Bøger af Anna Stone

Her boss wants to make Jade hers. Can she handle the heat without getting burned?Small-town girl Jade Fisher has sacrificed everything for her dream of a high-powered career in Los Angeles. Fresh out of grad school, she's one step away from landing the perfect job as executive assistant to Simone Weiss, LA's hotel queen. So when her friend invites her to the opening night of Club Velvet, a luxury club for women to explore their wildest desires, Jade decides to let loose a little, just this once.She isn't expecting an encounter with a commanding older woman who makes her heart race and her body burn. And she's even more surprised to come face to face with the same woman days later. Simone Weiss. Her new boss.CEO by day, part owner of Club Velvet by night, Simone built her hotel empire from the ground up. She knows what she wants. She'll stop at nothing to get it. And now, she has her sights set on her curvaceous new assistant.One sensual night of surrender is all it takes for Jade to fall under her spell. Neither woman is looking for romance. Both bear scars from the past. But the more Simone awakens Jade's submissive desires, the harder it becomes to ignore the feelings between them. Can love conquer all, even the walls around their hearts?

Ring around the rosy, pockets full of posies, ashes...ashes...we all fall down. For ten-year old Anna Stone, a childhood full of nursery rhymes and bedtime stories is a heartless work of fiction concocted merely to remind her of all she'll never have. Plunged helplessly into the sinister, devastatingly cruel world of her mother's mental illness... Anna must grow and mature in a home where pain and fear are her only friends... That is...until she meets fifteen year old Triston Roth; the one and only person in the world to love her enough to help her see past her fear; giving her the courage and strength needed to defy her family. Happy ending right? Not a chance. The moment Anna finally summons the courage to reach out for help is the one true moment when her world would disintegrate, leaving behind a wake of deception and destruction in the path of the legal justice system that was supposed to help her. For Anna...life is a war from which she cannot escape, her only hope being to become a living sacrifice in order to protect the young man whose only crime was his love for her. This True to life Romeo and Juliet, based on actual events, depicts the severity and cruelty of the phrase "Star crossed lovers" while beautifully encapsulating the love, hope and determination felt as Anna and Triston battle it out for their right to be free from abuse...for their right to be together.

To break free, she auctioned off the one thing she's been saving... Mia Brooks needs money, fast. Deep in debt to help pay her sister's medical bills, her loan shark is coming to collect. Her solution? Auctioning off the one thing she's been saving-herself. The highest bidder is Cassandra Lee, self-made businesswoman and CEO. Her heart hardened by a past she keeps buried, Cassandra doesn't want a relationship. What she wants is a woman who takes pleasure in serving her. And Mia is the perfect prize. She's enthralled by Cassandra and the sweet surrender she commands. For the next 30 days, Mia is hers. As the chemistry sizzling between them intensifies, so does their connection. But a figure from Cassandra's past has returned, determined to destroy her no matter who gets hurt in the process. As the end of the month draws near and Cassandra's dark secrets threaten to tear them apart, will Mia and Cassandra be able to put it all on the line, including their hearts?

A headstrong bodyguard. An heiress who expects to be treated like a queen. A dangerously hot combination.Bodyguard Carmen Torres is a professional. She gets the job done, she doesn't get attached to her clients, and she does not mix business with pleasure. When she gets a job as personal bodyguard to domineering heiress Amber Pryce, she has no intention of breaking those rules, no matter how enticing she finds her client. But Amber has other ideas.As the sole heir to the Pryce family fortune, Amber is accustomed to being treated like royalty. Anything she wants, she takes. That includes Carmen, the stubborn bodyguard Amber hired to protect her from a mysterious stalker. Amber is determined to have Carmen bow to her. And even though Carmen won't allow herself to admit it, she craves the sweet surrender that Amber commands.Engaged in a fiery game of seduction, tensions heat up between the two women. But with an unhinged stalker on Amber's trail, the stakes keep rising, putting both women's lives at risk, along with their hearts.

From alien encounters to visions of ghosts, this introduction to anomalistic psychology explores the fascinating area of the psychology of belief in paranormal phenomena. Engaging and accessible, it considers empirical evidence from a variety of psychological perspectives, including from clinical, developmental and cognitive psychology.

