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Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Emma hasn't told her husband much about her past. He knows her parents are dead and she hasn't spoken to her sisters in years. Then they lose their apartment, her husband gets laid off, and Emma discovers she's pregnant-right as the bank account slips into the red. That's when Emma confesses that she has one more asset: her parents' house, which she owns jointly with her estranged sisters. They can't sell it, but they can live in it. But returning...
2) Inheritance
Author
Series
Lost bride trilogy volume 1
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
1806. Astrid Poole is murdered on her wedding day. Her last words - a promise to her husband never to leave him. After finding her fiancé in a compromising position with her cousin, Sonya MacTavish needs an escape. When a lawyer turns up on her doorstep out of the blue with news that she has inherited a beautiful Victorian house, Sonya thinks maybe this is just the change of scene she needs. The house - nicknamed Lost Bride manor - is beautiful,...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
When Ruby McTavish Callahan Woodward Miller Kenmore dies, she's not only North Carolina's richest woman, she's also its most notorious. The victim of a famous kidnapping as a child and a widow four times over, Ruby ruled the tiny town of Tavistock from Ashby House, her family's estate high in the Blue Ridge mountains. In the aftermath of her death, that estate--along with a nine-figure fortune and the complicated legacy of being a McTavish--pass to...
Author
Series
Roots of chaos volume 1
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ead, undercover as a lady-in-waiting in a court analogous to that of Elizabethan England, must protect the queen from lurking assassins; the queen, Sabran IX, theoretically belongs to a magical bloodline whose existence binds the huge and abominable dragon, the Nameless One, at the bottom of the ocean. Half a world away, young Tane, the rider and companion of a more benevolent sort of dragon, breaks her country's strict ban on allowing seafarers through...
Author
Publisher
Grand Central Publishing
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Still reeling from the sudden death of her mother, Jess is about to do the hardest thing she's ever done: empty her childhood home so that it can be sold. As she sorts through a lifetime of memories, everything comes to a halt when she comes across something she just can't part with: an old set of encyclopedias. To the world, the books are outdated and ready to be recycled. To Jess, they represent love and the future that her mother always wanted...
6) In a jam
Author
Publisher
Vesper Press
Pub. Date
2022
Language
English
Description
When Shay Zucconi's step-grandmother died, she left Shay a tulip farm--under two conditions. First, Shay has to move home to the small town of Friendship, Rhode Island. Second--and most problematic since her fiance ǰust called off the wedding--Shay must be married within one year. Marriage is the last thing in the world Shay wants but she'll do anything to save the only real home she's ever known. Noah Barden loved Shay Zucconi back in high school....
Author
Publisher
HarperTeen, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Jo Lavoie never new her paternal grandmother, and at sixteen never expected to inherit anything from her-- especially not a farmhouse and 190 acres of land. She arrives to find that the tenants are slightly... off. Jo feels something dark and decrepit in the old shack behind the house. And the things that her father used to talk about in his delusions-- Jo is starting to believe they might be real. Her grandmother's letter mentioned responsibilities--...
Author
Publisher
Tyndale House Publishers
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When her husband's unexpected death bestows his fortune on a male heir, Sylvia tries to marry her daughter off to a wealthy husband to maintain their lifestyle, but is stopped by her mother-in-law, who wants more for her granddaughter.
Author
Publisher
Dutotn
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Sara Marsala barely knows who she is anymore after the failure of her business and marriage. On top of that, her beloved great-aunt Rosie passes away, leaving Sara bereft with grief. But Aunt Rosie's death also opens an escape from her life and a window into the past by way of a plane ticket to Sicily, a deed to a possibly valuable plot of land, and a bombshell family secret. Rosie believes Sara's great-grandmother Serafina, the family matriarch who...
10) Mafia mamma
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
After the death of her long-lost grandfather, a suburban mom inherits his mafia business in Italy.
