Four days in Vegas. Two sexy & determined men. One penthouse suite.. . And no reservations. Christmas isn't so merry for Kate & Leah. Kate's romantic winter holiday is destroyed by the sudden & uninvited presence of Dix's annoying ex-wife while Brandon's super-perfect family & a diamond ring send Leah running for Sin City with Kate in tow. But Dix & Brandon both know what they want. In hot pursuit the men show up in Vegas ready to use every sensual trick they have to convince Kate & Leah to take a gamble on forever. The sizzling sequel to Taking Care of Business. ...

When Christopher Thomas a curator at San Franciscos Museum of Fine Arts is murdered & his decaying body is found in an iron maiden in Berlin his wife Rosemary Thomas is the prime suspect. Long suffering under Christophers unfaithful ways Rosemary is tried convicted & executed. Ten years later Jon Nunn the detective who cracked the case becomes convinced that the wrong person was put to death. Along with financier Tony Olsen he plans to gather everyone who was there the night Christopher died & finally uncover the truth about what happened that fateful evening. Could it have been the neer do well brother Peter Hausen interested in his sisters trust fund having got through his own; the curatorial assistant Justine Olengard used & betrayed by Christopher; the artist Belle who turned down his advances only to see her career suffer a setback; or someone else all together? No Rest for the Dead is a thrilling page-turning accomplishment that only the very best thriller writers could achieve. ...

A vampire warrior who yearns for death... Three hundred years ago Sebastian Wroth's brothers forced him to become a vampire-a nightmare in his mind. Shamed & alone for ages he longs to die. Until an exquisite creature comes to kill him inadvertently saving him instead. A beautiful assassin dispatched to destroy him... When Kaderin the Cold Hearted lost her two beloved sisters long ago a benevolent force deadened her sorrow-accidentally extinguishing all of her emotions. Yet whenever she encounters the vampire with his grave eyes her feelings-particularly lust-emerge multiplied. For the first time she's unable to complete a kill. The prize is a key powerful enough to resurrect her sisters. Not understanding the key's import Sebastian hinders her against other opponents by using her new feelings to seduce her & earn her love. But when Kaderin is forced to choose between finally killing Sebastian & reuniting her family how can she live without either...? ...

No Risk Refused To investigate a theft CIA agent Cam Sutherland has returned to Castle Mac Pherson. Its the place where he very nearly lost his heart & soul to wedding planner Adair Mac Pherson...and she is still as bewitching as ever. When he finds a seven-years-old erotic story written by her
- & starring him
- Cam decides to prove to Adair that fantasies are best made into realities...

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FROM RESERVED GENTLEMAN TO SOCIETY'S DARLING Laurence Bretton has been the talk of the Ton since the shock announcement that he is the celebrated playwright Valentine Lawe. Keeping up the charade for his sisters' sake isn't a problem
- that is until he lays eyes on Lady Joanna Northrup... Since her father inherited his title Joanna is no longer free to marry for love. Now she must choose a wealthy titled husband
- & soon! Regretfully this doesn't include the dashing Laurence
- & certainly not his flamboyant alter ego. But the twinkle in his eyes tells her there's so much more to this man. If only he can pen a happy ending for them both...


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No Shitting In The Toilet is named after a sign the author saw on the door of the lavatory at Jacks Cafe in Dali Yunnan Province in China. Its a sign that summed up Peter Moores philosophy of travel: that it never quite turns out as you expect. You end up in situations that defy logic rational thought & quite often general well-being
- & yet you end up having a brilliant time & not in spite of these situations but because of them. & this is also the philosophy behind this book & the reason why this isnt really a normal travel guide. OK it might look like one in its choice of topices & structure but in fact its quite the opposite. Instead of practical hints it gives you impractical ones (How to avoid jet lag
- avoid jets.. .) & rather than tel you the best places to stay it tells you the worst. Instead of celebrating transcendental travel experiences it revels in the most demeaning ones (On checking the hygiene in restaurants: there are 2 things you dont really want to see in life. The first is your parents having sex. The second is the state of the kitchen in restaurants catering for backpackers.). But in that sense NSITT is more in touch with the way things really are. The world of NSITT is one where youre more likely to find a cockroach on your pillow than a complimentary mint a world where you take your life in your own hands every time you get on a bus a world where everything goes wrong & you still end up loving every minute of it. Based on Peter Moores award-winning travel website NSITT is not only hugely entertaining but also eminently practical with advice on everything from Backpacking & Souvenirs to Sex & Romance & Health & Eating (e.g. Some last words of advice for vegetarians: Hope you like rice...).

