Showing results for "Cher" in Romance

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing. But it's the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute take a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant Nobel-prize-nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results.

When I asked Jack Wyatt to help me lose my pesky v-card, I didn’t expect him to keel over in shocked disapproval and nearly tumble us down a mountain. You might think a guy who's been reading romance novels his whole life would've figured out a smoother way to broach the subject, but in my defense, I’ve been pining for Jack for seven long years, just waiting for him to notice me.

Hetty and Ness have been best friends since childhood. Hetty is captivating, while Ness is a wallflower, hopelessly in love with her. Leaving Melbourne for the first time to live abroad, they take a room in a share house of creatives in Toronto’s student quarter. Hetty disappears into bar-keeping and nightlife, while Ness drifts aimlessly. But when Ness finds Faith in the art gallery, an intense affair begins. Her life starts to make sense. And Hetty’s starts to fall apart, a mess of bad drugs and bad men. Ness may lose the person she loves more than anyone else in the world.

Jane Austen's Persuasion focuses on the regret and loneliness of Anne Elliot, who had rejected a proposal of marriage upon advice of a dear friend, from the one man she truly loved. The story takes place less than a decade after the proposal, following her simultaneous anticipation and dread of the rejected lover's return to the community. She struggles between the validity of the reasons for the old rejection and the flittering hope that their love had persevered. Persuasion is about a lost love re-kindled.

The Scarlet Letter, Nathaniel Hawthorne’s, magnum opus, tells the story of Hester Prynne, who gives birth two years after separation from her husband and is condemned to wear the scarlet letter A on her breast as punishment for her adultery. She resists all attempts of the 17th century Boston clergy to make her reveal the name of her child’s father while she struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.

A lonely woman adopts a canine diva. Joy struggles to turn her frenemy into a best friend. She isn't sure how to do it, but through her attempts, she's discovering her dingo bestie has a sense of humor.

Despite her intelligence, Emma Woodhouse has little to do and is often quite weary of her empty everyday life. Having few companions of her own age, Emma often entertains herself by attempting to make matches between those around her. She jumps at the chance to help a destitute girl of unknown parentage, Harriet Smith, on her quest to secure the local vicar, Mr. Elton, as a potential suitor.

Emily Brontë’s only novel, published in 1847 under the pseudonym Ellis Bell, tells the tale of the all-encompassing and passionate - yet thwarted - love between Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Hear how this unresolved passion eventually destroys them and many around them.

"Il n'y a pas un bruit dans la maison. Jacob et moi sommes les seuls à dormir dans le bâtiment principal. Cela fait des années que Joël et moi ne partageons plus le même lit à cause de ses ronflements. Du moins est-ce l'excuse que nous nous donnons. Je suis habituée à dormir seule ou à rester éveillée plusieurs heures d'affilée, frisant parfois l'insomnie l'été."

Victoria et Valentin ne se connaissent pas - pas vraiment. Ils sont tous les deux secrètement amoureux de l'autre. Mais aucun des deux n'a trouvé le courage d'avouer ses sentiments. Leur désir ne s'exprime que dans leurs rêves érotiques et dans leurs fantasmes. Le jour de la Saint-Valentin, chacun décide d'écrire une lettre à l'autre pour lui déclarer son amour. Cette fois, ils trouvent le courage. Mais le moment venu... "Cher Valentin" est une nouvelle érotique, une histoire de désir et d'amour.

"Il n'y a pas un bruit dans la maison. Jacob et moi sommes les seuls à dormir dans le bâtiment principal. Cela fait des années que Joël et moi ne partageons plus le même lit à cause de ses ronflements. Du moins est-ce l'excuse que nous nous donnons. Je suis habituée à dormir seule ou à rester éveillée plusieurs heures d'affilée, frisant parfois l'insomnie l'été."