Online Library Catalogue

Annabelle Carruthers could only dream of being kissed by such a dashing man as Lord Darkwood. For she herself was locked in misery - married to a rake who drank and gambled their lives into financial and social ruin. But then her husband's death, and rumours of spies and treachery, only make matters worse.

The curiously named Isamay, a would-be academic, is trying to write a coherent thesis about grandmothers in history - from Sarah Bernhardt and George Sand to the matriarchal Queen Victoria and other influential grannies - while constantly ambushed by the secrets her own family has been keeping.

During a flight from London and New York, while watching Hitchcock's film "Strangers on a Train," Sandy Kinsolving and a neighboring stranger commiserate with each other over their spousal headaches, a conversation that has deadly implications.

Australian Designer of the Year! Alida Rose should have felt elated with the recognition. She'd worked hard to achieve such success. Gareth Morgan was her past. And yet five years had not diminished the impact of the charismatic man nor the painful memories. A renewed relationship with Gareth was tempting. But this time Alida vowed she'd show this outback man she'd be a ruthless with him as he'd been with her.

Natalie Baxter is a drifter, unwilling to put down any roots and shunning proximity to people. When she takes a job near the Pennsylvania town where she grew up, her life suddenly changes course. Never has she felt so pulled by a place and its people: and, everywhere, childhood memories come back.

Rose Miller is a best-selling novelist with a seemingly perfect life: a devoted and wealthy husband with his eye on a gubernatorial nomination, a splendid country mansion, and an adorable daughter. But Rose has something else too--a shadowy stalker who sends her blood red roses with threatening notes that hint at Rose's hidden past . . . a life she thought she had buried forever. Who is stalking Rose? Nearly everyone is a suspect. It could be Dario, her ruthless and controlling publicist, whose crush on Rose is getting a little out of hand. Or Dimitri, her devilishly handsome ex-lover, now a millionaire hotel baron with his own reasons for wanting revenge. Or even her own father-in-law, James Miller, a sinister man who will stop at nothing to protect his family's secrets.

This is the story of a man caught between his true identity, his freedom and the woman he loves. Framed by a colleague, Jesse Warden faces 20 years in prison, unless he can infiltrate the Aryan Universe and bring back evidence to convict the leaders.

On the fast track to a partnership with her accountancy firm, Kate is stunned when she is fired for suspected embezzlement. Forced to cope with the sudden reversal of fortune, Kate returns to Pretenses, the exquisite boutique run by her friend Margo and sister Laura. But when persistent, persuasive Byron de Witt enters her life, the flames of passion he ignites begin to burn as brightly as her all-consuming career ambitions...

Low-rent bounty hunter Stephanie Plum reaches depths of personal experience that other women detectives never quite do. In Hot Six, for example, a sequence of new and hideous cars bite the dust; she finds herself lumbered with a policeman's multiply incontinent dog; and she has several bad skin days. All this when she is trying to prove her distinctly more competent colleague and occasional boyfriend Ranger innocent of a mob hit; avoid the heavies trailing her in the hope of finding him; and cope with a wife-abusing bail defaulter with nasty habits, such as setting Stephanie on fire.

This is the poignant story of Jenny Harmer, a deaf child growing up in a silent and isolated world. It is also the story of Hearing Dogs and Connie, the friendly black collie chosen to be Jenny's devoted companion.

No Summary Available

Personal story of a young, brave female, of the physical and emotional journey, the people it has affected and the support shown by all.