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One night in December, twenty-two year old Ted Green makes his way to Waterloo Bridge determined to end his life. Lonely, despairing and utterly hopeless, it seems the only choice to make. That same night in December, Marianne Cooper is running away from...
Do you believe in Christmas miracles? Holly is looking for a change. There has to be more to life than the long hours she works as an editor in New York City, despite what everyone says. What she doesn't expect when she leaves the city behind is to meet...
Edinburgh 1880. When Amy Osbourne's parents are lost at sea, she is forced to leave her London home and is sent to live with her aunt and uncle at the opposite end of the country. Alardyce House is depressing and dreary, her aunt haughty and cruel. Amy...
It's 1953. Coronation Year. While Bristol is still recovering from the aftermath of the war, three very different women are counting the cost. Polly longs for an easier, more glamorous life, but with her irrepressible young daughter and her charming -...
Trapped in a marriage to the wrong man... Struggling to make ends meet, Mary Anne Randall is offered no help by her drunk and abusive husband. A pawnbroking business run from the wash house at the back of her home is the only way she can hope to keep...
Samantha has a secret. Returning home from her dream honeymoon to the normality of running her beloved Hedgehog Hollow rescue centre, she's ready for the next chapter of her life with Josh. Or is she? Samantha is hiding something which could forever change...
When Lily's husband dies, she moves to the edge of a tiny village, settling into a solitary life, her only real company her brother and his family. A quiet life becomes her safe space, with no risk of getting hurt. When her brother offers her spare room...
Maggie is a mother to a stroppy teenager, a wife to a befuddled husband, and a daughter to two very different women. She has always known she's adopted, but has she ever understood what that means? Not really. Following the death of her mother, Maggie...
When stable girl, Farah Ash, is sacked from her job, her only concern is the beloved horses she cares for. Farah suspects foul play and is determined to expose the secrets and lies she's uncovered - no matter what. Self-made millionaire, Isaac Fernan...
One unexplained disappearance is strange, but two are sinister. In Lower Hembrow, an idyllic village nestled beneath Ham Hill in Somerset, the villagers are preparing to enjoy the autumn traditions of the rural English countryside until Joe Trevillion,...
"July, 1556. En route to France and escape from Queen Mary's men, Jack Blackjack decides to spend the night at a Devon tavern, agrees to a game of dice - and ends up accused of murder. To make matters worse, the dead man turns out to have been the leader...
"November, 1471. With Edward of York on the English throne and her son, Henry Tudor, in exile in Brittany, the newly-widowed Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, is alone, without protectors. All she can do is wait and watch, planning for a time when...
"The residents of the small town of Artemis are suspicious when a community called The Drummers moves into a local abandoned church. Their leader, Gideon, claims their aim is simple: to live peacefully off the grid without government interference. But...
"Danny Logan was a young man with only one thing on his mind--revenge! Ten years earlier he and his father had ridden into a wild, untamed Laramie, and inside of a week his father was dead, murdered by the outlaw Moyer gang. Danny had lived to see a ...
"Texas Ranger Lieutenant Luke Caldwell is leading a detachment of Rangers when they are ambushed by an outlaw gang. After a hard-fought battle, the Rangers defeat the gang, but at the price of several dead and wounded. Among the most severely hurt is...
"Spring is livening up Briar Creek after a long, cold winter, and newlyweds Lindsey and Sully could not be happier. Even though the upcoming mayoral election is getting heated, everything else in town is coming up daffodils . . . until a body is found....
"Grand Duchess Olga Romanov comes of age amid a shifting tide for the great dynasties of Europe. But even as unrest simmers in the capital, Olga is content to live within the confines of the sheltered life her parents have built for her and her three...
"1940s Germany: Karl Auerbach escapes Buchenwald concentration camp. Ashamed of the truth of how he fled, Karl vows never to speak of the memories of his imprisonment. Present Day Rhode Island: When Karl's grandson, Zachariah, is faced with prejudice...
"The murder of a shipping clerk . . . the strange disappearance of trusted friends . . . rumors of corruption within the powerful East India Company . . . all add up to a thrillingly dark mystery . . . When Lady Cordelia, a brilliant mathematician, and...
"Carse Boling and Martin "Stag" Staggart were partners in the Coffin cattle spread, the most successful in the area. Carse ruled the land with his fists and his streaking gun hand. Stag was the businessman, when he was sober enough, and the husband of...
