Deaths Dark Shadow

Deaths Dark Shadow

Before she can even begin to track down the killer of the old woman dumped by the lonely canal, Monika Paniatowski needs to find out who she is – and no one seems to know. Even when her daughter Louisa provides the vital clue, it only makes life more difficult, because the Chief Constable – intent on making Paniatowski’s life difficult – refused to let her follow the obvious trail. And it is not until there is a second, even more brutal, murder, that Paniatowski realises she will have to call on the help of her old mentor, ex-DCI Charlie Woodend.

Deaths Dark Shadow

Forged in the Desert Heat

Forged in the Desert Heat

A woman that could start a war

Forged in the Desert Heat

Glare Ice

Glare Ice

Wisconsin winter weather plays as important a role as any individual in this nicely paced tale of domestic abuse and murder. Claire Watkins is still adjusting to life in little Fort St. Antoine when she notices the bruises and stiff gait of a local woman named Stephanie Klaus. Small town or big city, Claire knows the signs of abuse when she sees them.

Glare Ice

1914

1914

Five Frenchmen go off to war, two of them leaving behind a certain young woman who longs for their return. But the main character in 1914 is the Great War itself. Jean Echenoz, the multiawardwinning French literary magician whose work has been compared to Joseph Conrad and Lawrence Sterne, has brought that deathtrap back to life, leading us gently from a balmy summer day deep into the insatiableand still unthinkablecarnage of trench warfare.

1914

The Sugar Queen

The Sugar Queen

In this irresistible novel, Sarah Addison Allen, author of the New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, tells the tale of a young woman whose family secretsand secret passionsare about to change her life forever.

The Sugar Queen

A Death in the Asylum

A Death in the Asylum

I detect that this woman has been around death two, three, four times!

A Death in the Asylum

Passing Strange

Passing Strange

The secret double life of the man who mapped the American West, and the woman he loved

Passing Strange

The Measure of Woman

The Measure of Woman

By the end of the Middle Ages, the ius communethe combination of canon and Roman lawhad formed the basis for all law in continental Europe, along with its patriarchal system of categorizing women. Throughout medieval Europe, women regularly found themselves in court, suing or being sued, defending themselves against criminal accusations, or prosecuting others for crimes committed against them or their families. Yet choosing to litigate entailed accepting the conceptual vocabulary of the learned law, thereby reinforcing the very legal and social notions that often subordinated them.

The Measure of Woman

The Things We Do for Love

The Things We Do for Love

Years of trying unsuccessfully to conceive a child have broken more than Angie DeSarias heart. Following a painful divorce, she moves back to her small Pacific Northwest hometown and takes over management of her familys restaurant. In West End, where life rises and falls like the tides, Angies fortunes will drastically change yet again when she meets and befriends a troubled young woman.

The Things We Do for Love

A Lantern in the Window

A Lantern in the Window

Ever wondered what it might be like to be a mail order bride? Or the groom, already married to a woman he’s never laid eyes on?

A Lantern in the Window

Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France

Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France

Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France examines the emergence of a citizen consumer role for women during postwar modernization and reconstruction in France, integrating the history of economic modernization with that of women and the family. This role both celebrated the power of the woman consumer and created a gendered form of citizenship that did not disrupt the sexual hierarchy of home, polity, and marketplace. Redefining needs and renegotiating concepts of taste, value, and thrift, women and their families drove mass consumer society through their demands and purchases at the same time that their very need to consume came to define them.

Women and Mass Consumer Society in Postwar France

The Measure of a Lady

The Measure of a Lady

Five rules for Proper 19th-Century Ladies: Speak Politely – even when you’re the only respectable woman protesting San Francisco’s gold fever. Dress Modestly – wear your sunbonnet at all time, and hide your muddy men’s boots. Remain Devoted to Family – protect your siblings from temptation, even against their wishes. Stand Above Reproach – most difficutl with a captivating man. Rise Above Temptation – no impeachable behavior … well, maybe just one little kiss? Can Rachel Van Buren remain a beacon of virtue in a city of vice.

The Measure of a Lady

The Sugar Queen

The Sugar Queen

In this irresistible novel, Sarah Addison Allen, author of the New York Times bestselling debut, Garden Spells, tells the tale of a young woman whose family secretsand secret passionsare about to change her life forever.

The Sugar Queen

When The Rogue Returns

When The Rogue Returns

It had been a decade since Victor Cale, first cousin to the Duke of Lyons, had seen his wife. After some royal jewellery went missing from the jeweller’s shop where they worked, Isabel Mertens disappeared. When Victor gets word of a woman who fits his wife’s description, he sets out to confront her. But he discovers that nothing is as it seems-and revenge is never as sweet as true love.

When The Rogue Returns

Confessions of a Falling Woman

Confessions of a Falling Woman

A surprised Southern matriarch is confronted by her family at an intervention. . . . A life-altering break-in triggers insomniac introspection in a desperate actor. . . . Streetwise New York City neighbors let down their guard for a nave puppeteer and must suffer the consequences. . . .

Confessions of a Falling Woman

Murder Alfresco

Murder Alfresco

Returning from a party late one night, chef Sunny McCoskey is the first to discover the body of a murdered woman left outside a local winery, and she may even have witnessed the killer driving away.

Murder Alfresco

Cajun Blue

Cajun Blue

Cajun Blue Dominique AdairElle Grayson is a woman with a taste for bondage and handsome men who know how to wield a paddle. Using the name Ms. Scarlet, she attends a B&D party with the intention of finding a man to satisfy her dark, sensual nature for a one-night stand.Remy ‘Blue’ DeLaughter is a Cajun with a taste for the dangerous and an eye for sexy, curvaceous women. While attending his business partner’s party, he finds the woman of his bondage dreams, only to have her slip away in the night. He wants her for a lifetime. Finding her is the problem…Publisher’s Note: Originally published in the R.S.V.P. anthology.

Cajun Blue

Entangled

Entangled

The fifth sizzling segment in the erotic serial His to Possess, an intoxicating tale of a woman torn between a dominant billionaire and a tattooed, bad boy rock musician.

Entangled

The Morning After

The Morning After

The second sizzling segment in the erotic serial His to Possess, an intoxicating tale of a woman torn between a dominant billionaire and a tattooed, bad boy rock musician.

The Morning After

The Unlikely Wife

The Unlikely Wife

A Woman In Pants! The arrival of Michael Bowen’s bride, married sight unseen by proxy, sends the rancher reeling. With her trousers, cowboy hat and rifle, she looks like a female outlawnot the genteel lady he corresponded with for months. He’s been hoodwinked into marriage with the wrong woman! Selina Farleigh Bowen loved Michael’s letters, even if she couldn’t read them herself. A friend read them to her, and wrote her repliesbut apparently that friend left things out, like Michael’s dream of a wife who was nothing like her. Selina won’t change who she is, not even for the man she loves. Yet time might show Michael the true value of his unlikely wife.

The Unlikely Wife