Madeleine Taylor

Casino lights and desert nights, love takes a wild gamble. Dakota's plan was simple: drive to Las Vegas, start her dream job at a luxury spa, and leave her old life behind. But when her ancient pickup breaks down in the middle of the Nevada desert, she's stranded, helpless, and alone. Enter Frankie, a charming cowgirl with a heart of gold and a big ranch to run. What starts as a desert rescue sparks into an unexpected connection neither of them saw coming. As Dakota grapples with the superficial and demanding world of her new job, she's increasingly drawn to Frankie's simpler life of wild horses and starlit skies. But can their budding romance survive the clash of two very different worlds? With her career dreams unraveling and her heart pulling her in a new direction, she must decide what truly matters. Saddle up for a passionate ride through love's untamed territory in this unforgettable romance by Lise Gold and Madeleine Taylor.

Olivia Whitaker ha perdido su fortuna. Sin la tarjeta de su padre para mantenerse a flote y sin estudios universitarios, tiene suerte de conseguir un trabajo como camarera en un club privado en Londres. Mientras se adapta a su nueva normalidad, su m xima prioridad es reconstruir su vida, as que, cuando conoce a una socia del club, preciosa e intrigante, Olivia se debate entre el deseo y el miedo a perder su trabajo. Aisha Al Zahid es una promotora inmobiliaria rica con sede en Londres y a la que le gusta relajarse en su propio club privado. Despu s de regresar de un viaje a Dub i para ver a su familia, la nueva camarera le llama la atenci n, y siempre a la caza, va detr s de lo que quiere. Al mostrarse abiertamente gay en Londres pero ocult ndolo en Dub i, lleva una doble vida, y las relaciones serias nunca han entrado en sus planes. Pero, lo que le falta en conexiones emocionales, lo compensa en el dormitorio y est ansiosa por mostrarle a Olivia su lado dominante. Olivia tampoco tiene inter s en nada que no sea casual. Ha sido traicionada demasiadas veces como para dejar entrar a nadie, pero los juegos de dormitorio de Aisha requieren un gran grado de confianza. Podr su intensa conexi n f sica conducir a algo m s profundo? Y encontrar Aisha el coraje para fusionar sus dos mundos? El amor no siempre llega en el momento oportuno y, como las rosas, a veces la vida debe marchitarse antes de que pueda volver a florecer...

Despu s del doloroso divorcio de su marido, Reina Amari, mujer adinerada y madre de dos hijos, ha perdido el sentido de s misma. Ya no es esposa ni ama de casa. Se siente deprimida, sola y sin un prop sito en la vida en su enorme mansi n de los Hamptons. Su vida cambia de repente cuando conoce a Belle, su nueva t cnico de mantenimiento de su piscina, y le recuerda sentimientos olvidados hace mucho tiempo. Con sus emociones en conflicto, Belle irrumpe en la vida de Reina como una tormenta. Las aguas tranquilas son ahora cosa del pasado y Reina no tiene idea de c mo lidiar con la situaci n. Belle Rodgers, madre soltera, presta servicios en piscinas durante el d a y trabaja para Hamptons' Escorts varias noches a la semana. Le encanta dar a sus clientas lo nico que sus maridos ricos no pueden proporcionarles: una noche inolvidable entre las s banas. La regla n mero uno de Belle es no involucrarse emocionalmente, pero cuando su amor plat nico, Reina, la contrata, resulta ser un reto dif cil. Entre sus diferentes estilos de vida y el trabajo poco convencional de Belle, nada es simple y ambas luchan por resistirse a su innegable qu mica. Podr Reina aceptar su sexualidad? Y puede Belle encontrar la confianza que la haga mostrar sus sentimientos? Las tormentas son bonitas, pero tambi n pueden ser destructivas. Mi nueva vida: una sensual colaboraci n de la autora superventas Lise Gold y la autora de novela er tica Madeleine Taylor.

New Yorker Faith Astor is a successful fashion photographer. Living in Manhattan and parading glamorous parties, she seems to have it all, yet nothing could be further from the truth. When a female personal trainer shows up on New Year's Day, she regrets booking the kickstart session in a drunken haze, but the woman likes a challenge and won't take no for an answer. After years of struggling with an eating disorder, Silva Carter finally has her life back on track. With a careful balance of exercise, healthy living, and a strict routine, she keeps her anxiety at bay, but breaking her ankle forces her to let go of the control she so desperately needs. When she's unable to tackle the staircase in her apartment, her beautiful client Faith offers Silva her spare bedroom for the duration of her recovery, and they soon learn they have more in common than they realized. Faith is fascinated by her cute trainer, who seems to understand her better than anyone else, and for the first time, she finds herself attracted to a woman. But after a run-in on a high-profile photoshoot, that could be the least of her worries.

