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"When it’s announced that 1958 will be the last year debutantes are to be presented at court, thousands of eager mothers and hopeful daughters flood the palace with letters seeking the year’s most coveted invitation – a chance for their daughters to curtsey...
"Chet and Bernie are contacted by a terribly scared young woman who seems to want their help. Before she can even tell them her name, she flees in panic. But in that brief meeting Chet sniffs out an important secret about her, a secret at the heart of...
"Sheffield's beautiful Botanical Gardens - an oasis of peace in a world filled with sorrow, confusion and pain. And then, one morning, a body is discovered in the Gardens. A girl, dead from a stab wound, buried in a quiet corner. And then ... unburied....
"Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a distribution warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up, and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known s...
"The latest novel in the enchanting Westcott series from New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh. As a young man, Justin Wiley was banished by his father for mysterious reasons, but now his father is dead, and Justin has been Earl of Brandon for...
"A thrilling tale of love, loyalty, and espionage, based on the incredible true story of Elizabeth Bentley, a Cold War double agent spying for the Russians and the United States ... 1963: Reeling from the death of her mother and President Kennedy's.....
"A charming Christmas entry in Patrick Taylor's beloved internationally bestselling Irish Country series, An Irish Country Yuletide. December 1965. 'Tis the season once again in the cozy Irish village of Ballybucklebo, which means that Doctor Fingal ...
"Secretary of State Frank Malone has been kidnapped from his Cairo hotel, his security detail wiped out. President Natalie Cohen needs to think outside the box, and that can only mean one thing: the revival of the Presidential Agent program. Charley ...
"L.A. is parched, dry as a bone, and all Oscar, the weather-obsessed patriarch of the Alvarado family, desperately wants is a little rain. He's harboring a costly secret that distracts him from everything else. His wife, Keila, desperate for a life with...
"Inti Flynn arrives in Scotland with her twin sister, Aggie, to lead a team tasked with reintroducing fourteen grey wolves into the remote Highlands. She hopes to heal not only the dying landscape, but a broken Aggie, too. However, Inti is not the woman...
"For generations, Rich Gundersen's family has made a living felling giant redwoods on California's rugged coast. It's treacherous work, and though his son, Chub, wants nothing more than to step into his father's boots, Rich longs for a bigger future for...
"The master of ticking-bomb suspense Jeffery Deaver brings us the latest thriller featuring his most beloved protagonists Lincoln Rhyme and Amelia Sachs as they search for a criminal whose fascination with breaking locks terrorizes New York City. A w...
"Diana O'Toole is perfectly on track. She will be married by thirty, done having kids by thirty-five, and move out to the New York City suburbs, all while climbing the professional ladder in the cutthroat art auction world. She's a junior appraiser a...
"When a professor's student disappears and is presumed dead, he passes off her manuscript as his own-only to find out it implicates him in an unsolved murder. After years of struggling to write after the deaths of his wife and son, English professor Connor...
"After fifty years of marriage, Stan and Joy Delaney are ready to start what should be the golden years of their lives. One night a stranger named Savannah knocks on Stan and Joy's door. She says she chose their house because it looked the friendliest....
"Is there life after the internet? A woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts travels around the world to meet her adoring fans. She is overwhelmed by navigating the new language and etiquette of what she terms "t...
"As always, Reacher has no particular place to go, and all the time in the world to get there. One morning he ends up in a town near Pleasantville, Tennessee. But there’s nothing pleasant about the place. In broad daylight Reacher spots a hapless soul...
Sienna Lewis dreams of giving her daughter Zara the life and big family she deserves. For now, though, she can only focus on her work at the hospital. But when she connects with a new patient who has driven away nearly everyone in his life, she is as...
Edwina is an old-school battler. Her life revolves around the church and her job unpacking vegetables early in the morning, while around her a new generation turns Ponsonby into a trendy, uber-chic suburb. It is a chance win in a church raffle - a gy...
One hundred and eighty petty convicts are on board the RAJAH, all sentenced to transportation to Australia. Kezia makes it her duty to redeem them, enlisting a select few to create an intricate quilt. With each stitch, they are tied closer together. Then...
Cait is a bookshop owner and book nerd. Her social life revolves around her mobile bookselling service, which hand-picks titles for elderly clients, particularly the grandmotherly June. After a tough decade, Book Fiend is the last bookshop in the cen...
