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. ...

Terrific novel set in the Roaring Twenties reissued to accompany Philippa Gregorys new bestselling novel The Last Boleyn. Lily Valance wants to forget the war. Shes determined to enjoy the world of the 1920s with its music singing laughter & pleasure. When she meets Captain Stephen Winters a decorated hero back from the Front shes drawn to his wealth & status. In Lily he sees his salvation -- from the past from the nightmare from the guilt at surviving the Flanders plains where so many were lost. But its a dream that cannot last. Lily has no intention of leaving her singing career. The hidden tensions of the respectable facade of the Winters household come to a head. Stephens nightmares merge ever closer with reality & the truth of what took place in the mud & darkness brings him & all who loves him to a terrible reckoning! ...

Following the defeat at Wabash in 1792 the Washington administration created a new US Army to replace the one that had been destroyed. The man chosen to lead it was the famous Major-General Mad Anthony Wayne. Having trained his new force Wayne set out in 1793 to subdue the Ohio Indians. Wayne faced many of the same problems as St Clair including the logistical & intelligence problems of campaigning in the wilderness not to mention the formidable Ohio Indians. Wayne faced additional problems including the likelihood that he would have to fight both British & Spanish forces not to mention an American army led by the celebrated commander George Roger Clark. He also faced an insurrection in western Pennsylvania Whiskey Rebellion & a conspiracy led by many of his officers & contractors. Despite all these difficulties Wayne managed to defeat the Ohio Indians at the battle of Fallen Timbers". This was a decisive defeat that led directly to the Treaty of Greeneville the following year which ended 20 years of conflict between the Americans & the Ohio Indians." ...

Will friendship overcome the social boundaries of Edwardian London in this bestselling historical tale perfect for fans of Audrey Niffenegger & Sarah Waters. January 1901 the day after Queen Victorias death: two families visit neighbouring graves in a fashionable London cemetery. One is decorated with a sentimental angel the other an elaborate urn. The Waterhouses revere the late Queen & cling to Victorian traditions; the Colemans look forward to a more modern society. To their mutual distaste the families are inextricably linked when their daughters become friends behind the tombstones. & worse befriend the gravediggers son. As the girls grow up & the new century finds its feet as cars replace horses & electricity outshines gas lighting Britain emerges from the shadows of oppressive Victorian values to a golden Edwardian summer. It is then that the beautiful frustrated Mrs Coleman makes a bid for greater personal freedom with disastrous consequences & the lives of the Colemans & the Waterhouses are changed forever. A poignant & historical tale of two families brought reluctantly together Falling Angels is an intimate story of childhood friendships sexual awakening & human frailty. Its epic sweep takes in the changing of a nation the fight for womens suffrage & the questioning of steadfast beliefs. ...

This is life not a rehearsal... When River auditions for a part in an inter-school performance of Romeo & Juliet she finds herself smitten by Flynn the boy playing Romeo. River believes in romantic love & she cant wait to experience it. But Flynn comes from a damaged family
- is he even capable of giving River what she wants? The path of true love never did run smooth...
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Packed with festive romance & fun these two seasonal stories will melt any heart this Christmas. A Cedar Cove Christmas"
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Falling for the Rebel Falcon Journalist Perdita Hanson has a reputation for getting the best scoops & to get inside the infamous Falcon family wedding Perdita goes undercover & accepts the gorgeous Leonid Falcon's spontaneous request of a date. When Leonid discovers that Perdita is really a journalist in disguise their sparks of attraction could turn into fireworks of betrayal! The Man Behind the Pinstripes Becca Taylor has worked hard to overcome her troubled past & start a new life. So when CEO Caleb Fairchild marches into her life the instant attraction to this gorgeous pinstriped man is the last thing Becca needs
- especially when Caleb wants to be closer. But Becca knows that when her secrets are revealed betrayal's inevitable.
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Falling in love can be more disastrous than you'd think...A fabulous romantic comedy from bestselling author Jill Mansell. Maddy Harvey was a bit of an ugly duckling as a teenager what with her NHS specs unfortunate hair & wonky teeth. Thankfully she's blossomed since then. But when she meets Kerr Mc Kinnon one starry summer's night & discovers days later who he actually is...well that's when the problems really start. Because everyone in Ashcombe knows what happened eleven years ago & as far as her mother's concerned Marcella would rather tear that family to pieces with her bare hands than see Maddy associate with a Mc Kinnon. It's Romeo & Juliet all over again. Quick hide those sharp knives & that little bottle of poison... ...