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A rags-to-riches, forbidden love, opposites attract romance from a New York Times bestselling author: Oliver York returns from war to find his father dead, his finances in arrears, and himself the new Earl of Carlisle. If he doesn't marry an heiress-and fast!-he and his tenants are going to be pitching tents down by the Thames. He definitely shouldn't be trading kisses with a penniless debutante... no matter how captivating she is! Miss Gr...

Enjoy a fun, fish-out-of-water, opposites-attract romantic comedy adventure on the high seas from a New York Times bestselling author! Captain Blackheart leads a simple life of roving the seas, wenching and treasure-hunting. He steers clear of romantic entanglements that could tie him to land. He shouldn't have any trouble keeping his hands off the gently-bred lady he's commissioned to abduct-except his cargo turns out to be feisty and pass...

A second chances, long-lost lovers, military hero romance from a New York Times bestselling author: Miss Sarah Fairfax is having a wretched year. Her intended perished at war. His child is in her belly. To secure her future, she resigns herself to a loveless marriage. Just as she's about to say "I do, " her fiancé returns from the grave to crash the wedding... but he's no longer the charming, carefree man she remembers. After being left ...

War is a costly business and in 1939, Germany was almost broke with its economy overheating and heading for runaway inflation. Hitler needed hard foreign currency to pay for his war machine and the only way he could get this was by selling gold that he looted from the national banks of Austria, Czechoslovakia and all the countries that were occupied after September 1939.Another source of gold was the theft of personal gold especially from the ...

Follow the lives of a resident family of American oystercatchers as you explore the diversity of an estuary, where rivers meet the sea, in Matagorda Bay. Celebrate the unique ecology of the bay as its own little world of Texas estuaries, the "nurseries of the sea." Matagorda Magic: The Hidden Life of a Texas Bay reveals the importance of these features as critical habitats for more than 200 species of resident and migratory birds, including th...

Arnold Ridley¿s classic comedy-thriller, The Ghost Train, was first produced in 1925 and has been a firm favourite with professional and non-professional theatre companies ever since. Six passengers find themselves stranded late at night in the waiting-room of an isolated Cornish railway station. Ignoring the ghostly tales and dire warnings of the stationmaster, they decide to stay where they are until morning ¿ with terrifying consequences. F...

Setting the third brother free should have broken the curse for good, but the darkness still threatens everything. The curse cannot be truly broken until the fourth brother is found and he too finds true love. David is bitter, having lost his entire family after his mother passed. Now, he clings to his love of the ocean. When that love brings him face to face with a mystical selkie man, will he accept his destiny or turn from it and the selk...

That's the way it works in this family. Believe what you wanna believe. Twist this. Ignore the other. That's how we survive.' Steven has always tried to be a good person. He works hard. He looks after his family. But, suddenly, everyone starts accusing him of things. His wife accuses him of being unfaithful. His mother accuses him of being coercive. And his brother, Barry, accuses him of...what exactly? Barry won't say. Or can't. Or perhaps....

Following his highly praised and bestselling book Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters, Matt Ridley has written a brilliant and profound book about the roots of human behavior. Nature via Nurture explores the complex and endlessly intriguing question of what makes us who we are.In February 2001 it was announced that the human genome contains not 100, 000 genes, as originally postulated, but only 30, 000. This startling revisio...

Griffin Poetry Prize finalist Sandra Ridley offers a breathtaking, harrowing immersion in cruelty behind different veils: the medieval hunt, ecological collapse, and intimate partner violence.Sparked by a haunting chance encounter with a fox, and told in six chapters of varying form, Vixen is as visceral as it is mysterious, sensuous as it is terrifying."Thicket" introduces us to stalking being akin to hunting, the similar threat of terror and...

Marjorie Wynchester has always let her siblings take the lead when it comes to planning their investigations. But someone in London is trying to pass off counterfeits, and this time she's the only one with the skill needed to find the culprit. Soon, all the evidence leads her straight to Lord Adrian Webb.Adrian is a roguish scoundrel of the first order, but he never meant to get caught up in a forgery scheme. Especially one that's snowballed o...

Enjoy a fiery, passionate enemies-to-lovers revenge romance from a New York Times bestselling author! All her life, Miss Gladys Bell was a wallflower whose parents despaired of her ever attracting a suitor. Then she met the man of her dreams, who said she was the woman of his. One passionate night later, Gladys awaits a marriage proposal that never comes. Reuben Medford, the ton's most notorious rake, doesn't even remember her name. Thank...

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Is this man his first real chance at love... or will his father's curse stop it from happening? Will pursuing this newfound love put both their lives at risk? Lance loved his grandmother, but even though he knew it was real, he tried hard not to buy into all her witch stuff. But it was real enough that his homophobic father had cursed him and his brothers to never find love. Regardless of what Lance believed or wanted to believe, his late ...

When forced to choose between ending his father's curse and his fear of commitment, will Kyle embrace his destiny or will he turn away and let the world burn around him? Kyle doesn't believe in destiny. In fact, he's fought against it most of his life. When his homophobic father cursed him and his brothers to never find love, Kyle decided he didn't need it anyway. As a gay man, why settle with one man when you can have many? Conley has ne...