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81) Outlaw's bride
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Western sky novels volume 2
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Falsely convicted of bank robbery, drifter Johnny is sent to a rehabilitation program in the home of a California judge. He plans to be a model prisoner, get released early, and resume his mission to kill the man who wiped out his family fifteen years ago. He hadn't planned on Ragan, the judge's beautiful housekeeper. Can Johnny let go of his anger and embrace a new life?
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Jacques is a forlorn bachelor living alone after his wife has left him. Deciding to get his life back in order, he hires a housekeeper. Laura plows through the mess that has overtaken his apartment, but he soon learns that she has never done a days worth of housework in her life. Her presence adds a joyful spark to a life that has been missing living for too long.
83) Hearts awakening
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With no means to support herself, Ellie Kilmer agrees to work as a housekeeper for the young widower who lives on Dillon Island, hopeful she can obtain a proper reference. But Jackson Smith quickly realizes that Ellie's presence may solve his own problems--both the rearing of his young boys and the scandal that surrounds his first marriage. When a marriage of convenience is offered, Ellie is initially humiliated. Though she is past the age most women...
84) Daughter of joy
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Brides of Culdee Creek volume 1
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Her faith has been her salvation after losing her husband and young son, but when Abigail Stanton goes to work as housekeeper for Conor MacKay and his "capricious little girl," he ruthlessly attacks that faith.
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When a man finds a beautiful woman asleep in his bed, he has only one choice: To seduce her with a night of lovemaking she'll never forget. Trouble is, Donovan Steele's sultry new housekeeper is just as determined not to become the legendary playboy's latest conquest. Trading the Ivy League for down South, Natalie Ford is helping with her aunt's housecleaning service. But Steele's chemistry is unlike any this science professor ever learned.
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Mrs. Jeffries is back in the "New York Times" bestselling Victorian series, perfect for fans of "Downton Abbey." "" NIPPED IN THE BUD The ladies of the Mayfair Orchid and Exotic Plant Society are known for a bit of friendly rivalry, but the backstabbing has never been literal until now. When Hiram Filmore, an orchid hunter and supplier, is found dead in Mrs. Helena Rayburn s conservatory, Inspector Witherspoon is called in to weed out a murderer....
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Harlequin romance volume 4467
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Jo Anderson takes the job of housekeeper to reclusive celebrity chef Mac MacCallum as a favor to his brother, Russ, but neither expects how their lives will change as a result.
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"Gabriel Cress is heir to his family's restaurant empire--and is expected to behave as such. Not seduce the housekeeper. But beneath Monica Darby's shy exterior is a siren who makes the jaded New Yorker burn for more. But when Gabe's meddling family and a surprise inheritance raise doubts he can't ignore, will the clock strike twelve on their budding affair?" -- Page [4] cover.
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" A murder will occur tonight at Beecham House . . . Who could resist such a compelling invitation? Of course, the murder in question purports to be a party game, and Phyllida looks forward to using some of the deductive skills she has acquired thanks to her employer, Mrs. Agatha, who is unable to attend in person. The hosts, Mr. and Mrs. Wokesley, are new to the area, and Phyllida gladly offers their own overwhelmed housekeeper some guidance while...
90) Mrs. Miracle
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When her acting career does not take off, but her sister does with her fiance, Reba returns home to become a preschool teacher, and director of the Christmas pageant. After his wife dies, widower Seth Webster moves to town with his rambunctious twin boys. Mrs. Merkle, who is dubbed 'Mrs. Miracle' by the boys, is hired as a nanny and soon has the boys behaving nicely. It isn't long before Mrs. Miracle is sowing the seeds of love for Reba and Seth too....
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Inspector Witherspoon has never come up against a case which he couldn't solve ... with the help of his housekeeper, Mrs. Jeffries. But now he's confronted with a bewlidering murder. It seems as though the victim has cheated his stockholders out of a fortune, which leaves each of them with a strong motive for the crime.
92) Corrina, Corrina
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A funny, heart-warming story of a newly widowed man struggling to raise his little girl, and the woman who brings magic and laughter back into their lives when she comes to be their housekeeper.
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"Privilege, Passions, and Secrets. Katia Morrell grew up amid wealth, sharing the idyllic childhood enjoyed by America's aristocracy without ever really being one of them. As daughter of the housekeeper to the powerful Warren family, she never truly belonged. Now she is back at the Warren mansion, hoping to see the man she always loved, Jordan Whyte, heir to the Whyte fortune. The occasion is the mysterious deaths of Jordan's brother and his brother's...
94) The help
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Mississippi during the 1960s: Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives, and a small Mississippi town, upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Abilene, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.
95) Patterns of love
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Though Uppsala, Iowa, takes its name from a city in her native Sweden, life there is different for young Inga Linberg. With her parents' blessing, she has taken employment in the home of Mr. Bridger, a dairy farmer, caring for his ill mother and two young orphaned nieces. He is an unhappy man, but loyal, hardworking and honorable - also quite handsome, judging by Inga's beautiful, flirtatious younger sisters. Now Inga, too, longs to be seen as beautiful...
96) Love's dwelling
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Amish blessings volume 1
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"The first in a new Amish romance series set in Kansas, Love's Dwelling reminds us that family is more than what you are born into; it's who you choose as well"--
Cassie Yoder loves her job as a housekeeper for elderly couple Job and Dinah Keim. Their only children, a son and daughter, left the Haven, Kansas, district and their faith more than twenty years earlier with no contact. When Child Protective Services shows up on the Keims' doorstep with...
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Brothers in arms volume 3
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"Falling for someone who doesn't want to get married is soon be the least of his concerns. While his brothers and their new wives search for who shot him, Wyatt Hunt is temporarily bedridden and completely miserable. Somehow Molly Garner's limited skills have made her the most qualified in their circle to care for Wyatt. But by the time he's healed, she's fed up with him and the whole ungrateful family. For even worse than his grumpiness were the...
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Lord Philippe Lavay once took to the high seas armed with charm as lethal as his sword, and a stone-cold conviction: he'll restore his family's fortune and honor, no matter the cost. Victory is at last within reach when a brutal attack snatches it from his grasp and lands him in Pennyroyal Green. An afternoon of bliss brings a cascade of consequences for Elise Fountain. She is shunned by her family and ousted from a job she loves, and her survival...
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"An Amish girls' disappearance is a mystery ... and the clues lead straight into danger at Christmas. Convinced her friend didn't run away as the police believe, Lizzie Kauffman searches for the truth--but someone will kill to keep it hidden. Now the Amish housekeeper and her friend Caleb Zook are on the run for their lives. And if they want to find their missing friend, Lizzie and Caleb must figure out a way to survive the holidays."--page 4 of cover....
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A festive Jubilee Ball in honor of Queen Victoria turns into a fatal affair for Hannah Greenwood. Inspector Witherspoon was a guest at the ball so the job of finding the murderer falls to him. Fortunately, Mrs. Jeffries is there to help him read between the lines.. and identify the guilty party behind this deadly plot..