Having suffered a devastating loss on Christmas Eve almost a year ago, all Sophie Baxter is looking for is a little bit of peace and quiet while she gets her beloved grandmother’s cottage ready to be sold. Escaping the rat-race of London for Peakton seems like the perfect way to avoid the Christmas celebrations for Sophie, especially when the tiny Derbyshire village holds so many fond childhood memories for her.

The last thing she expects is to be faced with her teenage crush, Andy Martin, who stirs up feelings in her she never thought possible.

But just when Sophie is considering a future with Andy, something comes between them which could destroy their new found happiness.

The whole world watched me lose it all…

After spending the last three months on My Fairytale, a show that promised I’d find my future pack and finally get my happily ever after, I realized it was too good to be true.

My chosen pack humiliated me in front of the world and now the only thing I can do is outrun the spotlight.

I find myself moving a few hours away, ready to start a new life.

But the past isn’t ready to let me go. Family is using me for their fifteen minutes, I have interviews I still have to conduct, and it’s starting to feel like I’ll never truly get away.

My trust was broken and I’m not sure if I can let anyone in again. The issue is there are several men in this town that don’t care about my past… in fact, they have skeletons of their own.

When Emmeline was summoned to London by her brother, the Earl of Pentworth, she never expected that she would have to fight for her right to choose her own match. She quickly realizes that he is willing to sell her off to the first man who offers. She knows she has to act fast! The answer to her problems comes when she makes an elaborate plan with her brother’s closest friend to pretend to be courting. Having the future Duke interested in her will certainly make her more attractive to other potential suitors. What happens though when this unexpected friendship blossoms into something greater, possibly a match made in heaven?

Sharad falls in love with girls as if he is born for it.

But his fate is that his love is never returned.

After getting countless rejections from girls, his hope of finding someone special becomes slim.

However, his life suddenly takes a twist when a gorgeous girl named Tiya Hegde falls in love with him. But little does he know that he is heading for the most devastating rejection of his life.

One year ago, America was ravaged by the Meridia Virus Pandemic. Cities burned and millions died. This period of time became known as Pan-Day. Food is now scarce, and the country is filled with violence. But a remnant of hope remains with COIL’s courageous Christians.

Alone, one-eyed Wes Trimble pedals a mountain bike up a deserted California freeway. His pregnant wife is days ahead, traveling toward the mountains with a band of refugees, but there is no guarantee Wes will ever see her again alive. Civility has been lost across the country, and it seems that Wes is the only person trying to save life instead of take it.

Two genetic researchers are brutally slain on a remote beach in the Bahamas. The investigation falls to Dr. Natalie Franklin, the small-town Medical Examiner working on her first murder case. She doesn’t mind dealing with dead bodies, but dealing with her boss, the Chief of Police, is another matter entirely. As she struggles to make sense of the forensic clues, she vows to find answers to explain the bizarre evidence.

When researcher Greg Cooper is hired to analyze DNA for the Keller Corporation, he initially thinks he has landed in a tropical paradise. After a few days of crunching data, though, he realizes that his dream job is more of a tedious grind than anything else. Out of boredom, he begins to poke around and soon suspects that his employer is up to something unethical.

Most of us have been wowed by the delights of French patisserie. Now Edd Kimber shows you how to recreate these recipes at home!

With step-by-step photographs for basic pastry and icings, Edd guides you through the techniques, taking the fear out of a Genoise sponge and simplifying a croissant dough.

Chapters include:
– Sweet Treats featuring Classic Financiers
– Canneles and Eclairs
– Desserts & Cakes such as Cherry Clafoutis and Buche de Noel
– Pastry including basic recipes for pate sablee and pate sucree as well as recipes to use them in
– Basics: the essential icings and creams, such as Mousseline and Creme Chantilly

Christmas, She Wrote is a heartwarming collection of short stories featuring all-new characters and locations sprinkled with holiday recipes and poetry. Ann uses her own stories of growing up and traveling and vivid imagination to transport you to touching tales of romance, friendship, community, and quilts. Get a good cup of coffee or hot chocolate and enjoy stories that will make you laugh or tear up.

In My Fair Lady, Julie Andrews had the biggest hit on Broadway. As the title character in Mary Poppins, she won an Academy Award. And, in 1965, The Sound of Music made her the most famous woman in the world and rescued Twentieth Century Fox from bankruptcy. Three years later, the disastrous Star! almost put the studio back under, and the leading lady of both films fell as spectacularly as she had risen.

Her film career seemed over.

Yet Julie Andrews survived, with what Moss Hart, director of My Fair Lady, called “that terrible British strength that makes you wonder why they lost India.” Victor/Victoria, directed by her second husband, Blake Edwards, reinvented her screen image—but its stage version in 1997 led to the devastating loss of her defining talent, her singing voice.