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Seventh-grader Viv never looks forward to picture day. It’s just another day where she wears a boring braid and no one notices her. (Her two best friends, Milo and Al, don’t count, of course.) But enough is enough. This year, she’s taking matters into her own hands. Literally. Viv grabs a pair of scissors, her phone for live-streaming, and, well, bye-bye braid. Suddenly Viv is an over-night influencer at Brinkley Middle School. Everyone wants her help planning their next big moment—from haircuts, to dance proposals, activist rallies and mathlete championships.

Billionaire Benjamin Lee wants the truth from undercover reporter Kimani Taylor about her participation in the Scarlet Auction and her interest in his family. He’ll get answers, even if he has to torment her to get them....

To his dismay, Spencer Edelton, the venerable Marquess of Carey, has fallen in love with a whore. But Miss Beatrice Primrose is no common strumpet. She is a siren who enflames his desires and provokes him to do the most wicked, wanton things to her.

Determined to save her cousin from certain ruin at the hands a notorious rake, Miss Heloise Merrill impersonates her cousin and takes her place at the 'Chateau of Debauchery.' She intends to convince the rake - Sebastian Cadwell, Earl of Blythe - to turn his attentions elsewhere. Deprived of his intended guest, Sebastian decides to provide the meddling Miss Merrill a much deserved set-down. But when things take a decidedly hot turn, he finds he wants to go beyond a simple set-down.

The last person Vale Montressor Aubrey, the Marquess of Dunnesford, expects to see walking into Madam Botreaux's Cavern of Pleasures is his wife. Fortunately, she does not recognize him behind his mask for he has no intention of revealing his secret life as a Dom to his new bride.

Should she be scared? YES. I've been patient with her. Now it's my turn to take the pleasure I paid for when I bought her. I'm not going to just use her. I'm going to ravage her. For a sizzling hot romance with a smart, defiant heroine and a billionaire who can dominate her in all the right ways, listen to Ravaged to fire up your darkest fantasies today!

For debt-ridden Deana Herwood, losing a hand of cards to the wealthy Lord Rockwell was bad enough. To settler her loss, she must offer her body to him for one night of pleasure. When she expresses her reservations, he offers an even more outrageous proposition. Can she win the wager or will her body succumb to the wicked attentions of Lord Rockwell?

Can a notorious rake seduce the ice mistress? Married to the unfaithful Earl of Lowry and scorned by her in-laws for not producing an heir for the earldom, Gertrude "Gertie" Farrington takes out her frustrations in the masked underground world of Madame Botreaux's Cavern of Pleasures. Concealing her identity there as "Lady Athena", Gertie is a domineering mistress with a peculiar propensity: She never allows a submissive to bring her to climax.

Leopold Spencer is shocked to learn his shy and awkward wife is secretly headed to Chateau Follet, where the most wicked, wanton forms of debauchery take place. Though he has not touched Trudie in over a year - not since their disastrous wedding night - he is not willing to be made a cuckold. Furious, he heads to Chateau Follet to retrieve her before she is in over her head.

On the surface, Mildred Abbott is a proper Regency miss. But secretly compromised, she longs to explore the pleasures of the flesh. Engaged to an uninspiring sycophant, she asks the influential nephew of her patroness in debauchery to interfere and break her engagement. When her appeals to him fail, she decides to take a singular opportunity--a visit to the Chateau Debauchery--to experience one night of pleasure before she submits herself to a life of wedded dullness.

Spencer Edelton, the Marquess of Carey, will do whatever it takes to punish Miss Primrose, the woman who left his younger brother a shell of a man. But this Regency miss may prove too much for even the most capable of men to handle. Weary from exacting her revenge upon the man who raped her sister, Beatrice Primrose has had her fill of men of privilege and presumption, but she accepts a fateful invitation from a handsome nobleman to spend a sennight at his estate for a grand sum of money.

Every year, tens of thousands of children write to Highlights magazine, sharing their hopes and dreams, worries and concerns, as if they were writing to a trusted friend. From the beginning, the editors at Highlights have answered every child individually. Longtime editor in chief Christine French Cully has curated a collection of this remarkable correspondence (letters, emails, and poems) in Dear Highlights - revealing an intimate and inspiring 75-year conversation between America’s children and its leading children’s magazine.

In this scorching-hot regency romance, the Marquess of Alastair has doubled the dowry he is providing Miss Abbott because the sooner she is married, the sooner she is out of his care - and his fantasies. To Mildred Abbott's dismay, her dowry is now attracting numerous unwanted suitors, and she has no interest in marrying. What she wants is an encore of her night at the Ch'teau Debauchery, where Alastair once fulfilled her most decadent desires.

Desperate to save her cousin from certain ruin with a notorious rake, Miss Heloise Merrill impersonates her cousin and takes her place at the "Chateau Debauchery". Heloise intends to convince the rake - Sebastian Cadwell, Earl of Blythe - to turn his attentions elsewhere. What she doesn't intend is to be splayed across his legs and spanked! Deprived of his intended guest, Sebastian Cadwell intends to provide the meddling Miss Merrill a much deserved set-down.

Master Gallant and Mistress Scarlet both claim the rights to the lovely new submissive at Madame Devereaux's hotel of illicit and taboo pleasures. But for Master Gallant, the woman he truly wants and desires is...Mistress Scarlet. Mistress Scarlet, or Miss Margaret as she was once known, has not submitted to a man in years. And she does not appreciate the upstart Gallant infringing upon her territory.

Desperate to save her cousin from certain ruin with a notorious rake, Miss Heloise Merrill impersonates her cousin and takes her place at the "Chateau Debauchery". Heloise intends to convince the rake - Sebastian Cadwell, Earl of Blythe - to turn his attentions elsewhere. What she doesn't intend is to be splayed across his legs and spanked!

An erotic historical romance ending to the story between a Regency miss with dark desires and the Marquess who would make her his wife. In this follow-up to Submitting for Christmas, Mildred Abbott has second thoughts about marrying the Marquess of Alastair, but she agrees to one last act of wicked debauchery with him.

I saw her. I wanted her. I bought her. Big mistake. She was just supposed to be a plaything for a week. But I can’t keep my hands off her, can’t stop thinking of all the things I want to do to her. I want to devastate her. She tries not to want it, and she’s hiding why. But it doesn’t matter. She can try to resist me. She won’t prevail.

Considered the scourge of the Atlantic by the British, the dread pirate Captain Adanya Mbwana fears nothing - except the past. When she finds herself stuck on the ship of the very man she ran away from five years ago, can she withstand the rush of feelings she thought long buried? Can she resist his hot and demanding touch? Adanya wants nothing more than to escape before she does the unthinkable and falls in love with Dominic all over again, but Dominic intends to make the proud and indomitable Captain Mbwana his for all time.

Listener advisory: This romantic erotica set in the Regency period contains light BDSM elements and themes of submission and dominance. For debt-ridden Deana Herwood, losing a hand of cards to the wealthy Lord Rockwell is bad enough. But when he proposes that she settle her loss to him by spending one night offering her body to him, she finds herself caught in a bind. After agreeing, she discovers that his carnal appetite includes a preference for the taboo. When she expresses her reservations, he offers an even more outrageous proposition.