Lovin' You Is Wrong

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Holiday Simmons, a successful financial analyst in Memphis, Tennessee, manages to fall in love with two former male colleagues. She has little to no regrets for stringing the men along, so having her cake and eating it, too, seems rather easy. Unknowingly, Holiday is setting herself up for the ultimate payback.

Roman Broxton and Lance Ferrell not only work for the same insurance company, but they also happen to be best friends who share a common desire for one woman, Holiday Simmons. Her sophistication, sparkling personality, and remarkable beauty keep them pining and fighting to prove whose love is deeper.

Holiday's once sweet life soon turns sour as a result of this relentless trio's actions. Someone is determined to see her suffer. Though she bargained for double pleasure, Holiday is bound for double trouble. Lovin' You Is Wrong is an emotional ride with twists, deception, suspense and all too real drama.

Customer Reviews:

Don't Waste Your Money.......2007-09-26

This book was garbage, so unrealistic. I know it's suppose to be fiction, but give me a break. These characters were so dumb. No one should go through all that before they wake up and smell the coffee. Very disappointed with this purchase and will not recommend to any of my family or friends. Really wish I could get a full refund. Total garbage!!!!!!!

2 better than 1?.......2007-05-07

I did not like this book at all. It started off pretty good, and then lost me. It was a struggle for me to finish. I just think that these two incredibly smart, handsome, and successful men fall so deeply in love with one woman that they will risk everything to be with her, is a bit far-fetched. Okay,I know this is fiction, but come on now. I did not enjoy this book, and was glad I borrowed it from a relative.

Reading this was wrong!.......2007-02-25

This book was so slow getting started & it is very "Jerry Springer" worthy. I can not believe that 3 grown professionals would allow themselves to not only get to caught up in but stay in the crazy bizarre relationship!!
It was just too much. I am glad I borrowed this book & did not purchase it.

Not Impressed.......2007-01-26

This book was very weak for me. I STRUGGLED through the book and only finished it because I wanted to see at what point it would get to the point. It never did. Thankfully, I purchased the paperback for only $6.95 because I would have been pissed had I paid $13.95. I see from the excerpt there is a pt.II?!! Not.... Just reading the excerpt was like reading this one all over again.

The characters in this book are way over the top as is the situation they continually place themselves in. The ending does leave you wondering, but I'm not that interested in finding out because that would require me to buy pt. II, "I don't want to be right". And for me, that just would not be right!!

Loved it........2006-07-24

Someone left this book in my office so I was bored and thought I would read a few pages of it. Funny thing is, I couldn't put it down. I just had to know what was going to happen next. This book kept me on my toes, there was lots of suprises. I'm a guy and I don't usually read books...I'm the movie type of guy. I HIGHLY recommend this book and I'm looking forward to reading more of Ms. Yvonne's books.

If Lovin' You Is Wrong then I Don't Want To Be Wrong

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If Lovin' You Is Wrong then I Don't Want To Be Wrong
Derrick C. Brown
Manufacturer: Mood Organ Distributors
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback

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A Compilation of Derrick Brown's best poetry. This book of poetry is complete with illustrations by Matthew Carver.

"In one moment (Derrick) can have his audience snorting beer through their nostrils ("I left my wallet in the afterlife",) and in the next have girls swooning ("I feel like a cloud she says/ and i know this is true/ for i know the terrible things that go on inside of clouds.")

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Lovin' You Is Wrong

Manufacturer: Urban Books
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Hardcover

United States | Short Stories | Literature & Fiction | Subjects | Books
ASIN: 0739454838

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A MATCH MADE IN SCANDAL (APB)

Melody Thomas

From popular author Melody Thomas comes a lush and sweeping tale of a childhood crush that blossoms into something much, much more.

Growing up together as children Ryan Donnally has always known he loved Rachel Bailey, but Rachel only had eyes for his older brother. Ryan, knowing he could never compete for her affection, eventually gave up his dreams and settled on being content with another woman as his wife. But tragedy strikes and Ryan is suddenly alone and single again. Rachel had never thought much about Ryan when she was younger. He was just another rowdy boy who teased her and threw spiders at her hair. Now years later, Rachel finds herself unwittingly drawn to the very attractive and grown–up Ryan. She desperately needs his help to achieve her dream, but Ryan will not so easily forget or forgive the past. Suddenly Rachel has to come to grips with a passion she never knew was possible ...