Sonny Tabor is a man charged with a string of murders, feared for his accuracy with a gun, and relentlessly pursued by those seeking the reward being offered for his capture. But he is also a man wrongfully accused, shooting only in self-defence, and...
Fast on the grab and twice as accurate - that was Comanche John. He'd travelled a long, long way during his hell-roaring years of roaming and road-agenting: sleeping on the ground, dodging bullets and the hangman's rope. Some called him the worst sid...
When Ed Morgan got word that his brother Ben had been released from prison, he set out to see him immediately, hoping for reconciliation between them. Instead, he found Ben near death, with one final request. He made Ed swear to recover the fifty tho...
Ella Mae Campbell traveled west with her family in a wagon train in 1860. But she never made it to Denver City with them. During a terrifying attack, she was taken captive by marauding Indians. No one thought she would survive - or would even want to...
Oslo, 1938. War is in the air and Europe is in turmoil. Hitler's Germany has occupied Austria and is threatening Czechoslovakia; there's a civil war in Spain and Mussolini reigns in Italy. When a woman turns up at the office of police-turned-private....
What makes life perfect? Insurance mathematician Henri Koskinen knows the answer because he calculates everything down to the last decimal. And then, Henri is faced with the incalculable. After suddenly losing his job, Henri inherits an adventure park...
Orphan Tabitha, running away from her scheming grandmother, naively encounters problems which land her in gaol. Transportation follows, and the harsh conditions onboard the convict ship are lessened when she impresses the captain. Jacob contacts his friend...
Made redundant and left for a much younger woman by her husband Sam, lovable girl-next-door Melanie Morris is at rock bottom. However, a job offer from her cousin, leisure centre owner Shelley - and an introduction to gorgeous personal trainer Robert...
Amanda is nineteen years old, very beautiful, very wealthy, orphaned and half-Bengali. She moves from Calcutta to London to live with her uncle, but he is prejudiced against her Indian appearance and her Indian servants. And when she is abandoned at a...
California, 1960s. When Londoner Leigh Carter is asked to work for Hollywood star Matt Hunter, she jumps at the chance. Down to her last dime, and soon to go home, the job's a lifesaver. But she unintentionally humiliates Van Attwood, Matt's PA - he ...
Albert Entwistle was a postman. It was one of the few things everyone knew about him. And it was one of the few things he was comfortable with people knowing. Sixty-four-year-old Albert Entwistle has been a postie in a quiet town in Northern England for...
Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he'd like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend Eileen is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood....
It's an incendiary moment for St Oswald's school. For the first time in its history, a headmistress is in power, the gates opening to girls. Rebecca Buckfast has spilled blood to reach this position. Barely 40, she is just starting to reap the harvest...
George is very angry. His wife has died, and the last thing he needs is his neighbour Betty trying to rescue him. Then there's the dog, a dachshund puppy called Poppy. George doesn't want a dog - he wants a fight. Dan is a counsellor with OCD - great...
It is the winter of discontent, and reporter Allie Burns is chasing her first big scoop. There are few women in the newsroom and she needs something explosive for the boys' club to take her seriously. Soon Allie and fellow journalist Danny Sullivan a...
1943. After the heartache of the previous year, Connie Baxter now appears to have everything a girl could want. There is Ace, a man who loves her. She enjoys an enviable lifestyle despite the deprivations of war. She has friends and a job she adores as...
For the district nurses of Victory Walk, there's been little time to bask in the triumph of D-Day. London faces a new threat - the terrifying V-1 flying bombs which can strike anywhere out of the blue. New nurse Iris must adjust not only to living in...
Liverpool, 1939. Olivia Campbell appears to have the perfect life. However, behind closed doors, she lives in constant fear of her abusive father, and has no support from her mother. Longing for love and affection, she begins a relationship with Ted,...
London, 1918. Twenty-year-old Emily Burdon has been training as a nurse, learning on the job as she tends to patients from the crowded poorhouses that ring the hospital as well as wounded soldiers. She pours her heart into her nursing while she waits...
Growing up in extreme poverty in London, Pearl thinks life can get no worse. But when her parents discover there's yet another baby on the way, they have to tighten the belt even further. Pearl's mother decides to send her and her younger sister Eliza...
