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The Blue Castle
by L. M. Montgomery Collett TraceyValancy lives a drab life with her overbearing mother and prying aunt. Then a shocking diagnosis from Dr. Trent prompts her to make a fresh start. For the first time, she does and says exactly what she feels. As she expands her limited horizons, Valancy undergoes a transformation, discovering a new world of love and happiness. One of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s only novels intended for an adult audience, The Blue Castle is filled with humour and romance.
Blue Clouds
by Patricia RiceAround the small California town where Pippa Cochran has fled to escape an abusive boyfriend, Seth Wyatt is called the Grim Reaper-and not just because he's a bestselling author of horror novels. He's an imposing presence, battling more inner demons than even an indefatigable woman like Pippa cares to handle. Yet, while in his employ, she can't resist the emotional pull of his damaged son or the chance to hide in the fortress he calls a home. Then Pippa's amazing gifts begin to alter their world in ways none of them could have imagined. But something soon goes wrong. Dangerous "accidents" occur, threatening to destroy the tremulous new love that Pippa and Seth have dared to discover. ...
Blue Coat
by Mary Jean KelsoCavalry Lieutenant Winslow Brighton, stationed below the mining town of Virginia City, Nevada, responds to an Indian massacre. There he discovers a young woman has been taken hostage by a renegade Apache. In his efforts to rescue Laura O'Connell, his heart is torn between the fashionable young lady he is engaged to, Elizabeth, and Laura, a quick-tempered redhead who is determined to live or die in this new country on her own terms--whatever her fate. Meanwhile, Amethyst (Amy), a prostitute Win has grown fond of, waits anxiously for his return. She knows it's unrealistic to fall in love with a customer. But, she also knows emotions are irrational and she has already suffered enough.
Blue Collar Billionaire: A pretend boyfriend romance (Texas Cattleman's Club: Heir Apparent #3)
by Karen BoothHe’s not afraid to work hard to get what he wants in this opposites-attract romance from author Karen Booth!Uptown girls who think they have the upper hand?They don’t know Jack!Jack Bowden has met enough rich women to know that Lone Star socialite Lexi Alderidge doesn’t take him seriously, even though their connection is instant. Still, the rugged contractor built his fortune from the ground up—surely he can build real rapport with Lexi the same way? But when “getting along” becomes “getting into bed,” will his brand of rough-and-tumble success ever truly fit into her high-class world?From Harlequin Desire: Luxury, scandal, desire—welcome to the lives of the American elite.Love triumphs in these uplifting romances, part of the Texas Cattleman’s Club: Heir Apparent series.Book 1: Back in the Texan’s Bed by Naima SimoneBook 2: At the Rancher’s Pleasure by Joss WoodBook 3: Blue Collar Billionaire by Karen BoothBook 4: The Trouble with Bad Boys by Katherine Garbera
Blue Dahlia: Number 1 in series (In the Garden Trilogy #1)
by Nora RobertsRecently widowed, Stella Rothchild is no stranger to the ghosts of the past, but the move from Michigan back to her roots near Memphis, Tennessee is supposed to be about the future. Her two energetic young sons are thriving in their new school. Stella's got a great job managing successful nursery 'In the Garden' and an interesting boss and landlady in local legend Roz Harper. She even has a new friend in Hayley Phillips, the feisty young pregnant woman who turns up at Harper House, Stella's new home, looking for a job. More than that, Stella feels an instant attraction to 'In the Garden's' landscaper, Logan Kitridge, who gets under her skin and makes her feel truly alive for the first time in years. But there is someone at Harper House who isn't happy about Stella's growing feelings for Logan - the Harper Bride, an unidentified woman whose grief and rage have kept her spirit alive long past the death of her body. Love and loss broke her mind, and in her madness, she will stop at nothing to destroy the new passion that Logan and Stella have found.
