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8/14 1 AVON Her Name Was Rose Claire Allan Summary ‘AMAZING. I read it in one go. I was totally hooked.’ MARIAN KEYES ‘Utterly addictive. Compulsive, twisty, tense.’ CLAIRE DOUGLAS, author of Local Girl Missing Her name was Rose. You watched her die. And her death has created a vacancy. When Emily lets a stranger step out in front of her, she never imagines that split second will change her life. But after Emily watches a car plough into the young mother – killing her instantly – she finds herself unable to move on. Avon 9780008302740 And then she makes a decision she can never take back. Pub Date: 8/14/18 On Sale Date: 8/14/18 Because Rose had everything Emily had ever dreamed of. A beautiful, loving family, a great job and a Ship Date: 7/25/18 stunning home. And now Rose’s husband misses his wife, and their son needs a mother. Why couldn’t Emily $21.99 Can. 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So Maxine finds a friend in an unexpected place: Peter, a six-year-old orphan with a secret of his own. Meanwhile, during Maxine’s visits to her family home, she encounters two men from her past, with very different outcomes. Crofton is a naval officer now, and their attraction is instant—but how can Rose be with him if she can never be honest? And then there’s the father of her child, who rejected her when she was pregnant. Can Maxine Avon 9780008238971 ever come clean about her past? Pub Date: 9/18/18 On Sale Date: 9/18/18 Ship Date: 8/29/18 Contributor Bio $16.99 Can. Molly Green is a seasoned author of fiction and non-fiction. She has sold lipstick in a Denver store, modelled B-format Paperback in Atlanta, assisted the UN Narcotics Director in Geneva, chauffeured a Swiss Gnome in Zurich, assisted a 432 Pages famous film producer in the UK, and cooked in a sanatorium in Germany. She now lives and writes in Carton Qty: 56 Tunbridge Wells, Kent. 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Lizzie Sparkes should be the happiest girl in the world—she’s three months away from marrying The One in the wedding of her dreams! But then The One before The One walks back in to her life with a bombshell. Alex’s unexpected return changes everything and now Lizzie faces an impossible dilemma. Because how can you leave the past behind you, when it’s standing right in front of you…asking you for one more chance? HarperImpulse 9780008278960 Pub Date: 9/18/18 On Sale Date: 9/18/18 Contributor Bio Ship Date: 8/29/18 Since graduating with a degree in multi-media journalism, Maria Realf has worked for many of the UK’s $16.99 Can. best-known magazines, including The Mail on Sunday’s YOU Magazine, Cosmopolitan, Cosmopolitan Bride, B-format Paperback Fabulous, Marie Claire, Now and You & Your Wedding. In her spare time, Maria is also an all-round movie 400 Pages obsessive, theatre lover and karaoke enthusiast. Find out more at www.mariarealf.com. 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Pub Date: 9/25/18 On Sale Date: 9/25/18 Ship Date: 9/5/18 As the youngest son of a noble family Thomas’ life started in genteel poverty, but his extraordinary $32.99 Can. experiences propel him from the high seas to Lord Chancellor. Yet, on his journey through life, he makes a Hardcover powerful enemy who hounds him to the death – and beyond. 592 Pages Ruth has opened a door to the past that she can’t close, and meets a ghost in her family tree who wasn’t Carton Qty: 0 invited. She will have to draw upon new friends and old in what will become a battle for her very survival… Fiction / Historical FIC014000 The inspiration for Th... 9.4 in H | 6.3 in W | 1.8 lb Wt Contributor Bio Barbara Erskine is the Sunday Times bestselling author of over a dozen novels. Her first book, Lady of Hay, has sold more than three million copies worldwide and has never been out of print since it was first published thirty years ago. 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