Ruby Caselton may only be twenty-five years old, but she already has the weight of the world on her shoulders. Heavily pregnant with her second child, penniless and exhausted, she is moving her family into a new home. The Caseltons left their last place...
A cup of sugar. A dash of spice. One new job... The perfect cure for holiday heartbreak? As the new cook at Three Rivers Ranch, Sophia Vandale is up to her elbows in cookie dough and Christmas sprinkles. And the beautiful new employee is enough to make...
When a holiday blizzard traps him with his ex things really heat up! It's been ten years since she broke his heart, but Leslie Cassidy's elegance still stuns rugged Alaskan executive Sloan Outlaw. Now, thanks to a ruthless enemy targeting Leslie's co...
For her, the man in the tux spells trouble in more ways than one! After clashing with Jackson Michaels, sheriff's deputy and law student Hayley Lopez doesn't know whether to arrest the gorgeous billionaire developer... or kiss him senseless. Sure, the...
A Texas deputy will do anything to save his son, even work with his ex... After narrowly escaping an attempt on his life, Deputy Leo Logan is stunned to learn that his ex Olivia Nash may have been set up to take the blame. She's fighting him for custody...
They'll bring a criminal to justice if an assassin doesn't kill her first. Security expert Hale Scribner doesn't get personal with clients. Ever. But Allie Burton isn't his standard low-risk charge. She has evidence that could put away a notoriously shady...
He must take a bride... but he already has a wife! Charming Prince Cassius wed young Inara Donati to save her from a dreadful forced betrothal. But their arrangement was only on paper. Five years later, after tragedy makes him King, Cassius needs heirs...
Saving him from solitude... no matter how hard he protests... Part of Young Victorian Ladies. Seeking shelter in a storm, Lady Iris Springfeld arrives at the doorstep of Theo Crighton, the grumpy Earl of Greystone. Discovering he has shut himself away...
An innocent maiden and a legendary warrior. Captured and held prisoner in an enemy castle, Margery of Lyon is being guarded by brooding mercenary Evrart, who's been commanded to watch her - day and night. Margery's determination to escape brings her...
Seven nights in paradise... isn't enough! In this Billion-Dollar Matches story, actress Luna has spent a year away from the spotlight. So her best friend has convinced her that it's time for some fun, and has organised - via the exclusive M dating agency!...
Will their business deal... give them more than they bargained for? In this Wedding Bells at Lake Como story, to appease her overbearing father, Carla has told him that she's engaged. She does not, however, have a fiancé...yet! That's where Franco comes...
New landlord... new love? Free-spirited Nora has never expected Melbourne to be her forever home. But when her landlady, Clancy, passes away, she agrees to stay until Bennett-Clancy's grandson can return to Australia. Nora soon realises over long-dis...
A forgotten past... Could pave the way to forever! When millionaire Mansur Ali is urgently called home to Somaliland, he's shocked to find the woman who broke his heart needs help. After an accident, Amal has lost many memories... including of Manny's...
Revenge is best served cold... but their passion is red-hot! Innocent Josselyn Christie agrees to conveniently wed the infamously powerful Cenzo Falcone to please her beloved father. But she soon realises her new husband has only one thing on his mind:...
King in name only until he claims his Queen... She's finally free from her captors, and new Queen Annick's coronation is looming. She knows there are still those looking to destroy her, so she needs help - fast. Turning to dark-hearted Maximus King is...
From reluctant debutante to scandalous bride! After a disastrous first Season, Lady Daisy Patterdale is relieved to be back home with her books. Looking for peace, she rows out to the island on the lake, where she encounters Captain Benjamin Flinders,...
An irresistible connection but an improper match? Part of Secrets of the Duke's Family. Determined to marry on her own terms, Lady Olivia Bethune has arranged a convenient elopement, but her plot is scuppered when Michael Solomon is hired to watch over...
Risking her reputation... To reclaim her life! Lady Beatrice finally has a plan to escape her controlling brother by compromising herself with a gentleman friend so they are forced to wed. But things go awry when she accidentally throws herself at the...
He thought he had to leave... now he has two reasons to stay! Eight years ago paramedic Harry walked away from Annabel, knowing that it would break their hearts, but that staying would only hurt more. Now Harry has returned, to discover that Annabel wasn't...
