Bøger af Joanna Thomas

This a tale of two women, Francine is a petite brunette and runs a highly successful detective agency that specialises in industrial counter espionage and employs unusual (and illegal) methods to obtain information for commercial clients. She has been engaged to Tim for a year now and six weeks ago Jennifer stole Tim and the engagement ended abruptly. Francine is determined to punish Tim and Jennifer and captures the tall blonde with the intention of applying the agency interrogation methods and also making Jennifer 'perform' in a manner that is demeaning and obscene. Videos will be made of her and circulated to friends, relatives and Tim's clients (he is a respected solicitor).

A very rich Englishman has established a special and elite club in Saudi Arabia, Sir Arthur Shankley likes to be referred to as 'The Sheik' and frequently appears in Arabic robes; particularly when he is entertaining the members of his club by showing off one of his female slaves being tormented to orgasm ... or simply being sexually tortured.Angela is a single woman of twenty four, working in London as a financial assistant. She is a true blonde, tall and very well built - in fact busty. She attends a gym regularly and maintains her gymnastic skills. A flexible (in the Sheik's words) female as attractive and intelligent as Angela, is just what the Sheik is looking for now that the last woman who satisfied his requirements has died of a heart attack.A private detective Dunford is given the task of finding such a girl, which he does - Angela. She is captured, gagged, hobbled and dressed in an all-enveloping garb and shipped out on the Sheik's private plane to Saudi Arabia as one of his household and in a group of five or six similarly dressed Arabic women who are not gagged and gabble constantly. Sadly it is just four days before her wedding was to be celebrated.When she arrives Angela is immediately introduced to the women's special quarters where she is inspected intimately, informed of her 'duties' and prepared for her first appearance before the Sheik and his guests.Iain Blackman is her employer and after a few months became her lover. After the abduction he confronts the private detective, learns what has happened to her and determines to rescue her

Judith is a happily married suburban woman with a husband (Michael)and a toddler (Robert). They both have an interest in mild bondage and masochism and they thoroughly enjoy it on regular basis. They belong to the local golf club which has a Ladies Only section and Judith learns that one of the 'Ladies' has attempted unsuccessfuly to seduce Michael. She lets that pass but later learns that the same woman has seduced several of the Ladies' Club's husbands. She calls a meeting and suggests a 'cure' for the nymphomaniac.

Robyn is a twenty three year old woman working in a supermarket accounts department. She is a normal young woman a little shorter than average with an hourglass figure that is definitely top heavy. Her fiancé (Denis) is a top flight IT expert and works for her father in his software design company.A career criminal is planning a huge money laundering scheme for a drug syndicate and he needs a man like Denis to perfect the scheme and bring it to a successful conclusion. To achieve this Robyn is kidnapped and tortured in front of video cameras and Denis is told that this will continue until he agrees to work for the criminals. Eleven days of torment lie in front of Robyn as he continues to resist their demands.

Kate is a petite woman in her late twenties with no permanent attachments as yet. It is the last day of the old year and she is sitting quietly in Janet's Place a singles' bar, waiting for the advent of New Year's Day of the New MIllenium. As she is drawn into the ritual of 'Aulde lang syne' she is bumped into a tall, stranger (he is dark too). When the circle of hand holding has broken apart he introduces himself as Paul Symonds and offers her a drink, a closer relationship evolves but two weeks later Kate is abducted on the orders of a perverted and imperious elderly woman. She is kept as a pet for the woman and fortnightly 'Performances' in front of paying guests .....

David is setting up another furniture factory and showroom in Saudi Arabia, Mary decides that not only does he need a competent Personal Assistant for this, but with five wives pregnant and another eight children expected the Family really needs another 'wife' to share the load, particularly as Trisha and Zanda intend to reduce their recreational sex games in the games room and restrict themselves to bedroom sex. Mary's business is 'headhunting' skills and talents for large companies and she has just the girl (Justine) on her books, she would make an excellent PA and Mary is convinced a very attractive replacement wife for David. David and Justine are on the last leg of their flight to Riyadh when it is hijacked and taken to a small airfield north of the capital. The object of the hijacking is to capture six young women who are the daughters or close relatives of the heads of large corporations and threaten them with violation in front of cameras and subsequent exposure on the internet, unless ten per cent of the business man's shares are transferred to Sheik Faoud.

