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By Hannah Howell. 2004
All along the border, battle was a way of life as both Englishmen and Scots rode off across the moors…
to do as their fathers had done and their fathers before them. So when Storm Eldon was kidnapped by her family's ancestral enemies, she knew there were rules to be honored by both sides. If her stepmother agreed to the ransom, Storm would not be harmed by the handsome Highland warrior who held her captive. But as days of waiting turned into weeks, it began to be clear that in this contest of wills, no one was fighting fair.By Hannah Howell. 2009
When fate brings together Maldie Kirkcaldy, a beautiful spy, and Sir Balfour Murray, a man desperate to protect his clan,…
each on their own mission of revenge, they try to deny the passion that flares between them as they are thrown into a world of betrayal and deceit.By Janet Dailey. 1983
Ty was born a Calder but bred a stranger to his legacy. He learns the way of ranch life from…
young Jessy who loves the land and Ty. But Ty worships Tara, the greedy daughter of a powerful Texas millionaire.By Victoria Petrie Hay. 1991
When rich, beautiful Alex Mountford and even richer Ben Stanfield fall headlong in love, everyone calls them 'the golden couple'.…
But no-one is immune to trouble and sorrow and the young Stanfords' path is as strewn with glass as anyone's.By Nicola Thorne. 1991
Eliza Woodville's aristocratic but impoverished family is trying to marry her off to a rich man, but she dreads this…
thought and is more attracted to local trader Ryder Yetman. Their passion changes forever the fortunes of their respective families. By Nicola Thorne writing as Rosemary EllerbeckBy Erin Pizzey. 1989
Sophia and her twin Elena flee turbulent Tsarist Russia and travel across the Chinese border to Shanghai. Sophia is determined…
to rise above misfortune, like the snow leopard, while Elena wants love, marriage and motherhood. Contains descriptions of sex.By Estelle Pinney. 2008
Sydney, 1930, and Greta Osborne is a burgeoning stage star on the verge of joining the famous Palace Theatre in…
New York. But meeting British naval officer Andrew Flight at a New Year's Eve party changes everything. Falling in love at first sight, Greta waives aside any thoughts of sailing to New York and Andrew jumps ship. The pair flee to the tobacco town of Yunnabilla in Far North Queensland, where their relationship is viewed by the locals with pursed lips and raised eyebrows. The Great Depression brings added hardships, and circumstances push the couple further north to a remote island in Papua New Guinea where they face unexpected challenges.By Johanna Nicholls. 2016
New year's Day 1901 sees the birth of Australia as a nation, eager to claim her place on the world…
stage. Clytie Hart, a daring equestrienne, travels with her mother and her circus family through the back roads of rural Victoria. Wildebrands Circus has seen better days and when they are persuaded to perform at Hufnung, a small, forgotten town in the Gold Triangle, Clytie's life is changed forever.By Michael C White. 2007
Augustus Cain is a man with his back against the wall. A war-scarred wanderer, he faces a past he wants…
to forget, a present without prospect or fortune and an uncertain future, reliant upon his one skill: an uncanny ability to track people who don't want to be found. With the clouds of civil war gathering, a plantation owner has called in a debt, making Cain an offer he can't refuse: if Cain will head north from Richmond and retrieve a runaway slave named Rosetta, his creditor will not only clear Cain's debt, but pay him as well. When he eventually runs Rosetta to ground, Cain discovers she carries a secret, and the size of the bounty on her head begins to make more sense. Finding himself increasingly drawn to Rosetta, Cain starts to wonder if his five-hundred dollar fee - if any fee - could ever be enough to return her to her master...By Isabel Allende, Margaret Sayers Peden. 2005
Born in California late in the 18th century, Diego de la Vega is a child of two worlds. His father…
is an aristocratic Spanish military man turned landowner; his mother, a Shoshone warrior. Diego learns from his maternal grandmother, White Owl, the ways of her tribe, while receiving from his father lessons in the art of fencing and cattle branding. It is here, during Diego's childhood, filled with mischief and adventure, that he witnesses the brutal injustices dealt Native Americans by European settlers and first feels the inner conflict of his heritage. At 16, he is sent to Barcelona for a European education. In a country chafing under Napoleonic rule, Diego follows the example of his fencing master and joins La Jusiticia, a secret underground resistance movement devoted to helping the powerless and the poor. With these tumultuous times as backdrop, he falls in love, saves the persecuted, and confronts for the first time a great rival who emerges from the world of privilege. Between California and Barcelona, the New World and the Old, the persona of Zorro is formed, a great hero is born and the legend begins.By Gil Adamson. 2008
