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Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835-1915), little known now, but a renowned writer in her time, gives us five tales of the "weird" as she might herself have said. Here we have five of her better known stories, peopled with jilted lovers, blood thirsty old ladies, and grand, old houses whose restless ancestors refuse to abandon them! The five tales: "The Cold Embrace", "The Shadow in the Corner", "At Chrighton Abbey", "Good Lady Ducayne", and "Eveline's Visitant".

Elizabeth Bennet has spent all of her young life dreaming of finding the perfect man to marry...Just when Elizabeth thinks she may have to actually give up her dreams of marrying for love, in walk two very handsome and eligible gentlemen and both seem to send her heart skittering...Saving Mr. Darcy is a full-length clean and sweet romance novel that tells another Pride and Prejudice retelling between Darcy and Elizabeth and is suitable for all lovers of Jane Austen’s classic.

The small town of Newton-upon-Sea is stunned by the death of a retired admiral of Her Majesty's Navy and even more shocked at the state in which he is found. Everyone except Dr. Alexandra Gladstone assumes that he took a drunken fall from a cliff. Along with Nancy, Alexandra's maid, the London barrister Nicholas Forsythe, and her faithful dog Zack, Alexandra will battle local authorities, morticians, and the gossip of the town in order to learn the truth.

It is 1763. James Blakiston wants to solve the mystery of old Reuben Cooper’s murder. He wants to forget the loss of fortune and position. Most of all, he wants to ignore his yearning for the beautiful and spirited Kate Greener. That's not too much to ask. Is it?

Carrie Buck, a young woman living in early-20th-century Virginia, is raped and becomes pregnant by a family member - and her trauma is only beginning. She is deemed a "deviant" for having a child out of wedlock and, for that reason, is a candidate for sterilization. Louisa Van Patten, a New York socialite, is an advocate of the eugenics movement, which promotes this punishment. When Carrie and Louisa meet, along with journalist Ben Newman, during a national debate about the merits of forced sterilization, all their lives - and ours - are changed forever.