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Mary Mackie
Book List in Order: 44 titles
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Shadow on the Lake
- Apr-1999
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When racing driver David Elliott, with whom she has just broken up, is injured, Carole accepts his proposal of marriage and his suggested visit to his family, but soon after they arrive at the Elliott home, she has second thoughts...
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A Child of Secrets
- Apr-2013
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The adopted daughter of the rector of Hewinghall, Lily Clare has never been able to resist taking in whatever waifs or strays come her way: hungry cats, broken-winged starlings and, one day, a filthy girl her own age whom she finds collapsed and exha...
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Sandringham Rose
- Apr-2013
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When Rose Hamilton’s mother died in childbirth her father, a gentleman farmer on the royal Sandringham Estate, was so devastated that he could never bring himself to love the daughter whose birth had killed his beloved wife. At the age of seventeen...
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The Clouded Land
She must uncover the secrets of her mother’s past… Eighteen-year-old Katarin arrives in England having fled the rising tensions in Germany. She instantly senses that she is unwelcome on her grandmother’s Norfolk estate, although she has no idea...
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Counterfeit Love
Illustrator Judy Grant had gone to Devon to work, and discover how her step-brother had drowned off a nearby beach. She found herself involved with Darren, and was drawn into the fringe of the local artistic colony. She met Darren's father, an aloof,...
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Dark Ruby
Of all the Woolthorns, old Hilary was the only one who still believed in the legend that was linked with the ruby pendant, but in the claustrophobic atmosphere of the old house deep among brooding moors it was difficult to ignore his conviction. Anto...
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The Dark Days of Spring
Smugglers' Cottage was a haven for Lynda, the perfect place to rest and recuperate. She came with high hopes to the Devonshire village only to find that peace, even here, was hard to find. The assorted members of the Hathersage family; the past and p...
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Enigma for a Nurse
Staff Nurse Maggie Hanna was looking forward to her holiday because it meant an escape from Doctor Richard O'Rourke. When she found an elderly man critically injured in strange circumstances, it made the young surgeon turn detective, with Maggie as h...
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Flame in the Forest
Tracy came alone to what should have been her honeymoon hotel in the Black Forest, expecting to meet her cousin Liesel, but she seemed to have disappeared. Did the mysterious Max know where she was? And was Dieter Muller interested in Tracy or was he...
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The Flower and the Storm
Something is wrong at the Abbey Lodge Hotel, but Phillida cannot work out what it is. There is no escape from the bitterness of her ex-fiance, who is slowly being torn apart by something Phillida does not understand. With the help of Simon Bluett, sh...
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Give Me No Rubies
When Victoria Temple left the WRAF and returned home to the village, she expected a quiet life; instead, life was anything but peaceful. Victoria became friendly with John Shannon. When John's father was found murdered and his antique shop burnt out,...
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Into the Twilight
As Jilly Morris drove to her new life in Cumbria, she was only slightly disturbed by Caroline's seemingly erratic behaviour. She did not guess that the Lakeland hills might hide a twilight world. Who was the stranger driving madly away from the ransa...
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A Man Like Matthew
At twenty-five Catherine considers herself an old maid. With few friends and no relatives only her wry sense of humour keeps her spirits high. Then came the Professor, dragging her from her rut into a world where questions from the past assail her. I...
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Mist Around the Moon
When her mother dies, a letter arrives from Clare's unknown father inviting her to visit him on the Yorkshire moors where he runs a scientific research station. She finds an immediate rapport with her father but there are strange forces at work in Mo...
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Nicola's Winter
Nicola was soon to be married to a man she loved, and no doubt her twin sister, Diana, would also settle down eventually. Nicky had no way of knowing that the smooth path of her life was heading towards ugly rocks. It began on an evening indistinguis...
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Nightflower
Exiled from her homeland, Bethany came to stay with the grandmother she hardly knew and found her gruff and embittered, nursing some secret grievance against the Trenchard family, who lived at the Hall. Beth didn’t wish to upset her grandmother, bu...
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The Other Side of the River
Deserted by her husband, Leonie devotes her life to their young son, Tim, until he is snatched and spirited away by his father. After five months of despair, Leonie is visited by Pieter Helsingen, a German businessman, who tells her that her ex-husba...
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Return to Love
Holly felt she needed a break and, with her young son, Michael, went to stay with her Aunt Jo in Felswithen, Yorkshire. Holly had been brought up there, but had not been back for five years. She was shocked to discover that Eden Pemberley, her former...
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Robin's Song
Stacey Carter and her sister Fran were looking forward to spending a quiet summer with their Aunt Margaret. That was before their aunt informed them that she had agreed to take care of twelve-year-old twins Robin and Rachel while their wealthy parent...
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Scent of Rain
To Katie, the drying stream was a symbol of the love she had lost. After three years of self imposed exile she came home to her brother's house, to the village where happy memories were tainted by the remembrance of rejection and a new remorse. Norma...
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A Season for Singing
West Berlin -- an uneasy island in a sea of Communism; a place where people live on their nerves. Anne Holbrook, a young widow with bitter memories of marriage, lives here as secretary to novelist Robert French and whipping-boy to his wife, Mirian, w...
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Season of Mists
A chance meeting with childhood friend Michael Collingham brings Rowan back to Scarsbeck, but many things have changed. Rowan suspects that her feelings for Michael may be just the echo of her old crush. He himself may be reaching out to her because ...
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Shadows of Yesterday
After four years Helen has finally come to terms with the loss of her young husband, but the sudden reappearance of her old flame, Toby, and the emergence of a new relationship with James, brings her now peaceful, almost uneventful life to an end...
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Spring Fever
From a Romantic Novelists Association Award nominee. Lee Summerfield had come home to the Lincolnshire market town of Spalding to take a break from New York's high-powered publishing world, and while there, to write a feature on the renowned Lincolns...
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Still Weeps the Willow
The old willow tree by the river saw everything: clandestine lovers, Susan's meeting with her 'shining knight' and later Susan weeping. It was in sight of the tree, too, that the final tragedy occurred, when jealousy and revenge struck suddenly and a...
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Sweeter Than Wine
Katarin Jameson was spellbound. He was here, in the flesh, the Baron von Drachensberg -- tall, compelling and definitely interested in Katarin.
When she'd returned to the land of her ancestors to run a family vineyard, Katarin never expected to be ...
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The Unquiet Summer
Summoned by an incoherent letter, down-to-earth journalist Jenny travels to Yorkshire to discover the truth behind her sister's fear of the old mansion that was her husband's inheritance. She became aware of the force which dwelt in the house, a forc...
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Waiting Web
A year after the ending of her romance with Luke, Joanna is still unhappy. Her flatmate Jenny is offered a holiday in Wales if she will drive a car from London to Wales - maybe Joanna should go instead for a break? It seems an innocent enough decepti...
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The Whispering Well
Hazed by golden light, a man rode out of the misty dawn, a smiling stranger who enchanted Penny with the legend of the Whispering Well and unspoken promises of romance. It was such an innocent encounter that she never guessed how soon she would come ...
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The Wolf of Wierdmoor
As governess to the undisciplined Alexander, Georgiana Forrest’s life is a constant battle. Red-haired, outspoken and chafing against the rules imposed by Victorian society, she dreams of a more pleasant future. After a final battle with her young...
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