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The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Volume I by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsThe Complete Sherlock Holmes comprises four novels and fifty-six short stories revolving around the world’s most popular and influential fictional detective—the eccentric, arrogant, and ingenious Sherlock Holmes. He and his trusted friend, Dr... -
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The Twelve Chairs by Ilya Ilf, Yevgeny Petrov
Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsOstap Bender is an unemployed con artist living by his wits in postrevolutionary Soviet Russia. He joins forces with Ippolit Matveyevich Vorobyaninov, a former nobleman who has returned to his hometown to find a cache of missing jewels which were hidden in some chairs that have been appropriated by the Soviet authorities...Categorized as:
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The Exploits of Sherlock Holmes by Adrian Conan Doyle, John Dickson Carr
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsFrom the son of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, and one of America's greatest mystery writers, John Dickson Carr, comes twelve riveting tales based on incidents or elements of the unsolved cases of Sherlock Holmes. The plots are all new, with painstaking attention to the mood, tone, and detail of the original stories... -
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Memed, My Hawk by Yaşar Kemal
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA tale of high adventure and lyrical celebration, tenderness and violence, generosity and ruthlessness, Memed, My Hawk is the defining achievement of one of the greatest and most beloved of living writers, Yashar Kemal. It is reissued here with a new introduction by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of its first publication...Categorized as:
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![A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Ronald Holt, Arthur Conan Doyle]()
A Scandal in Bohemia (The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, #1) by Ronald Holt, Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsThis is an adaptation, containing 6 stories; for the original story, see A Scandal in BohemiaA Scandal in Bohemia is collection of six short stories featuring the great detective Sherlock Holmes and his friend Dr Watson... -
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The Storm Sister by Lucinda Riley
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAlly D’Aplièse is about to compete in one of the world’s most perilous yacht races when she hears the news of her adoptive father’s sudden, mysterious death. Rushing back to meet her five sisters at their family home, she discovers that her father—an elusive billionaire affectionately known to his daughters as Pa Salt—has left each of them a tantalizing clue to their true heritage...Categorized as:
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![Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Illustrated Short Stories by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThey're among the most influential, enduring, and popular short stories in the English language; marvelous mysteries that feature the "most perfect reasoning and observing machine that the world has ever seen." Here are all 56 Sherlock Holmes tales in one very handsome collection, accompanied by the original artwork in facsimile reproduction...Categorized as:
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Lightning and Lawmen by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHow did a simple hello turn into something so complicated? Love is about to leave one lawman thunderstruck in this sweet historical romance! Cultured and full of grace, Delilah Robbins agrees to accompany her meteorologist father to his new post in Baker City, Oregon...Categorized as:
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Works Of Jules Verne: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in 80 Days, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, and selected short stories by Jules Verne
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsWorks Of Jules Verne. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork... -
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King of Kings by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe sequel to Wilbur Smith's worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun.An epic story of love, betrayal, courage and war that brings together two of Wilbur Smith's greatest families in this long-awaited sequel to his worldwide bestseller, The Triumph of the Sun. Cairo, 1888. A beautiful September day. Penrod Ballantyne and his fiancee, Amber Benbrook, stroll hand in hand...Categorized as:
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Flashman in the Great Game by George MacDonald Fraser
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsOne of literature's most delightful rakes is back in another tale of rollicking adventure and tantalizing seduction. The plucky Flashman's latest escapades are sure to entertain devotees as well as attract new aficionados... -
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King Stakh’s Wild Hunt by Uladzimir Karatkevich
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsKing Stakh's Wild Hunt tells the tale of Andrey Belaretsky, a young folklorist who finds himself stranded by a storm in the castle of Marsh Firs, the seat of the fading aristocratic Yanovsky family. Offered refuge by Nadzeya, the last in the Yanovskys’ line, he learns of the family curse and terrible apparitions that portend her early death and trap her in permanent, maddening fear... -
![Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras]()
Tomorrow They Won't Dare to Murder Us by Joseph Andras
