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Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Daisy Bumgarten isn't thrilled to be trying to catch a duke's attention while dressed like a flower pot caught in a swarm of butterflies. But, after all, when in Rome (or in this case London society) . . . . Since her decidedly disastrous debut among New York's privileged set, the sassy Nevada spitfire's last chance to "marry well" lies across the pond, here in England. If she must restrain her free spirit, not to mention her rib cage, so be it. She...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Feeling old before her time, Lauren moves to London in search of the fab single life replete with sexy Englishmen. But why can't she convince the men she's seeing that she really isn't after anything more serious than seriously good sex? Determined to break the curse, Lauren turns her love life into an experiment: each month she'll follow a different dating guide until she discovers the science behind being a siren.
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
Fed up with being proper, Lady Amelia escapes and finds herself in the company of Alistair Finlay-Jones. He was ordered by his uncle to wed one of the American girls, and she's stumbled right into his arms! During one perfect day in London, they fall in love. If anyone finds out, Amelia will be ruined. Then Amelia finds out Alistair was ordered to marry her . . .
Author
Series
Aunt Dimity mysteries volume 18
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
When a finely wrought silver sleigh figurine turns up in her thrift shop, Lori Shepherd recognizes it instantly. It was the object that mesmerized the sweet but very poor nine-year-old Daisy Pickering at Sproggton Manor, the bizarre Jacobean house-turned-museum Lori recently visited with her twin sons. Hoping to avoid any real commotion, Lori decides to speak with the museum curator, who turns out to be oddly uninterested in the theft. But there's...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Texas, 1871. Wounded in body and spirit after a shootout, Rayford Jessup leaves his career as a lawman and uses his gift with damaged horses to bring meaning to his solitary life. Hired by a Scotsman in Heartbreak Creek to purchase thoroughbreds, he travels to England. Josephine Cathcart loves two things: her illegitimate son and her injured stallion. Faced with her father's bankruptcy, she has two choices: marry the man who ruined her, or risk her...
Author
Publisher
Anchor Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting psychological thriller about a woman forced to confront the darkest moment in her childhood in order to move on from her past and open her heart to love. One night when Jeanie King is twelve years old, her father comes home covered in blood. The next day, Jeanie wakes up alone. Her father has disappeared and he's taken her beloved twin brother, Jamie. Inevitably, this loss leads to others, as Jeanie is ripped from her life in rural Washington...
Author
Series
Publisher
Jove
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Young widow Lady Helena March agrees to a fake engagement to the sinfully seductive Crenshaw heir to get funding for The London Home for Young Women, but when their deception starts to become real, she must make a difficult decision.
Author
Publisher
Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
At the University of Barchester, where Arthur Prescott works as an English professor, his one respite is his time spent nestled in the Barchester Cathedral library, nurturing his secret obsession with the Holy Grail and researching his perennially unfinished guidebook to the medieval cathedral. When American Bethany Davis arrives in Barchester charged with the task of digitizing the library's manuscripts, Arthur's tranquility is broken. He sets out...