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'If you enjoy Dilly Court or Rosie Goodwin, this one will be right
up your street' reader review 'One of the nation's favourite saga
writers' Lancashire Post In the grand tradition of Catherine
Cookson, Josephine Cox and Poldark, comes a page-turning and
enthralling new Cornish-set saga of shipwrecks, smugglers, secrets
and romance, from Jennie Felton.
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She always knew a piece of her heart was missing... Cecile has been
raised to a life of privilege at Polruan House, by her widowed
father and aunt. Now she's of age, they are determined that she
make a proper match, but Cecile's heart belongs to their coachman,
Sam - most definitely not suitable marriage material. When Sam
turns to his friend, smuggler Zach Carver, for help eloping with
Cecile, Zach tells of a recent encounter with Lise, a beautiful but
poor girl in St Ives, who is the mirror image of Cecile. And so a
daring plan is born to briefly swap the girls. But bringing Cecile
and Lise together will uncover an astonishing family secret of a
bold escape from a loveless marriage, a treacherous shipwreck and a
sister thought lost to the sea long ago...
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For more heartwrenching, heartwarming saga, look out for The Stolen
Child and A Mother's Sacrifice, out now! And don't miss Jennie's
Families of Fairley Terrace series, which began with Maggie's story
in All The Dark Secrets and continued with Lucy's story in The
Miner's Daughter, Edie's story in The Girl Below Stairs, Carina's
story in The Widow's Promise and Laurel's story in The Sister's
Secret.
'It would make the stones cry to hear those on board shrieking' -
Daniel Buckley, third-class passenger For the first time, in this
moving new book, Titanic's passengers and crewmen are permitted to
tell the story of that lamentable disaster entirely in their own
words. Included are letters, postcards, diary entries and memoirs
that were written before, during and immediately after the maiden
voyage itself. Many of the pre-sailing documents were composed by
people who later lost their lives in the sinking and represent the
last communications that these people ever had with their friends
and loved ones at home. The subsequent letters and postcards give
an unparalleled description of the events that occurred during the
five days that Titanic was at sea, and the correspondence by
survivors after the tragedy describes the horror of the disaster
itself and the heartbreak they experienced at the loss of those
they loved. This poignant compilation, by Titanic expert George
Behe, also contains brief biographies of the passengers and
crewmen, victims, as well as survivors, who wrote the documents in
question.
If Lars Marlin had three wishes, two have already been granted: he
has escaped from Devil's Island ... and he has come face to face
with the man who put him there-Paco Corvino. But the third
wish-putting a bullet in Corvino-will have to wait. They're off to
sea, and not since Fletcher Christian and Captain Bligh set sail on
the Bounty have two more heated enemies been in the same boat.
Corvino is a convict, con-man and killer who has schemed his way
into a position as chief steward on a luxury yacht sailing out of
Rio de Janeiro. And, in a twist as devious as it is diabolical,
he's managed to install Lars-his hated rival-as captain of the very
same vessel. And there are even darker twists to come.... Lars is
determined to find out what Corvino has up his sleeve ... and what
killer cargo he's hiding on board. But the yacht owner's daughter
proves to be a beautiful-and dangerous-distraction. Will Lars be
safe in her arms ... or is she part of Corvino's plot-a deadly trap
set with honey? Like several leading writers of the day, L. Ron
Hubbard was invited to Hollywood to write scripts, where his
superior talent and productivity attracted numerous lucrative
offers from the studios. But, as he wrote in a letter to the editor
of Argosy magazine in August 1937: "I love to tie a yarn and try to
make it blaze in print. The mags will never lose me to the movies.
Never, at any salary!" And as Argosy gleefully responded in its
pages: "Next to exorcise the Hollywood virus from his veins was L.
Ron Hubbard ... he has set to work to give Argosy some more of his
rousing yarns. The first, -Cargo of Coffins,' is due to appear in
the November 13th issue, and a serial is likely to follow."
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