Doreen is asleep in her cottage when around midnight four masked men break into her bedroom, gag her and bind her into a virtual package and swiftly carry her out to their van. It is over in a matter of a few minutes and she is transported to a farmhouse and into a cellar. She is left for a time and then interrogated and tortured under the impression that she is her next door neighbour who works for the security department of a large bank and holds the passwords and protocol needed to hack into the bank records.After painful and humiliating questioning her abductors are persuaded that they have the wrong woman and a second abduction is carried out on the next door neighbour, Peggy.

Trisha and David Holloway have two very successful businesses a Fashion House and a Fine Furniture factory and showrooms respectively, they are both millionaires very largely because of David's win on the lottery of a hundred and seventy million pounds.Trisha and her partner in the fashion house (who is also her mother) receive an invitation to attend a fashion show and conference in Banbury and set off by road early on Saturday morning. It is a trap, the are stopped by what appears to be a nasty accident involving a van, there is a body lying in the road and an Asian woman leaning over it. Trisha and Maureen run over to help and are immediately attacked by the two people and two more men who jump from the van. After a brief scuffle they are subdued and bundled into the back of the van and whisked off to a farmhouse which has been prepared for them.The intention of the gang is to torture and exploit them sexually in fron of video cameras and extort money from their husbands by threatening to publish the videos on the internet. In some of the footage they are bound to a mattress using largely invisible bonds to give the appearance of enjoying sex with one of the gang. The videos are sent to David and Maureen's husband in the form of emails with attachments. The demand is for one millione pounds for each woman.

McCloud Fashions is doing well and two clients' clubs have been created to encourage retail loyalty; on the other hand Holloway Fine Furniture has suffered a fall in turnover and David Holloway decides to introduce a four day week to save on overheads but maintaining the wage levels of his work force. Over the previous years he has built up a skilled and reliable work force and does not want to lose any. It is winter and he is convinced that orders will increase in the spring. He and his wife Trisha decide to take a holiday in Mauritius, neither company is actually making losses and in the last two years they have had very little leisure. Mixing pleasure with business they take DVDs of the fashions and catalogues of the furniture in the hope of tapping into an Eastern Market for luxury goods - the holiday complex they have chosen is one that attracts the wealthy.On their second day they are confronted in their bungalow by two armed men - a recent capture of pirates by the Mauritian armed forces has resulted in a raid by a large party of armed terrorists to take hostages. David's training in the SAS enables him to kill the two who have walked into their rooms before they have time to settle in; he then makes Trisha as secure as possible and leaves to see if the neighbours have suffered an attack - they have and after using the weapons taken from their attackers shoots the pair in the neighbours apartment.

Trisha Holloway and her mother Maureen have a successful fashion business that produces unique designs using computer scanning and cutting. The designs range from the sophisticated for public wear to quite indecent designs to their menfolk in private.The two decided to franchise the business and the first one is in New York and the franchisee is Marjory Trumble whom Trisha met in Mauritius when her husband David Holloway saved the Trumble family and many other holidaymakers from an attack by armed me seeking hostages.Marjory visits the business and the franchise details are rapidly approved and signed. A few weeks after the American franchise has been set up and is running very successfully two thugs burst into the shop and present an 'invoice' for 'Insurance of persons and property'. It is simple extortion and Marjory and her staff are terrified; they telephone Trisha and David for help. David contacts and American friend from his SAS service in Afghanistan and travels to New York to solve the problem.

A little over twelve months ago David's and Trisha's dinner guests caught them in an unguarded moment enjoying BDSM games down in the cellar of their home. The guests (Tina and George) had left earlier but George had forgotten his gloves and returned. The concealed door to the cellar 'games room' had been left ajar and the noises issuing from the cellar led him to creep down the stairs to see what was going on. David was engrossed in pinioning his wife to a framework of tubes preparatory to teasing her sexually. George had a momentous idea ......

Melinda Hamilton fresh from an amicable divorce and matchmaking with a suitable new wife has arrived at The Heights in the Seychelles to join her lover Steven Fox. The divorce and the events that led up to it were engineered by the two of them in 'Kidnap' and now they are both millionaires intending to live in comfort (probably not the correct word since they both practice and enjoy BDSM). The two tall ex-wrestlers Maria and Juanita are already living at The Heights and the four settle down to a domestic pattern that is not entirely conventional. After two or three months Melinda decides to hold a cocktail party to get to know their neighbours. Part way through the party an old acquaintance of Steve's makes and entrance and loudly abuses him for getting him (MacDonald) dismissed from the Force for corruption. MacDonald threatened to get even with Steve and promises to rape his wife. Maria and Juanita 'bounce' him.Steve explains to the rest of the family who MacDonald is and the threat that he poses; the man is clearly wealthy again and has powerful friends on the island - his wealth can only have been re-built so rapidly by crime. Shortly afterwards a rifle bullet just misses Steve's head and her realises that he needs to take offensive action himself.