Twenty-eight-year-old Zoe is heartbroken. Her career as a principal dancer in a prestigious London ballet company has just been brought to a screeching halt by an injury. Needing to re-evaluate her future and make sense of life away from center stage, she returns home to the States, where she runs into her former ballet teacher-and once forbidden love-Natasha. Ten years older, and the ice to Zoe's fire, Natasha captured Zoe's heart a decade earlier. Undeniable sparks danced between them, yet they were never able to give in to temptation. When Zoe moved to London, both were left shattered. Neither woman has been able to move on since. Now, they find the same heat smoldering between them, with no reason to resist it. However, the specter of how they last parted still casts a dark shadow on them-one neither woman can seem to let go of. Secrets from the past, desires of the present, and the uncertainty of the future might keep Zoe and Natasha from having their chance at true love. Or perhaps they'll realize fate brought them back together to dance the ultimate pas de deux.

Lindsey had big plans for her post-art school life-a successful art career, excitement, adventure, meeting the man of her dreams. She never expected she'd end up joining a sugar baby website to pay off her crippling debt. And she definitely didn't expect that her first client would be a charming, elegant older woman named Camilla.Camilla has an unusual proposal for Lindsey-move into her mansion for three months as her girlfriend and submissive, and all of Lindsey's financial woes will disappear. It's the perfect solution to Lindsey's problems, and she can't say no to three months of pleasure and luxury beyond her wildest dreams. Camilla has made it clear that it's just an arrangement. A difficult life has left the solitary woman hesitant to let anyone get too close to her. And Lindsey isn't attracted to women, anyway. It's all just a charade.Until it isn't. When Lindsey can no longer deny her feelings toward her Mistress, she runs the risk of losing everything. It was all supposed to be pretend. One big lie.What happens when the lie becomes the truth?

Everything is falling apart for April Reid. Her latest relationship has self-destructed, and the library she runs has been sold to a ruthless corporation that plans to tear it down. All she wants is to forget about her problems. But when she meets Vicki Blake at a bar one night, April finds that her problems are only just beginning.Vicki Blake has a reputation for her womanizing ways. She's confident, captivating, and has looks to die for. Although April can see right through the blonde-haired seductress's smile, she decides to go home with Vicki, just this once. But when their one-night-stand awakens April's submissive desires, it leaves both of them wanting more.However, April soon discovers that the woman she shared an unforgettable night with is the vice president of the company that wants to demolish her library. Vicki intends to see the project through. April is determined to stop her. But every time they collide, neither can resist the pull of their attraction.As the heat between the two women mounts, so do the stakes. Will April and Vicki's volatile love-hate relationship cause everything both of them have worked for to go up in flames?

Melanie has spent her entire life working her way up in the world. By day, she studies at law school, and by night, she serves drinks at an exclusive club to afford her tuition. But the hard-working Melanie will never admit her true desire: to escape from her fast-paced, high-pressure life, if only for a moment. When Melanie meets Vanessa, a glamorous executive and a regular at the club, she is drawn to the enigmatic black-haired woman. Vanessa is relentless in pursuing what she wants-and what she wants is Melanie. Soon, Melanie finds herself caught up in Vanessa's sensual games of submission. Melanie insists that her affair with Vanessa remain purely physical. But as her limits are tested, so is the line between lust and love. When ghosts from the past reappear, both women must face their deepest fears. Can Melanie surrender her everything to Vanessa, or will old wounds prove too great?

Emma Cole has left behind her family and an ex-fiancé to move to Chicago and start over. When a mix-up lands her a job at a high-profile law firm, Emma is determined to meet this new challenge head-on. What she didn't count on was working for a woman like Lillian White, and it doesn't take long for Emma to realize that she might be in over her head in more ways than one.As beautiful as she is ruthless, Lillian has worked hard to build a reputation for herself that commands respect from everyone she meets. She's sacrificed everything for her career, and she doesn't have room in her life for romance. But there's something about her sweet yet feisty new assistant that Lillian can't resist, and Emma finds herself caught up in a whirlwind of new desires that she never thought possible. Soon, the two women are embroiled in a scorching-hot forbidden affair that threatens to consume them both.While both women grapple with their unexpected feelings toward each other, things at the office start to unravel. The future of Lillian's firm is in turmoil, and something sinister lurks behind the scenes that forces both women to reexamine their lives and decide whether their relationship is worth fighting for.