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Author
Publisher
Harper
Pub. Date
2013, c2013
Edition
1st U.S. ed.
Physical Desc
456 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
After receiving a large inheritance from a complete stranger, London socialite and newlywed Grace Monroe searches for the identity of her mysterious benefactor and uncovers the story of a unique woman.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
352 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
When a children's book author dies and leaves his estate to Tomasina Daulair, his trusted assistant, Tomasina is tasked with overseeing some of his complicated last requests as she navigates her grief and reflects on her relationship with her late boss.
Author
Series
Wind-up Garden volume 2
Publisher
Del Rey
Pub. Date
[2023]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
464 pages ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"The Argyros siblings have lost everything. With their father dead and their family home captured, they're no longer the rulers of their fractured kingdom--and no longer bound to each other. In the frozen north, Rhea struggles to wield her newly inherited command over death and to find her place in an increasingly distrustful rebel group. Chrysanthi travels to a distant, war-torn land in search of her elusive brother Nitsos, certain that he is there...
Author
Series
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers, Inc
Language
English
Description
Despreate to save her high-end restaurant, Whitney Monroe seeks to sell an inherited Gilded Age hotel on North Carolina's Outer Banks, but the downstairs tenants--as well as her estranged stepfather--are determined to save the historic building.
Author
Series
Tearoom mysteries volume 27
Publisher
Guideposts
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
257 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Elaine is baffled when she learns she is about to receive a small fortune, as sole beneficiary of an estate left by her late husband's aunt. She contacts an estate lawyer to correct what she believes must be a mistake. The lawyer assures her that there is no mistake, and Elaine wonders how Ben's family acquired the money in the first place. As she tracks down the truth, she learns she isn't the only one questioning the rightful recipient of the inheritance....
Author
Publisher
Lake Union Publishing
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
353 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
When Olivia Shaw's mother dies, the sophisticated food editor is astonished to learn she's inherited a centuries-old English estate - and a title to go with it. Raw with grief and reeling from the knowledge that her reserved mother hid something so momentous, Olivia leaves San Francisco and crosses the pond to unravel the mystery of a lifetime. One glance at the breathtaking Rosemere Priory and Olivia understands why the manor, magnificent even in...
47) Panther Gap
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
356 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The thrilling follow-up to the Edgar Award-winning Bearskin, about two siblings on the verge of inheriting millions but who discover dark secrets in their family's past. Siblings Bowman and Summer were raised by their father and two uncles on a remote Colorado ranch. They react differently to his radical teachings and the confusions of adolescence. As young adults, they become estranged but are brought back together in their thirties by the prospect...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Description
"In this exciting thriller from Mary Higgins Clark, the #1 New York Times bestselling "Queen of Suspense," a news reporter tries to find her birth mother just as she is assigned to cover the high-profile trial of a woman accused of murdering her wealthy husband. Television journalist Delaney Wright is on the brink of stardom after she begins covering a sensational murder trial for the six p.m. news. She should be thrilled, yet her growing desire...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First U.S. edition.
Physical Desc
296 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"In the vein of The Wife Between Us and Something in the Water, a debut thriller about beautiful identical twin sisters sailing a luxury yacht and racing toward a one-hundred-million-dollar inheritance"--
Author
Series
Bella Vista chronicles volume 1
Language
English
Formats
Description
Set to inherit half of Bella Vista, a one hundred-acre apple orchard in a town called Archangel, along with a half-sister she's never heard of, Tess Delaney, who makes a living restoring stolen treasures to their rightful owners, discovers a world filled with the simple pleasures of food and family.
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
Description
In Sweden there is a kind of decluttering called death cleaning. The author instructs readers to embrace minimalism, and suggests which possessions you can easily get rid of (unworn clothes, unwanted presents, more plates than you'd ever use) and which you might want to keep (photographs, love letters, a few of your children's art projects). Digging into her late husband's tool shed, and her own secret drawer of vices, Margareta introduces an element...
53) Fancy Dancer
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First Kensington hardcover edition.
Language
English
Description
Finding himself in an awkward position when he is sentenced to community service--with his newly-found half-brother, Alex, as his parole officer--Jake St. Cloud decides to make the most of his work with Angelica Dancer and her daughter, Fancy, at their foundation for neglected children.
Author
Series
Inheritance Games volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown and Company
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
First edition.
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 13
Physical Desc
376 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
When a Connecticut teenager inherits vast wealth and an eccentric estate from the richest man in Texas, she must also live with his surviving family and solve a series of puzzles to discover how she earned her inheritance.
55) The proving
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
After five years as an Englisher, Amanda Dienner is shocked to learn her mother has passed away and left her Lancaster County's most popular Amish bed-and-breakfast. What's more, the inn will only truly be hers if Mandy can successfully run it for twelve months. Reluctantly, Mandy accepts the challenge, no matter that it means facing the family she left behind--or that the inn's clientele expect an Amish hostess! Can Mandy fulfill the terms of her...
56) The last mile
Author
Series
Blood ties the Logans volume 2
Publisher
Kensington Publishing Corp
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"When Abigail Holland awakes to the sound of a nighttime intruder in her rambling Denver Victorian, she knows exactly what the black shrouded figure is after--the map she recently inherited from her grandfather. Whoever he is, the man who grapples with her, then escapes, is willing to kill for the location of a treasure King Farrell hunted for more than ten years. The Devil's Gold has claimed hundreds of lives, and it was her grandfather's obsession....
Author
Series
Wild Rose Ranch volume 1
Publisher
Avon Books, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
c2019
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Noah Cordero is a modern-day cowboy who loves three things: ranching, his younger sister, and his step-father. John Cordero groomed Noah to take over the Montana spread where he learned to ride and work the land. But when John unexpectedly dies, he leaves half the ranch to a woman Noah doesn't even know. Roxy shares Noah's last name, but not his blood. Estranged from her father, haunted by regrets, and eager to escape her notorious mother's past,...
59) The heir
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged.
Physical Desc
1 sound media player (approximately 11 hours 37 min.) : digital ; 9 x 6 cm
Language
English
Description
When a marriage is arranged between a shrewd and strong earl and his equally matched cousin, they set off fireworks, both in their anger and in their passion.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Two sisters go into the family business they didn't know they had--catching killers. Attorney Rhonda Bird returns home after a long estrangement when she learns her father has died. There she makes two important discoveries: her father stopped being an accountant and had opened up a private detective agency, and she has a teenage half sister named Baby. Baby brings in a client to the detective agency, a young man who claims he was abducted. During...