Laurie Alice Eakes
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Family secrets made her a target...
Can her ex provide a holiday haven?
When Lauren Wexler's fugitive brother arrives on her doorstep, he has just moments to pass her evidence before his pursuers start shooting. Now Lauren needs her US marshal ex's protection. She left Chris Blackwell to shield his reputation, but her family's secrets are darker than she knows. With the truth revealed, can their Christmas wishes for safety and love still come...
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When young widow Lady Lydia Gale helps a French prisoner obtain parole, she never dreamed he would turn up in her parlor. But just as the London Season is getting under way, there he is, along with a few other questionable personages. While she should be focused on helping her headstrong younger sister prepare for her entré into London society, Lady Gale finds herself preoccupied with the mysterious Frenchman. Is he a spy or a suitor? Can she trust...
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It starts with a kidnapping…
Will it end in murder?
Desperate to find his missing sister, Ethan McClure seeks out private investigator Melissa "Mel" Carter-only to be attacked right outside her agency's door. Though she's reluctant to help after her last case turned violent, Mel won't turn Ethan away. Following a clue left by his sister is their only chance, but can they avoid becoming pawns in the abductor's dangerous game?
From Love Inspired...
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Falling for the Wrong ManAs the daughter of the glassworks owner, Meg Jordan knows her role is to manage her father's home until she marries well and sets up her own household. But Meg dreams of doing something significant such as building a school and bringing education to the children of their rural New Jersey community. Marriage would interfere with those plans, so when she meets her father's new glassblower, Meg knows falling for him will destroy...
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Emma Barstow wants three things in life: an education, meaningful work, and a family who loves her. None of these are easy for a woman to accomplish in the 1850s, especially not Emma, sequestered in her family's farmhouse and bored to frustration until she discovers something she can do better in the dark than anyone else. Even if she can't go to a university, she can do something that impacts many lives-guide fugitive slaves to freedom across the...
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It's 1813 and all Phoebe Lee wants out of life is to practice midwifery in Loudon County, Virginia. When Belinda, her pregnant sister-in-law, presses Phoebe to accompany her onto a British privateer in order to cross the Atlantic and save her husband from an English prison, Phoebe tries to refuse, then finds herself kidnapped. Captain Rafe Docherty is a man in search of revenge. His ship is no place for women, but he needs Belinda in order to obtain...
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Their lives are on the line, and a cell phone video holds the key...
A routine stakeout turns lethal when private investigator Megan O'Clare videotapes a murder, and ends up dodging gunfire with rival PI Jack Luskie. As the killer fights to destroy the evidence on Megan's phone, and them along with it, this investigation becomes personal. But, can Megan and Jack put aside their rivalry and work together to survive?
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Esther Cherrett comes from a proud line of midwives and was trained by her mother to take over the family calling. But when a scandal threatens all she holds dear, Esther takes a position as a teacher in the western mountains of Virginia instead. There she finds herself in the midst of a deadly family feud and courted by two men on opposite sides of the conflict. When it seems as though her past has followed her all the way into the mountains, all...
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Cassandra Bainbridge has twice set aside her scholarly pursuits--once for the London Season and once for her wedding preparations. Love seems a wonderful alternative to study, until disaster strikes. When an accident brings an end to her betrothal, she heads for the country to recover from both her injuries and her broken heart. There she pursues her love for ballooning and envisions a future for herself as a daring aeronaut. But when her former fiancé...
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Honore Bainbridge has been courted by two men, one of whom turned out to be a traitor, the other a murderer. Banished to her family's country estate, where she will hopefully stay out of trouble, she finally meets the man she is sure is exactly right for her: Lord Ashmoor. Tall, dark, and handsome--what more could a girl ask for? But he too is under suspicion because of his American upbringing and accusations that he has helped French and American...
12) The Heiress
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When Susan Morris buys a glass goldfinch bottle from a desperate young man, she thinks she is merely adhering to her aunt's admonition to "buy something pretty" for herself. Instead, she has just taken the first step toward the change in her life she has longed for-an adventure, a purpose, and love. Daire Grassick is the only member of his family who has failed in their glassblowing business-failed in business altogether. He has failed so badly he...
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By virtue of her profession as a midwife, Tabitha Eckles is the keeper of many secrets: the names of fathers of illegitimate children, the level of love and harmony within many a marriage, and now the identity of a man who may have caused his wife's death. Dominick Cherrett is a man with his own secret to keep: namely, what he, a British nobleman, is doing on American soil working as a bondsman in the home of Mayor Kendall, a Southern gentleman with...
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For nearly two hundred years, women in Ashley Tolliver's family have practiced the art of midwifery in their mountain community. Now she wants to take her skills a step further, but attending medical school means abandoning those women to whom she has dedicated her life, the mountains she loves, and the awakening of her heart. Ashley Tolliver has tended to the women of her small Appalachian community for years. As their midwife, she thinks she has...
15) Lethal Ransom
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This is an Apple Books audiobook narrated by a digital voice based on a human narrator.
A kidnapper with deadly intentions
…and a US marshal who must come to the rescue
The carjacking that ended with Kristen Lang running for her life-and her federal judge mother kidnapped-was a nightmare. The ransom, however, is worse: Kristen in exchange for her mother. Deputy US Marshal Nick Sandoval will do almost anything to safely recover the judge-except...