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A lady ready and waiting to be deemed on the shelf has her transition into spinsterhood disrupted when the nobleman she had once thought she loved returns to London and fate and circumstance conspire to force them to discover what love truly is and what it means to them.

She arrived in town, beautiful and bold and declaring that she has inherited property that Ned Thurlowe has already claimed. A member of the local Logical Men's Society, Ned prides himself on thinking clearly and calmly at all times. And it's clear that the meeting place of society--a local tavern--is his, even if the men have turned it to shambles. Though Ned challenges Gemma's claim to the property, he behaves most illogically, for though he wants to dismiss her, he also can't help but desire her.

No woman since Kate Addison has managed to captivate Brandon. To Kate, the memory of that night still burns strongly, because it was followed by a stunning betrayal. She's vowed to make him pay.

An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter In 1917, deep in the snowy mountains of occupied Korea, an impoverished local hunter on the brink of starvation saves a young Japanese officer from an attacking tiger. In an instant, their fates are connected-and from this encounter unfolds a saga that spans half a century.

Temple sorcerer Penric and his chaos demon Desdemona are drawn into an uncanny investigation when a corpse found floating face down in the harbor is not quite as dead as it seems. Their search will lead to more mystery.

Bridey Kelly has come to the holiday home of Agatha Christie to care for children evacuated from the Blitz. When a body washes ashore, Bridey is horrified to realize this is not a victim of war, but of a brutal killing.

As Annelise falls in love, marries, and gives birth to her daughter, the Holocaust looms. Luckily Annelise and her husband are given the chance to leave for America, but they must go without her parents, whose future and safety are uncertain. Two generations later, in a small Midwestern city, Annelise's granddaughter, Clare, is a young woman newly in love. But when she stumbles upon a trove of her grandmother's letters from Germany, she sees the history of her family's sacrifices in a new light, and suddenly she's faced with an impossible choice: the past, or her future.

It's February 1976, and Odessa, Texas, stands on the cusp of the next great oil boom. In the early hours of the morning after Valentine's Day, fourteen-year-old Gloria Ramírez appears on the front porch of Mary Rose Whitehead's ranch house, broken and barely alive. The teenager had been viciously attacked in a nearby oil field, an act of brutality that is tried in the churches and barrooms of Odessa before it can reach a court of law.

Dan Simmons seamlessly weaves together the stories of Paha Sapa, Custer, and the American West, from the Battle of the Little Bighorn up through the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, depicting a violent and tumultuous time in the history of both Native and white Americans.

Chava is a golem and Ahmad is a jinni. Can Chava and Ahmad find their places in the human world while remaining true to each other? Or will their opposing natures and desires eventually tear them apart?