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1) Unlocked
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A perpetual wallflower destined for spinsterhood, Lady Elaine Warren is resigned to her position in society. So when Evan Carlton, the powerful, popular Earl of Westfeld, singles her out upon his return to England, she knows what it means. Her former tormenter is up to his old tricks, and she's his intended victim. This time, though, the earl is going to discover that wallflowers can fight back.Evan has come to regret his cruel, callow past. At first,...
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Railway financier Simon Davenant has waited seven years for a second chance with his childhood sweetheart and best friend. He's not about to let his impending financial ruin destroy the opportunity.This time, he'll do anything he can to secure her hand in marriage--even if it means losing her heart for good.The Lady Always Wins is a short story of 18,500 words (about 60 print pages). It was previously published in the anthology "Three Weddings and...
3) Unraveled
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The stunning conclusion to the New York Times bestselling Turner series...Smite Turner is renowned for his single-minded devotion to his duty as a magistrate. But behind his relentless focus lies not only a determination to do what is right, but the haunting secrets of his past--secrets that he is determined to hide, even if it means keeping everyone else at arm's length. Until the day an irresistible woman shows up as a witness in his courtroom...Miranda...
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When John Mason discovers that his fiancée's father has embezzled thousands of pounds from their mutual business, he's furious. When his betrothed, Miss Mary Chartley, flees, taking the money and all the evidence with her, he's outraged. He plans to bring the woman he once loved to account--and he'll shed no tears when he does.But when he finds Mary, she's not living a life of luxury. Instead, she's serving as a companion in exchange for a pittance....
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In the shadow of a damning legacy, these proud sons take medieval Scotland by storm ... and surrender to love's saving grace.
When Padraig Boyd learns he is the sole legitimate heir to a Northumberland manor, he flees the impoverished fishing isle of Caedmaray to claim the estate and clear his missing father of criminal accusations. Arriving at imposing, mysterious Darlyrede House, he faces a formidable enemy in the castle's occupying lord, a challenging...
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For fans of Christina Dodd and Elizabeth Boyle.
Sweet Sara Collins is one of the founding members of the Governess Club. But she has a secret: She doesn't love teaching. She'd much prefer to be a vicar's wife and help the local community. But this quiet mouse doesn't want to upset her friends, and she resolves to help in whatever ways she can.
Nathan Grant is the embodiment of everything that frightens Sara. Which is why she can't understand why...
7) Poppy's War
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Internationally bestselling author Dilly Court writing as Lily Baxter returns with another emotional, heart-pounding saga set in World War II England.
In 1939, thirteen-year-old Poppy is forced to evacuate her London home and flee to a grand country house on the coast of England. Alone and frightened, she arrives with only a set of clothes, a gas mask, and memories of the family she left behind, whom she may never see again. But the cruel inhabitants...
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For fans of Christina Dodd and Elizabeth Boyle.
Louisa Brockhurst is on the run-from her friends, from her family, even from her dream of independence through the Governess Club. But sometimes it's easier for her to hide from those she loves in order to escape the secrets of her past.
Handsome but menacing John Taylor is a prizefighter-turned-innkeeper who is trying to make his way in society. When Louisa shows up at his doorstep, he's quick to...
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Jackson Puller didn't seem like the kind of man to surround himself with children. But this tough-talking journalist loved kids...it was everyone else who drove him crazy-especially do-gooders like Cammy Glynn. So when he was assigned to cover Cammy and the Wishing Star children's foundation, he let out a groan...until he met her and discovered a beautiful woman whose passions matched his own.
The last thing Cammy needed was some hot-shot reporter...
10) The Sweetest Sin
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Years after being sold to the English by his enemies the MacDonells and imprisoned in London Tower, Duncan MacRae returns to Scotland to exact his revenge and to reclaim what is rightfully his-the famed protective amulet, the Ealach.
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For fans of Christina Dodd and Elizabeth Boyle.
