his Mother in morning and his cousin up to no good. Pippa and Edmund become reacquainted
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Lord Edmund of Hawksford wounded while on the Crusades is finally returning to his ancestral home. Hes been fighting for King Richard and ready to return home to a joyful reunion to only be met with devastation to learn his brother the William the Duke and his wife both died in a fire at the Hawksford Castle and hes now the new Duke. Lady Phillipa, his childhood friend survived the fire, but was severely burned in an attempt to save William and his wife has secluded herself away with the nuns. Edmund returns home to find his brother gone, his Mother in morning and his cousin up to no good. Pippa and Edmund become reacquainted, they find themselves falling for each other. But first they stop whatever force seems to be trying to stop Edmund and everything he loves. A captivating story of two wounded people who were childhood friends who reconnect after a few years apart.
This is my honest opinions after I voluntarily read a copy of this book that was provided to me with no requirements for a review.
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Trinket had absolutely no trouble staying out of trouble for most of her life but since she's moved back home it all just seems to be tearing down her door. Of course, she'll readily admit that most of it centers around her cousin, Bitty.

Bitty knows no such thing. It's not her fault that she's being accused of murder, for the second time in less than a year. Nor was it Bitty's fault, that the corpse was shot at the funeral. Oh, and the food fight at the Diva meeting? Well, that just wasn't how it seemed...

Ugh, Trinket has her work cut out for her this time... Maybe she should find a hobby or a job so she's not quite so available when Bitty wants to investigate.
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Suffer Little Children by Peter Tremayne

About the series: May be spoilers! Sorry!
The Sister Fidelma mysteries are set mainly in Ireland during the mid-seventh century AD. Sister Fidelma is not simply a religieuse, a former member of the community of St Brigid of Kildare. She is also a qualified dalaigh, or advocate of the ancient law courts of Ireland.  She is also a Princess, Colg mac Falbre Flaind - King of Muman (Munster) being Fidelma's older brother. She solves mysteries with the help of Brother Eadulf, a Saxon from Seaxmunds Ham, whom she later marries. They have a son, Alch.

About the author:
Peter Tremayne is a pseudonym for Peter Berresford Ellis, a recognized historian and expert on Celtic Studies. He also is an expert on the early Irish Catholic Church and the laws of ancient Ireland.

The book opens with Sister Fidelma returning home to her home at Cashel in the kingdom of Muman. Her return is noted by a strange woman who warns her about coming blood and doom. Her brother Colg is the heir apparent to King Cathal. But the King is dying of yellow fever and grevious charges have been leved against Muman.

It seems that the Venerable Dacan, a much respected and beloved scholar of the Celtic Church, has been found murdered. As he was on a visit to the Abbey of Ros Ailithir in the Irish kingdom of Muman, the Brehon Forbssach of Fearna, in the Kingdom of Liagin has brought a wrongful death complaint in the name of the new and naive King, Fianamail. As payment, the Brehon demands the return of the territory of Osraige to Liagin rule.

When the King dies, Colg replaces Cathal as King. Now the burden of decision lies on his shoulders. If he will not concede Osraige to Liagin, King Fianamail threatens war. At the very least, Colg will be forced to plead Cashels case before the High King  at Tara. So Fidelma has been selected to represent Muman and discover the truth behind the murder, and the plot behind the threatened war,

As usual, the story is a cocktail of carefully blended threads of political intrigue, church policy, Irish law, and old fashioned detective work. The slight twists that show in the concluding explanation are the work of an artist.

Certainly, this book is a worthy addition to the series, and a great read. I give it five stars out of five!

Quoth the Raven
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This was a good book because of the closeness of the two sisters having the same problem as in baby. This happens a lot with mother and daughters
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Following the death of her parents, the sixteen-year-old Portia Quayne comes to live with her older half-brother Thomas and his wife Anna. Although they are brother and sister, Thomas and Portia have had very different lives. He, in his late thirties, is a wealthy advertising executive, who has also inherited money from his mother and lives in one of the elegant Regency terraces surrounding Regent's Park. She is the family's guilty secret, the daughter of Thomas's father by his second wife. The elder Mr Quayne, a seemingly respectable middle-aged businessman, was divorced by his first wife after getting his mistress, Portia's mother, pregnant. As a result he was banished from polite society in England, and Portia has spent her entire childhood living in various seedy hotels on the Continent.

The book is divided into three sections, entitled "The World", "The Flesh" and "The Devil". The first and last sections are set in London, the middle one in the Kentish seaside town of Seale-on-Sea, where Portia goes to stay with Anna's old governess, Mrs Heccomb, while Thomas and Anna are abroad. (Seale, a fictitious town probably based on Hythe near Folkestone, also features in a later Elizabeth Bowen novel, "The Heat of the Day").

Portia is a quiet, naive and unworldly girl, who finds it difficult to fit into the fashionable world of her brother and sister-in-law. Thomas is a rather dull individual whose main preoccupation is making money, Anna a glamorous and sophisticated, if cold and conventional, society hostess, with a number of suspiciously close male friends,. Neither of them welcome having Portia staying with them, and take her in reluctantly out of a sense of duty. Anna in particular resents Portia, whose innocence is at odds with her own worldliness. Portia also seems out of place in Seale; although Mrs Heccomb treats her kindly, she cannot fit in with Mrs Heccomb's children Dickie and Daphne and their "fast" set of fun-loving friends.

