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Thanks to a mutual friends' invitation, two families meet in a luxury villa in Spain and discover their room is overbooked, igniting old passions and tensions.

Since she was a little girl, Emma Grant has always loved romance. So it's really no surprise that she has found her calling as a wedding florist. She gets to play with flowers every day and work with her three best friends in the process. She couldn't ask for a better job, and on the surface, Emma's love life seems to be thriving.

Accused of murdering a police officer he held responsible for the tragic death of his wife, Professor Dennis Thomas implores high-profile lawyer Ben Kincaid to defend him, a case during which the intrepid attorney is pitted against an ambitious DA and a dangerous conspiracy.

Joshua Carter was the love of Katy Lynn Logan's heart and her soul mate. Or so she thought until the day she buried her father; the same day Joshua broke her heart. Seven years later Joshua returns to find his preacher father had been right: Katy had turned out like her immoral mother and drunken father. She now runs the Soiled Dove saloon on the banks of the Red River. But Joshua's attraction to Katy did not die when his father sent him away, and...

When Elspeth Noblin dies of cancer, she leaves her London apartment to her twin nieces, Julia and Valentina. These two American girls never met their English aunt, their mother's twin sister. Julia and Valentina are semi-normal American teenagers -- with seemingly little interest in college, finding jobs, or anything outside their cozy home in the suburbs of Chicago, and with an abnormally intense attachment to one another. The girls move to Elspeth's...

Sun Valley sheriff Walt Fleming returns in this high-intensity thriller as he thwarts a plan to steal a rare wine at the annual wine auction. When a bomb detonates just as the auction revs up, the investigation explodes as well, pulling Walt in a dozen different directions.

Myron Bolitar hasn't heard from Terese Collins since their torrid affair ended ten years ago, so her desperate phone call from Paris catches him completely off guard. Now a suspect in the murder of her ex-husband in Paris, Terese has nowhere else to turn for help. Myron heeds the call but then a startling piece of evidence turns the entire case upside down.

Wobegon goes abroad in this rousing and moving story of a group trip to Rome in which the warm circle of kinship invites stories of astonishing frankness and self-revelation--and of course, humor.

For the Elm Creek Quilters, the day after Thanksgiving marks the start of the quilting season, a time to gather at Elm Creek Manor and spend the day stitching holiday gifts for loved ones. On this quilter's holiday, Master Quilter Sylvia Bergstrom has invited her friends to continue an old family tradition of sewing quilt blocks representing their thankfulness and gratitude. As each quilter explains the significance of her carefully chosen block,...

Reclusive Sir Alistair Munroe has hidden in his castle ever since returning from the colonies, scarred inside and out. Then a mysterious beauty arrives at his door. Past mistakes have taken legendary beauty Helen Fitzwilliam from the luxury of the ton to a job as housekeeper in a crumbling Scottish castle. Determined to start a new life, she won't let dust - or a beast of a man - scare her away. The passions Alistair kept suppressed for years begin...