend drags me to a Valentine’s charity auction. For wolves. I’m weak for wolves. And when three gorgeous hockey players bid on me for a week of Valentine’s dates, I tell myself it’s fine. It’s for charity. It’s a fresh start: Dane—all easy charm and warm ...

Two tortured souls. One chance at redemption. He’s everything I’ve been taught to fear … When Imogen Demotta is sold at auction to Lincoln Knight, she fears she’s escaping one prison for another. Twice her age, Lincoln is an eccentric and reclusive billionaire, a genius or a monster...

Naked, bound and in chains, at the mercy of the man who purchased her - body and soul - for the next 30 days. Carly Abrams, at a financial dead-end, has gathered her courage, exaggerated her experience and signed on as a submissive sex slave at an exclusive BDSM auction house. Adam Wise is gorgeous, filthy rich, sexually dominant and used to getting exactly what he wants.

He knows he can't act on his desire to claim her... but can he stop his inner beast? Clark thought the shady new shifters in town were his biggest problem. That is, until Carmen arrived. Sexy, sweet, and charming, she’s everything Clark could ever want in a woman. There’s just one problem. She’s his 20 year old daughter’s best friend. And, she’s a VIRGIN. As tensions mount in the pack and corruption begins to change everything Clark loves about his pack, Clark is faced with one of the biggest conflicts of his life. There’s no mistaking Carmen’s interest in him. But they both ...

He bought her body, but her soul would cost him everything. To save her sister, Isabella Grant auctions the only thing she has left: her innocence. The man who places the winning bid is Julian Reyes, a ruthless finance mogul who collects beautiful things and delights in breaking them. His price is five million dollars. His prize is her. Julian’s penthouse is a gilded cage where he begins her brutal education in pain and pleasure. With whips and cruel, endless edging, he intends to shatter her spirit for his own amusement. He demands her submission, her tears, her pleas. He wants to own ...