Bad Boy Heaven

From bestselling author, Jamila Jasper comes an original, sexy standalone novel. Stop staring at the hot bartender! Tessa's ill-fated date with a "hotep" (you'll see what I mean) seems to have a positive twist when she meets "her" hot bartender — Phil Tremblay. Phil is right for her in all the wrong ways and the last guy on earth she should end up with. He's tattooed, foul-mouthed and can use his hands and tongue to push her to the edge of glory. Tessa struggles to prove to herself and Phil that they aren't meant to be together. Fate and the District of Columbia have other plans for her. Each ill-fated first date with a potential new boo leads back to the bad boy, Phil Tremblay. Is she in bad boy heaven or single-woman hell?

I should have never slept with Phil. He's broke. Bad for me. And obsessed with getting into my pants. It doesn't help that he's over six feet tall, dangerously sexy, covered in tattoos and always speaks his mind while demanding what he wants in the bedroom. As each of my dating failures gets progressively worse... Phil is always there to catch me when I fall. I have to wonder if I'm in bad boy heaven or single woman hell. This is a spicy friends-with-benefits-to-lovers black woman/white man romance with an alphahole.

She's the inconvenience he never saw coming . . . and the one he would kill for Damien Black. American royalty. Gorgeous asshole. Shameless rake. Also . . . my new boss. One night of mistakes and he's running to my rescue like the prince on a white horse. But a liar is no damsel. There's no escaping Rosehill's bad boy when fate keeps pushing you together. But if the souls of the foul are doomed, why does every night feel like heaven? What do you do when a pretty little thing walks through the doors of your exclusive nightclub? You take a front row seat to the show. Ivy Thanos. Brilliant dancer. Dangerous vixen. Dark enigma. Breaking all my rules, she's my personal hell. I would rather burn than let her go. How do you fight for love when the whole world is against you and everything you know turns out to be a lie? Bad Boys Bring Heaven is the first book in the Masquerade series and has been previously published under the title Masquerade. This is a full-length novel and can be read as a standalone.

After the American Civil War ended, George W. Peck (1840–1916) became a newspaper publisher. His weekly newspaper, "Peck’s Sun," contained Peck’s humorous writings, including his famous semi-autobiographical “Peck’s Bad Boy” stories. Peck died in 1916 at age 75, but his writing continued to win fans for years. The "Peck’s Bad Boy" stories became the basis for several films and a short-lived television show. Included in this volume are: PECK’S BAD BOY AND HIS PA THE GROCERY MAN AND PECK’S BAD BOY PECK’S BAD BOY ABROAD PECK’S BAD BOY WITH THE COWBOYS PECK’S BAD BOY WITH THE CIRCUS PECK’S UNCLE IKE AND THE RED HEADED BOY PECK’S SUNSHINE PECK’S COMPENDIUM OF FUN HOW PRIVATE GEORGE W. PECK PUT DOWN THE REBELLION If you enjoy this volume, please search this ebook store for "Wildside Press Megapack" to see more entries in the series, collecting great tales of adventure, mystery, science fiction, westerns, ghost stories, and much more. (Sort by publication date to see the most recent additions.)

Banks is on holiday, headed for Fisherman's Wharf in San Francisco. His daughter, Tracy, home in Leeds and angry with her father, is headed for some very deep trouble. Robinson's nineteenth Inspector Banks novel is a stunner. Handguns are illegal in the U.K., and whenever one is reported, the police swing into high gear. But things go very wrong when the police swoop down on a home in Eastvale to seize a reported handgun. In the confusion, Patrick Doyle, a former neighbour of Banks, is shot. Doyle's daughter, Erin, is to blame for the gun being in the house, and while she's in police custody, her housemate in Leeds, Tracy Banks, decides to let Erin's boyfriend know that the police have been around their place. Bad decision. When Banks returns home from holiday, Tracy is missing. And that's not the worst of it. Robinson's latest Inspector Banks novel is a powerful story of how the volatile emotions of love and resentment can turn deadly when fear comes creeping in.