The Business of People is purposefully focused on people. The book will assist you to develop and support yourself with your people leadership, knowledge, and skills. It is an opportunity to better manage yourself and lead others, including your organization, into the modern volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. It is also a sequel to the top-selling book The Business of Portfolio Management: Boosting Organizational Value. Authors Madeleine Taylor and Iain Fraser combine to give you the very best in knowledge and experience in a variety of situations. This is a book that cuts through the nonsense and presents real-world solutions for situations facing leaders today and tomorrow. Shifting from managing people to leading people requires a pivot... Leadership matters because the future is at greater risk without it. Regardless of where you are in your leadership journey I am confident this new book from Madeleine and Iain will be a valuable resource for you. Enjoy the journey, it never ends. —Mark A. Langley, Former President and CEO, Project Management InstituteIain and Madeleine are honest and raw about the challenges faced, and the resiliency needed, to lead in business. —Suzanne M. O’Gorman, Senior Strategic Business Architect, United Healthcare GroupIn a world where leadership increasingly requires emotional and cultural intelligence skills, this masterpiece couldn’t be any timelier. —Dr. Hilary Aza, Senior Portfolio Manager, Tarrant County, TexasEssential for anyone seeking to better understand their personal leadership and to inform further development. —Rob Loader, Executive, Capital Planning & Delivery, Telstra CorporationThe book to me is written from a position of empowerment, cultural acknowledgment, hopefulness, and purpose.—Elissa Farrow, Founder, About Your TransitionThis book will challenge your own thinking and behaviour and give you an opportunity to develop your adaptability and leadership style for an evolving future. —Thomas Davis, GM, Corporate Services, Capital & Coast District Health Board, New Zealand

I'm Lucy, a law student with a part-time job as a personal shopper at Bergman's, an exclusive department store in New York. As Christmas is nearing, my employer has hired a Santa. I don't appreciate the way he keeps looking at me until I find out that Santa is a woman... I'm one of those people who doesn't like Christmas and I have my reasons for that. But being in Santa's presence brings out the holiday spirit, as well as the bad side, in me. So much so, that I soon find myself longing to be on Santa's naughty list

I'm Valerie, a recently divorced CFO from LA. After discovering lesbian erotica, I joined an online book club and have been indulging in steamy novels ever since. A new chapter in my life starts when Syd, a fellow member I've been sharing a sexy online exchange with, invites me to her house in Quebec. It seems excessive to get on a flight for someone I don't know, but my curiosity wins over my deeply grounded sensibilities, and soon I find myself tangled in a web of discovery and raging desire.

The Business of People is purposefully focused on people. The book will assist you to develop and support yourself with your people leadership, knowledge, and skills. It is an opportunity to better manage yourself and lead others, including your organization, into the modern volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous (VUCA) world. It is also a sequel to the top-selling book The Business of Portfolio Management: Boosting Organizational Value. Authors Madeleine Taylor and Iain Fraser combine to give you the very best in knowledge and experience in a variety of situations. This is a book that cuts through the nonsense and presents real-world solutions for situations facing leaders today and tomorrow. Shifting from managing people to leading people requires a pivot... Leadership matters because the future is at greater risk without it. Regardless of where you are in your leadership journey I am confident this new book from Madeleine and Iain will be a valuable resource for you. Enjoy the journey, it never ends. —Mark A. Langley, Former President and CEO, Project Management InstituteIain and Madeleine are honest and raw about the challenges faced, and the resiliency needed, to lead in business. —Suzanne M. O’Gorman, Senior Strategic Business Architect, United Healthcare GroupIn a world where leadership increasingly requires emotional and cultural intelligence skills, this masterpiece couldn’t be any timelier. —Dr. Hilary Aza, Senior Portfolio Manager, Tarrant County, TexasEssential for anyone seeking to better understand their personal leadership and to inform further development. —Rob Loader, Executive, Capital Planning & Delivery, Telstra CorporationThe book to me is written from a position of empowerment, cultural acknowledgment, hopefulness, and purpose.—Elissa Farrow, Founder, About Your TransitionThis book will challenge your own thinking and behaviour and give you an opportunity to develop your adaptability and leadership style for an evolving future. —Thomas Davis, GM, Corporate Services, Capital & Coast District Health Board, New Zealand

This is the first comprehensive guide to creating and managing social-impact networks that tackle complex, unpredictable problems. Written by the three leading thinkers and practitioners in the non-profit field, this resource will help organisations enhance their reach and effectiveness. Something new and important is afoot. Non-profit and philanthropic organisations are under increasing pressure to do more and to do better to increase and improve productivity with fewer resources. Social entrepreneurs, community-minded leaders, non-profit organisations, and philanthropists now recognise that to achieve greater impact they must adopt a network-centric approach to solving difficult problems. Building networks of like-minded organisations and people offers them a way to weave together and create strong alliances that get better leverage, performance, and results than any single organisation is able to do. While the advantages of such networks are clear, there are few resources that offer easily understandable, field-tested information on how to form and manage social-impact networks. Drawn from the authors' deep experience with more than thirty successful network projects, Connecting to Change the World provides the frameworks, practical advice, case studies, and expert knowledge needed to build better performing networks. Readers will gain greater confidence and ability to anticipate challenges and opportunities. Easily understandable and full of actionable advice, Connecting to Change the World is an informative guide to creating collaborative solutions to tackle the most difficult challenges society faces.