Blue Dahlia (In The Garden Trilogy #1)
by Nora RobertsAgainst the backdrop of a house steeped in history and a thriving new gardening business, three women unearth the memories of the past in the first novel in #1 New York Times bestselling author Nora Roberts' In the Garden Trilogy. A Harper has always lived at Harper House, the centuries-old mansion just outside of Memphis. And for as long as anyone alive remembers, the ghostly Harper Bride has walked the halls, singing lullabies at night… Trying to escape the ghosts of the past, young widow Stella Rothchild, along with her two energetic little boys, has moved back to her roots in southern Tennessee. She isn&’t intimidated by Harper House—nor by its mistress. Despite a reputation for being difficult, Roz Harper has been nothing but kind to Stella, offering her a comfortable place to live and a challenging new job as manager of the flourishing In the Garden nursery. As Stella settles comfortably into her new life, she finds a nurturing friendship with Roz and expectant mother Hayley and a fierce attraction to ruggedly handsome landscaper Logan Kitridge. He&’s difficult but honest, brash but considerate—and undeniably sexy. And for a sensible woman like Stella, he may be just what she needs… Don&’t miss the other books in the In the Garden Trilogy Black RoseRed Lily
Blue Days (Mangrove Stories #1)
by Mary CalmesMangrove StoriesFalling for a coworker is rarely a good idea, especially for a man getting a last chance at salvaging his career. But from the moment Dwyer Knolls sees the beautiful but socially awkward Takeo Hiroyuki, he seems destined to make bad decisions. Takeo's life is a string of failed attempts to please his traditional Japanese father. Unfortunately, succeeding in business turns out to be just as difficult for Takeo as changing from gay to straight. In fact, the only thing Takeo seems to truly excel at is taking notice of Dwyer Knolls. When Dwyer and Takeo head to Mangrove, Florida on a real estate buying trip, their tentative friendship combusts and becomes much more. Is their sudden connection real enough to bank their futures on, or should they chalk the whole thing up to the daze inspired by the blue ocean breeze?
Blue Diablo (Corine Solomon #1)
by Ann Aguirre"Gritty, steamy and altogether wonderful urban fantasy."--New York Times Bestselling Author Patricia Briggs View our feature on Ann Aguirre's Blue Diablo. "Right now, I'm a redhead. I've been blonde and brunette as the situation requires, though an unscheduled color change usually means relocating in the middle of the night. So far, I'm doing well here. Nobody knows what I'm running from. And I'd like to keep it that way..." Eighteen months ago, Corine Solomon crossed the border and wound up in Mexico City, fleeing her past, her lover, and her "gift". Corine, a handler, can touch something and know its history--and sometimes, its future. Using her ability, she can find the missing--and that's why people never stop trying to find her. People like her ex, Chance... Chance, whose uncanny luck has led him to her doorstep, needs her help. Someone dear to them both has gone missing in Laredo, Texas, and the only hope of finding her is through Corine's gift. But their search may prove dangerous as the trail leads them into a strange dark world of demons and sorcerers, ghosts and witchcraft, zombies--and black magic...
The Blue Door
by Carol Holland MarchThe youngest child of a poor peasant family, Delia must marry or find a position as a servant in the nearby town to help her aging parents. She is loathe to relinquish her freedom, and has refused many suitors, when the duke of the land expresses interest in her. Maltric has lost four previous wives in mysterious circumstances. No one knows what happened at the castle, and many fear black magic is loose in the land. Delia is wary of Maltric’s attentions, but cannot refuse to meet him when he sends a message announcing his arrival.At night Delia dreams of her perfect lover, a beautiful green-eyed woman named Atishi who knows everything about her and offers her sensual pleasure more exquisite than anything she has experienced in her waking life. She begs to stay with her dream-lover. When Atisha tells Delia they can be reunited in flesh if she finds the blue door in the duke’s castle, Delia agrees to the courtship with the duke.Married and the mistress of an enormous castle, Delia searches for the blue door and finally locates it in an unused hallway tucked away on the top floor. Inside, she finds Atishi waiting for her under a gigantic oak tree in the land of Elysa. Delia must renounce her family and her world.When the duke finds out, he accuses Delia of witchcraft and forbids her to use the door again. Time is running out before the passageway to Elysa closes. Torn between her love for Atishi and her family, fearful of her life if she stays with the duke, and fearing black magic pervades the castle, Delia must decide what she is willing to sacrifice for love.
Blue Dragon
by Kylie ChanMartial arts, magic, demons and science The forces of Hell are poised to strike . . . When Emma's relatives come to visit her, they are totally freaked out by what they learn . . . Emma's beloved, John Chen, is a 3,000-year-old Chinese god. Not only that, John is becoming weaker by the day. Demons pursue him relentlessly, hoping to use Emma and his child, Simone, as bargaining tools against him. Emma battles to defend Simone as John's energy is drained by the effort of both living in the mortal world and protecting them. While Emma is nagged by doubts about her own nature, she must find the courage to go on . . .
Blue Dragon
by Kylie ChanMartial arts, magic, demons and scienceThe forces of Hell are poised to strike . . . When Emma's relatives come to visit her, they are totally freaked out by what they learn . . . Emma's beloved, John Chen, is a 3,000-year-old Chinese god. Not only that, John is becoming weaker by the day. Demons pursue him relentlessly, hoping to use Emma and his child, Simone, as bargaining tools against him. Emma battles to defend Simone as John's energy is drained by the effort of both living in the mortal world and protecting them. While Emma is nagged by doubts about her own nature, she must find the courage to go on . . .
