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She's the ultimate madam with a heart of gold. But can she fulfill her own dreams—and stay at the top?

In the business of high-end, no-limits desire, Desdemona Dean is the best there is. This
gorgeous madam can provide any sensual fantasy, ignite any insatiable hunger. She fiercely protects the women who work for her and helps them attain the lives they deserve—especially when it comes to her beautiful, troubled new protégé, Portia. But for Desi, having it all is no longer enough. She wants everything her shattered childhood denied her. And as she pursues an education and a normal life, she's falling hard for her handsome tutor—and can't resist schooling him in ways that are turning into more than just passion . . .

But as Portia spirals out of control, she's exposing any number of dangerous secrets. And as Desi desperately tries to save her and manage the damage, she's putting everything she's worked to build at risk....]]> Fri, 15 Nov 2019 13:08:48 +0200 One Night with Cinderella https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/582116-one_night_with_cinderella.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/582116-one_night_with_cinderella.html

Will their fairy tale last past midnight? From reader favorite Niobia Bryant...
He's a man used to getting what he wants.
Then he meets her...
Gabriel Cress is heir to his family's restaurant empire—and is expected to behave as such. Not seduce the housekeeper. But beneath Monica Darby's shy exterior is a siren who makes the jaded New Yorker burn for more. But when Gabe's meddling family and a surprise inheritance raise doubts he can't ignore, will the clock strike twelve on their budding affair?
From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite.]]> Tue, 03 Mar 2020 18:21:30 +0200 Chance Encounters - Preludes to Love & Death https://reference.library.land/urban-fiction/12584-chance-encounters---preludes-to-love--death.html https://reference.library.land/urban-fiction/12584-chance-encounters---preludes-to-love--death.html

Chance Encounters - Preludes to Love & Death

A broken and battered woman finds true love after years of mental and physical abuse at the hands of her psychotic ex. Dark secrets from the past threaten her new chance for happiness. Book Club 2.0>A broken and battered woman finds true love after years of mental and physical abuse at the hands of her psychotic ex. Dark secrets from the past threaten her new chance for happiness. Oprah's Book Club 2.0]]> Sat, 27 Jul 2013 06:15:12 +0300 Strong Loving https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/501545-strong_loving.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/501545-strong_loving.html

In the ninth installment of her much-loved Strong Family series, bestselling author Niobia Bryant delivers a new "Sexy, Funny and Oh So Real" romance novella about pulling a broken marriage from the flames and fighting for real love…
Kaleb Strong and his wife, Zaria, beat the odds of a May/December relationship and their different personalities (he's serious and she's playful) to find their happily ever after with each other. Some years have passed and some of the romance has faded. As she nears the eve of her birthday, Kaleb's coolness and distance over the last year has Zaria worried that their fifteen-year age gap has finally taken their toll—especially when a beautiful and much younger journalist seems to be vying for his attention.
When Zaria moves out of their family home with their small children and begins a new life without him, Kaleb knows he has to reveal the secret behind his distance in their marriage and fight once more to prove to Zaria...]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:53:50 +0200 Welcome Back, My Love https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/501544-welcome_back_my_love.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/501544-welcome_back_my_love.html

Continuing with her much-loved Strong Family series, bestselling author Niobia Bryant delivers a tale of romance that proves love conquers all...MEENA ALI'S extended family—The Strongs—are filled with couples who are in love, but she can't seem to move past the break-up of her parents that was caused by an affair. Passion? She enjoys it. Love? She's tried her best to avoid it…until she meets ARMSTRONG MANN. This charmer with a big smile, and even bigger arms with which to hold her, is simply hard to resist. Still, she is hesitant to commit leading to their break-up. When her "Mann-Mann" is in a car accident out of town and comes home with amnesia—not remembering her or the love they shared—she is forced to realize losing him was a mistake. He has with him a sexy nurse in tow who claims to have nothing but his best interest at heart as he struggles to remember his life. Wanting the nurse gone and the affection Armstrong once had...]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:53:49 +0200 Christmas with the Billionaire ; A Tiara for Christmas https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/501543-christmas_with_the_billionaire__a_tiara_for_christmas.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/501543-christmas_with_the_billionaire__a_tiara_for_christmas.html