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The Byrnes are a fishing family living a life of grinding poverty on the Connemara coast. Dympna the only girl adores her father Micheal. She does her best to help her English mother & the family rub along by working very hard & expecting little. But beneath the smooth-seeming surface there are hidden secrets. Beatrice idolises her clever eldest son but her attitude to her husband & to Dympna is puzzling. Yet when the family desperately needs money it is Dympna who crosses the water to Liverpool to send money back for them. Meanwhile in Liverpool orphaned half-starved Jimmy Ruddock struggles to escape from his background with little success until he meets Elsie a tough young slum-dweller who helps him to better himself. Then he starts work abroad a Fleetwood trawler & meets up with Dympna... Set in the late 1920s & 30s No Silver Spoon charts the pleasures & pains of life
- & love
- in the glorious countryside of Connemara & in the fiercely competitive streets of the Liverpool slums. It confirms Katie Flynn as one of the most beloved & bestselling saga writers in Britain.

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Dave Jones is one of the most respected managers in football who took Cardiff to the FA Cup final Wolves to the Premier League & Stockport to their highest ever league position. But few fans if any could possibly identify with the anguish & turmoil that blighted his life. A staunch family man & loving father of four children Daves world was turned upside down when while manager of Premier League Southampton out of the blue he was charged with child abuse relating to his time working as a care worker. As he fought to clear his name from these totally false allegations supported by his loyal wife Ann who will also reveal her thoughts Dave lost his job & tragically his father. What he didnt lose was his determination to tell his side of the story even in the face of threats from those who sought to finish him. Now in unprecedented detail Dave reveals the effect the traumatic episode had on him & his family identifies those he believes were responsible
- & explains how against all the odds he picked up the pieces & resumed a highly successful managerial career.
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The 1980s was the revolutionary decade of the twentieth century. To look back in 1990 at the Britain of ten years earlier was to look into another country. The changes were not superficial like the revolution in fashion & music that enlivened the 1960s; nor were they quite as unsettling & joyless as the troubles of the 1970s. & yet they were irreversible. By the end of the decade society as a whole was wealthier money was easier to borrow there was less social upheaval less uncertainty about the future. Perhaps the greatest transformation of the decade was that by 1990 the British lived in a new ideological universe where the defining conflict of the twentieth century between capitalism & socialism was over. Thatcherism took the politics out of politics & created vast differences between rich & poor but no expectation that the existence of such gross inequalities was a problem that society or government could solve
- because as Mrs Thatcher said ' There is no such thing as society.. .people must look to themselves first'. From the Falklands war & the miners' strike to Bobby Sands & the Guildford Four from Diana & the New Romantics to Live Aid & the 'big bang' from the Rubik's cube to the ZX Spectrum Mc Smith's brilliant narrative account uncovers the truth behind the decade that changed Britain forever.
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On the morning she will never forget suburban teenager Cynthia Archer awakes with a nasty hangover & a feeling she is going to have an even nastier confrontation with her mom & dad. But when she leaves her bedroom she discovers the house is empty with no sign of her parents or younger brother Todd. In the blink of an eye without any explanation her family has simply disappeared. Twenty-five years later Cynthia is still haunted by unanswered questions. Were her family murdered? If so why was she spared? & if they're alive why did they abandon her in such a cruel way? Now married with a daughter of her own Cynthia fears that her new family will be taken from her just as her first one was. & so she agrees to take part in a TV documentary revisiting the case in the hope that somebody somewhere will remember something
- or even that her father mother or brother might finally reach out to her... Then a letter arrives which makes no sense & yet chills Cynthia to the core. & soon she begins to realise that stirring up the past could be the worst mistake she has ever made...
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