The Judas Kiss

Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him. With a burning sense of outrage, David Hare presents the consequences of an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear and conformity. Originally produced in the West End and on Broadway, this new edition coincides with a 2012 revival. 'Superbly written... Hare has taken a history and pieced it together with heroic grace... Vastly rich, sophisticated and heartbreaking.' Time Out, New York

It was a murder made for TV: a trail of tiny bloody footprints. An innocent toddler playing beside her mother's body. Stay tuned for the next riveting thriller in the Taylor Jackson series by New York Times bestselling author J.T. Ellison. Cameras and questions don't usually faze Nashville homicide lieutenant Taylor Jackson, but when pregnant Corinne Wolff is brutally murdered in her own home, the media frenzy surrounding the case is particularly nasty. When the seemingly model mommy is linked to an amateur porn website with underage actresses and unwitting players, the sharks begin to circle. The shock is magnified when an old adversary uses the sexy secret footage to implicate Taylor in a murder—an accusation that threatens her career, her reputation and her relationship. Both cases hinge on the evidence—real or manufactured—of crimes that go beyond passion, into the realm of obsessive vengeance and shocking betrayal. Just what the networks love. Previously Published. Read the Taylor Jackson Series by J.T. Ellison: Book 1: All the Pretty Girls Book 2: 14 Book 3: Judas Kiss Book 4: The Cold Room Book 5: The Immortals Book 6: So Close the Hand of Death Book 7: Where All the Dead Lie

AN ALL-STOPS-OUT ROMANCE . . . THOROUGHLY ENTERTAINING --Cosmopolitan The splendor and pomp of the Bavarian kingdom had seemed like a fairy tale to the recently arrived young Englishwoman. Pippa Ewell had left behind dark and forbidding Greystone Manor, and the memories of Conrad, the handsome stranger who had swept her breathlessly into his arms and heart. But Pippa had come to find the truth behind her sister's mysterious death. And suddenly the fkingdom glittered with evil and danger. It seemed that not even her rekindled romance could save Pippa from the fate that had cruelly claimed her adored sister . . . Nobody does it better. --Library Journal

Oscar Wilde's philosophy leads him on a path to destruction. The Judas Kiss describes two pivotal moments: the day Wilde decides to stay in England and face imprisonment, and the night when the lover for whom he risked everything betrays him. With a burning sense of outrage, David Hare presents the consequences of an uncompromisingly moral position in a world defined by fear and conformity. Originally produced in the West End and on Broadway, this new edition coincides with a 2012 revival. 'Superbly written... Hare has taken a history and pieced it together with heroic grace... Vastly rich, sophisticated and heartbreaking.' Time Out, New York

The author of the #1 national bestseller Blood & Orchids presents a novel of dark revenge--a heart-stopping World War II thriller. After the Nazis occupy Vienna, Carly Siefermann marries a powerful member of the Third Reich in exchange for her Jewish lover's exit visa. Carly never dreams that the baron will renege on the agreement . . . just as the baron never suspects Carly is the elusive agent "Domino"--the Gestapo's most wanted enemy.

Rare is the person who has never been betrayed. It is a near-universal human experience. In The Judas Kiss: Growing Beyond Betrayal, family therapist and leadership development consultant John Brownlee draws on his clinical expertise to show us how we can overcome our pain and begin to heal. In this practical, common-sense book, he also teaches us how to spot betrayers sooner the next time--because there will be a next time. Brownlee goes deep into the multigenerational aspects of betrayal, touching on both its roots in our ancestors and its impact on our children and grandchildren. He offers hope and useful suggestions to help us soften potentially harmful effects on the family so future generations don't repeat damaging patterns. His no-nonsense approach is nonetheless laced with compassion as he encourages us to face difficult truths in order to move forward.

At fifteen, Clea Fairchild had been reading Ovid’s Art of Love. And scheming how to, once she acquired bosoms, introduce herself into rakehelly Baron Saxe’s bed. Clea is one-and-twenty now, a widow whose husband died under mysterious circumstances she is determined to resolve. Kane is almost twice that age. Reprobate though he may be, Lord Saxe is not sufficiently depraved to act on the unseemly attraction he feels for his friend Ned’s little sister, whom he is convinced means to drive him mad. Clea wonders, is Kane trying to drive her mad? In the years since they last met, he has grown more dissolute, more jaded, and even more damnably attractive. He has also grown skittish, and is avoiding her as if she carries plague. Clea isn’t one to sit quietly in a corner. She has a mystery to solve. Villains to elude. Schoolgirl fantasies to explore. Providing her husband’s murderer doesn’t dispose of her first. England, 1820. The trial of Queen Caroline is underway. Prinny, King George IV now, is determined to divorce his detested wife. The Whigs hope that the Queen will win her case. The Tories hope that she will not. Not a few Londoners wish that the politicians, taking their monarch with them, would jump off the nearest pier.