Confined to a yacht, isolated by aqua-coloured oceans and the sweltering sun, Stuart and Foster are about to find out just how hot the tropics can get. Walker PUBLISHER: Self Published RELEASE DATE: AugLENGTH: BLURB: Stuart Jenner’s job is high stress, high stakes, and everything he’s strived for. Stuart slowly realises his original plan for two weeks of sun, surf, and sex might not be lost yet. When his next client arrives alone, the two-week charter will be the most private job he’s ever had.įoster can see how stressed and exhausted Stuart is, and he promises him extensive rest and relaxation. Founded over four hundred years ago, Sanctus Infinitus Redemptio is a private and very elite society where dominance and submission are revered. Sailing tourists around tropical waters is all in a day’s work, and he’s never been happier. Stuart Jenner's job is high stress, high stakes, and everything he's strived for. When his friend-with-benefits bails on him at the last minute, Stuart decides to go alone.įoster Knight left the rat race behind six years ago, bought a yacht, and now calls the Great Barrier Reef his home. Private Charter - Private Charter audiobook, by N.R. So why, when the apex of his career is within reach, does he stumble? At his doctor’s insistence, he books a privately chartered yacht to sail around the Whitsundays for two weeks of sun, surf, and sex. Stuart Jenner’s job is high stress, high stakes, and everything he’s strived for.
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In particular, there was a fascinating, amusing and very elaborate deception for the D-Day Invasion. One was Bodyguard of Lies by Anthony Cave Brown, about how the Allies deceived the Germans into deploying their resources in the wrong places. I read a number of nonfiction books about intelligence and espionage in World War Two. A lot of wartime secrets came out in the mid-Seventies. After seventeen years in the foster care system, he's learned that there are no heroes, and secrets and fears are best kept close to the vest, where they can't hurt anyone but him.ĭon't miss this moving novel that addresses such important topics as adoption, teen pregnancy, and foster care. And when her adopted family's long-buried problems begin to explode to the surface, Maya can't help but wonder where exactly it is that she belongs.Īnd Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. 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