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Ashly Roberts and Jake Connors are barely 20 when they decide to take the proverbial plunge and walk down the aisle to exchange vows in front of the dearly beloved. Basking in bridal bliss, Ashly feels she is living the perfect fairy tale, until she's faced with a runaway groom, dumped at the altar by bad-boy fiancé, Jake Connors. Five years later, Jake steps back into her life....

Matthew Trent always knew what was expected of him and that was to become the Perfect Vicar and a Perfect Gentlemen. When Grace Cooper enters his life he is forced to face what he really wishes to become. Grace Cooper has three options for marriage available to her in the small village where she resides. However, Grace would rather be placed on the shelf than enter into a miserable union. When someone threatens her father and then makes an attempt on her life, it is Vicar Trent who vows to protect her.

Sarah Larker's world is crashing down all around her. She has a wonderful Immortal husband and a beautiful son on the way. But sadly, she is slowly dying. Victor desperately hunts for an answer to save her life. With everything on the line, they decide to trust an enemy who promises them a life-saving cure - an eternal bloom mentioned in myths and sacred books. Can the bloom really cure her? Will Sarah live long enough to deliver her precious son?

Sarah Larker is dying. And there's nothing modern medicine or science can do to help her predicament. Sarah knows Victor has been desperately searching for a cure without success. Without a cure, she will never be able to carry her precious baby to full term. She is desperate to give her son a chance at life, but every day is a struggle to live. Victor was forced to leave the only world he ever knew and loved to be with Sarah in California so they could raise their son together.

Heiress Lady Moira Kirkwood will do anything it takes to marry a laird to take her north - far, far away from London and her domineering mother. Unfortunately, a pair of gentlemen overhear her jest about Scotland and compromising a fellow if she has to. Before the sun has risen the next day, Moira's name and a scandalous wager have found themselves inside the infamous betting book at White's.

Twenty-one year-old Jillian Nichols only has one rule when it comes to boys: catch and release. Boy-catching isn't just a game for Jillian and her friends, it's a lifestyle. After all, boys might be good for a dance or a drink and certainly a little under-cover action of the scandalous variety, but expect much else and you're bound for heartache. So when her best friends and fellow boy catchers start dropping like flies junior year, Jillian is determined to keep boys in her bedroom and out of her heart.

After escaping the slaughter of her clan at a young age, Scottish noblewoman Sabrina Verrick provides for her siblings by living a double life, until the night she encounters the Duke, and her secret and all she holds dear is threatened.... With his inheritance at stake, Lucien, Duke of Camareigh, sets a trap for the Scottish beauty with the piercing violet eyes, never imagining what will happen when the trap is sprung.... As their lives become irreversibly entangled, Lucien and Sabrina become each other's biggest threat, as well as their only salvation....

To many, she has a perfect life - freedom to travel the world, expensive gifts from wealthy men. But consummate actress though she is, Mara Flynn can never make herself believe the passion is real. One more job. That's all she needs to ensure her family's financial future. And California is just teeming with gold. There, her daring impersonation will fool everyone...except one man. Mara didn't plan for Nicholas Chantale, though. He has hunted her from the steamy streets of New Orleans all the way to the blinding brilliance of California gold country, only to have his dreams of vengeance crushed when he meets her in the flesh.

Adriana Claymore moved to Martinique to start a new life, but when she stumbles upon an ancient book, she finds herself drawn into a centuries old battle between brothers. "Sorcier" Julien Dubois has been on the hunt for his twin, Jacques, ever since the day that Jacques stole a book of spells from him and allowed their younger brother to die. Adriana is about to change the game, but when she gives her heart and soul to one of the brothers, she must face a difficult question. Did she lose herself to evil?

Sir Walter Ralegh’s life is romantic, irresistible, and of central importance to our island story. His death is a convoluted and contested tale of bargaining, failure and betrayal. Through the Elizabethan golden age and Ralegh’s famous adventures to the final act, Anna Beer presents his stranger-than-fiction life in all its richness. How could a man once the Queen’s favorite find himself consigned to the Tower by her successor? Should his legacy be fame or infamy? Who was the real Sir Walter Ralegh?

It was a terrible, terrible accident. Jasmin Hansen knows she hit something. It must have been a deer - that’s what her husband keeps telling her. But Jasmin saw a man’s face, and the nightmares won’t stop. Some time out at their holiday home on the remote island of Minsøy seems the ideal solution for Jasmin and her five-year-old son, Paul. But you can’t hide from your memories, and Jasmin is haunted at every turn. When mysterious messages begin to arrive at her isolated cottage, it becomes clear that she isn’t the only one who knows what happened that night.

The first in a daring new Scottish historical series about a woman determined to return Scottish treasures to the Highlands and the only man who can help her—the lover she once abandoned. Proud Scot, Will MacDonald sits in prison for wearing his kilt. He’s determined to leave England as soon...

Michel's cooking is renowned far and wide, and many guests patronize the Pennyfoot Hotel simply to enjoy his excellent cuisine. Therefore, when Lord Sittingdon appears to have died from ingesting Michel's famed lobster salad, the reputation of the hotel is at stake. Cecily is faced with a dilemma that could very well signal the end of her illustrious career—until circumstances suggest that the aristocrat was murdered, giving her a chance to save the hotel and bring a killer to justice.

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly...

The Pennyfoot hides many secrets, and its downstairs staff keeps a tight lip, even when the Edwardian aristocrats are spotted dallying with damsels in the boudoirs or gambling in the card rooms hidden below the floorboards. Should now and then one of the hotel guests fall prey to a dastardly...

She's a famous songwriter who can't remember a year of her life. He's the British spy with all the answers. While walking through the tunnels of her family's estate in England, successful singer-songwriter Amanda Marceau travels through time and into the arms of Alexander Montgomery, the Royal Navy Admiral who captures her heart. Months later, Amanda's forced back to the present with Alexander's daughter, heartbroken they've been separated and shocked to discover she's pregnant.

Addictive Collision tells the story of 25-year-old Morgan Tyler, who works as a receptionist at Belmont University and takes classes on the side. Stuck in a sexless marriage, she explores her options. Should she stay in the confines of her unhappy marriage, or make the painful decision to leave? As she debates what direction her life should take, sparks begin to fly with a hot, hunky mailman named Foster. Is it time to move on with her life, or should Morgan fight for the man who is ignoring her?

When you know the Earth is dying, what will you do to save it? Tessa Horton always suspected there was more to life than what meets the eye—her unique ability is proof. Tú Chen carries the weight of his secret power, hiding it from his family to protect them. Their lives change forever when they are accepted into the College of Geological Evolution, an exclusive international school with a hidden purpose. Run by the ancient secret society known as the Keepers of the Rock, the college trains those with supernatural connections to the Earth.

Three years in medieval Scotland has been more than enough for accidental time traveler David Wakeley. Kidnapped and thrown into a dungeon, Anna MacDonald thinks she's been left to die. Until a handsome stranger saves her. Pursued by her father's enemies, David and Robert the Bruce's virgin daughter race to make it to her arranged wedding on time.

Horses, tents, Highlanders—Battle of Bannockburn reenactment preparations are in full swing when British intelligence agent Danielle Field visits Stirling Castle. Then a rune-covered rock sends her plunging through time to a battlefield that looks all too real. Highland warrior Colum MacDonald betrayed his clan to save his queen. Only helping Robert the Bruce win the upcoming battle will restore his honor. Mistaking Danielle for an English spy…and a lad…he puts her in shackles and sets out to kill King Edward II.