Kirjahaku

Where passion, reality, and destiny combine. Dale Wincott is a 27-year-old woman born into Bostonian wealth and groomed to marry into the social hierarchy. Her mother is a hard-hearted society matriarch, but her father feels for his daughter and helps Dale find a life on her own as a furniture restorer. Fran oise Marie Aur lie de Villerey is a 28-year-old Countess, born into the French aristocracy and forced to marry a count much older than herself. For ten years, she was his trophy wife, forced to endure his perverted desires, until the day he finally died. He had broken her emotionally and she no longer cared for what life had to offer, slipping from one sexual partner to another as often as she changed her clothes. Until... that one night when Fran oise looked up during a sexual encounter and saw Dale watching her from the mirror. A veritable angel, full of innocence and curiosity, who touched her very soul. Through the mirror, Fran oise embraces life anew, while for Dale it is a powerful awakening, forcing her to discover not only her sensual nature, but the inner strength she possesses.

New York City, in the height of summer. Crime seems to have taken a holiday, and Detective Morgan O'Callaghan is bored, bored, bored. Paperwork is mating and multiplying on her desk, and even a jaywalker is starting to look good. Anything to get her out from behind her desk Enter Andrea Worthington, Charleston socialite and all-around rich girl, right down to the wealthy fianc . She's also the new Assistant District Attorney assigned to Morgan's precinct. Their first meeting is like two freight trains crashing head on. Then a high profile, career make-or-break murder case throws them together again. The investigation has barely begun when Andrea becomes the target of a nearly fatal hit-and-run. But was it really aimed at her? Can she and Morgan find the common ground they need to solve the case and stop the attacks, or are the gaps just too wide to bridge?

Priory McAllister has fought off boardroom sharks, handled high-pressure jobs, and thought she'd seen it all. Ready to live the suburban life she found her dream home and can't wait to move in.Unknown to Priory, the house is inhabited by two ghosts, Rhee and a mischievous Dylan who call Priory's new house their home and have since 1935. They have no intention of leaving after all, she couldn't be harder to get rid of than the others who tried to encroach on their home.Jacey Ryder, Priory's long-suffering secretary has agreed to help her boss move...the things you do for your crush Now, she gets to play referee between her boss and a bossy ghost, as each side try to lay claim to the house. What can she do when an unstoppable force, (her boss) meets an immovable object, (the ghost) besides hope for a peaceful solution? They are like two peas in a pod-two angry, stubborn peas in a pod.

Edda has to get away. The recent death of her partner and the ensuing myriad of sympathy calls and emails is just too much to cope with. A long-forgotten invitation to house swap seems the ideal opportunity for her to escape and grieve in peace.The new house appears to be as she hoped. But late one night a ball of light appears over the nearby cemetery and her interest is piqued. Is it her beloved June sending her a message?When she starts to investigate, Edda discovers that things are not as they seem. Can Edda, an overly friendly neighbor, David, a sympathetic new 'friend' Delia, and a cat named Jasper solve the mystery of The Beggars' Coppice? Join them in this tantalizing first book in the Edda Case Mysteries to find out.