Download or read book Mistaken Legacy Book 1 written by Leigh Rose and published by Leigh Rose . This book was released on 2021-03-16 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riveting… Page-turning…The pacing is swift, the action scenes are cinematically developed, and Rose’s moving, assured prose keeps the pages turning..." — The Prairies Book Review 1 June – 7 July 1980 St. Augustine, Florida Paris, France Juliette’s life is a fairytale come true until a mysterious overseas letter arrives from a cousin she hadn’t met. In his letter, Claude Freedman exposes the truth about her engagement gift passed down through the ages, and a memoir written by her 4th great-grandfather and nobleman, Capt. Françoise J. Reiss III: A man with a nefarious past who lived during the colonial slave trade. When Juliette confronts her mother with Claude’s letter, Adrian insists the Freedman’s are ‘impostors’ and Children of the Alliance, the memoir “the captain” wrote, is a ‘literary forgery.’ Defying her mother’s wish to forget about their family’s notorious past, Juliette sojourns to St. Augustine, Florida, to meet Mr. Freedman, and to pick up “the captain’s” memoir. However, while visiting the “Land of Flowers,” Juliette fears the Freedman descendants from “the captain’s” second marriage might be the rightful owners of her dowry. Realizing the truth may not always mend broken hearts, but will turn heads, Juliette returns to Paris, France, where she hires a team of forensic scientists to investigate her heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones. Shocked by the team’s discovery and with INTERPOL on her tail, Juliette calls upon her trusted friends to help her until she can clear her family name…

Download or read book Mistaken Legacy Book One written by Leigh Rose and published by Leigh Rose. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1 June - 7 July 1980 Paris, France St. Augustine, Florida Juliette Reiss-Marston's life seems like a fairytale come true. Her college sweetheart, William Fourier, just announced their engagement to marry. Even with the good news, Juliette's suspicions mount about their future together when an overseas letter arrives from a mysterious cousin she hadn't met. In his letter, Claude Freedman Esq. confides that Juliette's recent gift of a dowry is from her 4th great-grandfather and nobleman, Capt. Françoise J. Reiss III: A man with a nefarious past and a memoir, Children of the Alliance. Confused, Juliette confronts her mother, Adrian Reiss-Marston, who insists the Freedman's are 'impostors' and the memoir is a ‘literary forgery.’ Defying her mother's wish to forget about their family's notorious past, Juliette sojourns to St. Augustine, Florida, to meet Mr. Freedman, and to pick up her ancestor's memoir. However, while visiting the “Land of Flowers,” Juliette discovers the truth about her ancestors and fears she opened Pandora's Box, surmising the descendants of the captain and his second wife, Selina Freedman, the heir of a freed Senegalese slave, may be the rightful owners of her dowry. Realizing that knowing the truth may not always mend broken hearts, but can turn heads, Juliette, returns to Paris, France, and hires a team of forensic scientists to investigate her heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones. Shocked by the team's discovery and with INTERPOL on her tail, Juliette calls upon her trusted friends to help her hide the rare gemstones until she can clear her family name...

Download or read book His Best Mistake written by Lucy King and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is it too much to ask for a relationship that works? When Stella Grant realises her perfect romance is a lie and that she's the other woman, she flees to her remote cottage in the Highlands to lick her wounds. Billionaire currency trader Jack Maclean has nothing but contempt for the woman who stole not only his sister’s fiancé but quite possibly a family heirloom to boot. Nonetheless, he wants answers and he intends to get them. A quick trip north should do the trick. Never in a million years could he have predicted a kamikaze sheep and inclement weather would leave him stranded. Jack might be gorgeous but Stella isn’t in the market for a man, especially one who hates her. No matter how attractive he finds her Stella is the very last person Jack should want. The trouble is, they’re all alone and the chemistry is irresistible, and, well, what happens in Scotland stays in Scotland, right?

Download or read book No Way Up The Cimarron Legacy Book 1 written by Mary Connealy and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-07-05 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New Western Romance Series from Bestselling Author Mary Connealy When Cimarron ranch patriarch Chance Boden is caught in an avalanche, the quick actions of hired hand Heath Kincaid save him. Badly injured, Chance demands that his will be read and its conditions be enforced immediately. Without anyone else to serve as a witness, Heath is pressed into reading the will. If Justin, Sadie, and Cole Boden don't live and work at home for the entire year, the ranch will go to their low-down cousin Mike. Then Heath discovers the avalanche was a murder attempt, and more danger might follow. Deeply involved with the family, Heath's desire to protect Sadie goes far beyond friendship. The danger keeps them close together, and their feelings grow until being apart is the last thing on their minds.

