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Workaholic attorney Samantha Sweeting has just done the unthinkable. She's made a mistake so huge, it'll wreck any chance of a partnership. Going into utter meltdown, she walks out of her London office, gets on a train, and ends up in the middle of nowhere. Asking for directions at a big, beautiful house, she's mistaken for an interviewee and finds herself being offered a job as housekeeper. Her employers have no idea they've hired a lawyer--and Samantha...
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"Mrs. King is no ordinary housekeeper. Born into a world of con artists and thieves, she's made herself respectable, running the grandest home in Mayfair. The place is packed with treasures, a glittering symbol of wealth and power, but dark secrets lurk in the shadows. When Mrs. King is suddenly dismissed from her position, she recruits an eclectic group of women to join her in revenge: A black market queen out to settle her scores. An actress desperate...
3) Mrs. Miracle
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Seth Webster, a widower with six-year-old twins, needs nothing short of a miracle to feel whole again. With his heart still scarred by the loss of his wife, he feels overwhelmed trying to care for his children, get dinner on the table, and keep his job. Then a heaven-sent housekeeper arrives.
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Tucker Mills trilogy volume 2
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Indentured servant Reese Thackery, believing herself free when her master Mr. Zantow dies, is stunned when the bank manager tells her he intends to keep her papers to cover Zantrow's outstanding debts, but she accepts that God has a plan for her life, and is rewarded for her faithfulness when bank owner Conner Kingsley comes to investigate the odd circumstances and loses his heart to the young woman.
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 11
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The editor of "The Review of Applied Ethics" and a curious lover of puzzles, Isabel Dalhousie decides to investigate when she witnesses the fatal fall of a young man and discovers that he had been probing misdeeds at his brokerage firm.
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Pickax loves a big occasion. The Great Food Expo is about to begin, introducing new restaurants, country inns, food specialty shops and a new food page in the 'Moose County Something'. Lurking in the background is a killer determined to make this an event Pickac City will never forget. The Expo begins with a literal bang: a bomb wrecks the hotel, killing a housekeeper and causing extensive damage. Luckily for pIckax, Qwill is on the scene, his moustace...
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IL: UG - BL: 6.8 - AR Pts: 18
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Hired as a housekeeper to work on the early 1900s Montana homestead of widower Oliver Milliron, the irreverent Rose and her brother, Morris, endeavor to educate the widower's sons while witnessing local efforts on a massive irrigation project.
10) Mother road
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Managing a Depression-era garage in Oklahoma while his friend recovers from an animal bite, Yates finds himself falling in love with his friend's babysitter and housekeeper, who has scandalized the town by living with her employer.
11) Bad housekeeping
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Agnes Blythe, a once-contented academic, accepts a salvaging job from her eccentric great aunt in the wake of an embarrassing breakup, only to find herself embroiled in a murder mystery that requires her to find the real culprit to clear their names.
12) Love's dwelling
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Amish blessings volume 1
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Yoder loves her job as a housekeeper for elderly couple Job and Dinah Keim. Their only children, a son and daughter, left the Haven, Kansas, district and their faith more than twenty years earlier with no contact. When Child Protective Services shows up on the Keims' doorstep with their five grandchildren, their quiet lives-- and Cassie's-- are turned upside down. Mason, the oldest grandson at twenty-two, believes his siblings should be his responsibility...
13) 3 days to live
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"3 Days to Live": a CIA-agent bride is on her European honeymoon when she and her husband are poisoned--leaving her seventy-two hours to take revenge;
"Women and Children First": when a deal goes bad on a tech executive in Washington, DC, he turns an order to kill his family into a chance to relive his military glory days;
"The Housekeepers": a Los Angeles doctor trusts her two housekeepers, but when she's murdered in a botched attempt to steal...
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The body of an elderly woman is found in her apartment in Venice, and the prime suspect is her Romanian maid. The very afternoon of the murder, the maid is accidentally killed when she tries to cross the border to Romania. Commissario Guido Brunetti is the only one who believes her innocence and faces the challenge of clearing the maid's name and finding the actual killer. Brunetti thinks he has found a lead, but he may be tracking down the wrong...
15) Butterfly palace
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When Lilly Donnelly arrives at the Cutlers' famed Butterfly Mansion in 1899, the massive house and unfamiliar duties threaten to overwhelm her. Victorian Austin is lavish, highly political, and intimidating, but with the help of the other servants, Lilly resolves to prove herself to her new employers. Then, while serving at an elegant dinner party, Lilly recognizes one distinguished guest as Andrew, the love of her life, who abandoned her without...
16) Tool & die
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Determined to spend the summer repairing her Eastport, Maine, fixer-upper, Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree hires local house cleaner Bella Diamond to take care of her house and teenage son, Sam, but her plans take a backseat when her new housekeeper begins receiving death threats.
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Brothers in arms volume 3
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"Assigned by the Pinkertons to spy on a suspicious ranch owner, Molly Garner hires on as his housekeeper, closely followed by Wyatt Hunt, who refuses to let her risk it alone. But when danger arises, Wyatt must band together with his problematic brothers to face all the troubles of life and love that suddenly surround them" -- from the publisher.
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The brilliant, chilling debut of Karen White's New York Times bestselling Tradd Street series, featuring a Charleston real estate agent who loves old houses-and the secret histories inside them. Practical Melanie Middleton hates to admit she can see ghosts. But she's going to have to accept it. An old man she recently met has died, leaving her his historic Tradd Street home, complete with housekeeper, dog-and a family of ghosts anxious to tell her...
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Isabel Dalhousie mysteries volume 2
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IL: UG - BL: 5.8 - AR Pts: 11
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When Isabel's niece, Cat, asks Isabel to run her delicatessen while she attends a wedding in Italy, Isabel meets a man with a most interesting problem. He recently had a heart transplant, and is suddenly plagued with memories of events that never happened to him. Could the memories be connected with the donor's demise? Add to the mix the lothario Cat brings home from the wedding in Italy.
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