Blue Dress Girl
by E. V. ThompsonWhen She-she is sent as a concubine to the household of Li Hung, chief customs official for the busy port of Canton, her parents impress upon her the honour of her position. But the reality proves to be far from honourable. For She-she finds she is to be a blue dress girl, little better than a prostitute, whose task is to pleasure visiting foreign traders. Ashamed and terrified, She-she finds life tolerable only because of her friendship with the lively Kau-lin. It is not long before her first "foreign devil", an English trader, comes to call; but she is spared the ultimate disgrace when he dies unexpectedly in her room. With Britain and China already virtually at war, the suspicious death of an Englishman provokes further hostility, and Li Hung sends the blue dress girls along the coast to the north to avoid incriminating himself. It is to prove a fateful journey. When their boat is caught in crossfire, She-she is badly injured. To her rescue comes Second Lieutenant Kernow Keats of the Royal Marines. Instantly moved by her fragile beauty, the young man takes her and Kau-lin to Hong Kong, to the home of missionaries Hugh and Hannah Jefferies, where she can regain her strength. Kernow's aptitude for languages makes him a natural choice to become an interpreter on Admiral Seymour's staff, and although he does not wish to desert active combat, he welcomes the chance to spend more time in the company of the pretty girl Fate has thrown in his path. On She-she's side, gratitude soon turns to love for the handsome hero. But a love affair between a Chinese peasant girl and an English officer seems unthinkable in 1857. And as the Taiping rebellion gets underway, Kernow is torn from She-she's side to do his patriotic duty. Can their great love cross the chasm of race, class and background that divides them? E. V. Thompson's new novel is a masterpiece of storytelling. At once a stirring tale of adventure and a moving and tender love story, it is played out against the exotic background of China at one of the most turbulent periods in its history.
The Blue Evening Gone (Beckman Saga #2)
by Jessica SterlingHolly Beckman has arrived. At thirty- three, she is poised and assured, a loving mother to her son, comfortably married to Kennedy King, and deserving of her fame and respect as an international dealer in fine art. Suddenly things begin to go awry. First, she has a passionate and totally unex pected love affair with the American dancer Peter Freeman, who has become the darling of both Broadway and the West End. Then, her unscrupulous brother Ritchie returns from Al Capone's Chicago to set up a crime syndicate in London. At once he springs a cunning trap to implicate Holly in an ingenious international art fraud. When their older brother Maury steps in to try to help, he finds himself in love with Ritchie's near-prisoner wife, Ruth. In the end, the weight falls squarely on Holly. She must make a fateful decision about her marriage to Kennedy, while at the same time she must devise a stunning counter ruse of her own to thwart her gangster brother. In addition to the Beckman Saga and the Stalker Trilogy Bookshare has the Isle of Mull trilogy comprised of: #1 The Island Wife, #2 The Wind From The Hills and #3 The Strawberry Season, with more books by Jessica Stirling to be added.
The Blue Evening Gone
by Jessica StirlingThough the Great Depression has brought misery to many, Holly Beckman has a thriving art business, a devoted husband and a son she adores. Until the holiday in Monte Carlo where for the first time she experiences romance. Almost reluctantly, Holly falls in love with the charming American dancer Peter Freeman.Then two works of art she sold turn out to be forgeries, just as her scapegrace brother Ritchie returns to London after years abroad. Maury, Holly's trusted older brother, suspects that Ritchie is plotting once more to bring the Beckman family down.'She writes in bright colours with bold, confident strokes.' Glasgow Herald
The Blue Evening Gone
by Jessica StirlingThough the Great Depression has brought misery to many, Holly Beckman has a thriving art business, a devoted husband and a son she adores. Until the holiday in Monte Carlo where for the first time she experiences romance. Almost reluctantly, Holly falls in love with the charming American dancer Peter Freeman.Then two works of art she sold turn out to be forgeries, just as her scapegrace brother Ritchie returns to London after years abroad. Maury, Holly's trusted older brother, suspects that Ritchie is plotting once more to bring the Beckman family down.'She writes in bright colours with bold, confident strokes.' Glasgow Herald
Blue-eyed Bandit
by Stobie PielThe winds of fate Darian Woodward had been a hero in the War Between the States, but somewhere he'd been blown off course. Unjustly ruined by a superior officer, the handsome soldier turned to crime. His blue eyes and daring deeds earned him a name throughout the old Southwest, but bandits sought gold, and this gunfighter's interests were entirely different. Fate had blown in a sexier bounty. A whirlwind of desire though she was swept away by it, Emily Morgan was less awed by the mystic whirlwind that carried her into the past than by the handsome desperado who greeted her. Joining the man's close-knit band of outlaws, Emily learned the fun of being bad--but also its dangers. And when the Feds came to capture her Blue-Eyed Bandit, Emily would prove that Western justice had its limits, and true love could break any laws--even those of time and space. (Some mild descriptions of sex.)
