Mallory Dale works as a paralegal in a top Manhattan law firm by day. But at night shes a bombshell burlesque performer on the rise. Her dream is to become a top dancer but she becomes distracted when her boyfriend Alec starts pushing her erotic boundaries. Can she handle a three-way with a wildly uninhibited dominatrix? Or should she hang up her feathers & focus on her day job? At the firm her sexy boss unexpectedly ignites her deepest fantasies & tempts her to find satisfaction away from her tempestuous relationship with Alec. But is she ready to play it safe & give up the man shes always loved for the thrill of life on the edge? ...

Gabriel Allon master art restorer & assassin returns in a spellbinding No.1 New York Times bestselling novel. For all fans of Robert Ludlum. Bruised & war-weary following his secret war to bring down a terrorist mastermind Gabriel Allon returns to his beloved Rome to restore a Caravaggio masterpiece. But early one morning Gabriel is summoned by his friend & occasional ally Monsignor Luigi Donati the all-powerful private secretary to the Pope. The broken body of a beautiful woman lies beneath Michelangelo's magnificent dome. Donati fears a public inquiry will inflict more wounds on an already-damaged Church so he calls upon Gabriel to use his matchless talents & experience to quietly pursue the truth
- was it suicide or something more sinister? Gabriel discovers that the woman revealed a dangerous secret that threatens powers beyond the Vatican. & an old enemy plots revenge in the shadows an unthinkable act of sabotage that will plunge the world into a conflict of apocalyptic proportions. Once again Gabriel must return to the ranks of his old intelligence service-and place himself & those he holds dear on the razor's edge of danger.
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After her dastardly husband Billy tries to sell her at a wife sale Lily Fowler finds herself alone frightened & heavily pregnant on the streets of Hull. Her brave attempts to find work are futile & when she is turned away from the workhouse & other such establishments for women in her condition" Lily is forced to swallow her last iota of respectability & work in a brothel in Leadenhall Square. Unexpectedly things begin to look up. Lily sees potential where others can only see destitution & ruin & soon forges strong relationships with the other women there. They are all good-hearted women who have fallen on hard times & together Lily & her "fallen angels" outwit the low-life brothel-keeper & work to turn the house in Leadenhall Square into something altogether more respectable. & before any of them know it doors swing open lost loves are recovered & the happy endings none of them dared to dream of begin to materialise..." ...

An unwanted child San Francisco 1958. On a dark December night a baby girl is left at the Sisters of Charity Orphanage on Telegraph Hill. A mysterious suicide: one year later movie star Frances Fitzgerald takes her own life. Her husband wealthy businessman Maximilian Stanhope is rumoured to know more about her death than he is letting on but nothing is ever proved. A terrible secret: What is the connection between these two events? Francess daughter Cara is determined to find out. Abandoned by her mother when she is just seven years old her childhood is filled with hardship & loss. As a young woman she finds professional success as a journalist but on a personal level she still struggles to trust those around her. Soon Cara becomes convinced that uncovering the secret behind her mothers death is the only way to lay her demons to rest but learning the truth may end up tearing her apart. ...

Venice 1407. The city is at the height of its powers. In theory Duke Marco commands but Marco is a simpleton so his aunt & uncle rule in his stead. They seem all powerful yet live in fear of assassins better than their own. On the night their world changes Marcos young cousin prays in the family chapel for deliverance from a forced marriage. It is her misfortune to be alone when Mamluk pirates break in to abduct her
- an act that will ultimately trigger war. Elsewhere Atilo the Dukes chief assassin cuts a mans throat. Hearing a noise he turns back to find a boy drinking from the victims wound. The speed with which the angel-faced boy dodges his dagger & scales a wall stuns Atilo. He knows then he must hunt him. Not to kill him but because hes finally found what he thought was impossible
- someone fit to be his apprentice. Award-winning author Jon Courtenay Grimwood is a master storyteller. Here he blends history politics & dark fantasy in a compelling vision of an alternative Venice.

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Can Skinner surmount the greatest challenge of his life...and if he does will he ever be the same? A thrilling novel in the hugely popular Scottish crime series. When a body is found after a flood the secrets of a tempestuous life surface with it. Deputy Chief Constable Bob Skinner has kept the existence of his hated brother Michael hidden for years. As he relives their past conflict other demons threaten his future. For not only are his professional enemies circling but Sarah his wife seems set on a course for calamity. Meanwhile in an Edinburgh art gallery his team confront a shocking & very public case of arson. Was it a political protest or something much deeper? ...

Unexpected. Unrequited. Forbidden. Eternal. Everyone has their own love story. & in a twist of fate four extraordinary love stories combine over the course of a romantic Valentines Day in Medieval Engl&. Miles & Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a painful lesson about finding-and losing love. Arianne pays the price for a love so fierce it burns. & for the first -and last- time Daniel & Luce will spend a night together like none other. Lauren Kates FALLEN IN LOVE is filled with love stories.. .the ones everyone has been waiting for. True love never says goodbye.. . To bring the book cover & author photograph to life simply download the free Fallen Book app from the App Store or Android Marketplace launch the app & point your device at the front cover & the author photograph. ...

Unexpected. Unrequited. Forbidden. Eternal. Everyone has their own love story. & in a twist of fate four extraordinary love stories combine over the course of a romantic Valentine's Day in Medieval Engl&. Miles & Shelby find love where they least expect it. Roland learns a painful lesson about finding & losing love. Arianne pays the price for a love so fierce it burns. & for the first
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- time Daniel & Luce will spend a night together like none other. Lauren Kate's Fallen in Love is filled with love stories.. .the ones everyone has been waiting for. True love never says goodbye.. .

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1918: German troops flood back from the Eastern Front for an all-out assault in France before the Americans can join the war. The under-strength British retreat & for the first time the real possibility of defeat comes home to a shocked nation. At the front Bertie struggles to bring his battered battalion out safely while at home Jessie secretly carrying his child knows that sooner or later she must face her familys censure. At Morland Place Teddy braves local opinion to bring German POWs to work on the land little knowing how close to home the consequences of his decision will strike. & the terrible news arrives that Jack has been shot down. Men are falling each one the King of someones heart. For the Morlands only love faith & compassion will keep the family safe until the longed-for days of peace.. . ...

Following the critical acclaim for his debut Patrick Flanery's Fallen Land is his astonishing break-out novel; a nail-biting story powered by a fierce anger at the utter failure of the American dream & the greatest fears that lurk in every one of us. Poplar Farm has been in Louise's family for generations inherited by her sharecropping forebear from a white landowner after a lynching. Now the farm has been carved up the trees torn down; a mini-massacre replicating the destruction of lives & societies taking place all over America. Architect of this destruction is Paul Krovik a property developer soon driven insane by the failure of his dream. Julia & Nathaniel arrive from Boston with their son Copley & buy up Paul's signature home in a foreclosure sale. They move into the half-finished subdivision & settle in to their brave new world. Yet violence lies just beneath the surface of this land & simmers deep within Nathaniel. The great trees bear witness Louise lives on in her beleaguered farmhouse & as reality shifts & the edges of what is right & wrong blur & are lost Copley becomes convinced that someone is living in the house with them. ...