A reluctant lady sleuth finds she's investigating her own family.1881, Sussex. With a drowned husband—the second love lost—an overbearing family, no longed-for child, and the responsibility of a huge baroque mansion, it's not surprising Lady Helena Whitcombe is overwhelmed. When attractive, mysterious, French physician Armand Fortier disturbs her first weeks of mourning with his theory of murder, Helena's reluctant and ineffective attempts at investigation...

Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced.Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth."Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted.Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small...

Teenagers with mind powers fight for the right to survive in the thrilling first novel of the Perceivers series.Waking up without his memories and hunted by Agent Cooper, Michael finds sanctuary with a group of perceivers: telepaths who sense the thoughts and emotions of others. Drawn into their battle to stay free of the cure which threatens to strip them of their powers, he searches for the person who stole his past. As the tension between perceivers and norms er...

~~~~Trust, is not about being comfortable~~~~Cassandra, is determined to find her family, in spite of a crazy horse, a mysterious helicopter, a frustrated hero and farcical felons.She has depended on her instincts and good sense for years. But when her life suddenly goes sideways, she suspects her judgment is messed up because of the chemistry between her and a sizzling hot mystery man. Gage’s secret assignment is to protect Cassandra, but she’s got him twi...

Lord Patrick Delaney promised to deliver an important message to his best friend’s sister, but promises are hard to keep when one becomes a ghost. After Patrick is attacked in the forest and tossed into a river, he is surprised to wake at the country estate where the lovely Miss Laura Chetwey is mourning the loss of her brother. Even more surprising, she seems to be the only person who can see or hear him, which should make his mission easy to complete… if only he could remember the messag...

Yesterday, my biggest problem was finding a blouse without a coffee stain.Today, it’s the ghost of my best friend demanding I solve his murder. Oh—and his cat talks. With a British accent.Ben doesn’t remember how he died. Just that it wasn’t an accident. And somehow, in the middle of all this, I’ve inherited his private investigation business.Me. Audrey Fitzgerald. Formerly employed. Frequently underestimated. Currently seeing dead people.Be...

An epic young adult fantasy with magic, adventure and mystery.A mysterious key, a dark mage, and a thrilling journey of self-discovery and adventureCan Elin learn to control her magical powers?Elin has been searching for somewhere to belong her whole life it seems. Her parents abandoned her as a baby and every time her emotions run high, her magic slips her control, and she is forced to flee. Again and again.

One of the most beloved books of all time, Pride and Prejudice is Jane Austin’s classic story of the love that blooms, is denied, and finally flourishes between the prideful Mr. Darcy and the prejudiced Elizabeth Bennet. A country squire of limited means, Mr. Bennet is faced with the monumental task of marrying off his five daughters, including his much-loved Elizabeth, while surviving the puerile antics of his wife, Mrs. Bennet, the plotting of the untrustworthy Wickham, and the ...

In one of Jane Austen's most beloved works, a privileged young woman meddles in the love lives of her friends--until she realizes that she may not know as much about love as she thought. Emma is handsome, clever, and finds matchmaking the most satisfying enjoyment in the world, but despite her best intentions things don't always go as planned. As her close friends get married and new faces come to Highbury, for the first time Emma must face a complicated world and her changing place in it....

**50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION—WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY DAVID MITCHELL AND A NEW AFTERWORD BY CHARLIE JANE ANDERSUrsula K. Le Guin’s groundbreaking work of science fiction—winner of the Hugo and Nebula Awards.**A lone human ambassador is sent to the icebound planet of Winter, a world without sexual prejudice, where the inhabitants’ gender is fluid. His goal is to facilitate Winter’s inclusion in a growing intergalactic civilization. But to do so he must bridge the gulf betwee...

This book contains the complete novels of Jane Austen in the chronological order of their original publication. - Lady Susan - Sense and Sensibility - Pride and Prejudice - Mansfield Park - Emma - Persuasion - Northanger Abbey - Juvenilia – Volume I - Juvenilia – Volume II - Juvenilia – Volume III

When Perdita McKell’s brother Lennox asks her for help to fund his hairbrained scheme to renovate a tumbledown Scottish castle, she fears it will only end in disaster.But a lifetime of sister guilt, complicated family relationships and a general sense of malaise are enough for her to ignore her instincts. The castle in question, Dunaire Castle, was the seventeenth-century home to their ancestor, the Earl George McKell, so Perdita can understand Lennox’s romantic no...