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"Inspired by a true story, this is the unforgettable story of a young boy named Ernest, set during the 1909 Seattle world's fair called the Alaska Yukon Pacific Expo. It is a time when the magical wonders of technology on display at the expo future seems limitless. But for Ernest, a half-Chinese orphan who found his way to America through a last desperate act of his beloved mother, every door is closed. A charity student at a boarding school, he has...

"It's the 19th century on the Gulf Coast, a time of opportunity and lawlessness. After escaping the Texas brothel where she'd been a virtual prisoner, Lucinda Carter heads for Middle Bayou to meet her lover, who has a plan to make them both rich, chasing rumors of a pirate's buried treasure. Meanwhile Nate Cannon, a young Texas policeman with a pure heart and a strong sense of justice, is on the hunt for a ruthless killer named McGill who has claimed...

Angélique Latham has grown up at magnificent Belgrave Castle under the loving tutelage of her father, the Duke of Westerfield, after the death of her aristocratic French mother. But when he dies, her half-brothers brutally turn her out, denying her very existence. Angélique has a keen mind, remarkable beauty, and an envelope of money her father pressed upon her. To survive, she will need all her resources--and one bold stroke of fortune. Unable...

"Farleigh is just an orphanage. At least, that's what the church would have the people believe, but beautiful orphans Nox and fae-touched Amaris know better. They are commodities for sale, available for purchase by the highest bidder. So when the madame of a notorious brothel in a far-off city offers a king's ransom to purchase Amaris, Nox ends up taking her place -- while Amaris is drawn away to the mountains, home of mysterious assassins. Even as...

When a rogue incubus shows up on the doorstep of her old-fashioned bordello begging for asylum, witch and part succubus Raina finds her business jeopardized by this intrusion as well as by the arrival of Underworld Dark Guardian Mikhael who wants something the incubus has.

Traspasada al duęo de un burdel como pago por una deuda de juego, la vida de Dolly Stroud en Arizona cambia para siempre. Forzada a un mundo de exhibici̤n y peligro, Dolly se ve obligada a valerse por s̕ misma, hasta que el bien intencionado vecino Trace Anderson interfiere y presenta la oportunidad de cambio. Navegando por la posibilidad de una nueva vida y las complejidades de un romance en ciernes con Trace, ¿podr̀ Dolly encontrar la fuerza...