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Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When Miss Coralynn Notley's father barters her off to the first titled gentleman to come along, she realizes she must flee her home or be forced to wed a despicable man. Driven by desperation, she applies for the position of housekeeper at Tanglewood Manor,the home of the handsome Mr. Jonathan Ludlow.
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Series
Wranglers of Wyoming volume 1
Pub. Date
2020.
Description
Hired to work with super sexy rancher Brand Merrick, who is testing both her patience and professionalism, physical therapist Avery Grant finds herself running into his arms when a threat from her past arrives in Montana.
Author
Series
Destiny romances (Beverly Jenkins) volume 1
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
With Destinys Embrace, Jenkins brings readers back to the American West, where Logan Yates, a self-important ranch owner, must confront his feelings for his beautiful, free-spirited housekeeper, Mariah Cooper. While they bicker incessantly, their sexual tension is palpable, and it only rises when potential suitors start paying visits to Mariah. Will she accept Logan's heart? Set in 19th-century California, Destiny's Embrace features unforgettable...
Author
Series
Inspector and Mrs. Jeffries mysteries volume 37
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"On a cold night in February, the popular Lighterman's Ball festivities are cut short when a guest of honor, Stephen Bremmer, goes into spasms and abruptly collapses. Once again Inspector Witherspoon returns to the Wrexley Hotel to investigate a murder. The victim was considered a boorish snob who felt entitled to anything and anyone he wanted. Yet despite his Oxford education, he was barely literate, lazy, and prone to make stupid mistakes--his last...
Author
Pub. Date
c2003
Description
This debut novel tells the story of a WASPy, old-Boston family coming face to face with an America much larger than the one it was born in. Caroline Dunlap has written off the insular world of the Boston deb parties, golf club luaus, and WASP weddings that she grew up with. But when she reluctantly returns home after her college graduation, she finds that not everything is quite as predictable, or protected, as she had imagined. Her father, the eccentric,...
Author
Series
Nancy Drew notebooks volume 20
Pub. Date
c1997
Accelerated Reader
IL: LG - BL: 3.5 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Nancy's housekeeper Hannah has a secret and Nancy is sure it is that Hannah has found another job. Nancy will do anything to keep Hannah, even clean the house.
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Description
"A young woman moves from the place of her birth to the remote northern country of her forebears to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has recently left him. Soon after her arrival, a series of inexplicable events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed with some intensity...
69) Smudge's mark
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Fourteen-year-old Simon, an orphan being raised by his prankster grandfather and his cruel housekeeper, suddenly remembers long-forgotten childhood memories and finds a key in his pajama pocket that will aid him on his quest to save Emogen, a hidden realm connected to Earth, from certain destruction.
Author
Series
Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A tender story of the power of faith over Fear and the tie that truly binds.
Author
Series
Art of murder volume 2
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
"When an offer to paint a beautiful Georgian house in the Peak District falls into Nick Morris' lap he jumps at the commission. Businessman Derek Swann is selling up and wants a landscape to remember. But Nick's plans for a quiet stay in the countryside are scuppered when he and his chalet neighbour Megan Lamplighter find a body in the woods surrounding the holiday park. Rick Parrow seemed to be a troubled young adult, with a dark cloud following...
Author
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
She's a liar. She's a stalker. She's in your house. When Claire sees Hannah Wilson at an exclusive Manhattan hair salon, it's like a knife slicing through barely healed scars. It may have been ten years since Claire last saw Hannah, but she has thought of her every day, and not in a good way. So Claire does what anyone would do in her position--she stalks her. Hannah is now Mrs. Carter, living the charmed life that should have been Claire's. It's...
73) Graveyard shift
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Series
Maxi Poole mysteries volume 3
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
"Los Angeles television reporter Maxi Poole must help her next-door neighbors' housekeeper locate her missing young son, Robert Ochoa"--Provided by the publisher.
Author
Pub. Date
2019.
Description
"Kerry Hayes is single mum, living on a tough south London estate. She provides for her son by cleaning houses she could never hope to afford. Taken into care as a child, Kerry cannot ever forget her past. Noah Martineau is a successful barrister with a beautiful wife, daughter and home in fashionable Primrose Hill. Adopted as a child, Noah always looks forward, never back. When Kerry reaches out to the sibling she lost on the day they were torn apart...
Author
Series
Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 2
Pub. Date
c2005
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
Description
Once again, Edinburgh's Dalhousie, intrepid editor of a philosophy journal, finds herself analyzing other people's problems when asked to fill in for her niece Cat, at Cat's gourmet food shop-cum-delicatessen. At the shop, Isabel meets Ian, who is haunted by visions of a man he comes to believe must be the murdered donor of his transplanted heart.
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Series
Rosemary Beach novels volume 10
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
"From #1 New York Times bestselling author Abbi Glines comes the next new adult novel in the Rosemary Beach series, in which we meet Mase, a Texas heartthrob first introduced in Take a Chance who comes to Rosemary Beach to stir things up. I had an urge to fix all her problems. Which was stupid. She was doing fine without me. But something about those big eyes... Mase Colt-Manning has always preferred his humble life as a Texas rancher to his birthright...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014.
Description
Judy Carrier finds herself at a crossroads in her life. Her best friend, Mary DiNunzio, has just become partner and is about to become a bride, leaving Judy vaguely out of sorts. She's not jealous, but she's not happy either and she's wondering where her own career and love life are going. To make matters worse, she is rocked to her emotional foundations when she learns that her beloved Aunt Vicky has been diagnosed with breast cancer. She races to...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Description
A Boston lawyer, Eli has weathered an intense year of public and police scrutiny after being accused of murdering his soon-to-be ex-wife. And though there was never enough evidence to have him arrested, his reputation is in tatters as well as his soul. He needs sanctuary. He needs Bluff House.