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Once a privileged heiress, Annabelle Ross is now struggling to hold her home and her life together through the devastation of the War Between the States. But with a forced marriage and a desolate future on the horizon, her hopes are beginning to dwindle. When she discovers an encrypted note on a dying soldier, she seizes the opportunity to use it to deliver a message of her own. Instead, she’s mistaken for a spy and captured. Can she unravel a conspiracy before her secrets cost a man his life? The complete trilogy of exciting Accidental Spy novels.

Having inexplicably nabbed the duke of Kesgrave, 26-year-old spinster Beatrice Hyde-Clare is determined to marry him at once, and no amount of hand-wringing from anxious family members, worried friends, and well-meaning acquaintances will convince her to delay. Except, maybe, she is a little swayed by her uncle’s efforts to make amends for treating her with cold indifference during her childhood.

A beautifully written, evocative literary page-turner about a brilliant nineteenth-century female pianist from Poland lost to history and another woman’s quest to ensure she is not forgotten—with a shocking twist of a finale. Clara Bishop hasn’t touched a piano since a concert hall fire...

Amid the grim realities of wartime Britain, inside during the blackout hidden from the tatters left by the Blitz, glitz and glamour live onstage in the West End. But at one theater, The Regent, a malevolent force is causing escalating problems. Sabotage, damage and injury feed mistrust among the cast and crew.

Dark Adventure Radio Theatre presents Robert E. Howard's tale of horrors in Eastern Europe in a 1930s-style radio drama. Charlie Tower seeks refuge from the horrors of the Great War in Berlin's most notorious nightclubs. There a chain of events is set in motion that will lead him across Europe to investigate the mysterious Black Stone. Is it merely a creation of superstitious peasants, or is it a nexus for hideous gods of the ancient world to set foot into ours?

When a theatre troupe invades Harper Lane’s bookstore for rehearsals, the bookseller expects drama, not death. But when the show’s demanding star, Victoria Chase, collapses mid-monologue, Harper and her trusty dog Watson smell the distinct scent of poison. The police ruled it a heart attack. Harper knows it’s murder. Was it the ambitious understudy, too eager to step into the spotlight? Or the brooding lighting technician, cousin to a vanished actress, whose margin notes read like blueprints for murder? Victoria Chase bullied everyone, earning boos behind the curtain, not sympathy. ...

This program is read by Tony Award–winning actor Laura Benanti. A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance Vivian Parry likes the dark. A former actress, she now works as the...

JUSTICE JUST GOT A NEW FIRST AND LAST NAME. Strange things are happening at the Iowa State College of Applied Bookkeeping, Farmery, and Automotive Repair. Take your pick. There's the epidemic of male loneliness plaguing the students, the carrier pigeons flooding the skies at all hours with odd packages out for delivery, and the secret criminal empire that meets twice a week to discuss the destruction of Joseph Tugger. Who's Tugger?

Investigating a crime seemingly unconnected to the Royal Family, Holmes & Watson uncover a conspiracy to kidnap Queen Victoria and destabilise the British Empire. With a ticking clock to her next public engagement, Holmes and Watson must discover who is behind the plot and locate her majesty, while Mycroft tries to keep the monarch’s disappearance a secret from the British people. At first, Holmes believes Moriarty is responsible for the abduction, but when the Napoleon of Crime is proved innocent, Holmes must work with his arch-nemesis to rescue the Queen.

Peter Wagner is an orthopedic surgeon beginning a one-year Sports Medicine fellowship in Tulsa, Louisiana. There he meets Heather Jackson, the Sports Information Director for the number one ranked college football team in the nation - the Tulsa Valley Tarpons. Dr. Wagner is immediately captivated by the pre-season spectacle of a team predicted to win the national championship. He immerses himself into the team’s daily routine, including a stay at their remote summer camp on the bayou, under the watchful eye of head coach Buford B. Hayes. Coach Hayes played for the Tarpons fifty years ago ...

”Kimberly Belle delivers the goods—a rocket-paced story with a heart that will keep you riveted through every hairpin twist and turn. Breathless suspense!” —Lisa Unger, New York Times bestselling author of The Red Hunter When a child goes missing, two mothers’ lives collide in a...

