From award-winning author E.M. Shue comes the first book in the Suddenly Us series—where one look can spark forever…or set the world ablaze.One look. That’s all it takes for billionaire playboy Darrell Boseman to fall hard and without warning for Daphne Placer.He’s a love-them-and-leave-them type. But the moment the young aquarist steps out of the water, something shifts. The man who’s spent years keeping love at arm’s length can’t look away.Daphne ...

The Machine Stops is a short science fiction story. It describes a world in which almost all humans have lost the ability to live on the surface of the Earth. Each individual lives in isolation in a 'cell', with all bodily and spiritual needs met by the omnipotent, global Machine. Most humans welcome this development, as they are skeptical and fearful of first-hand experience. People forget that humans created the Machine, and treat it as a mystical entity whose needs supersede their own. ...

WOW....just WOW. I started this book and COULD NOT STOP. ~Nancy, Goodreads ReviewerI thought one night would be enough, but I was wrong.AlexI knew she wouldn't say no. No one ever does.I have more in my life than any one man should. Money that can buy anything I want, enough power to control a city of millions, and a long line of willing women to fulfill every deviant desire I can dream up.My life is ...

“Welcome to One Wizard! How may I help you?”Being an intern at a wizarding firm sounds magical on the page, but in practice mostly means getting yelled at by senior mages—and angry clients who’ve been turned into platypuses. So when Journeyman Wen receives a frantic call from a young man who’s awoken to a talisman on his bedroom wall and no memory of how it got there, they jump at the chance to escape call center duty and actually help someone for once.But ...

From New York Times Bestselling Author Eliza Gayle writing as E.M. Gayle:Mason Sinclair followed everyone else's rules until family lies tore his life apart. Now he sets the damn rules and expects everyone to follow them. Period. But as the complex charade he calls his life begins to unravel, he meets a reporter with questionable motives and killer curves who may be the final straw.Stuck in the past and unable to move on, Rebecca Adams sees a contract with a myster...

An erotic historical romance to heat up your reading…Lady Pennington is no demure Regency miss, and she has her eyes set on Mr. Cedman Ashley, once an alpha Master at the Inn of the Red Chrysanthemum, where members engage in taboo forms of debauchery.But Master Ashley hung up his flogger years ago, vowing never again to take up his wicked ways…until his hand is forced by the beautiful and clever Lady Pennington.All her ladyship wants is one night of wicked decadence...

"A Room with a View" is a 1908 novel by English writer E. M. Forster, about a young woman in the restrained culture of Edwardian era England. The novel is both a romance and a humorous critique of English society at the beginning of the 20th century.

Maurice is heartbroken over unrequited love, which opened his heart and mind to his own sexual identity. In order to be true to himself, he goes against the grain of society's often unspoken rules of class, wealth, and politics.Forster understood that his homage to same-sex love, if published when he completed it in 1914, would probably end his career. Thus, Maurice languished in a drawer for fifty-seven years, the author requesting it be published only after his death (alo...

Pharos and Pharillon is one of E. M. Forster’s most unusual works, and also one of his most personal. It takes the form of a series of impressionistic “sketches” of the Egyptian city of Alexandria: beginning with brief, deftly drawn narratives of Alexandria’s ancient origins and its central role in the development of Christianity, it then proceeds to give a vivid account of Forster’s own experience of the city during the First World War. Imaginative, erudite, and powerfully evocat...

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Once upon a time, in a small seaside town, a happy man living a happy life brings other people joy with his delicious bakes.And then a storm cloud moves in next door, and suddenly things are...different.A war between them is brewing, like a hurricane offshore, and if Peyton isn't careful, Hudson is going to sweep him into the raging waters like a tsunami.

A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s. It was selected as one of the 100 great works of 20th century English literature by the Modern Library and won the 1924 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction. Time magazine included the novel in its "All Time 100 Novels" list. The novel is based on Forster's experiences in India, deriving the title from Walt Whitman's 1870...