"When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn't want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn't want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father's academic career and her mother's lifelong obsession with puppets and dolls. She doesn't want to learn how to live without the two people who knew and loved her best in the world. Most of all, she doesn't...

Unable to resist an exciting job offer in Marseille, Sam Levitt and his girlfriend Elena find their happy return to the region's coastal sunshine and delectable cuisine challenged by an increasingly violent competition for waterfront property.

"Pungent, steamy, insatiable Soho; the only part of London that truly never sleeps. Tourists dawdling, chancers skulking, addicts shuffling, sex workers strutting, punters prowling, businessmen striding, the homeless and the lost. Down Wardour Street, ducking onto Dean Street, sweeping into L'Escargot, darting down quiet back alleyways, skirting dumpsters and drunks, emerging on to raucous main roads, fizzing with energy and riotous with life.On a...

All she has to do is be his lover for a week - and with gorgeous Galen Steele, what woman could say no? But Brittany Thrasher has her own motives for accepting Galen's proposal.... Ever since Galen met her at an auction, he knew Brittany was special. If she wants the house he just won so badly, how far is she willing to go to get it? The Denver entrepreneur makes her an offer he expects her to refuse. But he isn't about to let the woman of his dreams...

When real estate developer Ian McKay tries to buy out widow Robin Price's humble café, she refuses, and their warring business plans cause them to look deeper at each other and find personal similarities.

You're not going to believe where this story is going to take you! When Stella's uncle drags her to a surprise party for Ian Stuber, no one is more surprised than the man of the hour--who promptly drops dead. But when it's determined something more sinister is at play, Stella is dragged into the investigation as one of the witnesses, and the search is on to discover not only who committed the murder, but how... after all, the room was packed with...

New York City, 1911. Representing the widow of a Wall Street financier, lawyer William Dysart travels to a small Long Island town with a generous offer for Miss Sybil Curtis's cottage and five acres of land. But when Sybil refuses to sell, the widow threatens to use her influence with the state to seize the property. Intrigued by Sybil's defiance and afflicted by a growing affection for her, William develops a desire to help her that becomes an obsession...