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Handsome older Claymore Enfield is a renowned high-society interior designer hired by boyishly attractive Travis Worth, a young tech billionaire, to help restore and decorate his newly acquired historic Manhattan townhouse. In addition to working on his home, Claymore takes Travis under his wing to teach him about art and culture and grooming. He also shares stories and secrets of society and the house’s dark past.

Grace Devine is a seamstress turned sleuth, trying to look after her family in 1920s New Zealand. This collection of heartwarming historical mysteries will send you on a unique Kiwi adventure.

Sandra Brown, author of more than forty New York Times bestsellers, explores how an ambitious executive-whose lonely personal life clashes with her career success-discovers that the business of love means taking the biggest risks of all. SEDUCTION by DESIGN Hailey Ashton projects an image that...

This gripping anthology gathers classic American short fiction where deception is an art, truth is perilous, and crime often wears a human smile. From a real-life axe murder on a lonely New England island to calculated impostures, whispered rumors, political terror, and crimes born of obsession, these stories explore the dangerous motives that surface when masks begin to slip.

This is book two in the Divine Design series. Logan's love helped set Elizabeth free to find her voice. Together, they are looking forward to bringing the run-down house back to life to become Haven, the hotel of Elizabeth's dreams. As family and friends gather to begin renovating the old house, Barbara, Logan's sister, is quick to show her true feelings about the entire concept of a hotel catering to the D/S lifestyle and the people building it.

Carrie Fraser cannot believe her luck when she is invited to work at Oakenbury Hall, a beautiful manor house in the English countryside. Nor can she quite get over the owner of Oakenbury – the gorgeous Morgan Harrington. The more time Carrie spends with him, the further she begins to fall. But...

In this unforgettable and raw collection, It Ended By Beginning unearths the buried emotions we try to forget and confronts the truths we often run from. Across 32 hauntingly honest stories, readers are invited into intimate, visceral worlds shaped by grief, betrayal, envy, pride, justice, and silence. Told through the voice of a lone journalist, a man who prints not just the news but the souls of the people he meets, this collection becomes more than fiction. It becomes memory. A printed hell. A closing door. A mirror.

What can happen when an 80-year-old Dallas widower meets an 80-year-old Austin widow and they discover they have a lot in common? Several things, one right after another. They start emailing and texting each other, telling each other their stories from eight decades of living apart; then, in a matter of weeks, deciding to get married, and, soon after, resolving to tell a broader audience the stories they had been telling each other. Front and center is their courtship experience itself told through their emails, combined with Charles and Nancy’s separate accounts of growing up.

From award-winning writer/director/producer George Zarr comes a five-story anthology of suspense and mystery. Each tale features a full cast, engaging sound effects, and original music.

Kalyah and the young soldier have met before in a more innocent time. They could have been sweethearts, but now they are facing life, death, and tough decisions.

Join the Ugly Mermaid on her amazing undersea quest to discover why she's so hideous, and find out why Veronica the Velociraptor has such very bad teeth! Discover Aubrey's Smelly Adventure in the Land of Bernards, and learn that it can be cool to be different in Shipwreck'd Sarah and the Silly-Looking Pirates!Are you brave enough to meet the hideous, toad-fearing Grandma Grunt? And what dreadful fate awaits Horrid Horatia, the fearsome lady-slug?