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Adelaide, the Enchantress
Kay Hooper
Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
Addie Delaney was racing for her life, for enough money to make a cherished dream come true, when the only man who'd ever stirred her blood challenged her to resist him. The beguiling jockey, whose voice could tame animals and whose touch could bewitch men, astonished Sane Marston with her beauty and fragility-and her strength. The American horse breeder who was known as the sleekest, sexiest Thoroughbred in racing circles felt he'd go out of his mind if he couldn't run his fingers through her flaming hair, and caress the velvet softness of her skin. Addie reveled in Shane's savage need, and echoed his demands with wild pleasure, but she ached at denying him what he desired most -- her promise to give up the danger of the track. Could he believe that giving his love kept her safe in his heart forever?
The Little Girl on the Ice Floe
Adélaïde Bon
When Adélaïde's parents find her mute and unable to explain why she is crying, they bring her to the police station and file a complaint against "X" for sexual assault. Adélaïde grows up without showing any outward signs of damage. As a teen and then as an outwardly cheerful young woman, she suffers in silence, battling her demons alone. Twenty-three years later, Adélaïde receives a call from the juvenile squad. An investigator has reopened the classified case of "the electrician" and DNA analysis points to a man known to the police as a serial burglar. He is subsequently charged with assaulting 72 minors between 1983 and 2003, and it is suspected that he has hurt hundreds of others who never filed complaints. In the spring of 2016, at the Paris city court, along with 18 other women, Adélaïde confronts the rapist who destroyed her life. In precise and delicate prose, with poise and passion, Adélaïde Bon tells a story that is both terrifying and all too common. This French...
Fragile Bonds
Part #1 of "Adriana Rojas" series by Adelaide Walsh
Fantasy / Science Fiction / Suspense
Nobody's Sweetheart Now
Part #1 of "Lady Adelaide Mysteries" series by Maggie Robinson
A delightful English cozy series begins in August 1924. Lady Adelaide Compton has recently (and satisfactorily) interred her husband, Major Rupert Charles Cressleigh Compton, hero of the Somme, in the family vault in the village churchyard. Rupert died by smashing his Hispano-Suiza on a Cotswold country road while carrying a French mademoiselle in the passenger seat. With the house now Addie's, needed improvements in hand, and a weekend house party underway, how inconvenient of Rupert to turn up! Not in the flesh, but in - actually, as a - spirit. Rupert has to perform a few good deeds before becoming welcomed to heaven - or, more likely, thinks Addie, to hell. Before Addie can convince herself she's not completely lost her mind, a murder disrupts her careful seating arrangement. Which of her twelve houseguests is a killer? Her mother, the formidable Dowager Marchioness of Broughton? Her sister Cecilia, the born-again vegetarian? Her childhood friend and potential...
The Misadventures of Miss Adelaide
Maggie Dallen
Romance / Young Adult
★★★★★ "This is such a heartwarming, lovely, sweet story...so difficult to put down. The ending is very romantic and heartwarming. I'm loving the book series that the this book is part of. Definitely a must read!" - Reviewer★★★★★ "Maggie Dallen is the ultimate storyteller as she weaves adventure and an unlikely pair together who are just perfect for each other. A magical beginning to a new series that promises to bring hours of entertainment and I cannot wait until the next one arrives!!" - Reviewer★★★★★ "Great characters, great suspense, great romance. I loved the characters and suspense. The author has a great voice. A great read." - Reviewer She's on the run from her cruel guardian...And Miss Adelaide has found the perfect hiding spot in the home of the formidable Earl of Tolston. But masquerading as a maid comes at a cost. One day she...
Adelaide Confused
Penny Greenhorn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Young Adult
After sequestering herself to the tiny island of St. Simons, Georgia, Adelaide's plan to 'get normal' goes awry after a crackpot astrologist predicts she’ll meet with death. Now ghosts are appearing and Adelaide Graves is forced to admit that she has unwittingly acquired another gift.To Adelaide Graves, being empathic isn’t a gift, it’s a curse. Nothing could be worse than the barrage of emotions that are constantly seeping in, that is, until she starts seeing ghosts. Such gifts don’t go unnoticed by Reed Wallace, the island’s richest celebrity, who is quick to use his own gift to strong-arm Adelaide. Luckily, she’s half-immune to his unnatural charm, though not to his blackmail. Now his scheming has got her neck-deep in a dangerous race, desperate to find a demon diary, the key to unlocking another realm.
