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"New York Times bestselling author Joseph Finder delivers an exhilarating and timely thriller exploring how even the most powerful among us can be brought down by scandal, and how the lies we tell one another--and ourselves--can never truly stay buried. The chief justice of the Supreme Court is about to be defamed by a powerful gossip website called Slander Sheet, which specializes in dirt on celebs and politicians. Their top reporter has written...

Searching for an aristocratic wife to gain respectability, Lucien, the new Duke of Penning, instead finds himself enamored with his deliciously distracting housekeeper, who is everything he desires, but a love between them can never be unless they decideto risk everything to be together, including scandal. "A duke with secrets. Lucian, the newly minted Duke of Penning, has much to prove— to himself, his family and the ton. Craving spotless...

A romance set in Burning Cove, California, an idyllic small town on the coast that has become a refuge for Hollywood moguls and stars seeking privacy for scandalous trysts and wild parties.

Mystery and desire cloak the Scottish Highlands. Unruly. Unmarried. Unapologetic. Catriona Mackenzies reputation precedes her everywhere she goes. Her beloved late aunt Zelda taught Cat to live out loud and speak her mind, and thats exactly what she does when Zeldas legacya refuge for women in needcomes under fire. When her quest puts her in the path of the disturbingly mysterious Hamlin Graham, Duke of Montrose, Cat is soon caught up in the provocative...

After the shocking events surrounding President Grant's re-election, a newly fragile Olivia has gone off the grid. But her plan to "stand in the sun" with Jake is derailed when Quinn tracks her down with news of Harrison's death. Once back in D.C., Olivia struggles to reconnect with her embittered "gladiators". There, she's finally forced to confront the unspeakable evil her father has wrought. And once she chooses sides against him, there₂s no...

"The novel that lit the Japanese publishing world on fire: From a breathtaking up-and-coming writer, a twenty-first century Catcher in the Rye that brilliantly explores toxic fandom, social media, and alienated adolescence. Akari is a high school student obsessed with “oshi” Masaki Ueno, a member of the popular J-Pop group Maza Maza. She writes a blog devoted to him, and spends hours addictively scrolling for information about him and his life....

Now, seemingly invincible 'fixer' Olivia Pope must confront the ultimate challenge: fixing herself. After sifting through her mysterious father's labyrinth of lies, Olivia's search for answers about her mother threatens not just national security, but the entire world. Meanwhile, the lives of her 'gladiators', as well as those of the president, his wife and key White House staffers, take sinister, unexpected turns.

When the President is implicated in a sex scandal weeks before the next election, the White House needs to create some serious spin on the incident. Hollywood's best producer is called in to create a diversion-- so he produces a war to distract the public's attention.

"A collection of shocking clashes and controversies from Hollywood's Golden Age, featuring notorious personalities including Judy Garland, Cary Grant, Jean Harlow, and more"--

When her older brother Art--a Catholic priest and the popular pastor of a large suburban parish--finds himself at the center of a scandal, Sheila McGann, estranged from her family for years, returns to Boston, ready to fight for him and his reputation.