From substitute bride to carrying the royal heir! For her family's sake, penniless Tatiana Hamilton must marry Prince Saif after his original bride, her cousin, disappears. At least the ice-cold Sheikh promises to end their sham marriage quickly... Until,...
An uninvited guest, an undeniable desire! Billionaire explorer Arlo Milburn returns home to his secluded mansion to find an unexpected beauty sleeping in his bed! Learning that Frankie Fox is a social media influencer does nothing to inspire his trust....
You are playing with fire. A chance she's willing to take... Takis Samaras: enigmatic hotel tycoon, best man at her sister's wedding... and the sexiest man Lissa Buchanan has ever encountered. Their blazing chemistry is more than enough to tempt Lissa...
Alone in paradise... things are getting heated! A war of words with marine biologist Cora Georgiou on a deserted Greek island leaves Strato Doukas stunned - and fascinated! The cynical billionaire surprises even himself by proposing they explore thei...
She left him, but that doesn't mean she's forgotten him. When the paparazzi mistake Nina Menendez for a supermodel, she takes refuge in her ex's New York penthouse. Big mistake. Guarded Reve Weston is incapable of emotional intimacy - and intensely.....
His shocking revelation... for the single mum! In this The Island Clinic story, for nurse Willow Thompson taking on parenthood alone certainly wasn't easy... But her daughter Maisie is her world, and life on Saint Victoria is near-perfect. Only every...
Following your heart... is worth the risk! When GP Andrew Mitchell signed up for an emergency responder training course, he never expected to leave with a certificate and memories of a night with instructor Jenna Armstrong! Returning to reality, Andrew...
Will she find a new home... in the surgeon's arms? For Dr Freya Grey, spending six months working with Amsterdam's leading children's cardiac surgeon, Lucas Van de Berg, proves a delicious distraction from painful memories. But, knowing that she can't...
Going for gold is nothing... compared to winning his heart. For injured doctor and championship rower Laurie Sullivan, pushing herself to the limit is all she's ever known. But enigmatic Dr Ross Summerby knows she's not taking her injury seriously. His...
Things are heating up... in their Caribbean paradise! In this The Island Clinic story, for Dr Nate, work is everything. Without him his renowned hospital wouldn't exist! And now he's ready to step up to the plate - again! - as nearby Saint Victoria H...
"When Lucy Hannigan returned to her childhood home in Somerset Lake, one of the first things she did was join the local book club. And thank goodness, because now that Lucy's first Christmas without her mother is bearing down upon her, she can use all...
"August, 1911: The Mona Lisa is stolen by Vincent Peruggia. Exactly what happens in the two years before its recovery is a mystery. Many replicas of the Mona Lisa exist, and more than one historian has wondered if the painting now in the Louvre is a ...
"Lydia Susi is passionate about protecting wolves in their natural habitat. When a hotel chain develops a tract of land next to the preserve, Lydia is one of the most vocal opponents of the project--and becomes a target. One night, a shadowy figure t...
"Television producer Laurie Moran must solve the kidnapping of her fiancée’s nephew--just days before her wedding. Television producer Laurie Moran and her fiancée, Alex Buckley, the former host of her investigative television show, are just days away...
"A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back again, and the enduring effort to retrieve the secrets of the past. It's London, 1960, and Aoife Kelly-once the sparkling object of young men's affections-runs pubs...
After escaping her parents' unhappy marriage to sleepy Cranbridge a long time ago, Belle Clarke dreams of staying at The Black Swan Inn forever. But with the rundown Inn threatened with closure, Belle may be forced to leave, unless a buyer can be fou...
When her dreams of young love were cruelly shattered, Nerissa Morgan found it hard to move on. Now, at forty-three, everyone around her is enjoying life while she's just going through the motions. With her boss retiring and rumours of a new doctor coming...
Imogen Tolliman and Gray Adams can't wait to get married after getting engaged the previous year, when they were stranded by snow in a blizzard. Now they are busy planning their wedding, but when the date slips six months because Gray is working on a...
Ali and Christopher Tolfrey's one year old daughter Eden is abducted whilst in the care of Ali's best friend. Snatched in broad daylight from Bushy Park on a trip to the swings, Eden disappears without a trace. Brooke Simmons, regains consciousness, dazed...
After tragically losing her husband, Nicola Jacques and her teenage son Oliver relocate to his father's family's Olive Farm in the hills above the French Riviera.Due a family feud, Oliver has never known his fathers' side of the family and Grandpapa Henri...
