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|  | | A Certain Want of Reason
Edward Rutherford is prepared to do just about anything to escape an arranged marriage to a woman he despises. But his brilliant plan to feign insanity has some rather unwanted consequences...
Lucia Wright needs a holiday. After years of caring for her “eccentric” younger brother and sister in the country, she accepts a friend’s invitation to spend a few weeks enjoying the season in London only to find that life among the city’s elite may be even crazier than at home.
Lord Edmund Rutherford needs an escape. Sworn since childhood to a woman he cannot abide, he finds himself trapped by the strictures of society and the expectations of those around him. The solution seems simple—feign madness and be sent away for a short period, encouraging his intended bride to end their long | |  | | An Excuse for Poor Conduct
A compulsive gambler knows he has reached rock bottom when he wakes up in an almshouse run by the Matilda Blakethorn, the bully who terrorized him as a child.
Matilda Blakethorn is at the top of the list of people William Fletcher never wants to encounter again. She humiliated him at the age of nine, and scared him out of his wits for years after.
So waking up after a night of heavy drinking to find her looming over him is a bit of an unpleasant surprise. Especially since he has no place to go, except for the poorhouse she supervises.
Matty Blakethorn doesn’t recognize the bedraggled stranger sleeping on the floor of St. Bartholomew’s Almshouse. But when he unwillingly ends up staying, old acquaintance is renewed. While neither Matty nor Wil | |  | | Avery's Treasure
A search for the legendary treasure of Henry Avery leads a gang of pirates, adventurers and one nervous missionary on the chase of a lifetime
Pirate Henry Avery disappeared with one of the largest fortunes ever taken on the high seas, but he's afraid to spend it for fear of attracting too much attention. Tired of living like a pauper, his daughter sets sail with Captain Charles Vane to follow a map to the hidden treasure. Missionary Charles Carter, and sometime pirate Edward Talbot (from Langley's Choice) follow her and the map for their own reasons. This story follows the accounts of real pirates including Avery, Vane, Calico Jack Rackam and even Blackbeard. | |  | | Change of Address
Amanda, moves with her eccentric mother and headstrong sister to a remote area just before Christmas. They are completely unprepared for what—and who—they find in their new home.
The set-up is familiar to anyone who’s ever read Jane Austen’s Sense and Sensibility: a widow and her daughters must leave their ancestral home and move to a small cottage in a strange part of the country. But that’s where the similarity ends. In this story, Amanda, her eccentric mother and headstrong sister move to a remote area just before Christmas. The neighbors are not quite as genteel as the ones in Austen’s beloved tale. | |  | | Deceptive Behavior
Just when she agrees to settle for an arranged marriage, Geni falls in love– with a man who thinks she’s somebody else…
Geni Bayles has made some pretty poor choices when it comes to men. So she finally agrees to meet the suitor her mother has chosen, a painfully shy baronet from the country. When she encounters Sir Richard Latimer, however, she finds him witty, considerate and charming—but only because he thinks she’s a maid. She decides to continue the deception just long enough to learn his true personality.
Richard knows he has a duty to marry a rich woman to restore the estates on which so many people depend. But he would give anything to marry a fun, clever girl like the maid he’s just met. And j | |  | | George Washington Stepped Here
Soccer mom detective Karen Maxwell finally gets her first undercover assignment--as a soccer mom.
For years after her divorce, Karen Maxwell handled administrative paperwork for her brother’s private investigation agency while he ran around town doing the “fun” part—the investigation. When his partner retires, he finally offers her a chance to take a case of her own. She soon finds out why.
The assignment involves the theft of the local historical society’s most treasured artifact, and her brother figures everyone involved is a little crazy. While Karen poses as a volunteer at the site to catch the thief, she meets a host of dedicated historical re-enactors, one of whom happens to be t | |  | | Langley's Choice
Finding her life on a tobacco plantation in colonial Maryland unbearably dull, Caroline sneaks down to the local inn to see a display of treasures brought by sailors from far off lands. Before she knows it, she’s on their ship headed for those far off lands herself.
