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As a junior editor at Bespoke Weddings magazine, Christine is thrilled when she is chosen to cover the supernova wedding of the year, that …
Cordelia West lives a pretty simple life. A devoted young Dallas Public librarian, she likes to keep her past just that: in the past. …
While this is the 11th in a long-running series, readers can ignore all the threads of the ongoing story and only attend to the …
Opening shortly after the traumatic events of The Mountain King, the second entry in de la Motte’s Asker series finds Leo Asker settling back …
The death of a drug dealer and his girlfriend leads immediately to a suspect, a young man named Michael Westbrook. Michael worked at the …
The darkness of this novel—which was published in 1997 in Britian but is now seeing its first U.S. publication—is paired with an urgency: things …