Christmas with the Billionaire ; A Tiara for Christmas

CHRISTMAS WITH THE BILLIONAIRE
Despite her family's billions, Samira Ansah is climbing the corporate ladder on her own. She needs to buy a lucrative property owned by bestselling author Emerson Lance Miller. The sexy recluse isn't selling, but when he assumes she's his new assistant, Samira plays along to get closer. There's nothing fake about the sizzling attraction between these two opposites. But revealing the truth could close the book on their future...
A TIARA FOR CHRISTMAS
Kimber Reyes has been good all year—and she's ready to be a little naughty. Back in Southwood, Georgia, to help her aunt with a beauty pageant, she's reconnecting with former bad boy Dario Crowne. Her other mission: track down the mysterious designer of beautiful pageant tiaras. Dario is guarding secrets—and his heart. But unless he reveals both, the perfect Christmas gift might slip through his fingers...]]> Tue, 19 Nov 2019 10:53:48 +0200 Chance Encounters - Preludes to Love & Death https://reference.library.land/urban-fiction/10955-chance-encounters---preludes-to-love--death.html https://reference.library.land/urban-fiction/10955-chance-encounters---preludes-to-love--death.html

A broken and battered woman finds true love after years of mental and physical abuse at the hands of her psychotic ex. Dark secrets from the past threaten her new chance for happiness. Book Club 2.0Renegade Paladins: Singularity Channel viewers may recognize Hollywood actress Shiloh Rush as Ensign Tara Guard from the sci-fi TV series Bulwark, but nobody knows Shiloh is leading a double life. Haunted by the mysterious disappearance of her beloved older brother, Shiloh hopes to track him down by following in his footsteps as a secret agent for the Zygan Federation, an intergalactic empire still hidden from Earth. During this quest, Shiloh and her British co-star Spud, also a Zygan agent, fly into space--for real--to stop terrorists and invaders who could destroy the Federation and kill millions throughout the universe. Sent back in time to Earth's Ancient Middle East to save the life of a young prophet and prevent Earth's destruction, Shiloh and Spud stumble on a diabolical conspiracy and barely escape with their lives. Their assignment sabotaged, Shiloh and Spud discover the villains' real mission, face powerful enemy fighters from warrior planets and traitors from their own ranks, and race against time to save Earth.Abyssal Redemption: Hollywood actors Shiloh Rush and Spud Escott star in the sci-fi TV series Bulwark, but, off camera, they’re real secret agents for the Zygan Federation, an intergalactic empire hidden from Earth. Desperate to save her long-lost brother, also a Zygan Intelligence agent, from the clutches of an intergalactic terrorist and his minions, Shiloh enlists Spud to travel to a desolate dimension and mount a rescue, using the Golden Fleece she has borrowed from ancient prophet Yeshua Bar Maryam. On the trail, Shiloh and Spud risk their lives in the mysterious nebula, The Plegma, and face menacing demons, vampires, guerrillas, and Valkyries as they storm the gates of Hades. Returning to Earth, they find that their actions have resulted in devastating changes in the path of our history and that the Earth and the people they left behind no longer exist. Will they have to sacrifice their lives to save Earth’s?]]> Fri, 26 Jul 2013 19:43:54 +0300 The Rebel Heir https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/601511-the_rebel_heir.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/601511-the_rebel_heir.html

Mixing business and pleasure is a recipe for trouble in this red-hot upstairs-downstairs romance by Niobia Bryant.
When it's too hot in the kitchen
He'll take it to the bedroom...
The rebel of the wealthy Cress dynasty, chef Cole Cress, has only one rule: never fall in love. But the heat that keeps sizzling between Cole and his delectable fellow chef, Jillian Rossi, is irresistible—dangerously so. Because Jillian comes from a different world, and the Cress family will do whatever it takes to extinguish this blaze...even if Cole gets burned.
From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite.]]> Wed, 17 Nov 2021 17:00:53 +0200 Madam X https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/649536-madam_x.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/649536-madam_x.html Madam X

By popular demand, national bestselling author Niobia Bryant brings you the sizzling, sexy, twist-a-minute follow-up to Madam, May I, in which Manhattan's most exclusive madam discovers her past is back with a vengeance. For fans of steamy, juicy, action-packed stories and Mary B. Morrison and Noire.
Billionaire celebrity clients, anything-goes erotic nights, seductive betrayals—Desdemona Dean couldn't wait to leave the high-end prostitution game behind. Now settled down with the only man she's ever loved, Desi is getting the chances her shattered childhood denied her—and making her life truly her own. Until a basketball superstar publicly credits Madam X's unmatched sexual services for his astonishing career. Add an anonymous tip to the
police—and suddenly Desi is in the center of a social and tabloid media firestorm . . .

