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Taking the Fall

taking-the-fallA.P. McCoy

Duncan Claymore could have it all. He’s one of the country’s up-and-coming young jockeys and this season his sights are set on getting right to the top, but his demons threaten to overwhelm him. Duncan was taught everything he knows by his father, Charlie, a former trainer whose career and reputation were destroyed when a series of bitter rivalries got out of hand. It ruined him and Charlie hasn’t been able to set foot on a racecourse since. Now, with his father’s health rapidly declining, Duncan is desperate to beat the best and at the same time take down the men responsible for Charlie’s ruin. But can he do both or must he choose between his family and his future?

Five Dead Canaries

five-dead-canariesEdward Marston

Marmion and Keedy return for a third time in the acclaimed Home Front Detective series.As thousands of Brits are fighting on the Front Line, a new breed of women emerges to hold the Home Front together. Fiercely independent and fiery-spirited, these women are a raucous group of munition workers, or munitionettes . The canaries, so-called because of their chemically-stained yellow faces, decide to celebrate leader Florrie Duncan s birthday but their frolics are soon cut short when all but one are killed in a startling explosion.With five times the victims there are five times the possible motivations for the murderer, and Marmion and Keedy certainly uncover some surprising clues. Grappling with this perplexing murder mystery involves marital dysfunction, failed bomb plots and an extremely competitive women s football team.

Shades of Deceit

shades-of-deceiptMary Larkin

When her mother leaves the family home in Belfast for her lover, Louise McGuigan is left feeling betrayed. It is up to Louise to look after her brother and sister while her father loses himself to alcohol. Returning to work at the local linen factory, she has to endure the cruel gossip about her so-called righteous mother and when Conor O’Rourke, the man of her dreams, continues to drag his heels about their future together, Louise doesn’t know how much more she can take.

Louise’s luck appears to change when she finds alternative employment in a local bookshop, but her family troubles still weigh heavy on her mind. And when she seeks solace in the arms of a man who isn’t Conor, things become even more complicated. Can Louise find happiness with the right man or will she be tied to her troubled family for ever?

Set in Belfast in the 1920s, “Shades of Deceit” is a gripping story of heartbreak, loyalty and hope from much-loved bestselling author Mary Larkin.

Stranded

strandedJeff Probst

It was supposed to be a vacation – and a chance to get to know each other better. But when a massive storm sets in without warning, four kids are shipwrecked alone on a rocky jungle island in the middle of the South Pacific. No adults. No instructions. Nobody to rely on but themselves. Can they make it home alive?

A week ago, the biggest challenge Vanessa, Buzz, Carter, and Jane had was learning to live as a new blended family. Now the four siblings must find a way to work together if they’re going to make it off the island. But first they’ve got to learn to survive one another

Cheyenne Medicine

cheyenne-medicineHal Jons

Mark Holden was heading for St Louis to doctor for a California-bound wagon train when he came upon an attack on the Kremmling to Granby stage. The stage was carrying nothing but four women, coming in answer to an advert for wives for some of the town’s worthies.
So what had the outlaws been after? Putting the stage out of business was the simple answer and saving it embroiled Mark in a whole heap of complications.
These complications involved a pushy mining company, crooked law and a scheming, deadly ramrod, who had cleared the range of opposition and spread fear amongst Kremmling folk with the help of his shadows, the four hot-tempered Dando brothers.
Another complication was the stage owner’s beautiful, but fiery, shotgun-toting daughter.
Holden could spare Kremmling just two weeks so he had to prod and push hard to inflame men easily moved to reach for the hardware. Raised Cheyenne style, he turned to his Indian friends, who owed him some favours, as things moved to the inevitable lead-filled climax.

Wave Me Goodbye

wave-me-goodbyeRuby Jackson

When war is declared, four plucky girls from Dartford, Grace, Sally, Rose and Daisy, are keen to do their bit on the Home Front. For orphan Grace, it’s a chance to start afresh. She’s always has a soft spot for Sam Petrie, brother of Daisy and Rose and away fighting in some far flung place, but Grace realises that he is in love with their friend Sally, so setting her own feelings aside, she puts her best foot forward.

Proud of her green fingers, Grace signs up for life as a Land Girl. But early morning milking and mucking out from dawn-til-dusk comes as a big shock, life is harder than she expected and even worse, she seems to have ended up on the wrong side of Lady Alice, the formidable owner of the farm.

But Grace is nothing if not determined and though their lives will never be the same, the four girls know they will always have each other to lean on, no matter what the war throws at them…

As the war deepens, each of the girls will face heartache and pain, triumph and tragedy, but their strength and friendship will see them through Britain’s darkest days.

Martha’s Girls

marthas-girlsArlene Hughes

Five women and one city in a heartwarming story of life, love and war. Belfast 1939: Martha Goulding’s world is shattered by a sudden death and the outbreak of war that leaves her family facing an uncertain future.

Shadow woman

shadow-womanLinda Howard

Lizette Henry wakes up one morning and makes a terrifying discovery: She doesn’t recognize the face she sees in the mirror. She remembers what she looks like, but her reflection is someone else’s. To add to the shock, two years seem to have disappeared from her life. Someone has gone to great and inexplicable lengths to keep those missing years hidden forever. But the past always finds a way to return.

Strange memories soon begin to surface and, along with them, some unusual skills and talents that Lizette hasn’t a clue about acquiring. Sensing that she’s being monitored, Lizette suddenly knows how to search for bugs in her house and tracking devices in her car. What’s more, she can elude surveillance—like a trained agent.

Enter a mysterious and seductive stranger named Xavier, who claims he wants to help—but who triggers disturbing images of an unspeakable crime of which Lizette may or may not be the perpetrator. With memories returning, she suddenly becomes a target of anonymous assassins. On the run with nowhere to hide, Lizette has no choice but to rely on Xavier, a strong and magnetic man she doesn’t trust, with a powerful attraction she cannot resist. As murky waters become clear, Lizette confronts a conspiracy that is treacherous and far-reaching and a truth that, once revealed, may silence her and Xavier once and for all.

The Empty Cradle

empty-cradleRosie Goodwin

To the outside world, Charlotte is the privileged daughter of the local vicar. Behind closed doors, however, she is the prisoner of her controlling father. As she grows up, Charlotte longs for freedom, but her captivating innocence leads her into trouble. Sent to Ireland to hide a shameful pregnancy, she discovers that once again her father has deceived her. She is forced into a convent’s harsh and humiliating regime, where she must eventually give up the one thing that makes her life worthwhile.

When Charlotte returns to England, older than her years, she chooses to forget the past. Becoming a London midwife, she longs only to help other women at this hardest and most joyful moment in their lives. But her deep compassion, and desire to prevent anyone else suffering the same horror she did, leads her into a darker and more dangerous place.

Death Rides the Range

death-rides-the-rangeArthur Gooden

Mark Hudson is worried by the growing depredations of a mysterious gang of rustlers in the San Carlos Country. He learns that his friend, Sam Brice, has been warned to leave the territory. And it is Mark’s resolve to save Brice and his daughter, Ellen, with whom he has fallen in love. Mark has reason to suspect that Reeve Bett, a newcomer to the town, is the arch-plotter. He also finds that the jealousy of a neighbouring rancher’s daughter adds to his danger.

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