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1) Loveless
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The loveless meeting is a somber collision of two souls traversing parallel paths, devoid of the spark and resonance that typically accompanies the union of hearts. It's a moment shrouded in a sense of emptiness and disconnect, where the absence of genuine connection casts a pall over the encounter. In the absence of love, the meeting feels hollow, as if two strangers pass each other by in the vast expanse of existence, their paths crossing momentarily...
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It's been said that if you love someone, set them free. If they come back they're yours; if they don't they never were. But what does it mean when they come back into your life-as your sibling's significant other? At twenty-five years old, Cal Adams has only ever truly loved one man, the one who broke his heart three years earlier-Andrew Hall. Since then, he has searched for meaningful relationships but cannot smolder the flames of the past his family...
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Elizabeth McGee never thought she'd set foot in Loveless, Texas, again. But after the reading of her father's will, Elizabeth learns she's inherited her grandmother's house and all of the personal contents. If that wasn't enough to knock her off her feet, she soon discovers that JD Carmichael, her lost love from high school, is the contractor who has been hired to finish renovating the house. JD once had the world by the tail. But after a premature...
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Katie Donovan kicks over the traces of her loveless marriage and heads for Key West to start a new life in the sun and fun of the beach. To her shock, her husband follows and demands she return home to Boston. Digging in Katie refuses, and so starts an unusual courtship by a man who was too busy before, but now determined not to lose his wife
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Vonda is in a loveless marriage that seems to shape the way she sees herself. In a world where her husband and children have been her everything, she's lost track of who she is. When her youngest goes away to school her entire world turns upside down. Vonda must learn to fight in ways she never thought she would have to. Finding your value in an environment that tries to take it away can be hard.
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Wicked schemes are afoot at Westwood Hall this Christmas. And lovely, innocent Adeline Osbourne will be ensnared by dark, dashing Grant Leighton and a scandalous assignation.…
Betrothed against her will, Adeline had been resigned to a loveless marriage. At the mercy of her father's wishes, she had lost all hope of experiencing what life really had to offer.
But now a scandal has altered her destiny! Adeline secretly thanks the festive season for...
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RT Book Reviews: "Let's Misbehave is a romp through 1920s England that is sure to delight." His is a life of duty and tradition, hers is the pursuit of pleasure... When wild child and dedicated Flapper Gabrielle discovers the adventurous spirit within staid aristocrat Sebastian, she seduces him into a last fling before he settles for a loveless marriage. But as the Twenties roar to their conclusion, is their brief affair doomed before it even begins?...
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This is Ryan Gallagher's story before he met Iris, the love of his life. Alexis and Ryan are forced into a loveless marriage because of the birth of their child, Mia. The union isn't happy, however, as Ryan knows that he and Alexis aren't meant to be. In fact, a fascinating redhead catches his eye and he somehow knows that this woman holds the key to his happiness. For fans of the Illusions Series and Ryan Gallagher, this is a must-read if you are...
10) Merely a Miss
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Miss Jane Matthews feels completely out of place amongst the finery of the ton. She's the daughter of a country vicar, for goodness sake, and nearly a spinster to boot. Frankly, she would prefer to stay that way. How can a lady of Quality start up her own modiste shop, after all? But when her distant cousin-the Dowager Duchess of Somerton, of all people-offers to sponsor her for a Season in London, she agrees, but only so she can take the opportunity...
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Love united them. Destiny drove them apart.When Avicia, a Norman noblewoman, makes a careless but costly mistake with a prized falcon, the brutal punishment nearly claims her life. Her Saxon lover, Edric of Newington, witnesses her ordeal but cannot share her fate. Another destiny awaits him in England, and the prospect of a loveless marriage.Swept away in the arms of another, Avicia enters the treacherous court of Duke William of Normandy. Through...
12) The Return
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The debut feature of celebrated director Andrey Zvyagintsev (Loveless, Leviathan) earns its place in the pantheon of great Russian Cinema. Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival, the film is a mixture of psychological thriller and road movie, telling the story of two young brothers who must cope with the sudden and unexplained return of their father after a 12-year absence. The three embark on a road trip that becomes...
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Analise woke up in the hospital to find that her parents were dead. Her father's business partner has inherited the ranch she grew up on. To make matters worse her father's will stipulates she cannot receive her inheritance until she turns twenty-one. Now penniless and homeless, she agrees to a marriage of convenience with her father's business partner.After turning twenty-one and with her inheritance in hand, she no longer wishes to be trapped in...
14) Another Eden
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Trapped in a loveless marriage at the turn of the twentieth century, a British noblewoman finds renewed passion with a young architect Lady Sara Longford's once-storybook marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Ben Cochrane, a New York entrepreneur, married Sara in the hopes that a high-society English wife would improve his odds of entering New York's uppermost social strata, but so far those ambitions have remained unfulfilled, and the relationship...
15) Lights Out!
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A bold money-making scheme spins wildly out of control in this absorbing thriller! Five major blackouts have paralyzed the USA since the late 1950s. The sixth will occur in a few months' time. At the age of fifty-three, married Canadian engineer Carlton Smythe meets a mysterious woman in a Buenos Aires bar-and falls head over heels in love for the first time in his life. Desperate to find the funds to escape his loveless marriage to Cynthia and embark...
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The American dream is dead, and Los Angeles is burning. Stoned and porn-addicted surfer Baxter Kent is terrified of women and anxious to make things work with a sex robot. Acid junkie Arden Coover has a useless philosophy degree and a doomed relationship he believes might save him. His younger sister Tess is considering, or resisting, a convenient but loveless marriage to a wealthy, narcissistic novelist. Ryland Richter, an alcoholic insurance executive...
17) Ocean of Deceit
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Set again the majestic backdrop of northern Arizona is the little town of Oater's Creek. The Brazilian Bean coffee shop is a popular place in town, and it is there that David first met Angel.They soon become lovers, but their future together seems doomed, for Angel is trapped in a loveless marriage with a brutal husband. Only the death of her husband Richard Carlson will provide Angel with the means to escape the bounds of his brutality. Desperately...
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The women of the Granville family find their lives changed-and endangered-as World War II rages in this novel in the "sweeping and poignant series" (Booklist).
The Granville family has fled bomb-torn London for Hartley Hall in Surrey, but even away from the city, life remains turbulent. Rosie is trapped in a loveless marriage to a penniless peer. With her husband away fighting, she finds the temptations that come with his absence too much to...
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In 1834 six farm laborers from the Dorset hamlet of Tolpuddle fell foul of draconian Victorian laws prohibiting assembly. Today the names of George Loveless and his brother James, Thomas Standfield and his son John, James Brine and James Hammett, who made up the Tolpuddle Martyrs, stand high on the roll of British men who have been victimized for their beliefs but stood steadfast in the face of persecution. They refused to be persuaded to betray their...
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A case of amnesia and a desperate lie are the start to an irresistible tale of love in this Regency romance from the author of Scandal's Child. When Mary Masterton gazes into the eyes of a handsome stranger and informs him that they're engaged, he has no reason to doubt her. After all, his head injury has resulted in a complete loss of memory. Mary, however, clearly remembers the stable fire and the brave man who saved her prized horses-this man before...
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