Michael Stirling and his cousin John, the Earl of Kilmartin, are as close as brothers. However, Michael is secretly in love with John's wife Francesca Bridgerton. When John suddenly dies, Michael is wracked with guilt and pain....
English Fiction
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Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary: - Author:HARDY, ThomasSummary:
This collection of Thomas Hardy's stories include storie stories of witchcraft, smuggling, mystery, humour and heartache.
- Author:Jack HigginsSummary:
Surviving a helicopter crash, Ellis Jackson is taken prisoner in Vietnam and placed in a special camp designed specifically for brainwashing. His beautiful Chinese "instructor", Madame NY, seduces him into confusion, but...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
Sir Phillip knew that Eloise Bridgerton was a spinster, and so he'd proposed, figuring that she'd be homely and unassuming, and more than a little desperate for an offer of marriage. Except ... she wasn't. The beautiful...
- Author:Harvey, SamanthaSummary:
15th century Oakham, in Somerset; a tiny village cut off by a big river with no bridge. When a man is swept away by the river in the early hours of Shrove Saturday, an explanation has to be found: accident, suicide or murder' The...
- Author:HIGGINS, JackSummary:
At the height of the Cold War an agent is sent to Germany and meets Anna Hartmann. She is a dancer in a strip-club, a suitable lover but also a killer. Germany is experiencing a resurgence of Nazism and the agent is ready to die for...
- Author:GODEY, JohnSummary:
Four men hijack a tube train and demand a million dollars in ransom. The city of New York has one hour in which to pay, after which one hostage will be killed for every minute past the deadline.
- Author:Buell, JohnSummary:
When heroin-addicted call girl Elizabeth Lucy dies in a fall from a swanky penthouse terrace, homicide detective Henderson is assigned to the case. Was it murder? Suicide? Through his investigation, Henderson uncovers a frightening...
- Author:BROMIGE, IrisSummary:
After a broken engagement, a girl takes a job as "girl Friday" to a literary celebrity only to find misunderstanding and heart-break.
- Author:CARTLAND, BarbaraSummary:
Set in India when the British defended the north-west frontier in the 1880's.
- Author:Chesterton, G. K.Summary:
Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hear men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil? In The Innocence of Father Brown , G.K. Chesterton explores the darker side of human nature—the...
- Author:CORRIS, PeterSummary:
John Gulliver, fly-by-night publisher, leaves Britain for Australia with his family, in 1910. Aboard ship catastrophe strikes and they are scattered with a famous painting their only link.
- Author:MACLEAN, AlistairSummary:
A novel of suspense and drama, centred around the famous Golden Gate bridge of San Francisco, and involving a plot to kidnap the President of the United States.
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Author:JORDAN, RobertSummary:The Chosen are free and already planning for the Great Day of Return, when the Dark One will walk the Earth again. And their thoughts and plots turn inevitably to the capture of the Dragon Reborn.
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Author:PILCHER, RosamundeSummary:Sitting on a California beach at summer's end, Jane Marsh thought back to her childhood at the estate called Elvie. She remembered not only the heather-covered hills, her grandmother and how she had secretly dreamed of marrying...
- Author:CARTLAND, BarbaraSummary:
Alyna, unwillingly betrothed to Prince Ahmadi, comes under the protection of the `dangerous dandy'. His unusual devotion to her problem brings fear, danger and finally great happiness.
- Author:Koontz, DeanSummary:
There are millions of stories in the city - some magical, some tragic, others terror-filled or triumphant. Jonah Kirk's story is all of those things as he draws readers into his life in the city as a young boy, introducing his...
- Author:CORRIS, PeterSummary:
Crawley's misgivings about the validity of his mission to a South Pacific island prove well founded as he fights to escape with his life.
- Author:Rendell, RuthSummary:
Charlie Hatton wanted fast money and conspicuous success, and he was prepared to cut any corners to get them. But before he could realize a single ambition, he was found dead at the edge of a river.
- Author:INNES, HammondSummary:
Daredevil ex-RAF pilot, Edwin Cruse, buys a Hercules aeroplane for a mere ten thousand dollars. It is however, awkwardly placed for collection - on an iceberg in the Antarctic! Cruse, and others of less honest disposition, set out to...
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