Year of Folly

      Tracy Cooper-Posey

All Emma wants is to belong...

Emma, the youngest daughter of the great family, cannot find acceptance among the peers of society despite four Seasons of pleasing everyone. She is banished to Inverness to avoid any scandal her anger might cause. Even in Inverness, she is an outsider, for her cousins, including staid and boring Morgan Davies, spend all their days working and thinking, for heaven's sake!

Having survived years of the family's disasters, Morgan likes his quiet life and routine. Emma's excesses and plain speaking disrupt his days. When Emma discovers politics and adopts as her cause women's suffrage, the most outrageous scandal the family has yet to produce threatens to turn Morgan's world inside out...

This book is the twelfth in the Scandalous Scions series, bringing together the members of three great families, to love and play under the gaze of the Victorian era's moralistic, straight-laced society.

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Risk of Ruin

      Tracy Cooper-Posey

Now she belongs to another, he realizes too late that he wants her.

Lady Annalies is the daughter of the Earl of Innesford, but rejects society. Instead, she embraces the Bohemian art world, and lives in secret with her patron and lover, Tobias. The only person who knows the truth is her cousin, Peter, who furiously resents the burden of knowing how she courts disaster for the entire family.

When sales of her paintings diminish, putting her in financial straits, Annalies turns to Peter for help, as he has always helped her in the past. Peter grasps the chance to involve himself in her life, to head off the catastrophe she flirts with every day. The entanglements increase when he realizes it is not merely the risk of ruin which draws him to her.

This book is the eleventh in the Scandalous Scions series, bringing together the members of three great families, to love and play under the gaze of the Victorian era's moralistic,...

Degree of Solitude

      Tracy Cooper-Posey

The man she once loved is now a monster she doesn't know.

Catrin and Daniel love each other, but Daniel refused to further their relationship for fear of curtailing Catrin's intellectual and personal freedom, and dooming her to a life of domestic servitude as his wife. Yet their lives remain entangled.

When Daniel is shot in the face during a family rescue in Algeria, he brutally severs the ties between them and removes himself to a remote village in Pembrokeshire, Wales.

Catrin travels to Wales in a last bid to resolve their differences, but the terrifying man she finds there is not the Daniel she once knew...

This book is the ninth book in the Scandalous Scions series, bringing together the members of three great families, to love and play under the gaze of the Victorian era's moralistic, straight-laced society.

Reader Advisory: This story contains frank sex scenes and sexual language.

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The Fifth Risk

      The Fifth Risk (epub)

What are the consequences if the people given control over our government have no idea how it works? Stay tuned.

"The election happened," remembers Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall, then deputy secretary of the Department of Energy. "And then there was radio silence." Across all departments, similar stories were playing out: Trump appointees were few and far between; those that did show up were shockingly uninformed about the functions of their new workplace. Some even threw away the briefing books that had been prepared for them.

Michael Lewis's brilliant narrative takes us into the engine rooms of a government under attack by its own leaders. In Agriculture the funding of vital programs like food stamps and school lunches is being slashed. Commerce may not have enough staff to conduct the 2020 Census properly. Over at Energy, where international nuclear risk is managed, it's not clear there will be enough inspectors to track and locate black market uranium before...

Scarred

      Tess Thompson

For Autumn Hickman, online dating has been an exercise in nothing more than coffee and failure. There simply isn't a man on the planet who can compare to her best friend, Trey Wattson. And while Trey is everything Autumn has ever wanted in a partner, she knows the man who loves life's most beautiful things could never cherish anything as scarred and mangled as her.

Trey Wattson is in love with his best friend, but he can't seem to reach her. She's guarded, and for good reason, but Trey doesn't care. He knows Autumn's soul, and it's the most beautiful thing he's ever seen. Desperate to claim Autumn's heart for his own, Trey conspires with The Wolves to create a fake profile on the dating site Autumn frequents. But the more Autumn trusts Trey's online persona, the more it becomes clear that Trey is gambling with the very thing he wants most of all.

Return to Tess Thompson's beloved Cliffside Bay and discover for yourself why true love is built on honesty and trust,...