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In Victorian England, an orphan girl is sent to a country estate to work for-and ultimately woo-its young heiress, on behalf of a mysterious benefactor known as Gentleman.

Former Detective Serjeant Jas Anderson, the violent anti-hero of FreeForm and Banged-Up, becomes enmeshed in a dangerous web of intrigue and double-dealing. Working as a private investigator on a routine case, he soon finds himself stirring an explosive cocktail of police corruption, sectarianism and murder. A tough and uncompromising thriller set in working-class Glasgow.

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Camp Turnaround claimed to be a place for troubled kids, a desperate last chance before jail or worse. The slick, glossy brochure declared that it would help them do just what it`s name implied, turn their lives around. But then a mother gets a cryptic letter from the troubled daughter she lost in a long ago custody fight. She asks Cassidy James to find out the truth -- is it just the bizarre practical joke of a wayward teen -- or something much more sinister? There are many dangers in this beautiful lush valley -- dangers to the child Cass is trying to protect, to the other children, to herself. And to her heart. It isn`t safe to fall in love when she doesn`t know who to trust -- but her passion won`t wait for safety.

When people with no obvious connections to each other are dying in what appear to be legitimate accidents -- a fall down the stairs, a single-vehicle car crash, a drowning in a hot tub -- nothing seems amiss. Until, Detective Inspector Carol Ashton receives a call from a private investigator who works for a number of insurance companies. Recently, several large life insurance policy pay outs seem questionable but there is no proof of wrongdoing. As Carol begins an investigation of the completely unrelated deaths, she realizes this could be the toughest case of her career and perhaps, one impossible to solve.

Robert de la Borde comes from the Caribbean to England in the 1980's after hearing that his brother, Jean Marc, has died. In Bristol, his brother's journals prompt Robert to visit the Ashton Park Monastery, which Jean Marc entered in the 1960's as Brother Aelred. There Robert pieces together Jean Marc's life; his exuberance, his mental suffering, and his struggle to balance his sexual impulses with his love of God. As Robert is forced to question his inherited prejudices, what unfolds is a story about the triumph of compassion over brutality. Moving from present to past, from cruelty to sympathy, Aelred's Sin is a powerful new novel of erotic love, spiritual awakening and above all, reconciliation.

"Would you come home, Walter? Please?"

With these desperate words from the mysterious, distant mother he hasn't seen in ten years, Wally Day finds his carefully constructed world falling in on itself. For years, the handsome actor has made denial his own particular art form - from his stalled career to his emotionless embrace of the hard-edged boys who regularly traipse through his bedroom. But now, faced with this sudden intrusion from his past, Wally must confront the reasons he left his hometown of Brown's Mill in a cloud of anger, shame, and guilt. He must look face-to-face upon the ghosts of his past: his mother, who he once loved more than anyone else in the world; his abusive father, who never looked at Wally without contempt and suspicion; the life-affirming Miss Aletha, whose love had given Wally refuge; and most of all, Zandy - the man whose memory still haunts him, whose love for Wally had been called a crime. A crime that sent Zandy to jail.

But Wally isn't the only one who's confronting ghosts. His mother Regina had dreams too once, dreams corrupted by fate and circumstance. With her own world unraveling, with strange, confusing memories of a murder that may or may not have occurred, she turns to the son she barely knows for help.

As Wally unravels the dark side of his All-American family, he has a chance to make peace with the boy he was in order to become the man he needs to be. He is once more the 14-year-old living at Miss Aletha's house on the wrong side of town, the music of Saturday Night Fever providing the charged, erotic soundtrack to his life. The world was on the exuberant edge of change in those days, and Wally relives the thrill of discovery, the promise of forbidden sex - and the mistake that cost him everything.

It's a journey that will take both Wally and his mother back to their pasts - to a time when Regina was a starry-eyed girl and Wally the good son, the smartest boy in his class, the shining picture of the All-American Boy. It's a journey, too, that takes a chance on the future - for now, mirroring his own involvement with Zandy twenty years before, Wally finds he may have something to teach about love and self to a sixteen-year-old boy.

Bestselling author William J. Mann has written his most powerful work yet: a searing novel about the difference between going home and finding yourself there. Along the way, he asks tough, heartrending questions: What is the price of regret? Is love ever wrong? What does it mean to forgive? By turns poignant and sexy, harrowing and hopeful, All American Boy is a big, wise book filled with insight, humor, hurt, truth, and the ever-renewing hope of love.

The last place police Detective Porter Sienna wanted to investigate a murder was the upper class neighborhood where she grew up ...

A prominent local businessman is found dead at the Greensburg Country Club and when detective Porter Sienna arrives to investigate, the former debutante is forced to contend with the same people she turned her back on seven years earlier.

While at the club, Porter encounters Elaine Jessup, an enigmatic member whose frank appraisal and direct approach in asking her out both confuses and excites her. Giving in to her own attraction, Porter agrees to have drinks with Elaine, and the result is the beginning of a passionate affair unlike anything she has ever known.

When it is revealed that the death was not natural, Porter unwillingly finds herself investigating the possibility that someone in the elite inner circle of Greensburg society has committed murder. And Porter is disturbed to discover that not only is Elaine among the suspects, but she has unexpected ties to the dead man that make her a very strong one.