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FEUDING FAMILIES
The Medwins and the La Vallons were longtime enemies. After Silas La Vallon's sister was taken by the Medwins, the wealthy merchant had no choice but to retaliate and abduct Medwin's daughter Isolde. Held captive in his house, then taken abroad to Belgium, the beautiful hellion softened to Silas's sweet words and gentle kisses during the long days and longer nights. But Isolde could not forget he was a La Vallon and she was a Medwin....
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From the author of THE MIDWIFE'S TALE comes "The Maidservant and the Murderer," the startling story behind midwife Bridget Hodgson's arch nemesis, the murderous and malignant Rebecca Hooke
On an autumn day in 1620, young Rebecca Hey rode into York in the back of a farmer's wagon and started on the path that would eventually make her one of the most powerful women in the city. Rebecca was an ordinary country girl when she became John and Grace Hooke's...
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Keep your friends close… But your enemies closer? In order to find a legendary treasure map, mercenary Louve of Mei Solis must infiltrate his enemy's fortress under the guise of a servant. There, Louve meets beautiful maiden Biedeluue, a fellow servant with her own hidden agenda…to save her sister from the malevolent lord's clutches! Their high-stakes missions may be at odds with one another, but their attraction cannot be denied even in this...
24) The Maiden Thief
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"The Maiden Thief" by Melissa Marr is a dark fantasy novelette about a teenager whose town is plagued by the annual disappearances of girls and young women. Her father blames her when one of her sisters is one of the taken.
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THE PIRATE. One of the fiercest pirates on the Main, the legendary Captain Thorne can raid a ship and wield a cutlass with the best. Woe betide any man who desires to get past the tempered steel to the woman holding it. Lynnette Blackthorne- a.k.a. Captain Thorne- sails the high seas with only one goal: vengeance against the man who murdered her sister. Nothing will stand in her way- especially not a silver-eyed rogue with the power to make her tremble...
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In post-World War II England, a clever, young woman named Mary Adams finds herself thrust into a world of privilege and secrets as she transitions from being a wartime factory worker to a maid in the grand estates. When a distant relative hires Mary, she finally feels at home-until an unexpected death shatters the calm....
"Very entertaining. I highly recommend this book to the permanent library of any reader that appreciates a very well written...
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In post-World War II England, a clever, young woman named Mary Adams finds herself thrust into a world of privilege and secrets as she transitions from being a wartime factory worker to a maid in the grand estates. Positioned at a new estate, Mary overhears something she shouldn't. When the only person who knew the truth is found dead, Mary vows to unravel the mystery shrouded in the lavish mansion...
As Mary navigates the delicate intricacies of...
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In post-World War II England, a clever, young woman named Mary Adams finds herself thrust into a world of privilege and secrets as she transitions from being a wartime factory worker to a maid in the grand estates. In a stately ancestral home, a brewing family feud takes a deadly turn when a murder attempt on the heir, a young bachelor, goes awry. As tensions run high, Mary must navigate a treacherous landscape of family deception to unmask the killer...
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Sent on an impossible mission by Kingfountain's ruler into the heart of the enemy's capital as two mighty kingdoms prepare for war, Ankarette Tryneowy must divine the location of a magical sword, perhaps their key to victory. What she finds is the truth--one she could never have foreseen.
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"When the daughter of a well-respected family is being poisoned, Rosalind Thorn and Bow Street officer Adam Harkness work together to solve this dangerous case that is rife with politics, jealousy, jewel thieves--and a romance between them that would be frowned upon by society"--
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Jehannette, an illiterate peasant girl of seventeen, hears voices that tell her she must help the Dauphin become king. But this proves hard to accomplish in 15th century France as the British occupy parts of the country, including Rheims where the crowning must take place. Jehannette must first convince the Dauphin of her mission and then help lead his army to push back the occupiers. Will this tough, radical yet vulnerable girl be able to triumph...
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A Christmas Romance Novel
Genius billionaire Galen Dunne knows many things, and one of those things is that love does not exist. Relationships are fleeting, and time isn't to be wasted on trying to make something work that was doomed from the start.
Homeless street urchin from London Ariel Pendragon knows very little, but the one thing she's sure of is that there's a true love for every person on the planet. Life is all about love, and every person...
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The sky was already darkening by the time they arrived, the low sun glittering in the Loch, and the thickening shadows gaining ground on them as they rode. Mary had been sitting in the saddle for some hours now, and her limbs were starting to ache as they crossed into the valley. From some distance away, she could see a dark structure, blackened as though it had been plunged into a fire, with many parts of the building already fallen into ruins. She...
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Changes have come to Olvang Keep in Milenna's lustful absence amongst the guards. The hulking beasts of fur and fang are said to be more than appearance - capable of shifting to the forms of the Northland people, and rumour holds that Milenna has been given over to their newly discovered needs. Recovered from the garrisons below and cleaned up by the mysterious doppelganger responsible for aiding Milenna's journey down this path, that rumour may not...
39) The Missing Maid
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London, 1932.
When Harriet White rebuffs the advances of her boss at the Baker Street building society where she works, she finds herself demoted to a new position... a very unusual position. Deep in the postal department beneath the bank, she is tasked with working her way through a mountain of correspondence addressed to Baker Street's most famous resident: Mr. Sherlock Holmes.
Seemingly undeterred by the fact that Sherlock Holmes doesn't exist,...
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His lady in red...
Jacob, Duke of Westmoor, is feeling the weight of his recently inherited title when a stolen kiss with a beautiful woman in his gentlemen's club breathes life back into him. Until he discovers she's a maid!
Unable to let the beautiful innocent go, he arranges for Rose Nightingale to become his grandmother's companion. But living under the same roof, their attraction becomes impossible to resist!
The Society of Wicked Gentlemen
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