Portia has fallen in love with Eddie, a rather useless young man who is one of Anna's protgs (and possibly one of her former lovers, although Bowen is never explicit on this point). After being sent down from Oxford, Eddie has tried becoming a writer, abandoning that career after his first, satirical, novel upset too many people, and currently works in Thomas's agency, where Anna has found him a position, despite his having neither a liking nor an aptitude for the advertising business. The bored, cynical Eddie and the innocent young Portia are, of course, quite unsuited to one another, but she is too besotted with Eddie to notice his bad points. Only when she invites him to Seale for the weekend and he spends most of his time flirting with Daphne Heccomb does she realise that he might not be the man of her dreams. Portia has been confiding her intimate thoughts to her diary; when she discovers that Anna has been invading her privacy by reading this, she takes a drastic step.

Elizabeth Bowen demonstrates in this book her gift for descriptive writing; I was particularly struck by the opening chapter, in which she conjures up a vision of Regent's Park on a frosty January evening. Her main concerns, however, were characterisation and in social and psychological analysis. This is not a book which will appeal to those who like their fiction be packed with physical action; the most interesting action is that which takes place in the minds of her characters, especially Portia. The "death" of the title is a metaphorical one, as Portia's innocent idealism is shattered by the cynicism and heartlessness of Anna, Eddie and their set. "The Death of the  Heart" is a sensitive, finely-written novel which justifies its owner's reputation as one of the leading British novelists of the twentieth century.
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A niece that only met her uncle once when at the age of eight inherits his house after a nasty divorce from her ex husband when she caught him cheating on her . A new beginning that she can only hope for . 18+
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This was an interesting story but not an exciting story. I felt sorry for Chris and his siblings but it can be depressing to see so much dissension between parents and their children as well as parents who evidently do not want to admit to any of their own apparent shortcomings.
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He cries for his can in the morning. As soon as he hears someone is up he's at the bedroom door and tripping us down the stairs!
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Our hero, Patrick Kavanagh - second youngest of the Kavanagh clan, is being pressured by is mother to give a job to her friends daughter who has suffered a riches to rags story. She has had a horrible year.

Libby Parkhurst has just lived through the worst year of her life. Shes from a very affluent family but her father is now in prison for tax evasion and she has sold everything she owns to help care for her mentally unstable mother. On her moms third and final try she was successful in her suicide attempt. Now Libby is all alone without a penny to her name. Shes in disguise as not to be noticed by reporters and ex-acquaintances who dropped her as soon as the money ran out. Shes fled to the safety of one of her mothers best friends, Maeve Kavanagh, who is doing her best to help her get herself back on her feet and begin a new life...and if her son, Patrick, happens to fall in love and marry the young woman she would be elated.

I didn't care much for Patrick. He was unkind, a jerk, crushed her already broken heart, and would not allow himself to care for her. He threw her away like yesterdays trash. Yeah, he figured out he was wrong but...

Theres a twist that was troubling for me which was responsible for the markdown in stars. I won't list it on here but I did place it in a 'Spoiler' on Goodreads.

It was fair but I wouldn't read it again!
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the 2nd in the Wideacre trilogy.  Daughter of brother/sister lovers has a love affair with her supposed cousin who is actually her brother from the same siblings in the first book.  Siblings having sex with one another then have 2 children a boy and a girl who then have sex when they grow up.
Horrid story.
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Three brothers all interested in Gretchen and she picks the worst of the bunch. Someone is stealing things from the funeral home. The writing zips along and we get better I sight into the triplets. The parents are a confusing tangent.
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Lord Humphrey Dewsbury  is at his wit's end. He is betrothed to Augusta Ratcliffe since her birth.his God Parents wanted the marriage. He  had gotten drunk and while driving his carriage and  forced Joan Chadwick in a ditch. She was a deceased vicar's daughter and she was going to have to go in service. Humphrey gives her a ride but decides he is going to take her to Gretna Green  to marry her.she finally agrees and they set off to a house party with his  family and Augusta  and her family is there. His grandmother is the only one who knows they are married. The others think they are betrothed. The rest of the book is how everyone deals with the couple and if the truth comes out about the marriage,
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Simply put, this is the story of an Irish woman, a very unhappy Irish woman, who wallows in the death of her brother, meanwhile placing all her family, both past and present, in a bleak, negative light.by recounting random and often made-up stories about them.
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This man disliked his mother-in-law.  He constantly belittled her in life and is trying to make a buck off her death.  Guess getting all her money wasn't enough for him. Don't waste your money on his version of reality especially when one considers this was his 3rd or 4th mother-in-law.
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This is a British family saga that starts out happily as a young girl of poor social stature takes the lowest staff position in the house of a wealthy family. She progresses to the position of 'lady's maid' to the eldest daughter. She is privy to the underlying secrets of the children of the family, which puts her in an uncomfortable place. It is a story of the changes in society as time passes that bring about complications in the lives of the family members. It is a story of intrigue and suspense and surprise.
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This is a good story but a frustrating story.  A cousin has promised to always take care of his younger female cousin.  He is even jealous of others who have her love.  Yet when she desperately needs something he has, something to keep her alive, he proves that his promise is worthless.
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This is a gripping story about a family in England that finds a surprise when investigating their parents' past, of which, even the parents weren't aware!