Bøger af Claire Donovan

Maybe there is something special between Adam and me, but that doesn't mean we're guaranteed a happily ever after. Love and romance aren't always forever. *** Brooklyn *** I'm a spirited, athletic community college student from New Jersey, traveling to attend my mother's Hawaiian wedding to a wealthy land developer. If I meet a hunky man who piques my interest while I'm on the beach or in the pool, I might just take a chance... You know the rest... when I hook-up with a gorgeous bronze surf instructor any caution remaining in me drops straight to the bottom of the sea... I'm an eager audience for his sweet words. I'm convinced he adores my show-stopping red hair and my unsinkable style, on both land and water... His lagoon blue eyes bedazzle me so completely that the word regret loses all meaning for me... Until later that same night when I discover his father is the man marrying my mother... And that he's escorting a tall gorgeous blond in a strapless sheath dress to the rehearsal dinner... And that he still has enough brass in his balls to hit on me at the wedding reception...! When I feel his molten arms around my waist, my blood heats up so quickly that I vent steam whiter than his dinner jacket into the blue night... Just who does my new stepbrother Adam Seabrook think he is? He even makes it impossible for me to scream at him in frustration. How can I, when our lips are locked together as tight as a chowder clam? My best solution is to put a wide ocean between us. But my plan isn't dialing down my summery heat even one degree... My heart argues: Give Adam a chance. My head answers: No stepbrother deserves a first chance, much less a second... ***Hilo is an XOXO Stepbrother MC Standalone Novel. HEA. No cheating. ***

The collapse of her father's fortune forces innocent pre-med student Alyssa Carlyle into the erotic world of high class escorting. She soon discovers her mysterious boss is also her estranged and provocative stepbrother Mace. Neither can deny their shameless desire, but is it enough to escape from a dark world together?

First modern study devoted to one of the twelfth-century's most enigmatic, influential and fascinating figures.Henry of Blois (d. 1171) was a towering figure in twelfth-century England. Grandson of William the Conqueror and brother to King Stephen, he played a central role in shaping the course of the civil war that characterized his brother's reign. Bishop of Winchester and abbot of Glastonbury for more than four decades, Henry was one of the richest men in the kingdom, and effectively governed the English Church for a time as Papal Legate. Raised and tonsured atCluny, he was an intimate friend of Peter the Venerable and later saved the great abbey from financial ruin. Towards the end of his life he presided, albeit reluctantly, over the trial of Thomas Becket. Henry was a remarkable man:an administrator of exceptional talent, a formidable ecclesiastical statesman, a bold and eloquent diplomat, and twelfth-century England's most prolific patron of the arts. In the first major book-length study of Henry to bepublished since 1932, nine scholars explore new perspectives on the most crucial aspects of his life and legacy. By bringing ecclesiastical and documentary historians together with archaeologists and historians of art, architecture, literature and ideas, this interdisciplinary collection will serve as a catalyst for renewed study of this fascinating man and the world in which he operated. WILLIAM KYNAN-WILSON is Lecturer in the History of Artat the University of Bristol; JOHN MUNNS is a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge Contributors: Martin Biddle, Barbara Bombi, John Crook, Claire Donovan, M.J. Franklin, Edmund King, William Kynan-Wilson, Matthew M. Mesley, John Munns