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  Killing Christmas

  Bill Kitson

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  Detective Mike Nash is going to have a very unmerry Christmas. 
   
   
   
  In an ordinary terraced house, a family dies. Poisoned by carbon monoxide. Then comes a suspicious house fire, with more bodies at the charred scene. A drug addict is murdered in the most bizarre medieval manner. And a scientist’s daughter disappears. 
   
   
   
  There's a killer on the loose this holiday season. DI Mike Nash follows the leads of these disparate crimes. One very dangerous person seems intent on revenge. 
   
   
   
  Can he stop the killer before anyone else pays the ultimate price?

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  A Woman of Noble Wit

  Rosemary Griggs

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  THE COFFEE POT BOOK CLUB, BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2022 - SILVER MEDALS in each of the following categories - Women's Historical Fiction, Historical Romance and for books set in The Tudors, The Stuarts, and The Commonwealth of England
  Few women of her time lived to see their name in print. But Katherine was no ordinary woman. She was Sir Walter Raleigh's mother. This is her story.
  Set against the turbulent background of a Devon rocked by the religious and social changes that shaped Tudor England; a Devon of privateers and pirates; a Devon riven by rebellions and plots, A Woman of Noble Wit tells how Katherine became the woman who would inspire her famous sons to follow their dreams. It is Tudor history seen though a woman's eyes.
  As the daughter of a gentry family with close connections to the glittering court of King Henry VIII, Katherine's duty is clear. She must put aside her dreams and accept the husband chosen for her. Still a girl, she starts a new life at Greenway Court, overlooking the River Dart, relieved that her husband is not the ageing monster of her nightmares. She settles into the life of a dutiful wife and mother until a chance shipboard encounter with a handsome privateer, turns her world upside down.…..
  Years later a courageous act will set Katherine's name in print and her youngest son will fly high.

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  Cowboy d-force

  ELLE JAMES

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  Former D-Force bodyguard, protects mega-star’s body double from a predatory stalker’s deadly hunting game 
  Fresh out of the military, John Wayne “Duke” Morrison is back in his home state of Montana, starting a new job in the Brotherhood Protectors security service. First assignment, protect film star and diva Lena Love from a stalker leaving her threatening messages. After fighting terrorists in the Middle East, Duke assumes this assignment will be a walk in the park. 
  Angel Carson, lovingly known as “The Angel of Death”, is a woman with a death wish. Her main claim to fame is her uncanny resemblance to Lena Love. Prior military, she’s seen combat, lost friends and now works as the stunt woman for the mega-star. When Miss Love is threatened, Angel steps in as bait to draw out the stalker on the diva’s 6,000-acre ranch in the foothills of the Crazy Mountains. To cover Angel’s back, Lena has engaged a bodyguard to watch her six and be there when the stalker reveals himself.  
  Unable to tell Duke she isn’t the real Lena, Angel must perform like a diva. As the stalker closes in, she reluctantly accepts Duke’s help to stay alive. In forced proximity, tempers and passions ignite, leaving Duke and Angel struggling to resist an irresistible attraction while alluding the stalker’s predatory game. When the stalker becomes the predator, the power of Delta Force brotherhood becomes a force to reckon with.

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  The Duchess and the Jeweller

  Virginia Woolf

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  "He was the richest jeweller in England; but his mind was not on his jewels."
  
  Oliver Bacon has climbed from the gutters of London to the pinnacle of luxury. He is the most powerful jeweller in the world, yet he is haunted by a relentless hunger for something money cannot buy: acceptance into the upper echelons of the aristocracy. When the Duchess of Lambourne arrives at his shop with a desperate secret and a string of questionable pearls, a high-stakes psychological game begins—one where the currency is not just gold, but blood, reputation, and the past.
  
  A Masterclass in Modernist Tension: Virginia Woolf uses her signature psychological insight to peel back the layers of her characters' motivations. Oliver is a man of "checks and balances," constantly weighing his humble origins against his present grandeur. The Duchess is a woman of fading glory, willing to trade her family's legacy for the sake of her gambling debts. Their encounter is a clinical study of how the "new money" of the merchant class collides with the "old status" of a crumbling nobility.
  
  The Glittering Surface of Corruption: Through vivid imagery—from the "shining fish" of the jewels to the "rotting meat" of the Duchess's lies—Woolf explores the rot beneath the polished surface of Mayfair society. The Duchess and the Jeweller is a biting, satirical look at a world where everything is for sale, and the ultimate transaction is the soul itself. It remains one of Woolf's most accessible and provocative explorations of greed and the vanity of human wishes.
  
  Discover the dark side of the diamond. Purchase "The Duchess and the Jeweller" today and witness a clash of titans in the heart of London.

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  Preacher's Carnage [Dramatized...

  William W. Johnstone, J. A....

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  "In the bloody aftermath of a wagon ambush, a suspect flees, a woman disappears, and a mountain man searches for truth, justice, and revenge. They call him Preacher. 
   
  Preacher is no hired killer. When a wagon train is brutally ambushed on the Sante Fe Trail though, he can’t say no to the St. Louis businessman willing to pay him for justice. It’s not the stolen gold that’s convinced Preacher to take the job And it’s not the missing body of one of the wagon train’s crew, a prime suspect who may have plotted the ambush and taken off with the gold. No, it’s the suspect’s lovely fiance, Alita Montez. She believes her boyfriend is innocent—and has run off to find him. Preacher can’t abide the idea of a young woman alone on the Sante Fe Trail. If the Comanche don’t get her, the coyotes will. And Preacher can’t have that. 
   
  But to save the girl and get the gold, the legendary mountain man will have to forge a path that’s as twisted as a nest of rattlers, face off with trigger-happy kidnappers, backstabbers, and bounty-hunters—and match wits with Styles Mallory, the biggest baddest frontiersman of them all. 
   
  Performed by Mort Shelby, Christopher Graybill, Joey Sourlis, Shanta Parasuraman,  Christopher Williams, Robb Moreira, Bradley Foster Smith, Rayner Gabriel, Scott McCormick, Eric Messner, Wyn Delano, Terence Aselford, Daniel Llaca, Robbie Gay, Matthew Bassett, Zeke Alton, Rob McFadyen, James Lewis, Mark Harrietha, Nanette Savard, Ryan Haugen, Earl Fisher, Rose Elizabeth Supan, John Kielty, Gabriel Michael, Colleen Delany and Drew Kopas."

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  Steel and Silken Sheets

  Marie Alexander

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  The castle assaulted, her body claimed. 
  The Knight: 
  Fierce and ambitious, Derum Sargianus wields a great power in both arm and sword. He is a warrior loved by his men, and a savage feared by women. 
  The Maid: 
  Young and innocent, Lady Maris is naïve of the brutal world of men — until her father's castle falls and the halls ring with armor and shield. Her tender nature inclines her to seek out the vulnerable in the man who has claimed her hand. 
  Their Love: 
  But Sir Sargianus leaves no vulnerability undefended in a world where tenderness reveals weakness. The day of their union draws neigh, and still there exists an impenetrable bulwark between them. 
  May Lady Maris foster the intimacy to win her lord over, or will the master of this castle win his lady by force of arms?

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