Holmes: 1214 books

After a long day of work as a New Jersey prison guard, Linus Hather wakes up one night to find that his high-tech security system has caught an unexpected intruder. Upon seeing it, he calls his old college buddy who is a biology professor and he comes to Linus’s house and tells him that he’s captured...

Paige has never had much luck with men. She’d caught her ex-boyfriend doing the naughty with another woman in the pub toilets. Then she’d found her recent ex-boyfriend in bed with her own (married) sister. Clearly, Paige and relationships don’t mix well. She knew that fact when...

Lacey has a problem. She’d jumped on a plane to New York on New Year’s Day. Because he’d asked. She’d drunk too much and had thrown up. Everywhere. Because he made her nervous. Now she’s been offered modelling work. The catch? She has to work...

Penelope hadn’t planned on getting pregnant. But now that she is, her plan includes a water birth, calming candles and music. It also includes keeping the baby far away from her controlling mother. With her mother interfering in her life and demanding she has a sophisticated baby shower...

Losing control is not an option for Izzy Shaw, something past experience has taught her. When you’re not in control, bad things happen. So when Parker Cole comes bustling into her life with his carefree manner, no full time job and his terrible Hawaiian shirts, she knows she should stay away. For...

[Siren Classic: Erotic Western Romance, HEA] After being kidnapped by an outlaw gang, Victoria Reynolds prays for a quick death. She knows a fate worse than death awaits her at their hands. Slade McKetchum is a ruthless bounty hunter, who prides himself on bringing in men that can't be caught. One thing...

Rather than return from school in Canandaigua to an oppressive home life with her spinster Aunt, Edna Browning instead chooses to elope with Charlie Churchill, the apparent heir to the vast Leighton fortune.  Transcribed and edited by Jeffrey Merrow from the 1872 New York printing.

Swept in by a snowstorm, found nearly frozen, a young lady and her child have traveled far to land on Hugh's doorstep. Hugh's mother and family are wary. What is this woman to them? What is Hugh to her? And what to make of her child and the wedding band shining so boldly from her finger? These questions are only the tip of the iceberg in this intergenerational family drama.

Leviathan or The Matter, Forme and Power of a Common Wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil—commonly referred to as Leviathan—is a book written by Thomas Hobbes (1588–1679) and published in 1651 (revised Latin edition 1668). Its name derives from the biblical Leviathan. The work concerns the structure...

Everyone in Rothsay including old Judge Forrest believes that young Everard Forrest, Esq. will someday marry Beatrice Belknap. But not Everard! Oh, he has always adored her, but as ‘Bee’ is a full year his senior, he cannot fathom the match. Judge Forrest pushes the issue, and Everard loses his...

'Mid the New England hills, and beneath the shadow of their dim old woods, is a running brook whose deep waters were not always as merry and frolicsome as now; for years before our story opens, pent up and impeded in their course, they dashed angrily against their prison walls, and turned the creaking...