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In this modern retelling of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, orphaned surfer-girl Janie Mason must move into the Rochester mansion with guardians she had never met, and where the night is filled with screams from the attic.

William, a confirmed bachelor, becomes guardian to three children. When the girls' nanny proves abusive, William seeks counsel from his sister and her husband and meets Marianne, who changes his beliefs about women and God.

Four lives intertwine in a riveting western novel filled with drama, romance and comedy. Yulin Temple is an alcoholic sheriff who can’t find a bottle big enough to drown ghosts from the past. Reva Delgado is a self-made woman who reinvents herself to hide her past as she moves through life. Ike Fleck, whose gun is faster than Wild Bill Hickok's, steals the $400,000 stagecoach cargo he was hired to guard. His older brother Garrison, a detective for...

Music therapist Alexandra Roth is visiting Oak Hollow, Texas for a break before the start of her career, but connecting with officer Luke Walker and his orphaned nephew with autism makes Alex rethink her plans for the future.

"After their father's death, Miss Judith Taverner and her brother Peregrine travel to London to meet their guardian, Lord Worth, expecting an elderly gentleman. To their surprise and utter disgust, their guardian is not much older than they are, doesn't want the office of guardian any more than they want him, and is determined to thwart all their interests and return them to the country. But when Miss Taverner and Peregrine begin to move in the highest...

"Reliability. Trustworthiness. Dignity. These are only a few of the characteristics supporting Marcus Sherbrook's reputation as the perfect gentleman. Or almost perfect, as there is one significant smirch on his record: the rebellion of one Miss Isabel Denham who, at the age of seventeen, defied Marcus's guardianship, eloped, and fled to India. The widowed Isabel returned to England ten years ago, and has been making Marcus's cool gray eyes flash...

Diana Donovan was raised aboard a naval ship on a steady diet of war strategy, so when her orphaned friend, Lucy, is denied a perfectly respectable love match by her controlling guardian, Diana sees an opportunity to put her battle knowledge to use in service of a deserving friend. But Marmaduke Russell is not the middle-aged curmudgeon Diana is expecting. He is a maddeningly cool, unmarried gentleman who seems uniquely able to parry her tactics—and...

"Caroline Shelby left Oysterville, Washington ten years ago to launch a career in the fashion world of Manhattan. Scandal and tragedy have forced her back, with Addie and Flick, the two orphans she is legal guardian for. But Oysterville - and her family - has changed. Will Jensen, a decorated Navy SEAL wounded overseas, has also returned. His wife Sierra, Caroline's best friend, is also reinventing herself as her modeling jobs dry up. At the sewing...

"For years, the battles between Kin and Transitioner have been inching dangerously close to all-out war. Not the Kin may have just what they need to tip the scales in their favor: Addie Emrys, Evangeline's sister and one of the last remaining descendants of Merlin. If the Kin can get their hands on the Sword of Nuadu and the Stone of Fal, then Addie's help will allow them to break the Eighth Day spell, unleashing chaos upon the world. But Jax won't...

Coerced by a vindictive malefactor, a runaway teen embarks on a spree of violence, thievery, and destruction. After a year of incarceration, he becomes a ward of the state under the guardianship of a small-town clergyman. In the interest of turning a new leaf, he sets out to become the ultimate man of honor; however, juvenile hijinks, a monstrous housemate, love's first bite, and raging wildfires provide formidable opposition. Tangled in angst, confronted...