San Francisco 1904. Georgia Briscoe a young woman from a good family is unwillingly betrothed to businessman Drew Kemp when she falls for handsome British sailor Ellis Cowper. Drew had the charm to dazzle everyone around him but when the couple are married it soon transpires that Drews charm is only skin-deep & that he is in fact a greedy gambling addict with a penchant for other women including Georgias maid Maura & jealous sister Prudence. When Georgia & Maura fall pregnant both women decide to escape to be with the men they love providing Prudence with an opportunity to seize Drew
- & much more besides. London 1948. When Chrissie Kemp travels to the Lake District to visit her grandmother Georgia she is not prepared for the shocking revelation that is about to throw her family into turmoil. As a last act of vengeance on her death bed Prudence claims that Chrissies mother Vanessa & her late father Aaran are brother & sister. As the truth unfurls the passion emotion & astounding love that occurred in San Francisco forty years ago is revealed & three generations of the family are tested to their limits.
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When a handsome man literally falls at her feet while she's walking through a moonlit convent courtyard Helena knows he must be there for a scandalous liaison. Yet she keeps his presence a secret from the questioning nuns
- & for her silence the stranger rewards her with an enticing unforgettable kiss. What Helena doesn't know was that her wild Englishman is Sebastian Cynster Duke of St. Ives. Seven years later Sebastian spies Helena from across a crowded ballroom. This heiress is dazzling London society with her wit & beauty tantalising all the eligible men with the prospect of taking her hand in marriage. But Helena is not looking for just any husb&. She wants an equal a challenge
- someone who can live up to the promise of that delicious never-forgotten kiss.

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The 2am phone call is from a young frightened lost girl who has called the one adult who had promised to help her if she ever got into any trouble: Myron Bolitar. But his help proves not to be enough. He picks her up from a cold street corner &
- against his better judgment
- is persuaded to drop her at an unknown address. This is a mistake that he lives to regret for Aimee Biels final wave from a darkened porch turns out to be the last time anyone will see her... Driven by guilt & the desperation of her family Myron decides to break his vow of six years & get involved in the search. But his past will not be buried so easily...and Myron must decide once & for all what he will stand up for if he is to have any hope of rescuing both Aimee & himself.

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Whenever an august figure departs the world of cricket The Daily Telegraph records a decorous tribute. There will certainly be an obituary
- in days of yore penned by the doyen of cricket writers E.W. Swanton in recent times unafraid to be a lot more whimsical waspish & even extremely funny. There will often be an appreciation by one of the paper's stable of cricket correspondents such as Derek Pringle Michael Henderson or Scyld Berry most likely drawing on their memories of having played against the subject or watched his deeds. & sometimes a hero's demise will prompt a heartfelt tribute from someone whose only qualification as an elegist is their own eloquence as John Major displays on Denis Compton & Michael Parkinson on Keith Miller. & those cricket lives deemed worthy of memorialising need not be illustrious Test careers though all the great names from Bradman to Bedser Cowdrey to D' Oliviera are here. They can also be quixotic county mavericks like ' Bomber' Wells self-effacing professionals like Tom Cartwright & Derek Shackleton or charismatic one-offs like Colin Milburn or the Nawab of Pataudi. They may not even be cricketers but rather much-loved commentators & broadcasters like Brian Johnston & Christopher Martin-Jenkins players-turned-umpires like David Shepherd & Bill Alley or like the Bishop of Liverpool who previously opened for Sussex & England have made their name equally elsewhere. Their achievements are often hymned by their peers
- Mark Nicholas on his Hampshire team-mate Malcolm Marshall Tony Lewis on John Arlott Colin Croft on Alf Valentine & Simon Hughes on facing the fearsome Sylvester Clarke. Here then are more than eighty greats of the game
- Australians & South Africans alongside Somerset yeomen & Yorkshire's finest. For any cricket lover this little book is an endlessly browsable testament to the sheer richness & variety of the cricketing life.


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Ten years previously Zana Muhsen escaped from the life of slavery in the Yemen into which her father had sold her as a child bride leaving behind her baby son her sister Nadia & Nadias two small children. As she described so powerfully in her internationally bestselling book SOLD Zana made a solemn vow to Nadia that she would do everything she possibly could to obtain their freedom as well. A PROMISE TO NADIA tells the extraordinary story of those ten years; of the familys lone campaign against the Yemeni authorities; of the refusal of their own government in London to help; & of the despair that forced them into a desperate deal with an unofficial military-style organisation specialising in the recovery of abducted children. ...

'I Must Stand Up for Myself More' promises Maggie Storm who spends her days cleaning houses for people who often have more money than manners. Married to a man with as much sex appeal as Mr Blobby she dreams of a life straight from the pages of a romantic novel. ' My Head Must Rule Over My Heart' promises Ella Moore who determined never to let her heart get the better of her again is recovering from seven wasted years of failing to win over the daughter of the man with whom she wanted to spend the rest of her life. ' No More Women' promises Ethan Edwards who to distract himself from the depressing sham of his marriage is a repeat offender when it comes to turning to other women for sexual consolation. But when Ella appears unexpectedly in his life he finds himself turning to her for very different reasons... ...

The village of Glenree is home to the Munroe women: from the glamorous new in-law Emma to dogsbody Miriam & Airs-&-Graces Sheila who is forced to watch her own daughter Ellen become the talk of the county. The saying love is blind could have been invented for the wayward Ellen whose life changes for ever when she leaves the ebony darkness & winding country roads of Glenree for the bright lights of the city. It is there she falls in love with Chris Wallace a skunk of the highest order. Promises Promises" covers a decade in the lives of the four Munroe women
- & the charming womanizer who left a trail of emotional destruction in his wake. This is a tale of love & heartbreak laughter & tears that will strike a chord with all women...especially those who have loved a rotter!"
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Be careful what you wish for... Its the start of a new year when resolutions are made... Maggie is stuck in a boring marriage & dreams of a life straight from the pages of a romantic novel. Ella is recovering from seven wasted years of failing to win over the daughter of the man she loves & Ethan tired of his marriage seeks the company of other women. Should they be careful what they wish for? This recording is unabridged. Typically abridged audiobooks are not more than 60 per cent of the authors work & as low as 30 per cent with characters & plotlines removed. ...

Intensity sensuality & seduction awaits in the final part of the provocative romantic AFTER DARK trilogy that has left readers longing for more. Can a fractured love be salvaged? Parting with Dominic has left me broken in a way I could never have imagined. We held elation in the palm of our hands but one misunderstanding brought it crashing down around us. Now the hurt & sadness follows me like a shadow & makes choosing the right path to take impossible. But one moment with him & the pulsing heat is singing in my blood again; his touch lights a fire that my body refuses to ever forget. I'm hopelessly lost in him. Finding our way back to one another will take trust & a leap of faith
- only then we will know whether we have a chance at forever. If you were consumed by the first two books in the series PROMISES AFTER DARK will not disappoint... This is a pleasure we should all indulge in.
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Every cop gets angry when a police officer is killed. & Lieutenant Eve Dallas is no exception. Throwing every resource into solving Amarylis Coltraines brutal murder Eve encounters bitter opposition from Coltraines fellow officers who are desperate to take over the case. But when Eve receives a strange parcel containing Coltraines badge & gun together with a note threatening the imminent arrival of her own ID she knows the case has just got personal. Then a link to millionaire Alex Ricker son of a criminal she had put behind bars heats things up even further. Ricker was romantically involved with Amarylis
- did she leak information to him & then have a change of heart? Eve must put herself in extreme danger to get to the truth.. .
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