“I messed up,” Calvin Newton lamented, after wasting thirty years and doing time in both state and federal prisons for theft, counterfeiting, and drug violations. “These were years of my life that I could have been singing gospel music.” During his prime, he was super-handsome, athletic, and charged with sexual charisma that attracted women to him like flies to honey. Atop this abundance was his astounding voice, “the voice of an angel.” This book is his prodigal-son story. Audacious, Newton never turned down a dare, even if it meant climbing on the roof of a speeding car or wading into a freezing ocean. As a boy boxer, he was a Kentucky Golden Gloves champ who k.o.’ed his opponent in twenty-three seconds. By his late teens he had been recruited by the Blackwood Brothers, the number-one gospel quartet in the world. In his mid-twenties while he was singing Christian songs with the Oak Ridge Quartet, Newton’s mighty talent and movie-star looks took him deep into hedonism--reckless driving, heavy romancing, and addictive pill popping. As 1950s rock ‘n’ roll began its invasion of gospel, he and two partners formed the Sons of Song, the first all-male gospel trio. Long before the pop sound claimed contemporary Christian music, the Sons of Song turned gospel upside down with histrionic harmony, high-styled tuxedos, and Hollywood verve. Their signature song, “Wasted Years,” foreshadowed Newton’s punishing fall. This biography looks back at the destructive lifestyle that wrecked a sparkling career. When well into his sixties, Newton turned his life around and was able to confront his demons and discuss his prodigal days. He talked extensively with Russ Cheatham about his self- destruction and the great personal expense of his own bad-boy choices and late redemption. In this candid biography, one of gospel’s all-stars discloses a messed-up life that vacillated between achievement and failure, fame and infamy, happiness and grief.

If you don’t like a smattering of serious on a bed of parody, clichéd characters, and over the top situations that know exactly what they are, then this book is definitely not for you. What do you get when you introduce Deadpool’s personality to Disney's Giselle’s? If you answered a love story for the ages, you wouldn’t be totally wrong… But, you wouldn’t be totally right, either. With a heroine who won’t let a stupid little thing like being too good get in the way of showing her stupid ex what’s what and a hero who wants no part of being the male lead in a romance novel, these two opposites find themselves in an unconventional partnership. When peppy-go-lucky Avery eventually wears down bad-to-the-bone Davin’s defences, he agrees to help her trash her reputation. And, if Davin can help her pass math while he’s at it, all the better. So, it’s goodbye to Little Miss Goody-Two-Shoes, and hello to a whole new Avery. Davin was only supposed to be Avery’s mistake – the guy that everyone would eventually call her ‘little phase’ – and he figured it would be good for a laugh when he looked back on it. But, the more they’re together, the less either of them feel it’s a mistake. Now, if only one of them could mention that to the other and ease all that angst-ridden tension… A laugh-out-loud modern-day fairy-tale in dual POV for those who know life never quite goes according to plan. The first book in a new standalone series: Bad Boy's Guide to... Please be aware that this story is set in Australia and therefore uses Australian English spelling and syntax.

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • Set in Senegal, this modern-day Oliver Twist is a meditation on the power of love and the strength that can emerge when we have no other choice but to survive. “I loved this book because it is a story about generations of parents and children saving one another with a love so powerful that it transcends distance, time, and reason.”—Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Dear Edward Six-year-old Ibrahimah loves snatching pastries from his mother’s kitchen, harvesting string beans with his father, and searching for sea glass with his sisters. But when he is approached in his rural village one day by Marabout Ahmed, a seemingly kind stranger and highly regarded teacher, the tides of his life turn forever. Ibrahimah is sent to the capital city of Dakar to join his cousin Étienne in studying the Koran under Marabout Ahmed for a year, but instead of the days of learning that Ibrahimah’s parents imagine, the young boys, called Talibé, are forced to beg in the streets in order to line their teacher’s pockets. To make it back home, Étienne and Ibrahimah must help each other survive both the dangers posed by their Marabout, and the darker sides of Dakar: threats of black-market organ traders, rival packs of Talibé, and mounting student protest on the streets. Drawn from real incidents and transporting readers between rural and urban Senegal, No Heaven for Good Boys is a tale of hope, resilience, and the affirming power of love.