Resultados para "Luster" en Literatura de género

Kamikaze Lust takes the listener on an electrifying ride through the spectacle of life and death in millennial America. Smart, hardboiled, and humorous, the novel taps the American obsession with sex and death, sex and popular culture, sex and the written word, sex and pornography, sex and green M&Ms, and, of course, the perennial sex and love. Sanders voices a feminism buried in desire that nevertheless insists on sprouting and blossoming.

There's more to 24-year-old Sdia Mitchell than looks. This native Washingtonian has brains and brawn to match, but not without baggage. She was sexually abused as a child, which is more than a load for this beauty to carry. Just when Sdia begins to find peace and self-acceptance, along comes Mel Simmons, a handsome, fast-talking, womanizing barbershop owner from South Jersey. He not only takes pride in the control he has over his career, but, also in the control he has over his women. Soon Sdia finds herself struggling to escape Mel's demands, obsession, and narcissistic rage.

A life of salvaging tech and fighting horrors in deep space has given him nerves of steel. But now, he's up against the toughest job of his life. On a frozen, not-quite-dead planet, a desperate salvage operation has gone wrong. Max, hired to investigate, travels to the distant world, but his ship is downed by an abandoned defense system.

Luke just wanted to get away. What better place than a personal, secluded cabin in the woods to clear his mind? Besides, the quarantines were still in place, and the world wasn’t getting any better. Social media was abuzz with tales of an impending disaster, wars brewing overseas, and more. Then it happened. One of those apocalypse predictions turns out to be true: a massive solar flare shatters the power grid worldwide. Pressing on, Luke makes it to his cabin and discovers a woman already there....

Sasha Cherlin died the night she let Nick Tate walk out on her for a life of crime. Her very essence was destroyed when they broke their promise to one another. Nick Tate made his choice with her future in mind. He loved Sasha enough to know that leaving her behind was the only way to keep her safe. Special Agent Jax Barlow understands the bond of love and he plans to use it to get justice. Nick and Sasha will do anything to rewrite their past. He's counting on that to bring them down.

"I minderne er du tydelig. I drømmene er du virkelig, og i den virtuelle verden er du min. Dine læber finder igen mine. Din tunge er så legende, som jeg husker den. Din natur er så sanselig og nysgerrig. Din latter så befriende. Dine hænder er så undersøgende. Dine kys er så insisterende. Din krop er så grådig, men samtidig eftergivende. Jeg kan mærke varmen fra din krop, der omslutter min pik. Jeg kan fornemme din våde, glatte klit på mine fingerspidser, og jeg kan mærke, hvordan du strammer til og klemmer om mig, lige inden du kommer.

Erotisk novell om Bent, en frånskild man som håller sig för sig själv. En dag ser han sin granne Viola på stranden och det blir starten på ett hett förhållande mellan dem två. Camille Bech (f. 1963) är en känd författare av erotisk litteratur. Hon har bland annat gett ut "Advokaten" (2015), "Anais" (2016) och "Jul med Joeleen" (2017).

In LA Times First Fiction Award winner Maggie Shipstead's "Angel Lust", Simon Orff, a thrice-married movie producer, departs for his deceased father’s house, daughters selfishly in tow. “If he had to referee their squabbles and navigate their quicksilver emotions while sifting through his father’s possessions, he hoped the house would not seem so empty, or he hoped at least the emptiness would be neutral.” "If only," writes Halimah Marcus, co-editor of Electric Literature, in her introduction.

Max sets off to conclude his impromptu scavenging mission gone south, now with an additional member. Her name's Kassandra, and she's just as fascinated by him as everyone else. After warming up to her and learning about her past, Max makes a move. And why not?

Join Joseph in the battle between love and lust. The stakes are high. On the one hand, his family is on the line, but on the other, there's the one that got away; his high school love. Does he choose to stay and continue the beautiful life he made with his wife and son, or does he go back to the woman he had once felt so much for when he was young?

"There is a universal appeal to [Narrator Ariel] Blake's performance as Edie, a protagonist who may be her own worst antagonist. Blake's delivery has an immensely human, relatable quality that makes the listener want the best for Edie as she struggles to make her way in the world." -- AudioFile...

Sasha Young has seen enough heartbreak in her work as a social worker to recognize a trainwreck when she sees one. So why on earth is she falling for June Crane? June is beautiful, magnetic… and completely hung up on her ex. Worse, she works at the same hospital. Every instinct tells Sasha to run.But then June invites her to lunch. Just a friendly gesture, just a chance for Sasha — new to town — to make a connection.

Avery thought she knew the rules: rebound sex, no strings attached, no risks. After her ex dumped her for being “incapable of commitment,” the fiery 35-year-old redhead is determined to prove she can still have fun—at her favorite psychology conference, no less. Then she meets Raya.

Sofia Holt lives for one thing: her cookbook manuscript. Every recipe, every word, every late night in the kitchen — it’s her life, her dream, her future. There’s no space for distractions. And definitely not for love. Then Renee Forbes walks in. Gorgeous. Playful. A zookeeper with a wild smile and eyes that linger too long. At first, Sofia convinces herself Renee’s just being friendly. But the stolen glances, the teasing banter, the undeniable pull? Impossible to ignore.

James was no one special until he became an overnight millionaire. With his financial worries gone, he sets his eyes on a local waitress named Beth in hopes to explore a possible relationship. Then the world changed forever. After James narrowly escapes death, he takes refuge in his mountainside mansion with Beth and her attractive friend Claire. With fallout destroying the weather system and people going insane from an unknown neurotoxin, the world is more dangerous than it ever has been.

One dark evening, James picks up a mysterious woman's voice over his radio. Her only request is to be rescued from a wandering group of crazed survivors. In exchange, she promises top secret information and her skills as a scientist. It doesn't end there. People are starting to change into something more dangerous than just starving humans. That and the weather system has been corrupted by nuclear war. With time running out, it's up to James, Beth, Claire, and now Myra to discover the true force behind the apocalypse.

Fifteen Montana cowboys and 500 longhorns are embarking on a one-of-a-kind Wild West adventure: a cattle drive across 1,000 miles of Siberia. The clash of cultures between East and West, American six shooter and Russian saber, begins immediately when a band of Cossacks arrives to escort them to their destination. Cowboys and Cossacks must work together or they’ll never survive the journey, which includes a meeting with the warrior Genghis Kharlagawl and his army of bloodthirsty Tartars.

"For Christ sake don’t become a fluffmeister," are the last words Barnaby Griswold gets from his father. But despite trying to turn out otherwise, Barnaby knows himself a fool and already makes his living as a fluffmeister, as a puffer-up of investments. Well-bred, more or less educated, friendly to everyone, Barnaby is in fact foolishly successful. Until he blows it all. At 46, disgraced and broke and lonely, Barnaby must repair his life. Maybe, just maybe, he’ll find out that doing the foolish thing can lead to redemption.

For the McWilliams children, life is forever altered the day a terrorist bomb blast rips through the train carrying them across Italy, instantly killing their parents. Dazed and frightened, Charlotte, Oliver, and baby Julia cling to oldest brother Sam, who - only seven at the time - is haunted by every detail.

The charming, and not entirely trustworthy, unnamed narrator of The Last Night at the Ritz invites three friends to join her for lunch at the elegant Ritz-Carlton in Boston to celebrate her birthday. Two of them, Gay and Len, are a long-married couple and her best friends from college. The third, Wes, was once her lover. As the afternoon gives way to evening and as the drinks flow, the past and present intrude upon the festivities and the atmosphere turns somber. Before the night is through, truths and secrets slip out that will change their relationships forever.