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWinner of the Prix Goncourt for first novel, one of the most prestigious literary awards in FranceA young revolutionary plants a bomb in a factory on the outskirts of Algiers during the Algerian War. The bomb is timed to explode after work hours, so no one will be hurt. But the authorities have been watching...Categorized as:
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The Portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe essential collection of the American literary master of terror, death, murder, fantasy, and revengeThe first new edition of this landmark anthology since 1945, The Portable Edgar Allan Poe presents a more complicated, perverse, and culturally engaged Poe...Categorized as:
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![More Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer]()
More Adventures of the Great Brain by John D. Fitzgerald, Mercer Mayer
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHas Tom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, given up his con-artist ways for a bicycle? Not for long. Soon the Great Brain is back to his old tricks, swindling and trading, even convincing the whole town there's a prehistoric monster on the loose. But when someone robs the bank, even the police are stumped...Categorized as:
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Blind Faith by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA wounded horse. A half-dead man. She thinks she can save the horse. She doubts the man will survive...Painter Alena McClaine’s world turns upside down when an unconscious rider arrives on his injured horse at her isolated California cabin. Both the animal and the stranger sport bullet wounds. Much to her surprise, the man lives—and hasn’t a clue about his identity. Even worse, he’s now blind...Categorized as:
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![A Precarious Excursion: An Austen-Inspired Romance by Wendi Sotis]()
A Precarious Excursion: An Austen-Inspired Romance by Wendi Sotis
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUpon arriving in London from Kent, Miss Elizabeth Bennet assumes it was an error in her behaviour that made Mr. Darcy believe she would accept his proposal. Elizabeth decides she should act more like her sister Jane from this point forward...Categorized as:
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Deadly Peril by Lucinda Brant
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWinter 1763. Alec, Lord Halsey is sent on a diplomatic mission to Midanich, imperial outpost of the Holy Roman Empire, to bargain for the freedom of imprisoned friends. Midanich is a place of great danger and dark secrets; a country at civil war; ruled by a family with madness in its veins. For Alec it is a place of unspeakable memories from which he barely escaped and vowed never to return...Categorized as:
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![Playing the Part by Jen Turano]()
Playing the Part by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsLucetta Plum is an actress on the rise in New York City, but is forced to abandon her starring role when a fan's interest turns threatening. Lucinda's widowed friend, Abigail Hart, is delighted at the opportunity to meddle in Lucetta's life and promptly whisks her away to her grandson's estate to hide out...Categorized as:
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![Me and My Little Brain by John D. Fitzgerald]()
Me and My Little Brain by John D. Fitzgerald
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsTom, a.k.a. the Great Brain, is off to boarding school. Now his little brother, J. D., is free to follow in Tom's ingenious, conniving, and profitable footsteps. All of J. D.'s attempts at turning a profit fail miserably, and he soon realizes that he just doesn't have that crafty Great Brain knack. But when his younger brother is kidnapped, J. D...Categorized as:
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Fish Preferred by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsHugh Carmody loved Millicent, Lord Emsworth niece, but he was very good friends with Sue Brown - an attachment which Millicent, perhaps, could hardly be expected to enthuse over. Ronnie Fish loved Sue, and entertained feelings o unrestrained ferocity towards Pilbeam, a blister of the first water, who was pestering her with flowers...Categorized as:
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![Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings by Lin Mei Wei]()
Mr Darcy and the Murder at Rosings by Lin Mei Wei
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a disastrous proposal in Hunsford, all Elizabeth and Darcy want is never to see each other again. But when a horrible storm traps them both at Rosings, they are forced to at least be civil to one another... -
![A Gentleman of Mystery by Ellie St. Clair]()
A Gentleman of Mystery by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Georgina Jenkins pulls a half-dead man out of the Thames, little does she realize that her life will never be the same.As the only woman at Bow Street, Georgie lives by two rules—to never be swayed by emotion, and to seek justice—but only when it’s warranted. For she despises the fact that the punishment fits the station in life, and not the crime, a reality she knows all too well...Categorized as:
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![A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
A Treasury of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Treasury of Sherlock Holmes contains the best and most famous cases solved by the great investigator from 221 B, Baker Street. They have been selected for entertainment of the modern reader by Adrian Conan Doyle, son of Sir Arthur. This fine collection includes A Study in Scarlet, in which Dr...Categorized as:
