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Tess, an aspiring seamstress, is stunned at her luck when the famous designer Lady Lucile Duff Gordon, hires her to be a personal maid on the Titanic's doomed voyage. On board, Tess meets a rough-hewn but kind sailor and an enigmatic Chicago businessman, and is intrigued by their differing views of what could lie ahead for her in America. On the fourth night of the voyage, disaster strikes. Tess is one of the last people amidst the chaos to escape...
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"Lady Georgiana Rannoch, thirty-fifth in line for the British throne, knows how to play the part of an almost royal--but now she's off to Hollywood, where she must reprise her role as sleuth or risk starring in an all-too-convincing death scene ... My mother, the glamorous and much-married actress, is hearing wedding bells once again--which is why she must hop across the pond for a quickie divorce in Reno. To offer my moral support, and since all...
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Did he or didn't he? is the question in this third vintage mystery set during the Great Depression and starring the strong-willed and independent Marjorie McClelland. Newly betrothed and looking forward to the future, wealthy Englishman Creighton Ashcroft and mystery author Marjorie would like nothing better than to enjoy some quiet time in which to write about their adventures and plan their impending nuptials. Fate has different plans for the
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Still suffering effects of a near fatal attack, David Hunter has returned to the Body Farm in Tennessee, the world-famous facility where he learned his trade as a forensic anthropologist, desperate to prove that he's still up to the task. But while there a grisly discovery is made in a holiday cabin in the hills--a body, bound and tortured, decomposed beyond recognition. Fingerprints found at the scene seem to identify the killer, but it soon becomes...
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Blood rose trilogy volume 1
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Unprepared for the hardships of the Wild West, English authoress and milliner, Jessica Thornton, sets out in search of her brother, and must put her life in the hands of the rough rancher Brady Wilkins after her stagecoach crashes.
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Sisters of Bethlehem Springs volume 2
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Cleo dresses like a cowboy, is fearless and fun-loving, and can ride, rope and wrangle as well as any man. In 1916 Idaho, those aren't talents most women aspire to. Cleo believes God's plan for her does include a husband-- but it couldn't possibly be Sherwood Stanton, could it?
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After years of separation, English-born Emmaline Bradford is shocked by the conditions on Geoffrey's Kansas sheep ranch and wishes to return to England immediately. But Geoffrey offers a compromise: If Emmaline promises to stay until spring, he'll pay her return fare if she decides to go back to her home country. When spring arrives, will Emmaline return to England, or will she marry Geoffrey and carve out a life with him in Kansas?
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This collection of ten original stories brings light to one of the least examined periods in the life of the great detective--his time in the former colonies, the United States, when he is a young man not yet set upon his course in life and in his famous lodgings at 221B Baker Street.