Scandal of the Summer<\/a><\/center>
Eccentric heiress Lady Ruby Ballimore has had enough of the Marriage Mart. After offending yet another Very Important Marquess\u2015and imperiling her father\u2019s diplomatic career\u2015Ruby flees London for the holiday house of a glamorous (and better yet, absent) princess. Armed with a forged invitation and accompanied by her like-minded friends, Ruby arrives at the Cornwall estate expecting a summer of blissful freedom.<\/p>\n
Instead, she discovers a derelict mansion and the most suspiciously charming man she\u2019s ever met.<\/p>\n
Former privateer and current con artist Captain Malcolm Archer has dragged his ramshackle crew into a new life. Posing as staff at a princess\u2019s abandoned estate provides the perfect cover for Archer\u2019s smuggling scheme (not to mention free rent). Everything\u2019s going according to plan\u2015until an unorthodox London heiress crashes the party.<\/p>\n
But when Archer and his crew attempt to frighten off their uninvited guests, Ruby\u2019s unfazed by insect invasions and sham sea monsters. Harder to ignore? The scorching heat between the rakish pirate and the debutante who can see right through him. As sparks fly, deceptions run wild\u2015because in this Great Cornish Fake Off, the only thing riskier than telling the truth is falling in love.<\/p>\n
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It Could Have Been Her<\/a><\/center>
Jane Trevally is walking her dogs on her country estate when a small white terrier appears, alone and with no sign of the teenaged girl he\u2019d been staying with nearby. When the teenager is reported missing, Jane offers to return the dog to his registered owner, hours away in London. Arriving at a run-down house called Thornwood in the deepest backwaters of Hampstead, she is immediately on alert\u2014because Jane has a dark history with this house.<\/p>\n
The man who answers the door is not the man that Jane remembers from her past. He is cagey, and claims to know nothing about the missing teenage girl. Then, through the window of the house, Jane catches a glimpse of a haunted-looking woman.<\/p>\n
Conjuring her memories from twenty-five years ago, Jane knows this unsettling house holds the key\u2014to the missing teenager, to her own traumatic story, and to the dark secrets of the past.<\/p>\n
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The Sixth Nik<\/a><\/center>
Deep into space, far past the triworld outposts, beyond range of the lethal trollbot internet, soars The Sickness: a ship woven from biomatter and capable of reacting to every need of its human crew. Sisilla, a nine-year-old cultist with a brain enhanced by arcane tech known as \u201cniks,\u201d has boarded to investigate the enigma of F\u00e9m\u2014a plague-riddled planet that has abruptly gone rogue.<\/p>\n
The mysterious crew includes a faceless assassin, a beautiful engineer jigsawed by plastic surgery, a peyote-addicted medic, and\u2014most lethal of all\u2014a rugged, NonModded captain with a score to settle with Sisilla. Other dangers abound. A hacked robot begins to believe Sisilla is its daughter. The Sickness itself is mutating, possibly even pregnant. And the secret of F\u00e9m is more horrific than anyone could have imagined. To survive, Sisilla will need to forsake her predetermined fate and embrace the unknown.<\/p>\n
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Green City Wars<\/a><\/center>
In the solar cities of the future, the humans relax in the sun and the animals work in the shadows. Genetically engineered Little Helpers, serving humanity\u2015unseen, unheard.<\/p>\n
Meet Skotch. Raccoon, PI\u2015yours for a few buttons as long as the job isn’t too illegal, whatever that means.<\/p>\n
A mouse has gone missing. Normally this wouldn’t raise any hackles, nor any alarms, but this mouse has something that everyone seems to want, though nobody appears particularly eager to say what that something is.<\/p>\n
The fee is good\u2015perhaps too good. Certainly not something Skotch can easily turn down.<\/p>\n
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All We Hunger For<\/a><\/center>
In Anesp\u00e9rer, where magic comes alive through artistic skill, Elara Rousseau knows she’ll never be selected for the Objet d\u2019Art. The high-stakes baking competition will elect a new Souverain to join the ruling council, and someone from the slums would never be considered. But when a brooding figure from her past sneaks her into the Objet, Elara has the chance to compete for a better future… as long as no one uncovers her traitorous secret.<\/p>\n
Nikolas Dupont will do whatever it takes to impress his powerful father, a Souverain who hasn’t officially recognized his son\u2015like handpick a contestant to win and become his father’s political pawn. But Elara is more than he bargained for, and she ignites his own subdued passions.<\/p>\n
Against all odds, Elara excels and becomes a hero to the city’s poor, all while Nik\u2019s faith in his father crumbles and the sparks between them burn brighter. As the competition heats up, Elara and Nik must choose: fight to win the competition and secure a future of safety for them both, or use the power of Elara\u2019s art to spark a revolution.<\/p>\n
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Long Island Girls<\/a><\/center>
It’s 2005, and Susan is barreling down the Long Island Expressway driving a car full of friends to an indie rock show. Eliza is a surprise addition in the backseat\u2015unexpected, out of place, and impossible to ignore. Their connection is immediate, electric, and complicated from the start, shadowed by the kind of small-town rumors that have a way of sticking. As quickly as they come together, they part.<\/p>\n
As Susan moves from Long Island to Brooklyn, from college to the insular world of indie labels, she begins to carve out a life in music, and the future she always dreamed of. Yet the scene that once felt like home reveals its limits, forcing her to confront who gets to belong, who gets to create, and what it costs to stay.<\/p>\n
When Susan and Eliza reconnect years later, the pull between them hasn\u2019t faded\u2015but neither have the unresolved histories that first drove them apart. As past and present collide, Susan is caught between two worlds\u2015where she’s from, and where she’s trying to go.<\/p>\n
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The Very Definition of Love<\/a><\/center>
1816\u2014Harriet Bancroft doesn\u2019t mind that she\u2019s on her fifth season with no marriage prospects, it gives her more time to write her dictionary of modern slang. Words are her passion, especially the exciting, filthy ones men have kept hidden from women for far too long.<\/p>\n
Enter the ultimate teacher . . .<\/p>\n
When Harriet accidentally finds herself in a compromising situation with the notorious rake Lord Alexander, she has no choice but to\u202fsort of kidnap him and strong-arm him into an elopement. This arranged marriage has a very particular condition\u2014it will be in-name-only, leaving each of them to follow their own interests. For Harriet that\u2019s her work; for Alexander, that\u2019s women.<\/p>\n
But love has a different lesson in mind . . .<\/p>\n
But soon Alexander\u2019s rakish lifestyle is not nearly as fun as spending time with Harriet, and Harriet\u2019s beginning to worry that she might actually like her husband. Behind the closed doors of their respectable home, things become a little . . . complicated. After all, who\u202fbetter teach her the very\u202fthorough meaning of these indecent words than the renowned lover, Lord Alexander Stirling?\u202f<\/p>\n
Perhaps this marriage will teach them both a little more about that word they\u2019ve been avoiding\u2014love.<\/p>\n
Sources: 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, 3<\/a>, 4<\/a>, 5<\/a>, 6<\/a>, 7<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n