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Around four thousand years ago, the mysterious Minoans sculpted statues of topless women with snakes slithering on their arms. Over one thousand years later, Sappho wrote great poems of longing and desire. For classicist Daisy Dunn, these women—whether they were simply sitting at their looms at home or participating in the highest echelons of power—were up to something much more interesting than other histories would lead us to believe. Together, these women helped to make antiquity as we know it.

She thought she was applying for a job. He was offering ownership, and he already knew she’d say yes. Nyx Harper is out of options. Broke, desperate, and one rent payment from the street, she walks into Silas Kane’s glass tower hoping for a lifeline. What she finds is a contract unlike any other—offering money beyond her dreams… and a role that blurs every line between employment and submission. He doesn’t just want an assistant. He wants control. Absolute obedience. No safe word. No escape. Silas has built empires, destroyed rivals, and bent the world to his will—but nothing ...

She broke into his house to expose him. He caught her and offered seven days to learn what it means to belong. Vesper came to Gideon Blackwood’s mansion with one goal: get the story that would resurrect her career. Undercover as a maid, she expected secrets. What she didn’t expect was the man himself—ruthless, brilliant, and watching her far too closely. When she’s caught trying to hack his system, Gideon doesn’t throw her out. He makes her a deal: seven days of absolute obedience, or he ruins her. Trapped by her own desperation, she agrees. Gideon knows exactly who she is. Elena ...

She thought staying invisible would protect her. He found her secret, dragged it into the light, and made it his favorite weapon. Willow hides behind a screen, code her armor and silence her shield. But when her body betrays her with a secret she cannot control and Ezra, the school's most dangerous bully, catches her in the act, everything changes. He does not laugh. He does not pity. He blackmails. And with every humiliating demand, every forced surrender, Willow spirals deeper into a mess of shame, heat, and need she cannot escape. Ezra was only supposed to use her. Her secret gave him ...

She hacked into his secrets. He broke into her life—and offered her a deal she couldn’t refuse. Liora Kane lives in the shadows, a brilliant hacker fueled by fury and desperation. When she breaches the firewalls of VarkisTech to expose billionaire Caspian Varkis’s corruption, she expects to slip away unseen. Instead, she’s caught mid-heist—and dragged into the den of the devil himself. Caspian doesn’t call the police. He makes her a proposition: six months of obedience in exchange for her freedom. No escape. No safe word. Just his control. Caspian Varkis is used to owning ...

Newly-minted child psychologist Mina has little experience. In a field where the first people called are experts, she’s been unable to get her feet wet. Instead, she aimlessly spends her days stuck in the stifling heat wave sweeping across Britain, and anxiously contemplating her upcoming marriage to careful, precise researcher Oscar. The only reprieve from her small, close world is attending the local bereavement group to mourn her brother’s death from years ago. That is, until she meets journalist Sam Hunter at the grief group one day. And he has a proposition for her.

Welcome to the Hummingbird Hotel! When florist-to-the-stars Abbie Coleman catches a glimpse of her boyfriend through the window of Tiffany's, she couldn't be more excited. Keen to share her happiness, she organises a huge surprise party for all their family and friends… except things don't quite work out as she expected, and instead of planning a flower-filled wedding, she finds herself single, and fired from a job she loves.

A suspenseful yet delightful cozy mystery that I couldn't put down. The twist and turns kept me reading till the very end. ARC Team reviewer. I wanted to learn calligraphy at the local craft store. I didn't know the owner would kick the bucket after out first class. Her death is too suspicious. As I talk to the craft club who knows everyone that has ever come into the craft store I find out who would have wanted the victim inked out. Everyone saw her cat fight with the town's blabber mouth and her cousin's estranged husband and city councilman just happened to emerge just in time to call ...

He wasn’t supposed to see her secrets, but now that he has, he’ll make sure she never hides again. Lila Moving into a new house was hard enough without Gabe, my cruel, gorgeous stepbrother, making it unbearable. He mocks me, calls me Library Girl, and corners me at every chance. But when he walks in on me in the bathroom and discovers the one secret I've desperately hidden, my body’s humiliating ability to produce milk without a baby, he doesn't recoil in disgust. Instead, his obsession deepens. Now he's relentless, determined to break me down, humiliate me, and own every last part of...

Claudia Simcoe has left the tech world of San Francisco to start a new, quiet life in the peaceful coastal town of San Elmo Bay. Now she owns a market specializing in artisanal, locally-made goods. But then Lori Roth, one of her market's vendors, is strangled to death with a wire. And all of a sudden San Elmo stops seeming so peaceful. Especially when suspicion for the murder falls upon Claudia.