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![Family Plot by Sheri Cobb South]()
Family Plot by Sheri Cobb South
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe third installment of the John Pickett series of humorous Regency mysteries finds Bow Street runner Pickett in Scotland investigating a woman found unconscious on the beach—a woman who bears a striking resemblance to the local laird’s daughter, a girl missing and presumed dead for the last fifteen years...Categorized as:
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![Heartbreak and Honor by Collette Cameron]()
Heartbreak and Honor by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAbducted by a band of renegade Scots, Highland gypsy Tasara Faas blackens her rescuer’s eye when the charming duke attempts to steal a kiss. Afterward, Tasara learns she’s the long-lost heiress Alexandra Atterberry and is expected to take her place among the elite society she’s always disdained...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Hopkins]()
The Complete Short Stories by Ambrose Bierce, Jerome Hopkins
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBefore he trailed off into the wilds of Mexico, never to be heard from again, Ambrose Bierce achieved a public persona as "bitter Bierce" and "the devil's lexicographer." He left behind a nasty reputation and more than ninety short stories that are perfect expressions of his sardonic genius...Categorized as:
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Tregaron's Daughter by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsExcitement, drama and suspense were only part of Cadi Tregaron's new life. It had been a sunny afternoon when she glanced from the cliff where she sat reading and saw below her in the sea a sight that would change her life...Categorized as:
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Texas by James A. Michener
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsSpanning four and a half centuries, James A. Michener’s monumental saga chronicles the epic history of Texas, from its Spanish roots in the age of the conquistadors to its current reputation as one of America’s most affluent, diverse, and provocative states... -
![A Rose for Emily and Other Stories by William Faulkner, Washington Irving]()
A Rose for Emily and Other Stories by William Faulkner, Washington Irving
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsEmily is a member of a family in the antebellum Southern aristocracy; after the Civil War, the family has fallen on hard times... -
![The Adventure of the Empty House by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
The Adventure of the Empty House by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsIn “The Adventure of the Empty House”, Sherlock Holmes reappears in London after a 3-year absence, shocking Dr. Watson who believed his good friend had been killed in a confrontation with Professor Moriarty at Reichenbach Falls. Holmes is compelled to outwit the “second most dangerous man in London” who has a good reason to hope for Holmes’ demise...Categorized as:
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Mollie Peer: or, The Underground Adventure of the Moosepath League by Van Reid
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the second hilarious adventure of the Moosepath League, Mollie Peer, the feisty society columnist for the Eastern Argus, follows up on a lead she hopes will win her that elusive promotion to reporter... -
![A Trick of Fate by Stella Riley]()
A Trick of Fate by Stella Riley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSomeone is misusing Max Brandon’s name - resulting in bills for services he never ordered and goods he did not buy. For reasons he can't begin to guess, he has become the victim of some unknown person's campaign of persecution...Categorized as:
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![Highway Revenge by Nadine Millard]()
Highway Revenge by Nadine Millard
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvelyn Spencer has spent the last ten years living in her uncle’s house and longing for the day when she can leave and make her own way in the world.When she finds out her uncle’s terrible, hidden secret, Evelyn decides that she will first get revenge then leave and never set eyes on her wicked uncle again. Everything is going according to plan…until Viscount Andrew Ashdon comes along...Categorized as:
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![Legend of the Dawn by J.R. Wright]()
Legend of the Dawn by J.R. Wright
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHaving been drawn to the wild for a number of years, young Luke McKinney is forced to leave 1839 St. Louis for the North Country even sooner than he expected to go. At seventeen, along with a female companion and an elderly father figure, he is literally running for his life... -
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Earl of Weston by Anna St. Claire, Lauren Harrison
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEdward Hunter, confirmed bachelor, comes home from an assignment with the Crown to find his brother killed, and his father dead from grief. He is now the Earl of Weston, a position he never wanted. While searching for leads to his brother's murder, he finds himself forced to attend ton entertainments he normally would have avoided...Categorized as:
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![The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson]()
The Complete Stories of Robert Louis Stevenson: Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and Nineteen Other Tales by Robert Louis Stevenson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe complexity and range of Robert Louis Stevenson's short fiction reveals his genius perhaps more than any other medium. Here, leading Stevenson scholar Barry Menikoff arranges and introduces the complete selection of Stevenson's brilliant stories, including the famed masterpiece Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr... -