Zebra
Debra Adelaide
The PM stretched out a hand. The black and white head extended, and as the zebra walked down the ramp and into the morning, her first in her new land, and a particularly bright morning as well, the PM realised that Mr Beamish was a marvel, a genius. A stranger, half a world, a continent, away, and yet he knew that the zebra was exactly what she wanted and needed.Tantalising, poignant, wry, and just a little fantastical, this subversive collection of short fiction - and one singular novella - from bestselling author Debra Adelaide reminds us what twists of fate may be lurking just beneath the surface of the everyday.
Guarding Adelaide
Part #1 of "GHOST Legacy" series by Pj Fiala
Enjoy this steamy small-town protector romance by USA Today bestselling author PJ Fiala. She's following in her father's footsteps as a GHOST Operative. He's the best communications specialist around and is about to embark on his biggest job yet. Their roles merge as a war breaks out that neither of them saw coming. When the job can only be handled by the team that doesn't exist, you call GHOST. Adelaide Masters knew what she wanted from her earliest memories. Her cousins, Maya and Myles, along with the other children whose parents were special operatives with GHOST, were her constant companions growing up. Working under the watchful eyes of her family was the experience of a lifetime, but she's ready to set out on her own. Being selected for the Glen Hollow, Kentucky office gave her the chance to put her unique skillset as a medic trained operative to the test. Rafe Martin is living his dream as a...
Return to the Adelaide Hills
Fiona McCallum
From the rugged beauty of the Adelaide Hills comes a story of loss, hope and new beginnings Claire McIntyre has it all: an adoring husband, a bubbly best friend, a chic town house and a high-flying corporate career in the city. But somehow she's forgotten what really makes her happy. After receiving tragic news, closely followed by the loss of her job, Claire's world is thrown into turmoil. Forced to reevaluate everything that matters to her, she soon finds herself back at the very place she's been running from her whole life—the family property, where reputations are hard won and easily lost, and where fortune is as fickle as the weather. Here, in the rugged beauty of the Australian Adelaide Hills, Claire starts to rebuild her life with her friends, her father and his beloved racehorses—including a promising young horse called Paycheque. But just as she begins to find happiness, and perhaps even love, fate comes to call. Now Claire must decide whether to...
Adelaide
Genevieve Wheeler
Named Most Anticipated by: Bustle ・ Popsugar ・ Goodreads ・ Zibby Magazine・SheReads "A beautifully-written, deeply-felt exploration of what it means to love and be loved."–– Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We LostIn love . . . For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London, meeting Rory Hughes was like a lightning bolt out of the blue: this charming Englishman was The One she wasn't even looking for. Is it enough? Does he respond to texts? Honor his commitments? Make advance plans? Sometimes, rarely, and no, not at all. But when he shines his light on her, the world makes sense, and Adelaide is convinced that, in his heart, he's fallen just as deeply as she has. Then, when Rory is rocked by an unexpected tragedy, Adelaide does everything in...
Adelaide Piper
Beth Webb Hart
“With humor and a nice southern accent…a fine follow-up to her highlypraised first novel, Grace at Love Tide.” –Booklist, starred review The year is 1989 and dark currents lurk beneath the smooth surface of theelite Virginia campus where Adelaide Piper has come to study. Her poeticsensibility and idealism only irritate the socialites and cynics who notice herat all. After a heartbreaking loss of innocence, Adelaide must navigate between hergenteel Southern upbringing and the gritty realities of a new generation. Ultimately Adelaide must return to the very ground she once cursed, findinga deeper appreciation for her Southern heritage, however broken and imperfect.Featured in Southern Living's Books of the South
The Hotel Albatross
Debra Adelaide
From the bestselling author of The Household Guide to Dying comes a funny and moving account of life in the country.The Captain and his wife accidentally find themselves managing the Hotel Albatross. The Captain floats between the hotel's various bars: chatting to and chatting up customers, breaking up fights, and dealing calmly with the simmering tensions of a small town. His wife has her hands full with the day-to-day running of the hotel: mediating between family members fighting over wedding decorations, appeasing disgruntled staff members and dealing with the horror of what lies in room 101. She also dreams of getting out...Debra Adelaide has created a wonderfully poignant novel about hotel management and human nature. She weaves the eccentric cast of characters together beautifully with the politics of life in a small town to give the reader a sometimes humorous, sometimes heartbreaking glimpse into what it would be like to live at the Hotel Albatross.