Download or read book My Favorite Mistake written by Stella Holt and published by Tule Publishing. This book was released on 2024-03-19 with total page 186 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fake dating her client’s gorgeous son was a mistake—enjoying his touch will be her ruin. Bad boy Ian Maguire is a lawyer with an image problem. But he doesn’t care if the media is obsessed with him or deemed him the most wanted bachelor. He’s also not interested in relationships, until he meets his dad’s political strategist. With her cool confidence, dark features, and quiet beauty, she is tempting enough to get him to pretend to settle down. And he can promise they will both enjoy it. Simone Jax is trained in managing a crisis, and she has the perfect plan for Ian’s playboy status. He just needs to agree to only be seen with one woman until his father’s gubernatorial election is over, even if it’s fake. But when the press captures a picture of them kissing and blasts it everywhere, she has no choice but to play the part of girlfriend. Just when their fake relationship starts to feel genuine, Simone discovers she’s pregnant. Is this a secret baby or the start of a real romance?

Download or read book Children of the Alliance eBook Three written by Leigh Rose and published by Leigh Rose. This book was released on 2023-05-05 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Riveting… Page-turning…Filled with historical events, myths, and legends that haunt two families’ redemption, Rose’s Legends on the Rise series is a poignant, revealing period fiction about race and slavery in the colonial slave trade era. The pacing is swift, the action scenes are cinematically developed, and Rose’s moving, assured prose keeps the pages turning..." The Prairies Book Review Setting: Toulon, France: 1754 Senegal, West Africa: 1755 St. Augustine, Florida: 1756 - 1810 Summary: Book 3 - Children of the Alliance, 1754 – 1810 is the prequel to the series. The story-within-a-story encapsulates the legendary saga of the Reiss and Freedman families, recounting the life of Juliette and Claude’s ancestor’s, knight-errant and Captain, Françoise J. Reiss III, and Prince Boukar Semou Jolof, a.k.a. Luis Freedman, a former Senegalese prince and freed slave. It’s the Age of Enlightenment on the European, African and North Atlantic Continents, when a racial divide makes most men enemies Françoise and Luis sacrifice everything to keep their mixed-race families together. The story behind Children of the Alliance will hold you captive to a tumultuous world where trading slaves is second nature and exposes the circumstances surrounding how Juliette’s dowry; the decoratively carved ebony chest and gemstones were acquired by her 4th great-grandfather. Readers are given a glimpse of the ancestors’ journeys with excerpts in Book 1, Mistaken Legacy, and in Book 2, Heiress and Epithet, as Juliette discovers how acquired her heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones.

Download or read book Revelation Book 1 of the Legacy s Child Series written by M.L. Chrisman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-03 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Like most people, Irina Gorski has a past. A past that she wants to keep secret. She had fought in the war against Emperor Lalani were she was a member of a secret military organization call the Arcanum Mortis. Her job was to do the impossible tasks which usually required a flexible set of moral standards. A job in which she excelled. It has been 15 years since the end of the war, and she is now a Maintenance Chief on an out of the way research station. The job was fine with Irina because all she wanted to do was raise her daughter, Pearl. Her biggest fear was her daughter finding out about her past. Things are fine for her until one day a terrorist group called the Brotherhood decide that they are going to make her remote out of the way planet their new home world. Now she has to use her training from the past to try to stop the Brotherhood and save her daughter as well as the researchers and their families. Irina wondered which was harder, keeping secrets or raising a teenage daughter.

Download or read book All Our Wrong Todays written by Elan Mastai and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'A witty, time-travelling romance' Maria Semple, author of Where'd You Go, Bernadette This is a love story that could only happen because of an accident of time travel. Tom and Penny belong to a world so perfect there's no war, no poverty, no under-ripe avocados. But when something awful happens to Penny, and Tom tries to make it right, he accidentally destroys everything, waking up in our broken, dysfunctional world. Only here, Penny and Tom have a second chance. Should Tom go back to his brilliant but loveless existence, or risk everything by staying in our messy, complicated world for his one and only chance at true love? 'Thrilling and refreshingly optimistic' Andy Weir, author of The Martian 'Sharp and funny' Daily Mail 'It's a Wonderful Life meets The Jetsons' Buzzfeed 'All Our Wrong Todays is an entertaining romp that should appeal to fans The Time Traveler's Wife' The Guardian, BEST RECENT SCIENCE FICTION

Download or read book The Legacy written by Elle Kennedy and published by EKI. This book was released on 2021-09-21 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The international bestselling Off-Campus series returns with a collection of four novellas by New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Elle Kennedy! This brand-new installment provides the much-anticipated answer to the question: Where are they now? Four stories. Four couples. Three years of real life after graduation… A wedding. A proposal. An elopement. And a surprise pregnancy. Life after college for Garrett and Hannah, Logan and Grace, Dean and Allie, and Tucker and Sabrina, isn't quite what they imagined it would be. Sure, they have each other, but they also have real-life problems that four years at Briar U didn't exactly prepare them for. As it turns out, for these four couples, love is the easy part. Growing up is a whole lot harder. Come for the drama, stay for the laughs! Catch up with your favorite Off-Campus characters as they navigate the changes that come with growing up and discover that big decisions can have big consequences…and big rewards. *THE LEGACY is an 85,000-word novel that is made up of four novellas.

