From bestselling author Torey Hayden comes a moving new novel of loss & redemption. Abundance Montana once a lively mining town in the days of the wild west is now not much more than a ghost town. Local girl Dixie a struggling single mother who has just lost her baby tries to make ends meet while her feckless boyfriend Billy drifts from one job to another always believing his next moneymaking scheme will be the winner. Above them in the magnificent mountains surrounding Abundance jaded Hollywood actor Spencer Scott conceals himself from the paparazzi on the ranch that has been his pristine sanctuary until the arrival of his obnoxious nine-year-old son. Then Billy puts into motion a plan almost too appalling to contemplate & from which there is no escape. As all four are forced to confront the brutal reality of the Montana mountains so too are they forced to face their damaged lives in this poignant new novel. ...

' If you haven't caught up with Peter Robinson already now is the time to start.'
- Independent Sunday". One foggy night Deborah
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His heart began to thud his throat to close. He tried to pull his body from the pool. 'I'll help you' his killer said. He felt no pain. A young teacher sips a hot chocolate blissfully unaware that his first taste condemns him to an agonising death. The community around him is devastated & suspiciously protective of their own. No one is better equipped to see through the lies than homicide Lieutenant Eve Dallas but she is distracted by the arrival of her husband Roarke's ex-lover an impossibly glamorous vixen determined to steal Roarke back. But Eve's personal life must wait when a second murder victim is found & everyone's eyes turn to the perfect school at the heart of it all. Its secret will soon be out.. . ...

When history teacher Craig Foster is found dead in his classroom his young wife is devastated & his family friends & colleagues all shocked. The two ten-year old students who discovered his body may be traumatised for life. Magdalena Percell an old flame of Eves billionaire husband Roarke has turned up in New York & shes anything but innocent. Unfortunately Roarke seems blind to Magdalenas maniuplations but not to her shapely figure & flirtatious ways. But Eve will have to put aside her potential heartbreak for a while at least- because another man has just turned up dead... ...

Miss Winthorpe's Elopement Lady Penelope Winthorpe is looking for a compliant husband to gain access to her inheritance. The drunken Adam Felkirk seems perfectly biddable-but she's in for a surprise... Once sobered up the arrogant gorgeous Duke of Bellston is determined to awaken his bluestocking bride! Dangerous Lord Innocent Governess Daphne Collingham is intrigued by the scandalous goings on at the home of Lord Timothy Colton & decides to disguise herself as a governess to uncover the truth! What Daphne hasn't bargained on is how the brooding lord will make her feel under his dark gaze... ...

Her past has come back to haunt her... Delanie Tate waits nervously for the man who has torn through her fathers company consuming along the way her own small business. But she never thought it would be him! The man who ruthlessly commanded her trembling body...who finally shattered her fragile trusting heart. Marco Vincienta has taken everything he possibly could from Tate Industries
- apart from the woman who nearly destroyed him. He needs her for one last thing before he can cut her from his life. If Delanie wants her company back
- her life back
- shell have to do as he asks. A fave author. Gripping & enthralling.
- Nicola Graphic Designer Edinburgh



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The hard-working people at innocent spend their days blending all kinds of delicious ingredients to create smoothies & juices that taste good & do you good. These are their secret recipes. This book contains fancy juices healthy smoothies for kids some posh stuff & tons of classic innocent smoothies as well as recipes from proper foodies like that nice Jamie Oliver. Stuffed full of helpful advice on how to get your five a day how to wreck a juicer how to play monkey tennis &
- perhaps most importantly
- how to make innocent smoothies the 'innocent smoothie recipe book' is a vital tome for any kitchen shelf.

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Alison Weir our pre-eminent popular historian has now fulfilled a life's ambition to write historical fiction. She has chosen as her subject the bravest most sympathetic & wronged heroine of Tudor England Lady Jane Grey. Lady Jane Grey was born into times of extreme danger. Child of a scheming father & a ruthless mother for whom she was merely a pawn in a dynastic power game with the highest stakes she lived a life in thrall to political machinations & lethal religious fervour. Jane's astonishing & essentially tragic story was played out during one of the most momentous periods of English history. As a great-niece of Henry VIII & the cousin of Edward VI Mary I & Elizabeth I she grew up to realize that she could never throw off the chains of her destiny. Her honesty intelligence & strength of character carry the reader through all the vicious twists of Tudor power politics to her nine-day reign & its unbearably poignant conclusion. ...

WINNER OF THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD 2012. LONGLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013. What if everything you'd ever wanted was no longer enough? Adam & Rachel are getting married at last. Childhood sweethearts whose lives & families have been intertwined for years; theirs is set to be the wedding of the year. But then Rachel's cousin Ellie makes an unexpected return to the family fold. Beautiful reckless & troubled Ellie represents everything that Adam has tried all his life to avoid
- & everything that is missing from his world. As the long-awaited wedding approaches Adam is torn between duty & temptation security & freedom & must make a choice that will break either one heart or many. ' Wonderful...witty...an astonishingly accomplished debut which will draw comparisons between Segal & Zadie Smith & Monica Ali' Stylist.
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' Who could read the programme for the excursion without longing to make one of the party?' So Mark Twain acclaims his voyage from New York City to Europe & the Holy Land in June 1867. His adventures produced The Innocents Abroad a book so funny & provocative it made him an international star for the rest of his life. He was making his first responses to the Old World
- to Paris Milan Florence Venice Pompeii Constantinople Sebastopol Balaklava Damascus Jerusalem Nazareth & Bethlehem. For the first time he was seeing the great paintings & sculptures of the ' Old Masters'. He responded with wonder & amazement but also with exasperation irritation disbelief. Above all he displayed the great energy of his humour more explosive for us now than for his beguiled contemporaries.
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