A Lady's secret weapon

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Beryl Matthews

Amy Carter is just 14 when she has to leave school to look after her sick mother. When her father is tried and hanged for the murder of a local man and, shortly after, her mother dies, Amy is left with no one. Shunned even by former friends and neighbours, Amy is found at her mother's grave by artist Benjamin Scott, who met Amy just once, read about the family's difficulties and tracked her down. He takes the girl to his lodgings in Chelsea, where Amy - with Ben, his fellow housemates, and the kindly landlady, Mrs Dalton - finds a real home for the first time.

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Velda Johnston

Though she is warned to leave her hometown, Linda Nordeen must stay and face the past that the town of Wessex has given her, despite the destruction of her marriage and the memory of her mother's murder in that New England village

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Jessica Peterson

Mr. Henry Lake spent the past twelve years uncovering the most scandalous secrets of Europe's wealthy and powerful, serving as one of His Majesty's most decorated spies. But when a mission to find the legendary French Blue diamond brings him back to London, and face to face with a beautiful noblewoman he once loved, it's his own hidden passions that are uncovered. Lady Caroline, Countess of Berry, knows better than to lose her head over a man. After an embarrassing romantic entanglement forced her into a loveless marriage and early widowhood, she learned to never trust in desire, especially when it comes to the man who once broke her heart. Only, despite her good sense, she finds Henry impossible to resist--even when he once again places her in deathly danger...

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Madeleine St. John

A British comedy of manners on a journalist who asks a friend to care for her children while on assignment. The friend, Barbara, agrees and promptly falls in love with the journalist's husband. They start an affair, but he refuses to leave his wife.