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In April 1943 a young woman washes ashore on a deserted beach in Cornwall, England. With shorn hair and a number stitched on her tattered chemise, Alice is the survivor of a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat. She's found by the mysterious Viscount Jack Trewella, who suspects that she's a prisoner of war or a spy. But the secret Alice asks Jack to keep is one he could never have guessed, and it creates an intimate bond he never expected.

Pippa Sheffield has a penchant for trouble. She doesn't ask to be thrown into slippery situations, but they tend to find her. She has worked at maintaining good behavior--she owes that much to her sister--until her new neighbor, William Blakemore, moves in. Come to find out, he is nothing but trouble.

On the night of the Parkhurst ball, someone had a scandalous tryst in the library. Was it Lord Canby, with the maid, on the divan? Or Miss Fairchild, with a rake, against the wall? Perhaps the butler did it. All Charlotte Highwood knows is this: it wasn’t her. But rumors to the contrary are...

“An engaging love story with strong, believable characters. I can’t wait to read the sequels!” —Mary Balogh “Prepare to fall in love.” —Julia Quinn Presenting the winner of the Avon FanLit contest, the immensely talented Tessa Dare! Tessa’s first Avon historical romance, A Night...

Musiklærerinden Kate Taylor er vokset op på et børnehjem, og selvom hun har nære venner i Spindle Cove, længes hun efter kærlighed. Den fåmælte korporal Thorne slår bogstavelig talt skørterne væk under hende, men han gør det samtidig klart, at han ikke er interesseret i romantik. Samuel Thorne har altid undgået Kate, fordi han vogter en mørk hemmelighed om hendes fortid. Men da nogle suspekte fremmede dukker op og påstår, at de er Kates familie, vælger Thorne at spille hendes forlovede for at beskytte hende.

Minerva Highwood, selverklæret pebermø og amatørgeolog, må og skal til et videnskabeligt symposium i Skotland. Den berygtede skørtejæger Colin Sandhurst skal væk fra Spindle Cove i en farlig fart. Løsningen bliver at overbevise alle om, at de er forelskede og vil stikke af sammen. Det betyder dog, at de skal tilbringe en uge i en lillebitte vogn og i en endnu mindre seng, selvom Colin irriterer Minerva grænseløst. Og hvis det faktisk lykkes dem ikke at slå hinanden ihjel, er der både landevejsrøvere og mange andre mareridt på rejsen.

Velkommen til Spindle Cove, en by fuld af kvinder, der nyder roen og den friske luft. Kvinder fra pæne familier, som enten er for generte eller for optagede af de forkerte mænd. Kvinder, der er blevet skuffet, og kvinder, der har brug for lidt fred. For Susanna Finch er livet i byen alt, hun kunne ønske sig: ingen mænd eller andre distraktioner i sigte... Indtil Bramwell, den nye Jarl af Rycliff, dukker op for at etablere en milits i den lille by. Susanna ser sit paradis forsvinde som dug for solen og beslutter sig for, at ingen mand skal ødelægge alt det, hun elsker.

New York Times best-selling author Amanda Quick returns to the exclusive seaside community of Burning Cove, where more than one person with a dark past has gone to reinvent themselves. But some secrets are just too deadly to stay hidden, and some pasts can never stay buried.

Vivian Brazier never thought life as an art photographer would include nightly wake-up calls to snap photos of grisly crime scenes or headshots for aspiring male actors. Although she is set on a career of transforming photography into a new art form, she knows her current work is what’s paying the bills. After shooting crime scene photos of a famous actress, the latest victim of the murderer the press has dubbed the “Dagger Killer,” Vivian notices eerie similarities to the crime scenes of previous victims details that put Vivian at the top of the killer’s target list.

Former trapeze artist Amalie Vaughn moved to Burning Cove to reinvent herself, but things are not going well. After spending her entire inheritance on a mansion with the intention of turning it into a bed-and-breakfast, she learns too late that the villa is said to be cursed. When the first guest, Dr. Norman Pickwell, is murdered by his robot invention during a sold-out demonstration, rumors circulate that the curse is real.

Being Madame Ariadne, Psychic Dream Consultant, wasn't Prudence Ryland's ideal gig, but it paid well which was reason enough to do the work—until she realizes that her latest client intends to kill her. But Prudence, a master at reinvention, finds a new job and home as far away as possible and is finally able to relax—which turns out to be a big mistake. Letting her guard down means being kidnapped and drugged and waking up in a bloodstained wedding dress in the honeymoon suite next to a dead man.