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Da den unge og smukke Caroline uforvarende kommer til at afsløre en dunkel hemmelighed, sendes hun vaek fra Londons society-miljø til sin tantes gods i Cornwall. Her møder hun godsets sønner, brødrene Jago og Paul, hvis bestraebelser på at bevare godset i slaegtens eje kommer til at spille en afgørende rolle i Carolines liv. Som tiden går, udvikler Caroline en glødende foragt for maend, en foragt, som blandt andet skyldes hendes personlige erfaringer og konfrontationer med forskellige maends mindre aedle motiver og handlinger.

Erin Braddock, daughter of wealthy and powerful rancher Rance Braddock, has been to hell and back. So has wandering cowboy minstrel, Grady Sinclair. But the moment they meet, chemistry ignites between them, erasing everything else. The sex is scorching, explosive, addictive. They can't get enough of each other. Seduced by his music as well as the sinfully sexy man himself, Erin runs away with him.

Drowning in the depths of a failing marriage he deeply mourns, Harry remains a doting husband determined to revive his relationship with his wife, Samantha - the woman he still adores, wholeheartedly loves, and feels a desperate desire to prove his manhood to. Tested by childlessness, the fun, excitement, and intimacy that first drew the formerly passionate lovers together has long been stolen. Finding himself uncomfortably out of place in a seedy adult shop, Harry barely manages to escape his agony with a particularly enticing adult toy....

Red never shies away from a challenge. Never. But when Miss Hannah St. John strides into his life demanding - yes, demanding - he help her, he's certain she's more challenge than even he can handle. Hannah is determined to transport an artifact from France - one that will change everything - even if it means working with a lawless man like Red. Nothing is more important than preserving history.

Emma, the good girl poster child, is running from a life she suddenly sees as gray and suffocating - a life where she's successfully buried all her hopes and secret dreams. Until the night she wanders into Aftershock and is immediately drawn to the hot bass player. The electricity of his performance, the powerful music he coaxes from his guitar, the heavy vibration of each note reaches out to something deep inside her and wakes an Emma she didn't even know existed.

In Victorian England, little Ellie Browning swiftly discovered happily ever afters did not exist and rakes were simply rakes. When the man she had adored for years kissed her and left her heartbroken, and she was forced to marry an elderly earl to save her reputation, she resolved to put any dreams of fairy tales aside.

Navy SEAL Gabriel Walker didn't think he was asking too much, just a hot woman with some brains who made his down time between missions pleasant. And maybe a little bit more. Forty-something Maggie Fitzpatrick wanted a younger man with a sex drive to match her own and even smarts to hold a conversation. And maybe a little bit more. When Madame Evangeline paired them for the one night stand, neither of them expected the explosive chemistry, the very hot sex, and a little bit more.

En route to their one-night stand dates, Chelsea Haller and Alec Ramsey are stranded in the airport during an unexpected snowstorm. It doesn't take long to discover they're each other's one-night stand. Lucky for them, they're drawn together by sizzling electricity and soon forget the icy snow. As the heat between them nearly melts the sheets in Alec's hotel room, their night of erotic adventure surpasses anything they expected from a one night stand.

Unable to reach out in person, the pair communicates via the Internet and hot, erotic fantasies. Night after night, they explore their growing passion with only a blindfold to protect their secrets. As Christmas approaches, Blake must share his pain if he is to ease hers, but doing so could drive her away forever. Can they take a chance and follow their deepest soul dreams, or will their fragile hearts continue to hide from the world and one another?

Den lille pige Drusilla og hendes to venner Lavinia og Fabian leger gemmeleg på godset og finder tilfaeldigvis en indisk vifte af påfuglefjer. Rygterne siger, at der knytter sig onde, overnaturlige kraefter til den smukke vifte, men Drusilla vaelger alligevel at tage den til sig. Da Drusilla er blevet voksen, rejser hun til Indien, og efterhånden får den ene katastrofale begivenhed efter den anden hende til at indse, at rygterne om viften talte sandt.