ISBN: 0060742313

ARP: $14.95 178x111mm 384pp

January 2006 Release

Customer Reviews:

Couldn't get into it for a long time.......2007-09-11

Unlike one reviewer, I did feel bogged down too often in this story - at least in the first third of it. I kept putting the book aside to read others. Finally, I was determined to finish the book (I did buy it, after all) so I began it all over again, and was glad I persevered. Once I got past the plodding parts, the story just took off for me.

This story strongly shows you the difficulty women had in being taken seriously in the business world, and I commend Ms. Thomas for addressing this so well. When Ryan gave Rachel a set of engineering tools (his own set yet!), I took it as his acknowledgement of her skills and his acceptance of the idea that she had stepped outside the traditional role of women.

An Emotional Roller Coaster.......2007-08-06

Unique in her choice of lifestyle (she drinks and smokes and has never married), Rachel Bailey has always secretly been in love with her business partner and childhood annoyance Ryan Donally. Rachel wishes to be an engineer and actually has performed engineering duties under the shadow of various male employees and now she wants to be recognized for her work in a time where admitting a woman is working on a project can kill your business. Ryan has no intention of allowing Rachel recognition as a matter of a fact the board of the major corporation he heads is secretly planning on doing away with D&B Industries and absorbing it into their bigger corporation. Ryan knows this information will crush Rachel. Ryan has always loved Rachel even though he married her best friend years ago and has not seen Rachel since his wife died in childbirth. Rachel accused Ryan of killing her friend and then fled to Ireland...now to protect his heart he will do anything to get her to go back to Ireland. Ryan has made a business arrangement that includes marrying an heiress, the one thing that has driven Ryan all these years is the desire to be recognized as an equal among the British aristocrat and marrying this heiress will help soften his Irish roots. Rachel is now 29 years old and even though she has lived and breathed D&B Industries, she wishes for the one thing she can never have, a relationship and future with Ryan. She knows if they were involved, a secret she has kept could ruin Ryan's business. Ryan's fiance's ruthless uncle will stoop at anything to get what he wants and will not hesitate to destroy Ryan and Rachel if the marriage to his niece doesn't go through.

This is one of the most complicated, emotionally up and down, intense relationships I think I've ever encountered in a romance novel. It is very unique both in the characters, the plot and the writing that you almost forget you are reading a romance novel. However, do not despair, their is romance a plenty and it is hot. Great book. I now will go back and find any books in this series its that good.

A Match Made in Scandal.......2006-11-01

I'm in the minority here, in that I thought this book was boring and the characters uninspiring. This is supposed to be an historical romance, but without the picture on the cover, one could easily think the action takes place in the 20th or 21st century. The story is about Rachel, an accomplished engineer and part owner of a corporation, who is desperately trying to get recognition for her abilities, as well as hold her division together. The head of the corporation is a childhood friend who was previously married to her best friend. There is some chemistry between the two of them, although it isn't really clear why they haven't gotten together before. Most of the action deals with corporate matters instead of the romance, so I couldn't really get into it. It is nothing like my favorite authors, Celeste Bradley, Jo Beverley, or those of that genre. If you like passionate romance, this isn't the one for you.

Simply amazing........2005-11-18

After reading a slew of really terrible books, that included work by Sandra Brown and Joan Johnston, I skeptically picked up this book at a drug store last week. Not an author I'd ever heard of, I thought I was doomed for disappointment again. I couldn't have been more wrong. The book grabbed me from the very first page and I could barely put it down to do anything else, couldn't wait to pick it back up again and continue reading. I am a huge Julia London (The Rogues of Regent Street), Gaelen Foley (The Pirate Prince trilogy) and Julia Quinn (The Bridgerton Series)fan. They write touching, romantic historical romances that can hardly be topped and not for one minute did I ever think I would read this book and have to find everything else she's written because it was so amazing. But I ordered her other two books from Amazon last night. Her characters, her story line, the dialogue, everything about this book was good. Ryan was the perfect, sexy, irrestible, powerful hero and Rachel was the perfect heroine. The scene by the copse of trees near the Rathdrum project was my absolute favorite. He's engaged to someone else. But he's wanted her for years. She's got secrets in her past that could ruin him. But she wants him too. "Do we continue the same old dance Rache? Or do we sin?" All in all, a perfect book and I can't wait to read the other two. This was a breath of fresh air in my continuing search for the perfect love story.

