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Three middle-aged sisters--each harboring a secret pain--gather to close up their grandmother's beach house for the final time. Together, they unpack their family baggage and discover the true legacy left behind by a grandma married seven times.

True, Constantine Karantinos has only the faintest memory of a romantic dalliance with a waitress named Laura. But when he learns she's mothered his heir, he summons her to Greece, where she insists on paying her way as his housekeeper. Finding her stubborn willfulness the ultimate aphrodisiac, Constantine determines to win her over in the bedroom--again and again and again.

Unabashed nomad Hank Cooper is surprised to learn he's inherited a tract of beachfront property in Thunder Point. He's even more surprised to find that he's enjoying the company of the town's residents--including the beautiful Sarah Dupre--and considers making his new home a bit more permanent.

When a couple is forced to marry to gain an inheritance, a family secret comes to life which threatens to destroy their marriage of convenience.

Lyle Johnson, a successful yet naïve Wall Street investment banker, seems to have found an ideal partner in Tess Aventura Dubois. She is a wealthy widow who has just moved back to New York City with enough cash to make his bar a happening night spot. But behind her glamorous facade lies a disturbing secret that could be Lyle's downfall: Tess was formerly known on the streets of New York as Tyrone, a scheming, cross-dressing small-time crook.

Aurora "Roe" Teagarden unexpectedly inherits a house and a fortune when a fellow Real Murders Club member dies. But things take a turn for the macabre when Roe discovers a human skull hidden in her new home's window seat.

Members of the Barrington family are shocked at the arbitrary and vindictive nature of their wealthy matriarch's will. While the palatial home goes to her prodigal step-grandson, hardworking Louise receives onlt the copyright to her grandfather's musty novels--long out of print and never popular. When she peruses one of these volumes, she discovers stories her beloved grandfather once read to her. But as she looks more closely, Louise becomes convinced the book's Japanese POW camp episodes are more fact than fiction--and could contain clues to secrets long since hidden.

A year ago in 1815, Laura Gardeyne lost her dashing husband, Hal, in a riding accident. Now she must raise her young son at the Gardeyne estate, since he is heir to its fortune. But after Hal's brother fathers a male child, Laura realizes that he might do anything, even murder, to position his offspring as heir.

When one of the Gates of Hell is breached by Silver Bloods in Rio de Janeiro, the Blue Bloods need Schuyler Van Alen on their side, even though they question her blood legacy.

Nora Bondurant is divorced--unfathomable for a woman in 1933--and has inherited a house from a dead aunt she never even knew existed. But when she travels to Mississippi to claim her inheritance, she finds her eccentric neighbors would rather help her acquire a new husband than reveal the secrets surrounding her aunt's death.