Showing results for "Happy Birthday" in Literature & Fiction

Valerie Wyatt is the queen of gracious living and the arbiter of taste with a successful TV show. Since her long-ago divorce, she’s worked hard to reach the pinnacle of her profession and to create a camera-ready life in her Fifth Avenue penthouse. So why is she so depressed? All the hours with her personal trainer, the careful work of New York’s best hairdressers, cosmetic surgeons, and her own God-given bone structure and great looks can’t fudge the truth or her lies about it: Valerie is turning sixty.

On midsummer's day, Phoebe Bowler - star-sign demon - should have returned home a happy new bride. Instead, she's been jilted at the altar. In need of sympathy, she could turn to her neighbour, Rocky Lancaster, but with problems of his own he's turned into Mr Grumpy. That is until Essie Rivers arrives on the scene, and then Phoebe and Rocky's paths seem destined to collide with a very big bump. Essie knows far more about astrology, personology, numerology - any "ology" you care to mention - than Phoebe.

Valerie Wyatt is the high priestess of elegance: She has built an empire on how to entertain, how to decorate, how to live beautifully, and is at the top of her game with licensing arrangements for fine fabrics, furniture, wallpaper; six books; and a highly rated TV show. Valerie's daughter, April, is a classically trained chef and the workaholic proprietor of a comfortable, popular downtown New York restaurant. They couldn't be happier in their chosen fields—or more different in their attitudes.

It's the 200th anniversary of the publication of Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice, but it's also a special year for Katherine Roberts and Warwick Lawton because they're getting married. But can Katherine put aside her fear about the future and can Warwick put his pen down long enough to actually make it up the aisle?

Ava and Preston grew up together in the rough streets of Sleighton, both doing everything they needed to survive. Over time, their childhood friendship evolved into a fiery love story. Their flames are suddenly extinguished when Ava leaves without a word, leaving Preston to wonder where they...

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From the author of the award-winning Kindle single, Cornbread, comes a story about Cumberland Bixby, a minor league baseball player turned B-list actor who wakes up on his 34th birthday to find he's been dead for nearly nine hours. Seeking answers, Cumberland crisscrosses Manhattan on foot, his last glimpses of the city disappearing behind him. Happy Birthday, Cumberland Bixby is a story about life and death in the era of self-promotion, and what it means to be truly seen.

Thirteen-year-old Emily has saved up every single birthday wish from six to 12 years old, banking on a promise from the birthday fairy that one day she could use up all those wishes in one fell swoop. What Emily wishes for, however, is not a pony or new clothes or the chance to be a princess. She has a much bigger plan in mind.

Tiff is tired of being single, but she refuses to get on the apps for a date. She wants thing to happen “naturally”. Fortunately, a friend intervenes, and suddenly Tiff has found herself matching with a gorgeous reanimated collection of body parts named Sarah.

Forget the French perfume and the boxes of candy, the Hallmark cards and the gift certificates. The birthdays in this collection are observed in more carnal ways, with suitably sexy presents for all. In Simone Harlow's "Happy Birthday", a tough policewoman gets the tables turned when naked Nick arrives to tame her. In Marilyn Jaye Lewis's "The Birthday Party", an unexpected menage a trois in the dark proves the perfect gift.

In which our intrepid correspondent speaks of the President speaking about the unspeakable.

When my best friend Sami and I planned a wonderful birthday for our husbands, we never expected it to go as far as it did. We were supposed to give them a joint striptease and then split up for some sexy fun. I never expected it to turn into a night of wild and crazy group sex complete with my first anal sex ever and double penetration!

Douglas is handsome, successful, and very rich. He's also having a horrible day because he's turning 50 and isn't having an easy time facing that. Lucky for him, his beautiful young wife, Brenda, knows just how to make things better. Instead of a big surprise party, it'll just be an intimate gathering with their best friends. Intimate is the right word, too, because this will be a wife swap experience along with Brenda's first double penetration!

Take a trip with a woman for two different birthdays. On her 39th, she's determined to have a first anal sex experience, and the results are scorching! On her fortieth, it's time for her to experience the fairer sex, and her first lesbian experience is wonderful, with a hardcore mff threesome with her husband. It's hot and hardcore erotica as only Cassie Hacthaw can do it!

When I discovered my husband had a secret bucket list and that one of the items was anal sex, I determined to make his birthday something he'd never forget. I was terrified. I'd heard horror stories about anal sex but I was determined that no matter what happened, I'd go through with it. Daymon's 35th birthday present would be his wife, ready and willing to have her first anal sex.

A down-home-country-kinda-guy, Porp has always dreamed of taking off after college to backpack across Europe, but life on the farm hasn't provided enough to make this a financial option. Luckily, Porp has some connections to a famous, race car-driving monster named Frankenstein, and soon finds himself in the undead monster's luxurious, race car-themed apartment at the heart of Berlin. But Porp's visit falls on Frankenstein's birthday, and it's not long before the celebrations turn erotic.

When Chelsea pressured me into agreeing to a crazy night of sex for her boyfriend's birthday party, I wasn't too happy about it. When it started, though, I finally got into it. I never expected I'd have my first lesbian sex and a scorching double penetration!

#1 New York Times bestselling author Anna Quindlen’s classic reflection on a meaningful life makes a perfect gift for any occasion. “Life is made of moments, small pieces of silver amidst long stretches of tedium. It would be wonderful if they came to us unsummoned, but particularly in...