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A Caribbean playground for the rich and famousCome on in. The sin feels divine… Scuba instructor Nicola Metcalfe just saved Alex Stone's life. Her reward? About a zillion megawatts of pure, crackling, sexual tension straight to her naughty bits. Now they have only five days to satisfy this intense craving for each other… before he learns who Nicola really is. And before she discovers that sexy Alex Stone might just be responsible for ruining her life!

The ebook of the critically acclaimed popular history book: the story of the South Sea Bubble which in Balen’s hands becomes a morality tale for our times. A classic collision of political ambition, mercenary greed and financial revolution.The early years of the 18th-century produced two great monuments: one, Christopher Wren’s new cathedral of St Paul’s, an enduring testament to principled craft and masterful construction; the other, an empty fraud of such magnitude that its collapse threatened to overturn monarchies and governments. Its failure delayed the introduction of modern market economies by two generations. Yet the full scale of this monumental deceit was quietly covered up and hidden, its enduring legacy a poorly understood colloquialism: the South Sea Bubble.It was all planned by one ambitious promoter, who had decided to launch ‘a company for carrying on an undertaking of great advantage, but nobody to know what it is’. This eighteenth-century mission statement has now acquired an almost uncanny resonance: these words could aptly have been applied to the bursting of the internet bubble and the collapse of Enron. With the financial scandals that have beset global companies recently, such as Rank Xerox and Worldcom, this tale is all the more relevant today.Balen reveals the full story of corruption and scandal that attended the birth of the first shareholder economy, and with it uncovers a parable for our times.Note that it has not been possible to include the same picture content that appeared in the original print version.

To bed a thief! Brandon Wycroft, Earl of Stockport, must catch the “Cat”, a notorious thief who is stealing from rich local homes to feed the poor. Discovering that Cat is a woman, Brandon changes his plan of action – to a game of seduction! But then Brandon realises he might want more from the girl…marriage!An awakening… Julia Prentiss could see no way out of her imminent forced marriage – unless she were to become a ruined woman! Notorious rake Paine Ramsden was reputed to have no qualms about seducing innocents, so Julia decided to ask for his help. But one night with the achingly pure Julia might just ruin Paine instead!Two classic and delightful Regency tales!