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At work, I’m King of Wall Street. The heaviest hitters in Manhattan come to me to make money. They do whatever I say because I’m always right. I’m shrewd. Exacting. Some say ruthless. At home, I’m a single dad trying to keep his fourteen-year-old daughter a kid for as long as possible. If my daughter does what I say, somewhere there’s a snowball surviving in hell. And nothing I say is ever right. When Harper Jayne starts as a junior researcher at my firm, the barriers between my worlds begin to dissolve. She’s the most infuriating woman I’ve ever worked with.

As a favor for his sick grandmother, Lance sits in on auditions for the Juilliard scholarship named after his late mother. He expects to be bored out of his mind. He expects it to be a waste of a Saturday he could spend working. What he does not expect is Celeste Walsh. She has the body of a super model, the looks of a storybook princess, and plays the violin with the passion of a zealous lover. The moment he sees her, he has to have her. Wants to control her. Needs to master her.

Stories of discipline on Maple Street and its surrounding village continue in this story, depicting further punishments of wayward girls, wives, and even two woman who lack self-discipline and turn to the strict, stern Carol Collins for help. Domestic Discipline is strong in this story of 1950's America. Up and down Maple Street the sounds of hairbrushes spanking bare behinds can be heard as windows are open in the pre-AC Midwest.

Passionate and romantic, On Dublin Street is a captivating and bittersweet story of the redemptive power of love. Perfect for fans of the Fifty Shades of Grey trilogy 'Scotland's answer to E. L. James' Sunday Post Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are...

Jocelyn Butler has been hiding from her past for years. But all her secrets are about to be laid bare… Four years ago, Jocelyn left her tragic past behind in the States and started over in Scotland, burying her grief, ignoring her demons, and forging ahead without attachments. Her solitary...

From the best-selling author of On Dublin Street, "Scotland's EL James" ( Sunday Post), comes a seductive story of forgiving the past and making up for lost time.... Shannon MacLeod has always gone for the wrong type of man. After she drifted from one toxic relationship to the next, her last boyfriend gave her a wake-up call in the worst possible way. With her world shattered, she's sworn off men - especially those of the bad-boy variety.

What happens when a Fireman and a Chef get together? Throw in an arsonist, a jealous ex-boyfriend, a rival chef out to ruin her, and well-meaning friends. Things don’t just get hot —they get Scorched. Madeline: My best friend wants to set me up with a man she thinks will be perfect for me. The problem is, I know I suck at relationships. My last few relationships were disasters, like a delicate crème brûlée under a powerful blowtorch set on high with a first-year sous chef. Plus, there is something different I want to try. But it’s not something I can tell her about. And I’m busy.

He's a beast. A killer. A dark shadow with blood on his hands and violence in his veins. He's the monster that comes at midnight. The one I watch from my bedroom window, holding my breath, wondering if he has finally come for me. It's only a matter of time before he takes me. His ballerina girl. It's a promise he made the first time he caught me staring at him. ‘You will be mine.' It's impossible not to fear him. My bones tremble every time I hear his name. Granite. President of the American Street Kings MC.

When the corporation that controls her city determines she requires a very particular form of guidance and correction, 18-year-old Ginnie Lyons is placed in the custody of a couple who lives on Oak Street. Her new guardians - whom she will be made to call Mommy and Daddy - will have full authority to punish her both as frequently and thoroughly as they feel necessary and to enjoy her beautiful body in any way they please.

Unwilling to be sold as brood mare in an arranged marriage, Lady Juliana Sinclair decides her own future, and runs. But disaster strikes, leaving her at the mercy of the first man that finds her. Leonard Notley is tortured by his past and living in hiding with a young ward that he knows is better off without him. While hunting in the woods, he comes across a lost woman and feels compelled to help her.

I never meant to lie to my parents about my job—I only wanted to make them proud. So when Dad asks me to return to New York to manage the renovation of a townhouse he owns, I can't say no, even though I'm in way over my head. But the real challenge comes in the form of Kyle, the gruff and ruggedly-handsome foreman, eighteen years my senior and my father's best friend. We clash on everything, except for the chemistry that sizzles between us—chemistry he stubbornly denies.

Over the course of the year since they were brought to live on Oak Street in the custody of a strict mommy and daddy, 20-year-old Frankie and 19-year-old Mary have learned the hard way to do as they are told unless they want their bare bottoms soundly spanked. But when the time comes for the girls to be taken to the Institute to be trained and then auctioned off to the highest bidder, will they need to be reminded of what happens to disobedient little girls even before their new owner sets about claiming their beautiful bodies in any way he pleases?

After a year spent living on the streets as a runaway in hiding from the government, 18-year-old orphan Renee Dalton is finally caught and sent to Oak Street. Over the coming months, the beautiful, headstrong young lady learns the hard way that willful, disobedient little girls get their bare bottoms very soundly spanked over daddy's knee whenever they have been naughty.

Tragedy has left me with nowhere to go. Until my dad's best friends—a stern cop and a cocky electrician—take me in and give me a home. But Cole and Travis are used to being bachelors. Having a young woman to look after is difficult to say the least. Lucky for them, I don't want to be taken care of. I want to push their limits. I want to break their rules. I want them. They're twice my age. Off-limits. Completely forbidden. The longer we live under one roof, the harder it is to pretend there's no chemistry brewing between us. I'm not their responsibility anymore. I'm their temptation.

When Joyce Kendall arrives in New York, fresh out of Clifton College in Iowa, she has a job and an apartment waiting for her. The job's as a first reader for Armageddon Publications. The apartment's at 21 Gay Street, and the small Federal-period house is already home to a lesbian couple, Jean Fitzgerald and Terri Leigh, and an out-of-work newspaperman, Pete Galton. The relationships of these four people under one roof add up to a fast-paced story that is not only satisfying fiction but a rare window on Bohemian life in the late 1950s.

After a scandalous incident with a boy in her dormitory a year ago, 18-year-old Heather Davis was taken into custody and brought to Oak Street to live with a strict mommy and daddy. Since then, she has learned the hard way that bad little girls get their bare bottoms soundly spanked.

She’s beautiful, rich, and reckless. When Lady Constance Stonewell accidentally ruins the Earl of Apthorp’s entire future with her gossip column, she does what any honorable young lady must: offer her hand in marriage. Or, at the very least, stage a whirlwind fake engagement to repair his reputation. Never mind that it means spending a month with the dullest man in England. Or the fact that he disapproves of everything she holds dear. He’s supposedly the most boring politician in the House of Lords.

A woman used to taking charge is about to meet a man who'll make her lose control in this novel from the New York Times bestselling author of On Dublin Street. It has always been up to Johanna to care for her family, particularly her younger brother, Cole. With an absent father and a useless...

Though Tricia and Louisa now share an apartment in Manhattan with the billionaire brothers who purchased them from the Institute, their new daddies never hesitate to deal with them in the same shameful ways they remember from back on Oak Street, and they are reminded often that it is not up to them to decide when, where, and how their beautiful bodies are used and enjoyed.

Logan from Echoes of Scotland Street is back with his own smoldering story, as the New York Times bestselling On Dublin Street series returns… Logan spent two years paying for the mistakes he made. Now, he’s ready to start over. He has a great apartment, a good job, and plenty of women to...