Arrogant bosshole with some dirty secrets. Sounds tempting, right?Wrong. Kirill Zaitsev is anything but tempting.Sure, he's tall and broad and muscular in all the right places. And sure, he's richer than several small countries. And yes, fine, his eyes do make me feel loopy, and he does smell like mint and musk, and there's also the way his jaw clenches when he…Sorry, where was I? Oh yeah. Bosshole. Dirty secrets.Anyway, all those things sou...

Introducing How to Get Even, the hilarious and spicy slow burn workplace romance from Pippa Roscoe!JOHN TUCKER MUST DIE MEETS THE HATING GAME Workplace romance (he's the boss) Slow Burn Revenge pact New York setting Off-limits romance Fiery female lead Spicy!Karma’s ready to workSocialite Bella Carmichael's perfect life was shattered when she was jilted at the alt...

A BRAND NEW fake dating small town cowboy romance set on the Wild Heartlands ranch Every book in the Wild Heartlands series can be read as a standalone.A rancher cowboy with a rodeo-riding secret. The perfect read for fans of the Chestnut Springs series by Elsie Silver ✨I’ve been living a double life. By day, I’m Kade Wilde, running my family’s ranch. By night, I ride bareback broncos in secret—something I prom...

I'm having my bosshole's baby.Safe to say that's not ideal… especially because he doesn't even know.As a matter of fact, Kirill is clear across the country, and I'm pretty sure he's never coming back. That's fine. My daughter and I will be a-okay without him. At least, that's what I thought.Five years goes by like pulling teeth. I learn something. It hurts to do this alone. It hurts to do this without him. It hurts to know what could have been if on...

Old Rosa the bag lady shuffles along the streets of New York, stinking, silent and shunned by man and beast. Time and again her nephew, Michael Marcinkus the grocer, has tried to help – but Rosa remains unknowable, hushed inside her hulk.On the day of the St Patrick’s Day Parade, Rosa is in a terrible accident. While she lies in hospital, Mr Marcinkus visits her squalid apartment and unearths something remarkable from the monstrous piles of junk: two glittering ruby slippers, relic...

You don't have to accept slow Ruby or Rails performance. In this comprehensive guide to Ruby optimization, you'll learn how to write faster Ruby code--but that's just the beginning. See exactly what makes Ruby and Rails code slow, and how to fix it. Alex Dymo will guide you through perils of memory and CPU optimization, profiling, measuring, performance testing, garbage collection, and tuning. You'll find that all those "hard" things aren't so difficult after all, and your code will run or...

The presence of Blacks in a number of European societies has drawn increasing interest from scholars, policymakers, and the general public. This interdisciplinary and multi-disciplinary collection penetrates the multifaceted Black presence in Europe, and, in so doing, complicates the notions of race, belonging, desire, and identities assumed and presumed in revealing portraits of Black experiences in a European context. In focusing on contemporary intellectual currents and themes, the cont...

Old Rosa the bag lady shuffles along the streets, stinking, silent and shunned. Time and again her nephew, Michael Marcinkus, has tried to help – but Rosa remains unknowable.Then Rosa has a terrible accident. As she lies in a coma, Michael visits her squalid flat and unearths something remarkable from the junk: two glittering pieces of Hollywood history. How on earth has Rosa come to own such treasure? And what is to be done with them now?Bursting with atmosphere, an unforget...

Le monde de Sicr est étrange, semblable au nôtre, mais lointain. Il a ses propres règles, et pour engeance des êtres aussi fantastiques que méphistophéliques.Serlane, Eleïa et Faust se trouvent plongés dans l’obscurité de cet univers. Enrôlés de force par un ordre secret, ils reçoivent comme mission de lutter contre Seth, le prince d’obsidienne. Charge à eux de sauvegarder le monde de la folie de cet homme...Mais ils ne seront pas seuls. D’un côté, l’Ordre des chevaliers le...

Un an après avoir échappé au piège de Seth et au courroux de Fursy, les six élus réfugiés au domaine de Wivine coulent des jours heureux, loin de tout. Mais cette parenthèse de bonheur ne pouvait pas durer éternellement... Retrouvés par Seth, ils sont obligés de fuir, et partent à la recherche de leur ancien mentor.Mais leur quête prend une tournure dramatique, et Serlane se retrouve dos au mur. Il est de son devoir de se ressaisir et de prendre les choses en main, pour le bien de ...

Crulden the Ruiner is the most dangerous gladiator in the galaxy.I'm his clone—equally ugly, equally dangerous, and just as feared. I'm also being held captive, since no one trusts a creature like me to be let loose.A curvy, determined human named Bee doesn't think I'm a creature, though. In fact, she thinks I just need a guide. She's got half the males on this planet eating out of her hand, and she's confident she can do the same with me.The managing little female ...

A Prophecy That Demands a Kingdom's Fall.A Spy's Lie That Ignites a World War.A Princess Who Must Trust a Myth to Survive.Logic versus ChaosLauded as a master of logic, a spy is sent to the "soft" Heart-Ward to assess a supposed peasant revolt. Blinded by arrogance, he reports that the kingdom is weak. It is a lie that will spark a global conflict-a diversionary war that leave...