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Author
Series
Publisher
Berkley Books
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Berkley trade paperback edition.
Physical Desc
386 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The perfect place for a woman on the run to disappear... Accused of a horrific murder she didn't commit, former heiress Callie Ward has been a fugitive since she was sixteen--until she found the perfect hideout, Club Dominion. The only problem is she's fallen for the club's master, Mitchell Thorpe, who keeps her at arm's length. Little does she know that his reasons for not getting involved have everything to do with his wounded heart...and his consuming...
2) The choice
Author
Series
The dragon heart legacy volume 3
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The conclusion of the epic trilogy from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Awakening and The Becoming. Talamh is a land of green hills, high mountains, deep forests, and seas, where magicks thrive. But portals allow for passage in and out-and ultimately, each must choose their place, and choose between good and evil, war and peace, life and death... Breen Siobhan Kelly grew up in the world of Man and was once unaware of her true nature....
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The Wolfs, the most powerful family in California, have a new head–thirty-six-year-old former high school teacher Jenny Wolf. That means Jenny now runs the prestigious San Francisco Tribune. She also controls the legendary pro football team, the Wolves. And she has a murdered father to avenge—if she can survive the killers all around her.
An unforgettable family drama by two writers at the top of their craft
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue, returns with a tantalizing novel about the secrets, betrayal, and murder within one of New York City's most impressive Gilded Age mansions. Eight months since losing her mother in the Spanish flu outbreak of 1919, twenty-one-year-old Lillian Carter's life has completely fallen apart. For the past six years, under the moniker Angelica, Lillian was one of the most sought-after...
Author
Series
The witcher volume Bk.3
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
389 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
The Wizards Guild has been shattered by a coup and, in the uproar, Geralt was seriously injured. The Witcher is supposed to be a guardian of the innocent, a protector of those in need, a defender against powerful and dangerous monsters that prey on men in dark times. But now that dark times have fallen upon the world, Geralt is helpless until he has recovered from his injuries. While war rages across all of the lands, the future of magic is under...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
x, 420 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The highly anticipated second novel from Sarai Walker, following her "slyly subversive" (EW) cult-hit Dietland-a feminist gothic about the lone survivor of a cursed family of sisters, whose time may finally be up. New Mexico, 2017: Sylvia Wren is one of the most important American artists of the past century. Known as a recluse, she avoids all public appearances. There's a reason: she's living under an assumed identity, having outrun a tragic past....
Author
Series
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
357 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
A reimagining of the story of Jane Austen's mysterious character depicts a rejected young heiress who fights a life-long addiction before discovering health and passion in the London home of her cousin, Colonel John Fitzwilliam.
Author
Publisher
Belle Books
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
372 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Kara Whittenbrook is an unlikely heiress. Down-to-earth and lovably quirky. She's never fit in with the stodgy Whittenbrook clan of Connecticut. Growing up at her parents' rainforest preserve in Brazil, she has a quaintly off-beat view of life. Now her beloved parents have died in a plane crash, and Kara's learned a stunning truth. She was adopted. Her birth parents are Mac and Lily Tolbert. They live and work on a backwoods cattle ranch in northern...
Author
Publisher
Ballantine Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
385 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"An epic reimagining of the remarkable life of Marjorie Merriweather Post, the American heiress and trailblazing leader of the twentieth century, from the New York Times bestselling author of Sisi. Mrs. Post, the President and First Lady are here to see you. Such is Marjorie Merriweather Post's average evening. Presidents have come and gone, but she has hosted them all. Covered in diamonds and deemed American royalty, Marjorie nevertheless remains...
Author
Series
American heiresses volume 2
Publisher
Bethany House
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
349 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
As part of a bargain with her grandmother, Poppy Garrison accepts an unusual proposition to participate in the New York social season. Forced to travel to America to help his cousin find an heiress to wed, bachelor Reginald Blackburn is asked to give Poppy etiquette lessons, and he swiftly discovers he may be in for much more than he bargained for.