Wow this was indeed a roller coaster ride - lots of emotion!.......2005-11-11

Two very stong characters, Ryan and Rachel, meet again at a ball to honor Ryan for his achievements in engineering design. this is to be the biggest night in Ryan's night - and there Rachel is bringing him back to all the things he seems to want to bury, his past, his family, his wife's death - why is he running so hard to escape all of these memories. And why is it only Rachel that can seem to infuriate him and send him into a lustful rage at the same time. Rachel who just turned 29 is trying to come to grips with what she truly wants out of life. Mostly, she says she wants recognition in a mans world for her engineering accomplishments in the D & B company but in reality hidden beneath is her underlying love of Ryan which seems to gone unrecognized for all these years. However things immediately heat up when they meet on the terrace and it is sizzle instantly - going back and forth between angry words and passion. Both so strong willed it is amazing that they are able to recognize what is truly between them. Ryan seems to be at the point in his life where all this recognition and the ruthless takeovers are leaving him empty. He is about to marry some heiress which he could absolutely care less about all in the name of aquisiton and merger. Rachel is so afraid of getting her heart broken again she keeps puting up barriers after their passion explodes. Amazingly Ryan's family seems to be conspiring to get these two together as the good brother and priest handfasts them into wedded bliss (have no idea of this is historicaly accurate) but it sure made for a great plot. Rachel, even after she truly realizes her love for Ryan is so afraid she will destroy him with her past indistrections. In many ways this plot is more like a contemporary than a historical - which is the only reason I did not give it 5 stars. To see this couple begin to come together was so romantic - I loved it when Ryan decides to court her and sends her the very romantic gift of engeneering tools (and she knew how much this meant because he never wanted to share as a child and these were his tools) that was so different and so special. He fights hard for her, and eventually decides that everything in his life is not worth loosing the love of his life. Well written, truly a deeply moving and romantic book!

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A Match Made in Scandal
Melody Thomas
Manufacturer: Avon
ProductGroup: Book
Binding: Paperback
ASIN: B000OEOWBU

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Yorick Brown, the last man on Earth, finally makes it to San Francisco where his unbalanced sister, Hero, finds him seemingly succumbing to the male-killing plague after losing his still-unused engagement ring to the burqa-clad agents of the Setauket Ring. But is the ring really the key to his survival? And what does it have to do with the mysterious Amulet of Helene, which the Setauket leader is determined to take from Agent 355 by any means necessary.

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Graphic SF Reader.......2007-09-03

Yorick and his allies have finally made it to California. Dr. Mann now as access to the information and tools she needs to try and work out exactly why Yorick is alive and all the other males on the planet are dead.

The female of the species also demonstrates that they are equally capable of war and crime when given the opportunity.

If someone said 'ninja monkeynapper' to you generally, you would probably laugh. Here, it is no laughing matter.

Puts the Series Back on Track.......2006-10-13

I missed all the hype about this series, and just happened upon the trade paperbacks at the library. The premise, as the title says, is that some kind of plague spontaneously kills every male on earth at the same instant -- except a 20something slacker named Yorick and his monkey Ampersand. Following the events of the first four books, this fifth picks up the story of Yorick, his government agent bodyguard (Agent 355), and a geneticist (Dr. Mann), who have finally made it to San Francisco, where Dr. Mann has a lab where she hopes to be able to figure out why Yorick survived.

The book opens with Yorick at a church, seeking atonement for having killed a woman in the previous book. There, he meets the cute female caretaker, and after a great deal of talking, finally makes the beast with two backs after two years of celibacy. This arc ends rather oddly with a brief glimpse at Yorick's girlfriend Beth, who's been stuck in the Australian outback for the last two years. Then the story switches over to "Hero's Journey", in which we learn all about Yorick's sister Hero, who was last seen languishing in jail in Ohio, after trying to kill Yorick and his companions. Her backstory is given, which goes a long way toward explaining the ease at which she was brainwashed into the Amazon cult, and why she suffers from hallucinations. From here, events start to get complicated, as a rehabilitated Hero arrives in San Francisco hoping to find her brother, mysterious burqa-wearing agents of the Culper Ring attempt to retrieve an item from Agent 355 (all of which relates back to the first book), Dr. Mann runs test on Yorick, and a ninja (who I believe appeared earlier in the series) kidnaps Ampersand.

