Treacherous Beauties

Annabelle’s brother is dead and buried, with no reason to haunt her dreams and beg her to do…what? Maybe she can soothe his nagging spirit by visiting the treacherous gorge where he died. Incognito, she retraces his last weeks until she meets the man who, some whisper, shot her brother in a jealous rage and threw him into the gorge. As Annabelle gets to know the influential Jason Forrester, the more his earthy masculinity attracts her and the more convinced she is that he’s no killer. Then she witnesses him lash out at his sister-in-law, and uncertainties return along with warning dreams from her brother. Annabelle can’t reconcile the man she’s in love with to a cold-blooded killer. But if she’s wrong, when Jason discovers who she is and what she wants, she may end up like her brother. Dead, with her ghost begging someone to figure out what happened. Gothic romance at 99 cents

Histories of the Revolutionary War have long honored heroines such as Betsy Ross, Abigail Adams, and Molly Pitcher. Now, more than two centuries later, comes the first biography of one of the war’s most remarkable women, a beautiful Philadelphia society girl named Peggy Shippen. While war was raging between England and its rebellious colonists, Peggy befriended a suave British officer and then married a crippled revolutionary general twice her age. She brought the two men together in a treasonous plot that nearly turned George Washington into a prisoner and changed the course of the war. Peggy Shippen was Mrs. Benedict Arnold. After the conspiracy was exposed, Peggy managed to convince powerful men like Washington and Alexander Hamilton of her innocence. The Founding Fathers were handicapped by the common view that women lacked the sophistication for politics or warfare, much less treason. And Peggy took full advantage. Peggy was to the American Revolution what the fictional Scarlett O’Hara was to the Civil War: a woman whose survival skills trumped all other values. Had she been a man, she might have been arrested, tried, and executed. And she might have become famous. Instead, her role was minimized and she was allowed to recede into the background—with a generous British pension in hand. In Treacherous Beauty, Mark Jacob and Stephen H. Case tell the true story of Peggy Shippen, a driving force in a conspiracy that came within an eyelash of dooming the American democracy.

Treacherous Beauties by Cheryl Emerson released on Aug 25, 1994 is available now for purchase.

"Every night Annabelle Levee's brother visited her and demanded her aid. Anna was convinced she'd gone crazy--Alan had been killed a year ago. But when Anna could no longer resist his pleas, she went undercover to the isolated town where he'd died, intending to lay his ghost to rest. Once at wild Rahunta Gorge, Anna found herself enmeshed in the affairs of the influential Forrester family. Jason Forrester was earthy, strong and exuded a raw masculinity--along with an undeniable temper. The townspeople whispered, but no one dared openly accuse Jason of murder. Jason was a man used to being obeyed. Would such a man kill in a fit of rage? Or in a fit of passion, when he discovered who Anna really was?"--Provided by publisher

Annabelle Levee's brother Alan is dead and buried after being shot and thrown into a deep and dangerous gorge. But he haunts her dreams, begging for help. Hoping an incognito visit to the treacherous gorge where he died will quiet his spirit, she meets his rumored murderer. Jason Forrester's earthy honesty attracts her, convincing her he's no killer. But if she's wrong, and he discovers she's Alan's sister, she may end up like Alan. Dead, with her ghost begging someone to figure out what happened.

A Complex and Compelling Glimpse at One of the Bible's Baddest Girls Life is not easy in Philistia, especially not for a woman and child alone. When beautiful, wounded Delilah finds herself begging for food to survive, she resolves that she will find a way to defeat all the men who have taken advantage of her. She will overcome the roadblocks life has set before her, and she will find riches and victory for herself. When she meets a legendary man called Samson, she senses that in him lies the means for her victory. By winning, seducing, and betraying the hero of the Hebrews, she will attain a position of national prominence. After all, she is beautiful, she is charming, and she is smart. No man, not even a supernaturally gifted strongman, can best her in a war of wits.

Analyses the photographs that helped strengthen as well as bring down the Eugenics Movement. Concentrating mainly on developments in Britain, the USA and Nazi Germany, this book argues that photography, as the most powerful visual medium of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, was vital to the Eugenics Movement's success.