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Colmar, 1353 CE
Gritta, Appel, and Efi managed to survive the Black Death, only to find that they are in desperate need of money. With limited options and lots of obstacles, they band together to become alewives - brewing and selling ale in the free Alsatian town of Colmar. But when an elderly neighbor is discovered dead in her house, the alewives cannot convince the sheriff and the town council that her death wasn't an accident,
...Jacob Payne just wants to have a moment to breathe, go to church, and maybe court Bonnie Loft. But the U.S. Marshal in Tucson needs him. Seamus Maloney has just murdered seven innocent people when he held up their stagecoach, and the law in the Arizona Territory is not going to let him escape.
When Jacob follows Maloney's trail to the small town of Haven he is thwarted at every turn. Hindered by misinformation, incarceration, and injuries,
...Rumor has linked Queen Elizabeth I to her master of horse, Robin Dudley. As gossip would have it, only his ailing wife, Amy, prevents marriage between Dudley and the queen. To quell the idle tongues at court, the queen dispatches Ursula Blanchard to tend to the sick woman's needs. But not even Ursula can prevent the "accident" that takes Amy's life. Did she fall or was she pushed? Was Ursula a pawn of Dudley and the queen?
Suddenly
...9784) A Secret Never Told
Constantly stifled by the rules of Society, spirited Rebecca Rowley enjoys finding ways to quietly—or not so quietly—rebel. But riding bareback and avoiding nosy neighbors are nothing compared to the thrilling secret she is keeping from her family.
When Rebecca's quick thinking saves the life of a young girl, she unwittingly attracts the attention of the child's dashing brother, Lieutenant Nicholas Avery. As that attention turns flirtatious,
...9786) Miss Adeline's Match
Miss Adeline Hayes is the perfect lady's companion: pleasant, conversational, and unceasingly proper. But when her closest friend, Charity Edgeworth, breaks off her arranged marriage without explanation, even Adeline's superior skills are put to the test. Charity's father banishes the two young women to the country, sending Adeline with a charge to find Charity a husband—or suffer dire consequences.
As Adeline takes on the role of reluctant
...Charismatic Marie Antoine is the daughter of the richest man in 19th century Montreal. She has everything she wants, except for a best friend—until clever, scheming Sadie Arnett moves to the neighborhood. Immediately united by their passion and intensity, Marie and Sadie attract and repel...
A sus veintiocho años, Penélope se ha resignado ya a convertirse en una solterona destinada a envejecer cuidando a su madre. Durante una década, ha asistido a todas las fiestas de la aristocracia londinense, y siempre ha sido la muchacha mediocre, callada, la que nadie saca a bailar más que por compromiso, la que pasa inadvertida para todos. También para Colin Bridgerton, hermano de la mejor amiga de Penélope, guapo, audaz, soltero de oro...
...9789) The Master: A Novel
Named by AudioFile magazine as one of the Best Audiobooks of 2005, this unforgettable audio performance represents the best of what the medium can do.
Colm Tóibín tells the story of Henry James, the famous novelist born into one of America's intellectual first families two decades before the Civil War, and who left his country to live in Paris, Rome, Venice, and London among privileged artists and writers.
In stunningly
...9790) Romancing the Scot
In Romancing the Scot, the stunning series starter from USA Today bestselling author May McGoldrick, meet the new generation of Penningtons...five brothers and sisters of passion and privilege. Enter their aristocratic world...where each will fight injustice and find love.
Hugh Pennington—Viscount Greysteil, Lord Justice of the Scottish Courts, hero of the Napoleonic wars—is a grieving widower with a death
Edward Rutherfurd has introduced millions of readers to the human dramas that are the...
Anty travels to the Riviera to finally have that awkward 'did you murder my father' conversation with his mother, but instead finds himself in the ticklish position of defending her and an innocent elephant against charges of a murder that no one could have committed.
Like all Anty Boisjoly mysteries, Reckoning at the Riviera Royale is a stand-alone stumper populated with eccentric characters and composed of impossible murder and improbable
...The town of Tucson on a Saturday night in 1870 is a dangerous place.
When a man is murdered in the Golden Saddle Saloon, Jacob Payne, bounty hunter, teams up with the sheriff's deputy to catch a killer.
But which of the many outlaws, shady characters and suspects roaming around the town committed the crime? Jacob must piece together the clues and evidence to bring the guilty party to justice.
If you love classic westerns full
...9794) San Miguel
New York Times best-selling author T. C. Boyle is a recipient of the PEN/Faulkner Award and has been named a finalist for the National Book Award. San Miguel follows two families attempting to forge new futures on an island off Southern California. In 1888, Marantha and her husband, a Civil War veteran, hope that life on the island will restore her failing health, but soon the locale's brutal isolation begins to take its toll. Decades
...The misadventures of Bertie Wooster and his incomparable personal gentleman, Jeeves, have delighted audiences for nearly a century. Now bestselling author Ben Schott...
A lady in love keeps a loaded pistol.
Captured by a DukeFreedom is within her grasp ... if she truly desires escape.
When Lady Annabel sets out to introduce herself to her fiancé the day before their wedding, she doesn't count on being waylaid by highwaymen. Kidnapped, but not without recourse, Annabel shoots her abductor and escapes. Too late, she discovers she might not want her freedom.
To Save a LordA
...In skillfully intertwined storylines from the dawn of the twentieth century and the heyday of the Roman Empire, Tasha Alexander's In the Shadow of Vesuvius, the latest installment to her bestselling series, brings Lady Emily and her husband to Pompeii, where they uncover a recent crime in the ancient city.
Some corpses lie undisturbed longer than others. But when Emily discovers a body hidden in plain sight amongst the
October 1891. A hard winter approaches across the Rocky Mountains. The city of Butte, Montana is rich on copper mines and rampant with vice and debauchery among a hard-living crowd of immigrant Irish workers. Here we find Tom Rourke, a young poet and ballad-maker...
9799) Weasel
She's run away from her own wedding...and straight into the arms of a rake.
Eloise flees her wedding to a cruel groom in a moment of sheer panic. If she'd given it any thought at all, her plans wouldn't have entailed breaking into the home of the infamous rake, Viscount Wycliffe. And she certainly wouldn't have been caught.
But when he comes upon her in the dark of night, rifling through his desk in
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