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Inspired by, but independent of Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre, the story of the first Mrs. Rochester, the mad wife in Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre.
Antoinette Cosway is a sensual and protected young woman, a Creole heiress in Jamaica. Her stepfather, Mr. Mason, sells her into marriage to the prideful Mr. Rochester, who renames her Bertha. In England she faces a society so driven by hatred, so skewed in its sexual relations, that it can literally...
4) Until August
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"Sitting alone beside the languorous blue waters of the lagoon, Ana Magdalena Bach contemplates the men at the hotel bar. She has been happily married for twenty-seven years and has no reason to escape the life she has made with her husband and children. And yet, every August, she travels by ferry here to the island where her mother is buried, and for one night takes a new lover. Across sultry Caribbean evenings full of salsa and boleros, lotharios...
5) Exit to Eden
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Lisa--the perfectionist--is a stunning, mysterious, and fearless sexual adventurer. She is founder and supreme mistress of The Club--an exclusive island resort where forbidden fantasy meets willing flesh. Elliott is a thrill-seeking photographer who has risked his life in war zones around the world and now seeks the ultimate rush--exploring his darkest sexual self. Join them on a journey to the limits of erotic pleasure and beyond.
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Stone Barrington novel volume 14
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Sent by the CIA to a beautiful Caribbean island where they are to track down murderous rogue agent Teddy Fay, the team of Stone Barrington, Holly Barker, and Dino Baldachetti finds their mission thwarted by corrupt local politicians and secretive American expatriates.
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In December of 1649, Elvy Burke, the daughter of a great warrior, wants only one thing--to live her destiny as a leader and defender of Ireland. When she learns that Oliver Cromwell and his cavalry are approaching her village, she knows she will not give up easily. To escape Cromwell, Elvy aligns with a Scottish outlaw whose schemes send them headlong into a tumultuous journey across the sea to the West Indies, where she becomes an indentured servant...
8) Voyager
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Time-travelling Claire Randall returns to her own time, pregnant and weary, and resumes her life, but her memories of her eighteenth-century Scottish lover Jamie Fraser will not die, leading her to a desperate decision to return to him.
9) Black Widow
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A cult of death.
A weapon of apocalyptic horror.
Juan Cabrillo must stop them both.
THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Some women you love.
Some women you hate.
Some women you survive.
Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette party, and they want big money to keep it quiet. When Ford investigates,...
A weapon of apocalyptic horror.
Juan Cabrillo must stop them both.
THE "FASCINATING" ( BOOKLIST) NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
Some women you love.
Some women you hate.
Some women you survive.
Doc Ford is drawn into a deadly battle when his goddaughter Shay is blackmailed. Someone filmed her at an out-of-control bachelorette party, and they want big money to keep it quiet. When Ford investigates,...
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For the love of her son, Elizabeth Donnelly was going to sneak back to De Colores, an island paradise to the eye, and a horror to the soul. There she would find the boy -- a prisoner of the regime just as she had once been -- and spirit him to safety. Elizabeth sought help from Sloan McQuade, a tough-hearted loner who frequented the trouble spots of the world and always came away with what he wanted. At first he tried to dissuade her, but then she...
12) Tiny and Bigman
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On an island in the West Indies, a big, strong woman with a booming voice meets a weak, nearly deaf man, they fall in love and expect a baby and a hurricane at the same time.
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Rafi Francisco needs something really special to put her true crime podcast on the map. She sets her sights on River Stone, the hearthrob musician who rose to stardom after the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend. Rafi lands herself a ticket to the exclusive Fly Fest, where River will be the headliner. But when Rafi arrives on the Caribbean island location of Fly Fest with hundreds of other influencers and (very minor) celebrities, they quickly...
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A former slave rises above the harsh realities of being owned and colonialism on Montserrat working hard to buy freedom for herself, her mother, and her sister and becoming an entrepreneur, merchant, hotelier and planter.
"The mainstream breakout book for acclaimed African-American romance novelist Vanessa Riley: A remarkable, sweeping historical novel based on the incredible true life story of Dorothy Kirwan Thomas, a free woman of color who rose...
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After a boating accident takes her beautiful singing and speaking voice from her, Elyse d'Abreau, the youngest of six sisters, leaves her home in Tobago to stay in an Oregon seaside town where Christian Kane, a notorious playboy, challenges her to express herself and to overcome her fear of the sea.
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