Noble
All Sara Baldwin ever wanted was to be a dancer, but that dream died along with her mom and dad when she was nine years old. As the only witness, Sara was too scared to tell anyone what she saw.
At LKB Events, she takes on the challenge of making others' dreams come true while she works toward the goal set by her grandfather to claim her inheritance. But the path to happiness is paved with pitfalls, and when she's fired from the company
...After leaving her fiancé at the altar, all Gabrielle wants is a day alone to reflect on the mistakes she's made. But when her car breaks down in the small town of Baldwin's Shore, a day turns into a week, and perhaps—if the goddesses of fate smile kindly—a little longer. But someone from her past has a different plan.
Sheriff's deputy Colt Haines isn't looking for love, and he definitely isn't looking for a flighty
...As Director of Special Projects for a global security firm, Emmy Black is well acquainted with trouble, but she didn't expect to run into a proverbial nightmare in small-town Oregon. The place is just hills and trees, right? But a quest to help an injured woman soon leaves Emmy fighting for not only her own survival but the lives of many others too.
When Nine came to Baldwin's Shore, the former member of a Russian hit squad had two
...One late wine- and gossip-fueled night, four friends on a lark create a fateful test of friendship — one that challenges the very principles and boundaries of their alliance. To pass it means to never, at any cost, betray one another. Twenty years later, they must face that ultimate test.
We meet them at the dawn of their camaraderie in the 1980s and already each woman is distinguished from the other: Tamsin, the compassionate mother hen;
...A Manhattan photographer finds inspiration and new possibilities in a Gothic Rhode Island beach house in this uplifting fall-set read from New York Times bestselling author Shelley Noble.
Dani Campbell is the latest darling of the Manhattan art scene. As a self-taught photographer, Dani is loving every minute of her sudden popularity, but has no idea how she got there, or a clue as to how to stay. On a shoot at an antiques
...The New York Times bestselling author of Whisper Beach delights with her latest beach read about two estranged sisters who must decide to face the past or risk history repeating itself.
As a child, Skylar Mackenzie's imagination always got her in trouble. Now it's making her a fortune. She owns Imagine That, a toy and bookstore and creativity center in a small Rhode Island beach town where children, and adults,
Welcome to Baldwin's Shore, the small town where everybody has a secret...
Brooke Bartlett is no exception. She's been in love with her brother's best friend for half her life, her dirty little secret. With Luca on the other side of the world, the temptation stayed out of reach, but now he's back, and he's not the only one. Brooke's stalker is watching from the shadows, and he's got his own ideas about her future...
...All assassin Emmy Black wants for Christmas is three days off work and plenty of junk food, but instead, she's left dashing around the country after her assistant comes up with yet another harebrained scheme.
Five girlfriends, four Christmas wishes, three crazy days, two exes, one jet...
Will it be happy holidays or hell on earth?
When Ro Keyes quit the military, he was looking forward to a slower pace of life. A chance to pursue his love of learning as part of an exchange program with Kabul International University. But you know what they say? You can't escape your past. Or, as it turns out, your birthright.
As a woman in Afghanistan, Ziya Khalizai has no choice but to marry the man chosen for her. Perhaps it won't be so bad? He did promise to protect what
...In 431 B.C., Ancient Greece experienced its own "Pearl Harbor"—a treacherous sneak attack that would mark the start of the bloody war between the democracy of Athens and the tyranny of Sparta. Caught between these superpowers, the independent city-state of Plataea became the arena where their battle for control of all of Greece would begin.
In Plataea, the young Greek warrior Nikias dreams of glory in the Olympic games as he trains for the
Natalie and Tom have been best friends forever, but Tom wants them to be much more. When Natalie's longtime boyfriend walks out on her just when she thinks he's going to propose, Tom offers her a different and wildly romantic proposition. He suggests that they spend twenty-six weekends together, indulging in twenty-six different activities from A to Z, and at the end of that time Tom's convinced they'll be madly in love. Natalie, however, is not
...Alabama joins Mississippi as fertile Deep South soil for the Noir Series.
"Banish any boredom with a descent into Alabama Noir." —Southern Review of Books
Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in a distinct location within the geographic area of the book.
Brand-new
...Years have passed since Nico Belinsky last saw Kaylin La Rocca, but he can't forget the girl he once thought of as a sister. Or the fact that she's wanted for murder. When Emmy Black, a woman who lives up to her name by walking on the dark side, offers a favour, Nico tasks her with searching for his old friend.
He's playing with fire in more ways than one—not only does he risk stirring up a hornets' nest, but the last time he
...His name is Douglas... but I call him the Devil.
Since I was young, I have loved my best friend Willow's older brother. She doesn't know how much he destroyed me years ago, when he took my virginity and left the country, never speaking to me again.
I wrote to him. I messaged him. But he completely ghosted me.
Now he's back. For Willow's wedding, which I am planning.
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For over a decade, Motherpeace has been an inspiration and oracle for women all over the world. Motherpeace recovers the positive, nurturing peace-oriented values of prepatriarchal times, and brilliantly combines art, history, mythology, folklore, philosophy, and comparative religion with an...
Why couldn't the past just stay ... in the past? Where it belonged. Locked up in its cage in a bricked over vault where she'd thrown it when she'd arrived in London all those years ago.
Matilda Elizabeth Wentworth, the somewhat shy, craven teenager boarded the train in St Leonards-on-Sea. By the time it arrived in London, she emerged as Mattie Sutherland, a woman that refused to be told what to do, how to live, or who to love. Over
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