Everyone wants to wake up next to a hot book boyfriend, right? Well, not Ash.Her grandmother has just died and she knows the service tomorrow is going to be a hard one. She has to say goodbye to the one member of her family who always had her back and her mother’s perfumed steamroller tendencies seem to get out of control each time there’s some kind of family emergency.The last thing she expected was to wake her was the Big Bad Wolf, particularly one as hot as Fenrir Vangua...

I've sworn off dating for now, so how did I end up accidentally dating three hotties?After a cruel breakup, my New Year's resolution is to put myself first for once. Somehow, my fitness influencer sister thinks that includes getting me into the gym. I walk right into a space filled with weights and exercise equipmentAnd them.Rhys—the muscle-bound personal trainer with a heart of gold.Garrett—the nurse who fills his scrubs all too well.

What do you do when you run into the men who made your childhood hell? Move in with them, of course!It was a decision made from one part desperation and one part need for revenge… I moved into their house, but they quickly moved into my mind every waking minute of every freaking day because they're different than I remember.Van was always the golden boy with a cheeky smile. Now that smile has a hungry edge that is saved just for me.Gage was always t...

My ex-husband broke my heart by asking for an open marriage.Then I found out he had already been sleeping with someone else. So I dumped his butt and moved out.In the process, I found myself in the arms of four smoking-hot strangers. They pull out all the stops, lavishing me with all of the attention I'd been missing out on. But these guys have a secret.Am I going to be able to cope with the truth when it comes out, or is it going to be too much to ...

What do you do when your mother is determined to get you married?Create not one… not two… but three pretend boyfriends.It was supposed to be a lie so ridiculous she'd never bother me again.I never expected Mother Dearest to call my bluff and insist on meeting them.Luckily, my bestie is ready to help and volunteers her three gorgeous brothers for the role of fake boyfriend.Brock is my boss, his grumpiness only outstr...

I never intended to bond with a dragon.I definitely didn't intend to become his wife. Now I must wed the Crown Prince, a man who is as cruel as he is handsome.Yet, as soon as my dragon and I are presented to the king and queen, we are rejected. My dragon is not big enough, not good enough, and neither am I.So I'm shoved into the dragon rider corps to train to be a royal rider and told to find a husband among them. I know who I want: the four men who...

What's hotter than a handsome firefighter? Three of them.When our passion ignites like wildfire, we decide to give in to our delicious urges and share one crazy, unforgettable night.I even get a little souvenir to remember them by: a positive pregnancy test. Oops.It's time to mummy up, and that includes getting a steady job… at their fire station. But it's fine; they don't need to know my oven's been stuffed with one of their buns.So who's t...

My ex tried to take everything from me.My last chance at happiness.One of the men I've given my heart to.While before, he was content to terrorize me to get what he wanted, now his ambitions have widened. He's got the whole town in his sights, and he doesn't care who he has to hurt to get what he wants.But that's OK.I've let him ride roughshod over me for way too long, and now? Me and my mates are going to push back, and he doesn't k...

This study contends that folly is of fundamental importance to the implicit philosophical vision of Shakespeare’s drama. The discourse of folly’s wordplay, jubilant ironies, and vertiginous paradoxes furnish Shakespeare with a way of understanding that lays bare the hypocrisies and absurdities of the serious world. Like Erasmus, More, and Montaigne before him, Shakespeare employs folly as a mode of understanding that does not arrogantly insist upon the veracity of its own claims – a fool’s...

I escaped the terrible queen's clutches, so I should be safe, right?Apparently, the fates didn't get the message because while I was on my honeymoon, someone tried to kill me. Twice.And right in the middle of it is him—Crown Prince Draven.He's waiting until my guard is down, but is it to kiss me or kill me? Or both?Find out more in the sequel to Dragon Found!This is an adult fantasy romance story featuring dragon riders,...

With the queen dead, we thought our troubles were over—turns out, they've only just begun.Dragon eggs have been stolen. War looms on the horizon. And my prince—my lover—has asked me to be fitted for new dresses.As the kingdom teeters on the edge of chaos, my prince struggles to hold it together. He's forcing Flynn into the role of Duke of Skane, pushing Brom away despite their love, and as for me? I was never meant to be queen-in-waiting, yet now it seems I...

Through the 'dark night of the soul' to the depiction of the erotically-charged union of the soul and God, the poetry and prose works of the Spanish friar John of the Cross (1542-1591) offer a striking account of the transformation of the individual in the course of the Christian life. John of the Cross: Desire, Transformation, and Selfhood argues that these writings are animated by John's own creative and subtly conceptualized notion of erotic desire. John's understanding of desi...