This all gets a little bit choppy, but it's a definite improvement from books three and four, both of which got fairly ridiculous and suffered from some distracting guest artist work. There's plenty of action, not too much of the lame attempts at humor that the series is infected by, and we get a little more depth with a few characters. My interest had been faltering, but I'll definitely keep reading after this one -- if only to find out when the Israeli army women are going to show up again.

Best volume of the series thus far.......2006-09-05

Volume 5 compiles eight issues of the comic for a bulky 192 page total. The crux of the story occurs in Califonia almost two full years after the plague. Yorick, Agent 355, Dr. Mann and their monkey Ampersand finally approach Mann's bioengineering laboratory in San Francisco. They finally encounter two separate parties that have each trailed our protagonists westward. The intensifying plot offers further backstory for the main characters and introduces a new menace. Does Dr. Mann discover the cause of the plague? Is Hero pursuing her brother with good or evil intentions? Which secret government organization should be trusted, if any? All eight of these issues featured the original team of artists with no 'guests', another plus. Volume 5 was even better than any of the acclaimed previous volumes.

Gets better and better.......2006-05-29

Brian K. Vaughan's compulsively addicting series from Vertigo still gets better and better with each passing issue. Ring of Truth, the fifth collected volume of the series, begins with Yorick looking for forgiveness, and finding more than he bargained for. After that, Yorick, Agent 355, an Dr. Mann finally reach San Francisco and Dr. Mann's lab, and just in time when Yorick begins exhibiting symptoms of the plague that killed every other male on the planet. Add to this 355's renegade former colleagues on the hunt, as well as Yorick's brainwashed raddled sister Hero, and a sexy ninja who kidnaps Yorick's pet monkey Ampersand, and you have the fastest moving and most gripping storyarc of the series thus far. There is also a major discovery regarding how Yorick and Ampersand survived the plague, and the fate of Yorick's Austrailia-stranded girlfriend Beth is hinted at as well. Pia Guerra's art is what you would expect from the previous installments, and she does a fine job as usual. Once you hit the last page, you'll be salivating for more, and believe it or not, the series just gets better.

This series keeps getting better.......2006-04-05

The largest of all the volumes, this is two stories back to back. And good ones, mind you. We're finally getting some answers about what's been going on that caused the Plague and Yorrick's character takes another turn that will come as a surprise to many people. Yorrick is a bit like Shade the Changing Man in that his character keeps changing. Not so obviously as Shade but subtly. Of course, this is the way good writing is supposed to be.

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Written by a preeminent religious historian, this book provides an introduction to early Christian thought. Focusing on major figures such as St. Augustine and Gregory of Nyssa, as well as a host of less well known thinkers, Robert Wilken chronicles the emergence of a specifically Christian intellectual tradition. In chapters on topics including early Christian worship, Christian poetry and the spiritual life, the Trinity, Christ, the Bible, and icons, Wilken shows that the energy and vitality of early Christianity arose from within the life of the Church. While early Christian thinkers drew on the philosophical and rhetorical traditions of the ancient world, it was the versatile vocabulary of the Bible that loosened their tongues and minds and allowed them to construct the world anew, intellectually and spiritually. These thinkers were not seeking to invent a world of ideas, Wilken shows, but rather to win the hearts of men and women and to change their lives. !

Early Christian thinkers set in place a foundation that has endured. Their writings are an irreplaceable inheritance, and Wilken shows that they can still be heard as living voices within contemporary culture.

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"A Tale of Two Books, part 2", or "The Spirit shines through the Fathers".......2007-07-30

It is hard to believe that this book is by the same man who wrote "The Christians as the Romans Saw Them". What a difference 19 years makes.

This is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. I must have highlighted the whole book since I found almost every sentence edifying.

I had become accustomed to reading the Church Fathers from an apologetic or polemical standpoint. This book made me realize how I had overlooked the faith and piety of the Early Fathers. Prof. Wilken shows among other things how they sought to ground their all their arguments Biblically, and how little Christian doctrine actually owes to pagan thought, other than perhaps a few philosophical terms.

If you really want to understand how Christian doctrine was shaped by faith and inspiration, and not by cerebral distillations, you simply MUST read this book.

