'This book contains flash blokes, glamorous girls, expensive cars and false boobs. The tans may be fake but everything you read really happened.' Becci Fox is an Essex girl through and through. She just wants to be comfortable and spoilt, taken out to nice places and showered with presents. And she is. She lives in the grounds of her parents' manor house, drives a Mercedes SLK and had a boob job when she was eighteen. She's ambitious, working hard during the day as a bridal buyer. And at night she plays hard, clubbing at Sugar Hut and Faces, mixing with celebrities and soap stars. She knows how to handle the footballers who buy you Cristal champagne and make you feel like the most special person in the room (only they've got five other girls on speed dial). But when she falls for a sexy racing driver, is she finally out of her league? Becci shares six dramatic months in her life as she and her friends have fun, fall in love, handle heartache and betrayal, and even plan a big...

Rural England, 1882. A wealthy and powerful young aristocrat, Jacob, Lord Burlington, his faithful coachman, Ben, and lovely Phoebe, the inexperienced daughter of the village's public-house proprietor, embark on a new and highly erotic relationship behind the very private walls of Burling Abbey. They are joined by Mrs. Hendrick, the uninhibited cook, who initiates Phoebe into lesbian lovemaking... and enjoys sharing her with Jake. But bonds are fragile, and strong passions have been aroused that will leave Jake, Ben, and Phoebe facing an uncertain future.

Italy, 1605: For the ruling Borghese family, Rome is a place of grand palazzos and frescoed cathedrals. For the lowly artist Caravaggio, it is a place of rough bars, knife fights, and grubby whores. Until he is commissioned to paint the Pope...Soon, Caravaggio has gained entry into the Borgia family's inner circle, and becomes the most celebrated artist in Rome. But when he falls for Lena, a low-born fruit-seller, and paints her into his Madonna series as a simple peasant woman, Italian society is outraged. Discredited as an artist, but unwilling to retract his vision of the woman he loves, Caravaggio is forced into a duel - and murders a nobleman. Even his powerful patrons cannot protect him from a death sentence. So Caravaggio flees to Malta, where, before he can be pardoned, he must undergo the rigorous training of the Knights of Malta. His paintings continue to speak of his love for Lena. But before he can return to her, as a Knight and a noble,...

From the inside flapJack Lowry, ex-college professor, awakens in Hurley Memorial Hospital’s shabby detox unit. It is not the first time his alcoholism has brought him here. Jack’s fellow patients are not people he would ordinarily seek out, but one, a pretty girl named Kerry Beckett, instantly assaults Jack’s heart. I'm in Love, thought Jack. He though it the way one might think, after an accident with a chainsaw, “I’ve just lopped off my thumb,” the thought as yet unaccompanied by pain. Enter The Clear, a cult whose leader has some very peculiar theories about alcoholism as an ancient alien curse, and about DT-induced hallucinations as other-dimensional demons. Accord to The Clear, alcoholism is not a diease; it is a damnation. Alcoholics are the progeny of an ancient tribe call the K’n-Yan, and underground race who worshiped Tsathoggua... When Kerry disappears, Jack and his oddball cohorts must save her (and, incidentally, the whole recovering world) while contending with chaos, self-help, alcoholism, and—of course—monsters.

"[A] delightful read—Joe Nelms is a talent to watch!" —W. Bruce Cameron, author of The Midnight Plan of the Repo Man "A smart mix of humor and humanity... An energy drink for the funny bone." —Jane Wagner, author of The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Brad Fingerman was an art director in the glamorous world of New York advertising. He had the respect of his peers, a beautiful wife, and a bright future. That is, his future was bright before he spectacularly nuked his career, discovered his wife's infidelity, and witnessed a high-profile Mafia hit in a Midtown elevator. Now Brad's unemployed, divorced, and the government's key witness in a major murder trial. Except Brad didn't actually see the murder. So Brad lied, joined the Witness Protection Program, and entrusted his new identity to an FBI agent with her career on the make and a frighteningly committed bodyguard. Now he has to fake his way...

Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete's body and a poet's brain. But when she's mocked at a college party, she knows there isn't a boy alive who'll ever measure up.Enter Zoe, her brilliant but strange best friend, who takes biology homework to a whole new level. She can create Camille's dream boy, Frankenstein-style.But can she make him love her?Dead Romantic is a new take on Mary Shelley's Frankenstien.

Are you sitting down? It turns out that everything you learned about the First Amendment is wrong. For too long, we've been treating small, isolated snippets of the text as infallible gospel without looking at the masterpiece of the whole. Legal luminary Burt Neuborne argues that the structure of the First Amendment as well as of the entire Bill of Rights was more intentional than most people realize, beginning with the internal freedom of conscience and working outward to freedom of expression and finally freedom of public association. This design, Neuborne argues, was not to protect discrete individual rights—such as the rights of corporations to spend unlimited amounts of money to influence elections—but to guarantee that the process of democracy continues without disenfranchisement, oppression, or injustice.Neuborne, who was the legal director of the ACLU and has argued numerous cases before the Supreme Court, invites us to hear the “music"...

A wildly entertaining collection of short storiesShowcases some of the best erotic writing from both sides of the Atlantic. This themed collection brings you unashamed, wildly entertaining stories that explore forbidden fantasies about impromptu, unplanned and intensely edgy sex. From the nameless stranger with alluring eyes on public transport to the anonymous encounter with a man in a nightclub, encounters with strangers are high on the list of women's sexual fantasies. Here we find ordinary women all doing something they shouldn't, with someone they don't even know. Indoors, outdoors, the action is relentless. This is sizzling erotica with a modern, humorous flavour that will appeal to the discerning female reader.

The glamorous life, gilded family, and tragic times of J. Paul Getty III, whose kidnapping made headlines in 1973J. Paul ("Little Paul") Getty III, the grandson of Getty Oil founder J. Paul Getty, may have been cursed by money and privilege from the moment he was born. Falling in with the wrong people and practically abandoned by his famous family, Getty was a child of his international jet set era, moving from Marrakesh to Rome, nightclubs to well-appointed drug dens. His high-profile kidnapping defined the decade—and was permanently memorable for the ear that was mailed to his mother as evidence of the kidnappers' intentions.Uncommon Youth is richly reported, and includes many interviews with Getty himself conducted from the late 1970s to the early 1990s, that raise new angles about the case. How much did Getty acquiesce to the kidnappers? Why wouldn't his rich-as-Croesus grandfather pay the ransom, which began...