Temptation

"A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through th... (more)

"A Dickensian coming-of-age tale about poverty, sex, World War I, and the darker side of human nature as seen through the eyes of a lobby boy in a Budapest hotel. Abject poverty is an unusual subject for the novel, but it is at the center of John Szekely's Dickensian tale of a young man coming of age in Budapest between the wars. Illegitimate and unwanted, Bela is no sooner born than his mother packs him off to the country to be looked after by a peasant woman; when she stops paying her son's keep, he is systematically starved, as well as ostracized, bullied, and kept out of school. He does his best to hold his own, but it is years before his mother comes for him and brings him back to live with her in the city. There she remains in thrall of his feckless father, Mishka, who comes and goes until at last, once and for all, he is gone, even as she works her fingers to the bone and leaves Bela to share his room with a hardworking prostitute. Living in a crowded tenement, whose various inhabitants Szekely depicts with relish, Bela secures a job in a fancy hotel and scrapes up the money to put a down payment on a uniform. He must rise well before dawn to get to work and work until the early hours, which leave him as exhausted as he is famished, even as he is fascinated by the world of the uppercrust that his new job exposes him to; soon he is embroiled with a rich, damaged, and dangerous woman. The atmosphere of Budapest is increasingly poisoned by the appeal of fascism, while Bela grows ever more aware of how power and money keep down the working classes. In the end, with every odd still against him, he musters the resolve to set sail for new future. Temptation is a wonderfully vivid and utterly captivating rediscovered masterwork of twentieth-century fiction"--Provided by publisher. (less)

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Faced with orchard owner Chase Elliott's roguish charm, former Philadelphia socialite Eden Carlbough, who is now trying ... (more)

Faced with orchard owner Chase Elliott's roguish charm, former Philadelphia socialite Eden Carlbough, who is now trying to run a struggling summer camp for girls, finds that romance is sure to follow temptation. (less)

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In 1909 New York City, women's rights activist Temperance O'Neil is shipped off to Scotland against her will to live wit... (more)

In 1909 New York City, women's rights activist Temperance O'Neil is shipped off to Scotland against her will to live with her old-fashioned stepfather and pose as a housekeeper to his nephew to help find a wife for the short-tempered James. (less)

Sierra Sellers has never had a problem finding a date, but when her mother's meddling ways result in her being set up wi... (more)

Sierra Sellers has never had a problem finding a date, but when her mother's meddling ways result in her being set up with the intensely sexy Luke McCoy, owner of Club Destiny, Sierra learns she can't fight temptation. When he unleashes her deepest, darkest fantasies, she finds herself in a position she doesn't want to get out of. Luke McCoy has run fast and hard from the demons that chase him. The hot, fierce need that pushed him beyond the boundaries he hadn't realized he'd erected resulted in a two-month hiatus from the world he'd built for himself'a world concreted in lust and forbidden fantasies. So when his twin brother Logan introduces him to Sierra, Luke finds himself up against a temptation he can't resist. Cole Ackerley never backed down from a challenge, but that was before he'd been intimately introduced to Luke McCoy. Throw in the black-haired vixen with the glowing blue eyes, and Cole finds himself engulfed in a menage hot enough to rival the sun. When his feelings for both of them ignite, Cole learns the true meaning of self-restraint. The deep, soul-scorching hunger that ignites between the three of them turns into a firestorm of sensuality and lust that only burns brighter and hotter with every encounter. (less)

An explosive romance about forbidden desires. The provocative story of Judith, an ambitious married woman whose temptati... (more)

An explosive romance about forbidden desires. The provocative story of Judith, an ambitious married woman whose temptation by a handsome billionaire leads to betrayal, recklessness and forever alters the course of her life. (less)

An explosive romance about forbidden desires. The provocative story of Judith, an ambitious married woman whose temptati... (more)

An explosive romance about forbidden desires. The provocative story of Judith, an ambitious married woman whose temptation by a handsome billionaire leads to betrayal, recklessness and forever alters the course of her life. (less)