Together Emilia and Wrath play a sin-fueled game of deception as they work to stop the unrest that’s brewing between witches, demons, shape-shifters and the most treacherous foes of all: the Feared.Įmilia was warned that when it came to the Wicked nothing was as it seemed. Despite her betrayal, Emilia will do anything to solve this new mystery and find out who her sister really is. Damning evidence points to Vittoria as the murderer and she’s quickly declared an enemy of the Seven Circles. When a high-ranking member of House Greed is assassinated, Emilia and Wrath are drawn to the rival demon court. Emilia doesn’t simply desire his body, she wants his heart and soul-but that’s something the enigmatic demon can’t promise her. But before she faces the demons of her past, Emilia yearns to claim her king, the seductive Prince of Wrath, in the flesh. All hail the king and queen of Hell.Įmilia is reeling from the shocking discovery that her twin sister, Vittoria, is alive.
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CompleteĬasanova at Dux - Author's preface - Translator's preface - Childhood and adolescence - A cleric in Naples - Military career - Return to Venice - Milan and Mantua - Paris - Venice - Convent affairs - The false nun - Under the leads - Paris and Holland - Return to Paris - Holland and Germany - Switzerland - With Voltaire - Depart Switzerland - Return to Italy - Return to Naples - Back again to Paris - Milan - South of France - To London - The English - London to Berlin - Russia and Poland - Spain - Expelled from Spain - Rome - Florence to Trieste - Old age and death. Elsie Silver is a Canadian author of sassy, sexy, small town romance who loves a good book boyfriend and the strong heroines who bring them to their knees. It is one of the surest and shortest means. 15 Copy quote There is no honest woman with an uncorrupted heart whom a man is not sure of conquering by dint of gratitude. 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California was about as far away from North Carolina and the past as she could go. Now she’s left with nothing but her truck, her horse, and a definite need to find a new start. John is on her way back home with an empty horse trailer and down a driver, a difficult situation when you have a contract you can’t fulfill.Ĭhase Meadows had it all, until she came home one day to find her lover in bed with another woman. The first in the Chase and Rowan series, this lesbian romance is sure to keep you coming back for more. The spirited social debates on mental illness, morality and sexual deviance which resulted from these works became part of the ongoing battle over the definition and depiction of the irrational, complicated by Andreev's own publicised bouts with neurasthenia. Leonid Andreev (1871-1919), the leading literary figure of his time, stepped into the breach of this scientific discourse with literary works about degenerates. 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