Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation (Warleigh Hall Press Jane Austen Series) by Alice McVeigh (283 Reviews)    Price verified one minute ago

"McVeigh displays a brilliant, spot-on command of Austen's diction and tone." - Kirkus Reviews Harriet is an intriguing and original take on Jane Austen's immortal Emma - told from the viewpoints of Harriet Smith and Jane Fairfax. *Starred Editor's Pick on Publishers Weekly *Finalist for Foreword Indies' Book of the Year *Finalist for Chanticleer's Chatelaine Award *Gold medal in Historical Fiction Company's 2023 Book Awards *Gold medallist, Global Book Awards *selected as one of the top 100 books of 2022, Shelf Unbound magazine Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides to mentor Harriet Smith, a pretty boarding-school pupil, and to matchmake her as eligibly as she can... But how is she to guess that Harriet has a secret? Meanwhile, the brilliant, penniless Jane Fairfax consents to a clandestine engagement with Frank Churchill - though not daring to confess, even to him, that she is being relentlessly pursued by her best friend's husband. Harriet sidelines Emma herself in favour ...

Genre: Literary Fiction

A Shower of Roses by Tom Milton (4 Reviews)    Price verified 4 hours ago

Eva, a pediatric nurse, was happily working in a New York hospital when she fell in love with Marek, a Polish exile. They are married and living in London in the spring of 1981, and as Marek tries to liberate his homeland from Russia he draws Eva into a world of political intrigue where her love for him is severely tested.

Genre: Literary Fiction

Deluded by Rainbows: the misadventures of a mother's daughter (The Misadventure Trilogy Book 3) by Stella King Price verified 13 hours ago

Deluded by Rainbows is the story of a 'wronged' mother and her daughter's reckless ambition to live a 'better' life, regardless of consequences, both moral and criminal. Above EVERYTHING else, Bree was determined -- with an ill-fated and diabolically unrestrained ruthlessness... NOT to be her mother! A tangled web of blind aspiration, deceit, love, lust, betrayal, hate, horror, depravity and death... all mixed up in the paradoxical facets of human nature and basic instinct... AND what happens beyond death. The Misadventure Trilogy by Stella King, comprises: Book 1: Don't Cry Sunday Girl: the misadventure of a vicar's daughter. Book 2: A Descent from Virtue: the misadventure of a goody two shoes. Book 3: Deluded by Rainbows: the misadventures of a mother's daughter. Deluded by Rainbows was originally published in an abridged version, titled 'Mother's Daughter: the bitterest pills' and then as 'The Pursuit of Happiness: the misadventures of a mother's daughter'.

Genre: Literary Fiction