The London Legacy

Modern

I flew cross-country for my birthday, hoping for just one night of warmth with my husband and five-year-old daughter. But when I opened the door, I found my famous hockey star husband and my daughter acting like the perfect family with Dayna, a glamorous sports commentator. My daughter shrank away from my open arms. "Mama's boring. She never plays with me. Don't go, Auntie Dayna!" My husband didn't even look up from his phone to wish me a happy birthday. He coldly canceled our dinner plans, claiming he had an urgent, last-minute strategy meeting for his team. Hours later, a TMZ article popped up on my phone, featuring a brutal photo of the three of them sharing a steak at an upscale Manhattan restaurant. The headline praised Blake's "family dinner with rumored flame Dayna Nixon" and openly wondered where the current Mrs. Carlisle was. My daughter lied for this, and my husband publicly humiliated me, treating my five years of silent sacrifice like a pathetic, disposable joke. I didn't cry, and I didn't throw a desperate fit. Instead, I calmly walked into his study, signed the pre-nuptial divorce agreement he had prepared years ago, and booked a one-way ticket back to Boston. From now on, I am no longer Mrs. Carlisle. I am Corinne Sargent, and I am taking my life back.

Billionaires

Amidst the glitz and glamor of London, Alexander Sterling lives the seemingly perfect life of a young billionaire. With incredible wealth, the most influential tech company, and a charm that captivates everyone, his life is always at the top. But everything changes when he receives a mysterious lett

Literature

The history of the Tower of London is so closely bound up with the history of England, from the Norman Conquest onwards, that it is very difficult to write a record of the one without appearing to have attempted to write a record of the other. A full history of the Tower may read like an attenuated

Literature

This fascinating biography of one of the world's most famous cities was originally published in the early 20th Century. It chronicles the life of London from its days as an early settlement through to more modern times. Including over 60 images, photographs, engravings and drawings, this excellent b

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London Before the Conquest by W. R. Lethaby

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The Lure of Old London by Sophie Cole

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After some sudden and unspecified catastrophe has depopulated England, the countryside reverts to nature, and the few survivors to a quasi-medieval way of life. Beginning with a loving description of nature reclaiming England — fields becoming overrun by forest, domesticated animals running wi

Romance

MollyJay Bijou is a woman of almost 30 who works 3 jobs and has fewer friends, as an orphan she also has no family. Her life had been a perfect series of screw ups and disappointments, until an obnoxious stranger and his rowdy friends change all that. Werewolves from the moon? You have got to be jok

Romance

Maxwell Jonas, a young and reputable detective living in a quiet coastal town in Italy, is haunted by a tragedy that shook New York-a brutal event that claimed his family in cold blood. Fueled by an unrelenting desire for justice, Maxwell is determined to hunt down those responsible and dismantle th

Modern

A sibling rivalry unfolds in a home where two brothers born on the same day engage in a battle for power, control and authority. To take over from their father, each must fight to survive no matter how bloody it gets. One has a secret he's ready to protect with his life while the other must do ever

Romance

I never imagined my life would come down to survival and surrender. The art center I've poured my heart into is drowning in debt, and I'm days away from losing everything. Then Nicholas Scott walks into my life-a billionaire with a gaze as sharp as his tailored suits and a proposition I can't afford

Werewolf

Victoria "Vix" Nightshade runs all the danger in the heart of the Appalachian Mountains, where old werewolf customs come together with modern aspirations. Under the fake name "victor," she enters the esteemed Blackwood Academy in quest of the legendary Claw of the Moon and challenges the strict gen

Romance

The blinding pain of childbirth ripped through Sarah, but it was the empty chair beside her hospital bed that truly shattered her. Mark should have been there, holding her hand, but his phone was off, just as it had been for hours. Another contraction hit, and alone, sweat-soaked, Sarah delivered

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London Days by Arthur Warren

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South London by Sir Walter Besant

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Nights in London by Thomas Burke

Modern

The steel door of the "behavioral correction facility" clanged shut, freeing me after five years of unspeakable torment. I returned to my grand New England mansion, my face a roadmap of scars, my body wracked by a terminal illness. Yet, my mother, Eleanor, and my wife, Olivia, greeted me not with

Sci-fi

The official notification arrived, its synthesized voice delivering a death sentence. My brilliant, rebellious sister, Luna, was "terminated" by OmniCorp-a corporate word for erased, dead. My hands trembled as I gripped the datapad, rain blurring the neon city outside. They said it was a security i

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London Films by William Dean Howells

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London River by H. M. Tomlinson

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A fantastic historical adventure novel by G. A. Henty, being a fictionalisation of the English Peasants' Revolt of 1381 led by Wat Tyler.