Blue-Eyed Devil
by Lisa KleypasThe New York Times bestselling author of "Sugar Daddy" is back with her most breathtaking, hot-and-bothered novel yet! MEET THE BLUE-EYED DEVIL His name is Hardy Cates. He's a self-made millionaire who comes from the wrong side of the tracks. He's made enemies in the rough-and-tumble ride to the top of Houston's oil industry. He's got hot blood in his veins. And vengeance on his mind. MEET THE HEIRESS. She's Haven Travis. Despite her family's money, she refuses to set out on the path they've chosen for her. But when Haven marries a man her family disapproves of, her life is set on a new and dangerous course. Two years later, Haven comes home, determined to guard her heart. And Hardy Cates, a family enemy, is the last person she needs darkening her door or setting her soul on fire. WATCH THE SPARKS FLY.... Filled with Lisa Kleypas's trademark sensuality, filled with characters you love to hate and men you love to love,Blue-Eyed Devil will hold you captive in its storytelling power as the destiny of two people unfolds with every magical word.
Blue Eyes of Texas
by Elizabeth ParkerAs a child, Randi loved neighbor Payton Austin like a brother. But she's not a child anymore--and what she's feeling now is certainly not sisterly love. Can they overcome other romantic entanglements and win each other's hearts? Tempers flare and passions soar under the Texas skies in Elizabeth Parker's contemporary western, Blue Eyes of Texas.She was mad. Spitting mad. Kick anything that got in the way of her booted foot mad. Her red curly hair and clear blue eyes may have been concealed under that Stetson on her head, along with the dusting of freckles across her cheeks, but Payton would have bet his last dollar that those blue eyes were flashing fire as Randi stalked across the gravel drive and headed toward the barn.And that, in a nutshell, is the personality of our beautiful heroine, Randi Bolin.Now the question remains: Can our strong, handsome, Texas hero, Payton Austin, tame Randi's fiery temper long enough for her to see that he is in love with her and realize that she is in love with him, too?Well, of course he can...and will (after all, he's our hero), but not before Randi's best friend, Crystal, starts dating Payton (and stakes a marriage claim on him) and Randi's current boyfriend, Jason, decides that Randi is the woman of his dreams.What a mess! Tempers get hot and passion gets even hotter as these four vie to be with the one they love.Content Notes: Sweet, Contemporary, Western
The Blue Falcon
by Robyn CarrIN LOVE AND WAR, SOME OATHS ARE MEANT TO BE BROKEN...Riding into the arena under the furling blazon of the blue falcon, Sir Conan de Corbney accepts a token from the young beauty, Lady Chandra, sparking a romance foretold long ago. That is, unless Conan's mother can help it. Colluding with her son's rival, Sir Tedric, Lady Udele secretly arranges a more lucrative marriage for her son and weds him to Edwina--Chandra's older sister--while Sir Tedric claims the fiery Chandra for himself. Thus begins the star-crossed lovers' quest, amidst treachery and betrayal, for the path back to each other's arms. When a knight is pledged twice, once for loyalty and once for love, which oath will prove stronger? From private chambers to the distant bloodstained shores of the Crusades under King Richard's reign, THE BLUE FALCON is a timeless tale of adventure, treachery, and above all, an unforgettable love story.
Blue Fire
by Sarah HollandBond of hatred…? Christie was young and naive when she first met Jared Buchanan. She'd fallen in love with him, but she couldn't cope with the passion he awoke within her. So she'd fled… Three years on, and Christie's dreams of fame and fortune were about to come true. Trouble was, Jared was essential to helping her fulfill those dreams. But he made it clear that he had never forgiven her for her desertion. Jared was determined to have his revenge on Christie…even if it meant using the blue fire of passion that still blazed between them.
