Patricia Gaffney

"Magical teen siblings Whit and Wisty Allgood struggle against a mounting public opposition to magic and a brutal crime wave led by a powerful wizard intent on ruling the City"-- Magical teen siblings Whit and Wisty struggle against mounting public opposition to magic and a brutal crime wave led by a powerful wizard intent on ruling the City. The plot contains profanity and graphic violence. The coauthor is Emily Raymond. Book #5

Allie hates endings and goodbyes until her friend, Ms. Lenya, helps her learn that some things can't ever be lost.

Wanneer een jonge Amerikaanse muzieklerares tijdelijk alleen woont omdat haar grootmoeder is opgenomen in een verzorgingstehuis, leert ze veel over het leven en zichzelf.

Jenna Blake investigates mysterious murders at Somerset University which are the work of a killer known as the Thief of Hearts.

Sophie Deene is every bit her father’s daughter—proud, fiercely independent...yet bound by the constraints of convention. When she takes over her father’s copper mine upon his death and finds herself wildly attracted to the handsome, insolent Cornishman she has hired as foreman, she refuses to risk everything for an unsuitable marriage... Embittered by past tragedy and burdened by dark secrets, Connor Pendarvis lives only to destroy the belle of Wyckerley. But even as he begins to tear apart Sophie’s world, Connor finds himself falling in love with her... and fighting a passion that promises to engulf them both forever and ever... Wyckerley Trilogy To Love and to Cherish (#1) To Have and To Hold (#2) Forever & Ever (#3)

As the year comes to an ending, in the hour 'tween old and new, part the veil and let pass the spirits who would travel through. As Annie, Kate, and Cooper prepare for Samhain, or Halloween, they are filled with anticipation. It is a time when the veil between the worlds is thin, and those who have passed into the spirit world may be more easily contacted. Those Annie holds dear dwell behind this veil already -- will she find them on this eve of Wiccan celebration?

Scottish beauty and spy Katherine McGregor has no qualms about posing as a doxy, if the charade will strike a blow against the hated English. But her certainty turns to confusion when she is captured and confronted by Major James Burke, an English officer.

YOU CAN RUN FROM THE PAST . . . When private investigator Valerie Parker tails a cheating wife late one night, it's business as usual--until the woman is murdered and the man she's with becomes the prime suspect. Val gets an even bigger shock when she discovers the suspect's identity: He's Alex DeMarco, an old flame she swore she'd never speak to again. But then Val's own life is threatened, and before she can blink she's on the run, side by side with the unbelievably gorgeous man who once shattered her dreams and broke her heart . . . all in the same day. . . . BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE FROM LOVEAs a cop, Alex knows better than to ignore his instincts, but for some reason he offersthe woman on the prowl a ride home anyway. When she turns up dead and he comes face-to-face with Val Parker, his problems are only beginning. As they work together to clear his name and to protect Val's life, Alex finds himself drawn once again to the wild, impetuous woman from his past--even as the shocking secret behind the murder threatens to tear them apart forever.From the Paperback edition.

Drei Frauen, drei Generationen einer Familie, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein können. Nach einem schweren Schicksalsschlag versucht jede ihre eigenen Wege zu gehen - doch nur gemeinsam können sie es schaffen ...

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E-Book Extra: Keeping Good Company: An Interview with Patricia GaffneySince her aunt Rose betrayed her, and her fatally ill mother, Anna has studiously avoided her Maryland hometown. But a fresh betrayal by a faithless lover lands Anna back in the family restaurant where she must save the business and face the past -- or risk losing true love.From the extraordinary Patricia Gaffney, New York Times bestselling author of The Saving Graces and Circle of Three, comes a poignant and wise story of truth and loyalty, of the bonds that shape, sustain, and ultimately uplift us.Anna has studiously avoided her aunt Rose -- the woman she once loved more than anyone else in the world -- ever since the night Rose betrayed Anna and her mother, Rose's own fatally ill sister. In the sixteen years that have passed, Anna has built another life for herself far from her hometown on Maryland's Eastern Shore, but she can't forgive or forget.Now another betrayal, by a faithless lover, has brought Anna back to her family's restaurant, where Rose needs her estranged niece's help -- and trust -- more than ever before. Determined to leave as soon as the struggling business is back on its feet and her own hurt is healed, Anna joins Rose in the kitchen of the Bella Sorella, where values clash and generations collide -- and outside, where their personal lives become entangled in surprising ways. Yet Anna is resolved to remain unaffected by Rose's longing to undo the past -- even though her resistance could blind her to a true and unexpected love that's reaching out to grab her by the heart.

Four women in Washington meet regularly for dinner and support. One is searching for a husband, a second cannot get pregnant, a third is seeing a therapist, while the fourth is dying from cancer. A tale of sisterhood.

