Julie: 4248 books

Paula Anderson is a selfish and nasty bully at work. Everyone avoids her so not to get the sharp end of her tongue, and that includes the new man at work, Gareth Farlow, whom she fancies. Until her mum treats her to a pair of snakeskin boots. When Paula tries on the boots, she is unaware that she...

Sandra Robertson is feeling mad and sad that her marriage failed to controlling Jim. She won’t go out and about even though her friend, Liz, tells her to. But then along comes her aunt Geraldine, who tells her ‘Don’t Get Mad, Get Even’. She should show Jim what he is missing. Sandra thinks...

Angel bakes cakes for her uncle's cafe in the village park. She is a goth. Then her uncle gives her a family recipe for chocolate cupcakes with a secret ingredient which has magical powers. When Angel bites one of the cupcakes, she goes all flirty and girly with Pet e, the new delivery lad, whom she...

Penny Jameson is at the end of her tether with her noisy, unruly children, and not being able to feed her baby. Then a young girl called Vicky arrives. With her calming, authoritative voice, she manages to get the children to obey her, and feed the baby without mess. Her smiles makes Penny think all...

Archibald 'Archie' Simpson runs the local antique shop. He is given a family heirloom of a cameo brooch by his aunt, who later tells him it has magical powers. Then strange things happen. Archie loves a profit, but when the brooch is in the shop and Gabrielle, the lady he fancies arrives, he becomes...

There I was, in the middle of a three-way with my best friend Hal and his wife Sharon. It was their wedding anniversary, and Sharon wanted to try something new. Hal and I had known each other for years, but I’d never seen him naked before. I’d never seen his wife, either, but I didn’t notice...

David kicked at rocks and empty soda bottles as he walked home from school. Since his parents' divorce, his mother has enlisted Miss Lee, their elderly Chinese-American neighbor, to keep tabs on him. It's embarrassing, to say the least. Yet when he and Miss Lee discover a common interest in word games,...

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The lovely Anne Chisholm is tricked into a handfast – the Scottish custom of marriage for a year and a day – with Alexander Sutherland. Too late, she discovers that her new husband is wanted for treason by the English authorities; in particular, by her father.

Julie Burns Sweeney was born in England in 1968. She now lives in Cornwall and her writing is influenced by having traced her family tree back some 500 years. Murray Barber is a private investigator with a difference, he can hear the dead speak. Along with the 'late' Michelle and his friend Jeff from...

One alluring stranger. Two broken promises. Three shattered hearts. Kathleen Hartigan won't return to Chicago, or to her cold father and manipulative stepmother. She's going to see the world, make her own rules, and protect her fragile independence at all costs. Rosemary...

A young man takes his father to Hawaii, even though he’s been dead for months. An organ player won’t let her newly amputated arm stand in the way of Sunday duties. A grad student decides to take the fate of a homeless man into his own hands. A couple of criminals, new to rural living, find their...

The short story collection starts with “A Proper Lady,” which introduces Eleanor, a ghost that is determined not to move on from her antique home. The Grim Reaper is forced to employ a number of tricks and persuasive tactics in an attempt to convince Eleanor to stop clinging to her old life and...