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A Most Unusual Wedding (The Mage and the Leathersmith #1)
by Nancy M. GriffisThe Mage and the Leathersmith: Book OneAdventure brought unlikely lovers Lord Leonard "Leo" Harris and Master Leathersmith Gerald Smithson together. Now it threatens to tear them apart. Three weeks before their wedding, a plague strikes Victorian London--the worst to engulf the city in five hundred years. The symptoms are eerily reminiscent of the Black Death with boils, a horrific death, and immunity to magical cures. As one of the most powerful mages in the country, Leo searches for a cure and the person behind the scourge all while Gerald must finalize wedding plans and try to thwart a persistent--and unwanted--"admirer." It's a race against time as Gerald shows symptoms, and Leo must fight a powerful Dark Mage to get the cure before he loses the love of his life.
A Most Wanted Man
by John Le CarréA half-starved young Russian man in a long black overcoat is smuggled into Hamburg at dead of night. He has an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse round his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation. Soon her client's survival becomes more important to her than her own career. In pursuit of Issa's mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous Tommy Brue, the sixty-year-old scion of Brue Freres, a failing British bank based in Hamburg. A triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the so-called War on Terror, the spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Poignant, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A MOST WANTED MAN is alive with humour, yet prickles with tension until the last heart-stopping page. It is also a work of deep humanity, and uncommon relevance to our times.
A Most Wanted Man: A Novel (Penguin Modern Classics Ser.)
by John Le CarreA half-starved young Russian man is smuggled into Hamburg in the dead of night with an improbable amount of cash secreted in a purse around his neck. He is a devout Muslim. Or is he? He says his name is Issa. Annabel, an idealistic young German civil rights lawyer, determines to save Issa from deportation, even if the price is her career--and her safety. Searching for clues to his mysterious past, she confronts the incongruous sixty-year-old scion of a failing British bank--and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of three nations converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity with uncommon relevance to our times.- and a triangle of impossible loves is born. Meanwhile, scenting a sure kill in the "War on Terror," the rival spies of Germany, England and America converge upon the innocents. Thrilling, compassionate, peopled with characters the reader never wants to let go, A Most Wanted Man is a work of deep humanity and uncommon relevance to our times.
A Mother Always Knows: A Novel
by Sarah StrohmeyerThe beloved, award-winning author of Do I Know You? and We Love To Entertain returns with an electrifying novel of psychological suspense that explores the way our pasts shape our futures in so many unexpected ways.Stella O'Neill is just your average millennial, working at a public library and worrying about making rent. No one would suspect she's been living under an assumed name or that she was raised in a Vermont commune of "diviners" where, and as a ten-year-old, she witnessed her mother’s brutal murder—a crime that has gone unsolved for years.But her quiet, anonymous existence is upended when a true-crime obsessive posts her current name and location on the internet. Now, Stella has to get out of Boston before her mother’s killer can find her and finish the job he started all those years ago. Fed up with living in fear, she heads to the off-the-grid retreat of her childhood to confront her mother’s unhinged guru who controlled their lives for so long--the infamous Radcliffe MacBeath.Stella has two powerful assets: determination and a supernatural gift. Relying on her mother’s beloved rose quartz pendulum, Stella will have to outwit the charismatic leader who’s ruined so many lives and discover once and for all the true identity of her mother's killer—before becoming his next victim.
A Mother For His Baby
by Leah MartynDr. Brady McNeal just hopes and prays he's made the right decision. A new life for him and his tiny baby son is what he needs, and the Mount Pryde Country Practice seems like a small slice of heaven... especially when he finds he's working with GP Jo Rutherford. Jo and Brady have met once before. Now, as they work side by side, the attraction between them is still undeniable. Brady can't get too close-he's vowed to put his son's happiness first. But soon he begins to wish that Jo had a more permanent role in his life... as the mother of his child.
