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The most corrupt court in Elizabethan England has turned deadly.Francis Bacon’s clerk, Thomas Clarady, has finally passed the bar. Now it’s time to sue for his livery in the Court of Wards. Alas, nothing is simple in the most corrupt institution in Tudor England. The attorney tries to wring a bribe from Tom, who refuses in threatenting terms. When the attorney turns up dead, Tom’s the most likely suspect. He goes into hiding, leaving Bacon and Lady Dorchester to fi...

The sweetest lies are the most seductive…Twelve years ago, I fell in love with Alex Thorne. He was beautiful, charming, sexy, and the best lover I'd ever had. He's also a bloody liar. Every word that comes out of his mouth is a half-truth, a con, or an evasion. Now I find out my dream job at a university in America is his way of pulling me back into his world. I will never, never fall under the spell of the British Bastard again.Catriona MacTaggart...

When a British billionaire and her American bodyguard make a baby pact, it's one hot deal.Why is an American guy living in London? My sister got engaged to a Brit, so I ditched New York and moved here too. I never expected to meet a hot older woman who kicks my lust into overdrive. Diana Sangster is a powerful business tycoon who always gets what she wants. Now that I've signed on to serve as her bodyguard, I'll spend twenty-four hours a day with the sexie...

Award-winning and international bestselling author Lynda La Plante returns with the eighth installment in her acclaimed series featuring London's Detective Chief Inspector Anna Travis.Late night on a notorious high-rise estate in the borough of Hackney. A woman on the street never makes it home after a long night of drinking. A white van is being driven erratically. The driver is pulled over by the police and questioned. A suspect . . . an arrest . . . a confession. Case closed?

Sebastian Black. The broody bad boy. The rockstar God with the most haunting voice I’ve ever heard. And, starting now, my next-door neighbor.I never thought I’d bump into my teenage crush on campus, but when it happens, any childish illusions I had about him are erased with a few harsh words. I don’t expect to run into him again, but I’m wrong.He’s at Blairwood to stay, and not just that, he wants me.Sebastian claims he lost his muse, and I...

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 17001 up to 17078 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2026, held in Malmö, Sweden, during September 8–12, 2026.The 2834 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 10,473 submissions. They deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image class...

Anna Albertini thought spring would bring a little peace. She really should know better by now.First, her cousin Lacey blows back into town from Detroit, and within days Detective Pierce has her in handcuffs on a felony charge. Anna knows two things: Lacey didn't do it, and Pierce is going to be insufferable while Anna proves it. That means digging through the long-abandoned lumber company on the edge of town, where old secrets are just waiting for a spark, and whe...

When a shipwreck washes up on a beach across from Marlow House, Frederickport residents wonder what happened to the ship’s crew.Danielle soon discovers the ship brought a stowaway—a spirit with ties to Frederickport that go back to the 1920s—when Walt was still alive.

Shifters, magic, and mythology collide in the Greek islands, where nothing — and no one — is what it seems.After ten years in the military, dragon shifter Theo Lazaridis has a new mission: to check off the last of his father’s requirements and finally claim a vast inheritance. But plans are made to be rewritten and priorities change, especially when a fiery stranger appears, turning his world upside down.Zoe Thomas is living an archaeologist’s dream on a su...

He wanted to ignore his past…Until he met his futureOnly one thing could bring Damian Romero back to Hawai’i—selling his father’s run-down theatre. The unwanted inheritance was the obstacle to a better relationship with his dad. But when a renovation accident puts him in the care of nurse Kiana Meadows, his hometown gains a bright, beautiful new appeal. The welcoming community of Nalani gives Kiana the sense of peace and belonging she has al...

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 17th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference on Electronic Participation, ePart 2025, held in Krems, Austria, during August 31–September 4, 2025.The 21 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 116 submissions.The papers were organized in topical sections as follows: Foundations and Frameworks of eParticipation; AI and Algorithmic Systems in Public Administration; Governance, Collaboration, and Pol...

The multi-volume set of LNCS books with volume numbers 17001 up to 17078 constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 19th European Conference on Computer Vision, ECCV 2026, held in Malmö, Sweden, during September 8–12, 2026.The 2834 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 10,473 submissions. They deal with topics such as computer vision; machine learning; deep neural networks; reinforcement learning; object recognition; image class...