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When Lucy travels to Blackwell Manor, she finds the lord of the manor unsettled by the recent deaths of his young wife and his sister. Because he is plagued by a family curse, he is horrified to think he might be to blame. But who then is the ghost that haunts the halls? A vampire?

Lady Constance Read is independent, beautiful, and in need of a husband. The last man on earth she wants is the rogue who broke her heart, but she needs a warrior--and Saint is the perfect man. When they become allies, and passionate lovers, he'll risk everything to protect her.

Following the death of her father, Isabel Archer leaves the comforts of Albany, New York to stay with her aunt Lydia Touchett at her London estate. There she meets Lydia's rich husband, David, her cousin Ralph, and the Touchetts's proud neighbor, Lord Warburton. Soon, too, come marriage proposals from Lord Warburton and Caspar Goodwood, the son of a wealthy mill owner. Although Isabel declines both offers, she eventually gives her hand to Gilbert Osmond, an American ex-pat in Florence.

Unsatisfied with the expectations of Creole society and unhappy with her family life, Edna Pontellier begins to fall in love with the dapper Robert Lebrun. Lebrun's flirtations, along with the lifestyle of renown musician Mademoiselle Reisz, rejuvenates Edna's sense of freedom and independence. However, an affair with the womanizer Alcee Arobin provides Edna with a taste of the danger that comes with living outside of social convention. Trapped between the life she is expected to live and the life she longs to lead, will Edna find happiness?

Set in the 1870s, Edith Wharton examines the American elite culture on the East Coast. Newland Archer is a lawyer and heir to one of New York City's most prominent families. He is arraigned to be married to May Welland. Newland is pleased with the prospect, under he meets Countess Ellen Olenska, May's older cousin. Suddenly, Newland begins to doubt his arranged marriage and society's shallow rules as his attraction to Ellen increases.

When a life-saving procedure gives Kimi a new lease on life, she and Rahul, the boy she befriended in her illness, must navigate their undeniable attraction, their lost friendship, complicated family dynamics, and a web of lies to learn the real meaning of courage, loss, and love.

Hockey player Ben Westmore has some serious skills--on and off the ice--and he's not above indulging in the many perks of NHL stardom. When a night in Vegas ends in disaster, he realizes two things: 1) it's time to lie low for a while, and 2) he needs a lawyer--fast. But the smoking-hot woman who walks into his office immediately tests all his good intentions.

There are a lot of things Ali Marshal doesn't do: pink anything, a day without chocolate, and Hawk, her sister's ex-husband. Sure, he's a sexy former NHL star who can make her pulse pound with just a wink. But he belonged to Bridget first. And no matter how long she's had a crush on him, how great he's always been to her dad, or that her sister is engaged to someone else now and Ali needs a date to their engagement party, she can't give in to temptation. Can she?

In 1812, when rugged English soldier Gabriel Forrester learns he has inherited a Scottish estate, he resists giving up the battlefield--until he meets raven-eyed Fiona Blackstock. But Fiona, like any good Highlander, despises the English. A battle of wills ensues--or is it a battle of passion?

Heiress to Seattle's most powerful shifter clan, Alice Corbette's destiny is set. But from the moment she encounters Brand, she will break every rule to make this dragon-shifter hers--plunging them into the middle of a ruthless power play.