Eight years ago, my husband came home with a surprise that shattered our lives. I hate him for what he's done to me and the damage he’s caused our family. Moving on seems impossible—Dark still won't let me go, and my ties to the club run deep. Some days, I feel like I’m barely holding on. Without my father-in-law, the only constant in my life, I would have lost my sanity years ago.When Dark asks me to take on another assignment for the club, I can’t refuse.I love the work.

MaeveKellin Brennan is the answer to my prayers. If his company invests in my boutique Santa Monica hotel, I can finally escape my family. My destiny. And run my hotel on my terms, free from my father’s mafia world.I didn’t expect a man who looks like a god and oozes sex appeal.He’s silver-tongued. Charming.And dangerous.Because behind the mask of a polite and calculated businessman, I glimpse a man who would kill for me.A ma...

Vinaya Texts (Part I)Translated from the Pâli by T.W. Rhys Davids and Herman Oldenberg.The Pâtimokkha and The Mahâvagga, I-IV.The Sacred Books of the East Part ThirteenTranslated from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max...

For months, I’ve stayed away from the men who broke me, piecing myself back together from the fragments they left behind. I thought I’d moved on and started to heal. But they refuse to let me go. No matter how hard I try to escape, they linger—ghosts haunting the edges of my mind.When they force their way back into my world, claiming it’s for my protection, I make one thing clear: I haven’t forgotten the pain they caused. As more secrets come to light, I soon realize there’s only o...

LucyI don’t need a bodyguard. Especially not one as cold and devastatingly gorgeous as Callum Kavanaugh.I’ve just landed a spot in the most competitive modeling event of the year. This is my chance to reclaim my life after everything I’ve survived. I won’t let an overbearing robot in a three-piece suit stop me.His calm, condescending demeanor infuriates me. I want to break his control and create chaos in his life and see how he likes it.But ...

The Questions of King Milinda - Part I of IIT. W. Rhys DavidsThe Milinda Pañha (also Milindapanha, Milindapañha, or MilindapañhÄ; abbrev., Mil) (Pali trans. "Questions of Milinda") is a Buddhist text which dates from approximately 100 BCE. It is sometimes included in the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism as a book of the Khuddaka Nikaya.It purports to record a dialogue in which the Indo-Greek king Menander I (Milinda in Pali) of Bactria, who reigned in the second cent...

In Early Buddhism, T. W. Rhys Davids distills decades of scholarship into a concise but richly layered account of the origins and development of Buddhism in its formative years. He examines the life of the Buddha, the establishment of the monastic order, and the core teachings that defined the new path — such as the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path. Rhys Davids also delves into early doctrinal developments and how Buddhism differentiated itself from the prevailing Vedic tr...

Buddhist Suttasby T. W. Rhys DavidsThese seven scriptural writings are considered to be the most important and oldest of the Buddhist religion. Originally written in the Pali language, they date to the fourth and third centuries BC. This early date is what makes them so important —they form the very core of Buddhist teachings, sought after and studied by monks and scholars for centuries.ON being asked to contribute a volume of translations from the Pâli Suttas to the...

Dialogues of the Buddhaby T. W. Rhys DavidsThe Digha Nikaya or "the collection of long doctrinary lectures" delivered by the Buddha is first of the five Nikayas or collection belonging to the Suttapitaka or the basket of (Buddha's) discourses which is one of the three major collection of Buddhist texts in Pali, the other two being Vinayapitaka and Abhidbamnapitaka.This set consists of texts that were translated over a period of years (from 1899 through 1921) by T.W.R...

The Questions of King Milinda - Part 2T. W. Rhys DavidsThe Milinda Pañha (also Milindapanha, Milindapañha, or MilindapañhÄ; abbrev., Mil) (Pali trans. "Questions of Milinda") is a Buddhist text which dates from approximately 100 BCE. It is sometimes included in the Pali Canon of Theravada Buddhism as a book of the Khuddaka Nikaya.It purports to record a dialogue in which the Indo-Greek king Menander I (Milinda in Pali) of Bactria, who reigned in the second ...

VINAYA TEXTS - Part IIT.W. RHYS DAVIDS AND HERMANN OLDENBERGTranslated from the Pali by T.W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg. The Sacred Books of the East series, comprising fifty volumes, has translations of key sacred texts of Hinduism, Buddhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Zoroastrianism, Jainism, and Islam. The series was edited by the famous linguist Max Muller, who also produced many of the translations and were the foundational documents for the new discipline known as th...

The 'Mahapadana Sutta,' a pivotal text within the Pali Canon, encapsulates the essence of Theravada Buddhism through its exploration of historical and existential themes. In this discourse, the Buddha narrates the lineage of past Buddhas, weaving together a vibrant tapestry of moral impermanence and exemplifying the cyclical nature of existence. Rhys Davids adopts a scholarly approach, employing textual analysis and meticulous translations that reflect both the poetic intricacies of ancien...