Tempestuous

After a mistake with big financial consequences topples her throne, former "it girl" Miranda Prospero is bitter: she finds herself stranded in a crazed new world, holding court among geeks and misfits at a mall Hot Dog Kabob stand. Then, she gets her chance for revenge. When the storm of the decade snows in the mall workers and last-minute shopaholics for a long winter's night, Miranda sets out to get back at the catty clique who was behind her exile. But there's a complication. She somehow gets handcuffed to sullen loner Caleb. With him (literally) bound to her side, Miranda learns more in one night about her own heart, and human nature, than she ever did as prep royalty. With this twisted take on Shakespeare's The Tempest, authors Kim Askew and Amy Helmes prove again that, from Juliet's grief to Cordelia's rage, no one knew about teen angst better than the Bard. His wisdom holds up nearly half a millennium later.

In the days after Darklight, the Avalon Theatre has burned to the ground. The shadowy figure poisoning King Auberon is still at large, and Kelley and Sonny are torn apart—because of the lie Kelley told that changed everything. Now Kelley tries to pick up the pieces of her shattered life, while Sonny takes refuge with a band of Lost Fae in an abandoned reservoir beneath Central Park. But those who would steal the Green Magick are not finished yet. A final showdown is coming, one that will put Sonny and Kelley’s love for each other to the ultimate test—if they survive that long. A cast of vivid characters returns—among them, Summer Fae Tyff, trickster Bob, Mabh and Titania, and the dangerously alluring Fennrys Wolf.

Read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer, now available for the first time in e-book! Match made with the millionaire! Caroline Rayner is tired of her father’s matchmaking attempts. Even without meeting him, she is sure arrogant businessman Greg Fortnum, with his rakish reputation, isn’t her type! So escaping to their family cottage in Cumbria is the perfect hideaway until wealthy, sophisticated, and irresistibly attractive Andre Gregory shows up. But when Caroline figures out Andre’s true identity, they realise they’ve both been tricked! Neither of them wanted to be set up, but after their time alone together, are they a match made in heaven? Originally published in 1979

First in the series featuring the darkly handsome, proud, and arrogant Orsini brothers—the perfect Sicilian husbands—from the USA Today–bestselling author. Raffaele Orsini doesn’t want a wife . . . But when he meets his arranged bride, Raffaele feels honor bound to marry her. She’s not what he was expecting . . . but her dowdy clothes can’t hide her lusciously feminine figure or her wildcat temperament! Chiara Cordiano will not love her husband! She’s tried everything to avoid her fate, but in the blink of an eye Chiara is swept away from her quaint Sicilian town to New York! She wants to hate Rafe, but seduction is in his blood. With his dark, brooding looks and tempting masculinity, she’ll be purring like a kitten!

While our physical surroundings fashion our identities, we, in turn, fashion the natural elements in which or with which we live. This complex interaction between the human and the non-human already resonated in Shakespeare's plays and poems. As details of the early modern supra- and infra-celestial landscape feature in his works, this dictionary brings to the fore Shakespeare's responsiveness to and acute perception of his 'environment' and it covers the most significant uses of words related to this concept. In doing so, it also examines the epistemological changes that were taking place at the turn of the 17th century in a society which increasingly tried to master nature and its elements. For this reason, the intersections between the natural and the supernatural receive special emphasis. All in all, this dictionary offers a wide variety of resources that takes stock of the 'green criticism' that recently emerged in Shakespeare studies and provides a clear and complete overview of the idea, imagery and language of environment in the canon.

In this classic contemporary romance by a USA Today–bestseller, an arrogant tycoon’s former mistress struggles to keep him out her life—and their son’s. Once, Luc Santini’s inherent sensuality had been Catherine Parrish’s downfall. For two years she had loved him unconditionally, until she realized that this impossibly rich, and infuriatingly powerful man regarded her as a possession! Catherine fled her gilded cage, keeping her pregnancy a secret . . . until now. Fate has placed Luc back into her life. He doesn’t know about their child . . . and Catherine intends to keep it that way. But will she surrender to his erotic demands—and risk losing herself in a whirl of desire—to protect her son? Originally published in 1991.