A Mother For His Daughter
by Ally BlakeJust as Gracie had run out of money and was about to book her flight home to Australia, she'd been rescued! A gorgeous Italian had hired her to live in his magnificent Tuscan home and be nanny to his little girl!Luca was just as thrilled-for the first time since he'd lost his wife smiles and laughter were back in his daughter's life. He didn't want Gracie to leave, so he had a proposal for her: would she stay...as his rwife?It was the hardest decision of Gracie's life. She I loved both Luca and Mila-but was Luca proposing because he loved her...or because he just wanted a mother for his daughter.?
A Mother For His Family
by Alison RobertsA trip to Paradise…<P> Short-term, Nurse Sarah Mitchell wants to relax on her Fijian holiday. Long-term, she’d love to foster a child. The last things she wants in a fling with a playboy doctor on a Pacific island. Until she discovers she’s got Dr. Ben Dawson all wrong…<P> After a cyclone hits the tropics, Sarah sees the true Ben -- nd incredibly talented surgeon with a big heart, a past, and a daughter in need of Sarah’s special TLC. But Ben’s attempts at love have hurt his daughter before -- how can he trust his own instincts again? Can this beautiful woman really be the right mother for his child?
A Mother For His Son: A Heartwarming Medical Romance
by Gill SandersonA heartwarming medical romance by best-selling author Gill Sanderson GP Cat Fraser left London to seek peace after the death of her nephew. It hadn't been her fault but the guilt bit deeply into her. Medicine in a small Lake District hospital was vastly different from what she had been accustomed to. She came to love the surroundings and the community feeling. She found them comforting. Also comforting and uncomfortable was her relationship with Dr Ross McCain and his four-year-old son Stephen. What was she to do? Both Cat and Ross were wary. Both had been hurt, were unwilling to risk further pain. They started a love affair - but agreed it was only a fling. It took a near fatal accident to persuade them that risks were worth taking.
A Mother For Jeffrey
by Trisha AlexanderTHE CHILD SHE ALWAYS WANTEDOnce, Leslie Marlowe had had high hopes for her future-a man to love and lots of babies. But when those dreams faded, she tried to convince herself that she didn't need a family of her own. Then eleven-year-old Jeffrey Canfield walked into her life-followed quickly by his handsome father....THE WOMAN HE COULDN'T FORGETBrian Canfield knew that his son's friendship with Leslie spelled trouble. Only problem was, when he tried to put an end to it, he found himself falling for her as well. And that was something this veteran of heartbreak just couldn't let happen. Because it was bad enough that Jeffrey was starting to look on Leslie as a potential mother-but was Brian starting to see her as a second-chance bride?
A Mother Like Mine (A Hartley-by-the-Sea Novel #3)
by Kate HewittWelcome to England&’s beautiful Lake District, where a reluctant reunion forges a new bond between a daughter and her wayward mother.... Abby Rhodes is just starting to get her life on track. After her fiancé&’s unexpected death, she returned with her young son to the small village where she grew up and threw herself into helping her ailing grandmother run the town's beach café. Then one evening, her mother, Laura, shows up in Hartley-by-the-Sea and announces her plan to stay. After twenty years away, she now wants to focus on the future—and has no intention, it seems, of revisiting the painful past. Laura Rhodes has made a lot of mistakes, and many of them concern her daughter. But as Abby gets little glimpses into her mother's life, she begins to realize there are depths to Laura she never knew. Slowly, Abby and Laura start making tentative steps toward each other, only to have life become even more complicated when an unexpected tragedy arises. Together, the two women will discover truths both sad and surprising that draw them closer to a new understanding of what it means to truly forgive someone you love.
