(Magna Large Print General Series)

Sara knew Adam wouldn't just go away Dr. Sara Prentiss had found a haven in Chandler College. The small New England campus offered her the privacy she so badly needed after Guy had broken her heart. And Olivia Reynolds had become the mother Sara longed for. Then Adam Merrill, the famous mystery writer, arrived--and he found what he was looking for--a real-life mystery-right in the middle of Sara's peaceful little world. Why on earth should she find him attractive when he was making her life so impossible? But she had to admit, she did.

Zarina Bryden was so beautiful that her suitors would have married her even without her immense fortune. But after a successful London Season, a shock awaited Zarina--her Guardian demanded that she wed a Duke. But this was no Fairy Tale match, for the Duke was a widower more than twice Zarina's age... The determined heiress proposed a scheme to, her childhood playmate, now the destitute Earl of Linwood. On a steamer to India, their ruse became real, when a suspicious Ship's Captain insisted upon marrying the young couple. And before long a shy love blossomed into a Fairy-Tale indeed--a lifetime of Divine happiness for all the days of their lives....

AN OLD MAN DIED - AND THE CURTAIN ROSE ON AN EERIE DRAMA... Orphaned Janet Bewleigh had become an heiress overnight - the unexpected reward for an act of kindness - and now the once-locked doors of her beloved Knight's Keep were open to her. But there was an aura of evil at the stately manor house; it weighed on Janet like an invisible shroud. She wondered about Lord Ashford, her enigmatic, strangely attractive host, and about the sad, dead girl whose ghost still hovered over the Keep. And then Janet read the ancient family inscription, and knew that the final act would soon be played: "REPELLE, DOMINE, VIRTUTEM DIABOLI" DRIVE BACK, O LORD, THE POWER OF THE DEVIL...

Before Shetland and Vera, Ann Cleeves wrote the Inspector Ramsay series featuring a talented, brilliant detective—now available for the first time in the US. For Dorothea Cassidy, Thursdays were special. Every week she would look forward to the one day she could call her own, a welcome respite from the routine duties of being a vicar’s wife. But one Thursday in June would be her last—the day Dorothea Cassidy was strangled. As the small town of Otterbridge prepares for its summer carnival, Inspector Stephen Ramsay begins a painstaking reconstruction of Dorothea's last hours. He soon discovers that she had taken on a number of deserving cases—a sick and lonely old woman, a disturbed adolescent, a compulsive gambler, a single mother with a violent boyfriend and a child in care—and even her close family have their secrets to hide. All these people are haunted, in one way or another, by Dorothea's goodness. But which of them could have possibly wanted her dead? It is not until a second body is discovered that Ramsay starts to understand how Dorothea lived—and why she died. With the carnival festivities in full swing and dusk falling in Otterbridge, Ramsay's murder investigation reaches its chilling climax . . .

Falling in love was risky at the best of times ! But Storm's aunt had unknowingly bequeathed her niece an added danger. The Welsh tower house Storm had assumed would be hers after her aunt's death, in reality, belonged to Carlo Llewellyn, a man bent on vengeance. In Carlo's eyes, Storm's aunt had been "the other woman" who had made his parents' marriage a misery---not the spirited beautiful woman Storm knew had been seduced by a married man. Carlo intended to use his blatant manipulative charm to make Storm pay -- by making her fall in love with him, then discarding her.

Virginia Fergusson's love life was becoming more than a little chaotic -- so much so that she suddenly decided to run away to a new city in New Zealand and a new life of her own. And that was before she met the attractive Nicholas Muir!

Newly arrived from Philadelphia, Theo Radlett has been disowned by her grandfather, Lord Radlett, then threatened by her cousin Beau. Now Benedict, a distant relative, seems determined to use her as a means of gaining the Radlett fortune. Theo vows not to become his puppet—but how can she stop herself, when she is already in love with him?

In a crumbling mansion, two sisters hide from the world, afraid for their lives The Birches was one of the grand mansions of the 1920s, with a ballroom, tennis courts, and, of course, a swimming pool. But after the crash of ’29, when Lois and Judith’s father killed himself to escape his debts, the family turned the summer home into a fulltime retreat from the world. Decades later, Judith is the queen of New York society, a fast-living beauty whose nerves are beginning to fray, while Lois still lives in the dilapidated old mansion, writing mystery novels to pay the bills. She is about to encounter a mystery of her own. To stave off a nervous breakdown, Judith moves in with her kid sister. Terrified of an unnamed threat, she nails her windows shut and locks the door. Soon, a woman is found dead in the pool—a stranger who bears a shocking resemblance to Judith. In a family with a history of tragedy, a chilling new chapter is about to be written. Judith Chandler has always been the spoiled beauty of the family, but something has gone terribly wrong. With a deadline to meet on her latest detective novel, Lois has no patience to deal with her sister's fears. Until a real-life mystery begins to unfold. For one night, Judith disappears from her locked bedroom, and in the morning, a woman's body is found floating in the swimming pool.

The Earl put out his arms towards her. But Demelza did not move and he stopped before he touched her. "May I kiss you?" he whispered. "I think... if you kissed me it would be more wonderful than anything else in the world... but it would be... wrong." "Wrong?" the Earl asked. "It would be wrong... because you belong to someone else." The Earl was very still. "You took a sacred vow," she said in a low voice. "A vow no human being would keep in the circumstances!" Demelza did not speak. "How can you be so cruel?" he cried. "How can you deny me what you know in your heart is rightfully mine!" Again she did not speak. The Earl looked into her dark, troubled eyes. He lingered on the softness of her parted lips. "You love me!" he cried hoarsely. "You love me... and you belong to me!"