Tala
Adelaide Schofield
The journey to America had not been an easy one for Tala Mercado. Pressured into marrying a wealthy attorney she didn’t love by her poverty-stricken family in Manila, Tala was a woman held down by the weight of responsibility. Now, at twenty-eight, she finally begins to wonder if there will ever be anything more for her.Enter Kelsey Daniels.When Tala sparks up a quick friendship with the attractive woman who jogs by her house twice daily, she knows she’s treading on dangerous ground. Her attraction to Kelsey is something she cannot afford to entertain. But fate has a way of stepping in during times of uncertainty. Tala soon discovers that her husband has been unfaithful and a new world of opportunity opens up to her. But first she must go back to Manila.Things have changed in Tala’s homeland. When Kelsey makes the rash decision to follow Tala to Manila, both women find themselves confronted with challenges that will not only put their lives at risk, but also the way they see themselves and each other.
The Great Keeper boxset: Science Fantasy
Adelaide Walsh
Fantasy / Science Fiction / Suspense
Follow the brave and adventurous Reeves family as they fight against external and internal perils beyond imagination - only to meet new, bigger ones in each generation!
Review of Australian Fiction, Volume 9, Issue 5
Debra Adelaide
Issue five of Volume nine of the Review of Australian Fiction. This issue contains new short fiction by Debra Adelaide and Eleanor Limprecht.
A Paris Affair
Adelaide Cole
Adult Fiction / Erotica / Romance
After years of child rearing, chores and career challenges, Valérie feels the sexual heat in her life has cooled. All she wants is a break from her everyday routine—until an unexpected reunion with a man from her past awakens the pure sexual wanting she thought she'd lost….
Adelaide Upset
Penny Greenhorn
Science Fiction & Fantasy / Young Adult
The empath Adelaide Graves is in for some trouble. With Smith’s killer on the loose, a demon wailing to get through the veil and her boyfriend’s secrets to contend with... things will get dicey. This is the second installment of the Emotional Graves Series, read the first book—Adelaide Confused—FREE at various online distributors.
The Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris
Leon Garfield
Harris and Bostock are best friends, but they are as different from one another as night and day. Harris thinks up harebrained schemes and Bostock gets in trouble for them. When Harris puts his baby sister Adelaide in the words to see if she will be adopted by a fox, little do they realize that they are starting a chain of events that will be remembered in their little seaside town as the Strange Affair of Adelaide Harris.
The Household Guide to Dying
Debra Adelaide
LONGLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE 2009"Warm and moving ... quirky and unsentimental" The AgeAs I resigned myself to the fact that the latest Household Guide I'd written would be my last, I conceived in a flash the best idea ever. I rang Nancy and left a message. 'Think of the title,' I said. 'How catchy does The Household Guide to Dying sound?'When Delia Bennet-author and domestic advice columnist-is diagnosed with cancer, she knows it's time to get her house in order. After all, she's got to secure the future for her husband, their two daughters and their five beloved chickens. But as she writes lists and makes plans, questions both large and small creep in. Should she divulge her best culinary secrets? Read her favourite novels one last time? Plan her daughters' far-off weddings? Complicating her dilemma is the matter of the past, and a remote country town where she fled as a pregnant teenager, only to leave...
Adelaide: Bride of Maryland (American Mail-Order Bride 7)
Part #7 of "American Mail-Order Bride" series by Ciara Knight
Romance / Contemporary / Fantasy
Adelaide, Bride of Maryland, is 7th in the unprecedented 50-book, American Mail-Order Brides series.Escaping an arranged marriage to a cruel man, Adelaide Baker flees west to marry a total stranger as a mail order bride. Only the man at the final stop didn’t place the advertisement in the Grooms Gazette.John Rivers wishes to live in peace on his own land after he lost everyone he ever loved, but his friends have other plans. They post an announcement in the Grooms Gazette for a wife. Now, John must decide if he will protect this young woman, or himself from certain heartbreak.
