An Uptown Girl's Cowboy

An Uptown Girl's Cowboy

Sasha Summers

Romance / Historical Fiction / Science Fiction & Fantasy

Can two worlds colliding end in happily-ever-after?Society darling Savannah Barrett enjoyed a smokin' hot one-night stand...and got pregnant. Even if she could find her sexy cowboy, her elite old money Texas family would never approve. But when Angus McCarrick shows up at the family mansion, he's elated to discover the passionate woman he hadn't been able to forget. And stunned to learn he's going to be a daddy—to triplets! They're worlds apart, but can love find a way to bring them together?From Harlequin Special Edition: Believe in love. Overcome obstacles. Find happiness.Texas Cowboys & K-9s Book 1: The Rancher's Forever FamilyBook 2: Their Rancher ProtectorBook 3: The Rancher's Baby SurpriseBook 4: The Rancher's Full HouseBook 5: A Snowbound Christmas CowboyBook 6: An Uptown Girl's Cowboy
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The Devil's Due

The Devil's Due

Bonnie MacBird

Mystery / Thriller / Historical Fiction

After Art in the Blood and Unquiet Spirits, Holmes and Watson are back in the third of Bonnie MacBird's critically acclaimed Sherlock Holmes Adventures, written in the tradition of Conan Doyle himself. It's 1890 and the newly famous Sherlock Holmes faces his worst adversary to date – a diabolical villain bent on destroying some of London's most admired public figures in particularly gruesome ways. A further puzzle is that suicide closely attends each of the murders. As he tracks the killer through vast and seething London, Holmes finds himself battling both an envious Scotland Yard and a critical press as he follows a complex trail from performers to princes, anarchists to aesthetes. But when his brother Mycroft disappears, apparently the victim of murder, even those loyal to Holmes begin to wonder how close to the flames he has travelled. Has Sherlock Holmes himself made a deal with the devil?
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Random Winds

Random Winds

Belva Plain

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Family Saga

From a quiet turn-of-the-century village in upstate New York to war-torn London, from the bedsides of the rural poor to the life-and-death urgency of a great New York City hospital, this is a powerful epic of three generations of doctors in one magnificent family. The Farrells-dedicated, brilliant.. and driven to the edge of destruction by a love no human force could suppress.From the Paperback edition.
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Evergreen

Evergreen

Belva Plain

Fiction / Historical Fiction / Family Saga

The towering modern classic of passion and ambition that forever changed the way we see the courageous immigrants who came to America's shores -- the story of Anna Friedman transfixes us with the turbulent emotions of a woman and her family touched by war, tragedy, and the devastating secrets of one forbidden love... bittersweet and evergreen.From the Paperback edition.
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A Certain Age

A Certain Age

Beatriz Williams

Fiction / Historical Fiction

The bestselling author of A Hundred Summers brings the Roaring Twenties brilliantly to life in this enchanting and compulsively readable tale of intrigue, romance, and scandal in New York Society, brimming with lush atmosphere, striking characters, and irresistible charm.As the freedom of the Jazz Age transforms New York City, the iridescent Mrs. Theresa Marshall of Fifth Avenue and Southampton, Long Island, has done the unthinkable: she's fallen in love with her young paramour, Captain Octavian Rofrano, a handsome aviator and hero of the Great War. An intense and deeply honorable man, Octavian is devoted to the beautiful socialite of a certain age and wants to marry her. While times are changing and she does adore the Boy, divorce for a woman of Theresa's wealth and social standing is out of the question, and there is no need; she has an understanding with Sylvo, her generous and well-respected philanderer husband.But their relationship subtly shifts when her...
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The Good Thieves

The Good Thieves

Katherine Rundell

Childrens / Middle Grade / Historical / Historical Fiction

'An amazing adventure story, told with sparkling style and sleight of hand' JACQUELINE WILSONVita set her jaw, and nodded at New York City in greeting, as a boxer greets an opponent before a fight.Fresh off the boat from England, Vita Marlowe has a job to do. Her beloved grandfather Jack has been cheated out of his home and possessions by a notorious conman with Mafia connections. Seeing Jack's spirit is broken, Vita is desperate to make him happy again, so she devises a plan to outwit his enemies and recover his home. She finds a young pickpocket, working the streets of the city. And, nearby, two boys with highly unusual skills and secrets of their own are about to be pulled into her lawless, death-defying plan.Katherine Rundell's fifth novel is a heist as never seen before - the story of a group of children who will do anything to right a wrong.
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Dross

Dross

Henry Seton Merriman

Historical / Historical Fiction

Hugh Stowell Scott (9 May 1862 – 19 November 1903) was an English novelist (under the pseudonym Henry Seton Merriman) Born in Newcastle upon Tyne, he became an underwriter at Lloyd\'s of London, but then devoted himself to travel and to writing novels, many of which had great popularity. Scott visited India as a tourist in 1877-78 and set his novel Flotsam (1896) there. He was an enthusiastic traveller, many of his journeys being undertaken with his friend and fellow author Stanley J. Weyman. Scott married Ethel Frances Hall (1865-1943) on 19 June 1889. The couple had no children. Scott was unusually modest and retiring in character. He died of appendicitis, aged 41, at Melton, Suffolk. Upon his death, Scott left £5000 to Evelyn Beatrice Hall, his sister-in-law and fellow writer, best known for her biographical work The Friends of Voltaire, writing that the legacy was "in token of my gratitude for her continued assistance and literary advice, without which I should never have been able to have made a living by my pen.
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