"When four strangers rent bargain-basement rooms in an old hotel near the beach, they embark on the summer of their lives. First there's Ariel Spencer, who has big dreams of becoming a writer and is looking for inspiration in Nantucket's high society....
"After an early spring thaw on the Alaskan coast, Anchorage police discover a gruesome new piece of evidence in their search for a serial killer: a dismembered human foot. In Kincaid Park, a man is arrested for attacking a female jogger. Investigators...
"As the older sibling to identical twins Violet and Lily, Cami Porter was always the odd sister out. The divide grew even wider when their parents split up--while the twins stayed in Cape Sanctuary with their free-spirited mother, Rosemary, fourteen-...
"An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the private jokes, ancient grudges, broken hearts, and deep, abiding love that feeds them all. Here are the three things the Sullivan family knows to be true:...
"Lady Emily Turner has been a debutante for six seasons now and should have long settled into a suitable marriage. However, due to her father's large debts, her only suitor is the persistent and odious owner of her father's favorite gambling house. M...
"Contractor Wes Mathews is hiking the Appalachian Trail in honor of his recently deceased best friend when he falls terribly ill. He stumbles into Riverbend Gap, the nearest town, and finds himself indebted to the doctor who owns the clinic. In lieu ...
"When a photojournalist who feels responsible for the death of five American soldiers in Afghanistan travels to Nantucket to seek absolution from Emma Sutton, the widow of one of the men, he inadvertently strikes up a friendship with her that slowly ...
"Former Navy SEAL Jedidiah Johnson returns to Nashville ready to begin his training with the elite warriors known as the Shepherds. He thinks he knows what to expect when he arrives on the sprawling, state-of-the-art facility but quickly realizes he'll...
"A terrible storm builds in the morning sky over Bloomington, Indiana, as Elizabeth Baxter prepares to celebrate her daughter Kari's wedding to Tim Jacobs. Elizabeth can't shake a growing sense that something bad is about to happen. In the midst of the...
"When Peter Ash rescues a stranded woman, he finds she's in far deeper trouble than he could ever imagine in the powerful new thriller in this bestselling and award-winning series. "Explosive and engaging! Fasten your seat belt, this is going to be a...
"Rancher and military veteran J.P. McCall loves simple pleasures. But ever since his two closest friends have married and started families of their own, J.P. realizes what he's been missing. And then Sara Worth comes crashing back into his life. Single...
"The bonds between three picture-perfect, viciously protective mothers are tested when their sons uncover a horrible crime. In Austin's Zilker Park, vigilance and money are enough to keep one insulated from the world's problems and inconveniences. Here,...
"Melanie Joan Hall is back in Boston, riding high, refusing to have Sunny and Rosie move out. She has a Netflix series about to start shooting in Boston, based on her wildly popular new series of books for girls. Then it turns out that most of her fortune...
"In her first novel since The Quick and the Dead, the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after the environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic. Once nature as...
"It's 1959 and a new killer haunts the streets of London, having baffled Scotland Yard. The newspapers call him The Florist because of the rose he brands on his victims. The police have turned yet again to the Inquirers at Miss Brickett's for assistance,...
"Inspired by true events that rocked the nation, a profoundly moving novel about a Black nurse in post-segregation Alabama who blows the whistle on a terrible wrong done to her patients, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wench. Montgomery,...
"1965 Growing up in the well-to-do town of Round Hill, North Carolina, Ellie Hockley was raised to be a certain type of proper Southern lady. Enrolled in college and all but engaged to a bank manager, Ellie isn't as committed to her expected future as...
From the #1 bestselling author in Japan comes a celebration of books, cats, and the people who love them, infused with the heartwarming spirit of The Guest Cat and The Travelling Cat Chronicles. Bookish high school student Rintaro Natsuki is about to...
"The dramatic story of how a humble bookseller fought against incredible odds to bring one of the most important books of the 20th century to the world in this new novel from the author of The Girl in White Gloves. When bookish young American Sylvia ...
"The only people Nora Stephens is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her sister Libby. Which is why she agrees to go to North Carolina when Libby begs her for a sisters' trip away--with...
An officer and his K-9 Stand between a mother and her worst nightmare... When two kids are kidnapped from plain sight, Officer Brady Nichols and his intrepid canine, Winnie, spring into action. Single mother Cassie Whitaker thought she'd left big-city...