Author
Publisher
Boldwood
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
Description
Sisters Kitty and Jenny haven't spoken to each other since a very disappointing Carvery lunch many years ago. Kitty, sixty-two, thrice divorced and loving growing old disgracefully, thinks Jenny is turning grey. Jenny, sixty-six, married to her obnoxious husband Paul for three decades, thinks Kitty needs to grow up! Being apart has been hard for them both, but neither knows how to heal the rift between them. So an inherited farmhouse in rural France...
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Benny Catspaw's perpetually sunny disposition is tested when he loses his job, his reputation, his fiancée, and his favorite chair. He's not paranoid. Someone is out to get him. He just doesn't know who or why. Then Benny receives an inheritance from an uncle he's never heard of: a giant crate and a video message. All will be well in time. How strange - though it's a blessing, his uncle promises. Stranger yet is what's inside the crate. He's a seven-foot-tall...
13) Panther Gap
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
The thrilling follow-up to the Edgar Award-winning Bearskin, about two siblings on the verge of inheriting millions but who discover dark secrets in their family's past. Siblings Bowman and Summer were raised by their father and two uncles on a remote Colorado ranch. They react differently to his radical teachings and the confusions of adolescence. As young adults, they become estranged but are brought back together in their thirties by the prospect...
Author
Series
(Jennifer Lynn).Inheritance games volume 4
Pub. Date
2023.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 16
Language
English
Formats
Description
Grayson Hawthorne was raised as the heir apparent to his billionaire grandfather, taught from the cradle to put family first. Now the great Tobias Hawthorne is dead and his family disinherited, but some lessons linger. When Grayson's half-sisters find themselves in trouble, he swoops in to do what he does best: take care of the problem--efficiently, effectively, mercilessly. And without getting bogged down in emotional entanglements. Jameson Hawthorne...
Author
Publisher
Orbit
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When Enae's grandmaman passes away, Enae inherits something entirely unexpected: a diplomatic assignment to track down a fugitive who has been missing for over 200 years. No one actually expects Enae to succeed; it's an empty assignment meant to keep hiroccupied. But Enae has never had a true purpose--no one ever expected hir to do more than care for grandmaman--so sie is determined to accomplish this task to the best of her ability. Reet knows nothing...
16) The Aristocats
Author
Series
Publisher
Spotlight, a division of ABDO
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
When their owner says she wants to leave her forture to her cats, the jealous butler leaves the family of felines in the country, and they must find their way home with the help of a smooth talking tomcat.
Author
Publisher
Harlequin Books
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
1927. Olivia "Livy" West is a fearless young pilot with a love of adventure. She yearns to cross oceans and travel the skies. When she learns of the Dole Air Race-a high-stakes contest to be the first to make the 2,400 mile Pacific crossing from the West Coast to Hawai'i-she sets her sights on qualifying. But it soon becomes clear that only men will make the cut. In a last-ditch effort to take part, Livy manages to be picked as a navigator for one...
18) The beach house
Author
Publisher
Forever
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
When she buys a crumbling house in Rosemary Bay in remembrance of her gram, Melanie Simpson hires local contractor Josh Claiborne to restore the beach house to its former glory until she finds letters that reveal a long-lost secret that touches everyone in her community, changing everything.
Author
Series
Sunrise Cove volume 5
Language
English
Formats
Description
Luna Wright is a lot of things, but sweet and trusting isn't on the list. However, she's a sucker for the underdog and a hard-luck story. Adopted at birth, with scant knowledge of her biological family, she's created her own inner circle, a motley crew which includes her bestie Willow, to help her run the struggling but charming Apple Ridge Farm. With a farm-to-table café as well as a menagerie of rescued animals (complete with a baby goat who keeps...
Author
Series
Daughters of the dynasty volume 2
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Beijing, 1989. Lei is set to inherit her family's carefully guarded legacy: the centuries-old art collection of Empress Wu Zetian. If the Chinese government were to find about its existence, she and her family would face deadly consequences-- especially her father, a high-ranking official in the Communist Part. As Lei becomes pulled to the causes of the students, and to Delun, a student at Beijing University involved in the protests. Soon she will...
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