He was a millionaire and he was searching for the perfect woman, a virgin.. One that would love him for him and not just the money he had. He tricks the women into thinking he is poor to see if they will love him for whom he is and not for his money.When he finds the woman he is looking for she becomes angry because he lied. Will they ever find true happiness or did he blow it?*****Warning: some sexual content*******

The call came at three in the morning, and he knew before he answered that his father was dead. The omega he had been bonded to at twenty-one, and had not touched in seven years, was waiting for him at the other end of that coast with a seven-year-old boy and a bond he could still feel.Orso Branciforte was twenty-one when the Branciforte clan bound him, without his consent, to the youngest Lanzetta omega in a chapel above the sea. He spent seven years in La Spezia ...

Seven years ago he ran from the clan that killed his father. Today a courier leaves a charter at his archive door, and his body knows the scent on it before his mind does. The Don who signed it is the man he was bonded to in a chapel at twenty-one.Gioele Lanzetta has been Giorgio the translator for seven years. He lives in a mountain village above Padua, working in an archive owned by a man he does not trust, in a language he stopped speaking the night he walked ou...

He walked into the Pakhan's compound under a false contract and left knowing the man he was supposed to fear was his fated mate. Mikhailo Yarevich Drazhny is the head of the Yarev Bratstvo and the most dangerous Alpha on the eastern Adriatic coast. And the codex they decoded together just rewrote both their lives in a language four hundred years old.Aleksy Domitar Ostrovin spent six years as a senior cataloguer at the Biblioteca Civica Hortis in Trieste reading man...

Arik used to live in Vroorttown, a boisterous factory territory where he helped build huge steam engines.He used to live there, but not anymore. He fled because he caused a horrible accident and remaining in Vroorttown would mean certain death.For months Arik avoided capture by going ever deeper in a huge forest where he vowed to set up a tiny camp and stay lost forever. Finally, he felt safe.Then a woman chanced upon his camp.The encounter triggered a serie...

Bigot and misogynist Johnathan McFee is a present-day politician who is running for the presidency—again.At a campaign rally, he announces he will bring back laws that were in effect in the late 1700s; specifically pertaining to those he hates the most: immigrants, aliens and people who disagree with him.Unfortunately for Mr. McFee, instead of bringing those laws to the present, he is mysteriously transported to post-Revolutionary War America where people see him a...

He has been keeping the Capo's child alive in Palermo for three years and the rival house has just found the document that names the boy's bloodline. Manfredi Spatafora has nineteen months as Capo and a council session that has just become a threat to an heir he didn't know existed. Now he has to decide, in the same hour, whether to fight for the covenant or the man who carries it.Cipriano Vintimilla is a paleographer, twenty-eight years old, working under his moth...

Silent Screams recounts one woman’s painful struggle following a severe psychological crisis. After an attempted suicide reveals the doctor/patient relationship that she has had with her psychiatrist for many years, she takes a look back at her life to understand how she arrived at such a painful and critical point, tracing her background from childhood and including the effects of a long-term physical illness and many emotional traumas.-----Believing that a formal education in psychology ...

Catherine Malabou’s elaboration of the concept of plasticity has made her one of the most innovative philosophers working today. Formations collects eighteen of Malabou’s early writings, spanning 1986 to 2003, within which her initial articulations of plasticity take shape.Though Malabou might be most famous for bringing neurobiological discourse into conversation with continental philosophy, she has always maintained, as the essays in Formation make clear, that “...

He came to the Voronin villa as a candidate in a council file, not as a man. Iuri Voronin is the Pakhan of the eastern Adriatic Bratstvo, and he has kept one line in a letter he wrote to the council above his own name: if the candidate declines, the council shall not propose another. What Onorato Filangieri does with that line will take four months to answer.Onorato Filangieri is a freelance manuscript authenticator in Trieste, thirty-one years old, an Omega of the...

He ran from Naples four years ago carrying a secret that could get them both killed. Iuri Voloshyn-Branciforte is the Don of a hybrid Calabrian-Slavic crime clan, and the photograph that arrives at his dinner table shows a three-year-old boy with his grey eyes. He is going to Maratea before morning.Ezechiele Notarbartolo-Filingeri spent four years in a fishing village above Maratea raising a child registered nowhere under a name that does not exist in any commune r...

He took the contract to keep his mother alive. Don Cesario Galante is the Alpha of the Amalfi coast — patient, precise, and the last man Lior Vadalà should have let past the archive door. But what has been building in four careful weeks of professional distance is no longer something either of them can call work.Lior Vadalà sorted his mother's medical bills into three piles on a Tuesday in late February and knew, by the weight of the cream-linen envelope on the kit...