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1) The Wager
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The Princess-;New Orleans's most luxurious hotel. Sixty years ago, ownership of the hotel was lost to the powerful Jardine family in a wager that cost its matriarch her greatest love. Now, in a daring bid to keep the hotel, her legacy and her family together, she's made a new wager, betting everything on a granddaughter she's never met.
IT WAS A HIGH-STAKES GAME...;
After her mother's tragic death, Laura Harte learns her life has been a lie. All...
2) The Wager
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Cecilia Edgewood has lived all of her young life in the shadow of her ravishingly beautiful, but cruel, elder sister, Elizabeth. Cecilia's budding romance with Theodore "Teddy" Brookwater had previously been undone by the lies of her elder sister. When Teddy is injured trying to fulfill an ill-advised wager, he is brought to Cecilia's ancestral home at Edgewood Hall, and they are once again face to face. Can Cecilia seize this glorious opportunity...
3) The Wager
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London, 1818
Anne Middleton never plays by the rules. She is willful when she should be obedient and unabashed when she should be decorous. Worse still, she can never resist a good wager... or a very naughty book. And Confessions of a Courtesan is about as sensational and risque as a book can be.
Michael Grey-Earl of Thornhill-had once courted Anne's sweet and modest sister. But whilst Anne is certainly no lady of decorum, her bold impulsiveness...
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The marriage gamble…
Guy, Lord Keating, laden with his father's debts, elopes with"heiress" Emily Duprey…only to discover she is as poor as he! Nowhis only hope of saving his family and dependents is a reluctantreturn to the gaming tables.Emily has to escape marriage to a gamester like her father. But sheneeds more money than she can win as Lady Keating-so she becomesLady Widow, a card-playing masked seductress! Then Guy recognizes thebeautiful...
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This is the astounding story of HMS Wager, driven ashore in foul weather onto the inhospitable coast of Patagonian Chile in 1741. Shipwreck was followed by murder, starvation, mutiny, and the fearful ordeal of 36 survivors out of about 140 men. Some were enslaved, some defected; many drowned. The captain shot one of his officers. There was an epic open-boat voyage of 2500 nautical miles through the world's most hostile seas, probably the greatest...
6) The Wagers
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From Giller Prize-winning author Sean Michaels, The Wagers is a wild and magical novel about what it means to not only chase luck, but find it.
When Theo Potiris performed his stand-up comedy act on Conan at twenty-five, he thought he'd hit it big. But ten years later, he's still spending his days working at his parents' grocery store, bicycling to the local open mic, and writing letters to a girlfriend who lives halfway around the world. Theo's...
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The Rancher's Wager by New York Times bestselling author Maisey Yates No one gets under Jackson Cooper's skin like fellow ranch owner Cricket Maxfield. Now, as they face off at a charity poker game, the stakes get personal. Jackson finds himself on the losing end… And paying up means being the ranch hand at Cricket's beck and call. In close...
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Father Michael's brother-in-law has an impossible house guest - Justin, an army veteran suffering from PTSD. The man is making life miserable for his host family. The priest has no practical assistance to offer, until an incident in church gives him an idea. Naturally, his plan involves the ever-reluctant and newly-wed trainer Jack Harper. It will also require the help of Isaac, a very special but damaged horse on his farm.And a wager.Meanwhile Father...
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From New York Times bestselling author Cathy Maxwell comes a romance about a headstrong young lady determined to marry . . . Mary Gates longs to restore the family stables to their former glory . . . so she bids on the famous Spender Stud. The only way she can pay for the beast is to marry, but her only prospect is her neighbor and chief rival, Tye Barlow. She has been tempted by his charms in the past-but she's determined not to give in to him now....
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What If You Could Know...Who created the multiverse and why? The truth about Lucifer's Rebellion and how it effects Heaven and Earth? How the trial in Eternity's Supreme Court overflows into the affairs of men?
Are there ancient, powerful, and malevolent demons roaming Earth? Were did they come from and how do they influence mankind? What are the End of Days? How near to the Great Tribulation are we? What will be its impact on society and the world...
