Night Creature: Dark Moon

Night Creature: Dark Moon

Lori Handeland

Contemporary / Paranormal / Historical Fiction

Elise Hanover feels the pull of the moon--even in its dark phase. She is a werewolf who feels nothing but disgust for the bloodlust and violent tendencies inside her. Nick Franklin is the man she met and fell in love with in college, and the man whose touch first awakened her beast. When she realized that her lust for him inspired the wolf inside her, she ran as far and as fast as she could. To defeat her furry side, she has spent the last five years in a secret location in Montana, trying to find a cure for lycanthropy. Just as she feels she's at the edge of a breakthrough, her research is interrupted. Nick is now an FBI agent--and he's standing in her lab. Minutes after they leave the building, it explodes, destroying all of Elise's research and the serum she needs to fight her bloodlust. Together, Nick and Elise must race to find a cure for before the next full moon rises. Dark Moon is full of dry wit, steamy chemistry, and truly scary villians.
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Miracle For a Madonna

Miracle For a Madonna

Barbara Cartland

Romance / Contemporary / Historical Fiction

It is almost impossible to believe, but it appears that the handsome young Italian Prince Antonio di Sogino has stolen an exquisite Florentine antique necklace from Jennie, the Marchioness of Kirkham, with whom he has enjoyed a brief dalliance on a visit to London. Distraught and terrified that her ageing husband will discover the loss of the necklace, she seeks help from her brother, Lord Mere, a military hero and a close confidant of Queen Victoria. Determined to help his sister Lord Mere travels to Florence and uncovers a sinister blackmail plot by the ugly and depraved Prince Vincente Gorizia, trapping a young beauty named Florencia into an unholy marriage. Lord Mere is struck hard by this appalling injustice and smitten in a trice by Florencia's ethereal Raphaelite beauty, as he has always admired and been enchanted by Raphael's paintings of other worldly Madonnas. Heroically he proposes to challenge her persecutor and meticulously plans his campaign to rescue Florencia...
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Love Joins the Clans

Love Joins the Clans

Barbara Cartland

Romance / Contemporary / Historical Fiction

After her mother Lottie's death in Paris, penniless young Clova has no one to turn to, so she heads for Scotland – to the Clan Lottie abandoned when Clova was just seven. Then fate intervenes and a vast inheritance from her dead mother's former lover makes her a rich woman.Nevertheless, she is afraid that her kin will despise her as they did her mother, who ran away with a 'Sassenach' to a life of 'sin' in Paris and Monte Carlo. But to her amazement, she is told that she has inherited the title of Marchioness of Strathblane and Chieftain of the McBlane Clan! But her new wealth and power are double-edged swords. Not only is her Clan embroiled in a bitter feud with the neighbouring McCowans, but her cousin Euan is also plotting to seize her title – by the foulest of means.Winning the hearts of her Clan with her brave leadership, she loses her own to the 'enemy' Laird – and if wicked Cousin Euan gets his way she will lose her life too.
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An Earl for the Shy Widow

An Earl for the Shy Widow

Ann Lethbridge

Regency Romance / Historical Fiction

The new earl...and the lady he should resist! Having left the army to take up the title of Earl of Longhurst, Ethan feels the weight of his new responsibilities. He was brusque with the woman picking blackberries, only to find she's his neighbour, Lady Petra, who helps him despite his gruffness. A wealthy bride would save his estate, but all he can think about is this shy, kind and penniless widow...!
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A New Place

A New Place

Andrew Wareham

Historical / Historical Fiction

A New Place: After Ned’s death, George is now head of the family and is tasked with finding a route north to engage the Japanese who are moving south with the intention of taking Port Moresby so they can use it as a staging post for an invasion of Australia. Best read in order.About the trilogy In the early 1900s gutter rat, Ned Hawkins aims to rise from the grinding poverty of an English slum, but is forced to flee the country and ends up in Papua. It is a dangerous place where cannibalism and cannibals are never far away. The trilogy charts Ned’s triumphs and failures as he seeks to establish himself and his family as leading lights in this wild and often unforgiving country.
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Perfecting Amanda

Perfecting Amanda

Bonnie Dee

Romance / Gay and Lesbian / Historical Fiction

One woman, two menthe choice of a lifetime and the chance for a perfect future. When Amanda McCormick heads west as to create a home of her own and begin a perfect marriage with a man shes never met, gambler Spencer Teague intercepts her. Pretending to be her fianc, he tricks her into surrendering her virginity. Amanda hides the misguided affair and forges a relationship with her young husband, Travis. But her secret haunts her when she learns shes pregnant. Meanwhile, Spencer is haunted by visions of a little girl who demands he find and help Amanda. Their lives entwine as the three come together in an unexpected relationship that touchesand torturesthem all. Amanda questions whether perfection is attainable and if its possible to love two very different kinds of men. Warnings: Explicit sexAbout the AuthorReflections of Beauty - Bonnie Dee When artist Christine Dawson is commissioned to paint a portrait of wealthy, mysterious recluse Eric Leroux, she must tear away the briars and scale the walls surrounding the heart of this scarred man. But some scars are more than skin-deep. Will love heal these wounds?
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Strawberry Dragon

