Born shrouded in the veil of the Primals, a Maiden as the Fates promised, Seraphena Mierel's future has never been hers. Chosen before birth to uphold the desperate deal her ancestor struck to save his people, Sera must leave behind her life and offer herself to the Primal of Death as his Consort. However, Sera's real destiny is the most closely guarded secret in all of Lasania, she's not the well protected Maiden, but an assassin with one mission,...

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview the young, enigmatic entrepreneur Christian Grey she encounters a man who is brilliant, beautiful, and deeply flawed. Lured by her looks, stung by her wit, and challenged by her independent spirit, Grey is determined to make Ana his sexual possession -- and what Grey wants he gets. But can their relationship ever go deeper than that? Will Ana ever penetrate Grey's cold armour, and if she does,...

Gideon Cross. As beautiful and flawless on the outside as he was damaged and tormented on the inside. He was a bright, scorching flame that singed me with the darkest of pleasures. I couldn't stay away. I didn't want to. He was my addiction .... my every desire .... mine. My past was as violent as his, and I was just as broken. We'd never work. It was too hard, too painful ... except when it was perfect. Those moments when the driving hunger and desperate...

"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author, a year's worth of daily wisdom and guidance, distilled from the lessons of his six previous books and from never-before-published work Robert Greene, the bestselling author, philosopher, and life guide for millions of people, applies the wisdom of centuries to his mission of revealing the secret truths about the essential forces shaping our lives. His readers look to him to answer their most elemental...

"The Ravishing Miss Burke has everything a young lady could want--beauty, status and suitors lined up just to beg for her hand. Until a blackmailer from her past holds her future for ransom. Colonel Rupert Delacorte, Viscount Darling will go to any length to ruin the woman responsible for his beloved sister's death. But the Ravishing Miss Burke is nothing like the icy murderer of his waking dreams--she's nothing but a bluestocking with a shocking...

Atu Quayson is the rebel in a family that exudes power and influence. Unexpectedly pulled back into the Quayson empire, Atu must persuade Amelie Hayford, daughter of his father's fiercest rival, to sell her family's beach resort--to the enemy! Why, wonders Amelie, does she feel such a wild attraction to the one man who is completely off-limits? Surrendering to the intense heat raging between them was inevitable. What they didn't expect was the explosive...

"Raquel has been crazy about Ares, her attractive and mysterious neighbor, all her life. She watches him without being seen from her window and, much to her regret, they haven't exchanged a single sad word. What Raquel doesn't know is that he is about to change... Ares will begin to cross his path even in the most unexpected places and he will discover that, in reality, Raquel is not the innocent girl he thought. Now, Raquel has a very clear goal:...

Paid to bait unsuspecting partners to determine their loyalty, Jayla Morgan, taking "seductress" to a whole new level, finds her twisted lies and scandalous exploits standing in the way of true love with the man of her dreams.

"A brilliantly original history that explores the shifting cultural mores of courtship, told through the lives of remarkable women and men throughout history. If sex has generally been a private matter, seduction has always been of intense public interest. Whether the stuff of front-page tabloid news, the scandal of nineteenth-century American courts, or the stuff of literature across the eras, we are fascinated by stories of seduction and sex. In...