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Country Dreams: 6 Small-Town Stories Boxset

OUTBACK IN STILETTOS: The most popular soap on television hangs in the balance because Delilah Connors has lost her mojo. Her agent decides she needs a break.Delilah disagrees but when her agent says jump, she jumps! She heads for the outback on a bus tour from hell. The coach smells, her seating partner is an octopus and the road leads nowhere she wants to go. It’s all too much.She grabs her bags and hits the track. The trouble is the track leads to two small children and a widowed farmer. The kids are cute but not cute enough to compensate for an archaic kitchen and the filthy flies. Just when she’s getting the hang of the outback, the flies and that sexy farmer she’s summoned back to the big smoke.Blake makes a last ditch attempt to plead his case but amongst the glitter and glamour of the Sydney film elite, he is way out of his depth.------------FOREVER THIS TIME: Fifteen years ago April Williams left Hope Harbor determined never to return and now she’s back searching for a safe haven for her children. But first she needs a job. And there’s only one—working for the man she walked out on. When it comes to a choice between her feelings and her children’s well-being it’s a no-brainer.April’s return does more than rock Drew Hope’s confidence – it throws everything he’s worked on these last years into chaos.------------RILEY: The last thing Sassie O’Leary needs is a man in her life after the last disastrous affair. She decides to concentrate on building herself a life, and buys a rundown home in the rural town of Cooper's Crossing without looking at it first.Riley Cooper thinks she's bitten off more than she can chew and goes out of his way to prove it to her. What neither of them expect is the chemistry that fires up between them. Sassie makes him a deal. Sex with no strings attached - she’s not looking for a forever relationship and neither is he.------------FOXBOROUGH HALL: Top investigative reporter Billie Stanford believes she is at the pinnacle of her game until her husband dies unexpectedly, leaving her to raise their sixteen-year-old son alone. Intent on a fresh start she returns to Australia only to discover her American experience stands for nothing and she must start from scratch. Finally, she is assigned to uncover the story behind Foxborough Hall, but she isn’t prepared for the backlash from her mother.Hamish Abbott is a psychology professor with a passion for history. Past mistakes have made him cautious around women but he is inexplicably drawn to his American neighbour and her teenage son. He doesn’t expect to find himself dragged into the family’s murky secret.Telling her family what she has uncovered will be hard, but harder still will be explaining why Wilhelmina Wallace died and who killed her.------------MISTRESS FOR MAGNUS: Is Kate prepared to trade six months as Magnus' mistress to save the home and people she loves? The death of Kate's mother sends her father on a gambling spree that he keeps hidden from his family. When the will is read after his death she finds out how bad things are and can see no way out, except one. In a desperate attempt to save her home and the people she loves, Kate offers her neighbor water rights to the largest dam in the area that also happens to be on her land. What follows is an introduction to a world of passionate sex that she doesn't want to give up after the contract ends. Kate also didn't expect to fall in love with him. Magnus is intrigued with Kate after years of having women drop at his feet and granting him his every desire. On a whim, he adds an extra clause to the contract-she is to be his mistress for six months.------------HAWK: Geoff Hawkins job means there are days when he has to leave without notice which can be off putting to say the least. So far he's had to walk out on Cass twice and she's not happy about it. Hawk wants another shot at a relationship but will she be able to look past his mistakes and give him another chance?
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Thick Skin: A Flashback Romance

It was hate at first sight...Or was it?BeckI met Ruby in a ballet class.We were both outcasts there.I was the fit boy who chose dance over sports.She was the curvy tomboy, who didn't let that stop her from moving like an angel.I was in love with her, from the start.She couldn't stand me, from the start.Years passed, and the ballet studio closed.She turned into a prep, and I turned into a greaser.But my feelings never changed.And I'm about to learn that hers were never what they seemed.RubyMy first glimpse of Beck left me with feelings I had to fight.I didn't want to end up like my mother, who ruined her future for the wrong boy.But, as time passed, my feelings grew, becoming as intense as fantasies that the greaser always starred in.And eventually, daydreaming about him holding down my wrists—or bending me over his knee—isn't enough.I have to have more.I have to have Beck.Flashback to the 1950s with this steamy and timeless new adult romance.
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Milady

From the glittering ballrooms of 17th Century England to the dangerous intrigues of the French court, Laura L. Sullivan brings an unlikely heroine to the page, turning on its head everything we've been told about The Three Musketeers and their ultimate rival. I've gone by many names, though you most likely know me as Milady de Winter: Villainess. Seductress. A secondary player in someone else's tale. It's finally time I tell my own story. The truth isn't tidy or convenient, but it's certainly more interesting. Before you cast judgment, let me start at the beginning, and you shall learn how an innocent girl from the countryside became the most feared woman in all of Europe. Because we all know history was written by men, and they so often get things wrong.
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Gods of Merlin

Eowlyn Patience is a girl with NO future until she's asked to kill her physics teacher. For the fans of blood & treasure adventure and awkward crushes. Percy Jackson meets King Arthur when Someone must claim Excalibur. She is so not the right person... Trouble follows seventeen-year-old Eowlyn Patience around. Desperate for her current foster family to like her, her life all falls apart when the actual Sword in the Stone drops like a dead bird into the heart of London. And suddenly she has to attend some weirdo school in England with the irritating smart kid from science class. After a teenage Merlin wakes from a fifteen-hundred-year nap, he takes the name Matt Emrys. Now he must track down the next Arthur before the apocalypse begins. But the Avalon Academy trials are being sabotaged by vicious gargoyles, and his growing feelings for exactly the wrong girl are getting in the way. As Eowlyn desperately tries to master the skill of freeing Excalibur, she's plagued by her attraction to immense power and to the two hot boys who are so not her type. And Merlin fears the troubled path the girl is on will end with his heart broken and him sacrificed to a dark god. Can the destiny assemble the Round Table before the world ends in fire and blood? Gods of Merlin is the first book in this unique contemporary fantasy romance series. If you like plucky heroines, sizzling love triangles, and innovative twists on Arthurian legends, then you'll adore Priya Ardis' captivating academy tale. Buy Gods of Merlin to find the Once and Future King today
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A Perfect Cornish Summer

The first in a gorgeous new series the author of Summer at the Cornish Cafe. Summer is on the horizon, and the people of Porthmellow are eagerly awaiting the annual food festival. At least, most of them are... For Sam Lovell, organising the summer festival in her hometown is one of the highlights of her year. It's not always smooth sailing, but she loves to see Porthmellow's harbour packed with happy visitors, and being on the committee has provided a much-needed distraction from the drama in her family life (and the distinct lack of it in her love life). When their star guest pulls out with only a few weeks to go, everyone's delighted when a London chef who grew up locally steps in at the last minute. But Gabe Matthias is the last person Sam was expecting to see, and his return to Porthmellow will change her quiet coastal life for ever. Curl up with this gorgeous novel and savour the world of Porthmellow Harbour. Authors love Phillipa Ashley's books... 'Scandals and secrets in...
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Pog

'One of a kind. Utterly fantastic.' –Eoin Colfer on TinDavid and Penny's strange new home is surrounded by forest. It's the childhood home of their mother, who's recently died. But other creatures live here... magical creatures, like tiny, hairy Pog. He's one of the First Folk, protecting the boundary between the worlds. As the children explore, they discover monsters slipping through from the place on the other side of the cellar door. Meanwhile, David is drawn into the woods by something darker, which insists there's a way he can bring his mother back ...
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