Enjoyable, but..........2007-06-07

This book left me feeling very torn. On the one hand, it was really a great read. On the other hand, it seemed that there was an underlying agenda that the author refused to admit (or realize). At times, it seemed a little like Bart Ehrman's book--only half the story gets told to bend the conclusion. Of course, Wilken admits that he is not telling the whole story, but he leads the reader to believe that he is being fair. Allow me a few examples. Wilken admits that Augustine is the giant of early Christian thought, and quotes him in every chapter, and on almost every subject. However, when he begins to talk about free-will, there is no talk of Augustine, and Wilken says that all the early fathers believed in free-will. While Augustine may have been in the minority, the average reader (to whom the book is written, as purported by Wilken) would have no other idea. Also, Wilken talks about the monothelite controversy. Usually, he deals with all the bishops and emporers on both sides of a debate. However, in this discussion, he fails to mention Honorius, prelate of Rome. This would be unknown to the average reader, but seems (to me) that it would be important enough to mention. There are a few other, mostly minor, examples of things like this. It all seems to be an apologetic for Roman Catholicism. While that's fine to write an apologetic for your church, telling half the story is deceitful.

That being said, the book is a good read. It flows well, and is enjoyable. Technical terms (usually Greek or Latin words) are explained and used in useful ways. The book contains a good amount of information, yet is presented in an understandable way and is made easy to remember. It isn't just another book on early church history--it traces other things like poetry, etc. Another underlying theme is that knowledge of God is not true knowledge until it is experienced. It seems simple enough, but Wilken explains it quite well. And to this end, I agree with another reviewer, that there is a devotional, not just academic, use for this book.

The negative side of this review shouldn't deter anyone from reading it. This book is a great read, but it needs to be read with discernment (of course, everything does).

Excellent Book.......2007-05-09

I am impressed by the writings of Robert Louis Wilken in this history book. He tells us that the purpose of his book is "to depict the pattern of Christian thinking as it took shape in the formative centuries of the Church's history."
His purpose leads me to believe that he understands that the Bible is the central factor that appeals to all the religious writers from the very beginning to the present time. I cannot help but to be aware that the central theme for anyone will be to understand what God has helped man to write in this great book, The Bible. Readers should come to an awareness in the introduction of this book that we need to understand the history, rituals, and the text to have the proper knowledge of Christian history in order to convey facts and thoughts to all concerned people.

Interesting read.......2007-03-26

An aspect of this book I particularly enjoyed was the discussion of Justin Martyr and the early church's liturgy and beliefs on the Eucharist. It would seem logical that the Christians closest in time to Christ would be in the best position to understand Christianity as Christ intended it. Justin Martyr's descriptions of the earliest liturgies and Christian beliefs on the Eucharist reflect the essentials of modern Catholic belief and practice. It is this type of evidence that prompted me to convert to Catholicism several years ago and Wilken writes about it well and makes it interesting. I also particularly enjoyed his treatment of the thought of Augustine and Maximus the Confessor, the latter of whom I knew very little about.

Masterfull Presentation.......2007-02-20

Robert Wilken has penned a remarkable book that is accessible to the lay person. Eloquently and powerfully written, early Christian figures such as Augustine, Gregory and Origen are examined. Wilken explains to us how these early Christian thinkers developed an intellectual and spiritual world that remains the foundation of the church still to this day. The intellect played an integral role and Wilken opens a window into that world of these early Christian thinkers. This book is impressive and I highly recommend it to anyone interested in early Christian theology.

In lieu of memoirs. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion and public life).(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life

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In lieu of memoirs. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion and public life).(Book Review): An article from: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
Richard Neuhaus
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This digital document is an article from First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life, published by Institute on Religion and Public Life on August 1, 2003. The length of the article is 2632 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: In lieu of memoirs. (The public square: a continuing survey of religion and public life).(Book Review)
Author: Richard Neuhaus
Publication: First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life (Refereed)
Date: August 1, 2003
Publisher: Institute on Religion and Public Life
Issue: 135 Page: 61(4)

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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God.(Book Review): An article from: Theological Studies

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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God.(Book Review): An article from: Theological Studies
Joseph G. Mueller
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This digital document is an article from Theological Studies, published by Theological Studies, Inc. on June 1, 2004. The length of the article is 807 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God.(Book Review)
Author: Joseph G. Mueller
Publication: Theological Studies (Refereed)
Date: June 1, 2004
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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God

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The Spirit of Early Christian Thought: Seeking the Face of God
Robert Louis Wilken
Manufacturer: Yale University Press
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