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Blood Between Queens

Following her perilous fall from a throne she’d scarcely owned to begin with, Mary Queen of Scots has fled to England, hoping her cousin, Queen Elizabeth, will grant her asylum. But now Mary has her sights on the English crown, and Elizabeth enlists her most trusted subjects to protect it.

Justine Thornleigh is delighting in the thrill of Queen Elizabeth’s visit to her family’s estate when the festivities are cut short by Mary’s arrival. To Justine’s surprise, the Thornleighs appoint her to serve as a spy in Mary’s court. But bearing the guise of a lady-in-waiting is not Justine’s only secret. The weight of her task is doubled by fears of revealing to her fiancé that she is in truth the daughter of his family’s greatest enemy.

Duty-bound, Justine must sacrifice love as she navigates a deadly labyrinth of betrayal that could lead to the end of Elizabeth’s fledgling reign.



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The Queen's Lady
Book #1 in the Thornleigh Saga

Set in the nerve-jangled court of King Henry VIII during his battle with the Catholic church for a divorce, THE QUEEN'S LADY is the story of Honor Larke, a ward of King Henry's chancellor, Sir Thomas More, and a lady-in-waiting to Henry's first wife, Queen Catherine of Aragon. Forced to take sides in the religious extremism of the day, Honor fights to save the church's victims from death at the stake, enlisting Richard Thornleigh, a rogue sea captain, in her missions of mercy, and finally risking her life to try to save Sir Thomas from the wrath of the king.

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The King's Daughter
Book #2 in the Thornleigh Saga

When Henry VIII’s bitter daughter, Queen Mary, launches her reign with a vow to annihilate heretics, young Isabel Thornleigh must act quickly to save her family. Determined to rescue her father from prison, she entrusts her mission, and herself, to a ruthless mercenary. But Isabel is also pledged to spy for the rebel leader whose men are bent on overthrowing the Queen. Caught up in a dangerous maelstrom of intrigue and shifting loyalties, unsure of who is friend and who is foe, Isabel knows only that she must unmask the mysterious traitor bent on destroying her family.

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The Queen's Captive
Book #3 in the Thornleigh Saga

England, 1554. In the wake of the failed Wyatt Rebellion, a vengeful Queen Mary has ordered all conspirators captured and executed. Among the imprisoned is her own sister, twenty-year-old Princess Elizabeth. Though she protests her innocence, Elizabeth's brave stand only angers Mary more. Elizabeth longs to gain her liberty - and her sister's crown - and in Honor and Richard Thornleigh and their seafaring son, Adam, the young princess has loyal allies.When Mary releases her from the Tower, hoping she'll make a false move and condemn herself, the Thornleighs return from exile to help Elizabeth in the fight of her life. Disgusted by Queen Mary's proclaimed intent to burn heretics, Honor visits Elizabeth and they quickly become friends. And when Adam foils a would-be assassin, Elizabeth's gratitude swells into a powerful - and mutual - attraction. But Honor is playing a dangerous game as a double agent, aware that a false move of her own could uncover her past as a condemned heretic. To save her family and Elizabeth, Honor must turn a headstrong princess into a queen before "Bloody Mary" destroys them all.

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The Queen's Gamble
Book #4 in the Thornleigh Saga

Young Queen Elizabeth I’s path to the throne has been a perilous one, and already she faces a dangerous crisis. French troops have landed in Scotland to quell a rebel Protestant army, and Elizabeth fears once they are entrenched on the border, they will invade England.Isabel Thornleigh has returned to London from the New World with her Spanish husband, Carlos Valverde, and their young son. Ever the queen’s loyal servant, Isabel is recruited to smuggle money to the Scottish rebels. Yet Elizabeth’s trust only goes so far—Isabel’s son will be the queen’s pampered hostage until she completes her mission. Matters grow worse when Isabel’s husband is engaged as military adviser to the French, putting the couple on opposite sides in a deadly cold war.

 

 

 
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Entrapped
A novel of high stakes:
life and death, love, and oil

Set in Alberta, Canada, Entrapped is the story of Liv Gardner, an ambitious young oil executive intent on stopping farmer Tom Wainwright who is sabotaging her rigs after a spill of lethal “sour” gas poisoned his wife. Desperate to save the company she built, Liv plants evidence to frame Tom. But her world shifts when she finds that Tom is just a single father doing what he must to protect his family, and when the evidence is used to indict him for a murder he didn't commit, only Liv can save him.


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The Experiment

A concentration camp, a doctor's cruel face, and death … Movie stunt woman Alana Marks never experienced any of these ordeals from decades ago, but somehow she has horrifying memories of them all.

Giving birth in wartime to a daughter she never knew, Alana's gypsy mother was forced to serve as a test subject for inhuman scientific research. Since then, the survivors and their children have been hunted down and murdered, one by one.

Now it's Alana's turn to die. As a killer emerges from the shadows, she and the son she must protect have only one chance: to use their gypsy heritage and her allies within that fierce- hearted community. Yet even if she survives, she must still confront the terrible legacy of The Experiment.