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Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It’s just another day where she wears a boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don’t count, of course.) But enough is enough. This year, she’s taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid. Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their next big moment—from haircuts, to dance proposals, activist rallies and mathlete championships.

For debt-ridden Deana Herwood, losing a hand of cards to the wealthy Lord Rockwell was bad enough. To settler her loss, she must offer her body to him for one night of pleasure. When she expresses her reservations, he offers an even more outrageous proposition. Can she win the wager or will her body succumb to the wicked attentions of Lord Rockwell?

"Husbands, guard your wives." Though Lord Barclay dresses in far too much lace and carries a mother-of-pearl fan, Jonathan Weston cannot help but be a little awed by the handsome and seductive man. As the husband of the most beautiful woman present, Jonathan takes to heart the warning provided him. Frustrated at the lack of attention his wife provides him in the bedchamber, Jonathan will be damned if another man succeeds where he has failed. But as the evening progresses, a night of wanton taboo pleasure becomes unavoidable. Jonathan finds himself unable - and perhaps unwilling - to stop Lord Barclay's seduction.

Determined to save her cousin from certain ruin at the hands a notorious rake, Miss Heloise Merrill impersonates her cousin and takes her place at the 'Chateau of Debauchery.' She intends to convince the rake - Sebastian Cadwell, Earl of Blythe - to turn his attentions elsewhere. Deprived of his intended guest, Sebastian decides to provide the meddling Miss Merrill a much deserved set-down. But when things take a decidedly hot turn, he finds he wants to go beyond a simple set-down.

Billionaire Benjamin Lee wants the truth from undercover reporter Kimani Taylor about her participation in the Scarlet Auction and her interest in his family. He’ll get answers, even if he has to torment her to get them....

Should she be scared? YES. I've been patient with her. Now it's my turn to take the pleasure I paid for when I bought her. I'm not going to just use her. I'm going to ravage her. For a sizzling hot romance with a smart, defiant heroine and a billionaire who can dominate her in all the right ways, listen to Ravaged to fire up your darkest fantasies today!

Can a notorious rake seduce the ice mistress? Married to the unfaithful Earl of Lowry and scorned by her in-laws for not producing an heir for the earldom, Gertrude "Gertie" Farrington takes out her frustrations in the masked underground world of Madame Botreaux's Cavern of Pleasures. Concealing her identity there as "Lady Athena", Gertie is a domineering mistress with a peculiar propensity: She never allows a submissive to bring her to climax.

Every year, tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning, the editors at Highlights have answered every child individually. Longtime editor in chief Christine French Cully has curated a collection of this remarkable correspondence (letters, emails, and poems) in Dear Highlights - revealing an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America’s children and its leading children’s magazine.

On the surface, Mildred Abbott is a proper Regency miss. But secretly compromised, she longs to explore the pleasures of the flesh. Engaged to an uninspiring sycophant, she asks the influential nephew of her patroness in debauchery to interfere and break her engagement. When her appeals to him fail, she decides to take a singular opportunity--a visit to the Chateau Debauchery--to experience one night of pleasure before she submits herself to a life of wedded dullness.

Miss Primrose needs to be punished. A member of the wickedly wanton Inn of the Red Chrysanthemum, where the most taboo and illicit pleasures are indulged, Miss Primrose - or Mistress Primrose, as she prefers - left Nicholas Edelton a shell of a man. Now his older brother, Spencer Edelton, the Marquess of Carey, intends to provide her a set-down she will never forget.

He’s back. The man who bought, ravaged and tormented me. I can’t fall for him again. He’s wrong for me in so many ways. His last act of punishment cost me my job, and I don’t know that I can forgive him. And yet his touch leaves me...devastated. Billionaire Benjamin Lee is back. This time to both punish and protect the reporter who might have cost his uncle the mayoral election. An old enemy is out to get her, and Ben never did get the full week with her that he had paid for. Can he resist claiming her one last time?

In this scorching-hot regency romance, the Marquess of Alastair has doubled the dowry he is providing Miss Abbott because the sooner she is married, the sooner she is out of his care - and his fantasies. To Mildred Abbott's dismay, her dowry is now attracting numerous unwanted suitors, and she has no interest in marrying. What she wants is an encore of her night at the Ch'teau Debauchery, where Alastair once fulfilled her most decadent desires.

Desperate to save her cousin from certain ruin with a notorious rake, Miss Heloise Merrill impersonates her cousin and takes her place at the "Chateau Debauchery". Heloise intends to convince the rake - Sebastian Cadwell, Earl of Blythe - to turn his attentions elsewhere. What she doesn't intend is to be splayed across his legs and spanked!

The last person Vale Montressor Aubrey, the Marquess of Dunnesford, expects to see walking into Madam Botreaux's Cavern of Pleasures is his wife. Fortunately, she does not recognize him behind his mask for he has no intention of revealing his secret life as a Dom to his new bride.

I saw her. I wanted her. I bought her. Big mistake. She was just supposed to be a plaything for a week. But I can’t keep my hands off her, can’t stop thinking of all the things I want to do to her. I want to devastate her. She tries not to want it, and she’s hiding why. But it doesn’t matter. She can try to resist me. She won’t prevail.

Mildred Abbott is a proper Regency miss, but she cannot deny the dark desires that torment her body in the quiet of night. Engaged to an uninspiring sycophant, she asks her influential cousin to interfere and break her engagement. When her appeals to him fail, she decides to take a singular opportunity - a visit to the Château Debauchery - to indulge her most wanton cravings before she submits herself to a life of wedded dullness.

Warning! This romantic erotica contains dubious consent. It is also recommended that Part I be read first. Trudie is in over her head at the Chateau Debauchery, where guests indulge in pleasures both wicked and taboo. Ashamed that she allowed a masked stranger to seduce her, she is determined to leave the chateau as soon as possible and begin to atone for her wrongs in private. But he won't let her. Moreover, he takes it upon himself to see she pays her penance.

To his dismay, Spencer Edelton, the venerable Marquess of Carey, has fallen in love with a whore. But Miss Beatrice Primrose is no common strumpet. She is a siren who enflames his desires and provokes him to do the most wicked, wanton things to her.

The debauchery gets more wicked for Trudie as Leopold continues her submissive training, but how far will he go?

The Marquess of Alastair has doubled the dowry he is providing Miss Abbott because the sooner she is married, the sooner she is out of his care - and his fantasies. To Mildred Abbott's dismay, her dowry is now attracting numerous unwanted suitors, and she has no interest in marrying. What she wants is an encore of her night at the Ch'teau Follet, where Alastair once fulfilled her most wicked desires.