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Gingerbread Mansion
Lizbie Brown
Life in an English Stately Home
The Second World War has ended but the world has changed. For the Jago family, life will have to continue without their son, Kit, killed in action a week before peace was declared. Their rambling old home, Lizzah, and its antiques, is in severe disrepair and in need of more money than the destitute aristocratic family can afford. In an act of desperation, Virginia Jago brings in Charles Garland from the National Trust, a famous charity renowned for taking over and renovating the crumbling stately homes of the British Isles. However, Charles faces opposition from the family and local community as he represents a modern world at odds with Lizzah and life before the war . . .
Shadows
Stella Cameron
A wonderfully moving romance from a best-selling and award-winning author
Leah Cornish knew she was gambling her future on a man she had only met once, but did she have a choice? Guy Hamilton seemed to understand her, and his kind eyes had not judged. He had offered her his help and now she needed it. She knew too that she would have to forget those feelings she had for him, feelings she had refused to name. But how can she, when those very feelings are all that she has left?
Second to None
Stella Cameron
A warm, passionate romance from a NY-Times best-selling author.
In the year she's worked as live-in nanny to Nick and Abby Dorset's two children, Sophie Peters has come to care very much for the family. The job would be perfect, if not for one thing: Abby's brother, Michael Harris. Abby seems determined to set Sophie up with the too handsome, too self-assured Michael — and Sophie is equally determined to steer clear of him. But Michael seems determined to win her over. Soon, Sophie's wondering if she's misjudged him . . . but would trusting a former womanizer be a terrible mistake?
Northern Ex
Colin Campbell
A dark and gritty Yorkshire-set thriller from a former policeman
Vince McNulty was thrown out of the Leeds Vice Squad for attacking a suspect in a child abuse case. Unable to adjust to life outside the force, he whiles away his time visiting illicit massage parlours. When the body of a young masseuse is found, and her death linked to the disappearances of seven other Yorkshire girls, McNulty seizes the chance to do some private investigative work. But when his past begins to catch up with him, he realizes that he is in deep trouble . . .
Love Bites
Tori Carrington
A Sofie Metropolis Paranormal Mystery
Sofie Metropolis is back and in the deep end of the coffee pot when she's retained by the neighbourhood vampire to prove he isn't responsible for a recent string of grisly murders, and her mother also talks her into looking for a missing woman neither of them knows, but Thalia has adopted in absentia nonetheless. And if her plate isn't full enough, things heat up on the romantic front when'bounty hunter' Jake Porter and yummy Greek baker Dino both decide to vie for her undivided attention. What's a good Greek girl with a gun to do? . . .
Queens Ransom
Tori Carrington
The latest Sofie Metropolis mystery . . . Christmas. A kidnapping, Jake Porter and a stray reindeer, oh my!
Sofie's mother tells her it is the season for miracles, but Sofie's convinced it's more of a season for whackos and flashing Santas. After nearly losing a battle with the local strange vampire a month ago, she regrets ever having bitched about boring cheating spouse cases and process serving. She's ready for a quiet spell doing nothing but finding people's lost pets. But Sofie's life will probably never be boring again. After all, kidnapping is never boring. Especially when it's Sophie who's being kidnapped.
Back with Vengeance
C.J. Carver
Page-turning action with female sleuth Captain Jay McCaulay
When Jay McCauley wakes up, drugged, in a strange hotel room, she knows things can only get worse. She's in Moscow, and she has no idea how she got there. Memory shot to pieces, Jay returns to the UK to find her beloved uncle Duncan missing. Soon Jay is entangled in a web of lies and betrayals that stretches from Newbury Racecourse to Siberia . . .
The Honest Assassin
C.J. Carver
The thrilling return of Captain Jay McCaulay
The assassination was quick, slick, and professional. Ex-soldier Sol Neill was brutally slain by a blonde woman, and Jay McCaulay is the only witness. When Max Blake, Sol's friend, is arrested for the crime, Jay is determined to prove his innocence and launches an investigation that soon turns ugly. But as she begins to uncover a sinister secret that goes right into the heart of the British establishment, Jay is unaware that something worse lies ahead for her the assassin has been set on to her trail . . .
Music of the Distant Stars
Alys Clare
The new Lassair mystery from the author of the Hawkenlye books
Very early one summer morning, Lassair slips out of her Fenland village on a deeply personal mission and discovers the body of a young woman, hidden where it has no place to be. The girl's identity is quickly discovered but, as she wonders who killed her and why, Lassair swiftly becomes mystified and frightened. Why did a sweet-natured seamstress have to die? Suspicion soon creeps uncomfortably close to home; then another body is found . . .
The Rose of the World
Alys Clare
The new novel in the ever-popular 'Hawkenlye' series
Autumn, 1210. A year ago, King John was excommunicated - and now his men have come to Hawkenlye Abbey to take it over. Abbess Caliste, Helewise's successor, worries how she is to feed the nuns under her care, let alone conduct her usual good works. Meanwhile, Helewise has moved into Hawkenlye Manor with Josse, and their lives are full of family and warmth. But after a visit to St Edmund's Chapel, Helewise's eleven-year-old granddaughter, Rosamund, goes missing - and soon all that they hold dear is threatened . . .
