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A one-night-stand-to-forever spicy lesbian erotic romance between an incognito rock star and a flirty stranger. Office worker Lucy Klint is feeling unusually bold when she invites home the sexy butch American with a raspy voice she meets in a Sydney laundromat. Its one night onlybut what a night.Rock star Persephone "Seph" Hyder cant get the cute woman from Sydney out of her head. Lucy doesnt have a clue who Seph really islike the fact shes a rich, world-famous singer. Or that shes at war with herself, her creativity, and her restrictive record label.The one-night stands turns into much more, and restrained Lucy starts exploring light BDSM delights with Seph. Learning to let go is only half the battle for the two, though. What happens when Lucy learns the truth about who her wanderer lover really is?

A war of the roses ignites between feuding small-town neighbors in this fun, slow-burn lesbian romance. Retired master florist Kate Willow moved to remote Serenity Springs for one thing: peace. All she wants is a glass of wine, her creaky rocking chair, and the company of her horse, Moose.Her effervescent neighbor Margot Reed is sunshine and glitter-soaked chaos who just wont leave her alone. Worse, Margots wild, messy garden ruins Kates tranquil view and chafes her fraying nerves.Their simmering rivalry ignites every year at the Rose Festival. Margot has won for five years straighta crown Kate is determined to reclaim.But when a crisis forces them to work together, they discover beneath the passive-aggressive barbs an unlikely attraction is starting to bloom.

Desire becomes most dangerous when it is observed.In Power Plays Tales From the Edge of Desire, Volume III, Cassian Ward expands his exploration of erotic power into darker, more intimate territorywhere control is exercised not only through touch, but through gaze, silence, and psychological authority.This volume presents a collection of explicit erotic short stories centered on moments of imbalance: a night porter who halts time between floors, a dancer disciplined on an empty stage, a mechanic who takes payment in surrender, a librarian who enforces rules in the dark, a paramedic whose care blurs into command, and a watcher who turns surveillance into ritual.Each story is driven by consensual power exchange, slow-burn dominance, and the unsettling intimacy of being seen, claimed, and transformed. Cassian Wards prose is atmospheric, deliberate, and psychologically chargeddesigned for readers who crave erotic fiction that lingers beyond the act itself.Power Plays Volume III is not about romance in the traditional sense.It is about tension. Authority. And the moment when desire chooses to obey.For readers of dark romance, BDSM erotica, voyeuristic power dynamics, and psychologically intense erotic fiction. Adults only (18+).

Eric Chistiansennot his real namehas been looking for sanctuary for a long time. He finally thinks hes found a crime syndicate that might watch his back while he tries to disentangle himself from his highly lucrative, highly illegal job as a killer for hire, albeit a picky one. Hes ready to hang up his guns for some peace.Brady Carnegie came to this little slice of desert between Meth and Hell because he wanted to help bring crime down. Hes deeply disappointed to find that his new boss and others in the department are crooked. But Brady has stumbled onto the key to ending the corruption plaguing the stretch of desert hes coming to love, if he can stay alive long enough to use it.Brady finds unexpected allies in the same unlikely group thats sheltering Eric and starts to realize that the good guys may not wear badges, and the bad guys who do have enough to lose to put his new friends at risk too. Bradys always been a solid law and order man, but he finds himself shifting allegiances like the desert sands shift beneath his feet.As Eric grows more protective of the earnest deputy, it becomes clear that a true warrior never gets to hang up his guns, and redemption doesnt come without a price. Can a hidden nest of vigilantes bring justice to their barren land while the cop and the hitman find comfort in each others arms? Or is the cost of redemption only measured in blood?

