Rosie Akerman
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The Duke of Azureford isn't the arrogant, aloof lord his peers perceive him to be. Yes, he's awkward, but he has a plan to fix it. In order to woo a respectable lady, he must learn how to flirt. The completely inappropriate girl next door would make a perfect instructor, but a terrible duchess. So why can't he walk away?
Incorrigible hoyden Miss Carole Quincy likes fast carriages, carom billiards, and the beautiful, buttoned-up Duke of Azureford....
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Meg Church adores two things: life in a village of perennial Yuletide, and the freedom of being a spinster with no reputation to protect. Oh, very well, three things: She's harbored a secret tendre for Christmas curmudgeon Lucien le Duc since the moment she first glimpsed him. But the sexy blacksmith won't give her the time of day, much less a night of torrid passion.
Ever since Lucien le Duc was forced to flee his beloved France during the revolution,...
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Miss Sarah Fairfax is having a wretched year. Her intended perished at war. His child is in her belly. To secure her future, she resigns herself to a loveless marriage. Just as she's about to say I do, her fiancée returns from the grave to crash the wedding... but he's no longer the charming, carefree man she remembers.
After being left for dead on the battlefield, Brigadier Edmund Blackpool is scarred inside and out. He fights his way home only...
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Beth Brandon has always dreamed of owning a flower shop, but today the bouquets of peonies and bright spring flowers are failing to calm her nerves…because, today, Beth has a life-changing decision to share with her husband. Izzy Vaughan thought she and her husband would stay together forever, but sometime last year, their love began to fade. They both find such joy in their young son Noah-but is he enough to keep them together? Eight years ago,...
5) The Wake
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When Richard Asquith dies in a car crash, it sets in motion a series of events that threaten to destroy his family and those around him.
Richard has left behind children who dislike him, women who are bitter, and a question lingering over the disappearance of his daughter many years ago. As the family gathers at his wake, secrets from the past come to light, and the tension starts to boil over. This gripping and suspenseful psychological thriller...
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When Hattie Brown is tricked back to Somewhere-Nowhere, she's walked into a trap. There's a drought in the realm and Lord Mortimer, its brutal leader, wants to capture her and her friend Arthur because he knows they can make rain.
But Hattie isn't about to go home. She's discovered that Lord Mortimer has thrown her friend Victor into prison for his part in helping her and Arthur free an army of kidnapped children, and she's determined to rescue him....
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Ewan Campbell fought to free himself from his past-quite literally. A former prizefighter, he now earns his living as an artist. But he still fights more figurative opponents: dark memories that threaten to overwhelm him. Worse, when he is hired to assist a famous painter, he finds himself falling for the man's highborn niece, Lady Kildrum. Such feelings are pointless. Countesses do not fall in love with impoverished Highlanders, no matter what fairy...
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Lady Jane Everard cannot abide the new Earl of Hadley. The unmannered Scot is a menace to genteel ladies everywhere, what with his booming laugh and swishing kilt and endless supply of "ochs" and "ayes." Jane wishes Lord Hadley would behave as an earl should and adhere to English rules of polite conduct.
Andrew Langston, the new Earl of Hadley, knows that the English aristocracy think poorly of his lowly Scottish upbringing. This is hardly new. History...
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Lady Sophronia Sorrow considers herself an unlikely heroine. Why just her name alone proves this. Sophronia Sorrow sounds like a girl from a gothic penny novel-the foolish miss who falls prey to a rake and becomes an object lesson for the true heroine to avoid. No, despite her mawkish name, Sophie refuses to spend her life invisible and unwanted, relegated to the margin of the text. Despite her eccentric, bluestocking ways, there must be a place where...
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Lady Charlotte Whitaker is devoted to her family, particularly her sister's son, Freddie. Her late father, the Marquess of Lockhead, died without a male heir. But on his deathbed, he requested that Freddie inherit the title. Consequently, Lottie's family has petitioned the Crown. But even though she wants nothing more than to honor her late father's wishes, she unwittingly reveals a wrinkle to the plan... Dr. Alexander Whitaker is dedicated to his...
12) Found Her
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Belle Moriarty was there one moment and gone the next. Ten years ago, she disappeared walking home from school, under the supervision of her older sister Eve.
Eve has never recovered from the guilt of turning her back on her.
But then Eve receives a phone call that changes everything. Belle has been found-alive.
But who took her? Why did they keep her alive all these years? And now that Belle has escaped, will they try to silence her for...
13) No Safe Haven
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Poppy's life has never been easy. Becoming a mum at sixteen, falling out with her family, and being abandoned by her boyfriend has left her feeling lost and alone, but her son is a ray of light in her life, and the pair form a strong bond: it's the two of them against the world. Many years later, with her son grown up and away at university, Poppy arrives desperate, exhausted, and half-starved to a pretty doorstep, hoping to find sanctuary in the...
14) A Particular Man
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Love never dies in this novel by "a writer of addictive emotional thrillers" (The Independent).
Told from three perspectives A Particular Man is about love, truth and the unpredictable consequences of loss.
When Edgar dies in a Far East prisoner of war camp it breaks the heart of fellow prisoner Starling. In Edgar's final moments, Starling makes him a promise. When, after the war, he visits Edgar's family to fulfill this promise, Edgar's...
15) New Wife, The
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Nell Cosgrove is the new wife who got it all. She married her handsome, wealthy boss within six months of meeting him. They live in a beautiful riverside home. She has a flourishing career. The only problem is her two stepdaughters, Ruby and Poppy, who are fiercely loyal to their mother and reject all of Nell's overtures. But now everything is falling apart. Nell's marriage is starting to crack. Her husband spends more and more time away on business....
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In Suzanne Enoch's Great Scot, Jane Bansil knows she will never have a fairy-tale life. But even at three-and-thirty, well past marriageable age, she has to admit that the architect the MacTaggerts have hired could turn even a confirmed spinster's head. In Amelia Grey's Christmas at Dewberry Hollow, Isabelle Reed has no plans to ever fall in love-and certainly not with Gate, a man who doesn't live in Dewberry Hollow. She will fulfill her duty and...
17) The Intruder
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Maria and William seem to have it all: two happy children, a beautiful house, a thriving business. But when their home is invaded by David, an ex-employee with a score to settle, the couple face a terrifying fight to survive. During the course of one hellish night, David picks apart their carefully constructed life. Secrets are unearthed, truths revealed. And soon David begins to wonder if he's bitten off more than he can chew-because he's discovering...