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What happens when business turns to pleasure? Alec Compton's dream job at a Wall Street investment firm is on the line if he can't close a make-or-break takeover deal by the end of the year. The buyer is none other than world-renowned billionaire and corporate raider Brant Linton, recently named one of the hottest and most eligible gay businessmen. Electricity crackles at their first meeting, and Alec's thoughts drift far from business, despite his distaste for Brant's business practices. When Brant takes off early to spend Christmas with his sister's family on the exclusive French Polynesian island of Taha'a, Alec has no choice but to follow if he wants to get Brant to sign on the dotted line. But Brant's sister has forbidden him from conducting business during the holidays and Alec must masquerade as Brant's boyfriend lest she find out what they're really up to. Then business turns into pleasure, but neither Brant nor Alec know whether the other is there for the deal, or for something more personal in EM Lynley's sizzling holiday novella A CHRISTMAS BONUS.

The new doctor in town, Keith Hoyer has to relinquish care of his accidental patient, veterinarian Dante James, to privately treat their mutual cases of incurable attraction and terminal romance, complicated with relapsing lust. Their backgrounds are different, their practices accidentally overlap, and their pasts have some hidden traps to negotiate. A fat, injured tabby cat, a truth-extracting, wounded dog, and a teen with a heartbreaking secret need Keith and Dante's help. Every patient, furry or human, brings them a little closer together. The collection contains the full texts of On Call: Afternoon, On Call: Dancing, and On Call: Crossroads, all the bonus stories, and Dante's Wish. Thirty thousand words comprising seven linked stories.

"A life-affirming tale of optimism and family togetherness, even as the ground shifts under their feet." From a vacation to a one-way trip, we escaped Czechoslovakia and the Iron Curtain. Fourteen, naive, stranded in West Germany - I saw only high adventures as my Father kept the mission together, my kid brother yearned to buy another Matchbox car and my Mother kept slowly unraveling under the stress of uncertain change. Yet America awaited, perfect and invincible, right beyond the ocean.

Sometimes funny, sometimes tragic and often bawdy, Lola Dances ranges from the 1850 slums of the Bowery to the mining camps of California and Montana, to the Barbary Coast of San Francisco.Little Terry Murphy, pretty and effeminate, dreams of becoming a dancer. Raped by a drunken profligate and threatened with prison, Terry flees the Bowery to disappear into the wilderness of the West. In the rugged settlement of Alder Gulch, he stands out like a sore thumb among the camp's macho inhabitants - until the day he puts on a dress and dances for the unsuspecting miners. As beautiful Lola Valdez, fame and fortune are within reach, and so, ultimately, is love.

The best jobs in 1911 Belfast are in the shipyards, but Donal Gallagher's pay packet at Harland and Wolff doesn't stretch far enough. He needs someone to share his rented room; fellow ship-builder Jimmy Healy's bright smile and need for lodgings inspire Donal to offer. But how will he sleep, lying scant feet away from Jimmy? It seems Jimmy's a restless sleeper, too, lying so near to Donal... In a political climate turned volatile, Jimmy and Donal could emigrate or choose sides. Will shoveling coal on the ship nicknamed The Pride of Belfast make a new beginning for them, or the end?

"If you make money from writing, you need this book!" - Neil Plakcy Updated for 2013 tax returns, including the new method for calculating home-office deductions and an expanded chapter for self-publishers! Writers, are you stymied by Schedule C and self-employment tax? Not sure you're getting all the deductions you deserve, or uncertain precisely what the IRS allows? This book is a compilation of a 15-lecture course and additional information taught each spring. It is not intended to be an extensive or exhaustive volume on small-business taxes or general tax concepts. It's a concise source of the most useful information for writers preparing their own tax returns. This book is not filled with lots of long-winded stories about clients to fill word count and add pages. You don't have time to read all that. You just want to know how to fill in your forms and what you can and can't deduct. I will answer those questions, as well as provide additional useful and necessary information for tax planning and recordkeeping. Written by both a writer and a tax preparer, we offer expert knowledge that usually costs hundreds of dollars in tax-prep fees. Chapters include: Hobby vs. Business Legal Issues What Expenses are Deductible? Schedule C Walkthrough Home-office Deduction Self-employment Tax Quarterly Estimated Tax Self-Published Authors Unpublished Authors FAQ