11) The Second Wager
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"The period of greatest gain in knowledge and experience is the most difficult period in one's life" - Dalai Lama Sadly, many must undergo great pain in order to learn thoroughly the lessons that have the most beneficial impact on their lives, as well as the longest lasting. Rassimus Flur is no exception. A journey not wholly unique in this world, yet compelling and one that is cause for introspection. Follow him as he struggles to find the answers...
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Lord Thomas Pendleton, second son of the Duke of Branmoor, needs to discharge a debt to his friend Andrew Nash. In doing so, he must return to the family estate he fled six years earlier after refusing to marry the woman his father had chosen. To Thomas's dismay, Branmoor Hall is no longer the joyful home he remembers from his childhood, and his four-year-old niece has no idea what Christmas is. Determined to bring some seasonal cheer back to the...
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A wager on a young lady's virtue leads to... She wanted to seek revenge against the gentlemen who ruined her father. He desired to earn her love. Can he strike a new wager to entice her into his arms forever? Devon Holdenburg cannot remember a time when he hadn't been in love with Kathleen Beckwith. At his every attempt to court her, she waylaid him with her fiery exchanges. As he kisses the words from her lips, Devon strokes the flames of their passion...
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She wed once for duty but will only wed again for love…
For as long as she can remember, Eliza North's heart has been in the possession of her older brother's friend, Nicholas Emerson. But Nicholas has always been oblivious to Eliza, and when he bought a commission and sailed to war, she wed sensibly instead. Returned to her brother's house a widow, she meets Lieutenant Emerson again and realizes neither of their feelings have changed. She accepts...
15) The Wolfe Wager
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Heiress Lady Vanessa Wolfe is the talk of the season because everyone is curious whom she will wed. Her brother Corey, the true heir to Wolfe Abbey, has been reported missing after a battle against Napoleon on the continent, and he may be dead. But Vanessa doesn't want to marry; she wants to find Corey. Her reluctance offers the perfect opportunity for Ross Brickendon, a viscount, to make a bet with his two bored friends, Sir Wilbur Haskett and Bruce...
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To convince his trustees he is responsible enough to manage his estates, rakish Julian Ardleigh, Viscount Debenham, plans to marry his childhood friend, Harriet. Since her one disastrous London Season, she has lived quietly in the country breeding horses and has no wish to marry. When Julian persists, she challenges him to prove he can be faithful, but neither gambles on losing their hearts!THE WEDDING WAGER was originally published in the Zebra Regency...
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Sometimes the Devil's Wager is the only bet to make. A desperate attempt to flee North comes to a crashing halt when an off-the-grid commune called Roanoke mistakes Jack Carson for their savior. With few supplies, no hope, and everything to lose, Jack throws in with the group. But when the community reveals their true intention to use Jack as a weapon in their vendetta against the federal government, Jack must come to grips with the fact that he's...
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Lily Henderson's greatest passion is knowledge. Christopher Farnsworth thrives on order and decorum. But her penchant for Suffragette rallies and logical reasoning soon clashes with his quiet, controlled ex-military lifestyle over a bowl of potato soup.
The two agree to a wager and matchmaking-or rather romance-is the intended outcome. The premise? A suitable match by Easter. If he loses, he'll attend Easter church services dressed in one of his...
19) The Fox's Wager
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There are two things standing in the way of Sionnach Creven's much-needed vacation: a promised favor for an old friend and Daeglan O'Casey. He's the annoying guy with an intriguing ability who's come to Hotel Paranormal to recruit her help in the epic battle against evil that looms in the near future. But being a kitsune, Sionnach is resourceful, and using this irresistible Irishman to help her with the job at hand means combining business with pleasure....
20) The Double Wager
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The Double Wager is the digital reissue of a previously published and long out-of-print novel by New York Times Bestselling author Mary Balogh.Henrietta Tallant has always preferred the company of her brother and his rough-and-tumble friends to that of other ladies. She rebels at the prospect of making her debut into London society and the great marriage mart. However, when her brother's friends challenge her to entice the toplofty, unattainable Duke...
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