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What do you do if you're 34 and recovering from being jilted two weeks before your wedding day? While friends are marrying, having children and moving to the depths of the countryside, Gilly Brown finds herself alone in London with just her little dog Ruskin for company. It's time to move on, so...

He’s a man with a secret. She’s honest to a fault—and about to blow his cover. Alice Taylor is ready to leave her small-town life behind and start fresh. When the opportunity to work for billionaire Billy Baxter—who’s launching a professional soccer team—lands in her lap, she jumps at the chance. Adventure, a new city, and a career? Yes, please. Only Alice didn’t plan on Will.

Purity, a goddess of life, has only one purpose: to be happy. The happier she is, the more blessings those around her receive. So she spends her days in luxury receiving gifts and adoration. And now she has even caught the eye of the empire's prince. It seems the perfect existence until she meets a hated god of death in the palace. He seeks a goddess bride to take home with him to the Unseen Lands. Purity can't stand the sight of him. And worse, he seems to be everywhere she goes. But slowly he unveils a different world that was surrounding her all along.

For nearly 200 years, women in Ashley Tolliver's family have practiced the art of midwifery in their mountain community. Now she wants to take her skills a step further, but attending medical school means abandoning those women to whom she has dedicated her life, the mountains she loves, and the awakening of her heart.

Mia Roper isn't a typical nineteenth-century woman. Refusing to pass up the hard-won opportunity to prove herself as a journalist, she left Hillsdale, Michigan, hoping in vain that Ayden Goswell would follow her to Boston. When the train bringing her back for her first major story crashes in a snowstorm outside town, Mia is stranded. Not even the survival of a fellow passenger, a toddler, can ease her heart's sudden ache at seeing Ayden, now a history professor at the local college, courting someone else.

Lady Chloe Ashford detests going to balls, loathes social pretense, and finds the very idea of hunting for a husband obscene. But she has an even more scandalous secret: she once helped an American - the enemy - escape from Dartmoor Prison. Now it's three years later, and Ross Trenerry is back - and in trouble again. So is her traitorous heart. He doesn't know she's the one responsible for sending him to a second prison, and she has no intention of telling him.

The sea is Deirdre MacKenzie's home, and the crew of her father's Baltimore clipper is the only family she loves. She's happier wearing breeches and climbing the rigging of the Maid of Alexandria than donning a dress and learning to curtsy. But when the War of 1812 erupts, the ship is captured by a British privateer, leaving her father, the captain, dead. Deirdre watches her crew herded into the hold, destined for the notorious Dartmoor prison in England.

An American heiress and widow of a rakish English earl, Catherine has returned to New York high society determined to make amends for the scandal she caused when she crossed the Atlantic to elope with her best friend's suitor and win the title of Lady Bisterne. But a ruined reputation isn't the only thing that's followed her home: Lord Tristram Wolfe, the rightful heir to the Bisterne estate, has vowed to track down his family's stolen jewels - gems he's certain Catherine stole.

A wonderfully romantic and uplifting story from bestselling author, Jaimie Admans that is guaranteed to warm your heart 🏰Every book in the Ever After Street Series can be read as a standalone🏰 There's always time for tea... unless you've lost your teapot… Cleo Jordan has only ever wished...

A completely heartbreaking novel from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Life You Left Behind 'When the world says “give up”, hope whispers, “try it one more time”.’ Callie’s always been the least ambitious of her sisters but also the happiest, until fate snaps her fiancé...

Tess O'Rourke dreams of becoming the first female chief of police in Long Beach, California. As commander of the East Division, she is well on her way...until the night she responds to an officer-needs-assistance call and fatally shoots an unarmed teenager. Despite being cleared of wrongdoing by a grand jury, Tess is so hounded by the public that she takes a job in Oregon to escape the bad press.

Love Gold hat gelernt, sich zu verstecken. Bis Finn auftaucht. Als er eines Nachts sein Notizbuch auf dem Steg zurücklässt, beginnt zwischen ihnen eine Geschichte, die nur sie verstehen. Aus wenigen Zeilen werden echte Gespräche, aus vorsichtiger Nähe Vertrauen, und aus Loves Bucket List ein Plan: wieder singen, einen Jungen küssen, leben statt sich zu verstecken. Doch nicht jede Wunde heilt gemeinsam.

One Day meets Up: The House That Made Us is a love story – and a life story – told through a series of photographs and based on a true story When Mac and Marie marry and find a home of their own, Mac takes a snap of themselves outside their newbuild bungalow, the garden bare and the paint on...

As a grieving young widow, Morwenna only wants a quiet life for herself and her son. Until a man washes ashore, entangling her in a web of mystery that could threaten all she holds dear. Lady Morwenna Trelawny Penvenan indulged in her fair share of dalliances in her youth, but now that she’s...

On the cliffs of 19th-century Cornwall, a spirited, impetuous young woman is torn between the honor of her family and the longing of her heart. England, 1811. A tarnished reputation. A distant home. A forced engagement to a dangerous man. When Elizabeth Trelawny flees London, she has more than...

Will you catch me, if I fall? Das gemütliche Café inmitten der Gassen Edinburghs, Musik und ihre kleine Schwester - Amelia sagt sich jeden Tag, dass sie für ein glückliches Leben nicht mehr braucht. Bis ausgerechnet Jasper Haven, der überaus erfolgreiche und begehrte Bestsellerautor, einen Espresso bei ihr bestellt. Mit seinem unwiderstehlichen Lächeln stiehlt er sich in Amelias Herz. Als Jasper sie zu einem Roadtrip durch die schottischen Highlands einlädt, lässt sich das Knistern zwischen ihnen nicht länger leugnen. Doch dann kommt Jaspers Vergangenheit ans Tageslicht.

Si vous aimez les citadins aussi pédants que sexy et les écureuils tout mignons... ce roman est pour vous ! Capucine, psychologue trentenaire, mène une vie parfaite en roucoulant auprès de son mari génial... Depuis quand ce spécimen existe-t-il ? Après une soirée mémorable, elle décide de tout quitter et en particulier son conjoint bien sous tous rapports (ou pas), pour vivre dans les montagnes auvergnates.

Police Chief Tess O’Rourke thought she’d taken care of her small town’s drug problem last year. But now Rogue’s Hollow residents are up in arms over a contentious vote on legalizing the sale of marijuana within city limits. And when an 18-year-old is found dead of a possible overdose, Tess wonders if the local pot farms might be involved and begins to fear that a new, deadlier drug supply chain has cropped up. As tempers flare and emotions boil over, Tess faces the possibility of losing the town’s support.