epub |eng | 2024-03-12 | Author:LK Wilde [Wilde, LK]

PART TWO 1943-1944 Chapter 40 August, 1943 “Blast,” said Sally. “Whoever can that be? You’re not expecting anyone, are you, Marnie?” “No, perhaps it’s Kitty. I’ll see.” “Would you mind? ...

epub |eng | 2024-03-21 | Author:C J Barker

Ruth insisted that if she must leave Medmenham then they should return to London. Employment opportunities for Vic were limited in Buckinghamshire, and besides, Ruth wanted to be near to ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-16 | Author:J. C. Briggs [Briggs, J. C.]

22 Amanda ‘What are you looking for?’ Joan asked when we were sitting at her kitchen table after breakfast the next morning. I had Helena’s diary open. ‘Mrs Bate’s address.’ ...

epub |eng | 2024-02-16 | Author:J. C. Briggs [J. C. Briggs]

22 Amanda ‘What are you looking for?’ Joan asked when we were sitting at her kitchen table after breakfast the next morning. I had Helena’s diary open. ‘Mrs Bate’s address.’ ...

epub | | | Author:Kim Winter

FIFTEEN Jack paused a moment, wiped his forehead with the sleeve of his shirt. He bent again, shifting the weight of the horse’s hoof higher up on his thigh. Taking ...

epub |eng | 2023-05-22 | Author:Chrissie Walsh [Walsh, Chrissie]

18 ‘Big Mick an’ Wee Mickey are working on them new houses behind the Wagon an’ Horses,’ Bridie announced as she entered Kitty’s kitchen one Friday morning at the beginning ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Chrissie Walsh [Walsh, Chrissie]

Milo met Rosie’s smile with a stern face. ‘Have you come to tell me to buy a jacket and a top hat?’ he asked sarcastically, as Rosie arrived at his ...

epub |eng | 2021-10-13 | Author:Mary Wood [Wood, Mary]

The room was silent. Millie felt as if the walls were closing in on her and her world was coming to an end. She raised her head, saw the devastation ...

epub |eng | 2023-06-30 | Author:Mark Anthony Sullivan [Sullivan, Mark Anthony]

CHAPTER XVII Murphy was at the Hôtel de Crillon preparing to catch up on his invoices when Madame Hardy told him a woman was there to see him, a woman ...

epub |eng | 2022-08-29 | Author:Annabelle McCormack [McCormack, Annabelle]

CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Ginger hadn’t expected to feel so much guilt for spending the night with Noah after they were married—but her guilt had little to do with their behavior. Or ...

epub |eng | 2022-02-02 | Author:Charles Todd

11 It was just dawn when Rutledge walked out of the Abbey and went around to his motorcar. Even the gulls were quiet at this hour, and he had the ...

epub |eng | 2020-12-15 | Author:Serge Joncour

August 2017 They had been walking for fifteen minutes and Franck was already drenched in sweat. Lise wanted to go deep into the woods, to explore beyond the first hill. ...

epub |eng | | Author:Carol Ann Lee

“That night, when he had gone, I lay in bed, unable to sleep. “I drifted in and out of consciousness, hearing the guns starting up again in the salient; the ...

epub |eng | 2022-10-15 | Author:Rosemary Aitken

* * * Alicia waited till she heard the front door close, then turned to her companion. ‘Beth, you are a wicked tease! He must have overheard.’ Beth gave a ...

epub |eng | | Author:David Laws [Laws, David]