David and Trisha Holloway are both millionaires and each have successful businesses Holloway Fine Furniture and McClouds Fashions respectively. Their family consists of David, Trisha (his legal wife) and three other women who also consider themselves as his wives. Apart from running their various businesses the Family (the capital is applied by the members when referring to themselves) play a great part in the life of the nearby village and their domestic arrangements are continuing and affectionate source of gossip and speculation amongst the older villagers ... Townies are excluded. They all live at Sheraton or the New House next door and they frequently amuse themselves with BDSM games in the extensive and secret cellar. In September two doctor friends who run a sex clinic for couples with marital problems ask them if they would agree to help with a few of their patients whose problems are neither medical nor psychiatric but ignorance or shyness of the opposite sex. After some consideration the Family undertakes to help and a few weeks later Joe and Edna are introduced by the doctors. They have been married for a year but have never seen each other even partially naked and on the few occasions that Joe has had sex with his wife it was a total waste of time as far as she was concerned and something of a relief for him that it was over and done with.Shortly after their fourth session at Sheraton and showing a little improvement in their relationship David awakes from a drugged sleep (which he cannot explain) to find himself imprisoned quite comfortably in an isolated house. His captors tell him that Joe has stolen a quarter of a million pounds worth of cocaine from the man who had David brought here. Edna is about to be questioned under torture to find the whereabouts of Joe and David has been brought also in case she does not reveal anything, the drug dealer speculates that he may have heard something that gives a clue to the drugs location. Edna is stripped and bound and suspended horizontally and very explicitly exposed for handheld hair dryers.

Ivy Holdman has been married to Malcolm Rivers for just over a month and when their friends call it is obvious that Maureen has been weeping; they have just discovered that her sister is missing. He husband was in the Lake District on a month long seminar and management course and because of the lack of mobile phone connection and damage to the landline he did not realise she had disappeared until he returned home. The police were notified but had no result yet. The sister had been intending to go to a local club for a drink after an argument at work and had not been seen since. The club is suspected of being a brothel and Ivy and Malcolm decide to investigate.

The Holloway family are at home at the beginning of the long weekend when they are invaded by a gang of four men. David and Trisha Holloway are millionaires with their own separate businesses and as they do not spend conspicuously the gang believe they probably own valuable collections of paintings or antiques or gold. The gang know of the cellar and expect that that is where loot is. David's 'wives' are tortured to make him show the entrance to the cellar - which is disappointing - there is no gold or other valuables just the large collection of BDMS devices that the family have bought or built over the years. In the absence of tangible wealth the gang decide to persuade David to make wire transfers of twenty million pounds to their off-shore accounts. They have flights booked out of Britain on Monday when the returning holiday traffic is at its heaviest and there is less likelihood of them being traced. In the meantime they decide to lock the doors and take up residence in the house - and pass the time by tormenting the wives on the range of devices.

John and Margaret own a dressmaking business; Margaret runs the production side of the business, John attend to accounts, purchases and planning. They both have a hand in design.Margaret is a member of the Ladies Club which is formed mainly by the wives and girlfriends of the Football Club. One day Margaret walks into their lounge unnoticed to witness the whole team viewing and making noisy comment upon the antics of a young woman in a porn video. The video cost sixty pounds and she is annoyed that they should pay that amount of money for a two dimensional entertainment when she believes their wives could entertain them at least as well in the round. After telling John off for never treating her as the woman in the porn film was treated she has the idea of forming A BDSM club for the women with the intention of entertaining their partners one day a week and also giving Master Classes to couples. They are in the middle of a Ladies Night where three of the members are tormenting three ore who are restrained on BDSM equipment when they are interrupted by burglars ...