A Mother Like You
by Ruby SpeechleyAn unexpected pregnancy and a blackmailing ex shake up a woman&’s seemingly perfect life in this domestic thriller by the author of Every Little Secret. Kate Marshall lives an enviable life. Married to handsome, charming, James, owner of a successful company, she seems to have it all. But falling pregnant at forty-five was never part of the plan. Especially as Kate&’s hiding a devastating secret—one that she&’s been running from for twenty years. So when ex-boyfriend Paul comes back into her life, threatening to expose the truth about what Kate did, the clock is ticking. Can she keep her secrets and finally be the mother she always dreamed of—or will her past lies destroy her perfect life? Perfect for fans of Shalini Boland, Liane Moriarty and Jane Shemilt. Praise for A Mother Like You &“A beautifully paced psychological thriller. Twisty, engrossing, sensitive and dark. Excellent.&” —Will Dean, author of Dark Pines&“An unspeakable secret, with lies and twists at every turn, Ruby&’s breathtaking writing draws you in so tightly that you can&’t let go until the very end.&” —Deborah Masson, author of Hold Your Tongue
A Mother Would Know: A Novel
by Amber Garza&“Do we ever really know our children? Amber Garza invites readers to untangle the web of a family just like yours—or are they? This thriller will have you triple-guessing yourself.&” —Eliza Jane Brazier, author of If I DisappearA mother questions everything she knows about her son when a local woman is found dead. Valerie has been forgetting things. Her daughter worries about her being on her own in her big Victorian house—one rumored to be haunted after a tragedy decades earlier—and truth be told, she is a little lonely. With few options, she asks her adult son to move home, but it&’s not quite the reunion she hoped for. Hudson is taciturn, moody and frequently gone. The neighbors already hold a grudge against Hudson, and they aren&’t happy about his return. When a young woman is found murdered a block away, suspicion falls on him immediately, without a shred of evidence. While Valerie fights to defend her son, she begins to wonder who she really invited into her home. It&’s a horrible thing for a mother to even think…but is it possible she&’s enabled a monster? A monster she is living with, alone?
A Mother and Two Daughters
by Gail GodwinAfter the death of their father, Cate and Lydia return to North Carolina to mourn with their mother; it is a time of reflection for all three.
A Mother at Heart
by Carolyne AarsenA PLACE TO BELONGMiriam Spencer had left the "glamorous" New York fashion world to return to the small farming town where she was raised. Perhaps here, if only for a little while, she could find some of the meaning that was missing in her life....But coming home meant meeting Jake Steele, the man she'd never stopped loving. He was a widower now, with an adorable young daughter, and she longed to be part of both their lives. But what could she offer this man, whose roots were planted so deep in the land, in his family, in his faith...?And yet, how could she walk away from him again?
A Mother by Nature
by Caroline AndersonA family worth fighting forAt last—a man to share her life with, have kids with.And Adam Bradbury, the new pediatric surgeon, seemed to feel the same. He was a devoted father with a burning desire to seek sanctuary in Anna’s arms. Their passion was instant, their tenderness acute, yet he wouldn’t let Anna into his family’s life. Adam understood about a woman’s need to hold her own child, and no matter how much she might love his kids, that need would eventually drive her away. For Adam knew he could never give Anna what she really needed. And Anna knew that he was just plain wrong....
A Mother for Amanda
by Anna SchmidtSOMETHING WAS MISSING IN BOTH OF THEIR LIVESWidowed and raising his young daughter alone in the wilds of Yellowstone National Park, Chief Ranger Greg Stone no longer believed in much of anything. Then he rescued a city-bred heiress from an oversized bear-and found himself smiling for the first time in months....Schoolteacher Beth Baxter had been inexplicably drawn to this remote place. But she knew why when she met a lonely single dad and his sweet child who desperately wanted a mommy. Now Beth must teach Greg life's most important lesson: how to live-and love-again....
A Mother for Amanda & The Doctor's Miracle
by Anna SchmidtA MOTHER FOR AMANDARaising a child alone in the wilderness, widowed park ranger Greg Stone wanted no part of any big-city schoolteacher. Yet Beth Baxter's gentle faith--and her kindness to his little girl--made this bitter man long for the courage to open up his heart once more. THE DOCTOR'S MIRACLESinger Rachel Duke was drawn to Paul McCoy, the doctor who treated her after she'd collapsed onstage. Could she truly find love with him--and help the doctor heal a faith shaken by memories of war?
A Mother for Choco
by Keiko KaszaFamily is about love no matter how different parents and children may be, adopted or not.Choco wishes he had a mother, but who could she be? He sets off to find her, asking all kinds of animals, but he doesn't meet anyone who looks just like him. He doesn't even think of asking Mrs. Bear if she's his mother-but then she starts to do just the things a mommy might do. And when she brings him home, he meets her other children-a piglet, a hippo, and an alligator-and learns that families can come in all shapes and sizes and still fit together.Keiko Kasza's twist on the "Are you my mother?" theme has become one of the most highly recommended stories about adoption for children.
