Shrouded in myth & conspiracy, the history of the Knights Templar is little understood.

Geordie Torr pulls fact from

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His touch was electric. His eyes were magnetic. His lips were a temptation... But was he real? Shane is near death after crashing her car on a long stretch of empty highway in rural New Mexico when she is miraculously saved by a mysterious young man who walks out of nowhere. She feels an instant energy between them, both a warmth that fills her soul & a tingle that makes her shiver. But who, or what, is he? For the first time in her life, she believes in the term "soul mates"? Travis is her destiny, & she is his. But she soon discovers that Travis is dead & strict rules govern kindred spirits of different

Dimensions. Even a kiss could destroy both their souls. & while Travis is almost impossible to resist, temptation proves to be the kindest enemy they encounter. In this part romance, part supernatural thriller, true love discovers it may not be able to surpass all?especially the power of pure evil

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Never give up on your dreams, no matter how long you hold on to them...

When Gracie Burton stumbles upon an advertisement

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In Kenya's ' Happy Valley' no one paid too much attention to the privileged colonial set as they farmed their estates, partied until dawn & indulged in extra-marital affairs. Not until Josslyn Hay, Earl of Erroll, was shot dead at the wheel of his Buick in the early hours of 24 January 1941. Some said the good-looking womaniser had it coming. He was a philanderer who could have had any number of enemies who wanted revenge. Ageing Jock Delves Broughton stood trial for Erroll's murder but was acquitted & the mystery remained unsolved
- until now. American heiress Alice de Janze had been conducting a clandestine affair with Joss for years. Married into French aristocracy, her stunning beauty was to prove a fatal lure to men of adventure. Previously tried by a French court for shooting one of her lovers, scandal followed her wherever she went. She arrived in Kenya as a newly married Countess in the 1920s, but by 1941 she had turned forty & the years of partying had taken their toll. Pushed aside by Erroll for younger lovers, Alice was thrown into desperation, resulting in Errol's murder & her own tragic demise. The Temptress not only solves the mystery of Josslyn Hay's murder with the utmost conviction
- it eloquently paints a portrait of a volatile, captivating woman.

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A glamorous American multi-millionairess, Alice de Janz? scandalized 1920s Paris when she left her aristocratic French husband for an English lover?whom she later tried to kill in a failed murder-suicide in the Gare du Nord. Abandoning Paris for the moneyed British colonial society known as Kenyas Happy Valley, she became the lover of the handsome womanizer, Joss Hay, Lord Erroll. In 1941, Erroll was shot in his car on an isolated road. A cuckolded husband was brought to trial & acquitted, & the crime remained tantalizingly unsolved. Paul Spicer, whose mother was a confidante of Alices, used personal letters & his own extensive research to piece together what really happened that fateful evening. He brings to life an era of unimaginable wealth & indulgence, where people changed bed partners as easily as they would order a cocktail, & where jealousy & hidden passions brewed. At the heart of The Temptress is Alice, whose seductive charms no man could resist, & whose unfulfilled quest for love ended in her own suicide at age forty-two. ...

The moment she starts her doctorate in Oxford, Sarah is beset with mysteries. An old portrait in her rented house bears an uncanny resemblance to her. Her new lover insists he's a ghost. Her attractive, sinister supervisor refuses to let her see manuscripts on witchcraft. An ordinary hill on the meadow fills her with fear
- & not just her, but also the man with whom she falls in love. Every time she has sex, she hallucinates strange places & other times. Through sex, magic & orgasmic visions, she must fight betrayal to learn the truth behind the secrets. The size of this book is 17.8cm in height & 10.9cm wide with 255 pages
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With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant, Canterbury Christchurch University College.

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

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As winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement of Dove River, a woman steals herself for the journey of a lifetime. A man has been brutally murdered & her Seventeen-year-old son has disappeared. The violence has re-opened old wounds & inflamed deep-running tensions in the frontier township- some want to solve the crime; others seek only to exploit it. To clear her sons name, she has no choice but to follow the tracks leaving the dead mans cabin & head north into the forest & the desolate landscape that lies beyond it. ...

Dove River, as winter tightens its grip on the isolated settlement, a man has been murdered & a woman's 17 year old son has disappeared. The murder has sparked tension in the settlement as old wounds are re-opened & inflamed deep-running tensions with the town divided as some want to exploit the murder while others are trying to solve it. In order to clear her son's name, she has to follow the track's leaving the dad man's cabin & towards the forest & the desolate landscape that lies beyond it. ...

In 1930, at the age of twenty-seven, Liesl Herbst was the Austrian National Tennis Champion, a celebrity in Vienna. Liesl, her husband David & their daughter Dorli came to Britain after escaping the Nazis. In London, though initially stripped of their Austrian passports & rendered stateless aliens, both Liesl & her daughter Dorli competed at Wimbledon. They remain the only mother & daughter ever to have played doubles together at Wimbledon. This moving story of escape & survival is told by Liesl’s gr&-daughter, Dorli’s daughter. Some of the story, the author heard first-hand from her grandmother; the rest, she has meticulously researched over many years in four countries.   It is as much a search for the author’s own identity as for her own children & grandchildren to ensure that their remarkable family history is never lost again.  Illustrated throughout with family photographs & original documents, this is a story of survival against terrible odds, an inspiring tale... ...