A Billion Desires

Nick A man like me has certain tastes. And needs. I’ll pay top dollar for whatever I’m craving. No price is too high if it means I get what I want. What I desire. Until one day when a certain blonde walks in and turns my life upside down. All I need is one month to get her out of my system forever. At least that’s what I hope. Cherry Lying on my back for rich guys is not my idea of a dream job. Ever since my world imploded, I’ve had to do what I’ve had to do. I’m not proud of it. But I’m a survivor. I’ll do whatever it takes. Until I lay eyes on my billionaire client, Nick. The things he does to me—and the way he makes me feel, blows my mind and shakes my reality. When he asks for one month of exclusivity—I can’t say no. My head tells me I can keep it professional. My heart isn’t so sure. After all, it’s just another job. Right?

The book on sex in the twenty-first century “Alfred Kinsey only scratched the surface. Interviewing a mere 18,000 horny humans? Please . . . Drs. Ogas and Gaddam [offer] hot new scientific findings.”—The Washington Post Want to know what really turns your partner on? A Billion Wicked Thoughts offers the clearest picture ever of the differences between male and female sexuality and the teeming diversity of human desire. What makes men attracted to images and so predictable in their appetites? What makes the set up to a romantic evening so important for a woman? Why are women’s desires so hard to predict? Neuroscientists Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam reveal the mechanics of sexual relationships based on their extensive research into the mountains of new data on human behavior available in online entertainment and traffic around the world. Not since Alfred Kinsey in the 1950s has there been such a revolution in our knowledge of what is really going on in the bedroom. What Ogas and Gaddam learned, and now share, will deepen and enrich the way you, and your partner, think and talk about sex.

She’s a strong-willed woman with secret needs. He’s an uber-wealthy playboy who likes to hold the reins. Can one mind-blowing hookup lead to love? Lola Lewis is an expert at hiding her yearning for sensual taboos. Driven to expand her Paris-based lingerie company into the U.S., she returns to her native New York City to pursue a partnership with a major global corporation. But when she meets a domineering stranger who promises her wicked fulfillment, she allows herself to let go of all her inhibitions. Sebastian Steele stays on top. Though he’s focused on seizing the role of CEO at his family’s billion-dollar conglomerate, he can’t resist a confident beauty who agrees to an unbridled night of commanding passion. And he’s thrilled when the same stunning charmer walks into his office as a potential colleague, affording an opportunity to place her at his mercy a second time. Eager to explore her darker cravings, Lola settles for a temporary mix of business with pleasure for the week before she flies overseas. But as Sebastian revels in the scorching affair, he fears the delectable distraction may jeopardize his lifelong goal of becoming the heir… Will their blazing connection yield a red-hot mess or an irresistible contract? Fulfill My Desires is the seductive first book in the STEELE International, Inc. billionaire romance series, and part one of the Sebastian & Lola trilogy. If you like glamorous jet-setting lifestyles, breathtaking chemistry, and blissful surrender, then you’ll adore Charmaine Louise Shelton's boardroom steam. Buy Fulfill My Desires to kneel beneath the sheets today!

Nick The more I learn about Eve, the more I want to protect her. Even after she betrays my trust in the worst possible way. She’s mine. And I’ll ruin anyone and anything who dares to get in our way. Eve Nick helped me in my time of need. And how did I repay him? I’d rather not say… He makes it clear that I belong to him. And no one else. When his best friend shows up, my emotions are tested. Will this mean the end for us? Or just the beginning of something new and forbidden?

Eve You reap what you sow. And aren't we all learning that lesson right about now? The consequences of our actions--all of our actions--are suddenly popping up on our doorstep. Literally. No matter how surprising, and life-changing, we'll learn to live with what life's dealt us. ​​​​​​​But are there more revelations in store for me?

Nick When my oldest rival makes a power play that endangers the love of my life—I know he must be stopped at all costs. First I need to put back the pieces of everything he broke. Including me. After that? He’s fair game. But my sworn enemy isn’t the only thing that shows up to test my resolve. That arrives in the form of a curvy, blonde temptress on my doorstep. She’s got enough curves to stop any man dead in his tracks. Including me.

Eve When my whole world blows up—again, it leaves me with no one to trust. Everything I thought I knew about the love of my life was a big, fat—lie. Knowing what I do now, there’s no way I can forgive him for what he’s done. When danger comes knocking at my door, what will I do?

New York Times bestselling author Monica Murphy launches her sexy Billionaire Bachelors Club series with a lavish bet, a night of carnal desires, and a forever that never seemed possible. Billionaire Archer Bancroft always gets what he wants—and he's wanted Ivy Emerson, his best friend's sister, for far too long. Being forbidden and untouchable only makes her more tempting. When a million-dollar bet with his friends throws down a challenge—last bachelor standing takes all—Archer knows he can win. That is, until one enchanted evening with Ivy takes his heart for a ride. Ivy knows Archer is nothing but bad news: infuriating, arrogant . . . and completely intoxicating. But despite her best efforts, she can't seem to keep away. When a stolen kiss leads to a night of heated passion, Ivy realizes she's in trouble and in head over heels. But in the light of day, everything seems clearer, and Archer's not so sure a one-night stand is all he wants. Concocting a plan to keep Ivy by his side, Archer might just be willing to lose this bet . . . and win the jackpot instead. An Avon Romance

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Liberalism, Miguel de Beistegui argues in The Government of Desire, is best described as a technique of government directed towards the self, with desire as its central mechanism. Whether as economic interest, sexual drive, or the basic longing for recognition, desire is accepted as a core component of our modern self-identities, and something we ought to cultivate. But this has not been true in all times and all places. For centuries, as far back as late antiquity and early Christianity, philosophers believed that desire was an impulse that needed to be suppressed in order for the good life, whether personal or collective, ethical or political, to flourish. Though we now take it for granted, desire as a constitutive dimension of human nature and a positive force required a radical transformation, which coincided with the emergence of liberalism. By critically exploring Foucault’s claim that Western civilization is a civilization of desire, de Beistegui crafts a provocative and original genealogy of this shift in thinking. He shows how the relationship between identity, desire, and government has been harnessed and transformed in the modern world, shaping our relations with others and ourselves, and establishing desire as an essential driving force for the constitution of a new and better social order. But is it? The Government of Desire argues that this is precisely what a contemporary politics of resistance must seek to overcome. By questioning the supposed universality of a politics based on recognition and the economic satisfaction of desire, de Beistegui raises the crucial question of how we can manage to be less governed today, and explores contemporary forms of counter-conduct. ?Drawing on a host of thinkers from philosophy, political theory, and psychoanalysis, and concluding with a call for a sovereign and anarchic form of desire, The Government of Desire is a groundbreaking account of our freedom and unfreedom, of what makes us both governed and ungovernable.