A Mother for Cindy
by Margaret DaleyA FAMILY FOR TORYThere's nothing more rewarding for riding instructor Tory Alexander than making her students happy. So when Slade, the father of her favorite student, asks for a favor, how can she refuse? But is she really ready to be part of a family again?A MOTHER FOR CINDYWidowed mom Jesse Bradshaw has a knack for matchmaking. Now her little neighbor Cindy wants her to find Cindy's lonely daddy a wife. Jesse's determined to help--and Nick's determined to keep his distance. Neither expect love to lead them where it does: right to each other.
A Mother for Cindy
by Margaret DaleyYOURS, MINE AND OURS?Young widow Jesse Bradshaw is content to be a loving mother to her son, a devoted granddaughter, a doll maker and the keeper of a gaggle of pets. She can’t imagine having anything more in her already crowded life—until jaded Nick Blackburn and his daughter move in next door. Cindy needs a mother’s love, something the wealthy businessman can’t provide for his precious child. Jesse tries to use her matchmaking skills to find a suitable wife for the workaholic widower, but what can she do when she realizes she is Nick’s perfect match?Originally published in 2005
A Mother for His Adopted Son
by Lynne MarshallA compassionate artist changes the lives of a troubled doctor and his adopted son in this emotional romance.The family he’s always wanted . . . Notoriously cool, calm and always in control, single dad Dr. Sam Marcus is facing every parent’s worst nightmare. His adorable adopted son, Dani, has cancer, and Andrea Rimmer is the only woman who can help! As Andrea treats his son, Sam sees the warmth and compassion behind her independent exterior. Can he prove to Andrea that she’s the only mummy for Dani, and that together their family is a perfect fit?
A Mother for His Children
by Jan DrexlerFROM AMISH NANNY TO BRIDE? After her sweetheart's betrayal, Ruthy Mummert leaves behind the small-town gossip of her Amish community for the first opportunity she can find: a housekeeper position in faraway LaGrange County, Indiana. Ruthy didn't realize the job meant caring for ten children-and for their handsome widowed father. To Levi Zook's mind, Ruthy is too young and too pretty to be anyone's housekeeper. A marriage of convenience will protect her reputation and give his children the security they dearly need. But it could also give them the courage to grasp a new chance at happiness-if Ruthy is willing to risk her wounded heart once more.
A Mother for His Family
by Susanne DietzeA Convenient ArrangementLady Helena Stanhope’s reputation is in tatters…and she’s lost any hope for a “respectable” ton marriage. An arranged union is the only solution. But once Helena weds formidable Scottish widower John Gordon, Lord Ardoch, and encounters his four mischievous children, she’s determined to help her new, ever-surprising family. Even if she’s sure love is too much to ask for.All John needs is someone to mother his admittedly unruly brood. He never imagined that beautiful Lady Helena would be a woman of irresistible spirit, caring and warmth. Or that facing down their pasts would give them so much in common. Now, as danger threatens, John will do whatever it takes to convince Helena their future together—and his love—are for always.
A Mother for His Little Princess (Royal Docs #2)
by Karin BaineIn the second installment in the Royal Docs duet by Karin Baine, a widowed prince finds himself irresistibly drawn to his daughter&’s physiotherapist!A fresh start for the prince&’s family? Before the accident that killed his wife and injured his daughter, duty-bound surgeon Prince Amir Ayad was set to take the throne. Now? Amir isn&’t sure about anything—except his powerful connection to fiercely independent physiotherapist Isolde. Seeing her bond with his little princess begins to unlock Amir&’s barricaded heart… But having lost so much already, pursuing the woman he should resist would be utterly foolish…right?From Harlequin Medical: Life and love in the world of modern medicine.Royal Docs Book 1: Surgeon Prince's Fake FiancéeBook 2: A Mother for His Little Princess