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Certain the "smart" Steffington twin is the person who can help her recover her late husband's nearly priceless stolen Chaucer manuscript, Catherine Bexley tearfully persuades the scholar to assist her. A deal is struck. She's particularly pleased that the doctor of letters is not interested in seducing her because she's finished with men (owing to her late husband's multitude of unfortunate alliances with...doxies).

Glee Pembroke has turned down countless offers of marriage because she has secretly been in love with her brother's best friend, Gregory Blankenship, all her life. When she learns Gregory will lose his considerable fortune if he's not wed by his twenty-fifth birthday, she persuades him to enter into a sham marriage with her. What he doesn't know is that she plans to win his heart. She will do everything in her power to make him happy.

There is nothing about Eve Sinclair, apart from her beauty, that would make her a typical heroine. In this riches to rags adventure, Eve travels and unravels dark secrets hidden in the cellars and vineyards of the Grand Chateaux of France. Accompanied by her chauffeur and a talented young photographer, can she reach her destination unscathed and solve the problems in her own life?

Deirdre MacCoinneach wishes to understand her unusual ability to sense others' lifeblood energies…and vows to discover if her gift killed the men she married. Her father's search for a new and unsuspecting suitor for Deirdre becomes complicated when rumors of witchcraft abound.

Join us on a magical journey around the world, where the enchanted bed takes you on an exciting ride to meet new friends and discover all types of amazing lands. It's a fairytale for the mind, and takes you away into slumber land, surrounding you with positivity and fun for toddlers and children, teaching them kindness along the way. The perfect bed time story!

Devastated by grief after the death of her daughter, Detective Sergeant Jamie Brooke returns to investigate the murder of a prominent psychiatrist in the old hospital of Bedlam in London. As she delves into the history of madness, museum researcher, Blake Daniel, helps with the case, only to discover that his own family is entwined with the shadowy forces that seek to control the minds of the mad.

Unbeknownst to scholarly Jonathan Blankenship, his sister-in-law, Glee, has decided this Christmas he needs a little push to make him see that his dear friend of four years, Miss Arbuckle, will make his perfect mate.

Join us on a magical journey around the world, where the enchanted bed takes you on an exciting ride to meet new friends and discover all types of amazing lands. It's a fairytale for the mind, and takes you away into slumber land, surrounding you with positivity and fun for toddlers and children, teaching them kindness along the way. The perfect bedtime story!

Join us on a magical journey around the world, where the enchanted bed takes you on an exciting ride to meet new friends and discover all types of amazing lands. It's a fairytale for the mind and takes you away into slumber land, surrounding you with positivity and fun for toddlers and children, teaching them kindness along the way. The perfect bedtime story!

Simon MacCoinneach's vengeance runs deep. The blade is the only way to end the bloodthirsty Nordmen's reign upon Scottish soil. His soul might be lost, but the mystical Healer he kidnaps from the isles could be the answer for his ailing mother...and his heart. Isles-born Gwyn reluctantly agrees to a marriage alliance with this heathen Scot in return for the sanctuary of her younger brother from her abusive Norse father. Her brother's condition is beyond the scope of her Ancient power, for larger healings steal breaths of life from her own body.

Lady Jayne Boleyn lives in disgraced exile, far away from the scandal that destroyed her reputation. She would do anything to return - even seduce a daredevil captain and spy on enemy forces with only her barely controlled Fae powers to protect her.

Every juicy detail of Pauline’s relationship with Dennis and every bite of the cuisine Parry learns to master is chronicled in her debut memoir and cookbook, My Culinary Love Story, a story that takes the listener from one English Christmas to the next.

Rosalie Threston's fortune-telling lies have caught up with her. Uprooted yet again, she's on the run from a ruthless English noblewoman. She flees to Scotland and seeks refuge in the arms of a laird's son who happens to be a real Seer. A bloody past and inevitable future plague Domhnall Montgomerie. He avoids physical contact with others to ease the painful visions. When an accidental touch reveals only delight, he wonders if Rose is the key to silencing the Sight.

This collection includes the novellas The Christmas Wish, Home for Christmas, and Christmas at Farley Manor. In The Christmas Wish, Miss Annabelle Pemberton proposes marriage to her father's former ward, the rakish viscount Lord William de Vere, to grant her dying father his last Christmas wish. In Home for Christmas, Captain David St. Vincent has dreamed for six long years of returning home to Ramseyfield - and to its prettiest resident, Elizabeth Balfour.

Born in Stockton-on-Tees with cerebral palsy, Susan Bennett, throughout her early life, was constantly told she wouldn't be able to walk, talk properly, move properly, swim, hold a job down, or live a normal life - "whatever that is," says Susan. As she grew, Susan needed to prove this was not the case. Not to herself, you understand, because she always knew she would be able to do these things, but to those in the medical and educational fraternity and other doubters.

After the sudden death of his parents, Dominic, the Marquis of Aubrey, has inherited a prestigious title, abundant wealth, and a life of luxury. On his way to London to mark the start of another social season with drinking and carousing, his travels are interrupted by a collision with a young widow’s carriage.

A richly imagined and stunningly inventive literary masterpiece of love, art, and betrayal, exploring the genesis of evil, the unforeseen consequences of love, and the ultimate unreliability of storytelling itself. Paris in the 1920s shimmers with excitement, dissipation, and freedom. It is a...