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1) Blindness
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An epidemic of blindness strikes a city and the result is chaos, the government issuing shoot-to-kill orders. Much of the action is seen through the eyes of a woman who claims to be blind so she won't be separated from her husband. A look at how people behave under stress. By the author of The History of the Siege of Lisbon.
2) Seeing
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On election day in the capital, it is raining so hard that no one has come out to vote. The politicians are growing jittery. Should they reschedule for another day? Around three o'clock, the rain finally stops. At four, voters rush to the polling stations, as if ordered to appear. But when the ballots are counted, more than 70% are blank. The citizens are rebellious. A state of emergency is declared. The president proposes that a wall be built around...
3) Blindness
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A city is hit by an epidemic of "white blindness" which spares no one. Authorities confine the blind to an empty mental hospital, but there the criminal element holds everyone captive, stealing food rations and raping women. There is one eyewitness to this nightmare who guides seven strangers-among them a boy with no mother, a girl with dark glasses, a dog of tears-through the barren streets, and the procession becomes as uncanny as the surroundings...
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Leaving her best friend and the familiarity of Seattle for the paper mill town of "Stinkville," South Carolina, twelve-year-old Alice, who lives with albinism and blindness, takes on the additional challenge of entering the Stinkville Success Stories essay contest.
6) Wolf Dreams
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Scientist, loner... werewolf?
Fourteen years ago, I bit through the lip of the first boy brave enough to kiss me. Since then, I've acquired a Ph.D. in archaeology, a new teaching gig at a prestigious university, and research interests out the wazoo.
Unfortunately, my social life is still as bleak as a raided Egyptian tomb.
Until, that is, a stranger interrupts my class bearing the same ancient cat fang I see in my dreams. He's rough around the...
7) Moon Dancer
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One werewolf: Free to a good home
Three months after becoming a shifter, my bloodthirsty beast fights me for control of our shared body. My boss is unhappy with my erratic behavior. And Claw --- the enticing alpha who made becoming a werewolf semi-palatable --- is avoiding me while I try to transfer my wolf to his human sister.
The transfer fails, but a vision promises I'll find mystical assistance on the other side of the country. Clinging...
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Can Hollywood's hottest secret relationship survive a PRomance? Find out in this jaw-dropping sequel to Blind Item as three young Hollywood professionals strive to keep the industry's most salacious scandals under wraps during awards season.
Nicola faces her biggest challenge as a publicist when she is forced to represent her superstar ex-boyfriend, Seamus, when he returns from rehab. Her boss Gaynor is struggling to keep the PR agency afloat,...
9) Blind item
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Blind item novels volume 1
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"No one knows her name, but now everyone wants to. As an assistant publicist in Hollywood, Nicola spends her days (and nights) sweeping up the scandals of singers, movie stars, and TV actors. Fresh from Ohio, she's rapidly discovering the real Hollywood is rotten under its glittering skin. Everyone is a hustler with a hard bottom line and a soap opera sob story. When she breaks her own rules and starts dating a movie star, the Los Angeles scene starts...
10) Cowboy Casanova
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A country music king.
A chess playing queen.
A classic tale that begins in paradise...What starts as an annual five day music festival on the beach leads to two people falling in love with new rhythms.
Opposites anxiously trying to learn the beats of one another's hearts.
Will the endless noise of one industry ultimately tear them apart, leaving their relationship to be nothing more than a forgotten melody, or will they manage to survive and create...
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First published as Twist of Fate under A. C. Koning.
Summer, 1937. Fred Rowland's peaceful holiday is Cornwall is derailed when a fellow hotel guest and film star is found dead.
Fred soon learns that this death took place under suspicious circumstances and finds himself tied up in the police investigation. When his old flame, Secret Service agent Iris Barnes arrives, it becomes clear that this murder has links to the political turmoil of the Spanish...
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Body Heart Soul: A leap of marital proportions.
Desiree Greene protects herself and has one rule; she doesn't date her patients, no exceptions. Meeting O, she begins to question her ways and her rules.
As her heart yearns for O, Des knows she's risking his safety and worries that her secrets should remain hidden. After all, those secrets could get them both killed.
Odysseus Kerrigan is an injured vet, younger than Des, with his sights set on her....
13) Fix Me
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"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
Bree Sullivan is living a life now drenched in darkness. She knows the beauty of the world is out there, but she can't see it.
She hated her life, and then she met Luke Tanner. He helped her feel again, made her realize how much life is worth living.
When Luke feels their relationship is interfering with his ability to care for her, he puts the brakes on it.
Unsure of how to cope, Bree...
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When dreams come true... reality disappears
Film student Madison goes on a reality TV dating show to make some extra cash.
But when she's set up on a blind date with her Hollywood crush, Johnny Logan, she senses that the line between fantasy and reality are starting to blur.
Is it just a one night thing? Or is it the real deal?
If you love steamy billionaire romance, start reading "Blind Date" now!
15) Blinded Sight
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Homicide Detective Lacie Wingate escapes from the relentless demands of the St. Louis Police force for the peace and solitude of her hometown, Graves Point, Missouri. Soon the brutal murder of an old friend shatters her perfect world. Determined to find who and why, she is pulled into the dark, twisted mind of a psychopath. Is Lacie the hunter? Or is she the prey?"
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Trust Honor Love: An experiment of marital proportions.
Lucy Roberts is sick of the dating scene and especially of what she can never have;The Kerrigan brothers, specifically twins Will and Heath.
A bad run-in with Heath proves everything she already knew about him; he's not Will.
Agreeing to a new experiment; she lets a panel of experts pick out her future husband.
Heathcliff Kerrigan is convinced Lucy is made to be his and not Will's.
Their...
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In 1897 London, Detective Sergeant Rory Kerrigan never expected to find love among the crime-ridden streets he's vowed to protect. His tragic past has hardened his heart, keeping emotion from his life. This ensured no interference with his police work. Yet, an unlikely woman finds a way around his defenses. Rea owns the brothel, The Blind Cupid, and harbors a desolate past of her own. As a result, she trusts no man. However, it is hard to deny that...
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When dreams come true... reality disappears
Film student Madison goes on a reality TV dating show to make some extra cash.
But when she's set up on a blind date with her Hollywood crush, Johnny Logan, she senses that the line between fantasy and reality are starting to blur.
Is it just a one night thing? Or is it the real deal?
If you love steamy billionaire romance, start reading "Blind Date" now!
19) Eyes on Me
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"Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye."
Bree Sullivan was never a risk-taker. When a chance at true happiness has her stepping outside her comfort-zone, taking the leap blindly is what she's doing-literally. But this leap is a surgery that may help her see again.
With Luke at her side, she does the surgery and the recovery and results are agonizingly slow, threating to pull her into a deep depression.
What if she never sees again?...
20) The Blind Spot
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The story is a sort of science-fiction mystery concerning the disappearance of a professor and several others through a dimensional portal in a San Francisco house. The portal is the "blind spot" of the title and the characters spend the bulk of the story trying to solve its mystery.
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