Romantikk og erotikk

After Jemima Jenkins's Pa passes away, she is determined to get back on her feet and open a school for poor children, despite the challenges she faces as a young, female orphan in Victorian Liverpool. Jemima soon uncovers shocking secrets about her past. Will they jeopardise her only chance at finding happiness?

Brimming with romance, adventure and vivid historical detail, Christina Courtenay's gripping dual-time novel travels from the present day to the danger of Roman Britannia.Praise for Christina Courtenay: 'Paints a vivid picture of life in two very different timeframes and, as the stories unfold, we see how the themes of life and love change little with the centuries. Fast-paced and thrilling!' SARAH MAINE______________________________AD 80Duro of the Iceni tribe escaped life as an enslaved gladiator and is now finally home in Britannia with one thing on his mind: vengeance. For 20 years he has sought the Roman legionary who destroyed his family. What he didn't expect was Gisel: a fierce Germanic woman with long white-blonde hair, forced into slavery by the Romans. Hypnotised by her spirit and her beauty, Duro frees Gisel and slowly tries to win her trust as they work together to complete his quest.Present DayMackenna Jackson returns to Bath with a broken heart, thanks to rockstar Blue Daniels. Luckily she can still count on Blue's former bandmate Jonah Miller as a listening ear. But Jonah has secretly been fighting stronger feelings, drawn to Mac's quiet confidence and gorgeous white-blonde hair. As they explore the area, memories they can't quite explain flood them both.Is the spark between Mac and Jonah in fact a sign of something much deeper - a love enduring through millennia - or can it all be an illusion?______________________________Just some of the rich praise for Christina Courtenay's pacy, evocative and romantic novels including Echoes of the Runes, The Runes of Destiny and Promises of the Runes:'I've been looking forward to this book . . . and it far exceeded my hopes and expectations. Romantic, fascinating and gripping, it's one of my favourites of the series' NICOLA CORNICK'As a reader, I was delighted and absorbed accompanying Ivor on his quest to the 9th Century. Courtenay writes so beautifully, drawing you in to each scene, that time and pages slip by effortlessly' ERIN GREEN'Whenever I need a break from the Twenty-First Century, I read one of Christina Courtenay's novels' SUE MOORCROFT 'I wonder if I, too, can find a way to travel back in time... If not, reading this book was the next best thing' GILL STEWART'Seals Christina Courtenay's crown as the Queen of Viking Romance' CATHERINE MILLER'This epic romance is sure to sweep you off your feet!' TAKE A BREAK'An absorbing story, fast-paced and vividly imagined' PAMELA HARTSHORNE'A love story and an adventure, all rolled up inside a huge amount of intricately-detailed, well-researched history. Thoroughly enjoyable' KATHLEEN MCGURL

THE UNFORGETTABLE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF FOUND IN A BOOKSHOP AND LOST FOR WORDSHow can you believe in luck, when you have nothing?September is at her wits' end. For all the hours she works, there's never enough money to support her and her boyfriend. September has nothing to look forward to. She just keeps plodding along. There's no other option.Then the letter comes. September, who was adopted as a baby, has inherited a house from a great-aunt she never knew she had. It would make sense to sell it. But when she visits for the first time and sees the place - the orange gate, the garden, the tree, the bumble-bee door knocker - she realises she doesn't want to let it go. Not yet. And then the members of the book club arrive, and she begins to discover the story of the family she didn't know.September realises she feels safe here. It's home. She's making friends. And this is just the beginning.What readers loved about FOUND IN A BOOKSHOP:'So assured and gentle, full of compassion and replete with astute observations of human nature and behaviour' Carys Bray'Delightful and original' Katie Fforde

A writer engulfed by a new obsession, an occasional sex-worker, a runaway, a teenager entering the workplace: these four tales of desire and dislocation explore the rough edges of relationships and the inner lives of women negotiating their precarious place in the world. In these coolly compelling and quietly devastating stories, Gaitskill evokes with razor-sharp precision the pleasure, pain, fear and longing that haunt modern life.

When bros before hoes takes on a whole new meaning...

Like a classic film, he and she encountered each other by chance. He was an on-duty police officer in the city. She was a runaway heiress. When he learned that she is looking for work, he decided to welcome her as the police station's telephone operator... This was the beginning of the everyday lives of he and she, and the delicate distance between them. Enjoy witty dialogue and bold illustrations, in this in full-color manga collection by Kotteri!

They're touching each other?! Are they really just best friends? Or is their relationship something much deeper? The story of two inexperienced virgins, and the affection between them, is about to take off. Sakurai is your typical high school boy, who's never had a lover. Unless you count his right hand, that is. However, all that changes, when Shinohara, his close friend, accidentally walks in on him jerking off. To Sakurai's surprise, not only is Shinohara unfazed by what he witnessed, he even goes as far as to kiss Sakurai, and make him climax. "Does this guy actually like me...?!" > Join in, and pay witness to a high school boy, and his first encounter with a love that is nothing short of dangerous.

"A Parisian department store, a mysterious necklace and a woman's quest to unlock a decade-old mystery are at the center of this novel of love and survival."--

Inspired by true stories of WWII, don't miss this emotional and poignant historical novel debut of courage against all odds, perfect for fans of Anna Stuart and Soraya M Lane.Poland, 1942. After witnessing the destruction of her hometown in Warsaw, Anna Kowalski joins the Polish Resistance. She is tasked with smuggling as many children as possible out of the Warsaw Ghetto through the sewers and relocating them to safety. Through her work, Anna meets Johnnie Nowak, an RAF pilot who had managed to escape from a prisoner of war camp. He's not safe in Warsaw, so Anna leads him out of the city to protect him... But suddenly Anna is caught by the SS and sent to Ravensbrück concentration camp where she is surrounded by even more horror and despair. A female guard, known as The Beast, is renowned for her violence and aggression towards her prisoners, and she's set her sights on Anna. When Anna is relocated to a different camp, she finds herself reunited with Johnnie Nowak, the pilot she had saved. Desperate to escape, the two of them devise a plan, that if caught, could mean a fate far worse than death. Will Anna and Johnnie finally find freedom, and survive the war together?

A hilarious and heart-warming rom-com about two older people who are given a second chance at love after their suitcases get mixed up at JFK airport in New York City.

Grief, toxic families, love triangles: another messed-up masterclass from the internationally bestselling author of the BookTok sensation Magnolia Parks.