Her cardinal rule for learning the ropes of romance? Don't fall for the teacher! Shy Lone Star heiress Caitlyn Lattimore is eager to ditch her wallflower status. So when her best friend playfully suggests she practice dating, Caitlyn goes one further....
Will a surprise inheritance lead to not one but two found families for this secret son? Rejected by his birth family, author and finance whiz Sutton Marchant made his own way in the world. Now he's back to fulfill the terms of his birth father's will,...
A strategic marriage... with his runaway bride! Part of Highland Alliances: Coira Barron is the last woman Fergus MacMillan would choose to marry - he's never forgiven her for running away with another man on the eve of their wedding six years ago. Now...
A penniless governess And the dour Laird of Ardmore In this Lairds of the Isles story Lydia Farnham must travel to a remote Scottish island to work for widower Alasdair MacDonald, who doesn't trust her or her unconventional teaching methods! Yet as h...
A convenient marriage Could save them both... Battle-weary Viking Lord Hafual plans to tend his lands, raise his son and recover from the traumatic death of his wife. So nobody is more surprised than him when his neighbour, Lady Elene, publicly announces...
A brooding marquess. And a mysterious widow. On the outside, Henry Spencer, Marquess of Clairborne, has it all: title, fortune and dashing good looks. But inside he's haunted by nightmares. Seeking sanctuary at his Scottish estate, he finds his peace...
If this marriage happens. It'll be over someone's dead body Tommy Colt is stunned when his childhood best friend - and love - Bella Worthington abruptly announces she's engaged to their old-time nemesis! Knowing her better than anyone, Tommy's convinced...
The only man to tempt her? A prince! Jenna Beals has put love to one side and worked hard to achieve her dream career as a fashion journalist. So when she's catapulted into an incendiary fling with gorgeous Prince Dimitri she knows it has an expiration...
A forbidden night... A baby bombshell! Atu Quayson is the rebel in a family that exudes power and influence. Unexpectedly pulled back into the Quayson empire, Atu must persuade Amelie Hayford, daughter of his father's fiercest rival, to sell her family's...
She's saved from ruin... And plunged into temptation? Talitha St Croix Hamilton's disappearance from his life has haunted billionaire Dante King. But now he has a chance to put their relationship on a fresh footing - by hiring her to curate his new a...
From personal assistant... to stand-in bride! To inherit his birthright, Greek CEO Xander Mytikas needs to marry before his half-brothers. With his first bride stolen at the altar, he needs a replacement - fast! And only the woman he holds responsible...
Scandalous front-page news... Or a real-life fairy tale? Aspiring fashion designer Anna Vega has spent years healing from her former best friend Antonio Cabrera's rejection. She's mortified to literally fall into the billionaire's arms and spark head...
The Earl she loved to hate... until she stayed in his mansion! A Very Village Scandal story: Sophie Gilbert has thwarted the standoffish new Earl's plans to sell his country estate and the quaint village which forms part of it. But when disaster strikes...
When taking a risk... is worth the wait! Life hasn't been too kind to billionaire Sebastian Delfont, or to the intriguing woman he's hired to organise his mansion in London's prestigious Chelsea. Kitty Clements might be cautious, and closed to love, yet...
The consequence... of their Maltese nights! Hotel tycoon Nathan Haynes isn't just Saira Dey's first love... he's her best friend's brother! So a reunion at his sister's engagement party is unavoidable. If only it didn't lead to another reunion! Saira...
"We need to get married." Stefan Mendoza has found Justine Maloney in Texas more than a year after their whirlwind Miami romance. Now that he's learned he's a father, he wants to "do the right thing." But for Justine, a child of divorce, marriage without...
The Greek's rule: She needs to make the first move... The secret to Galen Pallas's success is his laser-sharp focus. And young widow Roula Drakos is disruption personified! Most disruptive of all is their smouldering attraction - which he can't act on...
The deal: a date with the tycoon. The consequence: her nine-month secret! One flash of Curtis Hamilton's mesmerising smile and Jess Carr's traitorous body overrules her sensible head. What is she thinking, agreeing to accompany the notorious playboy to...
The virgin's request... is even more outrageous than the billionaire! As she steps into Castor Xenakis's mansion, it's clear Glory Albright is completely out of her depth. Yet, if she's to fund her sister's urgent medical treatment, she can't fail. Glory...
Then: an almost happy-ever-after Now: a second chance? In this Nashville ER story, surgeon Lia Costa has spent a lifetime trying to blend into the background. So when Dr Micah Corday picks her out of a busy concert crowd on Valentine's Day she can't ...
