New Women

You don’t find many too-pretty rich boys in the New Zealand Defense Force. Turns out there’s a reason for that. Fortunately, you can find your true self in the oddest places. Of course, you can lose yourself in those places, too - at least some pieces of you. Since I was back home with a new leg, some facial alterations, and time on my hands, I might as well help out my sister. Showing a buyer around New Zealand’s ecotourism sites, having a few adrenaline-fueled adventures? Fine. It wasn’t like I’d never been camping, unlike the walking tornado that was Miss Karen Sinclair.

Even as Julie worries about how her children are coping with the loss of their father and the recent move to their new ghost-town home in Mae’s Second Chance, her youngest son is quietly searching through one of the centuries-old buildings for a treasure he believes that his father means for him to find. But what he eventually discovers is not at all what he expects.Julie Engstrom has brought her family to the deserted ghost town of Mae’s Second Chance. She knew that her family needed something different as they struggled to deal with the loss that has changed their lives forever. Her ...

The Japanese Art of Shinrin-Yoku: A Woman’s Guide to Forest Bathing for Stress and Wellness Life today is fast-paced, chaotic, and often overwhelming—especially for women who balance careers, relationships, families, and personal growth. The demands of modern life can leave you feeling stressed, disconnected, and drained. But what if the solution to reclaiming your peace and well-being was as simple as stepping into a forest? Discover Shinrin-yoku, the Japanese practice of forest bathing. Rooted in centuries of Japanese culture and backed by modern science, Shinrin-yoku is a practice of...

Breaking the rules has never felt so right. Cosmopolitan Magazine calls Addison's books, "...easy, frothy fun!" From NEW YORK TIMES, USA TODAY, and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Addison Moore! Living with Brody Wolf is like living with a Greek god—if that god also happens to be a pain in my perfectly waxed, newly bleached behind. Brody and I have been friends forever. He’s my brother’s best friend and, by some cosmic joke, my new landlord. But now that I’ve moved into his house (temporarily, of course), things have gotten…complicated. It’s not just his ridiculously ...

Everlasting is the sixteenth novella in the ongoing story of the Andersen family. Livia Andersen was a woman who held her family together with a quiet smile and an iron will. It’s been months since her death and her children and grandchildren she leaves behind continue to grapple with the shifting changes in their lives now that she’s gone. Some look back at what else has been lost to them and struggle to make sense of it. Claire Andersen Slavik has invited Ethan Gilchrist to visit her lakeside resort so that he can research his family’s history in the area. She knows it’s important...

Artists are singularly passionate people. Some are so intense, they commit suicide. Some commit murder. A popular French artist living in London has an appointment to see Sherlock Holmes. He fails to appear. Why? Because he is dead. Suicide? Or murder? Holmes is asked to investigate. He quickly learns that nothing in the world of art is what is seems. Two thousand years ago, Aristotle said that all art was mimesis, a representation of reality. It seems that artists themselves, and their wives, are also not what they appear to be. This new mystery takes Holmes and Watson into the world of ...

Seduction is a science. If you can learn, understand and apply the principles of this science, then you can seduce the most beautiful women in the world. Psychologists have spent decades uncovering the dynamics behind human mating. After poring through hundreds of academic journal articles and studies, I've compiled a book that incorporates its valuable principles, so that you can apply them and get women nearly begging to be with you! After all, attraction is not a choice. Once a woman becomes attracted, she can’t help herself.

Come on Shore and We Will Kill and Eat You All is the story of the cultural collision between Westerners and the Maoris of New Zealand, told partly as a history of the complex and bloody period of contact between Europeans and the Maoris in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, and partly as the story of Christina Thompson's marriage to a Maori man.

In the 1930s, Jill Ker's parents bought a sheep farm on the western plains of New South Wales. In 1944, they lost nearly everything when a drought hit. Forced to leave Coorain, 11-year-old Jill and her mother settled in Sydney where Jill struggled to find a place for herself among Sydney's elite. Her story, both a chronicle of life in the Australian outback and the odyssey of a brilliant woman fighting the constraints of her time, offers a loving view of Australia.

You’re smart, a high performer, and determined to get more out of life. So why are you not getting ahead in your life and career? Chances are, you may need to focus on some personal traits and replace them with some simple and powerful strategies that can boost your presence and increase your influence on the world. You know that high performers don’t just coast. And you also know that powerful men and women do certain things to achieve and sustain success. The right clothes, a firm handshake, a winning smile? These all matter but don’t tell the whole story. So in an increasingly ...

