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Struggling with a stale marriage and the outdated atmosphere of their tea house, Penny and Daniel Stanley serve a host of refuge-seeking customers, including a star-struck artist and a mysterious woman who seeks a long-lost companion.

"Two armed men board a 727 all but forgotten at an airfield in Angola. Hijacking the jet, they then slit the throat of the lone crew and fly to parts unknown. The consternation is immediate, as the CIA, FBI, and other agencies race to find out what happened, in the process elbowing one another in the sides a little too vigorously." "Fed up, the president of the United States turns to an outside investigator to determine the truth, an Army intelligence...

Abandoned by Ernie Harding, who steals her life's savings, Margie Kinnard pursues her dream of becoming a movie star with the help of her long-lost father, but her goals could be sidetracked by Ernie's reappearance.

When local minister Sam Kinkade's plans to welcome the area's growing Hispanic community to the church are met with resistance, he asks Elisa Martinez for guidance, and together they make things work with the help of a special group of women.

A young noblewoman, distressed when she suspects her guardian's younger son and his wife are impatient to inherit his earldom, goes in search of his older son who has been banished from society because of an unfortunate duel. Now known as a notorious mercenary, she persuades him to pose as her husband to facilitate his return to society and in doing so, accepts his scandalous trade. Can she persuade him to abandon the dark path he believes is his...

When their quaint Victorian pub is threatened by plans for a shopping mall, Jack and Lily Beaumont, their employees, and their loyal patrons work to either save the pub or to make the most of the time that remains before it is torn down.

With his rugged cowboy looks, Trey Calder could have his pick of women. But he's been holding out for someone special, and the minute he lays eyes on photographer Sloan Davis, he knows he's found her. Within weeks the two are married. It's a dream come true for the orphaned Sloan . . . until Trey makes a startling discovery about just who Sloan is.
 
Passion turns into suspicion and a dangerous game is set in motion, putting everything the...

Bestseller Griffin's ponderous third Presidential Agent novel picks up where the previous entry, The Hostage, left off, following U.S. Army Maj. Carlos "Charley" Castillo, a troubleshooter who takes orders directly from the president, as he fumbles about in South America and Europe. Castillo and his crew of specialists are trying to figure out who ordered the murder of American diplomat Jean-Paul Lorimer, who was shot to death in Uruguay while under...

"It has been six years since entertainment agent Myron Bolitar last played superhero. In six years he hasn't thrown a punch. He hasn't held, much less fired, a gun. He hasn't called his friend Win, still the scariest man he knows, to back him up or get him out of trouble. All that is about to change...because of a promise." "The school year is almost over. Anxious families await word of college acceptances. In these last pressure-cooker months of...

After traveling through the Dance of te Gods to reach the land of Geall, the circle perpares the people of Geall to defeat Lility's vampire army in the less than a month that remains, while Moira follows the tradition of her people and prepares the crown before leading them into battle while her thoughts turn to the one she loves, the vampire Cian.