Rule number one: Forget their fling. If only it was that easy! Pioneering transplant surgeon Lily Evans is always cool under pressure. So why does the idea of working with ex-fling Max James have her so hot under the collar? Max is just passing throu...
It started with one night... and led to a nine-month secret! Dr Emily Archer would rather be anywhere than Los Angeles! Arriving to offer her sports medicine expertise to an international dance team, she's immediately confronted by memories of her tu...
An escape to the country. A kiss to reawaken them both... Honeysuckle Rose finds much-needed solace in her great-aunt's garden. But her peace is threatened by distracting and brooding neighbour Lucien Grey. Once a high-flying news reporter, Lucien has...
One week to save her palazzo... and heal her heart Penniless Contessa Serafina Ardizzone needs to rebuild her family's crumbling palazzo in Venice, and she has just one week to persuade handsome CEO Gianni Leto to help! Neither is looking for anything...
Coming together for a writing workshop with bestselling author Jan Goldstein, four strangers converge upon a luxury forest retreat. But along with their notepads and laptops, each of the participants has brought some emotional baggage. Beth is a solo...
Greta Jellings blushes and bumbles her way through her carefully ordered existence, forever constrained by what her mother would have said and done. NO EXPECTATION, NO DISAPPOINTMENT was one of her mother's mantras, and it has served Greta well too. But...
Is this a marriage... that's meant to be? The last person Iris expects as the new temporary consultant in her Dublin A&E department is her ex-husband Lachlan! It's been eight years since their whirlwind marriage ended, after the heartbreaking discovery...
Love was off-limits. Then she met the best man! Former midwife Isabel is always the bridesmaid, never the bride, and she hasn't counted on best man Domenico bursting into her life! Years ago Isabel firmly shut the door to love. Now doctor Dom is starting...
From a midnight kiss... to a reunion in ER! In this Nashville ER story, when Dr Carter Booth shares a New Year's kiss with a captivating stranger he doesn't expect a reunion. Until he walks into Saint Dolores' ER the very next day and discovers she's...
Maureen Bancroft has never learned the art of putting herself first. As a widow with a gentle temperament and humble ways, she's been easy to take advantage of. All that changes when an unexpected windfall comes her way. Determined to make up for lost...
Cornwall, 1914. Edith Fairchild's good-for-nothing husband, Benedict, deserted her when their children were babies. Now the children are almost adult, Edith and Pascal, her faithful lover of two decades, are planning to leave their beloved Spindrift ...
Just as war is threatening in 1939, Dr Lena Turner's grandmother asks her to find Polly, her friend from fifty years ago. Lena finds herself in Cariastan, where she meets handsome Gregori, grandson of the Countess for whom Polly had been a lady's maid....
Nicola hasn't always chosen the right path. But now, having left her job and her last boyfriend, she's trying to get back on track. Scraping the gorgeous Joel Walker's car in a country lane isn't a great start, though! As she gets drawn into his life,...
On a stifling afternoon at Police HQ in Algiers, Superintendent Taleb, coasting towards retirement, is handed a ticking time bomb of a case which will take him deep into Algeria's troubled past and its fraught relationship with France. To his dismay,...
The nephew of President Hayes has been murdered in Crows Creek, so he orders the governor to hire a marshal - someone with a proven track record for solving crimes. Unfortunately, what he gets is Daniel Wheetman, an Englishman with no experience of the...
The days of slaughtering buffalo are meant to be over, with so pitifully few of them remaining. But with top dollar on offer for their severed heads as trophies, some hunters just can't resist. In Yellowstone Park, Captain Moses Harris and his company...
Outlaw chief Keane O'Leary decides it's time to retire from a life of banditry, unaware that he is about to unleash a violent sequence of events. His three daughters are the heirs to his empire of crime - and hell hath no fury like a woman who covets...
When the rakishly handsome Jem Hale impudently accosts the demure schoolteacher Marianne in the street, little do either of them know what dramatic repercussions their meeting - and a drunken bet among Jem and his acquaintances - will have on their lives....
Beth has never stuck at anything. She's quit more jobs and relationships than she can remember. Its not that she hasn't TRIED to grow up; it's just that the only commitment she's held down so far is Friday drinks at the village pub. Then, in the space...
