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A Marriage of Convenience...
Gaunt and wearing an eye patch, Major Ian Cameron returns to India after being freed from horrendous captivity in Central Asia. Thoughts of his beautiful fiancée helped him survive his imprisonment, but much can happen when a man has supposedly been dead for two years, and his return brings him face to face with how much he has lost.
An unexpected inheritance gives him the opportunity to return home to Scotland and...
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He called himself Peregrine, the wanderer, and he came to London for revenge...
Like the falcon he named himself for, Peregrine is wild and free, an exotic prince who fascinates 1839 London with his wealth, mystery, and dangerous allure. He emerged from his mysterious Asiatic past to exact retribution for an appalling crime. Nothing and no one can stop him-except perhaps Lady Sara St. James, whose fragile beauty conceals a gentle heart, genuine goodness,...
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The first three books in Award-Winning Australian author Cassandra Dean's beloved Silk Series are gathered into one volume where people who adore the law find intense passion and all-consuming love in Victorian England.Silk & ScandalSeparated by fate, childhood friends reunite and discover the affection they have always held has become a passionate love. But will scandal keep them apart?Silk & ScornChildhood enemies discover there is a fine line between...
4) Silk & Steel
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A tormented dragon prince. A captured elven assassin. Duty demands they fight for their people, but love has other plans.
Eroan, one of the last elven assassins, lives for one purpose: kill the queen.
He would have succeeded if not for her last line of defense: Prince Lysander. Now, captured and forced into the queen's harem, Eroan sees another opportunity. Why kill just the queen when he can kill them all? It would be simple, if not for the troubled...
5) Silk Threads
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Stop for a moment and think of the word freedom. Do you feel free? Are there restrictions in your life denying you this right? In our fast-moving, modern society, the concept of freedom can often elude us. We accept, unconditionally, the path our life has taken, without questioning or altering our journey.
By actively participating in seeking a true understanding of freedom we can face our fears, start a fresh chapter, strip back the layers, and...
6) Braided Silk
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Rapunzel was made with technologically advanced hair. As a trained Mother agent, Zel can't escape the DNA that makes her a pawn in corporate espionage. Kidnapped and held in a tower on Gothel Island, she falls to the sexual allure of her captor's son, Langley, a man whose every tantalizing touch makes her forget she wasn't born human.
Langley Gothel protests the existence of creations such as Zel, but when faced with losing her, he sees the truth:...
7) Silk & Scorn
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From Award Winning Author Cassandra Dean comes the second in her Silk Series where childhood enemies discover there is a fine line between scorn and passion...No matter how much their mothers wanted Sarah and Arthur to wed, Sarah had loathed him. However, circumstance and her late husband's father conspire against her, and she is forced to turn to Arthur for help. Perhaps she needs his legal expertise, but she refuses to acknowledge how handsome her...
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From Award Winning Author Cassandra Dean comes the first in her Silk Series where childhood friends discover the affection they always held has become a passionate love...Eight years ago…Thomas Cartwright and Lady Nicola Fitzgibbons were friends. Over the wall separating their homes, Thomas and Nicola talked of all things – his studies to become a barrister, her frustrations with a lady's limitations.All things end.When her diplomat father gains...
9) Silk & Scars
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From Award Winning Author Cassandra Dean comes the third in her Silk Series and a finalist in the coveted Romance Writers of Australia Ruby Award where a mistake in correspondence between a commoner and a duke leads to an all-consuming love...For over a year, Miss Gwendolyn Parkes and the Duke of Sowrith have corresponded. At first an error, the letters quickly became something much more, a friendship forged on like minds and perhaps the hope of something...
10) Silk & Scholar
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From Award Winning Author Cassandra Dean comes the fourth in her Silk Series and winner of the coveted Romance Writers of Australia Ruby Award where a passionate firebrand and a lackadaisical lord clash in a battle of the sexes...Most ladies dream of finding a husband, but Etta Wilding-Marsh dreams of the law. Establishing a law school for women is the determined firebrand's dearest ambition and she has no time for distraction-and certainly no time...
11) The Silk Factory
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Whilst Rosie carefully picks through her late mother's things, one piece of paper reawakens memories long forgotten. In the same village two centuries earlier, Effie, Beulah, and Tobias struggle to survive. As Effie wonders how she will keep afloat, her heart is captured by a soldier in a fine red coat. And when he swears to dress her in the very silk her brother and sister make, she hopes the promise might change their lives forever.
12) Iron & Silk
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This anecdotal record of a young man's encounter with the Chinese and their way of life offers unique insights to readers. Salzman had majored in Chinese literature at Yale, and his first job after graduation in 1982 was teaching English to students and teachers at Hunan Medical College in Changsha. He met this considerable challenge with sensitivity, humor, and imagination, and was quickly regarded with respect and affection. Salzman had studied...
13) Wrapped In Silk
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A highly emotional, steamy story about second chances at life and love.
Newly separated and on the verge of divorce, I'm not looking for love, just a happy life for my daughter and myself in Blue Valley.
While visiting my college roommate, Lila, in New York City during my daughter's court appointed visit with her father, I literally run into the most attractive man I've ever seen. As if his piercing blue eyes and incredible build aren't enough to...
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Excerpt: "One day Uncle Wiggily, dressed in his best, started out to look for an adventure. The rabbit met Uncle Butter, the goat gentleman, who never cared much for style. "Why do you wear a tall silk hat, Uncle Wiggily?" the goat gentleman asked. "What's the use of being so fancy?" Uncle Wiggily twinkled his pink nose. "A tall silk hat may stylish be, and also useful, as you shall see," he answered."
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A spellbinding novel about transience and mortality, by one of the most original voices in American literature.
The Silk Road begins on a mat in yoga class, deep within a labyrinth on a settlement somewhere in the icy north, under the canny guidance of Jee Moon. When someone fails to arise from corpse pose, the Astronomer, the Archivist, the Botanist, the Keeper, the Topologist, the Geographer, the Iceman, and the Cook remember the paths that brought...
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