In divided Cold War Europe, a West Berlin-based American journalist and a dissident Czech translator risk everything to communicate across the Iron Curtain. As secret corridors open and collapse, their emerging love collides with surveillance, betrayal, and state power. When a daring escape fails, they must decide: retreat to safety — or defy the system tightening around them.
Charlie had no idea the little redhead next door liked him. He found out otherwise. Join us for a wonderful erotic story about a wounded airman, a beautiful little tomboy, a host of others coming into their lives, and a few bad guys that just had to be dealt with.
Charlie invented a time machine, but that’s not really what this book is about. It’s about love and relationships, and retrospection, and tamales, and cute girls, and love. Did I mention love? Join Charlie and his girlfriends in a coming-together feel-good story.
The Stanos family became wealthy Greek shipping merchants in the early 19th century. Their ships sailed throughout the Mediterranean to numerous ports exporting Greek olive oils, cheeses and cotton. In return, their ships arrived full of exotic goods; amongst them were frankincense, myrrh and silk from the Arab world and beyond. The shipping empire was at its height when a random set of events beyond their control brought it crashing down, leaving only an aged grandfather.
Scientist Rebecca, 28 years old, ambitious, hard-working, and indifferent to sex, moves into an townhouse with two younger men. She discovers there is something more to life than her laboratory.
There Was This Girl - The Universe of Romance in Quick Time
All he wanted to do was get the network job finished, but the customer’s daughter wound up doing much more for him than he could have imagined at the time. One never knows what might come up from the past and change your life forever. Charlie ran into Billi again after several years and the result was more than phenomenal. Charlie’s dad told Billi’s dad to keep her away from him when they were kids. Didn’t work. Oh, shucks.
Mike is 18 when his mother asks him to spend the summer with Aunt Leia. She is not much older—beautiful, blonde, and alone while her husband works far away. At first, it seems like a normal holiday: a big house, a swimming pool, and simple garden work. But soon, small moments between them start to feel different. A smile, a touch, or the way her dress falls open makes Mike’s heart race. He knows it is wrong, but he cannot stop thinking about her....