Big Bad Daddy

He looks so BIG with his big muscular arms and giant puffy body! He looks so BAD in his BIG black truck with all his tattoos, his rings, and his earrings! But he also looks like a playful, childish dad with his little daughter, Violet, always by his side!

Why Carly Carrothers' Will Not Fall for Mackenzie James: 1. He was a kid. (An adorable little girl, but a kid, nonetheless.) 2. He's your irresistible yet demanding boss. 3. He has a kid. (Remember what happened last time you got involved with a single dad.) 4. He's so sexy you can't think straight when he's around. 5. He has a kid. (What if you get attached to the sweet girl and her daddy doesn't pop the question?) 6>He's got this thing against marriage. (Okay, so they all do. But remember—you want a husband!) 7. He was a kid. (So stop straightening the little angel's pigtails and kissing her Big Bad Dad senseless!)

Does the single-dad billionaire want to pay me to take care of his daughter's needs or to satisfy his own dark desires?AMY LYNN BECK:Saying that life has dealt me a lousy hand would be an understatement. I barely escaped an abusive ex-husband, only to end up starting over in a crappy apartment with a crappy job.And now I've been dealt a good hand for once.I'm to become the live-in nanny to the daughter of Jackson Ritter, the rich, hunky best-selling author who can make me blush with his eyes and melt at his touch.But the way he looks at me tells me that he wants something more, something hot and steamy. Something... dirty.I can't sleep with him. I won't. Otherwise my ex-husband's right. I'm just a whore who f*cks her boss for money.But I don't know what to think when Jackson calls me his muse... and what do I do when my ex-husband threatens any chance I have at happiness?JACKSON RITTER:My publisher is pressuring me for another best seller, but I haven't written a word since my wife died in a car accident with her lover, my best friend. Being a single dad isn't easy either. I've got 2 weeks to hand in a full draft, otherwise I stand to lose everything. But I just can't get past this writer's block.So hiring a nanny to look after my daughter is my last hope.The minute I see her standing at my door, I know that I have to have her. She's young, pretty, innocent, utterly delicious...I want her in my bed... naked, willing, eager, begging for more...But I'm not ready. What if I end up giving my heart to the girl who's supposed to be here for my daughter but instead becomes my muse? Tia Siren. Spoil the bad girl in you.

In the late ’90s, third-wave ska broke across the American alternative music scene like a tsunami. In sweaty clubs across the nation, kids danced themselves dehydrated to the peppy rhythms and punchy horns of bands like The Mighty Mighty Bosstones and Reel Big Fish. As ska caught fire, a swing revival brought even more sharp-dressed, brass-packing bands to national attention. Hell of a Hat dives deep into this unique musical moment. Prior to invading the Billboard charts and MTV, ska thrived from Orange County, California, to NYC, where Moon Ska Records had eager rude girls and boys snapping up every release. On the swing tip, retro pioneers like Royal Crown Revue had fans doing the jump, jive, and wail long before The Brian Setzer Orchestra resurrected the Louis Prima joint. Drawing on interviews with heavyweights like the Bosstones, Sublime, Less Than Jake, and Cherry Poppin' Daddies—as well as underground heroes like Mustard Plug, The Slackers, Hepcat, and The New Morty Show—Kenneth Partridge argues that the relative economic prosperity and general optimism of the late ’90s created the perfect environment for fast, danceable music that—with some notable exceptions—tended to avoid political commentary. An homage to a time when plaids and skankin’ were king and doing the jitterbug in your best suit was so money, Hell of a Hat is an inside look at ’90s ska, swing, and the loud noises of an era when America was dreaming and didn’t even know it.

This is book 8 of Master Ou's Surrogate Ex-wife. When she married five years ago, she knew her husband had an old lover. Tilting her chin, he said to her, "You're just a surrogate. Don't think of anything else except money." She thought that as long she tried her best to please him, he would eventually be touched and fall in love with her. However, she came to realize later that a man would not fall in love with someone just because they were touched by a woman's actions. After five years of marriage, her husband's first love has returned, and their marriage is on the verge of divorce. He even has even asked her to get rid of her baby...

An in-vitro fertilization accident results in the birth of a very special, unique person, our heroine, Melanie Moody. She transforms herself into a beautiful, brilliant, hard working and slightly demented justice-for-all superhero. As she strives to create a better world, she helps those she finds in need and vows to protect the underdog. The setting for this story is Orlando in Central Florida. The world capital of family entertainment, fun, magic, imagination and thrills, Orlando is enjoyed by millions of people who visit every year. But, just out of their sight, hidden behind the subtropical beauty lies another playground where real people work, live, and die. When the cold, dead body of a beautiful Russian migr is found naked in Orlando's finest hospital, the pressures of that alternate reality begin to burst into the carefully fabricated fantasy world that the powers that be and the tourists love. Pro football attracts the attention of our heroine. From the naked dead woman to the professional football field, Melanie leaves no stone unturned as she begins to unravel the clues that point her to the killer. She emerges from the shadows to become Orlando's heroine, Meanie Mouse.

"If you were as rich as Bill Gates and you started a gay and lesbian university, what would you teach? ... But Andy Coulter's more ambitious than that. He wants to teach physical education, all four years. He wants his own Kinsey Institute, to study human sexuality rigorously, comprehensively, fearlessly."--Page 4 of cover