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Marguerite by the Lake

The Rise and Fall of a Dream Author: Mary Dixie Carter Marguerite is more brand than person. She lives in a stately home, perched on a cliff above a glistening lake. The grounds are expertly tailored, with Marguerite’s signature roses spreading rich perfume among the isles of flowers and trees, the winding paths, the breathtaking vistas. But is all this really Marguerite’s work, or is Phoenix, her gardener, the one truly responsible for the carefully executed vision, for the details that go into Marguerite’s Instagram posts and gardening books, for Marguerite’s unending success, for the fact that Marguerite is a by-word [...]

2025-05-05T11:44:13-07:00May 5th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |

To Kill and Kill Again

The Man Who Said He Did It . . . Did It Author: John Coston The “Missoula Mauler” was a serial sex killer of opportunity. During the day, he supposedly moved about his small, Montana town unnoticed: your average next-door guy. But when opportunity presented itself, he became a sadist with a penchant for ropes, rape, and murder. He targeted everyone from the girl next door, to a lost child, to a minister’s unfortunate wife, only meeting his end when his fascination with one potential victim went terribly wrong. I admit, I’d never heard of this particular serial killer before, but [...]

Queen’s Musician, The

Forbidden Love and a King's Schemes Author: Martha Jean Johnson Anne Boleyn stole the scene at court – until she lost her head. All these hundreds of years later, she still captivates us; her story – a grand rise and a horrible, bloody fall – fill both our history books and our lurid imaginations. What’s not to love? A forbidden romance. A thwarted, egotistical king wanting an heir. An ambitious, beautiful young woman wanting to rise in the world and willing to do anything – absolutely anything – to make it happen. A kingdom divided between them. Man and church warring [...]

2025-04-14T19:03:26-07:00April 14th, 2025|Tags: , , , , |
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