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Discover the tender, unputdownable love story of Mira and Tahliil, perfect for fans of David Nicholls, Claire Daverley and Monica Ali. Poignant [and] powerful. GUARDIANA rare joy. SARAH MOSSShimmers with beauty. VANESSA CHANBelgrave Road, Leicester. Mira and Tahliil, like many other lovers before, meet at work. Miras days are filled with duty and light on freedom. In a new country, living with a husband she barely knows - and who she fears shell never love - Mira is desperate to discover all that her new life in England might offer.And then theres Tahliil. The quiet, beautiful man she sees at work each day. With a depth in his eyes and a face full of questions. The first person in this new world who listens to Miras hopes for who she yearns to become.But beyond their lunchtime encounters, the pair couldnt lead more different lives: the duties that bind them, the homes they are trying to build threaten to subsume them. As Mira and Tahliil navigate the deep and turbulent waters of their new worlds can they find a way to be together, and will finding each other set them free?Remarkable. JO BROWNING WROETenacious and tender. AUBE RAY LESCURE

Madame Bovary is a landmark novel of literary realism, portraying the inner life of a woman trapped between romantic dreams and mundane reality. Gustave Flauberts precise prose and psychological depth expose the dangers of illusion, dissatisfaction, and emotional excess. Controversial, influential, and timeless, this novel reshaped modern fiction and remains a masterpiece of world literature.

Sense & Sensibility (1811) traces Elinor and Marianne Dashwood from dispossession at Norland Park to Barton Cottage and London, staging the friction between prudence and passion in ties with Edward Ferrars, Colonel Brandon, and John Willoughby. In poised irony and early free indirect style, Austen reworks the sentimental novel into a comedy of manners alert to money, rank, and reputation, exposing entail and primogeniture as engines that commodify feeling. A clergymans daughter from Hampshire (17751817), Austen began the tale in the 1790s as the epistolary "Elinor and Marianne," revising it at Chawton before publishing anonymously as "By a Lady." Family brushes with financial insecurity and long observation of gentry sociability, conduct books, and circulatinglibrary fiction sharpen her ethical realism and her measured skepticism toward fashionable displays of sensibility. Read this novel for a lucid account of how hearts and fortunes are schooled by society. It welcomes newcomers to Austens art while rewarding scholars of the British novel, gendered economics, and narrative technique. Wise, witty, and unsentimental about sentiment, Sense & Sensibility remains a bracing study of sisterhood, prudence, and desire under the constraints of custom, capital, and reputation.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Pride & Prejudice transforms the courtship plot into a rigorously observed social study. Through brisk dialogue and Austens pioneering free indirect discourse, the novel tracks Elizabeth Bennets evolving judgments of Fitzwilliam Darcy amid the intricacies of entailment, reputation, and provincial sociability. Its calibrated irony exposes the performative etiquette of the Regency marriage market while affording genuine moral growth. Scenes at Netherfield, Hunsford, and Pemberley stage class negotiation; letters and revelations reconfigure perception, and narrative economy keeps the comedy of manners in productive tension with ethical inquiry. Composed from an early draft titled First Impressions (179697) and published in 1813, the novel crystallizes Austens intimate knowledge of the landed gentry gathered in rectories, assemblies, and drawing rooms. Raised in a clerical household, financially vulnerable after her fathers death, and a close, epistolary observer with her sister Cassandra, Austen refines juvenilias wit into an instrument for anatomizing female agency under entail and inheritance constraint, transforming local observation into universal comedy. Recommended to readers seeking lucid pleasure yoked to intellectual exactness: students of narrative technique, historians of gender and class, and lovers of crisp prose. This novel rewards re-reading, illuminating how pride and prejudice distort judgmentuntil humility, attention, and conversation clear the mind.