Venetia features a remarkably independent heroine who falls deeply in love with the wrong man. Venetia Lanyon lives a quiet life until she meets her notorious neighbor Jasper, Lord Damerel, who would marry her in a heartbeat if he didn't think it would ruin her. Then she discovers a shocking family secret that changes everything ... "Georgette Heyer is unbeatable."--Sunday Telegraph "Miss Heyer has done it again in this vivacious story of Regency...

James invites Marvin and his cousin Elaine on a trip to the country, and it proves to be a very exciting adventure for the forever friends.

The mood of heavy-hearted divorcee Develyn Worrell continues to lighten. Her summer vacation from her teaching job is spent in a small, picturesque Wyoming town. The Lord's leading becomes much clearer even though cowboy romances and the relationship with her grown daughter get more complicated.

A two-in-one volume set in Promise, Texas, includes Return to Promise, in which a scheming young woman wreaks havoc on the marriage of Cal and Jane Patterson when she sets her sights on Cal, and Mail-Order Bride, in which Caroline Myers, with the help of her matchmaking aunts, ends up in the hold of Paul Trevor on Christmas.

A poetic account of life in an English village by a 13-year-old girl. She is Alison Freemantle, the daughter of a prosperous farmer, enjoying a surprise holiday because of a teachers' strike. She uses her free time to describe the people round her and reflect on love, sex, death and class difference.

"Young Edward Horne returns from London to Winterbourne--the country estate where he was raised--to put it up for sale. His neighbor, Sir Anthony Apreece, a man accustomed to having his own way, covets the land of his young neighbor, and Edward for his parts covets Daisy, Anthony's wife."--Jacket.

"When Becket and her twin brother, Nicholas, adopt new pets from the local shelter, Becket's dream dog turns out to be a super-shy scaredy-pooch, and Nicholas's cat is more outgoing and attention-seeking than he was expecting"--

"It's March 2020 and a calamity is unfolding. A group of friends and friends-of-friends gathers in a country house to wait out the pandemic. Over the next few months new bonds of friendship and love will take hold, while old betrayals will emerge among this unlikely cast of characters, each richly drawn and achingly human: a Russian-born novelist; his Russian-born psychiatrist wife; their precocious child obsessed with K-pop; a struggling Indian American...

"The lone policeman in a small township on the sparse northern border [of Pennsylvania], Henry Farrell expected to spend his mornings hunting and fishing, his evenings playing old-time music. Instead, he has watched the steady encroachment of gas drilling bring new wealth and erode neighborly trust. The drug trade is pushing heroin into the territory. There are outlaws cooking meth in the woods, guys Henry grew up with. When a stranger turns up dead,...

"Extraordinarily tense and deliciously mysterious, Anna Downes's The Shadow House follows one woman's desperate journey to protect her children at any cost, in a remote place where not everything is as it seems. A HOUSE WITH DEADLY SECRETS. A MOTHER WHO'LL RISK EVERYTHING TO BRING THEM TO LIGHT. Alex, a single mother-of-two, is determined to make a fresh start for her and her children. In an effort to escape her troubled past, she seeks refuge in...