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Twenty-seven years after the deaths of Detective Abby Hart's parents, she's desperate to find the proof that will put the mastermind--the governor's wife--behind bars.ย When she joins a newly formed task force and teams up with PI Luke Murphy, Abby is sent to San Luis Obispo to work the cold case of a murdered college student.
On the run from a brute of an aristocratic employer, Eleanor Morgan escapes England to America, the land of the free, for the opportunity to serve an upstanding Charles Town family. But freedom is hard to come by as an indentured servant, and downright impossible when she's forced to agree to an even harsher contract - marriage to a man she's never met.
Y'all are in for a real treat today, make sure you scroll all the way down so you don't miss anything!!! In addition to reading my humble opinion of the featured title Hello, reader friends! I'm delighted to share my thoughts on the second installment of the Isle of Hope series, Love Everlasting by Julie Lessman.
Sent away for protection, hotel heiress Estella Everstone finds herself living undercover as a ladyโs companion named Elle Stoneburner at one of her fatherโs opulent hotels in the mountains of Maineโthe one she'd always loved best and always hoped to own one day, Everston.
It is 1664 and Patience Terry is devastated to learn that Captain Jeremy Horton's ship has been shipwrecked off the coast of Barbados, with no survivors. She had hoped that Jeremy would someday give up the sea and settle down with her in Southold, Long Island.
Baseball star Will Vandergriff knows any number of women who would happily pretend to be his girlfriend. In a last-ditch effort to restore his good standing with his teamโs higher-ups, he enlists the help of his neurotic, goody-goody neighbor.
Reading this series in its entirety during one weekend was better than a Downton Abbey-Pride and Prejudice-Emma BBC marathon! These books are 400+ pages each and each one is absolutelyย fabulous and all are nowย on my all-time favorites list!
Itโs the early 1930s, but Cora Scott is walking in stride as a career woman after having inherited her great auntโs wedding shop in Heartโs Bend, Tennessee, where brides come from as far away as Birmingham to experience her famed bridal treatment.
When her mother suffers a stroke, medical student Deirdre O'Leary makes the difficult choice to put her career on hold to care for her. Dr. Matthew Clayborne is renowned for his amazing results with patients, but when Deirdre approaches him about helping her mother, she finds him challenging and surly.
Lydia King knows what it's like to be in need, so when she joins the Teaville Moral Society, she genuinely hopes to help the town's poor. But with her father's debts increasing by the day and her mother growing sicker by the week, she wonders how long it will be until she ends up in the poor house herself.
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