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in the village of Highbury, Emma (1815) follows Emma Woodhousewealthy, witty, and overconfidentas she meddles with Harriet Smiths prospects, misreads Frank Churchill and Jane Fairfax, and recognizes her regard for Mr. Knightley. Austens irony and consummate free indirect discourse tether the tale to Emmas partial perceptions, turning a bright comedy of manners into a study of self-knowledge and class. With carefully staged episodesthe Crown Inn ball and the humbling at Box Hillthe novel epitomizes Regency domestic realism while probing the ethics of social amusement. A clergymans daughter from Hampshire, Jane Austen honed her art by close observation of the gentrys speech, leisure, and constraint. After Sense and Sensibility, Pride and Prejudice, and Mansfield Park, she declared of Emma, "I am going to take a heroine whom no one but myself will much like," and, at the Prince Regents insistence, dedicated the novel. Publishing anonymously, Austen wrote as an unmarried gentlewoman, keenly aware of the economics of marriage and the negotiations of patronage, rank, and reputation. Readers seeking wit married to moral insight will find Emma inexhaustible: a novel to savor for its narrative ingenuity, humane comedy, and enduring lessons in judgment and sympathy.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Lorna Doone (1869) is John Ridds first-person chronicle of love and vengeance on Exmoor. Set amid the Monmouth Rebellion and the Bloody Assizes, it entwines a yeomans courtship of Lornaward of the Doone outlawswith feud, ambush, and the cadences of rural labor. Blackmore blends Scottian historical romance with Victorian regional realism: melodrama is checked by close observation of weather, waterways, hedgerows, and dialect, making the landscape a moral arena as well as a stage. R. D. Blackmore, an Oxford-trained classicist, brief barrister, and later market gardener in Teddington, drew on a West Country upbringing and Tiverton schooling to anchor the books topography and folk memory. Legends of the Doone band and tales of Tom Faggus, together with his classical pastoral, shaped cadence and imagery; horticultural practice sharpened his botanical precision. Composed against the vogue for sensation fiction, the novel restores gravity through place and character. For readers who relish the sweep of Scott, the regional depth later associated with Hardy, or finely grained nature writing, Lorna Doone remains rewarding. It is both an engrossing romance and a meditation on community, law, and landa classic that marries narrative momentum to the durable truths of landscape.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Sheik (1919) braids a captivity romance with an imperial adventure as the fiercely independent English heiress Diana Mayo is abducted in the Algerian Sahara by the enigmatic chieftain Ahmed Ben Hassan. Hulls prose is unabashedly lushsand-dune panoramas, perfumed tents, and high-strung interior monologuespropelling a melodrama whose erotic charge scandalized and enthralled postwar readers. Situated within the Orientalist "desert romance," the novel refracts anxieties about gender, race, and empire through fevered fantasies of domination and surrender, and it became a defining popular text, spawning imitators and a star-making 1921 film adaptation starring Rudolph Valentino. E. M. Hull, a reserved British novelist, wrote the book amid World War I disruptions, transmuting contemporary tensions over female independence and marital power into sensational form. Drawing more on travelogues and imperial adventure fiction than firsthand experience, she fashioned a vividly imagined Sahara and, with The Sheiks runaway success, set the template she refined in later desert tales. Read today, The Sheik rewards scholars and general readers alike: a cornerstone of popular romance and a revealing artifact of Orientalist fantasy and postwar desire. Approach it critically yet empathetically, and you will find a text that unsettles, captivates, and sustains vigorous debate.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Rainbow Trail, Zane Greys sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage, returns to Utahs canyonlands in a chase that doubles as spiritual inquiry. John Shefford seeks the vanished Lassiter and Jane Withersteen and confronts a clandestine system of "sealed" wives while guiding Fay Larkin toward freedom, all beneath the austere grandeur of Rainbow Bridge. Greys cinematic, melodically descriptive prose makes landscape a moral agent, situating the novel within Progressive Era debates over Mormon polygamy, law, and individual conscience. Grey, a dentist turned bestselling outdoorsman-author, refashioned notes from pack trips through Arizona and southern Utah into fiction. Traveling with local guides and observing Mormon settlements and Indigenous trails, he developed a documentary eye for sandstone, weather, and isolation. His belief that wilderness tests character, alongside contemporary quarrels over religious authority, clearly propelled this continuation of his frontier saga. Recommended to readers of Western literature, American religious history, and environmental writing, The Rainbow Trail couples breathless pursuit with a measured critique of coercive community. It completes Riders of the Purple Sage with moral clarity and scenic splendor, rewarding scholars and general readers in equal measure.