A podcast about all the things that make us wonder. Each week, we’ll tell you a true story that will fascinate and terrify you: a family who receive letters from a “Watcher” after moving into their new house, a hotel that’s seen so much death that it has to be cursed, UFO encounters, hauntings, Bigfoot sightings, and so much more. Written and hosted by Tony Award-winning actor and celebrated writer Daisy Eagan, “Strange and Unexplained” is a journey into the uncomfortable and the unknowable that will leave you both laughing and sleeping with the lights on.

Looking for a good story to brighten you day? Daisy Blanchard has a story for you as she enlightens you with a variety of special guests sharing life stories ranging from personal transformation, and spirituality to entrepreneurial tips & tricks as well as sharing favorite things such as goods eats, travel tips, quotes or easy recipes - but most of all, makes connections through the power of storytelling with the intention to inspire and spark conversation!

She was supposed to be invisible. He made her his obsession, his weapon, his filthy little secret. Nora wants nothing more than to keep her head down. Working behind the scenes as a high school equipment manager should mean staying out of sight. But when Caden Cross, the school's golden boy and cruelest bully, discovers her most vulnerable secret, he sees something else entirely. Leverage. Power. Control. And he uses it—cornering her, blackmailing her, forcing her into a brutal, intimate game she never agreed to play. Caden lives for dominance. With a powerful stepfather backing him and ...

She’s hiding a secret her body refuses to keep. He discovers it, uses it, and turns her shame into something filthy and addictive. Ivy wants to survive Crestwood Academy unnoticed, burying the strange condition that marks her as different. But when her cocky, cruel stepbrother Knox catches her milking herself in the woods, everything changes. Armed with blackmail and zero mercy, he turns her secret into a weapon—and Ivy into his personal obsession. What begins as a threat becomes a game. A dare. A dangerously intimate war neither of them can walk away from. Knox is used to control. He ...

When my ex Sarah walks into my detective agency, I know fate's playing a cruel game. She's still brilliant, still magnetic, and still the one case I never solved. Now we're forced to work together, chasing shadows through Chicago's underbelly. Our old chemistry crackles like a live wire, making it impossible to focus on the job. But when Sarah vanishes, leaving only a cryptic message and traces of blood, I realize this was never about rekindling old flames – it was about survival. Someone's trying to finish what they started years ago, when my betrayal first tore us apart. The clock's ...

Psychological safety is a shared belief within a team that it's OK to speak up, ask questions, take risks, and make mistakes without fear of repercussions. And it's a leader's job to create it. This book offers a rich understanding of this concept—and the trust and humility that must come with it. You'll learn how to build a psychologically safe environment, acknowledge difficult topics and emotions, and ensure that everyone feels comfortable in fully engaging with those around them.

Juliette and her husband have finally made it to France on the romantic getaway of her dreams—but as the days pass, all she discovers is quite how far they’ve grown apart. She’s craving a new adventure, so when she happens across a tiny, abandoned shop with a for-sale sign in the window, it feels fated. And she’s about to learn that the forgotten bookshop hides a lot more than meets the eye.

Born to one of Verona's leading families, Catullus spent most of his young adulthood in Rome, mingling with the likes of Caesar and Cicero and chronicling his life through his poetry. Famed for his lyrical and subversive voice, his poems about his friends were jocular, often obscenely funny, while those who crossed him found themselves skewered in raunchy verse, sudden objects of hilarity and ridicule. These bawdy poems were disseminated widely throughout Rome.

When Boston-born Erin arrives in wind-tossed Roone Bay, she's heart-sore, tired and lonely. Her marriage is over: she's come to build a new life for herself on Ireland's rugged southern coast. And to unravel the story behind the mysterious note in her family's ancient Bible that has haunted her since childhood. But hazel-eyed former lifeboat volunteer Finn, the only local historian around, quietly refuses her pleas to help. So Erin settles in to the town, with its whitewashed cottages and ruddy-cheeked fishermen, and begins her quest alone.

He hates her for knowing the answers, but he wants her because her body leaks secrets she can’t hide. Claire Tutoring Ryder Quinn was supposed to be academic, professional, manageable. But Ryder isn’t just the school’s star receiver. He’s the boy who’s humiliated me for years. Now I’m trapped with him after school, and the secret I’ve kept for so long, the milk my body makes without warning, is one more thing he’s discovering, one taunt at a time. He’s cruel, obsessive, and he holds my grade in his hands. And I hate that part of me is starting to want it. Ryder Claire ...