11) Costalegre
Author
Publisher
Tin House Books
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
227 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
12) A Friend or Two
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
4 sound discs (4 hr., 32 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Elizabeth Wainwright, an East Coast heiress in disguise, takes a job waitressing at a Fisherman's Wharf café, eager to live a simpler life. One day Andrew Breed--handsome, mysterious and charismatic--walks in. He says he's a longshoreman, but his words and actions don't quite add up. Is Elizabeth falling in love with someone who's pretending to be something other than he claims? Is Andrew?
Author
Publisher
Abingdon Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
pages cm
Language
English
Description
Ashlynne Rothschild never wanted to be a people person. She learned a long time ago that the more she protected herself from the details of people's personal lives, the better off her life would be. So it comes as a surprise when she finds herself liking - if not loving - the good, God-fearing people of Testament, North Carolina, where she is sent to earn her chops as a reporter. And it is with some anxiety that she unearths a story that could turn...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
378 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"New York Times bestselling author Laura Thompson returns with Heiresses, a fascinating look at the lives of heiresses throughout history and the often tragic truth beneath the gilded surface. Heiresses: surely they are among the luckiest women on earth. Are they not to be envied, with their private jets and Chanel wardrobes and endless funds? Yet all too often those gilded lives have been beset with trauma and despair. Before the 20th century a wife's...
15) Last promise
Author
Series
McBride brothers volume 3
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Large print edition.
Physical Desc
475 pages (large print) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
For British heiress Mary Ann Hardwicke, the Wild West is the perfect place to make her own life and escape the stifling privilege of an arranged marriage. Hard at work proving her independence, it's little wonder she has no time for handsome cowboy Luke McBride. No matter that he somehow understands the freedom she so badly needs--how could she trust such a wild spirit, much less find a way to love him? Like the broncs he busts, Luke doesn't see himself...
Author
Publisher
Berkley
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
Berkley hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
289 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"In 1934, the ultimate vacation becomes a fight for survival as the secrets of two women's pasts collide aboard a luxury cruise liner on a round-trip voyage from New York to Havana in New York Times bestselling author Chanel Cleeton's page-turning new novel inspired by the true story of the tragedy of the SS Morro Castle. New York heiress Catherine Dohan seemingly has it all. There's only one problem. It's a lie. As soon as the Morro Castle leaves...
Author
Series
Sarah Booth Delaney volume 11
Publisher
Minotaur Books
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
viii, 340 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Winner of both the Harper Lee Award and the Richard Wright Award for Literary Excellence, Carolyn Haines has thrilled countless readers with her Sarah Booth Delaney mysteries. Here, Sarah investigates when two wealthy heiresses claim a four-million-dollar family necklace was stolen. All the evidence points to insurance fraud, but when Sarah starts poking into the family's dark secrets, one of the heiresses disappears.
Author
Publisher
Bethany House, a division of Baker Publishing Group
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
405 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a barrister in 1819 London, William Snopes defends the poor against the powerful-but that changes when a struggling heiress arrives at his door with a mystery surrounding a missing letter from the king's regent and a merchant's brig. As he digs deeper, he learns that the forces arrayed against them are even more powerful than he'd imagined"--
19) Secret protector
Author
Series
Publisher
Harlequin
Pub. Date
�2011
Physical Desc
282 pages ; 17 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Hired to protect Natalie Kendall at any cost, Gray Scott intended to keep a low profile. But when his cover was almost blown he moved to plan B: become her boyfriend. Being so close and personal to the lovely heiress certainly allowed him to keep her safe, though the disguise was perhaps a little too tempting. The bodyguard knew Natalie's nightmares were the key to unlocking the mystery of the Christmas Eve Murders. But she'd kept those secrets hidden...
20) Notorious
Author
Series
Long tall Texans volume 53
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Gaby Dupont knows some men shouldn't be trusted. Ever. Especially not high-profile lawyer Nicholas Chandler. How can she trust the man who might be helping one of her horrible relatives weasel out of the consequences for their bad behavior? To get the inside scoop on Nicholas's dealings - and protect herself and her beloved grand-mère - Gaby must take a job with the devil himself. Of course, she can't tell him who she really is . . . Nicholas...