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New in the house, and rebutted by Mary Walker at every opportunity, Jennie experiences odd sounds and sightings in Abigail's room, and Abigail's constant preoccupation with the 'imaginary' birdman. Then there's the omnipresent stench of death seemingly emanating from the very ground beneath the house. The Walkers fob off her concerns and Jennie is left to solve the mysteries of the Bleak House alone and in a strange place.

Helle may believe in second-chance love, but she sure doesn’t believe in reincarnation. Okay, she didn’t believe until she met Jason Morris a year or so ago. By now, she has accepted that sometimes impossible things are quite, quite possible - like an ancient princess being reborn as an ambitious financial analyst. Finding Jason was like finding the part of her that had always been missing - a perfect match. But handling Sam Woolf, the reborn version of their ancient nemesis, is something of a trial. No sooner do you have him well and surely beat, but up he bounces again.

Ellie Noor’s hope hangs by a thread. Tortured to within an inch of her life by sadistic terrorists, she’s horrified to learn her husband’s efforts to free her cost half a million lives. But grief must wait as Ellie is swept up in an interdimensional attempt to stop all-out nuclear destruction. Shocked to discover the key to saving the universe lies inside her, she becomes a potent instrument to respawn Earth’s lost protector. But with sinister beings on the attack, she fears only an unfathomable miracle can halt humanity’s extinction.

Ethel Jones didn’t mean to fall in love with her employer’s cousin. What had started out as an unexpected friendship had quickly developed into something she had never dreamed of, and it was probably the absurdity of the thing that kept her refusing every proposal Stephen Marley made. For how could a mere lady’s maid marry the cousin of a duke? Stephen Marley was discarded at birth for the twisted foot that marked him as an outcast.

Lady Anna Elmont, the dowager Countess of Wexford, has only one wish: to remain safely a widow. Having spent two years under the control of her manipulative husband, Annie plans to enjoy widowhood and discover who she might have been had she not wed. If the Duke of Grimsby will let her. Despite their difference in age or perhaps because of it, Gabriel Phelps, the Duke of Grimsby is compelled to protect his best friend’s widow.

Have you had a frully in your life? Do you find the rules of friendships baffling? Or have you had friends from before you were even born? Giggle and cringe along with these tales about the good, the bad and the downright ridiculous friendships we make, and escape throughout our lives

Having already spent two seasons on the Marriage Mart without a single flutter of her heart, Lady Eloise Bounds has given up on ever finding a love match and accepts the reality of her situation. When the Duke of Ardley expresses interest in having her for his wife, Eloise has no choice but to put away her childish dreams and become the duchess her mother wants her to be.

Behind every hero is a dreamer. Isobel Lambeth lives in a world of fanciful romance where the hero wins every duel, and the maiden is never locked in the castle's tower long before the daring rescue. Dream becomes reality when a Gothic-inspired mystery involving hauntings and abductions entangles her. Alistair Trowbridge is preparing to write a new chapter in his life with this ladylove. What he had not planned was his father's perceived villainy, instigating Isobel's descent into flights of fancy--or is it madness?