Mistaken Legacy - Book 1


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"Riveting… Page-turning…The pacing is swift, the action scenes are cinematically developed, and Rose’s moving, assured prose keeps the pages turning..." — The Prairies Book Review 1 June – 7 July 1980 St. Augustine, Florida Paris, France Juliette’s life is a fairytale come true until a mysterious overseas letter arrives from a cousin she hadn’t met. In his letter, Claude Freedman exposes the truth about her engagement gift passed down through the ages, and a memoir written by her 4th great-grandfather and nobleman, Capt. Françoise J. Reiss III: A man with a nefarious past who lived during the colonial slave trade. When Juliette confronts her mother with Claude’s letter, Adrian insists the Freedman’s are ‘impostors’ and Children of the Alliance, the memoir “the captain” wrote, is a ‘literary forgery.’ Defying her mother’s wish to forget about their family’s notorious past, Juliette sojourns to St. Augustine, Florida, to meet Mr. Freedman, and to pick up “the captain’s” memoir. However, while visiting the “Land of Flowers,” Juliette fears the Freedman descendants from “the captain’s” second marriage might be the rightful owners of her dowry. Realizing the truth may not always mend broken hearts, but will turn heads, Juliette returns to Paris, France, where she hires a team of forensic scientists to investigate her heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones. Shocked by the team’s discovery and with INTERPOL on her tail, Juliette calls upon her trusted friends to help her until she can clear her family name…




Mistaken Legacy - Book One


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1 June - 7 July 1980 Paris, France St. Augustine, Florida Juliette Reiss-Marston's life seems like a fairytale come true. Her college sweetheart, William Fourier, just announced their engagement to marry. Even with the good news, Juliette's suspicions mount about their future together when an overseas letter arrives from a mysterious cousin she hadn't met. In his letter, Claude Freedman Esq. confides that Juliette's recent gift of a dowry is from her 4th great-grandfather and nobleman, Capt. Françoise J. Reiss III: A man with a nefarious past and a memoir, Children of the Alliance. Confused, Juliette confronts her mother, Adrian Reiss-Marston, who insists the Freedman's are 'impostors' and the memoir is a ‘literary forgery.’ Defying her mother's wish to forget about their family's notorious past, Juliette sojourns to St. Augustine, Florida, to meet Mr. Freedman, and to pick up her ancestor's memoir. However, while visiting the “Land of Flowers,” Juliette discovers the truth about her ancestors and fears she opened Pandora's Box, surmising the descendants of the captain and his second wife, Selina Freedman, the heir of a freed Senegalese slave, may be the rightful owners of her dowry. Realizing that knowing the truth may not always mend broken hearts, but can turn heads, Juliette, returns to Paris, France, and hires a team of forensic scientists to investigate her heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones. Shocked by the team's discovery and with INTERPOL on her tail, Juliette calls upon her trusted friends to help her hide the rare gemstones until she can clear her family name...




His Best Mistake


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Is it too much to ask for a relationship that works? When Stella Grant realises her perfect romance is a lie and that she's the other woman, she flees to her remote cottage in the Highlands to lick her wounds. Billionaire currency trader Jack Maclean has nothing but contempt for the woman who stole not only his sister’s fiancé but quite possibly a family heirloom to boot. Nonetheless, he wants answers and he intends to get them. A quick trip north should do the trick. Never in a million years could he have predicted a kamikaze sheep and inclement weather would leave him stranded. Jack might be gorgeous but Stella isn’t in the market for a man, especially one who hates her. No matter how attractive he finds her Stella is the very last person Jack should want. The trouble is, they’re all alone and the chemistry is irresistible, and, well, what happens in Scotland stays in Scotland, right?




No Way Up (The Cimarron Legacy Book #1)


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New Western Romance Series from Bestselling Author Mary Connealy When Cimarron ranch patriarch Chance Boden is caught in an avalanche, the quick actions of hired hand Heath Kincaid save him. Badly injured, Chance demands that his will be read and its conditions be enforced immediately. Without anyone else to serve as a witness, Heath is pressed into reading the will. If Justin, Sadie, and Cole Boden don't live and work at home for the entire year, the ranch will go to their low-down cousin Mike. Then Heath discovers the avalanche was a murder attempt, and more danger might follow. Deeply involved with the family, Heath's desire to protect Sadie goes far beyond friendship. The danger keeps them close together, and their feelings grow until being apart is the last thing on their minds.




My Favorite Mistake


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Fake dating her client’s gorgeous son was a mistake—enjoying his touch will be her ruin. Bad boy Ian Maguire is a lawyer with an image problem. But he doesn’t care if the media is obsessed with him or deemed him the most wanted bachelor. He’s also not interested in relationships, until he meets his dad’s political strategist. With her cool confidence, dark features, and quiet beauty, she is tempting enough to get him to pretend to settle down. And he can promise they will both enjoy it. Simone Jax is trained in managing a crisis, and she has the perfect plan for Ian’s playboy status. He just needs to agree to only be seen with one woman until his father’s gubernatorial election is over, even if it’s fake. But when the press captures a picture of them kissing and blasts it everywhere, she has no choice but to play the part of girlfriend. Just when their fake relationship starts to feel genuine, Simone discovers she’s pregnant. Is this a secret baby or the start of a real romance?




