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Outrageusement rétro, délicieusement kitsch et sexy à souhait! Plongez dans les années 1970 sous la plume de la reine incontestée de la littérature torride! David, un jeune quarantenaire à l’allure virile et à la popularité indéniable auprès du sexe opposé, trompe sa femme, Linda, dans les bras de la sulfureuse Claudia, une actrice prête à tout pour goûter au succès et atteindre la popularité d’une star.

Des couples riches et célèbres d’Hollywood, des aventures torrides, une obsession pour la minceur et la beauté, un meurtre passionnel… Amour et infidélité sont au rendez-vous! Cameron Paradise est jeune, musclée et magnifiquement belle, mais elle traîne un lourd passé et un ex violent. À Los Angeles, elle est entraîneuse privée en attendant d’ouvrir son propre centre sportif. Parmi ses clients se trouve Don Verona, un célèbre animateur de télévision au charme légendaire qui tente malicieusement de la séduire par tous les moyens.

A sharp and bitingly funny novel about a professor whose calm-ish midwestern life gives way to a vortex of crises-and her attempts to salvage the pieces without going to pieces herself In the space of a few torrid months on the Iowa prairie, Phillipa Maakestad-long-married theater professor and mother of an unstable daughter-grapples with a life turned upside down. After falling headlong into a passionate affair during a semester spent teaching in Ohio, Phillipa returns home to Iowa for her daughter Ginny's wedding.

With a beautiful, doting fiancée and a dream job at one of New York City’s top law firms, life is going well for ambitious but inexperienced attorney, Ryan Paullson. Handpicked by his new boss, Joseph Van Aardt, to work on the firm’s biggest case, Ryan soon finds himself out of his depth and struggling with a dangerous and irresistible attraction to the charismatic and ruthless Van Aardt—an attraction that seems mutual. Ryan and Joseph begin a secret affair as they work to build their case against controversial billionaire Jack McNeil.

The story of Nora Hammond, a woman blessed with the perfect life: a charming husband, two bright teenage children, a successful career in the family's newspaper business, and an esteemed role in the charity work of her New England town. But Nora's comfortable existence threatens to unravel when she learns of her husband's longtime affair--and when the specter of a sordid incident from her youth returns with terrifying force.

While Frieda Moore hasn't found the Good Word, she has charted a path to really good, upscale life. And she's not about to let her surgeon husband and baby son get in the way of her good time. Frieda's more sensible cousin, Hope Taylor, was sure she and her spouse, Cy, were solid-in-the-spirit. But now a long-lost love is requesting an act of Christian charity that could be a second chance at temptation.

Police chief Cameron McDonald has lived in idyllic Wheelock, Massachusetts for most of his life, as has his beloved wife Allie. Their comfortable lives are thrown into tumult, however, when Cam's distant cousin Jamie arrives in town along with his wife's dead body. Jamie admits to the murder--a mercy killing to end the pain caused by a ravaging cancer. And now Cam is torn by his oath to uphold justice and his family obligations as chief of the Scottish McDonald clan.

All's good for James and his wife Cathy--especially between the sheets. But then a woman shows up with James' love child and demands to get paid. Undeniably suave Brent's got trouble too as he's tempted by another after finding happiness with a born-again churchgoer. And longtime friend Sonny needs help from his two best friends if he's to keep his wife from leaving him. Doing the right thing isn't easy, but with each other's help, James, Brent, and Sonny are going to become the men they want to be.

New England landscape painter-turned-teacher Sylvia Sandon becomes fascinated by the father of one of her students. But she's torn between her desire for this man and her desire to keep her family together.