Claire Bannister just wants to be a good teacher so that she and the other ladies of the Governess Club can make enough money to leave their jobs and start their own school in the country. But when the new sinfully handsome and utterly distracting tutor arrives, Claire finds herself caught up in a whirlwind romance that could change the course of her future.
Jacob Knightly has a secret. He is actually...
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Miss Bonnie Hodges, governess to the Darrow family, is desperately trying to hold it together. Tragedy has struck, and she is the sole person left to be strong for the two little boys in her care. When the new guardian arrives, she hopes that things will get better. She wasn't expecting her new employer to be the most frustrating, overbearing, and ... handsome man she's ever seen.
Sir Stephen Montgomery is utterly distracted. He should be trying...
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Feuding families, two lovers, one choice, wife or mistress. The disreputable Earl of Delmore, tossed out on his ear by his latest mistress, has decided to rusticate. During his first day of fishing, he catches the vicar's step-daughter, Miss Anna Winters on his hook . . . in more ways than one. Despite knowing his family despises hers because of her wretched father's complicity in a plot to kill the king, Anna can't resist the lure of the handsome...
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Ella le espía. Él está comprometido con otra. ¿Se alinearán alguna vez sus astros?La astrónoma Celeste Keswick se pasa las noches observando el firmamento, intentando descubrir ese planeta esquivo que ella sabe que está ahí arriba pero que aún no puede ver. Su hermano está convencido de que hay una manera de lograrlo: espiar al hombre que puede que lo encuentre primero. Pero lo que Celeste no sabe es lo que se va a despertar en su interior.Lord...
15) Colours of Siena
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Colours of Siena' is the compelling tale of Clara, forced from her home in Tuscany's art capital, Siena, and her determination to return there to paint.
When the most expensive painting in Christendom is paraded through the streets of Siena, Clara, young servant to the city's most powerful family, is inspired. Ambrogio, the youngest painter, spots her genius for colour, and ignites her passion to become an artist. But when her father is murdered,...
16) Redlegs
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Elspeth Baillie, a young Scottish actress, is chosen by enigmatic impresario Lord Coak for an acting career on the Island of Barbados. At first feted by the colonial gentry, her life in the Caribbean does not go according to plan. Elspeth is obliged to take on a temporary and ambiguous role in the closed world of Coak's remote sugar plantation. Dolan's plot is full of unexpected twists as Elspeth becomes ever more a prisoner of a venture whose founding...
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A Nazi war criminal's son and a Holocaust survivor's daughter decide to get married in the pleasant, middle-class conformity of sixties Argentina. When the two families come together, Becky's blind father recognizes the voice of the former SS officer, and sets off a chain of events that to varying degrees damage everyone at that meeting. Franz has to discover the real past of his distant father, who is kidnapped by Mossad agents and taken to Israel...
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The year is 1885, and what Clara Thomas desires most is a life beyond the ordinary. As one of Canada's first female physicians, she yearns to start her own medical practice. Unfortunately, her parents view her goals as an idle preoccupation, encouraging her instead to settle down with a man of their choosing and give up her dreams.
Fleeing this conventional life, Clara marries a handsome stranger in haste and journeys to British Columbia to start...
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Un siècle revécu en sept récits appartenant à un passé aujourd'hui perdu, dans lesquels se déroulent des histoires de femmes et d'hommes, dans leur diversité, avec quelques thèmes communs.La liberté et la volonté, la tradition et l'innovation, les certitudes et les doutes d'une terre ancestrale, sauvage et profonde comme l'est la Sardaigne, revivent aujourd'hui encore dans les pensées de ses anciens habitants, dans des lieux qui, après...
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It was a time of warring clans, bitter rivalries…and stolen kisses.
With soldiers marching into Glencoe intent on massacre, Lianna Fraser is forced to flee…but ends up falling from a rocky overpass into the arms of the very enemy she's trying to evade.
Cameron McKenzie has lost his ancestral lands and family because of Campbell, the war-mongering Earl of Breadalbane. Now, he's forced to march by Campbell's side to save his only surviving brother...
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