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The summer of Sunshine & Margot
by Susan Mallery
What it's about: Descended from a long line of women with disastrous luck in love, twin sisters Margot and Sunshine transform their controversial relationships with a client's son and an employer into unexpected sources of happiness.
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Tears of the Dragon
by Jean Moran
What it's about: One sultry evening in Kowloon, Dr Rowena Rossiter and Sister Alice Huntley are off-duty and in search of fun – little knowing that their world is on the brink of collapse. That night, Rowena will meet two men who will fight for her heart for the next four years: Connor O'Connor, the rebellious Irish soldier, who will woo and then lose her, and Kim Pheloung. Immensely rich and the most beautiful man Rowena has ever seen, he is also the most ruthless, with a sinister need to possess and control. When the Japanese invasion leaves this previously strong and independent woman raped and broken, who will succeed in claiming Rowena's body and soul? And will she ever learn to love the child born of that terrible Christmas Day?
For fans of: Dinah Jefferies.
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The Slum Angel
by AnneMarie Brear
What it's about: Orphan Victoria Carlton is brought up by her uncle, a banker, to be a lady and make a good marriage. Yet, she is drawn to help the poor families in the slums, much to her family’s disgust. When her uncle dies suddenly, her cousins blame Victoria, and she is thrown out of the house with nothing. Victoria flees to the poor side of York to start again in a world that is full of perils. To combat the heartache of being without her family, she befriends the destitute women and children in the slums, but such friendships come with the danger of disease, and increasing poverty, and the threat of a brutal man could cost her everything. Can Victoria find the security she has lost? Will a certain doctor be the man she can give her heart to? Or will the ghosts of the past return to take away everything she has worked so hard for?
For fans of: Anna Jacobs and Dilly Court.
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The One
by Kaneana May
What it's about: On the wrong side of thirty, Bonnie Yates wants a happily ever after. Problem is, she keeps choosing the wrong guys. When an ex returns to town with a fiancee in tow, history and temptation collide. Unable to shake her inappropriate feelings, Bonnie flees, becoming an unlikely contestant on popular dating show The One. Will she find what she's looking for? Working behind the scenes, Darcy Reed is a driven young producer dealing with a tyrant of a boss. Despite being surrounded by love at work, her own love life with long-term boyfriend Drew is floundering. Producing a flawless season is her best chance at a promotion. But with the unrelenting demands of the show, how will she save their relationship while making that shot? Penelope Baker has relocated to a small seaside town to hide away with her secrets and nurse a broken heart. But with The One beaming across the nation's televisions, she can't seem to quite escape the life she left behind. Before cameras roll on the final ceremony, all three women will discover just what they're willing to do in pursuit of the one ...
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Star-crossed : a novel
by Minnie Darke
What it's about: Convinced that her childhood sweetheart and she are ideally suited upon discovering he is an astrology devotee, a secretly skeptical horoscope magazine writer takes matters into her own hands when the young man does not return her affections.
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| The Other Lady Vanishes by Amanda QuickThe situation: Adelaide Blake escapes from a sanitarium and, assuming a new identity, settles in Burning Cove, California, where she attracts the notice of enigmatic businessman Jake Truett.
And then: Celebrity psychic Madame Zolanda successfully predicts murder most foul, sending Adelaide and Jake on a quest to find the killer.
Why you might like it: This second installment of the Burning Cove series, after The Girl Who Knew Too Much, infuses Hitchcockian suspense with old Hollywood glamour. |
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Outfox
by Sandra Brown
What it is: The latest thriller by the best-selling author of Tailspin and Seeing Red features Sandra Brown’s signature combination of steamy romance and high-suspense plot twists.
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Dark water rising
by Sharon Sala
What it's about: As Tropical Storm Gladys heads straight towards coastal Texas, Sam Quaid must race against time to save his ex-wife when she reaches out to him after the escape of two prisoners from a penitentiary near where she lives.
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River Road
by Jayne Ann Krentz
What it's about: Returning thirteen years after an embarrassing incident from her teens to the hometown of her beloved late aunt, forensic genealogist Lucy Sheridan makes shocking discoveries about her aunt's death, the disappearance of a cold-blooded local and an attractive former cop.
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Shiver
by Karen Robards
What it's about: Repossessing cars to support her small son after being abandoned on the harsh streets of East St. Louis, young single mother Samantha Jones discovers a dying man in the trunk of a car who takes her hostage and forces her to help him reach his protectors.
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