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Fiercely independent naval officer, Patience Cartwright has never had a place to call home, but she knows where she doesn't belong. After an unhappy childhood and a badly broken heart, she'll never return to the country. But to save her career, Patience is forced to accept a secondment – to an environmental team working near the town where she grew up. There she encounters once more the infuriatingly attractive biologist Hugo Halstead – the very man she's sworn never to forgive.

Read. Sleep. Fall for your enemy. Lilah Owning a spicy romance bookstore was supposed to come with feral readers and a meet-cute or two. Not a billionaire in a three-piece suit trying to bulldoze my business. Lincoln Hanover is everything that's wrong with the world. He's hot, bossy, and far too...

A clean Amish romance collection about belonging, faith, and the choices that shape a life. Iris is becoming part of a world that is testing her in ways she never expected.

The Billionaire and the Bride: A friends to lovers, retired hockey player, billionaire sports romance (Elite Eagles Legacy Book 1) I’m Leon Hill, ex-hockey player, sports agent, and in so much trouble! I have been in love with my best friend’s little sister for as long as I can remember. But...

A piercing, inspirational story of love and transformation, The Psalmist follows a recovering alcoholic who, reeling from his mother’s death and his sister’s disappearance, finds unlikely community and unexpected grace while raising his sister's baby. When Mark returns to his hometown in...

Small town charms; takes on new meaning in "Witch on the Juniata River", a paranormal mystery novel perfect for cozy autumn reading. Modern witch Kendra Hill knows from the first swing of her pendulum that she needs to help the ghosts of her Victorian home - Clara, and the dark-haired woman.

Move over Stephanie Plum, Betty Crocker, and the residents of Lake Wobegon. Retired farmer Doris Day Anderson Connor and her quirky friends and relatives are solving crime in the Scandinavian-Lutheran farming community of Hallock, in the northwest corner of Minnesota. This audiobook, the second installment in the It' s Murder series, has Doris and her sister, Grace Kelly Anderson, the owner of the local café , taking ninety-year-old Rose O' Brien ice fishing.

As late summer steals in and the final pearls of barley are gleaned, a village comes under threat. Over the course of seven days, Walter Thirsk sees his hamlet unmade: the manor house set on fire, the harvest blackened, three new arrivals punished, and his neighbours accused of witchcraft. But...

In the quiet village of Noon Sun, Benedict Stone has settled into a complacent and predictable routine. Business at his jewelry shop has dried up and his marriage is on the rocks. Then a surprise arrives at his door. Gemma is Benedict's teenage niece - the daughter of his estranged brother...

When torrential summer rains uncover a bizarrely tattooed body on a Lake District hillside, old wives' tales also come swirling to the surface. For centuries Lakelanders have whispered that Fletcher Christian staged the massacre on Pitcairn so that he could return home. And there he told his...

When paramedic Bruce Pike is called out to deal with another teenage adventure gone wrong, he knows better than anyone what happened and how. Thirty years before, that dead boy could have been him. Bruce remembers what it was like to be a risk-taking kid, to feel that thrill and that fear...

Big Billy Brennan has suffered the greatest tragedy a parent can know, he has just lost his son. His marriage is a partnership in name alone and at nearly 30 stone, Billy is also obese. So, Billy decides to take on the two things weighing him down - his grief, and his fat - and in doing so he's...

1988: Harper Richardson's mum and dad are divorced. Her mum got custody of her, the Mini and five hundred tins of baked beans. Her dad got a mouldering cottage in a Midlands backwater village and plenty of free time to indulge his WWII obsession. What a Way to Go is a warm, wise and witty tale...

Faced with losing everything, all that matters is Here and Now... Marigold has spent her life taking care of those around her, juggling family life with the running of the local shop, and being an all-round leader in her quiet yet welcoming community. When she finds herself forgetting things...

Richly imagined and compulsively readable, The Innocents is a riveting story of hardship and survival, and an unflinching exploration of the bond between siblings. SHORTLISTED FOR THE GILLER PRIZE, THE GOVERNOR GENERAL'S PRIZE, AND THE ROGER'S WRITER'S TRUST FICTION AWARD In centuries past, a...

Broder Bahnsen wollte nie etwas anderes als Bauer werden, Nachfolger seines Vaters, der ihm den »Kuhverstand« vererbt hat, das Gespür für Tiere. Aber den Hof bekommt sein Zwillingsbruder Henning, nur wenige Minuten älter, immer schon selbstbewusster und mehr an Maschinen interessiert. Vom Hof vertrieben, baut Broder Bahnsen sich ein Gegenleben auf, wird Tierarzt und hält Abstand zum Betrieb, bis er nach über 20 Jahren wiederkommt und eine Praxis in der Nähe der Familie übernimmt.

**DREAM COUNT, the searing new bestselling novel by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is out now!** THE WOMEN’S PRIZE FOR FICTION ‘WINNER OF WINNERS’ One of the BBC's '100 Novels That Shaped Our World' ‘A literary masterpiece’ DAILY MAIL ‘An immense achievement’ OBSERVER In 1960s Nigeria...

The emo kid, the loner, the cynical wallflower with an attitude. It's no secret that I've never quite fit in. But it's glaringly obvious now that I've moved to this Podunk small town that seems to run entirely on sugar, friendliness, and cheer. (And cows, an ungodly number of cows.) I hate it—this place where everyone knows everyone, and I'm still the outsider. Who wants to fit in anyway? I've never really tried, never even thought I wanted to…until I met him. Jimbob is living his best life out here, farming the fields of Kansas, well and truly happy. And I just don't get it.

Come West and See is a work both timely and timeless. Set in the Redoubt, an isolated triangle of Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming where an armed occupation of a wildlife refuge escalates into a separatist uprising, these stories explore the loneliness, insecurity, and frustration inherent to love and heartbreak. A lakeside wedding drunkenly devolves into a cruel charade; an unemployed carpenter joins a militia after his wife leaves him; and a former soldier raises the daughter of a dead comrade in a bunker beneath an abandoned farm.

FROM THE AUTHOR SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 'A considerable achievement' GUARDIAN 'Highly recommended' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Excellent entertainment: an absorbing book' TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Durraghglass is a beautiful mansion in Southern Ireland, now crumbling in neglect. The time is...