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Kensington Books
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English
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Lured to Umbersea Island to attend the engagement party of one of her late husband's fellow officers, Verity mingles among the men her husband once fought beside, and discovers dark secrets--along with a murder clearly meant to conceal them. Relying on little more than a coded letter, the help of a dashing stranger, and her own sharp instincts, Verity is forced down a path she never imagined--and comes face to face with the shattering possibility...
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"1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the...
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Once upon a dukedom volume 3
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English
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"When his father, the Duke of Wolfford, is hanged for an assassination attempt on Queen Victoria, Marcus Stanwick is stripped of everything. Vowing to return honor to his family, he seeks to expose the others involved in the treasonous plot and bring them to justice. His search forces him to turn to a woman he despises for her unforgivable betrayal--a woman known as the heartless harlot. Harboring secrets, Esme Lancaster has her own reasons for wanting...
4) Skin game
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Teddy Fay novels volume 3
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English
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"When Teddy Fay receives a freelance assignment from a gentleman he can't refuse, he jets off to Paris on the hunt for a treasonous criminal. But as Teddy unearths more information that just doesn't seem to connect, his straightforward mission becomes far bigger--and stranger--than he could imagine. The trail of breadcrumbs leads to secrets hidden within secrets, evildoers trading in money and power and a global threat on an unprecedented scale. Under...
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"This sequel Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word...
6) Conviction
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English
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Follows the efforts of Luke and Ben Skywalker to investigate the mysterious Abeloth with unlikely Sith allies while the exiled Grand Master and the Republic clash over the fate of the afflicted Jedi Order during the trial of Tahiri Veila.
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Livy Nash series volume 1
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Crooked Lane Books
Pub. Date
2020.
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English
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It's V-E Day 1946 in London. Former spy Livy Nash is celebrating with her third drink before noon. She went to war to kill Nazis and quickly became one of the toughest agents in France. But her war ended with betrayal and the execution of the man she loved. Now Livy spends her days proofreading a demeaning advice column and her nights alone with black market vodka. But everything changes when she meets Ian Fleming. The man who will create the world's...
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Children of the mist volume 4
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English
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To return home to his beloved Scotland, Colin MacGregor must complete one last mission and, while infiltrating a traitor's home to expose a treasonous plot against the king, comes to the rescue of Lady Gillian Dearly and her young son who are being held captive by a madman.
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Tom locke volume 3
Publisher
William Morrow
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"In this pulse-pounding third action thriller for fans of Brad Thor and David Baldacci, a man must stop traitors-and former colleagues-who are determined to overthrow a U.S. president"--
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English
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To save himself from the hangman's noose, John Wesley Hawkins agrees to infiltrate the Irish resistance against English rule by seducing the rebels' secrets from Caitlin MacBride, a headstrong Irishwoman who spurns his advances, making no secret of her loyalty to her countrymen.
13) Traitor
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Kirk McGarvey adventures volume 27
Publisher
Forge
Pub. Date
2022.
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English
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"Traitor is the final, explosive adventure in the thrilling Kirk McGarvey series from David Hagberg. When McGarvey's best friend, Otto, is charged with treason, Mac and his wife, Petey, set out on a desperate odyssey to clear Otto's name. Crossing oceans and continents, their journey will take them from Japan to the US to Pakistan to Russia. Caught in a Kremlin crossfire between two warring intel agencies, Mac and Petey must fight for their lives...
15) True as fate
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Ashford chronicles volume 2
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Waterfall Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
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English
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"Lady Chloe Ashford detests going to balls, loathes social pretense, and finds the very idea of hunting for a husband obscene. But she has an even more scandalous secret: she once helped an American--the enemy--escape from Dartmoor Prison. Now, nearly three years later, Ross Trenerry is back--and in trouble again. So is her traitorous heart. He doesn't know she's the one responsible for sending him to a second prison, and she has no intention of telling...
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Forge
Pub. Date
c2011
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English
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"In preparation for the 1936 Berlin Olympics, the Nazis have rid the streets of anti-Semitic material and other propaganda, and present a peace-seeking face to the world. Journalist and part-time spy for the British, Hannah Vogel, shudders to think of what lies under the temporary coat of gloss. Posing as travel reporter Adelheid Zinsli and lover of SS officer Lars Lang, Hannah has been collecting Nazi secrets from Lang and smuggling them back to...
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Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[2021]
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IL: MG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 2
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English
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London, 1716. Lord William Nithsdale has been found guilty of treason after fighting alongside the other rebels against the British crown. For his crime, he is sent to the infamous Tower of London, where he awaits his punishment: the executioner's blade. Upon learning of the Lord's death sentence, his wife, Lady Winifred Maxwell, sets out to free him from the "Bloody Tower." She plots and plans to pull off a daring and dangerous breakout. If her idea...
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2014.
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English
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"SISTERS OF TREASON, the second novel by Elizabeth Fremantle, is a story of love, politics and tragedy. Beginning early in Mary Tudor's turbulent reign, SISTERS OF TREASON explores the lives of a pair of sisters as dangerously close to the throne as their sister Lady Jane Grey, who died on the executioner's block at the age of 16, after being queen for nine days. After Jane's death, Lady Catherine becomes the focus of plots to thwart Mary Stuart's...
19) Guardian
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Berkley Sensation
Pub. Date
c2012
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English
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Major David Berg, who is in the middle of a military trial after a dark ops malfunction, is forced to team up with the gorgeous J.A.G. officer who is determined to take down his unit to find a traitor in their midst.
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