Showing results for "be careful what you wish for" in Literature & Fiction

Be Careful What You Wish For opens with Harry Clifton and his wife, Emma, rushing to hospital to learn the fate of their son, Sebastian, who has been involved in a fatal car accident. But who died, Sebastian or his best friend Bruno?

When Ross Buchanan is forced to resign as chairman of the Barrington Shipping Company, Emma Clifton wants to replace him. But Don Pedro Martinez intends to install his puppet, the egregious Major Alex Fisher, in order to destroy the Barrington family firm just as the company plans to build its new luxury liner, the MV Buckingham.

When Tara Ryan gets the results of a DNA test one rainy afternoon, all her dreams come true. She discovers she's not an only child, she has a long-lost sister, Cassie. What she doesn't know is that Cassie is homeless, strung out, and praying for a break. As socially awkward Tara lets street-wise Cassie into her life, shocking secrets come to the surface-a dark web of illegal adoptions, betrayal and death. All rooted in a horrifying children's home scandal which occurred many years before.

Have you ever, out of anger, wished someone dead or hurt in some way? This is exactly what happened in the town of Deadington. Sarah Phillips was teased by the townspeople because of her hideous face from a fire that destroyed her family. Sarah was placed in a foster home where she was abused on a constant basis by the sons of the family she was living with. Sarah finally reached her boiling point one late night when she was running from her foster brothers fearing for her life. Sarah came upon a cabin in the woods and fell to her knees out of breath knowing in her heart this was probably the last time she would take her last breath.

From my earliest memory, I’ve longed to be forced to wear diapers by a domineering woman. It’s a part of myself I’ve tried for so long to repress or ignore, all to no avail. My overwhelming desire to be regressed and diapered has followed me my whole life. And it’s a fantasy I’ve kept totally secret. That is, until the day I met her. She spotted me buying diapers at the grocery store. She called me out immediately for being the naughty diaper lover that I am.

The time has come, Hells gates shall be thrown wide and the power of creation shall run rampant upon the earth. In this, the first audiobook of the Saga of the New Gods, a group of young college students bring about Armageddon in the most literal sense of the word. With a simple wish upon a unique wedding band given to him by his love, Michelle, Adam unleashes a power that could - if left to reign unchecked - destroy the entire world…

San Francisco ad-man Art Kassel has three seemingly unreachable life goals: to find some woman somewhere who shares his love for all things intellectual, cultural and culinary; to win accolades and awards for creativity in advertising; and to escape the iffy morality of his career by launching the big honking novel he’s been slogging away at forever. Imagine how thrilled he is when all his goals suddenly seem within his grasp. Especially when he comes up with a brilliant campaign for the ad agency’s most important account: Cloud Nine Toilet Paper.

Although the reappearance of the Alpha Centauri I crew was miraculous, it was not the celebratory homecoming they expected. Their return to a world reeling from a pandemic that wiped out more than half the population thrust them right into the center of controversy and conflict.

The newsreader took a breath and began: “And here we have the remarkable tale of local man George Pimpton, who sadly died last week at the grand old age of 96. It’s only since his passing that locals have realized they had a reclusive celebrity in their midst." The only problem was, this was all an accidental lie. George Pimpton was no celebrity. His well-intentioned—though often misguided—neighbors simply wanted to jazz up his obituary to make his life sound a little more interesting, a well-meant gesture that quickly got out of hand due to the perils of social media.

Rehmeyer's Hollow in York County, Pennsylvania, is haunted. People go in and they don't come out. Folks living near there are haunted, too, especially Sandy and his mother who live in the trailer park right outside the Hollow. And the ghosts that haunt the trailer park are fed up with all the trouble this small family has been forced to endure and have decided to take matters into their own ghostly hands. It won't be a pleasant night in the Hollow this Halloween.

Trevor and Anna struggle to make their femdom play fun for both of them. Anna struggles to feel confident in her dominance as Trevor uses his safeword whenever their play veers from his carefully constructed scripts. Finally, Anna's had enough, and she gives Trevor an ultimatum: try femdom for real for three months or give it up entirely. In addition, she wants to train with a real dominatrix, the seductive Mistress An-Li. Trevor agrees to Anna's demands, and in doing so unwittingly seals his fate as her caged, sissy slave.