The newest thriller from the author of The Amateur Spy and The Prisoner of Guantánamo (“Worthy of sharing shelf space with the novels of John le Carré and Ken Follett”—USA Today) is as dazzling as its setting.

Sam Keller has been enlisted by his V.P. for Corporate Security and Investigation to spy on another employee while they’re traveling for the company. Ordinarily careful to a fault, Sam decides to live it up. What better spot for business-class hedonism than boomtown Dubai, where resort islands materialize from open ocean, fortunes are made overnight, and skiers crisscross the snowy slope of a shopping mall.

But when Sam’s charge is murdered during a night on the town, it is only the first in a series of bewildering events that plunge him waist-deep into a lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, crooked cops, consuls, and corporate players.

Offering a chancy way out is Anwar Sharaf, the unlikeliest of detectives. A former pearl diver and gold smuggler with an undignified demeanor, Sharaf is sometimes as baffled as Sam by the changes to his homeland, especially as they are embodied in the behavior of his rebelliously independent—and hauntingly beautiful—daughter. But he knows where the levers of power reside. As the unlikely duo work their way toward the heart of the case, each man must confront the darkest forces threatening Dubai from within.

Here is Dan Fesperman’s most suspenseful novel yet: a stunning portrait of a city whose mysterious rhythm (“like the precision throb of an artificial heart, clicking and insistent, yet cool to the touch”) is underscored by the insistent clashing of old and new.

Demi Alex pens her new series, melting her keyboard with this introductory offer of her first, A Travel Taboo Tale.

Layover Liaisons

How have I, a powerful and rational businesswoman, been reduced to a sex junkie?
The Man in Terminal Two turns my body and soul inside out. He is all I could think of...his pleasure my greatest ambition...his touch my ultimate addiction. Yet, I do not want to know his name.
Shivers run up my spine and play at the base of my neck. He appears bearing lavish gifts and loving discipline. He is my every fantasy. He is my layover liaison.

Demi Alex pens her new series, melting her keyboard with this introductory offer of her first, A Travel Taboo Tale.

Layover Liaisons

How have I, a powerful and rational businesswoman, been reduced to a sex junkie?
The Man in Terminal Two turns my body and soul inside out. He is all I could think of...his pleasure my greatest ambition...his touch my ultimate addiction. Yet, I do not want to know his name.
Shivers run up my spine and play at the base of my neck. He appears bearing lavish gifts and loving discipline. He is my every fantasy. He is my layover liaison.

Kingsley James, sailor, diver, author and amateur chef is on his way down to the Caribbean to skipper a yacht for two couples who have hired him for two weeks to show him the British Virgin Islands. He gets snowed in however in New York and is taken in by a fellow stranded passenger who is on the way to visit her sister in Miami for a three week winter break. Will K.J. sleep in the hotel lobby chair alone that evening? Do vacation plans get changed suddenly? This erotic short story answers those questions and asks a few more.

Kingsley James, sailor, diver, author and amateur chef is on his way down to the Caribbean to skipper a yacht for two couples who have hired him for two weeks to show him the British Virgin Islands. He gets snowed in however in New York and is taken in by a fellow stranded passenger who is on the way to visit her sister in Miami for a three week winter break. Will K.J. sleep in the hotel lobby chair alone that evening? Do vacation plans get changed suddenly? This erotic short story answers those questions and asks a few more.

Jessie Carter's seduction of a fellow traveler during an airport layover turns to a sizzling erotic game where she desires to serve and love.

A lonely overnight layover between flights at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport faces Jessie Carter until she decides to have fun, making sexual advances on a fellow traveler. Alone in a motel room with Devon, she finds herself drawn in to an erotic power exchange. Her powers of seduction are no match for the quiet way he takes control while she discovers her submission leads to a desire

Jessie Carter's seduction of a fellow traveler during an airport layover turns to a sizzling erotic game where she desires to serve and love.

A lonely overnight layover between flights at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport faces Jessie Carter until she decides to have fun, making sexual advances on a fellow traveler. Alone in a motel room with Devon, she finds herself drawn in to an erotic power exchange. Her powers of seduction are no match for the quiet way he takes control while she discovers her submission leads to a desire

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Claire Newbold is not your typical heroine. Smart and sexy, yes, but she's also been known to sneak into a hotel room or two without paying, seduce a teenager in wet bathing trunks, and just check out of things altogether--like her job. And her marriage. No wonder, though. Claire's been careening off heartbreak. Her only child has died, she may be infertile, and her husband has had an affair.

No longer a mother, not sure she wants to be a wife, Claire moves from hotel to hotel, basking in the anonymity of travel and forbidden sex. She even comes to believe she is clairvoyant, able to "read" into the souls of others. Eventually she begins to see into her own soul as she ponders whether or not to return home. As she struggles to repair her marriage and her life, Claire surprises herself -- and us -- by emerging with a new sense of redemption.

