Showing results by author "Olivia Myers"

Dumped on her birthday, Maddie decided a trip home for Christmas might be a fittingly miserable way to lick her wounds. Her mom had been nagging her about it for something like five years now, so she was probably due. The truth was that she couldn't face all the beauty and excitement of Christmas in New York as she now found herself...alone.

Justine is a public school teacher who is just barely able to afford rent in New York City. When she returns to the suburbs for her mother's wedding, she meets a man in a bar and they bond. Although she doesn't usually go home with men she's just met, something about this one is different. They share the best night of sex that Justine has ever experienced - a night she hopes to remember for the rest of her life.

Maddie Thompson, a senior at MIT studying biochemical engineering, is used to being the youngest person in the classroom, and one of the loneliest. When she meets Professor Shannon Forsythe, her world is turned upside down. The professor's eyes remind her of a cat that once stole her mother's necklace. But that's not possible, right? Maddie is determined to find out the truth. She sets out to get closer to her teacher, but never imagines how close they'll get.

Quinn Morgan is just barely scraping by from day to day. She's never had much money, and although a little more would certainly ease her stress levels, she's never cared about being wealthy. So when her grandfather passes away and leaves her his multi-million dollar estate, Quinn isn't quite sure how to navigate this new life. Making her transition easier is Ivan, the half-human, half-machine butler who came with the estate.

A shy poet, Imogen has always been bullied at her all-girl's private school, St. Nocturne. She's learned to adapt and ignore the torments of the Golden Girls as much as possible, and in fact, she feels a secret thrill whenever they're near. If the Golden Girls knew her secret, however, Imogen's life would be ruined. They could never know that she madly, passionately loved one of them.

David Shallows wants nothing more than to wipe dragons from the Earth. The evil creatures murdered his parents when he was a young boy, and now he's driven to destroy them and secure the safety of the unwitting humans who believe dragons are a myth. He eats, sleeps, and breathes to impress the secret Dragon Slayers Society which has raised him from childhood. Obsessed with flight, Ethan Millford has been living with a secret for over 20 years, a secret that no human could ever hope to understand.

Seventeen-year-old Emily wants nothing more than to graduate high school and get away from Josh, the jock who teases her mercilessly. But when a virus sweeps through the town after a routine blood drive, leaving over 95 percent of the inhabitants dead and giving the survivors shapeshifting abilities, Josh is one of the few left behind. No longer a teasing jock, now Josh wants to become her ally instead of her enemy.

Rhys Maddox doesn't do relationships. He dates as many women as possible so he can easily drop one or two if things start feeling too intense. But when he first lays eyes on the full-bodied beauty sent up to run his office, he begins to forget all the rules of office politics...and all the rules of his heart.

Melissa, once destined to be a famous singer, now waitresses at a diner. Shaken when a surprise text from her former best friend turns things upside down, she tries to avoid a reunion that is more complicated than anyone could understand. Brad, a professional football star, drags himself away from his latest fling to head home for his sister's wedding. Little does he know it is a trip that will alter his future forever.

Vinzel's home planet of Rhouge has been stricken with a virus, killing off all the women of his species. Now he's tasked with the impossible: find a human woman to mate with, conceive a child, and bring them both back to Rhouge to see if they'll survive in his planet's conditions. It sounds difficult enough, but he's surprised to discover that he's actually falling in love with the beautiful woman he's selected.

Gwythn wants nothing more than to marry Prince Alwen and become a princess in the court of King Blethen, the redeemer who rescued their lands from the tyrannical rule of the dragon shifters. But when she seems close to getting exactly what she wishes, new truths are revealed about the dragon shifters who were vanquished, truths about King Blethen and his sons, and truths that will make her question her loyalties...and her love.

Heather, a dragon shifter from the Eastern Peaks, is cast away from her kin and seeks refuge among the humans. Unfortunately, she’s stumbled into a world of prejudice and fear. While she at first hates Prince Benjamin for taking her captive, after spending time with him, he takes her heart prisoner, as well as her body. Benjamin, prince and future king, is shocked to have a beautiful dragoness brought before him. At a loss of what to do with her, he makes a decision that will ultimately both bring them together and then tear them apart.   

Kissing a total stranger during a train robbery wasn't something she'd planned on happening, but when the masked man grabbed her and kissed her, she kissed him back before she could stop herself. Meeting her husband to be, she realized he was the train robber who'd kissed her. Shock filled her, and she had to find out all his secrets.

When her daredevil fiancée is involved in a helicopter crash, Cadence feels helpless, wishing she could turn back the clock and prevent her love from attempting his death-defying stunt. Watching the rescue attempt play out on live television, she nervously fiddles with an antique music box, a comforting inheritance from her deceased parents. The winding key, forever frozen, suddenly moves, and Cadence is transported 24 hours into the past.

Christine is a powerful sorceress with a one desire only: to leave her sheltered village and find the brother who went missing years ago. When she embarks on her epic journey, she finds instead a group of mysterious, handsome men who claim to be dragon shifters. Unraveling the secrets of her and her brother’s pasts destroys the tenuous trust she’s formed with these royal brothers, and it puts her life in danger. Can Christine and the dragons of Chartreuse Castle remedy their historic wounds, and will they let her claim them all?

Janelle is one of the remaining humans struggling for survival in the dark shadow of the Dragon's Skydome, an ancient structure floating in the clouds preventing sunlight from reaching Earth. After joining a dragon resistance, a gorgeous male dragonborn flies down to Earth - changing everything Janelle thought she knew about her fire-breathing overlords.

When Rachel breaks the news to her boyfriend that she's pregnant with his child, the last thing she expects is for him to break up with her. He doesn't get the opportunity to leave her, though, before the invasion of Earth by vendi - large, muscular aliens bent on rounding up women and taking them to their spaceships.

For decades, China harshly restricted the number of babies that women could have. Now it is encouraging them to have more. It is not going well.

"Burying ‘One Child’ Limits, China Pushes Women to Have More Babies" is from the August 11, 2018 World section of The New York Times. It was written by Steven Lee Myers and Olivia Mitchell Ryan and narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright.

Gabrielle, a trophy wife and hobby gardener, wakes up from a coma and can't remember anything about her perfect life with Cory, her rich husband who has pampered her for eight years. She comes home to a closet full of designer clothes and Louboutin heels lining the rear wall, and she's pleased. She's also on edge, and her feelings are a mystery.

Jessa is an officer on Lyra tasked with guarding the space station. She's professional with her Bio-mech partner, following procedure and keeping her lustful thoughts to herself. It's easy enough to do, knowing that the Bio-mech units don't have human reproductive organs. MCK-397 notices Jessa's arousal after they encounter a couple having a sexual liaison in the E Deck. When he goes to question his technician, Godfrey, he comes away with certain upgrades and enhancements.