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Our Mutual Friend, Dickenss last completed novel (186465), sets a murder mystery and a courtship plot amid Londons river margins and the lucrative dust-heaps. When a body from the Thames is taken for John Harmon, an unseen heir, disguises, mistaken identities, and social rehearsals entangle the Boffins, Bella Wilfer, Lizzie Hexam, Eugene Wrayburn, and the obsessive Bradley Headstone. Composed for serial publication, it fuses caustic satire, grotesque comedy, and lyrical river imagery to probe moneys corruption, precarious mobility, and the ecology of refuse sustaining Victorian prosperity. By the mid-1860s Dickens was a veteran editor of All the Year Round and a tireless observer of Londons labor, waste, and waterways. Personal upheavalseparation from Catherine and a life of theatrical readingshoned his interest in masks and secrecy. His survival of the 1865 Staplehurst rail crash during serialization sharpened themes of contingency and rescue, while dust contractors and speculative fortunes offered material fact. Out of journalism and trauma he forged a panoramic fable of value sifted from urban detritus. Readers drawn to Victorian fiction, environmental humanities, or the history of capitalism will find this novel demanding yet exhilarating: a darkly comic, intricately patterned study of desire, wealth, and the mutable identities money makes.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Best Man fuses courtship with ethical suspense, using the title figures steady integrity to refract the social expectations of early twentieth-century America. Hill stages parlors and quiet thresholds as sites where promises are tested, reputations threatened, and grace unexpectedly intervenes. Her style is brisk and scene-drivenlucid dialogue, decorous wit, and unembarrassed sentimentwith scriptural allusion folded into action rather than appended as homily. Within evangelical domestic fiction, the novel bridges nineteenth-century sentimentalism and the modern popular romance, registering tensions of class mobility and public piety. Grace Livingston Hill wrote from a devout upbringing and the conviction that narrative could model practical holiness. Mentored by family ties to earlier best-selling religious novelists and, at times, writing from economic necessity, she honed a craft that weds readability to moral clarity; this tale exemplifies her method of conversion by character, where patience, kindness, and courage quietly persuade. Recommended for readers of faith-suffused romance, students of American womens writing, and book clubs seeking clean yet textured storytelling, The Best Man offers gentle suspense, an upright hero, and a community reoriented by gracean enduring study in conscience rendered with accessible charm.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in the years around the 1832 Reform Bill, Middlemarch: A Study of Provincial Life interweaves Dorothea Brookes thwarted idealism, Lydgates medical ambitions, and the Vincys fortunes into a patient anatomy of a town. With an omniscient, gently ironic narrator and masterly free indirect discourse, Eliot builds a realist web where marriage, vocation, religion, finance, and politics reveal how private desires buckle under communal pressures. George Eliot (Mary Ann Evans)translator of Strauss and Feuerbach and former editor of the Westminster Reviewwrote from rigorous engagement with German thought, positivist science, and provincial memory. Her partnership with George Henry Lewes, skepticism toward doctrinal certainties, and Warwickshire upbringing supplied the psychological tact and historical imagination that let her test moral ideals against the everyday compromises of nineteenth-century professional and domestic life. Readers seeking a novel that thinks as keenly as it feels will find Middlemarch inexhaustible: exact in social detail, generous in sympathy, unsparing about vanity and failure. It rewards patient attention and invites rereading, making it essential for students of Victorian culture, political reform, gender and work, and for any reader who values moral seriousness without dogma.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Set in late fourteenth-century Perth under the waning reign of Robert III, The Fair Maid of Perth braids civic ritual, clan rivalry, and intimate romance. Scott evokes burgh guild life around Simon Glover and his steadfast daughter Catherine, while the fiery armourer Henry Gow and the conflicted Highland youth Conachar are drawn toward the combat on the North Inch. With archival scruple and dramatic drive, he opposes Lowland law to Highland honor, threads in royal intrigueAlbany, Rothesay, Douglasand introduces a nascent reforming conscience in Father Clement. Prose moves from brisk vernacular to stately chronicle, laced with Scots idiom, marking a mature Waverley romance. Scott, architect of the historical novel, wrote late in life amid financial crisis that sharpened rather than dimmed his antiquarian zeal. Mining medieval chronicles and local tradition, the advocate-sheriff and border ballad collector studies the institutions of a royal burgh as closely as battles, filtering national memory through humane skepticism. Unabridged, the novel rewards readers who relish dense period texture, morally tested characters, and political nuance. Students of medieval Scotland and admirers of Ivanhoe will find Perths streets and the North Inch both instructive and exhilarating.