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On the night of the Parkhurst ball, someone had a scandalous tryst in the library. Was it Lord Canby, with the maid, on the divan? Or Miss Fairchild, with a rake, against the wall? Perhaps the bulter did it. All Charlotte Highwood knows is this: it was not her. But rumors to the contrary are buzzing. Unless she can discover the lovers' true identity, she will be forced to marry Piers Brandon, Lord Granville, the coldest, most arrogantly handsome...
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After being tasked with her first major project for the master perfumer, Radha travels to India, enlisting the help of her sisters and the courtesans of Agra, but discovers that the son she gave up years earlier is heading to locate her in Paris--threatening her marriage and carefully managed world.
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Vera is ruthlessly ambitious, beautiful, and knows how to get exactly what she wants—no matter who stands in the way. When she meets a wealthy older man on an exclusive dating app, she thinks nothing of the wife he tells her he’s separated from. But days later, when the man and his wife are found dead in their home, Vera is immediately blamed for their deaths and branded as good as a murderer. A year later, she emerges from a cocoon of self-pity...
6) Double lives
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Identical twins Leona and Fiona Dunbar have always played a dangerous game of swapping identities. Leona, the wild one, thrives on breaking rules and scandalizing their small town. Fiona, the seemingly demure churchgoer, is the apple of their domineering mother's eye. But when Fiona's stifling marriage and Leona's heartbreak collide, they decide to switch places once more. As secrets unravel and desires ignite, their unbreakable bond is put to the...
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2023.
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To avoid a ruinous scandal after one desperate mistake, Miss Camilla Antonius enters a devil's bargain with the Prince of Envy, who whisks her away to the Underworld where her true nature is awakened-and where they must avoid the most dangerous trap of all: love.
8) Silken prey
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At 1:15 a.m, a Minnesota political fixer answers his doorbell. The next thing he knows, he's waking up on the floor of a moving car, lying on a plastic sheet, his body wet with blood. And that's the last thing he ever knows. Lucas Davenport is investigating another case when the trail leads to the man's disappearance, then to the Minneapolis police department itself, and then to a woman with very definite ideas about the way the world should work...
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In idyllic Alara Cove, a California beach town known for its sunny charm and chill surfer vibe, it's graduation day. The students at the elite Thornton Academy are the worldly and overindulged children who live in gated enclaves. But the class valedictorian is Nikki Graziola, a surfer's daughter who is there on scholarship. To the shock of everyone in the audience, Nikki veers off script while giving her commencement address and reveals a secret that...
10) Coleman Hill
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2023.
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Longlisted for the Carol Shields Prize for Fiction
A Washington Post Noteworthy Book for September
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"Awakening in an ambulance headed to Kelby Creek, Melanie Blankenship can't remember why or how she got there. Everyone in town once turned against Mel following her ex-husband's shocking scandal-except former love Deputy Sterling Costner. It's been years since they ended their relationship, but now, as evidence mounts in a deadly crime, he's determined to uncover the person who's targeting Mel and who won't stop until she pays the ultimate price"--...
12) Carolina breeze
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Bluebell Inn romance volume 2
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Rising Hollywood star Mia Emerson is looking for a safe place to land in the wake of a public breakup and celebrity scandal, and she finds it in the lake town of Bluebell, North Carolina. Soon after her arrival at the Bluebell Inn, Mia meets Levi Bennett, who runs the inn along with his two younger sisters. Drawn to one another from the start, Mia trusts Levi to keep her location from the press, and Levi confides in Mia about the precarious financial...
13) The teacher
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Last year, Caseham High was rocked by a scandal with one student, Addie, at its center. And this year, math teacher Eve is dismayed to find the girl in her class. Addie can't be trusted. She lies, hurts people, and destroys lives. At least, that's what everyone says. But nobody knows the real Addie. Nobody knows the secrets that could destroy her if people at the school found out. And when Eve discovers the truth, Addie will do anything to keep her...
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As a teenager at the prestigious Bradley School, Ani FaNelli endured a shocking, public humiliation that left her desperate to reinvent herself. Now, with a glamorous job, expensive wardrobe, and handsome blue blood fiancé, she's this close to living the perfect life she's worked so hard to achieve. But Ani has a secret. There's something else buried in her past that still haunts her, something private and painful that threatens to bubble to the...
15) The Love Shack
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The owner of The Love Shack Animal Haven, Berkley Carr, still feeling the sting of scandal from her youth, keeps crossing paths with her handsome neighbor, Lawson, and in a town full of matchmaking busybodies, she must learn to let past hurts go and embrace the love she deserves.
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"When Alice Jones, a blue-color woman with at least one Black parent marries Leonard "Kip" Rhinelander, the son of one of New York's most prominent society families, the scandal rocks high society--and eventually sets the city afire when Kip later sues for an annulment, accusing Alice of having hidden her "Negro blood" and intentionally deceiving him that she was white. While New York society in the Roaring Twenties witnessed more than a few scandals,...
17) Beartown
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People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever-encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semifinals, and they actually have a shot at...
18) Live wire
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Myron Bolitar mysteries volume 10
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When former tennis star Suzze T and her rock star husband, Lex, encounter an anonymous Facebook post questioning the paternity of their unborn child, Lex runs off, and Suzze - at eight months pregnant - asks Myron to save her marriage, and perhaps her husband's life. But when he finds Lex, he also finds someone he wasn't looking for: his sister-in-law, Kitty, who along with Myron's brother abandoned the Bolitar family long ago. As Myron races to...
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2023.
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Kathleen Held’s life is turned upside down when she arrives home to find her house on fire and her husband on the front lawn in his underwear. But the scandal that emerges is not that Bill, who's running for Senate, is having a painfully cliched affair with one of his young staffers: it's that the eyewitness photographing the scene accidentally captures a period stain on the back of Kathleen’s pants. Overnight, Kathleen finds herself the unwitting...
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Gemma Halliday
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From New York Times & USA Today bestselling author Gemma Halliday comes a female reporter with a stalker, a hot bodyguard with a problem, a dead body, a little romance, and a lot of laughs!Tina Bender is the gossip columnist at the infamous L.A. Informer tabloid. She knows everything about everyone who's anyone. And she's not afraid to print it. That is, until she receives a threatening note, promising, "If you don't stop writing about me, you're...