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Desperately needing to find a wife for one night to settle an old score, Dr. Tripp Calhoun discovers that he has met his match in Amber Colton, who, agreeing to pose as his wife, shatters his icy reserve and opens his heart to the promise of love. Original.

She works to live Fallon O'Rourke would go only so far to earn a living. She won't prostitute herself, but she will deceive Penniless and without family, she has always had to look out for herself. Unfairly dismissed, Fallon takes a position in the Duke of Damon's household as a footman! Disguised as a man, she will finally be free of lecherous gentlemen who would harass her. Only she soon learns she has landed herself in the devil's very own den. Nothing has prepared her for London's most renow...

`Wistful, touching and funny’ Mail on Sunday`Hilarious and tear-jerking in turns’ Express`Sharp, witty and wise’ Daily Mail Harry Silver has it all. A successful job in TV, a gorgeous wife, a lovely child. And in one moment of madness, he chucks it all away. Man and Boy is the story of how he comes to terms with his life and achieves a degree of self-respect, bringing up his son alone and, gradually, learning what words like love and family really mean. It is very w...

1788: the bloody revolution in France causes upheaval in the Morland family.Henri-Marie Fitzjames Stuart, bastard offshoot of the Morland family, strives to protect his daughter, Heloise, his mistress, Marie-France, and their son Morland. To this end, he binds Heloise to a loveless marriage with a Revolutionary, and allies himself with the great Danton. But in the bloodbath of the guillotine and the fall of Danton, Henri-Marie loses his head and Heloise flees to England.She is welcomed with open...

Iolanthe has an extraordinary family: eccentric, chaotic and bursting with life and warmth. Waifs and strays (children or animal) are always welcomed, and while her father charms them, it is her kind and gentle mother who they inevitably fall in love with and never want to leave. Agata, their Polish neighbour, arrives uninvited one evening and quickly becomes a permanent part of the family, dispensing advice and looking after their increasingly fragile mother. Then Carol arrives, more in need of...

"I Feel Bad About My Neck meets Elizabeth Berg in celebrated YA novelist Sonya Sones's first adult novel, weaving together a seamless narrative in free verse--a funny, fierce and piercingly honest coming-of-middle-age story about falling apart and putting yourself back together"--

"Anne Tyler gives us a wise, haunting, and deeply moving new novel in which she explores how a middle-aged man, ripped apart by the death of his wife, is gradually restored by her frequent appearances--in their house, on the roadway, in the market. Crippled in his right arm and leg, Aaron has spent his childhood fending off a sister who wants to manage him. So when he meets Dorothy, a plain, outspoken, independent young woman, she is like a breath of fresh air. Unhesitatingly, he marries her, a...

With the unflinching candour and sympathy for which Joyce Carol Oates is celebrated, the 14 stories of "Dear Husband", examine the intimate lives of contemporary: the tangled ties between generations, the desperation - and the covert, radiant happiness - of loving more than one is loved in return. A passionate bond between an adolescent son and mother has unexpected consequences. A woman is forced to realise, decades later, her childhood role in the destruction of a famous, beloved grandfather's...

"Talented, successful, blessed with a loving wife and daughter, Edward Darby has everything a man should hope for. With a rising career as a partner at an esteemed gallery he strives not to let ambition, money, power, and his dark past corrode the sanctuary of his domestic and private life. Influenced by his father, a brilliant Romantics scholar, Edward has always been more of a purist than an opportunist. But when a celebrated artist controlled by her insecurities betrays him, and another very...

Beloved bestselling author Janet Dailey continues her New Americana saga in this powerful tale of one woman’s struggles to save her marriage in the rugged Ozarks of beautiful Branson, Missouri.   Allison felt like she’d stepped into a fairy tale when she married widower Burke Caldwell. But after less than a year of marriage, he’s become removed and distant. His friends see Allison as little more than a trophy wife, his only daughter regards her as the enemy. With everyone so devoted to the me...

From the bestselling author of Julia’s Chocolates and Henry’s Sisters, comes a humorous, hopeful novel about two broken families. Set in Huntington Beach, California in 1979, the O’Briens and Rossis become next door neighbors and life is never the same again.July 2019Jesse O’Brien receives the phone call she never wanted and never expected. Her frightened sister, Joyce, tells her, “She’s missing.”June 1979On the day Jesse’s mother’s marriage fell apart, her face was slathered in snow-white cold...

Stream Palm Royale now on Apple TV+ "A gorgeously messy and misguided heroine. I love this story."—Laura Dern "The perfect blend of salty and sweet."—Booklist (starred review) "Hilarious."—Refinery29 The year is 1969. Dick Nixon was just sworn in as the thirty-seventh President of the United States. Neil Armstrong just took one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind. And notable Palm Springs socialite Maxine Simmons just found out that her husband is leaving her for his twenty-two...

The Earl has a proposition... He wants her as his mistress! Miss Emma Waverley will do anything for her family - especially since she was the one to ruin their reputation with her failed elopement years ago! They desperately need money, and rakish Lance, Earl of Houndsmere, offers financial support. But in exchange he expects Emma in his bed! Of course she must turn him down. Yet Lance's fine figure and commanding features are all too tempting...

‘Bridget Jones meets menopause…sharp, funny and real’ Cecelia Ahern Lay on the couch for a brief nap. Woke up an hour later, the witch trials book I’m reading stuck to one side of my face. Pretending not to be menopausal is exhausting. When fifty-year-old Agatha Doyle starts keeping a diary, it records only the ways she doesn’t know who she is any more. Her glorious empty nest is full of people. And her head is full of brain fog. All it take...

Court a beautiful debutante... Or fulfil his quest for vengeance? Part of Scandalous Australian Bachelors. When Sam Robertson returns to London after making his fortune in Australia he has one mission - revenge upon the Earl who had him wrongly convicted and sent away years before. But when he meets Lady Georgina, the Earl's daughter, Sam's plan is thrown into disarray. Their admiration is mutual...but is his hunger for her stronger than his thirst for retribution?