David and Trisha Holloway have returned from their honeymoon in the Bahamas. After being welcomed by the part-time housekeeper and describing their holiday over the meal she has prepared for them they dash down into the Games Room immediately she goes home. Trisha is feeling sadistic and persuades her new husband tobe bound to one of the devices they have in the Games Room. They have both missed their BDSM games and throw themselves into an intense evening of torment and ecstasy. Next day they resume their normal lives and attend to their two businesses Trisha's fashion shop which she owns jointly with her mother and the fine furniture manufacturing business that David owns. While chatting to her mother in a coffee shop at lunchtime the talk between the two women turns to sex and both learn details of the other's sex life that surprises them. Her mother (Maureen) in particular is amazed and intrigued to learn that her daughter enjoys being bound, beaten and teased to multiple orgasms. As the conversation becomes more explicit Trisha invites Maureen to sample some of the equipment from the Games Room in their apartment over the shop. She is enthralled and Trisha takes her home to view the cellar and its equipment and then gives her a mild introduction to BDSM.Maureen confesses that her husband treats her too gently when sometimes she would like him to be more brutal. They conspire to inveigle him into the Games Room and display each other being flogged, tickled and teased to extreme orgasms.

Five young men and women who have known each since taking 'MediaStudies' at high school, have formed a film company with the intention making pornographic DVDs where the star is abused physically and sexually to a degree that no professional ac tress would accept. The scheme is to find a young woman who would closely resemble one of the women if the performer wore a mask. The performer would suffer extreme BDSM and the double would appear in an interview afterwards, un masked and assure the viewer that it had all been consensual and she had enjoyed it. A chance encounter in a supermarket result in Helen being chosen as the performer - she is abducted and kept in a converted and secluded barn which now is a sophisticated film studio. Her torment begins ...

Zanda is due back from America where she has established the first part of Trisha Holloway's scheme to have her adopted as a 'cousin' and legitimise her baby (three babies as it turns out). Life at Sheraton carries on in a fairly normal manner until David and Trisha are kidnapped on the way to visit her parents by two of the men who had captured Trisha and her mother and have escaped from prison after four years. They are intent on torturing the Holloways and extorting fifteen million pounds from them. Neither David nor Trisha expect to survive this and escape seems impossible as their captors launch the first day of torture with Trisha.

Sarah is an attractive twenty six year old woman and an efficient, personal secretary to the Managing Director of a bank. It is an important job and she has a lot of information about the bank and its security locked in her blonde head.One morning as she runs up the stairs to her office she is abducted and whisked away to a warehouse where she is bound and a sinister man begins the task of unlocking that information. Sarah faces an exhausting three day ordeal.

An erotic novel.- a love story of two adults, both young successful professionals, both with sexual experience; and describing the gentle introduction of BDSM to one of them.This is the first of the Holloway Saga --It ends happily!.

Christine is intrigued by a two week cruise being offered by a local travel agent. "Half Price Cruise for Orphans". The agent explains that it is a genuine offer; the ship is properly registered and the cruise itself is backed by a guarantee (which the agency has checked) and it is offered by the chairman of the company who was himself an orphan and is making this gesture towards others who had suffered in their childhood.After an interview Christine books the cruise and makes a surprising discovery.

John and Joyce are lovers, she is a thirty five year old widow and John has been courting her for some months. They had been looking forward to the holidays when her two boys will be with their grandmother for a week and the lovers will have the house to themselves. Unfortunately a friend is going through a messy divorce and Joyce unwisely offers her a couple of days respite - which turns into more. However John is working for builders who are renovating the town museum and the old dungeons - a favourite with tourists. They decide to take up residence there while the builders are on holiday. Coincidentally the leader of a gang planning a wages robbery has also spotted the availabilty of the dungeon as a refuge while the police scour the county after the robbery. It really is very unfortunate.

Henry Hamilton and his family live in a small Worcestershire village and are very comfortably off, his property business is fairly successful and shortly after he had bought the Lordship of the manor and a small quarry, road building in the area suddenly expanded and so did the demands on the quarry. Recently the building of a wind farm requiring deep foundations for the pylons and consequently paying him rent, had raised his income well past the 'comfortable' level - he was undeniably extremely well off. The Hall is being prepared for the annual Village Christmas Party when he receives an email and attachment. The attachment is a video of his daughter being tormented sexually in a long BDSM session; it is quite explicit and leaves the viewer in no doubt about the identity of the victim. The accompanying message demands one and a half million pounds or the video will be published on the Internet. He and his wife Melinda are horrified and arrangements to pay the ransom are made immediately but that is not the end of the matter ...

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Drive critical, engaged learning. Helping learners more deeply understand historical concepts, the student-centred approach of this new Course Book enables broader, big picture understanding. Developed directly with the IB and fully supporting the new 2015 syllabus, the structured format helps you easily progress through the new course content.