“When I was a boy, my pa dowsed to earn extra money when we had a lean year. And when he put the branch in my hands for the first time, I felt a burning inside me because I had the gift, too. Just be thankful I didn’t hand that gift down to you.” Amos figured it was probably best not to...

Living with her partner, Tony, his parents and their precocious teenage son, Alberta Granger considers she belongs to the perfect modern extended family. Her catering business is booming and her daughter, Hannah, is embarking on a glittering career. In fact, Alberta’s only preoccupation is why Tony seems unduly upset by his ex-wife’s forthcoming marriage.But some shocking news is about to rock Bertie’s world to its foundations.

Tiger Ann Parker is smart in school and good at baseball, but she's forever teased about her family by the girls in class. Tiger Ann knows her folks are different from others in their small town of Saitter, Louisiana. They are mentally slow, and Tiger Ann keeps her pain and embarrassment hidden...

Research One discovered, in suspended animation, a race of giants on the moon. Are they alive? Who are they? Where did they come from? Why were they experimenting with life on Earth?

Find....

One hot summer, Cassie Fitzgerald gave her virginity and her heart to Griffin Hunter. When he married her sister, Diane, she fled Stoneham, and, for six years, nothing could make her return. Not her sister's murder, for which Griffin was and continues to be the only suspect. Not her father's suicide, which the police chief wants to sweep under the rug. But when her mother dies, Cassie has no choice....

Mama has died and is now with the Great Spirits. Her strong-willed, crotchety husband is dead set on having her ashes buried in the Historic Conundrum County Cemetery. Mama's dying wish to her beloved son Hackett, "Don't let him do it!" During her lifetime Mama was a great lover of animals and now after her death they aim to repay her in spades. Events are thus set in motion bringing together Hackett and a rag-tag team of animals in a hilarious effort to honor Mama's final wish.

Hvad skete der egentlig med den nittenårige Helena den syvende måneds nat, hvor den drillesyge Loke ifølge sagnet strejfede om i de tyske skove? Seks dage af hendes liv var forsvundet for hende - det var i hvert fald, hvad hendes omgivelser forsøgte at overbevise hende om. Men i løbet af disse seks dage havde hun oplevet sit livs største eventyr sammen med den charmerende Maximilian, der havde vaeret som en af fortidens helte. Havde hun lidt af hallucinationer, sådan som hendes venner sagde?

Ellen Kellaway er altid blevet betragtet som den fattige slaegtning, en pige uden fremtid. Men da den flotte og rige Philip Carrington forelsker sig i hende - og også frier - ser fremtiden endeligt lysere ud. Tragiske haendelser spolerer imidlertid de unges spirende kaerlighed, og Ellen må affinde sig med sin skaebne - en trist guvernantestilling hos en usympatisk familie. Men endnu engang tager begivenhederne en overraskende vending.

Da stjernen i 1870'ernes London morskabsteater, den vidunderlige Desiré, dør, efterlader hun sin unge datter i svaere vanskeligheder, som må overvindes en efter en, i Paris, i London, på Leverson Manor, før hun kan vinde lykken. Victoria Holt (1906-1993), pseudonym for Eleanor Alice Burford Hibbert, var en af verdens mest elskede og mest produktive forfattere i sin levetid. Hun begyndte allerede at skrive som 17-årig, og en raekke af hendes tidlige noveller blev trykt i London-aviserne.

Unge, smukke, forkaelede Maria Antonia af Østrig forvandles til Marie Antoinette af Frankrig på hendes bryllupsdag. Aegteskabet med Dauphinen, som blev den sidste konge af Frankrig, den godhjertede, men svage Louis XVI, forvandlede Marie til en af historiens mest udskaeldte kvinder. En dronnings bekendelser er hendes historie. Romanen om Marie Antoinettes liv, set gennem hendes egne øjne, er et fascinerende indblik i på den ene side et strålende hof hvor ungdom og skønhed fejres, men også de begivenheder, der førte til Den franske revolution og afslutningen på monarkiet i Frankrig.