Unhappy in her life and relationship, Francesca is inspired by her sighting of a mermaid swimming away to freedom, to leave her lover and uproot her life. She moves to Lewes to stay with Agnes Potts, her loving, eccentric friend. Francesca begins to paint again with Agnes's encouragement and when her painting of the mermaid is seen by Henry, a local potter, he takes her into his employment and plans to organize an exhibition of her art. When Agnes suffers an accident, Francesca must become nurse, chef and companion to her friend. Meanwhile, her ex-lover reappears and attempts to con Henry. Preoccupied by her new duties as Agnes's carer, Francesca is too late to stop him and suddenly everything she has worked for and built in her new life is put at risk. Views: 65
Everything isn't as successful as it appears in the life of hard-hitting civil attorney Maxwell Montgomery, who has his own way of tackling demons from the past. His self-appointed crusade to root out corruption in the church has cost him greatly, and the price continues to rise, as his personal life spirals out of control. His former love is engaged to someone else, and his troubles don't stop there. Maxwell is shouldering an unexpected burden of guilt when he is forced to wonder if his pursuits have landed an innocent man in prison.Instead of dealing with his conscience, Maxwell shoves the emotions deep within and presses on to the next case. Along the way, he amasses quite a list of enemies, including his former paralegal, who is desperately seeking retribution.With the weight of his mission becoming too heavy to bear, Maxwell doesn't know where to turn or whom to trust. Despite his high-flying lifestyle, his past finally catches up to him.... Views: 65
February 1912: Harry Pennell and his Terra Nova shipmates land on Antarctica hoping to celebrate Scott's conquest of the Pole. Forced by ice to leave before Scott returns, they arrive in New Zealand to find that Amundsen reached the Pole in December 1911. Back in Antarctica in January 1913, they learn Scott and his party died on the return journey. Pennell and his fellow 'Antarctics' return to Britain, where a cycle of medal ceremonies and memorial services is interrupted by the outbreak of war. By 1919 Pennell and his friends have served at Antwerp, on the Western Front, at Gallipoli, in the Channel, at Jutland and Arctic Russia. They serve on horseback, in trenches, on battleships and hospital ships, in armoured cars and flimsy aircraft; their brothers-in-arms include a Prime Minister's son, poet Rupert Brooke (who takes a photograph of one of them) and the creator of a famous Cotswolds garden. As in Antarctica, life is exciting but dangerous. As on the ice, not all Scott's... Views: 65
Joe Tyler has debts to pay. John
Anchor helped Joe find his daughter and now he's asking Joe to repay
the favor by locating an employee who has disappeared after stealing
money from Anchor. But it's not as simple as finding the man and finding
the money. With Anchor, everything is always complicated. And
dangerous. As Joe contemplates how to comply with Anchor's
request, he's having second thoughts about his investigative career. He
wants something more stable, more normal so that he can be home with
Elizabeth, Lauren and the new baby that's on the way. All he needs to do
is satisfy Anchor so he can get on with his life. But satisfying Anchor may require a bigger payment than Joe ever realized.
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Emily McCarthy is living in fear of a dark and dangerous past. A gifted mathematician, she is little more than a hollow, broken shell, trying desperately to make ends meet long enough to finish her degree.Through an unlikely friendship with the aging, cantankerous owner of an old boxing gym, Em is thrown into the path of the most dangerous man that she has ever met.Cormac “the Hurricane” O’Connell is cut, tattooed and dangerous. He is a lethal weapon with no safety and everyone is waiting for the mis-fire. He’s never been knocked out before, but when he meet Em he falls, HARD. Unlike any other girl he’s ever met, she doesn’t want anything from him. Just being around her makes him want to be a better person.They are polar opposites who were never meant to find each other, but some things are just worth the fight.Warning: This books contains adult language and subject matter including flashback scenes of abuse and rape that may be disturbing to some readers. This book is not suitable for readers under the age of 18. Views: 65
Ulysses Quicksilver, agent of the crown, jumps into a time vortex pursuing Daniel Dashwood, a madman bent on sharing modern technology with Hitler's forces and changing history to suit his evil ends. Rewind several decades, to the time of the Second Great War, to Darmstadt. The Nazis are battling the steampunk empire of Magna Britannia, cooking up necrotic super-soldiers in the gothic towers of Castle Frankenstein. In the forests outside the castle, other forces are gathering. Ulysses' father is there, proving that dashing good looks and a talent for swashbuckling adventures run in the family, and wondering why his British masters have partnered him with weakling scientist Dr. Jekyll. The ladies of the Monstrous Regiment are also there to help, but there may be other gothic monsters in the hills... Views: 65
A beautiful ballerina falls for a ruthless robber baron with a secret past in this hot historical romance set in nineteenth century New York City. Prima ballerina Jennifer Van Vleet knows how to stand tall in trying times. But when her theater burns down shortly after her parents' mysterious death, her brother Peter believes one man is to blame for both tragedies—and he needs Jennifer's help to fight back. In New York City by way of Texas, the young robber baron Chantry Kincaid III has a reputation for breaking hearts and breaking rules. Now Peter has arranged for Jennifer to dance at Chantry's hotel, hoping she can get close enough to the scoundrel to expose him. The trouble is, the closer Jennifer gets to Chance, the less she's able to resist his sexy, masculine charms. "Joyce Brandon writes a brilliant nineteenth-century Americana romance." —Affaire de Coeur Views: 65
Before Diana Mosley (neé Mitford) became a social pariah, she was a principal member of the Bright Young Things set in London's 1920s and '30s high society. As the young wife of Bryan Guinness, heir to the Guinness family brewing empire, she lived a gilded life until fascist leader Oswald Mosley turned her head. This ground-breaking biography adopts a new approach in exploring the life of Diana Mitford - removing her from her famous family and fascism to look at the woman behind the myths. Combining the traditional rituals of the upper classes - the debutante season, social movements of the 1920s and social upheaval of the 1930s - allows Diana to be presented as a young woman desperately trying to find her place in a rapidly changing world. Benefitting from never-before published letters, diaries and archives has allowed her story to take shape. It is a character study of a beautiful woman whose charm and personality enthralled all who met her, but whose life would... Views: 65
Ladies, like a tiger’s stripes? Tug his tail and keep him forever!
The wolves came first. Followed by the bears. Finally, lions decided to play in the spotlight, but the tigers have held off. Let everyone else get stared at. Ares was happy on his mountain with his pride while humans thought they knew all about the different shifter species.
Their secret was safe…until her. One reporter took tigers from the shadows and thrust them into the limelight by releasing a picture of a tiger shifting. Specifically — him. (What could he say? A little moonlight, a little fur…)
Now he has a town of stripe-hunting women looking for a tiger’s tail to pull and… a full moon on the horizon.
Can he keep his tigers from being mated against their will? Better yet, can he forgive the one woman responsible for outing his species? Ares isn’t sure, but he’s willing to give it a shot. Views: 65
-a Firehawks Lookouts romance story- Marta Chavez possesses the dubious honor of spotting the most fires in a single season from her perch high atop Swallow Hill in the rugged Lolo National Forest. Her fantasies of finding a decent man feel as ephemeral as wildfire smoke. Until Tyler Brown crash lands his firefighting helicopter at her remote cloister and they both must survive the Blaze Atop Swallow Hill Lookout. Views: 65