Writing about grief has been the death of many a novelist--artistically speaking, that is. Even the most earnest attempts to describe this taxing and tenacious emotion can dip into bathos and rhetorical wire-pulling. In Layover, however, Lisa Zeidner gives grief its due, and does so with such wit and high style that the reader's (occasional) tears are mixed with a kind of elation. Exactly what is Claire Newbold mourning? Mostly the death of her young son, which has taken place some time before the novel opens. In response, she's withdrawn from her husband (a no-less-shattered surgeon) and her job (a sales rep for a medical-supplies company), allowing herself just the faintest purchase on her old existence: "Right now, I realize, I was just floating. Trying to float. Skimming over my life, letting life tickle my feet. I had no plans to glide off entirely." Gliding off entirely, however, is exactly what she does after learning of a single infidelity on her husband's part. In the middle of a business trip she cuts off all contact with home and lurches into a sex-and-self-discovery spree.

Sneaking in and out of hotel rooms without registering--which, let's face it, is the final eradication of identity for any business traveler--Claire first seduces an 18-year-old, then manages to get in bed with the boy's father. Zeidner records these trysts with superb, hypersensitive relish, finding fresh ways to write about that topic, too. "Sex is a story you know the ending of," she notes. "More or less the same story with the same ending, every time. Yet we want to keep hearing it, the way a child listens to a fairy tale, vigilant for variation." Still, Layover is anything but a bedroom farce. As Claire bounces between erotic encounters, she is unraveling before our eyes, and Zeidner's real subject turns out to be not body but soul:

I'd discovered grief's trade secret: once you burrow that deep into yourself, you simply have a better nose for pain. Truth is, hardly anyone is happy. Not even the people with nothing wrong. They're all hunkered down in the bunker of self, in self's fragile failure.

The first time she'd met him, he'd been blindfolded and at her mercy. Partnered in a trust exercise, Graham had been enticed by the allure of Julia's voice, and eagerly followed her direction to navigate a maze. But as a warm friendship developed between them, their mutual attraction remained unacknowledged. And in the long-distance e-mail relationship that followed, their reticence persisted. Until the day a cancelled flight stranded Julia in Graham's home town.

Both tried to play it cool, though each had approached their dinner date with intense anticipation. But the minute they stepped into Julia's hotel room, the flood gates opened and their unfettered passion exploded. What really excited Julia, though, was that as in the trust exercise, Graham was great at taking direction. Because what really excited Graham was pleasuring Julia as no one else ever had.

The first time she'd met him, he'd been blindfolded and at her mercy. Partnered in a trust exercise, Graham had been enticed by the allure of Julia's voice, and eagerly followed her direction to navigate a maze. But as a warm friendship developed between them, their mutual attraction remained unacknowledged. And in the long-distance e-mail relationship that followed, their reticence persisted. Until the day a cancelled flight stranded Julia in Graham's home town.

Both tried to play it cool, though each had approached their dinner date with intense anticipation. But the minute they stepped into Julia's hotel room, the flood gates opened and their unfettered passion exploded. What really excited Julia, though, was that as in the trust exercise, Graham was great at taking direction. Because what really excited Graham was pleasuring Julia as no one else ever had.

Award-winning author Dan Fesperman delivers a suspenseful and stunning thriller set in the mysterious and gleaming city of Dubai. 
 
Sam Keller, an auditor at a giant pharmaceutical firm, expected a six-hour layover in Dubai. Then his company's corporate security officer asked him to extend his stay two days to keep an eye on a hard-partying colleague. Sam agrees, but against his better judgment, he decides to live it up a little, which has disastrous results. First Hatcher is murdered. Then Sam is arrested. Was he set up? Unsure whether he can trust his employer, Sam forms an unlikely alliance detective with Anwar Sharaf, a former pearl diver and gold smuggler. As the duo works its way toward the heart of the case, plunging waist-deep into a lethal mix of mobsters, prostitutes, crooked cops, consuls, and corporate players, each must confront the darkest forces threatening Dubai from within.

Carla Clark is going to be spending time in the airport this Christmas season, but she's not going to be alone. Mr. Hodges works for the airport and he's going to make sure she gets everything she wants, and then some.

Carla Clark is going to be spending time in the airport this Christmas season, but she's not going to be alone. Mr. Hodges works for the airport and he's going to make sure she gets everything she wants, and then some.

THIS IS A STORY ABOUT A FLIGHT ATTENDANT THAT LEADS A DOUBLE LIFE. SHE’S BEAUTIFUL, SEXY AND DELIBERATE IN FINDING HER VICTIMS . . . MARRIED MEN THAT SECRETLY CHEAT ON THEIR WIFES. SHE IS SWEET, SMOOTH AND CALM AS SHE WATCHES HER VICTIMS TAKE THEIR LAST BREATH BEFORE LEAVING ON HER NEXT FLIGHT FOR ANOTHER FASCINATING LAYOVER DESTINATION! WILL SHE EVER FIND LOVE? PERHAPS IN 30 HOURS! AS A FLIGHT ATTENDANT, THE GLAMOUR WAS GONE, BUT THE INTENSE THIRST FOR HER NEXT VICTIM REMAINED STRONG! MELINDA WALKS THE STREETS AT NIGHT IN SEARCH OF HER NEXT VICTIM. PERHAPS SHE’LL FIND HIM IN A LOUNGE, A SEEDY BAR OR IN THE AIRPLANE SEAT NEXT TO YOU!