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Fortune hunters and fools. Those are the gentlemen Fanny Rivers has endured since her husband's passing. Men who believe women too feeble-brained to manage a fortune, much less help it grow. So for her sister's upcoming wedding festivities, she's combined her business acumen with her habit of collecting strays-hiring an actor to play her besotted beau. And it's working marvelously. Too marvelously. Before long, her attraction to Jeremy makes it difficult...

A captivating Christian romance series! Colby:Someone is out to destroy me.I broke free from my bosses, left the darkness behind, and dared to step into the light. But now a nameless, faceless enemy is tearing my life apart bit by bit.Then the ultimate disaster strikes. It's a repeat of the incident that plunged me into darkness at age sixteen and set me on a self-destructive path to begin with.Worst of all, my life is unravelling before the very...

Austin Harris is not the kind of man you want to double-cross, he's fiercely loyal to his band, and to his family. As one-fifth of the biggest bands in the world, he's got women dropping to their knees with just a blink of an eye but his heart is locked away and he threw the key a long time ago. When unforeseen circumstances bring him back home after a decade, he has to make peace with the past for a second chance at true love, but Suzie's hiding...

Christmas is the season for family, fun and for falling in love in this delightful holiday romp by bestselling author Heather Boyd!Widowed Nicolas Westfall, the Duke of Stapleton, cannot prevent the upcoming debut for his youngest daughter no matter how much he wishes her eventual marriage wouldn't leave him all alone. Convinced to host a Christmas Ball to prepare her for the season, he's aware he's considered a catch on the marriage mart too, but...

With her inimitable gift for describing the workings of the heart and mind, Edna O'Brien introduces us to a vivid new cast of restless, searching people who-whether in the Irish countryside or London or New York-remind us of our own humanity. In "Send My Roots Rain," Miss Gilhooley, a librarian, waits in the lobby of a posh Dublin hotel-expecting to meet a celebrated poet while reflecting on the great love who disappointed her. The Irish workers...

She isn't the girl Luka Hale loved.Gia Jilani killed the child she'd been, right along with the memory of his smile and the sting of his sweet kiss.But sometimes, against her will, Luka comes back to her- his smile, his laugh, the crooked twist of his lips just before he kissed her. He's a phantom that won't ever fade. He's a reminder of what happens if you love too deeply.Now Gia returns to the place where the past and the present converge. Where...

Marriage is about finding that special someone you want to annoy for the rest of your life!Mrs. Rebecca Warner's devotion to her family is the perfect distraction from the loneliness of widowhood. Not that she'd ever admit a need for someone special in her life after her husband's betrayal. With the responsibility of arranging her sister's wedding falling into her lap, Rebecca has no time for a certain maddening earl bent on seducing her-until he...

How do you choose between dangerous freedom and peaceful slavery?Chloe: Imagine the worst thing that could happen to you. And then multiply it by ten!Somehow, my family has found out about Colby, and the shame of what I did is unbearable.Mom orders me to return home and she puts me through bootcamp: all-night prayer meetings, bible lectures from Nana, the works.Now, I no longer trust myself.Can the girl who made such a horrendous mistake just last...

Colby:Every saint has a past, every sinner has a future?That is complete bull. Chloe Campbell is so saintly and perfect, she terrifies me. She has no past.The phrase innocent as a dove comes to mind. She'd probably never done a single thing wrong-until she met me.Right now, we're stranded in LA, sharing the only hotel room we can get, and trying to ignore the electric chemistry that hums between us.She's hurting, which makes her thinks she wants me,...

Return to the regency countryside for a summer fling that will melt your heart. Jaded by the experience of dodging fortune hunters during her first season, Lady Jessica Westfall returns home to the estate she loves expecting peace…until the biggest fortune hunter of all follows her from London. To keep Lord James at bay, Jessica enlists the aid of her neighbor, Gideon. As her lifelong friend, Giddy can be trusted to help thwart James' pursuit, while...