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1) Check me out
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Greta must choose between boy-next-door Will and dreamboat Mac while also trying to prevent the county from closing the library where she works.
Greta loves her job as assistant librarian. She loves her best friend, Will, the high school civics teacher and debate coach. She even loves her mother despite her obvious disappointment that Greta is still single. Then she meets Mac in the poetry section of the library, and she is smitten. Mac is heart-stoppingly...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 21 cm.
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English
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As the second daughter of a royal chief, Maile will be permitted to marry for love. Her fianč is the best navigator in Hawaii, and he taught her everything he knows how to feel the ocean, observe the winds, read the stars, and how to love. But when sailors from a strange place called England arrive on her island, a misunderstanding ends in battle, and Maile is suddenly widowed before she is wed. Finding herself in the middle of the battle and fearing...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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When Anthony, Earl of Wilshire, journeys to India on an undercover mission to investigate a mystery surrounding a confidential document, he is reunited with Sophia, whom he hopes can forgive him for breaking her heart and even consider giving love a second chance.
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Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
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283 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Seaside, England, 1886: Eva Caldwell is an accomplished and well-known photographer who often works with the local constabulary to assist in documenting crime scenes, which means she also often works alongside the handsome and charming detective, Nathan Winston. She appreciates his intellect and how he treats her like an equal, but Eva's heart is still healing from a past relationship, so, for now, she decides to keep her feelings for Nathan a secret....
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Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
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313 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"England, 1820. Rosalind Newbury is counting down the days until her wedding to the Duke of Marlow, a man she has only met twice. The marriage is more an agreement between two families and less a romantic connection between two hearts, but Rosalind becoming a duchess will elevate her family's status to dizzying heights. And the duke is a kind man who will care for Rosalind, even if he doesn't love her. She only has three weeks before her life changes...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
317 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Lenora's extreme shyness prevents her from attending many social events-- and her father has decreed that only one Wilton girl can be in season at a time. Younger sister Cassie has no choice except to wait her turn. Evan Glenside, an East London clerk, has just been named his great-uncle's heir, and a chance meeting between Evan and Lenora promises to change everything. Cassie begins to write Mr. Glenside letters in the name of her sister. As secrets...
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"From the moment Hollis Darby meets Ana Newport, he's smitten. Even though he's from a wealthy, established family and she isn't, he wishes he could have a life with her by his side. But Hollis has a secret: the deep coffers that have kept his family afloat for generations are bare, so he supports himself by writing penny dreadfuls under a pseudonym. If not for the income from his novels, he would be broke. Ana Newport also has a secret. Though she...
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Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2018
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
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A steampunk Sleeping Beauty story from the author of Beauty and the Clockwork Beast. Doctor Isla Cooper is cursed. Literally. Each night, at the stroke of midnight she falls into a death-like sleep from which she cannot be awakened for six hours. To make it worse, the curse has an expiration date--after a year, it becomes permanent. And the year is almost up. In a desperate attempt to find Malette--the witch who cursed her--Isla blackmails her way...
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
361 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"London, 1866. Móirín Donnelly has spent the last five years working in the shadows for the Dread Penny Society, a secret fraternity of penny dreadful authors who use their profits, influence, and street smarts to protect the poor and vulnerable of Victorian London. But spending so much of her life in secret is taking its toll on her soul--and her heart.When members of the Dread Penny Society begin disappearing, Móirín turns to her friend Detective...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2021]
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352 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Russian-born shopkeeper Vera Sorokina and Irish-born penny dreadful author Brogan Donnelly join forces to take down a criminal enterprise that is threatening shopkeepers in South London in 1865. Along the way, the two find love and romance as they fight for a chance for their own 'happily ever after.'" -- Provided by publisher.
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"London,1866. Dr. Barnabus Milligan has always felt called to help people, whether that means setting a broken bone or rescuing the impoverished women of London from their desperate lives on the streets as part of his work with the Dread Penny Society. Three years ago, he helped rescue Gemma Kincaid by marrying her in secret to protect her from her family, notorious grave robbers who were intent on keeping her working in the trade. But their unconventional...
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Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
344 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"Authors Elizabeth Black and Fletcher Walker go head-to-head as rival writers of Victorian Penny Dreadfuls. As an upper class schoolteacher, Elizabeth must write under the pseudonym 'Mr. King' in order to keep her identity a secret, while former street urchin Fletcher is determined to uncover the truth behind this up-and-coming new talent. But the more time they spend together, the more she loses her heart to him. It's author against author where...
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"Caroline Gray's third season in London society ends as badly as her first two--no marriage proposal, no suitor, not even a glimmer of an interested prospect. She suspects it's because she is far too quick to speak her mind to men who are put off by her forthright opinions, her eager intellect backed by a formal education, and her unconventional ideas about the future. She is far more daring than demure to suit the taste of her class. Besides, Caroline...
14) Windsong Manor
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"The London Countryside, 1820. Eleanora Coventry comes from a life of title and privilege, but even that isn't enough to prevent her from being wed at sixteen to a controlling and dismissive husband. So when she finds herself a widow at only twenty-six, the idea of choosing her own path forward both thrills and terrifies her. She knows how to be a daughter and a wife, but she has no idea how to be Eleanora. She moves her son and daughter to her late...
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"London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told. She turns...
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When Charlotte Kingsley's first book is published, she is convinced she is living her own Cinderella story. But when her popularity and fame requires a total social media makeover of her life, she starts to wonder if she likes the person she is becoming. Can she find her own identity again before losing her relationship with her best friend, Anders, who might just be her perfect Prince Charming?
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Shadow Mountain Publishing
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
246 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
"1828, the London countryside. For years, Marietta Stone has harbored a secret infatuation for the handsome Frederick Finch and has poured out her deepest feelings in a series of passionate love letters that she keeps in a locked drawer. But when Marietta's private letters are accidentally delivered to Frederick's house, she must retrieve them immediately before they fall into the wrong hands. If the letters were read by anyone else, the resulting...
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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Ever since Emma read Pride and Prejudice, she's been in love with Mr. Darcy and has regarded Jane Austen as the expert on all things romantic. So naturally when Emma falls for Blake Hampton and he invites her home to meet his parents, she is positive an engagement is in her future. But when it turns out that what Blake actually wants is more of a hook-up than a honeymoon, Emma is hurt, betrayed, and furious.
19) Promised
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2020]
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365 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"After the heartbreak and humiliation of a broken engagement, Margaret Brinton is determined to never allow her heart to be hurt again. But will her resolve hold when her father arranges for her to marry Lord Williams, a man who had once publically snubbed her, but who might be more than he appears?" --
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Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2018]
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315 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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"When Silvia asks her former coworker, Ben, to help her finish editing a major film project, she has no idea that it will lead to love--or a lawsuit between their production studios. She must summon all her courage, grace, and style for a conversation with Ben at their favorite breakfast diner, Tiffany's, before the credits roll"--Provided by publisher.
The lie. Women in Hollywood are pretty faces. But Silvia Bradshaw knows that's a lie, and she's...