The Legacy


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The international bestselling Off-Campus series returns with a collection of four novellas by New York Times bestselling author and TikTok sensation Elle Kennedy! This brand-new installment provides the much-anticipated answer to the question: Where are they now? Four stories. Four couples. Three years of real life after graduation… A wedding. A proposal. An elopement. And a surprise pregnancy. Life after college for Garrett and Hannah, Logan and Grace, Dean and Allie, and Tucker and Sabrina, isn't quite what they imagined it would be. Sure, they have each other, but they also have real-life problems that four years at Briar U didn't exactly prepare them for. As it turns out, for these four couples, love is the easy part. Growing up is a whole lot harder. Come for the drama, stay for the laughs! Catch up with your favorite Off-Campus characters as they navigate the changes that come with growing up and discover that big decisions can have big consequences…and big rewards. *THE LEGACY is an 85,000-word novel that is made up of four novellas.




Children of the Alliance - eBook Three


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"Riveting… Page-turning…Filled with historical events, myths, and legends that haunt two families’ redemption, Rose’s Legends on the Rise series is a poignant, revealing period fiction about race and slavery in the colonial slave trade era. The pacing is swift, the action scenes are cinematically developed, and Rose’s moving, assured prose keeps the pages turning..." The Prairies Book Review Setting: Toulon, France: 1754 Senegal, West Africa: 1755 St. Augustine, Florida: 1756 - 1810 Summary: Book 3 - Children of the Alliance, 1754 – 1810 is the prequel to the series. The story-within-a-story encapsulates the legendary saga of the Reiss and Freedman families, recounting the life of Juliette and Claude’s ancestor’s, knight-errant and Captain, Françoise J. Reiss III, and Prince Boukar Semou Jolof, a.k.a. Luis Freedman, a former Senegalese prince and freed slave. It’s the Age of Enlightenment on the European, African and North Atlantic Continents, when a racial divide makes most men enemies Françoise and Luis sacrifice everything to keep their mixed-race families together. The story behind Children of the Alliance will hold you captive to a tumultuous world where trading slaves is second nature and exposes the circumstances surrounding how Juliette’s dowry; the decoratively carved ebony chest and gemstones were acquired by her 4th great-grandfather. Readers are given a glimpse of the ancestors’ journeys with excerpts in Book 1, Mistaken Legacy, and in Book 2, Heiress and Epithet, as Juliette discovers how acquired her heirloom dowry: The decoratively carved ebony chest of rare gemstones.




Under Occupation


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From “America’s preeminent spy novelist” (The New York Times) comes a fast-paced, mesmerizing thriller of the French resistance fighters working secretly and bravely to defeat Hitler. Occupied Paris, 1942. Just before he dies, a man being chased by the Gestapo hands off a strange-looking document to the unsuspecting novelist Paul Ricard. It looks like a blueprint of a part for a military weapon, one that might have important information for the Allied forces. Ricard realizes he must try to get the diagram into the hands of members of the resistance network. As Ricard finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into anti-Nazi efforts and increasingly dangerous espionage assignments, he travels to Germany and along the escape routes of underground resistance safe houses to spy on Nazi maneuvers. When he meets the mysterious and beautiful Leila, a professional spy, they begin to work together to get crucial information out of France and into the hands of the Allied forces in London.




The Rose Legacy


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This sweeping, emotionally-resonant fantasy from beloved author Jessica Day George is perfect for fans of Princess Academy and Black Beauty. When orphaned Anthea Cross-Thornley receives a letter from a long-lost uncle, she wonders if she will finally find a true home. But she is shocked to learn that her uncle secretly breeds horses--animals that have been forbidden in her kingdom for centuries. More alarming is Anthea's strange ability to sense the horses' thoughts and feelings, an ancient gift called The Way. Confused and terrified, Anthea is desperate to leave, but when her family and kingdom are put at risk, can she embrace The Way and the exciting future it might bring her? A Mighty Girl Best Book of the Year




The Mistake


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"College junior John Logan can get any girl he wants. For this hockey star, life is a parade of parties and hook-ups, but behind his killer grins and easy-going charm, he hides growing despair about the dead-end road he'll be forced to walk after graduation. A sexy encounter with freshman Grace Ivers is just the distraction he needs, but when a thoughtless mistake pushes her away, Logan plans to spend his final year proving to her that he's worth a second chance. After a less than stellar freshman year, Grace is back at Briar University, older, wiser, and so over the arrogant hockey player she nearly handed her V-card to. She's not a charity case, and she's not the quiet butterfly she was when they first hooked up. If Logan expects her to roll over and beg like all his other puck bunnies, he can think again. He wants her back? He'll have to work for it. This time around, she'll be the one in the driver's seat... and she plans on driving him wild."--Back cover.