In 1903, a mysterious, desperate young woman flees alone across the icy western wilderness of the Rocky Mountains. Her name…
is Mary Boulton. Bloodhounds track her through the trees. She is nineteen years old. Half mad. Already a widow - by her own hand. Pursued by two relentless and vengeful brothers, Mary is forced to flee ever deeper into the mountains and away from civilisation, into the darkness of her own memory. Along the way, she meets a collection of rogues, guardian angels and eccentrics, who offer support, only to reveal that they too have their own demons raging inside. As Mary is plunged further away from civilisation, her path from retribution to redemption slowly unfurls.By Dean Mayes. 2018
Hayden Luschcombe is a brilliant paediatrician living in Adelaide with his wife Bernadette, an ambitious event planner. His life consists…
of soul-wrenching days at the hospital and tedious evenings attending the lavish parties organized by Bernadette. When an act of betrayal coincides with a traumatic confrontation, Hayden flees Adelaide, his life in ruins. His destination is Walhalla, nestled in Australia's southern mountains, where he finds his childhood home falling apart. With nothing to return to, he stays, and begins to pick up the pieces of his life by fixing up the house his parents left behind. A chance encounter with a precocious and deaf young girl introduces Hayden to Isabelle Sampi, a struggling artisan baker. While single-handedly raising her daughter, and trying to resurrect a bakery, Isabelle has no time for matters of the heart. Yet the presence of the handsome doctor challenges her resolve. Likewise, Hayden, protective of his own fractured heart, finds something in Isabelle that awakens dormant feelings of his own. As their attraction grows, and the past threatens their chance at happiness, both Hayden and Isabelle will have to confront long-buried truths if they are ever to embrace a future.By Arturo Perez-Reverte, Margaret Jull Costa. 2008
The year is 1626, and a battle-weary Captain Alatriste and his companions sail home from the on-going war in Flanders.…
He returns to a Spain that is rotten to the core, as gold from the Americas floods into the port of Seville, brought by the country's infamous treasure fleet. As various factions within the Court vie for supremacy, certain interests are creaming off undeclared profits from the galleons' cargo, thus depriving the royal treasury of its lifeblood. Indeed some of the booty is finding its way into the hands of the same rebel provinces Spain is fighting to suppress. The King and his most trusted advisor, the Count-Duke Olivares, have become aware of one such plot and have decided to teach the perpetrator a lesson. Once more, they must call upon Captain Alatriste's blade in a dangerous adventure that will bring the captain face to face with his nemesis, and with a ruthless man who has designs on the throne.By Arturo Perez-Reverte. 2007
Flanders, 1625. After his tussles with the Inquisition and the intrigue of the Spanish court, Captain Alatriste has returned to…
the mud and desperation of the long war in Flanders. This is Iñigo's first experience of war and the realities of hand to hand combat. It is on the battlefield that he will finally have the chance to become a man and prove his worth. The troops are weary and ill-nourished and the winter has been long. As Spain sinks ever further into depravity and corruption, the soldiers have not been paid and must survive by whatever ways they can. Mutiny is in the air, on the lips of every Spaniard but they are strong and their famous iron discipline has brought them many victories against the Calvinist forces of the heretics. Reputation, honour, and the glory of Spain will keep them in the fight, but for how long? Meanwhile, the Captain's trusted friend Quevedo's star is rising at court and he keeps Alatriste appraised of the machinations of his arch-enemy Luis de Alquézar and the notorious assassin with the black heart, Gualterio Malatesta.By Margaret Sayers Peden, Arturo Perez-Reverte. 2006
A woman has been found in a sedan chair in front of a church, strangled. In her hand is a…