Albert of Adelaide
Howard Anderson
At once an old-fashioned-buddy-novel-shoot-'em-up and a work of deliciously imagined fantasy, Howard L. Anderson's dazzling debut presents the haunting story of a world where something has gone horribly awry . . . Having escaped from Australia's Adelaide Zoo, an orphaned platypus named Albert embarks on a journey through the outback in search of "Old Australia," a rumored land of liberty, promise, and peace. What he will find there, however, away from the safe confinement of his enclosure for the first time since his earliest memories, proves to be a good deal more than he anticipated. Alone in the outback, with an empty soft drink bottle as his sole possession, Albert stumbles upon pyromaniacal wombat Jack, and together they spend a night drinking and gambling in Ponsby Station, a rough-and-tumble mining town. Accused of burning down the local mercantile, the duo flees into menacing dingo territory and quickly go their separate ways-Albert to pursue his...
Adelaide, the Enchantress
Kay Hooper
Mystery & Thrillers / Romance
From New York Times bestselling author Kay Hooper comes a Delaney novel that's sure to set hearts racing, as a globe-trotting bad boy finds himself in hot pursuit of a beautiful thrill-seeker. Shane Marston may be a champion horse breeder back in America, but down under, in Australia, he's just a rookie—especially when it comes to the beguiling jockey with the flaming red hair who looks like an angel and rides like a bat out of hell. Her fragile, exquisite exterior belies her addiction to living on the edge. Shane's used to breaking in horses, but does he have the strength to tame this incredible woman? Adelaide Delaney pushes herself—and her horses—to the limit on the track, determined to win enough money to make her dreams come true. But racing is more than a means to an end; it's her one and only passion—that, and the racehorse named Resolute. Until she meets Shane. When he offers up his heart, she discovers all the aching pleasures...
Drown: YA science fantasy short story (The Great Keeper)
Adelaide Walsh
Fantasy / Science Fiction / Suspense
<b>Running from being grounded? Check. Meeting the cool boyfriend disregarding the parents' forbiddance? Check. Understanding what your destiny is for the first time?..Using your supernatural powers to the scale you have never thought you were capable of?..Double-check! </b>Young Dana Reeves has never thought that her sweet and long-awaited meeting with John would be interrupted by Nature's plea for justice...But there she is, in the dark, scary woods, facing Dana's parents' - Armand and Adele's - old enemy... Engaged in activities against all Nature's laws.With the adults being busy in their Keepers deals, Dana has to decide whether she is willing to step up and take the responsibility...To become the real Great Keeper.(Drown is a young adult short story taking place between the events of Shake and Freeze, before the events of the subscriber-exclusive Christmas Eve Frenzy story).Here is what the readers tell about the series...<em>"It is one more example of why I am now a Dystopian fan: it's simply great writing. I loved it"."Give yourself a treat and read this"."I read this book in about an hour and a half, I enjoyed it that much. (...) I hope you enjoy as much as I did. I am going to go find book two now." </em>Download Christmas Frenzy, exclusive short story - sequel to Drown, and receive the fresh news from Adelaide Walsh in her newsletter! https://www.instafreebie.com/free/8e9R1
Letter to George Clooney
Debra Adelaide
Longlisted for the Stella Prize 2014Debra Adelaide's new collection of short stories intricately maps both the sublime and the mundane landscape of ordinary lives, with her trademark dark wit and luminous intelligence.In Glory in the Flower, distinguished but disillusioned British poet, Bill, crosses the world on the promise of a prestigious literary festival only to find himself roughing it with an unlikely group of amateur poets, with surprising results. One man's attempt to negotiate the Australian taxation system reads like a noir thriller in The Pirate Map, and the minefield of internet dating in Chance artfully balances the absurd and dark side of the human psyche. Harder Than Your Husband follows a serious-minded administrator as he attempts to navigate the induction of a new, and rather perplexing, employee. And the final eclipsing story, Letter to George Clooney, opens a door into a world of terror and deprivation:...