Friendships forged in the heat of combat can be stronger than anything. So when SAS trooper Matt Standing is told that the former Navy SEAL who saved his life is in trouble, he doesn't hesitate to go to his aid - even if that means flying half way around...
Mina McCreery's sister Evelyn disappeared nineteen years ago. Her life since has been defined by the intense public interest in the case. Now an anxious and reclusive adult, she lives alone on her family's destocked sheep farm. When Lane, a private.....
Twenty years ago, Cyrus Haven's family was murdered. Only he and his brother survived. Cyrus: because he hid. Elias: because he was the killer. Now Elias is being released from a secure psychiatric hospital, and Cyrus, a forensic psychologist, must decide...
Nobody knows the lanes and fields around Much Marlowes like forager Laura Ashcombe does. As autumn settles in, her kitchen is filled with tempting truffles and the heady perfume of quinces. Laura can go for days without seeing a soul - and that's just...
Dalton, Kansas is a town split in two: north of the railroad line, life is decent and ordered; on the south side, cowboys raise hell and the riff-raff of the world frequent the streets. Into this place comes Wes Galway, a former Union soldier. Wes wants...
1908. Hester always loved her mother best, her father had always been a hard man to like, spending more time (and money) in the local than with his family. After her mothers sudden death, followed by an injury forcing her father to give up his job as...
Aimee Kendrick is no stranger to heartache. Having lost her father during the Great War and her mother, a famous French Impressionist painter, in a tragic accident, Aimee is brought up by her troubled grandparents on the banks of the River Mersey. She...
1944. With deadly doodlebugs terrorising London, Bessie Rushbrook agrees to give shelter to eight-year-old evacuee, Marigold, in her Norfolk home. However, the little girl is no stranger, and Bessie must honour the promise she gave to Marigold's mother,...
When a woman is found dead in her car in a Norwegian parking garage, everyone suspects an overdose... until a forensics report indicates that she was murdered. Oslo Detectives Frolich and Gunnarstranda discover that the victim's Kenyan scientist boyfriend...
1885. Ruby Carter works hard in her parents' bakery. Whilst life isn't easy, she's happy enough - her gentle mother protects young Ruby from her cruel father, and loves her unconditionally. So when her mother falls seriously ill, Ruby is heartbroken....
Lancashire, 1930s. When her mother dies, leaving her an old sewing box and a clue to her father's identity, 22-year-old Maisie Bassett is determined to make a fresh start. Changing her name and moving to the small town of Rivenshaw, she finds a respectable...
1950. The Second World War is over and life has moved on for the Woolworths girls, Sarah, Maisie and Freda. In a new world, these women have high expectations of their daughters, wanting them to seize opportunities they didn't have themselves. Ready to...
"Fresh off a bad breakup with a longtime boyfriend, Nantucket sweetheart Lizbet Keaton is desperately seeking a second act. When she's named the new general manager of the Hotel Nantucket, a once Gilded Age gem turned abandoned eyesore, she hopes that...
"Archaeologist Riley Smith has been obsessed with Helen of Troy since she was a small girl, trailing her professor father all over the world in search of the tomb of the world's most beautiful woman. Professor Smith set out to prove that, instead of a...
"CIA officer Sam Hudson races to find a deep cover operative loose in the U.S. and a mole in the Agency before they can launch a devastating attack on Washington, D.C., in this adrenaline-fueled thriller from the author of The Night Agent and Hour of...
"Tanzania, 1964. When Katie Barstow, A-list actress, and her new husband, David Hill, decide to bring their Hollywood friends to the Serengeti for their honeymoon, they envision giraffes gently eating leaves from the tall acacia trees, great swarms o...
"After renowned fashion designer Cressida Westcott loses both her home and her design house in the London Blitz, she has nowhere to go but the family manor house she fled decades ago. Praying that her niece and nephew will be more hospitable than her...
"'Homecoming' takes us back to Ford County, the fictional setting of many of John Grisham's unforgettable stories. Jake Brigance is back, but he's not in the courtroom. He's called upon to help an old friend, Mack Stafford, a former lawyer in Clanton,...
"Eleanor Bennett won't let her own death get in the way of the truth. So when her estranged children - Byron and Benny - reunite for her funeral in California, they discover a puzzling inheritance. First, a voice recording in which everything Byron and...
"Troy has fallen and the victorious Greeks are eager to return home with the spoils of an endless war - including the women of Troy themselves. They await a fair wind for the Aegean; it does not come, because the gods are offended. The body of King Priam...
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