Strawberry Dragon

Blaze Ward

Science Fiction / Fantasy / Historical Fiction

Already famous for accidentally discovering clues of the elder race, Fairchild still just wants to fly.Until a chance encounter on the planet Biysk upends the entire galaxy.Cute, little dragons that live in the forests, no longer than her arm.Oh, and they are already in their own Bronze Age, even as humans plan to colonize their world.Only Fairchild stands between them and the greedy bureaucrats back home.And she'll face the ultimate challenges in order to save her strawberry dragons from harm.Strawberry Dragon—the exciting sequel to Fairchild. A whole new type of hero.
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And One Rode West

And One Rode West

Heather Graham

Mystery & Thrillers / Romance / Historical Fiction

FROM THE BITTER AFTERMATH OF WAR... A regal beauty with raven hair and piercing blue eyes, Christa Cameron suffered the indignities of defeat in the Civil War's bitter aftermath, her spirit unvanquished and her hatred of the victorious enemy undiminished. When marriage to a Yankee officer was the only way to save her plantation from confiscation, Christa coaxed Colonel Jeremy McCauley into a legal union, promising herself to keep her pride and purity intact. But her virile bridegroom had other ideas... TO THE PROMISE OF AN UNTAMED FRONTIER... Succumbing to her courageous husband's russet-haired, silver-eyed appeal, Christa rode west with the cavalry but remained a Rebel in her heart. Embarking on a trail off stampeding buffalo and wild Indians, a flower of the southern aristocracy was forced to play the part of loyal army wife. But it was only as a savage's hostage that Christa learned the startling depths of her new husband's devotion--and the extraordinary power of freedom--as she vowed to make the West her home... and to build a new world on the ashes of the old...
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Mekong Dawn

Mekong Dawn

Bill Swiggs

Fiction / Historical / Historical Fiction

In post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia, where the ghosts of the past are far from buried and forgotten, one man will battle his inner-demons to save his wife and help destroy a monster spawned in the blood-soaked grounds of the infamous Killing Fields.In post-Khmer Rouge Cambodia there are many wounds still open and the ghosts of the past are far from forgotten. Into this world stumble Scott and Nancy Morris, on a holiday of healing following a deadly helicopter crash that leaves Scott psychologically scarred and addicted to his medication. Their peaceful voyage down the Mekong River aboard the Mekong Dawn becomes a living nightmare when terrorists, led by a brutal Khmer Rouge executioner, board the boat, kill the officers and ransom the passengers’ lives.Hidden away in the remote swamps of Boeng Tonle Chhma the passengers learn that their governments have refused to negotiate with the terrorists. Their only hope lies with the tenacity of Sinh Ang, a Cambodian police officer who works tirelessly to unravel the flimsy thread of clues that will lead him to the Mekong Dawn.As the trail unfolds, the passengers have only each other to turn to in a desperate race to ensure their survival, a race in which Scott must face the demons of his past if he is to save Nancy and give Ang a chance to settle a score originating in the Killing Fields of Cambodia’s bloody past.
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SuperOldie

SuperOldie

Bryan Murphy

Historical / Historical Fiction / Romance

Retired spy Franco Tira saves an old Englishman, Charlie Dunpy, from poison meant for himself. Charlie has dementia, but also unusual powers that Franco wants to harness to protect himself against killers seeking revenge for his own past misdeeds. Will Charlie help him? Will his powers keep them both alive?In a nursing home in the hills above Rome, former spy Franco Tira saves an English fellow patient, Charlie Dunpy, from poison meant for himself. As a result they become friends. Charlie has dementia, but he also seems to possess unusual powers that Franco wants to harness to protect himself against killers seeking revenge for his own past misdeeds. Will Charlie help him? Will his powers keep them both alive? Dark future, good reading.
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Hadrian's Wall

Hadrian's Wall

Adrian Goldsworthy

History / Historical Fiction

From an award-winning historian of ancient Rome, a definitive history of Hadrian's WallStretching eighty miles from coast to coast across northern England, Hadrian's Wall is the largest Roman artifact known today. It is commonly viewed as a defiant barrier, the end of the empire, a place where civilization stopped and barbarism began. In fact, the massive structure remains shrouded in mystery. Was the wall intended to keep out the Picts, who inhabited the North? Or was it merely a symbol of Roman power and wealth? What was life like for soldiers stationed along its expanse? How was the extraordinary structure built-with what technology, skills, and materials?In Hadrian's Wall, Adrian Goldsworthy embarks on a historical and archeological investigation, sifting fact from legend while simultaneously situating the wall in the wider scene of Roman Britain. The result is a concise and enthralling history of a great architectural marvel of the ancient world.
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