Female desire, Cole decided, could never be underestimated. Whether a girl was naive, like Nurse Margaret, or a cynical sophisticate, like Melinda, if a man discovered their dark side and indulged it to satisfaction, they belonged to him thereafter. But Cole's oath - to never feel for any woman - is threatened the moment he is asked to mentor Lana. A girl who wields the ultimate feminine weapon - abosolute undemanding surrender.

From the acclaimed author of fantasy novels under the pen name Morgana Baron comes an edgy domestic thriller about a mother and daughter competing for the same man... Trixie is a petite, curvaceous widow who is wealthy and sexually adventurous. Rolf, a widower, is tall, good-looking and even wealthier than Trixie; and he's been celibate for far too long. His son and Trixie's daughter make a handsome couple, too. You'd think both relationships had been made in heaven except for the fact that Rolf lusts after the daughter as much as he does the mother. The daughter looks pure, but beneath her...

The auction catalog read: Lot number 217. A tin trunk, circa 1860, containing a number of esoteric volumes--many with curious woodcuts, all in poor condition--held the secret diaries of Sir Richard Francis Burton: soldier, spy, explorer, linguist, diplomat, master of disguise, the greatest swordsman of all time, hero, scoundrel, rake. His deeds are legendary, from single-handedly routing a score of attacking tribesmen to translating the "Kama Sutra" after having tested every single position it describes. Long periods of Burton's life have been shrouded in mystery. His lovely wife, Isabel,...