Coronation, mystery characters, and uniting powerful beings. Can Zara accomplish what is required of her or will she fold under pressure? She’s excited and at the same time there is dread at the upcoming coronation. She would become queen of Quixotic – exciting, but at the same time she dreads the enormity of being queen. Zara discovers someone is influencing the entities. Will they be friend or foe? Zara’s sole reason for being in Quixotic is to unite the entities. Can she accomplish this daunting task? Will she survive? King Tiburon didn’t. Will her unborn child survive the ...

A free spirit happy to wander, a warrior destined to protect, and the devious woman who could destroy them both. Gunner Steele, a private security operative, is hired to protect the daughter of a famous actress and assumes she’ll be as much of a diva as her mother. Lily Jewel proves him wrong time and again and he finds himself drawn to the feisty, independent, and yet innocent woman. When the threat catches up with them and Lily discovers that Gunner was hired by her mother, she is furious. Can Gunner regain the carefree relationship they’d been developing, as well as her trust? Lily ...

At once disturbing and fascinating, Women Who Love Men Who Kill is a compelling psychological study of prison passion in the new millennium. Through extensive research and interviews with women who seek relationships with convicted killers through snail and email, and through conversations with psychiatrists, social workers, and prison officials, Isenberg sheds light on why these women are drawn into relationships with incarcerated outcasts.

His Assistant: The Final Story I'd just graduated from college when my dad offered me a huge opportunity at the family company. I couldn't decide if it was something I wanted. He worked every waking moment, and I knew he'd expect the same from me. That wasn't who I was. Sure, I worked hard for everything I had. Why wouldn't I? I never expected things handed to me. I could get anything I needed on my own. While I worked hard, I played hard too. That wasn't something I thought my dad would understand. He offered me the summer to decide if I wanted the job. Three months was nothing. I could do...

Sid wears her independence like armour. So when she strikes up a rare connection with unlucky-in-love Finn, they are both determined to prove that men and women can just be friends. Marin has the perfect home, attentive husband, two beloved children - and a secret addiction to designer clothes. She knows she has it all, so why can't she stop comparing herself to other women? Bea believes that we all have one love story - and she's had hers. Now her life centres around her son, Luke, and her support group of fierce single women. But there's something that she can't tell anyone.

Rhys Fletcher is not in love with his sister-in-law. That would be a very, very bad idea, and he doesn’t entertain bad ideas. He also doesn’t lie to himself. Both of those things can’t be true, so he’ll do what he’s done since the long-ago night when his brother, Dylan, turned up in an Auckland bar after a brutal rugby match between their two teams, and introduced his new girlfriend - a dark-eyed, much-too-young girl named Zora. He’ll lie. Now, his brother’s gone, and Rhys is back in New Zealand and settling into his new job as the head coach of the Auckland Blues

Brooke Stewart, a realtor in New York, is sure of one thing: She will never surrender her heart fully to the green-eyed, sexy as sin, six-foot-two sex god she calls her boss. Jett Mayfield is dangerously sexy, but he also attracts trouble. Avoiding him has never been an option. The night he hooks up with Brooke, he aims to keep her in his bed, but more than that he aims to make her his.

The story about Simon Fountaine’s magical cowboy ranch had been told in their family for more years than she cared to count. It was a fanciful story filled with drama, adventures, and Simon’s determination to find the special place he always dreamed about. Now, Elizabeth Fountaine wondered if there might be a bit of truth to the whimsical fairytale…if it was more than just an elaborate bedtime story to tell children. More than ever before, she very much needed for even just a small piece of the fairytale to be real. If it was, Simon's magical cowboy ranch could be the answer to her ...

At the altar, Zarayah can’t help but wonder if she’s making a terrible mistake… Keeping her husband-to-be’s secrets from her family wasn’t the first gut-wrenching decision she had to make. Choosing to go through with the wedding after learning what Zaire has done leaves Zarayah with a bad taste in her mouth. But surely it’s too late to call things off when they’re standing at the altar together… right? Backing out would embarrass her family—and herself. So she goes through with the marriage and things go from bad to worse. Their honeymoon cruise is a disaster and her ...

Romance and a... Series: Stories 5-8 (Approximately 56,700 words) Warning: This story contains content which is intended for readers over the age of 18. Romance, a Billionaire, and a Wedding (#5 in the Romance Series) Emily's plane had just left the runway to begin the long flight. She was hoping to get some rest, but her mind would not stop wandering. All she could think about was the events from the past couple of days. As she flew up into the clouds, she wondered if she had made the right decision. She was torn between Paul, the man she truly loved who had deceived her and Chris, a ...