Knowing others' secret desires has always kept Desi safe—and hiding her own wrenching past is...]]> Sun, 02 Jul 2023 10:06:21 +0300 A Train For Under The Christmas Tree https://reference.library.land/chas-johnson/27395-a-train-for-under-the-christmas-tree.html https://reference.library.land/chas-johnson/27395-a-train-for-under-the-christmas-tree.html

You find a wallet full of cash, what do you do? Sometimes doing the right thing is the right thing to do, even if you get a black eye.On the Friday after Thanksgiving Day in 1963 a young man finds a wallet containing over three hundred dollars laying on the ground in front of a drug store. The drug store is giving away a beautiful toy train set as a Christmas promotion. The boy could buy several of the trains with the money in this wallet but he decides to try to return the wallet to its owner. The events that ensue will have major affects on the lives of many.]]> Thu, 28 Jul 2016 18:18:18 +0300 Her Pleasure https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/593278-her_pleasure.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/593278-her_pleasure.html

National bestselling author Niobia Bryant serves up a scorchingly sexy and scandalous novel about finding love, reigniting passion, keeping secrets—and way too many incendiary lies . . .

After surviving a shattering betrayal by a former friend, Jaime Pine has every reason to celebrate. Stronger and savvier after her "perfect" marriage crashed-and-burned, Jaime now has Luc, a billionaire music mogul willing to give her everything, including a dazzling career, and what looks like a forever happily-ever-after. Until a no-limits island vacation with her best friends turns up the last person Jaime ever expected to see again . . .

Unforgettable Graham Walker, aka "Pleasure," is an ex-escort skilled at mind-blowing sex. But now, after coming to terms with his own troubled past, Graham is a changed man. And Jaime finds him more irresistible than ever. Yet after one last no-holds-barred night together and a connection that can't be...]]> Tue, 27 Jul 2021 19:36:04 +0300 The Marriage Deadline https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/667605-the_marriage_deadline.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/667605-the_marriage_deadline.html

In high school, she was the mean girl and he was the nerd. They couldn't stand to be in the same room together. Now they're sharing a bed... Chemistry sizzles in Niobia Bryant's newest Cress Brothers book.
Handsome, successful chef Lucas Cress is ready for marriage and he has a deadline. Eve Villar, former mean girl, should be the last person on his seduction list. But when the two come together at a class reunion, the chemistry ignites!
The chase is on. Sexy, confident Lucas can't resist this new, kinder Eve. He plans an irresistible seduction—and a proposal to make her his wife. But can she trust that they both have really changed enough for a future together? Or will their past stand in the way of "I do"?
Harlequin Desire transports you to the luxurious worlds of American tycoons, ranchers and family dynasties. Get ready for bold encounters and sizzling chemistry.
You'll be swept away by this bold, sizzling romance,...]]> Wed, 22 Nov 2023 21:46:22 +0200 Tempting the Billionaire https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/501546-tempting_the_billionaire.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/501546-tempting_the_billionaire.html

An irresistible but forbidden temptation...
Betrayed by his fiancée, self-made billionaire Chance Castillo plans to sue his ex for her share of their million-dollar wedding. His unexpected attraction to his beautiful, brilliant new attorney sure takes his mind off his troubles. But Ngozi Johns has an ironclad rule: she never dates a client. Ngozi got where she is by following her own guidelines. Until one hot, steamy night with the gorgeous Dominican changes everything.]]> Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:53:50 +0200 An Offer from Mr. Wrong https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/641021-an_offer_from_mr_wrong.html https://reference.library.land/niobia-bryant/641021-an_offer_from_mr_wrong.html

A chef turned secret heir cooks up a fake—and deliciously tempting—relationship in bestselling author Niobia Bryant's delectable Cress Brothers novel.
Will a fake relationship
help a reluctant heir claim his birthright?
As the recently discovered secret heir to the Cress Dynasty, chef Lincoln Cress isn't exactly fitting in with his new family. A girlfriend for hire would help, and private investigator Bobbie Barnett, who discovered his Cress connection, fits the bill. It's a simple deal that has nothing to do with her wavy hair, full lips or how she incites his wickedest appetites. Now Lincoln's risking everything—including the Cress family's reputation—on a proposal that has nothing to do with business...and everything to do with pleasure.
From Harlequin Desire: A luxurious world of bold encounters and sizzling chemistry.
You'll be swept away by this bold, sizzling romance, part of the Cress...]]> Wed, 02 Mar 2022 20:15:51 +0200