Blue Fire
by Phyllis A. WhitneyA bride is swept up in family secrets and the blood diamond trade when she returns to South Africa in this novel by a New York Times–bestselling author. When Chicagoan Susan Hohenfield brings her new husband, Dirk, to her childhood home in Cape Town, it’s with the innocence of a young girl. She remembers only the beauty of South Africa—and the pain of being abandoned by her father. Now, with a new perspective, she sees a country destroyed by apartheid. And her father, once accused of diamond smuggling, seems not the ogre she imagined, but a broken man powerless against the prison term that wrenched him from his daughter’s arms. At least that’s the story Susan has been told. But she’ll discover the truth as this intimate family reunion raises grave and troubling new questions. Why is the man responsible for her father’s fate still lingering in the shadows? Why has Dirk’s former lover arrived with threats and incriminations? And why does Susan feel like a stranger in her own home? Now, in a place that is at once strange and familiar, charged with fear and intrigue, Susan must confront a dangerous past that isn’t quite through with her. More than a classic gothic tale, Blue Fire is one of the first novels to deal with the turmoil in South Africa. It was written nearly three decades before the dismantling of apartheid and a half-century before the film Blood Diamond would bring attention to the devastating effects of the smuggling trade. This ebook features an illustrated biography of Phyllis A. Whitney including rare images from the author’s estate.
Blue Forever
by Nina BruhnsNina Bruhns, multi-award-winning author of White Hot, returns with another sexy, adrenaline-pumping thrill ride that will keep you on the edge of your seat... Dashing and devilish Major Kiptyn Llowell is the opposite of reasonable. But when his top secret mission on exotic Hainan Island, China, goes belly up, Kip throws himself on the mercy of the eminently sensible (and irresistibly sexy) DeAnne Lovejoy to hitch a ride to his rendezvous point. But he gets far more than he bargained for... As an officer of the U.S Department of State, DeAnne helps American citizens in need of aid on foreign soil. Yet, when DeAnne sets eyes on Kip's impressive body, she's the one who needs rescuing--from her own X-rated thoughts! But before Kip and DeAnne even get the chance to flirt, an enemy platoon storms in, guns blazing. Covers blown and running for their lives, the pair must complete Kip's mission together. Amidst escalating feelings, they just hope to survive long enough to enjoy this wild ride to a loving future...
The Blue Guitar
by John BanvilleJohn Banville, the Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Sea and Ancient Light, now gives us a new novel--at once trenchant, witty, and shattering--about the intricacies of artistic creation, about theft, and about the ways in which we learn to possess one another, and to hold on to ourselves.Equally self-aggrandizing and self-deprecating, our narrator, Oliver Otway Orme ("O O O. An absurdity. You could hang me over the door of a pawnshop"), is a painter of some renown and a petty thief who has never before been caught and steals only for pleasure. Both art and the art of thievery have been part of his "endless effort at possession," but now he's pushing fifty, feels like a hundred, and things have not been going so well. Having recognized the "man-killing crevasse" that exists between what he sees and any representation he might make of it, he has stopped painting. And his last act of thievery--the last time he felt its "secret shiver of bliss"--has been discovered. The fact that the purloined possession was the wife of the man who was, perhaps, his best friend has compelled him to run away--from his mistress, his home, his wife; from whatever remains of his impulse to paint; and from a tragedy that has long haunted him--and to sequester himself in the house where he was born. Trying to uncover in himself the answer to how and why things have turned out as they have, excavating memories of family, of places he has called home, and of the way he has apprehended the world around him ("one of my eyes is forever turning towards the world beyond"), Olly reveals the very essence of a man who, in some way, has always been waiting to be rescued from himself.From the Hardcover edition.
Blue Heart Blessed
by Susan MeissnerIn this moving new novel by critically acclaimed author Susan Meissner, readers will once again delight in the masterful storytelling that resulted in the author's A Window to the World (2005) being named among the top ten Christian novels of the year by Booklist Magazine. Left standing at the altar, Daisy Murien, a wounded but hopeful romantic, opens a secondhand wedding dress boutique, hoping to soothe her broken heart while giving doomed wedding dresses a second chance at love. Her predictable days take a sharp turn, though, when the retired Episcopal priest who blesses the tiny, blue satin heart she sews into each dress falls ill. When the priest's brooding and recently divorced son arrives with plans to take his ailing father away, a contest of wills begins between two stubborn-and hurting-souls. While fighting to keep Father Laurent close by, Daisy finally begins to understand why she has routinely convinced potential buyers not to buy the one gown that started her business-her own: She doesn't want to give up on the dream of a fairytale romance. This compelling story is about the magnificence of unconditional love and God's impeccable timing in bringing it about. "Susan Meissner's strength is making characters so real, you root for them as you welcome them into your life." -Mary E. DeMuth, author of Wishing on Dandelions and Watching the Tree Limbs