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When professional house-sitter Lila Emerson witnesses a murder/suicide from her current apartment-sitting job, life as she knows it takes a dramatic turn. Suddenly, the woman with no permanent ties finds herself almost wishing for one. Artist Ashton Archer knows his brother isn't capable of violence--against himself or others. He recruits Lila, the only eyewitness, to help him uncover what happened. Ash longs to paint her as intensely as he hungers...
2) Hot rocks
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When her past catches up with Laine Tavish, the proprietor of the antique shop Remember When, it's up to her and a stranger named Max Gannon to find out who's chasing her, and why.
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"Valentine's day is approaching and Maggie is in love...with some antiques she bids on at a local auction. A man in a fedora also seems interested but disappears before Maggie can find out who he really is. As she investigates her new purchases she finds hidden paperwork relating to the Vietnam War era."--Amazon.com.
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Maggie Watson and her friends are throwing a 1940's themed birthday party for WWII veterarn, Dr. William King, with the four-star event doubling as fundraiser for the local homeless. But Ruth Harper drops a bombshell of a long-hidden letter dated March 1943 and written in German. Could her aunt, Lillian Spade, Somerset Harbor's sweetheart, have been secretly harboring the enemy?
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"Smarting from her recently canceled wedding and about to turn forty, Laurie Sassalyn returns to her Maine hometown of Calcasset to handle the estate of her great-aunt Dot, a spirited adventurer who lived to be ninety-three. Alongside boxes of Polaroids and pottery, a mysterious wooden duck shows up at the bottom of a cedar chest. Laurie's curiosity is piqued, especially after she finds a love letter to the never-married Dot that ends with the line...
8) The portrait
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"Avid antiques collector Pierre-François Chaumont unearths the find of a lifetime at a Paris auction house: an eighteenth-century portrait of a gentleman who looks just like him. Researching into the painting's history, he has the chance to abandon his tedious existence and walk into a brand new life"--Amazon.com.
11) Nobody's Safe
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Welcome to Silver Peak, a jewel of a town nestled high in the rugged grandeur of the Rocky Mountains. Behind its rustic charm, Silver Peak has a rough-and-tumble past full of mysteries, and Sadie Speers has a knack for uncovering them, using her love of antiques and Colorado history.
12) Thread and gone
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Angie Curtis and her fellow Mainely Needlepointers know how to enjoy their holidays. But nothing grabs their attention like tying up loose threads. So when Mary Clough drops in on the group's Fourth of July supper with a question about an antique needlepoint she's discovered in her family attic, Angie and her ravelers are happy to look into the matter. Angie's best guess is that the mystery piece may have been stitched by Mary, Queen of Scots, famous...
13) The Danger Box
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In small-town Michigan, twelve-year-old Zoomy and his new friend Lorrol investigate the journal found inside a mysterious box and find family secrets and a more valuable treasure, while a dangerous stranger watches and waits.
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Sadie Speers, Silver Peak's "Antique Lady," loves owning and running her shop, the Antique Mine. When Edwin, her high school sweetheart, shows her an old wedding dress he found in his attic, Sadie guesses the dress belonged to her great-aunt Rachel Wright, Silver Peak's famous runaway bride. But that's not all that's revealed: there's a hole in the bodice of the dress and a pistol inscribed with the initials of Sadie's grandfather. As Sadie searches...
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"In this irresistible and thrilling debut novel, a former antique hunter investigates a suspicious death at an isolated English manor, embroiling her back in the dangerous world of tracking stolen artifacts. What antique would you kill for? Freya Lockwood is shocked when she learns that Arthur Crockleford, antiques dealer and her estranged mentor, has died under mysterious circumstances. She has spent the last twenty years avoiding her quaint English...
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Join Maggie Watson in the charming town of Somerset Harbor on the coast of Maine as she unearths a treasure trove of antiques and adventure. After inheriting the Carriage House Antiques shop and Sedgwick Manor, a nineteenth-century Colonial Revival, Maggie finally understands exactly what her beloved aunt meant when she said, "antiques are filled with stories - secrets just waiting to be discovered." Maggie and the lively members of the historical...
17) A royal tea
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"To support the widows and orphans of the war-torn Eastern European country of Moravina, the ladies of Canton decide to host a city-wide tea party. Tracy Doyle, along with some help, is able to convince those in town to sponsor tables specifically catered to their businesses. Tracy and her family even decide they should form a table themed around Grandma Pearl! But as the event gets bigger and bigger, things start to snowball out of Tracy's control....
18) Duel threat
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"It's spring cleaning season in Canton, and Amy Allen, along with her sister, Tracy, and their cousin, Robin, are organizing a city-wide garage sale. All the proceeds will be donated to one of their grandmother's favorite charities, the Blessings Children's Foundation. But as they are searching the attic for items to sell, they uncover what could be their most shocking discovery yet. Inside an old kitchen cabinet, Amy finds a box containing two antique...
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Maggie Watson thought she would spend the rest of her life in Vermont, living in the picturesque cottage home where she'd raised her family. But after her husband's death three years ago and her daughter's recent departure for college, the empty nester knew it was time to start a new chapter in her life. That chapter begins unexpectedly when Maggie inherits her aunt's nineteenth-century Colonial Revival, Sedgwick Manor, and the adjacent Carriage House...
20) Loom and doom
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Maggie is looking forward to the annual Somerset Harbor Arts and Music Festival that coming weekend. This year they have added a 10 Mile Antique Sale to the event. Each antique dealer registered for the sale along ten miles of the coast will sell items from their shop and will also have at least one item included in a Friday night auction to be held in Somerset Harbor with proceeds going to the Historical Society. Maggie has agreed to chair this...