While Lizzie Rush is working in her family's worldwide
hotel chain, she runs across thrill-seeking billionaire
Norman Estabrook. Estabrook has grown bored and crosses the
line when he joins an international criminal organization.
It leads Lizzie to turn into an anonymous informant for the
FBI. Believing he could Read more...
This anthology intrigues and delights with its various
genres. Ms. Maxwell's "The Irish Duke" begins with a tale
depicting the tightrope Ms. Susan Roger walks as she earns
a living steering young women into acceptable marriages.
Trying to impress her clients, Susan spouts off her
intricate knowledge of the Read more...
Former Navy Seal Lawrence Decker joins forces with FBI agent
Jules Cassidy when hits are ordered on Decker and former CIA
agent Dave Malkoff. Evidence points to a rogue black ops
organization within the CIA called the Agency. For money and
power, the Agency blackmails or murders anyone in their Read more...
Frannie Darling's life is a study in contrast. As a child,
she and a group of boys were raised under the protection of
kinsman Feagan. He taught them how to pick pockets until
fate intervened and Frannie and her boys were plucked out
of crime and poverty by the Read more...
Society has decided that Miss Abigail Smart is socially
inferior and therefore invisible. Her ambitious mother
refuses to accept society's dictates and continues to push
Abigail into making an advantageous marriage. Abigail just
might succeed if her childhood nemesis, Rainewood, would
stop sabotaging her efforts. Their animosity dates back Read more...
As the daughter of a gambler, Mariah Clark's childhood was
spent wandering from house to house as her father played
cards. Finally, her father wins a small estate from a
scoundrel ensuring Mariah the respectable life she craves.
After her father leaves for London, Mariah learns from
Burke, the Read more...
Miss Daphne Starling turns down another suitor earning her
a reputation as a jilt. The pushing and prodding from her
stepmother toward unsuitable men leaves a stain on her
spotless reputation. She has no desire to marry preferring
to work at her children's orphanage. When her father
accepts a Read more...
Kidnapped from her family at the Egyptian bazaar, Zoe
watched and waited for 12 long years for the perfect time
to escape the harem. After the death of her husband, chaos
reigned and she fled to the English embassy. Upon her
return to London, scandal swirls around Zoe. Society
condemns Read more...
Sitting with her new future husband at the betrothal
dinner, Jenny, Baroness Easdale, mentally tallies all the
reasons she does not want this drunken young fool. Her
uncle, acting as her guardian after the unexpected death of
her father, picked Reid against her wishes for his powerful
family connections. Unwilling Read more...
Jenna Davis fled to Angels Bay with her seven-year-old
daughter, Lexie, for anonymity. That changes in a flash
when she jumps into the bay to rescue a young pregnant
woman. Suddenly, the town focuses on Jenna and questions
arise about her past. When Reid Tanner, a reporter on Read more...
Having been unlucky in love, Lydia Boyce devotes herself to
managing and promoting her father's Egyptian antiquity
business. It has cemented her reputation as a bluestocking
with no marital prospects. When a forgery appears who is
connected with her father, Lydia investigates with the
objective to erase any possibility Read more...
Dempsey Jo Killebrew thought she had it all. She's employed
as a lobbyist for a powerful Washington D.C. public
relations firm with an attractive older man as her boss.
However, she believes her greatest achievement is her
independence from her flaky mother and perfection-driven
father. It all Read more...
In Paint Mill, Ohio, Chief of Police Kate Burkholder's
biggest worry is loose cattle causing highway accidents.
That changes in the blink of an eye when a series of brutal
murders occurs. They are identical to the killings that
rocked the small community 16 years ago. Kate performs a Read more...
Olivia Monteith refuses to consider the man her parents
want her to marry. He is a respectable, but dull, man who
will suffocate her just as her overprotective parents have
done. There is only one man Olivia desires for a husband --
Dominic Lacey. Years ago, he befriended after her sister Read more...
Injured in a carriage accident as a child and left with a
limp and a facial scar, Miss Evie Cole realizes her chance
of marriage is slim. Instead of self-pity, Evie chooses to
devote herself to a secret organization that removes women
and children from dangerous situations. When her Read more...
Thrice-widowed Lady Violet Carrington revels in her
freedom. She has a great deal of money, no husband to
control her and a wonderful young lover. The negatives in
her life are few. There are those who do not receive her
despite her discretion in taking lovers. Violet lives in Read more...
Nine years ago, Jemma, the Duchess of Beaumont, walked into
her husband Elijah's office and found him having relations
with his mistress. Brokenhearted, Jemma gathered her
tattered pride and left him, transforming herself into the
toast of Paris. After nine years, Elijah has requested that
Jemma return for a Read more...
Recluse Clare Benning, a wildlife veterinary specialist,
receives a panic call from her neighbor. She has discovered
a poisonous snake on her sleeping infant. Thus begins the
worst week in Clare's life. Suddenly, in her quiet English
village there is an epidemic of snakes. One man dies from
snakebite Read more...
Recovering from a broken heart, Miss Lucy Seton refocuses
her energy on teaching students at her alma mater, Miss
Harris' School for Young Ladies. Her father's recent
remarriage adds to Lucy's disquiet, which has altered the
family dynamic. Lucy nurses her fragile feelings and
wanders onto the estate Read more...
Philippa (Pippin), Lady Gossett, watches her son make
history by becoming the youngest Navy Captain in the
British fleet. Sitting aboard ship, the memories flood
back. She remembers a charismatic pirate who captured her
heart and the daring young woman in the red dress who
plotted his escape two times Read more...
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