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Corinne; or, Italy (1807) entwines the love of Corinne, a celebrated Italian improvisatrice, and Oswald, a melancholic Scottish lord, with a panoramic tour of Rome, Naples, and Venice. Stael marries narrative pathos to reflective essays on art, music, religion, and national character, staging the sublime and the picturesque amid ritual and ruins. This hybrid of romance, travelogue, and aesthetic theory both anticipates European Romanticism and probes the constraints on female genius, contrasting English reserve with Italian expressiveness. A cosmopolitan exile and daughter of Jacques Necker, Madame de Stael refined a comparative method at Coppet after Napoleon banished her from Paris. Her 1804 Italian travels supplied firsthand detail; her Protestant, Swiss-French background and salon improvisations shape Corinnes art. Displacement, censorship, and a critique of national prejudice color the novels meditations on freedom and the price of female fame. Recommended to readers of Romanticism, travel writing, and feminist criticism, it offers luminous set pieces, a cosmopolitan ethics, and a rigorous inquiry into national character. Read it to consider how love, country, and talent might coexist without mutilating one another.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

The Shuttle interlaces a transatlantic marriage plot with a social panorama. When American heiress Rosalie Vanderpoel is absorbed into the decaying English estate of Sir Nigel Anstruthers, the story darkens into domestic Gothic; years later, her sister Bettina crosses the oceanthe titular shuttleto confront abuse, restore Stornham Court, and renegotiate AngloAmerican power. Burnetts prose shifts from crisp observation to pastoral description, especially in scenes of garden renewal that double as moral reclamation. Composed amid the "Dollar Princess" vogue and first serialized in 1907, it blends melodrama, social realism, and the New Womans modernity. Frances Hodgson Burnett, born in Manchester and raised in the United States, lived across the cultures she portrays. Her journalism and bestselling fiction had negotiated class spectacle and sentimental ethics; here she draws on encounters with titled poverty, American capital, and Progressiveera optimism. A devoted gardener, she mobilizes cultivation as an ethical and aesthetic program. Readers seeking more than a fairytale rescue will value this attentive novel for its critique of coercive marriage, its faith in repair, and its shrewd account of AngloAmerican exchange. The Shuttle is essential for students of transatlantic modernity and admirers of The Secret Garden, who will find its horticultural imagination fully political.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.

Love in Excess (171920) plunges readers into a maze of desire among the Parisian elite: the rakish Count DElmont, the ardent Alovisa, the virtuous Melliora, and the compromised Amena. Misdirected letters, clandestine meetings, and jealous surveillance drive reversals that test reputation, consent, and duty. Haywood fuses the heightened rhetoric of amatory romance with the observational textures of the emergent novel, staging theatrical setpieces yet pausing for moral analysis; its serial pace and access to female interiority anticipate sentimental and psychological fiction. An actress turned prolific novelist, editor, and translator, Haywood was a chief architect of early amatory fiction. Writing amid competing conduct books and libertine tales, she calibrated her narratives to womens anxieties about reputation and choice. Stage training shapes her attention to gesture; later ventures like The Female Spectator signal the didactic impulse already germinating in this runaway, threepart bestseller. Readers of eighteenthcentury literature, gender studies, or the history of the novel will find here both intellectual provocation and unabashed narrative pleasure. Love in Excess repays close study in the classroom and beyond, especially for admirers of Richardson and Burney seeking the genres origins, and for anyone curious about how passion collides with social power.Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the authors voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readabledistilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.