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"Nina de Gramont's The Christie Affair is a beguiling novel of star-crossed lovers, heartbreak, revenge, and murder-and a brilliant re-imagination of one of the most talked-about unsolved mysteries of the twentieth century. Every story has its secrets. Every mystery has its motives. "A long time ago, in another country, I nearly killed a woman. It's a particular feeling, the urge to murder. It takes over your body so completely, it's like a divine...
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Jay Gatsby had once loved beautiful, spoiled Daisy Buchanan, then lost her to a rich boy. Now, mysteriously wealthy, he is ready to risk everything to woo her back. This is the definitive, textually accurate edition of a classic of twentieth-century literature, The Great Gatsby. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan has been acclaimed by generations of readers. But the first edition contained...
3) Mistress
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"Ben isn't like most people. Unable to control his racing thoughts, he's a man consumed by his obsessions: movies, motorcycles, presidential trivia-and Diana Hotchkiss, a beautiful woman Ben knows he can never have. When Diana is found dead outside her apartment, Ben's infatuation drives him on a hunt to find out what happened to the love of his life. Ben soon discovers that the woman he pined for was hiding a shocking double life. And now someone...
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2017.
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What do you do when one youthful indiscretion threatens to derail the rest of your life? Aviva Grossman is a bright, ambitious Congressional intern with a promising future in front of her--until her Lewinsky-esque affair with a married Congressman comes to a crashing end. Literally. (She's in a car crash with the Congressman and that's how their affair makes the news.) After unsuccessfully trying her best to bounce back and restart her life, she decides...
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Natasha Leonova's beauty saved her life. Discovered on a freezing Moscow street by a Russian billionaire, she has lived for seven years under his protection, immersed in rarefied luxury, while he pursues his activities in a dark world that she guesses at but never sees. Her home is the world, often on one of Vladimir Stanislas's spectacular yachts manned by scores of heavily armed crew members. Natasha's job is to keep Vladimir happy, ask no questions,...
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2020.
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"All it takes to unravel a life is one little secret... Marin had the perfect life. Married to her college sweetheart, she owns a chain of upscale hair salons, and Derek runs his own company. They're admired in their community and are a loving family--until their world falls apart the day their son Sebastian is taken. A year later, Marin is a shadow of herself. The FBI search has gone cold. The publicity has faded. She and her husband rarely speak....
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Mistress trilogy (Mary Balogh) volume 2
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Lord Ferdinand Dudley is accustomed to getting what he wants - until he appears at the door of Pinewood Manor, attempting to claim his rightful estate, and is met by the bewitching fury of LAdy Viola Thornhill. She refuses to relinquish the home she calls her own. He refuses to leave, and so the contest begins. Each day under the same roof bring immense frustration - and temptation. But Viola knows it is a battle she cannot afford to lose, and she...
10) The Irish devil
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Devil books (Diane Whiteside) volume 1
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[2004]
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Born to wealth and privilege, but now widowed and betrayed on the unforgiving Arizona frontier, Viola Ross must choose between starvation and marriage to her husband's killer. Or take a scandalous risk and turn her back on polite society by becoming the mistress of William Donovan. With his reputation for ruthlessness and a piercing stare that can stop any man -- or melt any woman -- Donovan seems fully capable of defending her with his bullwhip and...
11) Beyond danger
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Texas trilogy (Kat Martin) volume 2
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Texas mogul Beau Reese is furious. His sixty-year-old father, Stewart, a former state senator no less, has impregnated a teenager. Barely able to contain his anger, Beau is in for another surprise. It appears that Stewart has moved an entirely different woman into the house... Beau assumes that stunning Cassidy Jones is his father's mistress. At least she's of age. But those concerns take a sudden backseat when he finds Stewart in a pool of blood...
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2009.
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Jules Mendelson is wealthy. Astronomically so. He and his wife lead the kind of charity-giving, art-filled, high-society life for which each has been carefully groomed. Until Jules falls in love with Flo March, a beautiful actress/waitress. What Flo discovers about the super-rich is not a pretty sight. In the end, she wants no more than what she was promised. But when Flo begins to share the true story of her life among the Mendelsons, not everyone...
13) Gigi
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2010.
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A wealthy Gaston finds out he prefers a young Parisian girl to be his wife rather than his mistress. This title has been repackaged.
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2020.
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"Meet Shannon and Jay Lovejoy-the rich and successful power couple who, to the fans of their call-in radio show, seem like they've got it all. But after three years, their once passionate and loving romance has fizzled and the couple's divorce becomes embroiled in not only a mess of infidelity and deceit, but the untimely and shocking death of Jay's mistress, as well. This fast-paced and emotionally powerful page-turner boldly goes where ReShonda...
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2014.
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When Animals former lover, Red Sonja, shows up on his doorstep with a little girl, claiming Animal is the father, he and Gucci immediately fear its a ploy for money. But Red Sonja has come to collect a debt of a different kind, one that can only be paid in blood. A powerful man is hunting Red Sonja and her daughter, Celeste, and she calls on Animal to stop him, permanently. Animal is forced to break the promise he made to his wife...
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2008.
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The little-known story of Mary Boleyn who was mistress to King Henry VIII before he married her older sister, Anne. Two great families jockey for position and use their daughters as pawns in a deadly game. Set during one of the most notorious periods in British regal history. A story of a rival relationship between the two sisters.
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Secrets of the Tudor court volume 1
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2009.
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Jane Popyncourt, a real-life member of the royal court of Henry VIII, exposes the darkest corners of Tudor England in this captivating novel.
20) Runaway mistress
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[2005]
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Jennifer Chaise's career as mistress to wealthy married men comes to an abrupt end when she walks into her Las Vegas hotel room to find the corpse of her latest paramour's wife, but her disguise as a waitress in Boulder City, Nevada, only takes her so far, and the gig is up when she falls in love with her neighbor, a big-hearted cop.
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