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When Emma, a young English journalist, is required to babysit in a dark country house on the longest night of the year - the winter solstice, December 21 - she must confront both her fear of the dark and her unresolved grief for her much-loved late great-aunt Sophie. Where will she find the courage she needs to avoid risking an even greater loss?

Katherine Rogers has everything a young woman could hope for in 1849 Scotland...except the freedom to make her own choices. The last thing she wants to do is to get married, and then, she meets James Spenser. Can there be any future together for the outspoken daughter of a railway owner and the charming young man working on the project? This is the first book in the Railway Romance series. These books show how trains and the building of the railway tracks brought people together.

In Alma Alexander’s enthralling new novel, Simonis is a woman who lived many lives before rising to the top – a helpless child in circus performances, an accomplished courtesan and spy, a heretic who sheltered men thought to be damned for what they believed.

The weaker sex? There's no such thing! Another jewel from the Gems of Sisterhood series, Gems of Gratitude is full of short stories about strong female characters who have something to be grateful for. In Unpunished, meet Cara Solino, a young woman who followed in her father's footsteps and joined the police force. Can she solve the crime that haunted him to the end of his days? Listen about Ms. Webb, a mother faced with the worst possible decision, and find out how she keeps Chloe's Dream alive!

The 12 stories contained in this volume introduce the listener to the world of Hibaria and the Islands. It is a world of magic and mystery, of dragons and sea serpents, a world where the Sky Lords - the Constellations - can take physical form and walk the land. It is a world in which an ancient evil, long imprisoned, threatens to break free.

1962. Even as she gazes at the silk bridal dresses in the window, the little girl's eyes fill with tears. She has dreamed about gowns just like that. But now, lost and alone, she only wants to be held. Just a moment ago, she was in the arms of her mother. Now her only hope lies in Brides of Bold Street, where past and present blur… Brides of Bold Street—a beautiful, historic bridal shop–is all Sabrina Flooks has ever known after being separated from her mother as a little girl.

The world is changing at the dawn of the twentieth century, but respectable English families still dread a public scandal. So Minnie agrees to accompany her reckless sister, Delia, for a night on the town with her Bohemian friends. The evening involves a raucous house party, a visit to a fortune-teller, and an encounter with a flirtatious baron, but none of that unsettles Minnie more than running into Stephen Dorian, her former employer in Corfu, who stirs in her a mix of resentment and attraction.

Roisin O’Mara has already endured a pre-Christmas, Christmas in London with her insufferable soon to be ex-mother-in-law and husband. With her son, Noah, and an unexpected extra guest in tow, she’s arrived in Dublin for her second Christmas. It’s not just her family Roisin’s looking forward to seeing, though. She hasn’t been able to stop thinking about Shay, the man she met on her last visit home. But the timing was wrong. It still is, and she’s not sure he’s someone she should let get close.

Moira and Maureen O’Mara have left their home at O'Mara's Irish Guesthouse overlooking St Stephen's Green. They're off to spend quality time away together, but they aren’t on your usual mother-daughter trip. Oh no, Moira and her mammy have just arrived in Vietnam! It’s Maureen’s dream to sail on a Junk (who knew?), and as for Moira, she’s come along for the ride under duress. Maureen feels her youngest daughter's floundering, and this trip might just be the making of her.

Decades after a brutal attack that shattered the lives of two teenagers, answers are being sought out and ghostwriter Allie Sawyer has to face her own suppressed secrets.

Roisin O’Mara. Rosi regrets a lot of things. She regrets having just scoffed the out-of-date chocolate bar she found down the bottom of her bag and the cheese she ate before bed the night before—it gave her the strangest dreams. Her mammy always told her not to eat cheese before bed. She should have listened, just like when Mammy asked if marrying Colin was the right choice because that’s her biggest regret.

A family's future seems bright after a life-changing lotto win, until an old bully threatens blackmail. As sinister events begin to unfold, can Malcolm outrun his past?

In the city of Tarian, where mastery over the tides is essential for the city’s very existence, an unforeseen and unthinkable thing has happened. The Master of Tides—Tarian’s guardian for over seven hundred years—has died, and the Sand Coin, the object that gives the Master his power, has vanished into the shadows. With the Sand Coin missing and Tarian under threat from an impending cataclysmic event, Cora, a spirited orphan girl laboring in the city’s Water Works, embarks on a desperate quest to save her city.

1814, London: Foreign diplomats are descending on London in advance of the Congress of Vienna meetings to formulate a new peace plan for Europe following Napoleon's downfall. Mary and Jane's father, political philosopher William Godwin, is hosting a gathering with an advance party of Russian royal staff. The Russians are enthusiastic followers of Mary's late mother, philosopher and women's rights advocate Mary Wollstonecraft, which leads to a lively dinner discussion.

One catastrophe is all it takes. The world of Iona has forgotten the time when dragons ruled the skies and their Viden riders controlled the wind. The Evandis War, started by the long dead Cinaed the Decayed was won, but at the extermination of every dragon and their Viden riders. Evelyn, the last Viden, has been in hiding for her entire life, but no more.

Lately, Moira O’Mara has been wearing a secretive Mona Lisa smile, leaving her sister Aisling—and the rest of the family—dying to know what she’s up to. But Moira’s not ready to spill the beans about the new man in her life just yet. They already tease her about her love for a good party (she’s Irish, after all—what’s life without a little fun?), so for now, her romance is staying firmly under wraps.

When Aisling O’Mara traded her high-flying career for the chaos of running her family’s Dublin guesthouse, she knew it wouldn’t be easy. With a menopausal receptionist who speaks her mind, a cleaner who believes in resting more than scrubbing, a hot-tempered cook, and a cunning fox who treats the rubbish bin like an all-you-can-eat buffet, every day is an adventure. Add in a revolving door of quirky guests, and O’Mara’s is never dull.

Against the simmering tensions of summer 1939, a group of evacuees flee Vienna for the sanctuary of Newtown House in Ireland. Haunted by their pasts and those they have left behind, Gisela Müller and Hans Schmitt struggle to settle into their new, rural Irish home. Tasked with being a companion to the precocious and spoiled Nola de Freyne, Gisela misses her previous scholarly life terribly.

London, June 1814: Mary and Jane are less than charmed by their brother Charles's courtship with a girl from the local cheese shop. When Miss Winnet Davies is not swooning from the heat, she's imploring Charles to buy her a pretty dress. But he hasn't a tuppence—nor have they, as their father, philosopher William Godwin, is facing the prospect of debtor's prison. When a constable arrives at the Godwin home the following day, looking for Charles, Mary and Jane learn that the lifeless body of Miss Davies was found.

Teetering on the edge of the North Sea in Norfolk, Grimdark Hall is both grim and dark in name and nature. When Cló and Jude Honeyborne arrive from Toronto to claim Jude's inheritance, Cló is unsettled by the foreboding ancient building and the hostility of Jude's sisters, who stalk her every move. But Cló is drawn to the strange energy of the treacherous fens and the haunting sadness of a drowned village in the bay where ghostly church bells toll thirteen, sweeping her back into another woman's memories.