“Paulie is good. He looks like a Paul.”
Reaching over, I bring her into my lap, and she keeps Paulie in hers. Between, her, the baby, and now my pup, this is the best Christmas, the best year I’ve ever known.
And I know, just like I’ve always known, it will always get better with Sofia.
The End
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The Good Girl
Silas Mitchell wants a family. Tired of his womanizing ways that have left him alone at 37, he wants to find a good girl, someone to settle down with and make an honest man out of him.
Kitty Evans is not a good girl. Weeks from her 19th birthday, she finds herself in the center of a seedy love triangle that could scandalize her megachurch pastor father’s reputation if she doesn’t marry one of the gentlemen in question. But Kitty is not the marrying kind. A quick call to her favorite grandmother and she’s whisked off to Austin to start a new life.
Although Kitty swears off men, temporarily, sparks fly when she meets the older Silas Mitchell at a local church. Silas is on the prowl for his good girl and he’s never met anyone prettier and sexier than Miss Kitty Evans. He knows she’s an inappropriate choice, too young to settle down and start a family, but he’s hooked.
When he gets past her perfect exterior, he learns more about the real Kitty--the smart, vulnerable girl behind the sexy veneer, and he falls head over heels. If only he can make her believe there truly is a good girl lurking somewhere inside her after all.
This Steamy Older Man Younger Woman Romance is a lighthearted romantic comedy heavy on the steam with a guaranteed #HEA
Park Avenue Courtesan
Allegra Valeri: I am a courtesan. No doubt it’s strange to hear someone admit to such an antiquated profession, but there is no better way to describe it. First and foremost, I am not ashamed of what I do. I don’t sleep around with countless men and in truth, I have probably slept with fewer men than most 23-year-old women living in Manhattan. This wasn’t the life I wanted or expected, but I make do with the hand I was dealt.
I have three lovers who have access to me two days a week and then I have one day to myself. On those days, I am theirs and theirs alone. Most of the time, we have sex, but sometimes we just enjoy each other’s company. I am not their mistress. For these men, a mistress is dangerous. A mistress falls in love and might want to become a wife. I will not. This is my job and I do not mix business with affairs of the heart. I live a life of leisure and in return I make them extraordinarily happy. I am a courtesan. That’s my job.
Boris Malakhov: This isn’t the life I wanted or expected, but some things were out of my control. My father fell into this crowd when he was still in Leningrad, St. Petersburg now. They helped him escape and then bring my mother over a year later. Times were different and it was harder to get out. He felt he owed them everything, including his son. When the Pakhan, or godfather, my father’s closest friend, encouraged me to keep my nose in my books, I thought I would be allowed to make my own way, but they had other plans. He put me through college and law school, NYU then Columbia, because he wanted to create his very own mob lawyer entrenched from the inside and above all suspicion.
As much as I want something that resembles a normal life—maybe a family--I always feared dragging someone else into my world. That was before I met Allegra. Now, things are different. Right now, I share her with three others, but I can’t take this much longer. It just needs to be us from now on. I know she loves me, she’s just too stubborn and vindictive to admit it.
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The Arrangement
Young Alina has just finished her third year at NYU, when she starts a summer internship at a prestigious Manhattan PR firm and soon catches the eye of the very formidable CEO, Devon Rochester.
After a brief fling, she tries to end things and winds up being fired. Fearing her reputation is ruined, she finds assistance in the firm's wealthier junior partner, George Astor, who tells her he has revenge in mind and she should help him get it. But that's a lie- he's just desperate to be with her too.
The Arrangement is a love story about a man who is too afraid he's lost his chance to be with the girl of his dreams, so he creates a story of revenge in order to steal her away, keep her from her ex and woo her at his own pace--hoping he can make her fall in love with him before the arrangement is over.
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