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BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Mary Balogh's The Secret Mistress.

New York Times bestselling author Mary Balogh returns to the elegance and sensuality of Regency England as she continues the enthralling story of four remarkable women–friends and teachers at Miss Martin’s School for Girls. At the center of this spellbinding novel is Anne Jewell, a teacher haunted by a scandalous past…until she meets...

"Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is a selfless academic like her, and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far too much before he left the Merriwellsisters practically destitute. Unfortunately, after a slew of romantic disappointments, there is still no sign of that prince at twenty-three and the only one true love of her life is the bursting-at-the-seams...

For the second year at Downey House, it's getting harder and harder to stick to the rules . . . Maggie Adair’s first year as a teacher at Downey House was a surprising success. After making the leap from an inner-city school in Glasgow, she’s learned to appreciate the mellower pace of the girls’ boarding school by the sea. Now engaged to her longtime boyfriend, sweet and steady Stan, Maggie’s just got to stop thinking about David McDonald,...

In the classic work that launched a play, a movie, and a song, Muriel Spark tells the darkly intriguing story of an eccentric Edinburgh teacher and the intense relationship she develops with six of her students.

At the staid Marcia Blaine School for Girls, in Edinburgh, Scotland, teacher extraordinaire Miss Jean Brodie is unmistakably, and outspokenly, in her prime. She is passionate in the application of her unorthodox teaching methods,

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""Wonderful. . . . Dark, funny, full of emotional intelligence and gripping from the start . . . beautifully written."-Daily Mail The internationally bestselling author and host of The Graham Norton Show returns with a tense and darkly comic novel thatcasts a caustic light on the relationship between mothers and daughters and truth and self-preservation. Where do secrets live? Carol is a divorced teacher living in a small town in Ireland, her only...

The lone lawman in the small Texas town of Branding, widowed single father Sheriff Sam Delaney shoulders a lot until a special someone enters the picture.

Four-year-old Marissa Fordham, brutally slashed and mutilated, witnessed the murder of her mother. To protect their fragile witness, the police call in Anne Leone, child advocate. But when one loose thread begins to unravel the shroud of lies behind the case, a truth more terrible than anyone could have imagined is revealed--a truth that will put Anne and Haley directly in the sights of a killer. Already in the midst of the See-No-Evil killer murder...

Trying to forget her painful past, Felicia Kristoffersen seeks to make a brighter future for herself as a teacher in Frenchman's Bluff, Idaho.