Heart Song Anthology, Carolyn Faulkner [simple ebook reader .TXT] 📗

box. He picked her up and twirled her around, oblivious to her protestations that she was too bedraggled and tired and sweaty to be touched. He tsked at her like he sometimes did while he was punishing her. “Of course, you’re not.” Sean dropped a loudly smacking kiss on her cheek. “Ready to go?”

“No, I still have to–”

“No, you don’t,” Pam interrupted from behind her, startling Tess. “I’ll finish closing up. You go have fun with Sean. Go on.” She shooed with her hands. “You deserve some time off. I’ll handle the shop for a couple of days. You just have a good time.”

With the two of them conspiring against her, Tess gave in, thoroughly enjoying being whisked away a night early.

Several hours later, exiting the limo, she found herself at Foxwoods. Sean had arranged everything perfectly, down to packing her clothes. The next evening, after one of the best steak dinners ever, she found herself on a cloud in the middle of a swanky restaurant, wearing an enormous diamond engagement ring, toasting the man she loved.

Who needed Valentine’s Day, anyway? She’d take the day after from now on.

The End.

Carolyn Faulkner

The words “spanking” and “discipline” have always sent a shiver up Carolyn Faulkner's spine. She knows she's not alone.

Writing started as a way to explore her feelings. Soon short stories flowed from her pen featuring reluctant heroes taking the leading lady in hand, but always for her own good.

Today Carolyn is the author of dozens of books. She writes from her home in Maine, where she lives with her husband and leading man.

You can read an interview with Carolyn here:

http://www.blushingbooks.com/blog/?p=175

Don’t miss these exciting titles by Carolyn Faulkner and Blushing Books!

Series books

The Alpha’s Woman Series

The Alpha’s Woman

Kosh’s Omega

Red’s Mate

An Omega’s Awakening

The Omega Within

Adored series

Adored, Book 1

Tessa’s Wedding, Book2

The Red Petticoat Saloon Series

Grading Garnet

Thornton Brothers Trilogy

AJ’s Hope

Beau’s Desire

Cade’s Wish

Thornton Brothers, Three-Book Set

Taken as His Trilogy

Prima

Tria

Priceless Love Series

Priceless, Book 1

Love’s Possession, Book 2

Dangerous Love, Book 3

Mistress Mommy Series

Alicia, Book One

Little Miss Series

His Little Miss

Little Francesca

Vlad, the Vampire Series

Tears of a Vampire

Vlad’s Story

Two-Book Set

Single Titles

The Eye of the Beholder

Undercover Sir

Transgressions

The Brothers Rule

Made to Order Bride

His Sugarbaby

Mr. Sunshine

No, Sir

His Runaway Bride

The Lark and the Bull

Her Gentle Giant

At His Hand

Doctor’s Orders

A Babygirl for Christmas

Her Handyman

The Hart of the Matter

At His Hand

King of Hearts

True Desires

Lord Belden’s Baggage

In His Care

Beauty of the Beast

Correct Me If I’m Wrong

Ready for Love

Make Me Yours

A Most Unsuitable Mate

Indiscreet

On the Razor’s Edge of Paradise

Only Her

The Power of Love

Forever in Love

Under the Cover of Love

Never Say Never

Man and Wife

The Sister and the Sinner

Amanda and the Stable Master

Lion

The Banished King

Northern Belle

The Cherished One

Forever Wife

Grace’s Demon

Beauty’s Beast

Captured by the Count

Male Order Bride

Sinful

Packed: The Enforcer

Submissive Love

A Heart Full of Heaven

Daddy’s Girl

To Love a Man

Etta’s Surrender

Her Secret Submission

Make Me

Let Me In

'Til Death Do Us Part

Promises Kept

The Obedient Wife

Old enough to Know Better

To Trust Her Heart

Naughty Girls: Brynn and Kim

After Hours: A Medical BDSM fantasy

Droit de Seigneur

Dutch and the Cowboy

Under the Lash

The Rogue and the Rose

Submissive Bride

The Unrequited Dom

Three’s Company

The Reluctant Bride

His

Embraced

Attentions Throbbing

Submissive Desires

Kept

A Hard Man is Good to Find

The Spoils of War

Gilded Cage

Second Chances

Patriot Bride

The Boss of Her

Forever and Always

Tribute

Caged

Jake Ryan’s Woman

Soulmates: Backside of Love

A Good Man

Depths of Desire

The Substitute Wife

Princess Slave

Against Her Will

Body and Soul

Two True Loves

Captured by Time (w/ Alta Hensley)

A New Forever (w/ Alta Hensley)

Under the Cover of Love

Her Guardian Don

Her Knight in Faded Denim

The Rod of Correction: Taken and Tamed

Taken by Force

Skye’s Submission

Sheik’s Desire

Reject Ranch

Nola

Generation Stables

The MacNaughton Bride

More Than a Man

Man of Her Dreams

Love Will Find a Way

Fools Rush In

Everything Gained

Blood From a Stone

Angel of Sudden Hill

All of Her

A Piece of Heaven

Grace’s Demon

Sold!

The Centurion

Cherished

The Little Miss

The Gentleman Dom

The Supplicant

Belonging

Hidden Desires

Her Bad Boy

All is Right with the World

The Error of Her Ways

Holiday Stories

A Holiday to Remember

Griff’s Christmas Angel

All Hallow’s Eve

A Season to Submit

Mr. Imperfect (Dominating His Valentine)

Anthologies

Blushing Cheeks Vol. 1

Love of a Cowboy, Vol. 1

The Dark Forest

Thornton Brothers: 3-Book Collection

Bound by Love: A Carolyn Faulkner Trilogy

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Audiobooks

Rod of Correction: Taken and Tamed

Sky’s Submission

Generation Stables

Spoils of War

www.carolynfaulkner.com

The Valentine’s Visitor

Emily Sharpe

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Carla

Carla Danvers was ready for work. Her pale gray hotel uniform was spotless and pressed as usual, but today she’d added a red porcelain heart pin in honor of Valentine’s weekend. She checked herself one more time in the standing mirror. Hands on her hips, she looked with a critical eye. Tanned skin paid homage to the hours she spent on the golf course. Her dirty blonde hair was cropped short in a pixie cut, as easy to care for as when she’d been a little girl. Now, however, her mop was streaked with gray.

As was her custom, Carla wore no makeup, what she laughingly called “oh naturale.” The only jewelry she tolerated was her watch, her wedding ring, and the little gold hoops her mother had given her when she married Doug. She was low-maintenance, her husband Doug said. Maybe things would be different between us if I was not quite so easy to live with. She sighed and spun on her heel, smoothly the fabric of her skirt over her bottom. Not bad for an old broad.

Carla had worked at the Royal Poinciana Hotel for years, working her way from housekeeping just out of high school, to desk clerk, and now to one of the managers. She loved the old hotel and took pride in the fact that she could play a role in preserving local history while she provided superior service to hundreds of hotel guests each year.

As she tidied up the bed she shared with her husband Doug, she considered the importance of discretion in the hotel business. Housekeepers can tell quite a bit about a couple’s relationship when they “do” a room during their stay, or after they leave. There are subtle clues, like where the pillows end up, the neatness of the sheets, the condom wrappers in the trash can. Hotel employees are trained to keep opinions and observations to themselves, of course, but housekeepers tend to develop keen detective skills along the way, if they’ve a mind