The consequences of laying down her arms for Aleksey and welcoming hope might destroy more than her heart. With threats looming at every turn and no way to escape, Lila fears that falling in love will only lead to more heartache. He offers Lila an alternative to her plans, a possibility that terrifies her…and tempts her in spite of herself. Lila hides a secret that will bring her closer to Aleksey Fürst, a foreign, broody man who she distrusts because of his links to the troops and his rough, yet irresistible appearance. Lila does not love him, but he is the only man who has shown her true affection, an affection she is willing to take as a substitute for love. She makes plans to seduce her only friend. Lila Velez desperately wants to lose her virginity before the troops visit her town and take it away by force. In post-apocalyptic North America two emerging nations are at war and sexual slavery is legal. As Carlota grows increasingly, maddeningly defenseless, both her own fate and that of the empire are at stake.Ī sweeping historical novel of forbidden love, dangerous secrets, courtly intrigue, and treachery, The Empress passionately reimagines the tragic romance and ill-fated reign of the most unforgettable royal couple of nineteenth-century Europe during the last throes of the Second Empire. Carlota’s devious lady-in-waiting has political beliefs of her own-and they are strong enough to cause her to betray the empress and join a plot to depose her from the throne. Desire has blinded Carlota to its consequences, for it has left her vulnerable to her sole trusted confidante. Trapped in a loveless marriage, she’s thrown herself into a reckless affair. ![]() Known to the people as Empress Carlota, she rules deftly from behind the scenes while her husband contents himself with philandering and decorating the palace.īut Carlota bears a guilty secret. But it is his wife, the brilliant and ambitious Princess Charlotte, who throws herself passionately into the role. Maximilian von Habsburg of Austria accepts the emperor’s crown. Napoleon III has installed a foreign monarch in Mexico to squash the current regime. Holmberg, The Paper Magician is an extraordinary adventure both dark and whimsical that will delight readers of all ages. To save her teacher’s life, Ceony must face the evil magician and embark on an unbelievable adventure that will take her into the chambers of Thane’s still-beating heart-and reveal the very soul of the man.įrom the imaginative mind of debut author Charlie N. But as she discovers these wonders, Ceony also learns of the extraordinary dangers of forbidden magic.Īn Excisioner-a practitioner of dark, flesh magic-invades the cottage and rips Thane’s heart from his chest. Yet the spells Ceony learns under the strange yet kind Thane turn out to be more marvelous than she could have ever imagined-animating paper creatures, bringing stories to life via ghostly images, even reading fortunes. And once she’s bonded to paper, that will be her only magic…forever. Having graduated at the top of her class from the Tagis Praff School for the Magically Inclined, Ceony is assigned an apprenticeship in paper magic despite her dreams of bespelling metal. Neither of them expect her marriage code to work so well-or to fall for one another-which leads Emma and Rishi to wonder if leaving fate up to formulas is really an equation for lasting love.Ĭeony Twill arrives at the cottage of Magician Emery Thane with a broken heart. So, when Emma makes him an offer-join her team, and she’ll write an algorithm to find him the perfect bride-he reluctantly accepts. ![]() ![]() To make matters worse, not only does his job require him to return home to Bangalore with his nemesis, Emma, but his parents now expect him to choose a bride and get married. Rishi cannot believe that he got passed over for promotion. In an effort to save the one thing she cares about-her job-she must recruit her colleague, Rishi, to be on her development team…only she may or may not have received the position he was promised. ![]() But after turning down her boyfriend’s proposal, everything starts to crumble. In Brooke Burroughs’s endearing debut novel set in vibrant India, enemies turned allies encounter obstacles in an unexpected multicultural romance only to discover that in the end, love is love.Įmma has always lived her life according to a plan.
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