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Elizabeth Bennet must oversee Longbourn after a family tragedy. Mr. Darcy is intrigued, Mr. Collins is baffled and Mr. Wickham is enticed.
After the tragic death of her brother, the long-awaited Bennet son, Elizabeth Bennet must oversee her family’s estate, as her father has fallen into depression and drink. Even as she contends with her own sorrow, she struggles to balance her desire for a happy future with the needs of her family.
Mr. Darcy visits his best friend, Mr. Bingley, who has leased the local estate of Netherfield. While on the road with his trusty dog, Maxwell, Mr. Darcy suffers a minor accident and is in need of assistance. As he eagerly awaits help, it is Miss Elizabeth who happens upon him.
Mr. Collins, Mr. Wickham and Lady Catherine each have their own reasons to oppose our dear couple’s match, but their varied plans and actions only serve to bring Darcy and Elizabeth together.
I thought he’d always be mine, even when I was forced to say goodbye. We were never meant to let go, but it happened anyway. Too bad I didn’t know someone was waiting to take my place, or I would’ve held on a lot tighter.
Two years later, we were exactly where we’d always planned to be.
I’d kept my promise. He’d forgotten all about his.
Not only had he moved on, but the person he’d moved on with was my best friend, leaving me to begin college with a broken heart.
I guess this is the part where I’m supposed to tell you some other guy stepped in, repaired my shattered pieces, and made me smile again.
This isn’t that kind of story. My heart might have been broken, but it refused to fall out of love.
Defense attorney Jackson Taylor left his Chattahoochee River roots for an office with a view of the Atlanta skyline. But when he’s called home to defend a childhood friend accused of murder, the boy Jackson grew up with has become a man he doesn’t recognize. He’s a cheat, a crook.
A killer?
So why is Jackson’s dad begging him to step away from the case? Despite his father’s reputation as a former no-nonsense cop, he’s changed, forgetting things. Is he hiding something?
There are more questions than answers. Threatening letters of vengeance. Money laundering for the mafia…His dad’s fingerprints on the murder weapon.
With his hometown upended, Jackson has to figure out who the real killer is before it’s too late.
Because in a small town, nothing stays hidden.
Like many elite private schools, Madison High has a legacy steeped in traditions, none of which revolve around learning. Survival is simple: keep your head down, don’t say a word, and never question school royalty.
Cody James, a former victim of Madison’s vicious brand of hazing, wants nothing more than to graduate without breaking the unspoken rules that could land him back in social exile. Cody has breached the elusive inner circle, and he has no intention of losing his hard-earned security. But a beautiful new student shakes up his plan to coast by and causes him question his role as sidekick to the king of the school.
As the only daughter of rock legend Donnie Wyld, Skylar has been homeschooled her entire life. Now she wants normal, and she hopes that Madison High will offer her an escape from her father’s deteriorating health. She never intended on catching the eye of the school’s self-elected king or falling for his confusing best friend. But one look at Cody James, and she is drawn in by his guarded vulnerability.
The new patient whispered a list of names. One by one they’re each dying.
Rina Kent was the new hot shot psychiatrist at Holy Saints ward. She also recently married the love of her life, who’s also a doctor at the same hospital. Rina felt on top of the world, until one of her patients committed suicide.
Rina knows it was her fault.
A year later, her marriage has already gone down in flames. All she has left is her patients, but she’s lost her confidence to help them.
When a suicidal teenaged girl comes to her ward, Rina sees a second chance to help the patient she couldn’t save. The new girl won’t say a word to anyone though and Rina’s colleagues already feel she’s a lost cause.
She begins to wonder if her peers are right, when one night the girl shyly walks up to Rina and whispers a list of names.
What Rina can’t understand is why the last name she says is her ex-husband’s.
A Ghost Arrives: A Novel (affiliate link)
Every family has its secrets. Every ghost has its reasons.
After losing his job and moving back home with his elderly father, Wallace Harper discovers something else has taken up residence in his childhood home. Something that only shows its face when the sun goes down…
What starts as an eerie game of phantom footsteps and voices in the dark soon turns sinister when Wallace’s sister, Rachel, discovers she too is being stalked by a malevolent force. With danger looming on their doorstep, Wallace and Rachel soon find themselves ensnared in a violent plot of family secrets and deep wounds that never healed.
James 516 (London Carter Book 1) (affiliate link)
Voice of the Heart (affiliate link)
Fearless (affiliate link)
Anna Campbell is ready to take her first tentative steps back into the world after widowhood. On a singles cruise, she meets divorced professor Ryan Robertson, and the sparks between them are undeniable. Back home in West Texas, Anna and Ryan continue their romance, and Anna decides it’s time for their families to meet.
But the idyllic relationships Anna is hoping for are quickly thrown into doubt. Ryan and his children are more complicated than they seem. And as the situation grows more desperate, Anna must reach deep within and draw on all her courage and self-reliance to fight for the family and home she deserves . . .
Raven’s Peace (Peacekeepers of Sol Book 1) (affiliate link)
The alien Kenmiri empire has fallen.
The rebels must survive the aftermath.
After seventeen years of war, humanity has thrown the Kenmiri Empire back from its borders and into defeat. Colonel Henry Wong struck a killing blow to break the insectoid invaders’ will, backed by the immense alliance of rebels and freed slaves forged by the United Planets Alliance he serves.
Now the war is over. A great Gathering has been called of the allies who fought the war, but they only ever shared a common enemy. With the Kenmiri in retreat, a thousand new agendas are revealed.
Humanity wants peace above all else. The UPA’s allies want everything from new homes to new empires – and all too many of them are prepared to do anything to achieve their goals.
War was hard enough. Peace may be impossible.
The Sea Sisters Swimming Club (affiliate link)
Fifty-year-old police officer Fran Doherty thought she had a good few years left in her. But if a heart attack while dancing the night away at a disco in a sequin dress isn’t a sign to slow down, then she doesn’t know what is . . .
Fran’s waved goodbye to the force and hello to her pension. But who is she without her job?
She decides to get away from it all in Llanbryn, an idyllic seaside village in Wales. It beats feeling sorry for herself and watching Homes Under the Hammer all day.
Fran’s soon taken under the wing of the Sea Sisters, a group of inspirational women of all ages and sizes who swim in the ocean. They challenge her to move on from the past and face her life-long fear of the sea.
And the strapping Wyn catches her eye. He appears to be the local troublemaker, but perhaps Fran’s got the wrong end of the stick . . .
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