Showing results for "attached" in Literature & Fiction

All Amira wanted was to escape. After a painful breakup that left her questioning everything—her culture, her boundaries, her sense of self—she’s sworn off men with too much money and charm to spare. Unfortunately, life didn’t get the memo. Desperate for a reset, Amira jumps at a last-minute job in Nantucket, hoping a change of scenery will bring peace. But a snowstorm traps her in Seattle right before the holidays. While waiting to rebook her flight, Amira comes face to… chest, with the tallest, and most obscenely handsome man she’s ever seen.

Micky Ferro has lived her entire life according to other people's expectations. She married a man, had two children, and became a dutiful stay-at-home mom in suburban Sydney. Until she realized, with a little help from her best friend, that her picture-perfect life wasn't making her happy. On the first anniversary of her divorce, Micky decides it's time for the next step in her journey and gets a job at her neighborhood coffee shop, The Pink Bean.

'Heartwarming, romantic and great fun' CLOSER Everyone in the newsroom knows that somebody is monitoring their emails, but Beth and Jennifer don't believe anyone would read their never-ending conversations. But Lincoln does, it's his job, and Beth and Jennifer's hilarious, no-holds-barred emails...

Oops, I did it again… Leave it to me, Lexi Carmichael, to become a target for an elite organization of cyber criminals simply by being in the wrong place at the right time. As if I weren't already freaking out about planning my best friend's bachelorette party, I now have to keep my eyes...

Closeted teenager Jeremy is sent to live with wealthy relatives after his mother enters rehab. Struggling to fit into the posh world of Ballena Beach, Jeremy joins the high school swim team, dates a popular girl, and begins to think he may have landed in paradise - until his great aunt Katharine starts to dictate his every move…and a late-night phone call insinuates that his father’s accidental death was not so accidental after all. As Jeremy grows accustomed to the veneer of a fabulous life, so grows his need for answers - as well as the danger of immeasurable harm.

The laugh-out-loud romantic comedy, all about the highs and lows of modern dating, with a cheeky twist... ****** Newly single Jean is dating again... it just so happens that she's dating a married couple. Straight-laced Jean has just broken up with her overgrown baby of a boyfriend. At 30, she's...

The adjustment of a marriage in aristocratic society in the early 1800s is told with abundant humor. A young coupel falls passionately in love, but soon the realities of married life bring them and their dreams back down to earth. The author, Emily Eden, has often been compared to Jane Austen but with Eden's work showing perhaps a morel realistic look at the ups and downs of the human condition. And if you just look closely, you might see some characters who possibly later influenced Oscar Wilde.

No Spurs Attached is where infertility, healing, and real life get talked about for real. It’s for anyone moving through hard seasons, searching for healing, and learning how to let that sh*t out. Honest, emotional, a little chaotic, and fully unfiltered.

Bartender Chancy has her orderly life turned around when she is in an accident leaving her with no transportation. When a mutually beneficial business agreement between Remy and Chancy turns into undeniable attraction, will the two ignore culture norms to explore their intense desire for each other? Follow Remy and Chancy as they join the characters of the Trophy Wives Club and Pleasure Workers in a continued journey of love and exploration. Is love possible when women from two distinctly different social tracks are brought together by fate?

Emily Eden was the daughter of the 1st Baron Auckland, a close confidant of Pitt. She was thus well placed to observe the manners and mores of nineteenth century aristocracy. A huge admirer of Jane Austen, her works reflect this in their perception, tongue in cheek humour and benevolence toward the victims of her pen. 'The Semi Attached Couple' is a revealing insight of attitudes and customs within marriage.

In this delightful comedy of manners, young and enchanting Helen Eskdale finds herself wed to the fabulously wealthy Lord Teviot, a pairing that seems perfect at first glance. However, their marriage quickly becomes entangled in a web of misunderstandings and jealousies, constantly pulling them apart. Surrounded by a colorful cast of characters, the central question remains will their love endure the trials of social intrigue? Emily Edens witty and ironic narrative echoes the charm of Jane Austens beloved novels, making this tale a captivating listen. (Summary by Elizabeth Klett)

Hayden Summers just landed the job of a lifetime taking pictures for Time magazine, but she's determined to leave with no regrets. The first thing on her list? Erase the memory of her cheating ex with a wild night of anonymous sex. The second? Figure out why her best friend, sexy bar owner Jace Jennings, stopped speaking to her the night she told him about the job.

Raised on a bar stool, Charlee spends her youth drinking in the dark dives of New England and Montreal with a father who flees from woman to woman. As an adult in one of her father's haunts, she encounters the man whose flaws and attractions will make her face every emotion that confounded her dad. She longs for companionship, but from her father she has learned to trust only her own will and crave solitude. Can she overcome a life of defiant independence and her distrust of affection?

A small Karachi neighbourhood, Chakiwara is humdrum and unspectacular to all appearances. But inside its shops and at the street corners, there is curious business afoot. Chronicling the drama that unfolds daily is Iqbal Hussain Changezi, bakery owner and collector of writers and geniuses. He has his eyes on out-of-work comedian Chakori, apprentice to a Chinese dentist, even as the town's mostly unsuccessful healer of physical and spiritual maladies prepares to unleash his top-secret invention, the love meter.

Stories, laughs, and screw-ups...Honest conversations about business, reinvention, and the pursuit of the American Dream — from someone who's lived all three.Whether you're a small business owner, an entrepreneur finding your footing, a trade professional, or someone who simply loves real stories from real life — you're in the right place.I'm your host, Roger Magalhães — Brazilian-born. Boston-bred. Florida-based. Entrepreneur, speaker, storyteller, and author of Nobody Told Me That. Founder of Shades In Place, Trading Up Consulting, and partner at BlindsOnline.com.This show is my way ...