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American-born Sarah is visiting her grandmother in London in 1812, when America and Britain are on the brink of war. She meets Lord Wrenningham who proposes, but Sarah will not marry without love. Her furious Grandmama sends Sarah home to America, on the same ship as Wrenningham. Then war is declared - but will the couple find love?

Chloe doesn't know her family, so when Marcus mistakes her for a lady called Isabella, she wanted to know more. Soon she is invited to live with Lady Pascall and learns of her and Marcus' scheme to outwit the unscrupulous Bellamy. Chloe suspects that she is part of their plan, and thinks it has something to do with the unknown Isabella.

Jessie and Carl have made a terrible mistake. When Jonah came to their cabin in the Maine woods, asking to use the phone, they should never have let him in. But Jessie took pity on him. So they invite him in and soon discover that this stranger at their table knows all about them. Jessie and Carl are now captives in their own home.

Josie Parker is found drowned in the bath on her wedding night. The circumstances indicate murder, and DCI Ed Swift has no choice but to regard the distraught groom, Jamie, as chief suspect. But Jamie claims to have lost all memory of the moments leading up to his bride's death. When Swift begins an investigation into the family dynamics of the newlyweds, he uncovers a shocking trail of deceit and treachery. But it is not until Swift takes Jam...

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The hearing of a voice in the absence of a speaker is commonly regarded as a sign of mental illness, yet many ordinary people throughout the ages have had this experience. The voice is sometimes recognized as belonging to a relative or friend, who may be alive or dead, or it may be completely unknown. In this well-researched book, Rodney Davies examines numerous historical and present-day cases of this truly remarkable phenomenon. He not only ...

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In 1803 it seems nothing can stop Napoleon Bonaparte from invading and conquering England. So, Prime Minister William Pitt creates a plan to thwart his deadly enemy. He recruits and finances a French royalist general, George Cadoudal, giving him the order to kidnap or kill Bonaparte and restore the Bourbon monarchy. Cadoudal comes within an ace of fulfilling his mission, but Bonaparte proves he is a master tactician and a mean detective when h...

When Jake Probyn hauled up outside the Circle F ranch, he was looking for work and not trouble. But trouble in the shape of the boss' daughters and the foreman, Ransome, was what he found. Things got worse when the old man died and left the ranch to his daughters. Then there were back shootings and range fires with one daughter going missing.

Liberty, equality, fraternity, and death to the aristocrats. In Paris, 1792, this is the cry of a downtrodden people who have risen against their oppressors. Doctor Juliette Roussel agrees. Yet, could she save some of the imprisoned children and use their blood money to help other innocents?

When Jake Rudd is saved from a brutal beating, he can't believe his luck. Not only is his saviour an attractive redhead, she's an old flame. Suddenly his plans to settle down seem a real possibility. Unfortunately, Ros West has no memory of him, and with trouble following her, no reason to trust him.

Sophie Greenwood went to London to have her season hoping to find a husband. If only they had told her that her father had lost all his money, but gossip spreads quickly around London and already everyone knew Baron Canmore's scandal. Now 2 years later, will Sophie ruin another season?

Sarah Davenport's brother has lost his entire fortune to the sinister Lord Percival who implies he will accept Sarah in lieu of the debt but he also demands a huge sum of money from Greg. However, the one man Sarah could ever love was Greg.

While death, that great and inexorable leveller, lies ahead of us all, it is but a staging post on this journey we call life. Beyond death is the next realm, wherein that which survives our physical body, the soul or wraith, continues to exist, perhaps indefinitely. Tradition divides this mysterious domain into two distinct and separate regions, one of which, called heaven, is reputedly light-filled and beautiful, the other, known as hell, is ...

In this portrait of a city, Glaswegian writer and poet, Maurice Lindsay, draws together the many threads of Glasgow's rich inheritance to create an evocative picture of a city that was once the 'Second City of the Empire'.

Manfred Schiller is the world's most powerful and richest citizen who controls an enormous industry covering most aspects of everyone's lives. The key to controlling his organisation is a week-old baby boy and Franz Molke, leader of the People's Party in Germany, aims to control the Schiller empire by kidnapping the infant.

For the past 150 years, the game of poker has fascinated some of the world's greatest thinkers, gamblers, and personalities, many of whom have found something pithy, funny, or helpful to say about this deceptively simple yet perennially absorbing game. Collected here are some of history's best bon mots on poker, covering everything from beating the odds, finding and losing luck, the thrill of victory, and the agony of defeat. Nothing can match...

Beautiful Elizabeth Dancy thought she had escaped the amorous attentions of Lord David Leighton when she left London. Surely the most notorious and irresistible rake in the realm would not abandon his many pleasures in the city to follow her to the quiet Surrey countryside. How wrong Elizabeth was. The heartbreakingly handsome Lord Leighton had arrived in Surrey, even more eager than before to break down Elizabeth's resistance, and now there w...