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Ever since they can rember, Anna and Beth have been best friends. They have relied on each other through careers, marriages and children, nothing could break the bond.

When his Seattle fire department begins fighting a series of arson fires, lieutenant Paul Wolf, haunted by the fire that devastated his family, investigates a pattern in the fire locations that leads him to discover that he himself is being targeted.

"Along the banks of the Sweet Oak River, deep in the heart of the Ozarks, a book club takes five women on stunning journeys of self-discovery as they embark on an exploration of modern-day love guided by written tales of romance"--

It seems odd that Letty's boss is so keen for her to learn the outmoded skill of shorthand. But when her teacher Miss Kemp suffers a serious fall, Letty's skill and eye for detail lead her - along with Miss Kemp's gorgeous nephew Adam - into finding clues to a decades-old crime. And that could put them both, and their friends, in grave danger...

"By April 1916, the fervor that accompanied war's outbreak has faded. In its place is a grim reality. Throughout Germany, essentials are rationed. Hope, too, is in short supply. Anna Zeller, whose fiancé, Bruno, is fighting on the western front, works as a nurse at an overcrowded hospital in Oldenburg, trying to comfort men broken in body and spirit. But during a visit from Dr. Stalling, the director of the Red Cross Ambulance Dogs Association, she...

"When Lady Marguerite Milton is abducted by the enigmatic - and famously insatiable - Golden Knight, it is the stuff of fantasy. Or would be, if Marguerite weren't pining for her David, who pledged his love ten years before... and disappeared. But the only thing more heartbreaking than a man that does not keep his word is one bound by it. David is the Golden Knight, reaffirming his oath to protect Marguerite and, maddeningly, to love her, but chastely"--P....