A mysterious gunfighter rides into town, and may be the hope for a beautiful saloon owner attempting to keep her establishment and gold mine from the clutches of a greedy, unscrupulous bully. When her would-be hero turns out to be an impostor, that doesn't make him any less dangerous, because now rather than losing her assets, she's in danger of losing her heart!

Lily McDade lives in the small Texas town of McDade with her father and younger siblings: Dane, Nathan, and Dellie. After her mother died giving birth to Dellie, Lily had to step up into the role of care giver. The novel takes place seven years later, when Lily is fifteen. She comes across Marion Beatty, the youngest of the "Beatty Gang". After the encounter, she can't seem to stop thinking about him. Though her father- not to mention, the entire town- frown upon the Beatty family, Lily can't seem to see the "evils" they speak of in her Marion. After many secret meetings and warnings, Lily finds she can not live without him. She is forced to choose between her life (and potential 'proper' suitor) or Marion and his outlaw ways. When she witnesses the cold blooded murder of his two eldest brothers, and the injury of the third, she finds it is a no brainer choice. She and Marion run off together. The first night off, she accidently loses her virginity to him. He decides they should get married, exactly what she's been dreaming of. But after their impromptu wedding in Austin, Lily realizes she doesn't know her husband at all. His lies begin to unfold. Yet, she can't not love him. The audience realizes his flaws, but is still captivated by his pure love and adoration towards his wife. They hide in his uncle's home, where Lily finds she is with child. However, a reward is out for anyone who can find Marion. He ultimately ends up turning himself in when he discovers he is being followed by the two men who killed his brothers. Lily is escorted 'home', where her father burns the marriage license. But, she leaves the house, buys a gun, and sets out to free her husband.

LOVE'S HEALING TOUCH Carrie Wiggins is as shy as she is stunningly beautiful. But the devastating secret that shattered her girlhood has left her terrified of the very love she desperately longs for. Only in the wild beauty of the mountains does she feel safe from the feelings she stirs in men and the cruel mockery of Wayne's Crossing's villagers. Handsome, aristocratic Tyler Wilkes had turned his back on social privilege and professional honors to set up a medical practice in the rural turn-of-the-century town of Wayne's Crossing, Pennsylvania. There, serving those who need him the most, he hopes to forget the bitter memories and weariness that haunt his days. Chance brings this sophisticated doctor and this fawnlike mountain girl together. But something as strong as fate breaks through the barriers of birth and breeding, pride and fear, which have kept them apart...as each seeks to heal the other's wounds with a passion neither can deny and all the odds against them cannot defeat...

Carrie Wiggins is as shy as she is stunningly beautiful. But the devastating secret that shattered her girlhood has left her terrified of the very love she desperately longs for. Only in the wild beauty of the mountains does she feel safe from the feelings she stirs in men and the cruel mockery of Wayne's Crossing's villagers. Handsome, aristocratic Tyler Wilkes had turned his back on social privilege and professional honors to set up a medical practice in the rural turn-of-the-century town of Wayne's Crossing, Pennsylvania. There, serving those who need him the most, he hopes to forget the bitter memories and weariness that haunt his days. Chance brings this sophisticated doctor and this fawn-like mountain girl together. But something as strong as fate breaks through the barriers of birth and breeding, pride and fear, which have kept them apart...as each seeks to heal the other's wounds with a passion neither can deny and all the odds against them cannot defeat...

A stirring saga of a nurse who only wants to do her duty in World War Two – and who ends up having to make an agonising choice. Set in Ireland and Birmingham, this is the latest from emerging star of the genre Anne Bennett.Carmel Duffy is the eldest child of a brutal and abusive marriage, and she can't wait to leave home. She's equally determined to have no husband or children of her own – what she wants more than anything is to be a nurse. As soon as she turns eighteen, she heads for Birmingham and begins her training.With her beautiful auburn curls, she draws plenty of attention and her resolve to concentrate on her career is tested when Dr Paul Connolly comes onto her ward and into her life. Gradually he wins her heart, and they agree to marry, both certain that they want no children. They have valuable jobs to do – all the more so when World War Two looms. But those years will change everything: their relationship, their priorities, their very characters. Carmel will find that the future is very different to the one she thought she wanted for so long...

THEY GAMBLED ALL THEY HAD ON THE PROMISE OF EVERLASTING LOVE... Left to raise her young son all alone, spunky Suzanna Prentice took a job as a dancehall girl in Dodge City's roughest saloon. But coping with the hard work and lewd remarks from drunken cowhands was easier than dealing with Jared Cain. One burning glance from the handsome gambler set Suzanna's blood racing with desire. And when fate and a gunman's bullet placed the silent drifter into her tender care, the widowed beauty vowed to minister to Jared's lonely heart as well as to his wounds - following passion's call into his guarded, secret world of danger ...and breathless ecstasy!