Devil in the Details

Devil in the Details

Jennifer Traig

Jennifer Traig

DEVIL IN THE DETAILS announces Jennifer Traig as one of the most hilarious writers to emerge in recent years – and one of the strangest! Recalling the agony of growing up as an obsessive-compulsive religious fanatic, Traig fearlessly confesses the most peculiar behaviour – like scrubbing her hands for a full half-hour before meals, feeding her stuffed animals before herself and washing everything she owned because she thought it was contaminated by pork fumes! The result is a book so relentlessly funny and frank that it’s totally refreshing.
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In Separate Bedrooms

In Separate Bedrooms

Carole Mortimer

Romance / Contemporary / Fiction

Re-read this classic romance by USA Today bestselling author Carole Mortimer Multi‐millionaire Jack Beauchamp can have any woman he wants – so when florist Mattie Crawford sees a chance to teach this playboy a lesson she has no idea it can go so wrong. Now he's demanding she compensate him by accompanying him on a weekend in Paris... A romantic weekend in the French capital with the most handsome, charming man she's ever met is a fitting punishment – especially as she's vowed to keep him at arm's length. Mattie's praying for separate bedrooms to keep her on the straight and narrow, but she already knows this charismatic man won't let her off that easily! Originally published in 2003
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The Firefly

The Firefly

P. T. Deutermann

P. T. Deutermann

At midnight, in a secret medical clinic in Washington, D.C., two foreign doctors and their team are completing plastic surgery on an anonymous client who is changing the appearance of his face, among other things. After the procedure, the client begins to stir-and suddenly the operating room erupts in violence and the clinic is ablaze.Washington police conduct an arson investigation, with inconclusive results. But one tantalizing fragment of evidence suggests that a terrorist bombing may be imminent. The presidential inauguration is quickly approaching and Washington's police, fire, intelligence, military, federal, and White House security teams are making frantic preparations. Because of the strain on manpower, retired Secret Service agent Swamp Morgan is recalled to active duty. His task: investigate the incineration of the medical clinic as a "firefly"- Washington-speak for something that looks like a threat but isn't. As Swamp begins what he thinks...
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When I Was Otherwise

When I Was Otherwise

Stephen Benatar

Stephen Benatar

Two women looking back over fifty years: one full of regret, the other not admitting to mistakes and continuing to be fiercely positive. Which approach, in the end, is likely to prove more satisfying—both for Daisy herself and for those who live around her?
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In His Own Defense

In His Own Defense

Ann Jacobs

Ann Jacobs

Truths come not only in black and white, but in shades of gray. A young prosecutor from a background of wealth and privilege, determined to put criminals behind bars, clashes with a brilliant defense counselor soaring to fame and fortune from the depths of poverty and degeneracy. A woman tortured by her past and a man driven by his history-neither can deny their fierce attraction, but both fear the outcome of their passionate affair. For Tony to win his heart's desire, he'll have to make the most compelling argument of his career-to Kristine--in his own defense.
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