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A Bachelor's Pledge by Penny Hampson
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe woman who haunts his dreams Secret agent Phil Cullen is upset when he discovers that the young woman he rescued from Mrs Newbody’s establishment has absconded from his housekeeper’s care without a word. Thinking he has been deceived, he resolves to forget about her… something easier said than done...Categorized as:
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![Stranger at Wildings by Madeleine Brent]()
Stranger at Wildings by Madeleine Brent
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHere is a tale of charm and adventure-set in Europe around the turn of the century-whose colorful action ranges from a touring circus in Hungary to the fox-hunting society of the English countryside to the elegant circles of wealth and fashion in London...Categorized as:
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![The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle]()
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the bizarre job posting in 'The Red-Headed League' to the chilling words uttered by a dying woman in 'The Adventures of the Speckled Band', Sherlock Holmes encounters some of the most twisted cases of his career in this collection of 12 stories... -
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Emmett & Gentry by John Locke
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe saga of Donovan Creed's ancestors continues in Emmett & Gentry, the third book in the Emmett Love western adventure series. Still in chains after serving twenty-eight months for a crime he didn't commit, former gunslinger and sheriff, Emmett Love, heads to Dodge City to find Gentry, the love of his life...Categorized as:
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The Dark Side of Love by Rafik Schami
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn international bestseller available in English for the first time,a story of forbidden love set against the background of Arabic culture and endless feuds between clansA dead man hangs from the portal of St Paul s Chapel in Damascus. He was a Muslim officer and he was murdered...Categorized as:
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Cool Hand Luke by Donn Pearce
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"An impressive novel . . . the most brutal and authentic account of a road gang that we have had." —New York TimesOut of his experiences working on a chain gang, Donn Pearce created Cool Hand Luke, the larger-than-life war hero—Good Guy Number One—turned drunkard, vandal, and convict. A blasphemer and "pretty evil feller" who "could work the hardest, eat the mostest, and tell the biggest lies...Categorized as:
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Until They Bring the Streetcars Back by Stanley Gordon West
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsUntil They Bring The Streetcars Back serves up a nostalgic journey through the streets of post-war 1949 Saint Paul-- those wistful days of ten-cent sodas, big band music, and burning leaves. Stanley West weaves rollicking humor, riveting suspense, and a bittersweet love story into the fabric of those optimistic times...Categorized as:
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![Passin' Through by Louis L'Amour]()
Passin' Through by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt seemed the perfect place to lie low. The owner of the ranch was an attractive gray-haired lady who had once been an actress. The other woman was a beautiful, fragile-seeming blonde. They needed repairs done, and he needed to disappear for a while. The first sign that things were not as they should be was when a Pinkerton man questioned him about a missing woman...Categorized as:
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Chancy by Louis L'Amour
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsHe was an orphan from the hills of Tennessee and he hadn’t eaten in three days. With the front of his stomach making friends with the back, he was in no position to let an opportunity slip by unnoticed. And when Chancy defended his new herd of cattle with a shotgun, he didn’t miss. The dead man left a pistol on the ground...Categorized as:
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Something Fresh by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsOne thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice. Now there are two of them – both intent on a dangerous enterprise...Categorized as:
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Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsForced to take her life in a new direction when an injury ends her ballet career, Emma returns to her home in Australia and learns that she has inherited an isolated sheep station from a late grandmother who would impart key lessons about love and motherhood... -
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Bleak House by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsWidely regarded as Dickens’s masterpiece, Bleak House centers on the generations-long lawsuit Jarndyce and Jarndyce, through which “whole families have inherited legendary hatreds...Categorized as:
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![Embers by Sándor Márai]()
Embers by Sándor Márai
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAs darkness settles on a forgotten castle at the foot of the Carpathian mountains, two men sit down to a final dinner together. They have not seen one another in forty-one years. At their last meeting, in the company of a beautiful woman, an unspoken act of betrayal left all three lives shattered - and each of them alone...Categorized as:
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