Kazimir Kovar was born into violence, shaped by a crime family that treated brutality as inheritance. But he didn’t follow their path—he elevated it. To him, murder is art. Performance. Transformation. A blank canvas waiting for the right stroke. He wears wigs like masks. Outfits like personas. He becomes whoever the moment requires. And when he kills, he sends the victim’s family a “gift,” something crafted with such unsettling intention that grief turns into spectacle. No one forgets what he leaves behind. Ray returns to the field once more, haunted but resolute, determined to ...

“Hystericaland often touching. . . . Domestic Violets is a fast, fun, hilariousread."" —Jessica Anya Blau, critically-acclaimed author of The Summer of Naked Swim Parties and DrinkingCloser to HomeInthe tradition of Jonathan Tropper and Tom Perrotta comes Matthew Norman's Domestic...

She was meant to fly. Instead, she fell. When celebrated ballerina Alina Novikova collapses mid-performance of Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake at New York’s Lincoln Center, the world mourns what appears to be a tragic end to a legendary career. But journalist Luna Moreno isn’t convinced. What Luna witnessed that night didn’t feel like an accident. In her fifth investigation, Luna takes us into the elite world of ballet, where perfection is everything, pain is hidden behind beauty, and the pressure to perform pushes bodies—and minds—beyond their limits. As she digs deeper, she uncovers ...

HOT, SMART, WOMAN SAVES THE PLANET... Her name is Sophia. She is highly intuitive, loving, gifted smart and a born leader. She and a small group of people were hand picked by an alien culture to be trained to reach a highly advanced state of mind called lightspace. But there was a catch, an ultimatum. The law of the universe is that any species about to reach the capacity for long range space travel must prove it has a dominant desire for peace or it will be destroyed to protect the more advanced, peaceful planets of the Milky Way. Can this small group of lightspace graduates find and train...

"ALICE CROWLEY'S EROTIC STORIES ALWAYS HAVE SURPRISE ENDINGS!" ~ Hwk "I LOVED THE IMAGINATION OF THIS AUTHOR!" ~ Satisfied Kindle Reader "ALICE CROWLEY IS ONE OF OUR GREATEST LIVING WRITERS!" ~ G. Taylor Troy T. has a big problem. At 35, he's on the verge of becoming a 40-year-old virgin, and he refuses to accept that fate. One night he feels adventurous so he goes out in search of the right woman to show him the ropes, not to mention the chains, the whips, whatever -- at this point, Troy is not feeling picky. He's feeling desperate. After wandering around town Troy ends up at an ...

Jake saw something unspeakable when he was nine. An act of violence. Brutal. He doesn't know it, but this trauma will play a key role in shaping him later in life. Now, he's 15. A wimp. He flinches. Always. He seeks the guidance of the biggest bad-ass he knows, his cousin Nick. Nick is a professional burglar and makes Jake his apprentice. Nick teaches Jake his dark philosophy - that there is no right or wrong in the world, just a series of events that happen without meaning. At first this helps Jake, but it also unleashes an aggression in himself he never thought possible....

Chillingly prophetic and spiritually resonant, The Maskers blends gripping dystopian suspense with a soul-deep reckoning on identity, faith, and the cost of forgetting who you truly are—perfect for fans of The Shack meets Black Mirror." – NewInBooks.com THE MASKERS When being yourself becomes the most dangerous choice This isn’t science fiction. It’s a preview of what’s already here—and what’s about to come next. What if I told you there’s an entire economy built on people selling their identities to survive? Millions clock into converted shopping malls, put on neural-linked...

Seven ballerinas. One fallen primadonna. The audition of a lifetime. And a mysterious house that swallows the weakest one by one ... There is no performance art as punishing as ballet—and no top-tier ballerina is as punished as Eden. While others practice their steps over and over, Eden waits...

A thrill-seeking young woman joins a radical theater troupe in this taut, suspenseful novel of art, seduction, and the deadly limits of liberation. New York, 1972. A cloistered college student slips out of the dorms to attend a performance by a legendary experimental performance troupe. Within...