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Maisie Dobbs novels volume 18
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"London, 1945: Four adolescent orphans with a dark wartime history are squatting in a vacant Belgravia mansion--the owners having fled London under heavy Luftwaffe bombing. Soon after a demobilized British soldier, ill and reeling from his experiences overseas, takes shelter with the group, Maisie Dobbs visits the mansion on behalf of the owners. Maisie is deeply puzzled by the children's reticence. Their stories are evasive and, more mysteriously,...
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"Oklahoma 1909. Eleven-year-old Olive Augusta Radley knows that her stepfather doesn't have good intentions toward the two Choctaw girls boarded in their home as wards. When the older girl disappears, Ollie flees to the woods, taking six-year-old Nessa with her. Together they begin a perilous journey to the rugged Winding Stair Mountains, the notorious territory of outlaws, treasure hunters, and desperate men. Along the way, Ollie and Nessa form an...
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Once a trailblazer in the field of medicine, Dr. Tucia Hatherley hasn't touched a scalpel or stethoscope since she made a fatal mistake in the operating theater. Instead, she works in a corset factory, striving to earn enough to support her disabled son. When even that livelihood is threatened, Tucia is left with one option--to join a wily, charismatic showman named Huey and become part of his traveling medicine show. Her medical license lends the...
4) Nero
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Nero trilogy volume 1
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"The story begins with a hand curled around another man's throat. This is Roman justice : Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor -- a friend he once trusted with the city -- then the man's whole family and all of his friends. It is as if he never existed. Into this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is neither balm nor protection. Rather, it is a liability. Blood...
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A BRAND NEW series for 2024 from bestselling author Lizzie LaneA country town in need of a good Doctor, but will they accept her as one of their own?
Somerset, March 1930
Born in the workhouse and adopted by a former suffragette, Frances Brakespeare was encouraged from an early age to be strong, independent and to pursue a career as a doctor. The tragic loss of the love of her life in the Great War propels Frances to commit to her one true vocation.
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The future looks bright for former sailor Jack Merion. His wartime heroics have won him influential contacts, and his good looks and flair for business are definite assets. With funds to invest, he's on the brink of financial success in the high-stakes world of Regency London. And buying the house in Soho Square is a can't-miss opportunity. Once a fashionable brothel, the property will yield a good income in commercial rents and a clear path to the...
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Olivia never wanted to be a laird's wife, especially not Alastair's-a rugged, domineering Highland laird with a dark past. Yet when politics and fate conspire to bind them in matrimony, she's transported to a world far removed from her English comforts-a world of clan rivalry, strife, but also unexpected beauty.As Olivia grapples with her new life, a different battle brews-between her heart and the walls Alastair and his troubled son, Ian, have built...
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When faced with a dangerous new rival, the lead singer of the music group the Noble Lords is forced to place his singing career in the hands of a sexy widow. Lord Reid Follett enjoys all the lustful benefits that come from being a war hero on the battlefield at Waterloo. Every woman in London wants to bed him. And Reid is never a man to disappoint a lady.But the gloss of winning the war is starting to fade. Reid and his friends find themselves being...
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He's a Highland mercenary. She's the noblewoman he abandoned. Can the child he never knew about and the woman he never forgot save him from a dark fate this Christmas?The Scottish Highlands, 1308. Infamous mercenary Hamish Dunn betrayed a powerful clan leader and is now pursued by killers almost as ruthless as himself. After a deadly duel, a Highland faerie convinces him to travel to Carlisle for a job that will provide enough gold to escape and live...
11) Indecent
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This 26,000 word novella was previously published in A Regency Duo by Carole Mortimer & Angelique Armae. There have been no changes or additions from the original novella.INDECENT (Regency Lovers 1) is the 1st book in USA Today Bestselling Author, Carole Mortimer's, NEW Regency series.Impoverished Miss Emma Harris can hardly believe her good fortune when Adam Stirling, the handsome and imposing Duke of Hawkwood, asks her father for her hand in marriage.However,...
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Formerly Pride & Penitence, now a 2017 National Reader's Choice Award Finalist!"Delightful, charming and moving." ~ InD'Tale MagazineWhen her daughter comes across a box of letters written by Georgiana's long-lost love and resolves to reunite the tragic lovers, Georgie can either let her daughter stumble upon her secret past… or face it-and him-herself. Georgiana Egerton had Malcolm MacKintosh shaking in his boots from the first moment he saw her....
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Handsome, wealthy and an accomplished rider, Trydon, Duke of Westacre is overwhelming popular with Society ladies. So much so that he's sick to death of the constant matchmaking by his Godmother and countless Society 'mamas' and rides away through the night to Brighthelmstone in search of peace.
What he encounters there is quite the opposite. In the foggy darkness, he stumbles across a gang of smugglers. When they mistake him for one of their own,...
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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...
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Roger Bennett, le futur marquis de Riderland, se définit lui-même comme un gentleman prêt à aider les pauvres malheureuses dépourvues de plaisirs sexuels. Il aime tellement sa vie qu'il veut continuer comme ça jusqu'à la fin de ses jours. Cependant, une personne brisera cette vie de débauche qu'il désire tant maintenir.Résigné à vivre avec une épouse qu'il ne connaît même pas et ne l'aime pas, il décide d'affronter son avenir avec...
16) Her Duke of Sin
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Miss Juliet Adams would be living on the streets if not for the kindness of the dowager Countess of Wyndam. Her father died leaving her penniless and without any prospects. The countess offered her a position as her companion and she leapt at the opportunity. She's content with her life, but she's also no fool. She fully realizes a day may come where she won't have the protection of the countess and then where will that leave her? So she's made plans,...
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Is Lord Willingham the rake the gossips say he is or is he Lady Arabella's lastchance for love? A man with a secret past, Lord Christopher Hayes, Baron Willingham, wishessimply to be left alone to lick his wounds and regain the fortune his uncle lost to avillainous fraudster: a swindler who continues to plague Christopher wherever hegoes. When Lady Arabella lands unexpectedly on his doorstep, Christopher isforced to choose between helping her or keeping...
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Good girls don't go snooping where they don't belong. But Lady Delia Scarborough never claimed to be a good girl.Lady Delia Scarborough wants her sister back from the grave.Since that can't happen, she'll settle for the next best thing…Making sure her sister's murderer does not go free.Lady Delia's happy to play the part of maid as long as it gets her inside the home of Kieran Dearborne, Duke of Cowanfield.He may be able to fool his young daughter...
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"Regency Romance with a modern sensibility I love Regency Romance, but I adore Tessa Candle's books. She never fails to deliver an action-packed romp through London and the English countryside, featuring unique and totally relatable heroines, irresistible love interests, and a cast of family, friends and villains that thoroughly captivates. And there's always tea. Very hot tea." – Ev Bishop, USA Today bestselling authorThe ladies of Regency England...
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She won't be forced into marriage to a nobleman's by-blow.Paulette Heardwyn rushes to visit her dying guardian, set on learning the truth about her father and the treasure he supposedly left her. But the only man with answers takes his secrets to the grave, leaving her penniless-unless she marries his illegitimate son.He won't be trapped into marriage by a father he's never known.With Napoleon vanquished, an ex-soldier has plans for India. But before...
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