Secrets Of A Sinner

Originally published: New York: New Spirit, 2008.

“You know nothing about me, sweetheart…” Some call billionaire Gray Lockwood a sinner. He knows he was imprisoned for a crime he didn’t commit. Now he needs Blakely Whittaker—the gorgeous straitlaced accountant whose testimony sent him to jail—to clear his name. The line between enemies and white-hot passion is dangerously thin… Will crossing it cost Gray the justice he desires? Or will Blakely uncover all his secrets and become his scandalous undoing once again? From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite. Bad Billionaires

THE ONE THING HE CANNOT REVEAL For years, Melisande Fleming has loved Lord Vale from afar . . . watching him seduce a succession of lovers, and once catching a glimpse of heartbreaking depths beneath his roguish veneer. When he's jilted on his wedding day, she boldly offers to be his. TO THE ONE WOMAN HE MOST DESIRES Vale gladly weds Melisande, if only to produce an heir. But he's pleasantly surprised: A shy and proper Lady by day, she's a wanton at night, giving him her body-though not her heart. IS HIS DEEPEST NEED . . . Determined to learn her secrets, this sinner starts to woo his seductive new wife-while hiding the nightmares from his soldiering days in the Colonies that still haunt him. Yet when a deadly betrayal from the past threatens to tear them apart, Lord Vale must bare his soul to the woman he married . . . or risk losing her forever.

There is a Psalm for just about everything. Defeated? It's there. Joyful? That's is there too. Angry with God? There are a lot of Psalms for that. Some of them give us great comfort, and some of them make us uncomfortable, but in the end, all of them point us to Jesus. This is a 60-day devotional that deals with us right where we are because that is where the Psalms deal with us. You won't find a bunch of platitudes or Christian fluff. The Psalms are too gritty and honest for that. This devotional is written by and for real sinners in daily need of a God offering real promises of forgiveness, grace, and hope.

Reid Most people see the film and TV star. I've grown up in people's homes, and everyone thinks they deserve a piece of me. She sees me at my very core. He's become my closest friend because of our feelings for her. Jenna Reid Taylor was my teen crush. He was my favorite actor in my favorite teen show. The other man I'm falling for has been quietly by my side, waiting for me to notice. These two men have opened my eyes to a world I'd only read about in romance books. To a club that has the potential to change my life forever. Dominic I never thought I'd be willing to share her. But she's special like that. She deserves the love of two men, and Reid... well, he needs a friend and confidant. Together the three of us are perfect for each other.

Alistair Maclean enjoys his work as secretary at the Sinners Club until the women at the Club demand a secretary of their own. Suddenly Alistair finds himself at the mercy of a wanton beauty who demands Alistair submit to her in ways he's only ever dreamed about. . . Diana, Lady Theale, has secrets from her past she must protect. But that doesn't stop her from enjoying passion in the present. She needs Alistair's help to untangle the mystery of her parentage, but she also needs his body to satisfy her darkly erotic desires...

“In this intelligent novel Hammesfahr has etched with precision the thoughts of a woman on the edge of madness.”—Der Spiegel Cora Bender killed a man. But why? What could have caused this quiet, lovable young mother to stab a stranger in the throat, again and again, until she was pulled off his body? For the local police it was an open-and-shut case. Cora confessed; there was no shortage of proof or witnesses. But Police Commissioner Rudolf Grovian refused to close the file and began his own maverick investigation. So begins the slow unraveling of Cora’s past, a harrowing descent into a woman’s private hell. Hailed as Germany’s Patricia Highsmith, Petra Hammesfahr has written a dark, spellbinding novel. At the top of the bestseller list, The Sinner has been reprinted sixteen times and sold over 760,000 copies at home. Translated into eleven languages, this is the first Hammesfahr title published in English. Petra Hammesfahr, born in 1951, left school at thirteen, became pregnant by an alcoholic at seventeen, and began writing novels at the age of forty. Her first thriller was turned down 159 times, but eventually success arrived. Hammesfahr has written over twenty crime and suspense novels. She also writes scripts for television and film. She is married with three children and lives near Cologne.

God has provided a simple way for many of us to be delivered from the heartache and pain of our secret sins.