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13741) The Seafarers
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The sacred mysteries essential to Viking survival will be lost if Inge Andersdottir cannot find a daughter to inherit the ancient wisdom. Inge and her husband Karl-Eirik adopt Thora, a young thrall with skaldic (poetic) powers and more. Thora kills a glasscaster and the king condemns her to Lesser Outlawry: a long season of exile to the rivers of Russia and then Istanbul, on Karl's boat, The Seafarers.
Reluctantly, Inge agrees to go along and finds...
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Just another dull debutante? From boxing at Jackson's to dancing starry-eyed society belles around London's ballrooms, Beldon Stratten is the perfect English gentleman. And he's looking for a perfectly bland, respectable wife. Appearances can be deceiving. Exotic Lilya Stefanov is anything but bland. Beldon is intrigued to see that the ragamuffin girl he once knew has matured into an elegant lady, poised and polite! But beneath the mysterious beauty's...
13743) Unsettled Shores
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Weary from London's air raids and the loss of her father at the Battle of the Somme, Josie Harrington wonders if The Great War will ever end. Determined to bring hope to her country's bleak existence, she joins an underground postal service, delivering soldiers' letters in order to avoid censorship on both sides of the line. After being driven from their home under false accusations, German-American Amara Kisch has finally found peace with her new...
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Bareknuckle bastards volume 2
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New York Times Bestselling Author Sarah MacLean returns with the next book in the Bareknuckle Bastards series about three brothers bound by a secret that they cannot escape-and the women who bring them to their knees.
The Lady's Plan
When Lady Henrietta Sedley declares her twenty-ninth year her own, she has plans to inherit her father's business, to make her own fortune, and to live her own life. But first, she intends to experience a taste of the...
13745) Un Amor de Leyenda
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El Duque de Strathvegon tenía que encontrar una salida. George Wallington había descubierto el romance que mantenía con su esposa y amenazaba con matarlo. En tales circunstancias, a la madre del Duque se le ocurrió una solución: su hijo debía salir de Londres y anunciar su compromiso matrimonial para evitar el escándalo.
Con este fin decidió dar una gran fiesta en su Castillo de Escocia e invitó a tres jóvenes casaderas más bellas de Londres...
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Just before the turn of the 20th century, Jacob Hudson grows up on a farm in the Canadian prairies, near the small village of Abbington Pickets. As a child, he witnesses an incident that scars him deeply and leaves him unable to trust or understand his strong, proud, and often harsh father. Shy Jacob grows into a handsome, talented young man still carrying a dark secret. Just when Jacob thinks he will never be able to follow his dreams, he meets Abigail,...
13747) The Captain's Frozen Dream
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Can he salvage her reputation? Trapped in the Arctic ice, intrepid explorer Captain Conrad Essington was driven on by thoughts of his fiancée, Katie Vickers. Finally home, he's ready to take her in his arms and kiss away the nightmare of that devastating winter. Except the past eighteen months haven't been plain sailing for Katie, either. With Conrad believed dead, and her reputation in tatters, Katie has relinquished all hope of her fiancé ever...
13748) Chained to the Barbarian
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Bound in chains, enslaved barbarian Sir William Bradfer stands proud in the Constantinople slave market. As a warrior, he's trained in the art of survival.
Lady-in-waiting Anna of Heraklea is betrothed to be married-;against her will. Catching sight of the magnificent William, she finds a rebellious half plan forming in her mind. Anna can offer this captured knight freedom in return for his hand in marriage!
13749) Lucky's Lady
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When Mary-Michael Watkins married her elderly mentor who owned the shipyard where she worked, she never thought she'd miss the things he can't give her. But as the years pass, she discovers a surprising need for a child that grows stronger each day. Her husband urges her to look elsewhere for a man to sire the baby she wants, but she can't even consider such a thing-until she meets Captain Gualtiero.
Luchino Gualtiero, is a man to whom family means...
13750) The Highwayman's Daughter
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A rousing Georgian romance of love and larceny from an award-winning author. Jack Blythe, heir to the Earl of Lampton, is a man who loves a good bet. He's given the opportunity for one when a masked woman, brandishing a pistol and dressed as a gentleman of the road, holds up his carriage in Hounslow Heath. Now he's entered a wager with his profligate cousin: whoever tracks down and captures the beautiful outlaw first wins. But the determined nobleman...