From her unadorned, isolated plantation in an obscure corner of the American colonies, Caroline Carter dreams of seeing the world. But in her fantasies, she travels as a lady of fashion and high society, not as a pauper in boys’ clothing forced to slave away as a deckhand on a privateer vessel.
Recently arrived from England, Josiah Throckmorton, is not exactly thrilled to hear the news that his intended bride is on a ship full of men bound for unknown waters. But he’s also not thrilled with the prospect of joining Caroline’s brother on a rescue mission that will be dangerous, expensi | |  | | Restitution
As Maryland colonists prepare to take up arms against the English, Jack McCready discovers he can make quite a bit of money carrying correspondence back and forth, and even more money if he shares the information with other interested parties. But how long can he tread the line between both sides without getting caught?
In the beginning of 1774, Jack McCready and Mara Weingardt may have been the only two people in the colony of Maryland who couldn’t care less about the British tax on tea.
Mara, a widow with two boys to support, had enough difficulty simply keeping her small farm together so that she would not have to marry the abusive, lecherous neighbor who owned her property. And peddler Jack could only care about the tax if somehow he could profit by it, which he could not.
That is, until the day he is offered a substantial sum of money to carry correspondence from one disgruntled colonist to anoth | |  | | Roped In
It's hard to be taken seriously as a private investigator when your only cases involve a dead parrot and a broken jump rope...
Karen discovers a whole new world when she goes undercover into the sport of competitive jump rope. Athletes dedicate hours and hours of practice to dreams of making it to the world competition—and some might do anything to win. Add a gym-full of raging teenage hormones and overzealous parents and it becomes even more difficult to discover the truth about that broken rope.
Meanwhile, the parrot investigation gets Karen in trouble with the Neighborhood Watch, her daughter is developing a suspicious social life, and her son can't be trusted with the toaster oven. Then there's the whole rom | |  | | The Appearance of Impropriety
When Sophie Bayles inadvertently ruins a young man’s chance for employment, she sets out to find him a new position. Even though he doesn’t want her to.
With the war over, Lieutenant Heyward Elliott needs work. The job hunt is made no easier by the meddling of Sophie, who is all smiles and helpfulness one minute and snobby and argumentative the next. Complicating matters is her constant companion Helen, a strange young lady with a propensity to drop eggs on people in the name of science.
Sophie tries to do the right thing, but gets all the wrong results. Her attempts to find employment for Lieutenant Elliott produce one disaster after another, until he finally orders her never to help him again. But when he is arrested on false charges, sh | |  | | Toto's Tale
Ever wonder what really happened in Oz? Find out from the one character who saw it all from the ground up...
Everyone knows how Dorothy and Toto save Oz from the Wicked Witch of West…or do they?
How will Dorothy survive in a land filled with haunted bags of straw, hollow metal men and giant smelly cats?
How will she fight off killer bees, mad wolves and really annoying monkeys?
How will she defeat a witch with mind control
and an all-seeing eye?
And how will Dorothy ever find the way home?
The simple truth is that she won’t, at least not alone. Of course, she’s not alone – she has Toto, her best friend.
That is, Toto used to be her best friend. But | |  | | Worth Its Weight in Old
Soccer mom detective Karen Maxwell has to fight her way past Rodney the Office Maximizer and survive the world's worst Christmas play before she has the chance to solve her second case...
Paintings slashed... Furniture broken… Someone is wreaking havoc at the Blue Moon Art & Antiques Gallery.
Fledgling private investigator Karen Maxwell goes undercover as a salesclerk to find out who’s behind the vandalism, and why. She learns little from Vicki, a friendly clerk who seems interested only in rearranging pictures to display them—and her designer clothes and sports car—to maximum advantage. Eric, the shop’s surly, tight-lipped porter, would run over her with a hand truck before he’d answer any questions. The guilt may even lay with the shop owners themselves, despite t |
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The Rebecca Bride
by Charlene Tess
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Zeke Milligan is stuck between a rock and a hard place. He is desperately in love with Lynn, but a dark secret from his past continues to rear its ugly head. Worse yet, he persistently punishes the love of his life for events that took p |
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