Glasgow PI Charlie Cameron knew Kim Rafferty was bad news the moment they met. Desperate people always spelled trouble in his experience, and Mrs Rafferty was as desperate as they come. What she was asking for was insane. If he agreed to help the wife...
Bristol 1941As the clouds of war grow bleaker both at home and abroad, the Tobacco Girls are determined to do their bit for King and Country. To that end Maisie Miles and Bridget Milligan become voluntary ambulance drivers.As well as coping with the ...
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"Joachim von Hartmann was born and raised in Buenos Aires, inseparable from his identical twin. But when Joachim moves to Paris, his brother stays behind and enters a dark world. Meanwhile, Joachim begins training to be a butler, fascinated by the jo...
"Lieutenant-Colonel Sharpe is a man with a reputation. Born in the gutter, raised a foundling, he joined the army twenty-one years ago, and it's been his home ever since. He's a loose cannon, but his unconventional methods make him a valuable weapon....
"Audrey Parker's life changes forever when Pearl Harbor is attacked on December 7, 1941. Her brother, a talented young Navy pilot, had been stationed there, poised to fulfill their late father's distinguished legacy. Fresh out of nursing school with a...
"It is the summer of 1100, and after seven long years away in Spain, Lassair is finally going home. Back to her beloved mentor Gurdyman. Back to her family. And back to young lawman Jack Chevestrier, who Lassair hopes still carries the same deep feelings...
"February, 1933. When their eldest brother Paul walks into their hallway, fourteen years after he was presumed dead, successful property developers Thea and Teddy Millar are beset with questions. Where has he been? Why has he never written to let them...
"Maggy Thorsen and her business partner Sarah Kingston have taken on a new barista at their Wisconsin coffee house, Uncommon Grounds, to fill Amy Caprese's boots while she takes a much-needed vacation. Unfortunately Christy Wrigley's barista skills are...
"It is a perfect August morning, and Elle, a fifty-year-old happily married mother of three, awakens at 'The Paper Palace' - the family summer place which she has visited every summer of her life. But this morning is different, because last night Elle...
"The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you’re...
"Georgeanna 'Georgey' Woolsey isn’t meant for the world of lavish parties and the demure attitudes of women of her stature. So when war ignites the nation, Georgey follows her passion for nursing during a time when doctors considered women on the battlefront...
"Deputy Stuart Kofer is a protected man. Though he's turned his drunken rages on his girlfriend, Josie, and her children many times before, the police code of silence has always shielded him. But one night he goes too far, leaving Josie for dead on the...
"Lucy Barton is a writer, but her ex-husband, William, remains a hard man to read. 'William,' she confesses, 'has always been a mystery to me.' Another mystery is why the two have remained connected after all these years. They just are. So Lucy is b...
"An interpreter has come to The Hague to escape New York and work at the International Court. A woman of many languages and identities, she is looking for a place to finally call home. She's drawn into simmering personal dramas: her lover, Adriaan, i...
"In Amsterdam, four bodies, violently butchered, are discovered in a canal house, the remains of friends and confidantes of the assassin known only as Louis. The men responsible for the murders are Serbian war criminals. They believe they can escape....
"Los Angeles interior designer and former foster kid Kendall Green is in high demand, both for her impeccable eye and for her uncanny ability to uncover the provenance of any piece. But for all her success, skyrocketing costs have put her California home...
"When Deputy Cooper Robinson happens upon a car balanced on the edge of a cliff, he does everything he can think of to distract the distraught driver from her perilous situation--up to and including sharing things he's never disclosed to anyone. Likewise,...
"When chef Charlie Goodwin gets hit on the head on the set of her reality baking show, she loses a lot more than consciousness - she also loses her ability to taste and smell, both critical to her success as show judge. Meanwhile, Charlie's identical...
"Hollywood starlet Tia Beckett's career had been on the fast track before a near-fatal accident left her with a debilitating facial scar. Certain her A-lister dreams are over, she agrees to house-sit at her producer's secluded estate in Silver Springs....
"Rachel Rubenstein-Goldblatt is a nice Jewish girl with a shameful secret: she loves Christmas. For a decade she's hidden her career as a Christmas romance novelist from her family. Her talent has made her a bestseller even as her chronic illness has...
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