epub |eng | 2022-09-15 | Author:Ellie St. Clair [St. Clair, Ellie]

“Maria! How lovely to see you.” “Thank you,” Maria said with a smile as she stepped into the door. Mrs. Smith seemed a kind woman, and she appreciated the couple ...

epub |eng | 2016-10-15 | Author:Jennifer Lohmann

CHAPTER SIXTEEN ECHO WAS WALKING past his house with her irritating little dog tugging on the leash when Levi pulled into his driveway. He didn’t think anything of it until ...

epub |eng | 2017-06-27 | Author:Dazio, G. A. & Stone, Joseph

Chapter Sixteen “Did your eyes reveal anything to your liking?” she asked slyly, the dessert wine falling deliciously down her throat, all but burning through her limbs. The library was ...

epub |eng | 2021-07-15 | Author:Liz Fenwick [Fenwick, Liz]

Chapter Twenty-Five 1914 Alice stood by the window. The fire was low. The sun would rise soon. It was time for her to head back across the river. With her ...

epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Catherine Spencer & Tina Duncan & Natalie Anderson & Kate Hardy

CHAPTER TWO AMANDA curled her fingers into a fist and jerked it free of Jared’s, burning with embarrassment. And what made it worse was her suspicion that he knew that ...

epub |eng | | Author:A.B. Michaels [Michaels, A.B.]

Chapter Twenty-Four “He kill my Bo San without a second thought. Who can do such a thing?” * * * —Li Zheng, Chinatown Neighbor Somewhere a horse was screaming. Half ...

epub |eng | 2020-04-16 | Author:Lynne Connolly

Chapter 14 “Virginia,” he said softly. She opened her eyes. “We’re at the inn where we’ll rack up for the night. We’re in Salisbury, well away from the finest inns.” ...

epub |eng | 2018-03-20 | Author:Diane Byington

LANEY WAS RIGHT. THE report she received later that week said I’d been taking aspirin. She showed it to me. “I’ve been a nurse for twenty years. In that time, ...

epub |eng | | Author:Tracy Daugherty [Daugherty, Tracy]

* * * The men talked late into the night, each fulfilling his archetypal—his clichéd?—role, Elsie thought: the Wise Elder, the Refined Cosmopolitan. The other restaurant guests paid their bills ...

epub |eng | 2022-01-12 | Author:Betina Krahn [Krahn, Betina]

Fourteen Norah paced in her room at Grays Court, trying not to think about what was happening to Eli. Her heart ached as she recalled the fear and pleading in ...

epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Sarah Hanley [Hanley, Sarah]

September, 1927 Charlie bobs up and down beside me in the restaurant’s curved banquette. We may as well be going around and around on a carousel, with all of his ...

epub |eng | 2021-11-10 | Author:Ellie St. Clair [St. Clair, Ellie]

Chapter 14 Ivy nervously stood in the drawing room, twisting her hands together, the satin fabric of her ruby red dress caught between her fingers. Why was she so worried ...

epub |eng | 2021-09-28 | Author:Lorraine Heath

Apparently, he wasn’t at all civilized when it came to the matter of Pettypeace. He’d been both grateful when the music drifted into silence because things between them had been ...

epub |eng | 2022-07-26 | Author:Charis Michaels

Chapter Nineteen Ian entered the duchess’s suite to find it empty. He hovered on the precipice, confused. “Hello?” he tried. “I’m here, Your Grace.” At the sound of her voice, ...

epub |eng | 2022-07-26 | Author:Lorraine Heath

Chapter 13 The honor of picking the lock at the servant’s entrance fell to Marcus, and as Esme watched him, she couldn’t help thinking that he would have had the ...