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Guarding Laura
She was still holding court...but the pampered girl Cole had loved a lifetime ago was now posing as a tennis teacher and on the run for her life. He'd wanted to refuse his latest assignment--guarding Laura--preferring covert jungle missions to a forced reunion with his boyhood infatuation. Yet seeing the leggy, enigmatic woman Laura had become...well, what he was feeling now was all man. But Laura still had secrets--secrets that went beyond the target currently on her back. Because she was pushing Cole away a little too hard. A little too desperately. He could keep her safe because he was the best at his job. But could he learn why she denied the tender feelings growing between them?
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Strong Spirits
Welcome to sunny Pasadena, California, just a stone's throw from Hollywood. The 1920s are in full roar. Prohibition isn't stopping anybody, and Daisy Gumm Majesty is getting by the best way she knows how - catering to the rich and famous as a medium who put the "con" in conjuror.
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Master of Moonspell
While in Moonspell in the Florida Keys to serve as governess to the motherless child of the grand estate's master, Julienne Vale resists the advances of the virile, raven-haired Captain Buccaneer LaFlamme.
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Scavenger
A bestselling author with a love of the macabre...A devoted fan with a passion for games...A serial killer with a taste for revenge... What they have in common is scaring the hell out of critics. Just ask them.... "Scavenger is stylish and surprising. Tom Savage is playing mind games and you are his victim...But you'll love every minute of it."-Washington Post Book World "Scavenger is compelling. I'll have to get even with Savage for keeping me awake half the night reading this page-turner in one sitting. Great job!"-Jeffery Deaver, author of The Bone Collector "Scavenger grabs you and never lets go. Tom Savage is the master of the high-speed thriller."-Michael Connelly Praise for Valentine : "Suspense with a twist."-James Patterson "A truly surprising twist...stylish suspense."-Washington Post Book World "A thriller with heart. Savage writes with fierce energy."-Lorenzo Carcaterra "Genuinely shocking."-Booklist "Pulse-pounding...burns its way right into the reader's mind."-Abilene Reporter-News Praise for The Inheritance: "Chilling...fiendishly stunning twists...diabolically clever." -Booklist "Thoroughly spellbinding...The ending is an absolute shocker."-Tulsa World
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Her Father's House
For her he would give up everything: his home, his work and even his freedom. When his marriage fails, he does just that. A chance meeting with a stranger on a train changes his life - and his daughter's - in ways he could never have imagined. From her earliest years Tina is exceptional, a brilliant student and a joyous person with a loving spirit. At university she falls in love with Gilbert who, three years older than she, graduates from law school just as she is about to enter medical school. Together they go to New York, where they learn a truth about Donald that shatters Tina's regard for the father who has for so long protected and cherished her. When a terrible lie has been told for love, can it be forgiven?
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The Orphan
Join bestselling author Stella Cameron as she returns to 7 Mayfair Square, the elegant London town house where matchmaking and mayhem are always in the air. Why would England's "Most Daring Lover" risk his reputation by falling madly in love with a nobody, a shabbily dressed milliner's assistant who lived in poverty -- and was clearly in trouble? Because Latimer More of 7A Mayfair Square saw something in Jenny McBride, an orphaned Scottish lass, that nobody had: unsinkable optimism, a brave spirit and a face that haunted his dreams. Jenny was amazed by Latimer's advances. He fascinated her, but surely he couldn't really be interested in her? Besides, she had more pressing concerns. She was fighting off the attentions of a cruel man who wanted to claim her in exchange for canceling her debts. Jenny would not involve Latimer in the dangerous game that threatened her. But Latimer would not abandon Jenny. The result? A madcap race against time and danger, upheaval at Number 7, and an unlikely match that could not be more perfect -- or challenging!
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An Instance of the Fingerpost
ook Summary of An Instance of the Fingerpost In 1663 Oxford, a servant girl confesses to a murder. But four witnesses -- a medical student, the son of a traitor, a cryptographer, and an archivist -- each finger a different culprit...
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Sarah's Window
A family tragedy brings artist Sarah Bryden back to the Flint Hills of Kansas. There, she forms a deep friendship with brilliant professor John Wilde, which quickly blossoms into something more-threatening John's marriage and Sarah's sense of right and wrong. Theirs is a passion driven by the forces of providence, one that will be played out against the wild beauty of the Flint Hills, as powerful as nature itself...
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Sis Boom Bah
Having a sister means always having to say you're sorry. What can make sisters stop talking to each other for years? If it's the Peltz sisters, just about anything can touch off an estrangement! In fact, the latest spat between Deborah, a soap opera writer in New York, and Sharon, a wedding planner in Boca Raton, has lasted two years. But when their mother has a heart attack, the sisters rally around her and promise to behave themselves. The only glitch in their peace pact is Mom's doctor. He's single, good-looking, wealthy...and coming on to both sisters. And when someone bumps off this cad of a cardiologist, Deborah and Sharon are prime suspects. Deborah thinks her soap opera savvy can help the police find the killer, but a second murder brings the siblings even closer to danger. Now, joining forces may be their one chance to stay alive. And in the process, they may just learn to love and accept each other, not to mention find men of their own to love.
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The Handmaid's Tale
The Republic of Gilead offers Offred only one function: to breed . If she deviates, she will, like dissenters, be hanged at the wall or sent out to die slowly of radiation sickness. But even a repressive state cannot obliterate desire - neither Offred's nor that of the two men on which her future hangs. . . . .