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The Ghosts of Paradise Place

Don't look back or the devil will get you...Taking up a new job at the Birmingham Central Library, Kath Bright is haunted by sinister occurrences in the brutalist concrete complex.  It's 2008 and Britain slides into its first credit crunch Christmas.  But money troubles are not Kath's only concern as she uncovers a chilling tale of witch hunts and a Victorian murder mystery from the archives.  But this past becomes very real and there's a killer on her trail. The dark anti-heroine of the bestselling time travel saga gets her own personal origin story in this novella that reveals how she first found her touchstone."Brilliant... a great story... back to the best for me.""I read this book in one sitting - I loved it!""Love the atmosphere in this story - 'deep and crisp and evil' - wonderful." "Couldn't put it down! Really loved it and didn't want it to end." 
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The Truth About Dukes

A new duke and a woman with a secret in her past get a second chance at love in this delightful and charming Regency romance from the New York Times bestselling author of the Windham series.Robert Rothmere is hiding a past no duke should have endured, but he's not hiding it well enough. Sooner or later, his enemies will learn that he spent years locked away at a private asylum. To get their hands on his wealth, they'll try to send him right back to his worst nightmares. If Robert is to foil their schemes, he needs to marry a perfectly proper, blessedly boring, deadly dull duchess, immediately — and he knows exactly which quietly delightful lady he'd love to entrust with that role.Lady Constance Wentworth has cultivated a reputation for utter forgettability. She never speaks out of turn (in public), never has a daring thought (that she admits aloud), and never comes close to courting scandal... as far as anybody knows. Her path crossed Robert's...
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Mirrored Hearts

A Short Love StoryHe is determined to keep his secret close to his heart.She is living under the crushing weight of her own secret. Will their marriage survive when mirrored secrets are exposed?Find out in the page-turner, Mirrored Hearts, a fascinating short story about faith and love in the face of crushing secrets.A Short Love StoryLarry Kanate and his wife, Rozene would be considered a modern day power couple. Rozene is a globe-trotting best-selling author and he is on the executive management team at Pallecia Worldwide All Suite Hotel. Years in the making, they have managed to keep love alive while supporting each other’s dreams.In an irrational moment, Larry acted on impulse and created life changing struggles that could destroy their happiness. He is determined to keep his secret close to his heart. But, Rozene is living under the crushing weight of her own secret.When mirrored secrets are exposed, Larry realized that in order to understand his heat of the moment behavior, he would have to delve deeper and reveal more of himself than he had ever disclosed to anyone. In doing so, he just may save himself…and perhaps, his marriage.
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Tethered Hearts

Seeing the ghost of your dead girlfriend might be scary for most but not for Kade Mathews. Zoey's spirit brings him the much needed peace he craves. Until he is forced to make a choice. It will be the toughest decision he has ever had to make.It is July 25, 1864 when the good inspector James Wright is called to the chief inspector, as a murder suspect has asked for him by name. Unsure of what could be afoot, the inspector finds his good friend and sometimes ally the Count of Samerand cuffed in irons for the murder of a man. The count faces death if proven guilty, and the obvious affection the have for each other does not help the matter. How will the count save himself before he meets his end?
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A Hardened Warrior (Clan Ross Book 2)

A Hardened Warrior (Clan Ross Book Two)
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A Time to Die

Beneath the unforgiving, blazing heat of the African sun, two men and a woman embark on a savage hunt. A hunt that will tear their safe safari apart, plunging them into the restless tides of a deadly civil war, in Wilbur Smith's bestselling adventure, A Time to Die.For Sean Courtney, veteran guerrilla fighter and professional warrior, it is a time to fight and a time to find a deep and passionate love. For the beautiful Claudia Monterro it is a time to face the ultimate test in a world where American values count for nothing. And for Riccardo, her father, a rich and ruthless tycoon, it is a time to confront a dangerous obsession.
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Uncharted Redemption (The Uncharted Series Book 2)

When her past keeps her from love, she needs the hope of redemption.Mandy Foster spends her days building musical instruments and her nights regretting her past. If anyone discovers her secret, tradition dictates the village must shun her. She guards her heart with skillfully played songs and flirtatious smiles.Breaking from the Land’s tradition, carpenter Levi Colburn is building his house outside the village—across the road from Mandy to be exact. Though he’s been in love with Mandy since their school years, she rejected him once and has been unattainable to every man in the village ever since.When Mandy’s life is in danger, it’s up to Levi to rescue her.But will she accept the tender care of the one man who truly loves her?
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On Wings of Devotion

All of England thinks Phillip Camden a monster for the deaths of his squadron. But as Nurse Arabelle Denler watches him every day, she sees something far different: a hurting man desperate for mercy. But when an old acquaintance shows up and seems set on using him in a plot that has the codebreakers of Room 40 in a frenzy, new affections are put to the test.
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Return to Summerhouse

With her shining gift for "exquisite and enchanting" (BookPage) storytelling, Jude Deveraux sweeps readers away in a breathtaking follow-up to her beloved New York Times bestseller, The Summerhouse — where a marvelous new adventure awaits. Magic most definitely resides in the Maine summerhouse where the mysterious Madame Zoya has granted the innermost wishes of its visitors. Now, three women have come to this special place with one thing in common: a painful past they would each like to rewrite. Amy, who hides a heartbreaking loss behind her seemingly perfect marriage and family...Faith, a widow in her thirties whose deepest grief is for a man from years ago...and Zoë, an artist shunned by her hometown for reasons she doesn't know, after a traumatic night erased her memory. With their mystical powers, Madame Zoya and her sister Primrose are about to transport the trio to eighteenth-century England to alter Amy's ancestry. But although surprises await each of them, will stepping back in time bring the women the happy endings they seek?
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