Download or read book Phoebe s Light Nantucket Legacy Book 1 written by Suzanne Woods Fisher and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2018-02-06 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Phoebe Starbuck has always adjusted her sails and rudder to the whims of her father. Now, for the first time, she's doing what she wants to do: marrying Captain Phineas Foulger and sailing far away from Nantucket. As she leaves on her grand adventure, her father gives her two gifts, both of which Phoebe sees little need for. The first is an old sheepskin journal from Great Mary, her highly revered great-grandmother. The other is a "minder" on the whaling ship in the form of cooper Matthew Macy, a man whom she loathes. Soon Phoebe discovers that life at sea is no easier than life on land. Lonely, seasick, and disillusioned, she turns the pages of Great Mary's journal and finds herself drawn into the life of this noble woman. To Phoebe's shock, her great-grandmother has left a secret behind that carries repercussions for everyone aboard the ship, especially her husband the captain and her shadow the cooper. This story within a story catapults Phoebe into seeing her life in an entirely new way--just in time. In this brand-new series, bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher brings her signature twists and turns to bear on a fascinating new faith community: the Quakers of colonial-era Nantucket Island.

Download or read book The Antaran Legacy Book 1 written by Matthew Plourde and published by Matthew Plourde. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Caught in the middle of a war in which they have no voice, the neutral planet of Antares launches a desperate plot to end the conflict that threatens their world. The seven royal daughters of Emperor Agreios face both their enemies and challenges to their resolve. The universe will shake from their actions. The Antaran Legacy begins with the choices facing the small planet of Antares during the Human-Proxan War.

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Download or read book A Dangerous Legacy An Empire State Novel Book 1 written by Elizabeth Camden and published by Bethany House. This book was released on 2017-10-03 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Page-Turning Romance and Intrigue in Award-Winning Author's Next Historical Novel Lucy Drake's mastery of Morse code has made her a valuable asset to the American news agencies as a telegrapher. But the sudden arrival of Sir Colin Beckwith at rival British news agency Reuters puts her hard-earned livelihood at risk. Newly arrived from London, Colin is talented, handsome, and insufferably charming. Despite their rivalry, Lucy realizes Colin's connections could be just what her family needs to turn the tide of their long legal battle over the fortune they were swindled out of forty years ago. When she negotiates an unlikely alliance with him, neither of them realizes how far the web of treachery they're wading into will take them.

Download or read book Stranger at Stonewycke The Stonewycke Legacy Book 1 written by Michael Phillips and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2016-03-01 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The push for modernization in the early twentieth century has brought many changes to the once-grand Stonewycke estate. By 1931, the Stonewycke fortune is stretched thin as the Depression reaches Scotland, and heir Allison MacNeil finds herself at a crossroads. When a stranger shows up with a marked interest in the estate, will she hold on to the family legacy?

Download or read book A Man s Mistake written by Eliza Tabor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-02-24 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1881.

Download or read book The Mistake written by Elle Kennedy and published by Piatkus Books. This book was released on 2023-11-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easy-going charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he's worth a second chance. After a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. She's not a charity case, and she's not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. He wants her back? He'll have to work for it. This time around, she'll be the one in the driver's seat... and she plans on driving him wild."--Back cover.

Download or read book Carved in Stone The Blackstone Legacy Book 1 written by Elizabeth Camden and published by Baker Books. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Her gilded world holds a deeply hidden secret. After years of tragedy, Gwen Kellerman now lives a quiet life as a botanist at an idyllic New York college. She largely ignores her status as heiress to the infamous Blackstone dynasty and hopes to keep her family's heartbreak and scandal behind her. Patrick O'Neill survived a hardscrabble youth to become a lawyer for the downtrodden Irish immigrants in his community. He's proud of his work, even though he struggles to afford his ramshackle law office. All that changes when he accepts a case that is sure to emphasize the Blackstones' legacy of greed and corruption by resurrecting a thirty-year-old mystery. Little does Patrick suspect that the Blackstones will launch their most sympathetic family member to derail him. Gwen is tasked with getting Patrick to drop the case, but the old mystery takes a shocking twist neither of them saw coming. Now, as they navigate a burgeoning attraction and growing danger, Patrick and Gwen will be forced to decide if the risk to the life they've always held dear is worth the reward. Elizabeth Camden's writing is full of . . . "Richly drawn characters and fascinating American history."-- All About Romance "Fabulous love stor[ies] wrapped around compelling historical events."--Booklist "Adventuresome, entertaining romance."--Foreword Reviews