David can't believe it when he finds out that his less than perfect son has dumped his more than perfect girlfriend two days before Valentine's. When David secretly tries to make up for some of the unkind circumstance, things don't go exactly as planned, but hardly for the worse.
A young woman, fresh out of college, begins her teaching career at the only school that would employ her. The pretty but very spoiled young blonde, accustomed to a life of privilege, soon learns that she is the only white person at an all black high school attempting to teach English to students that aren't interested in what she has to say. But they are interested in something else. She soon finds herself at the mercy of her students.
Twelve years after the accident that took her parents, Libby still lives with the only person who never left her, her grandfather. The grief never really went away. It just changed shape. Turned into a constant, shameful ache she only knows how to quiet with her own fingers… and lately, with fantasies she hates herself for having. On the anniversary, the lines between comfort and want finally break. Extremely explicit. Grandfather/granddaughter.
A "Delights" novel Part of the Kobekistan universe
The first of 12 books about life in a 21st century Arab country where the old laws of concubinage and slavery still apply. David Ransome has lived in England since he was four, and is a post-graduate student at Oxford University when his grandfather and uncle die, and he inherits the throne of the Emirate of Kobekistan. Read how an easy-going ordinary English young man is transformed by power into a cruel autocratic Emir who is capable of having an annoying concubine strangled.
After a devastating accident, Alice’s son Ben awakens from a fourteen-month coma. But his recovery is overshadowed by a single, shocking physical change and a torrent of new, confusing desires that both terrify and consume him. In the quiet of their home, a dangerous new bond forms. How far will a mother's guilt-driven devotion go to save the son she feels she broke? In the hushed stillness of their basement, a dangerous new therapy begins—one where a mother’s touch becomes a son’s deliverance.