pouch containing fifty escudos and a handwritten - but unsigned - note bearing the words 'For masses for her soul'. The chief constable Martin Saldana confides in his old friend and comrade in arms, Diego Alatriste. Still in danger from the powerful enemies he made in his first adventure, Captain Alatriste is considering returning to Flanders where the war has just resumed. But first, his old friend Quevedo asks him for a favour. The daughter of one of his friends must be rescued from a convent, which two powerful priests seem to be treating as little more than a harem. Then the woman who brought the girl to the convent goes missing and the connection is made to the murder at the church. It seems that Alatriste's sword is required once more...By Kaye Dobbie. 2014
The child has no name, she's a little girl...lost and forgotten.1867: Named by the wife of the paddle steamer captain…
who finds her half drowned in the Murray River, Alice must survive in a world that reviles her. Because Alice has a gift...or a curse. She can see an aura of colours around the people she meets - and those colours tell her of impending doom. With her friend Rosey, Alice runs away to the gold fields and then joins a troupe of entertainers where people pay to hear her predictions. But she can never escape her past...along with the frightening man in the dark coat who follows her wherever she goes...Present: Annie Reuben is an art restorer in her father's business, but times are tough. After being given a long-lost painting found in the basement of a condemned hotel, Annie becomes intrigued by the two girls who stare out at her from the ruined canvas. Who were Alice and Rosey? And why does Annie find their lives so important? As Annie becomes caught up with finding answers from the past, she finds herself being stalked by the same frightening man in the dark coat who follows her wherever she goes...By Gordon Dahlquist. 2008
On a Barren coast, young heiress Miss Temple awakes from a fever to discover herself friendless, alone - and having…
shot her fiancé stone dead. Fleeing from suspicious villagers and attacks by 'wolves,' Miss Temple finds herself with a most unlikely companion in the shape of the seductive and deadly Contessa de Lacquer-Sforza. Meanwhile, assassin Cardinal Chang is following an orgy of destruction left by debauched aristocrat Francis Xonck, whose mind and body have been corrupted by a mysterious 'process.' Xonck leads Chang to the ruins of Harschmort House, where a mysterious and decidedly vile book is being hunted. Elsewhere Dr Svenson accompanies a sick woman whose memories have been drawn from her by a book of blue glass. Hoping that what she can remember will unravel the mystery of a diabolical cabal bent on world dominion, Svenson creeps ever closer to their dark treachery...As Miss Temple, Cardinal Chang and Dr Svenson uncover the devilish schemes of their deadly enemies, so the terrifying secrets contained in The Dark Volume are revealed one by one...By Gordon Dahlquist. 2012
Miss Temple, young, wealthy and far away from home, never wanted to be a heroine. Yet her fiance is dead…
(admittedly, by her own hand), her companions slain and her nemesis, the terrifyingly wicked Contessa Lacquer-Sforza, escaped. It falls on her tiny shoulders to destroy a deadly cabal whose alchemy threatens to enslave the world. Miss Temple plots her revenge. But Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang are alive, barely - their bodies corrupted by the poisonous blue glass. Wounded and outnumbered, Miss Temple, Dr Svenson and Cardinal Chang pursue their enemies through city slums and glittering palaces as they fight to prevent the cabal's crushing dominion and unholy marriage between man and machine.By Kate Mildenhall. 2016
Kate and Harriet are best friends, growing up together on an isolated Australian cape in the 1880s. As daughters of…
the lighthouse keepers, the two girls share everything until a fisherman, McPhail, arrives in their small community. When Kate witnesses the desire that flares between him and Harriet, she is torn by her feelings of envy and longing. But one moment in McPhail’s hut will change the course of their lives forever.By Janet Woods. 2001
Four years after being drugged and tricked into marrying the fourteen-year-old Willow Givanchy, a suspected witch and unwanted daughter of…
his deadliest enemy, Gerard Lytton returns home to find his wife and family much changed. Having lost none of her fiery independence, Willow has become a well-loved member of Lytton's family. But although nobly born, she cannot belie her mother's dark reputation, and her father's dishonour. Then Willow's long dead mother turns up unexpectedly, causing a mysterious series of events to unfold. Having transformed herself from child bride to beautiful woman, Willow eventually falls in love with her husband. But is their love deep enough, to overcome the obstacles of her parentage and reputation that threatens to tear them asunder.