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Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairytale in Alliterative Verse is a heroic romance published anonymously in the 14th century by the "Gawayne Poet." One of the best known Arthurian stories, Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight: A Fairytale in Alliterative Verse has been translated by the likes J.R.R. Tolkien and adapted four times for film. At a New Year's Eve celebration in King Arthur's court, a mysterious and looming figure cast entirely in green...
13752) Two Wrongs Make a Marriage
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Lord Kenton is surprisingly happy to be lured to a moonlit gazebo, held at gunpoint by the delectable Cynthia Banester and forced to marry her. The only finger he's had to lift is the one that's caressed the neckline of her dress. She's claimed a title-he's secured a fortune. There are just two problems-he's not the real Lord Kenton, and she's not rich! Bound by their own deceptions, Cynthia and Jack decide to make the best of a bad deal. They may...
13753) The Miner's Daughter
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It's the height of the Silent Film era and Marigold Pottersby is trying to hang on to her father's failing silver mine when producer Martin Tafft offers a hefty sum to use the mine in his latest flicker. Mari quickly agrees but balks when the film crew insists she stop mining. Then Mari meets Tony Ewing. Tafft's heaviest investor and a dyed-in-the-wool Easterner, Tony arrives to investigate the film's progress. He has no use for the West, or the mine's...
13754) The Dark Dream
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A sweeping tale of passion and survival from the Victorian goldfields to the dark heart of Sydney Town.
Winter 1852. Adam has just returned from the Californian goldfields and is heading for Bendigo in Victoria, the new El Dorado. He comes across Ella, injured, penniless and with only the clothes she is wearing. Adam is the son of a convict with the determination and intelligence to 'better' himself. Despite her current circumstances, it is obvious...
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A night of scandalous passion has come at a high price for Ewan Radley, Duke of Strathmore. His headstrong fiancée has fled, and he is now left to raise their love child on his own.
Lady Caroline Hastings isn't about to forgive the man who threw her over for her sister, but when Ewan begs her to come to Scotland and help save his son, she cannot refuse him.
Trapped together within a snowbound castle, they struggle to come to terms with their past....
13756) The Bride Wore Scarlet
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Fraternitas Aureae Crucis volume 2
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Intriguing...engaging...an illicit delight."
-Stephanie Laurens
New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Liz Carlyle ushers readers once again inside the mysterious St James Club, where passion and secrets simmer behind the elegant façade of Victorian London. In her deliciously intriguing The Bride Wore Scarlet, Carlyle does historical romance absolutely right-as a determined young beauty's desire to gain entrance into the secret all-male...
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Le temps d'une nuit avec l'homme le plus désiré du monde...
Paris, une nuit de mars 1924
La vie de Gabriel bascule. Les bouillonnements de sa jeune adolescence en font l'amant d'un soir de l'homme le plus désiré du monde.
New York, 23 août 1926
Une voix - celle de Rudolph Valentino, « le grand séducteur » -, que le cinéma parlant n'a pas eu le temps de faire parler, se tait définitivement.
Toulouse, 2 avril 2015
Monsieur Gabriel s'éteint.
Il...
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Norman Melton hat sich aus armen Verhältnissen zum Besitzer der Melton Motor Company hochgearbeitet und ist nun ein Millionär, der ehrgeizig an weiteren Projekten arbeitet. Er wurde in den Adelsstand erhoben und war in erster Ehe mit einer Adligen verheiratet. Diese Ehe war sehr unglücklich, da Lady Evelyn Cleeve, die verwitwete Tochter des Earl of Brora, ihrem ersten Gatten nachtrauerte, der verunglückt war und Norman nur aus finanziellen Gründen...
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Mr. Darcy's younger sister searches for her own happily-ever-after...
The year is 1814, and it is springtime at Pemberley. Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy have married. But now a new romance is in the air, along with high fashion, elegant manners, scandal, deception, and the wonderful hope of a true and lasting love.
Shy Georgiana Darcy has been content to remain unmarried, living with her brother and his new bride. But Elizabeth and Darcy's fairy-tale...
13760) Midnight Omen
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Besieged by the supernatural, modern-day teens are haunted by 18th-century marauders. But when faced with life on board and ancient ship, they learn their survival depends on haunting events lived long ago as Caribbean pirates.
Midnight Omen is book 1 in The Deja vu Chronicles - a paranormal, time-travel, historical, romance about 18th-century pirates, witches, and voodoo on the high seas of the Caribbean.
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