Sarah Stuart
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Sarah Stuart lives in County Durham, North-East England, but London is her "second home." She loves the theatre - musicals, plays, opera, and ballet - and her knowledge of England's capital shows in the background of her books.
The Royal Command Family Saga series is based on Sarah's experience of supplying dogs for the stage, which brought her into contact with producers, directors, wannabe actors, and stars of stage and screen. The Christian Richard and Maria Trilogy was written to show faith and closed bedroom doors are no bar to fast-paced stories. Sarah acknowledges her debt to Paul Tait, an American composer and performer, for permission to use his song lyrics. Sarah Stuart's first crime thriller was written with the generous help of John Nicholl, best-selling author of psychological thrillers. He had read her romantic suspense novels and suggested this was the next logical step. Always up for a challenge, Sarah created the world of DCI Gerald Croft in the fictional London Borough of Garton. Sarah donates her royalties to wildlife charities worldwide, and to rescue shelters for abandoned pets. Her own rescue dogs hold a special place in her home and in her heart. |
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Shattered Lives: A DCI Gerald Croft Thriller
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Psychological Thriller, Police Procedural
Ralph Thyme, an addicted gambler and his wealthy grandmother’s only acknowledged heir, discovers he has an elder sister, Olivia, who was sold at birth. Suppose Olivia discovers her true identity and claims half the inheritance he craves? How far will he go to eliminate the threat? Olivia escaped childhood sexual abuse. Despite horrific memories, nightmares, and fear, she is determined to save a stranger’s little girl from the same fate, and the solution she offers take all her courage... and then some. DCI Croft investigates a heinous case of rape, murder, and mutilation. Next to die, are a private detective and his pretty daughter... and then another woman... and another. Can DCI Croft identify and capture a psychopathic killer hell-bent on eliminating anyone who stands in his way before he murders his sister... or is it already too late for Olivia? 
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Deadly Envy: A DCI Gerald Croft Thriller
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Psychological Thriller, Police Procedural
Can DCI Gerald Croft stop a crime wave before the media pick up the story and put him in the chief superintendent’s firing line? An armed raid on a jewellers’ shop – deaths that might have been a suicide pact or murder – a teenage girl kidnapped. Is there more to come? 
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Cruel Duplicity: A DCI Gerald Croft Thriller
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Psychological Thriller, Police Procedural
Four years after his wife’s disappearance, a father convinces DCI Croft to reopen her case. He has never believed she left willingly and now one of their two young daughters has been assaulted. Reviewing nineteen other cases closed by his predecessor, DCI Croft finds two potential murders with no acceptable explanation as to why investigations ceased. Garton Borough’s Member of Parliament is causing ructions in the Croft household. Is their MP an honest man, worthy of Mrs Croft's admiration and trust, or a man with a secret agendum? 
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Dangerous Liaisons: The Backstreet Boy and the Royal Heiress
(Royal Command Family Saga, Book One)
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Romantic Suspense
READERS' FAVORITE ROMANCE/SIZZLE BRONZE MEDAL WINNER Lizzie falls in love with Michael and helps him become a showbiz superstar. Their eighteen-year-old daughter, talented actress Lisette, seduces Michael. Can Lizzie forgive them, outwit the paparazzi out to prove incest and the birth of a lovechild, save their careers and liberty, and her marriage? Sweeping from a shooting estate in the Western Highlands of Scotland to London’s West End and the production of two musicals, this novel contains authentic fictional insider stories of two very different contemporary worlds. The thread running through the Royal Command books is a secret diary first owned by Margaret Tudor, James IV of Scotland’s queen, which has been passed down an illegitimate female line for almost five centuries. It contains these words: I direct and beseech my heirs to find love where they may; a dangerous command that sounds so very innocent. Dangerous Liaisons Reviews 
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Illicit Passion: The Consequences of Seduction (Royal Command Family Saga, Book Two)
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Romantic Suspense
READERS' FAVORITE ROMANCE/SIZZLE FINALIST Broadway singer and actress, Lisette Marsh, flees to Paris and joins her father, The Diamond Superstar, for a European concert tour. Michael discovers she is being blackmailed into perverted sex with threats to reveal that she had his baby eighteen years before. He gambles his career, his marriage, and his liberty, to discredit the paparazzi-fuelled scandal. Their lovechild, Harriet, discovers the truth about her parentage and vanishes. The man behind the blackmail sends ransom demands, so did Harriet leave her London home of her own freewill or was she kidnapped? “$6,000,000 or you get her body, darling.” Can Michael's audacious plan to defeat the blackmailer work, or must Lisette return to the man she fears to save the whole family from imprisonment and financial ruin? 
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Dynasty of Deceit: Margaret Tudor's Legacy of Secret Love
(Royal Command Family Saga, Book Three)
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Romantic Suspense
“Screams cut the clear air.” The Diamond Superstar, Michael Marsh, turns from signing autographs to see his beloved wife, Lizzie, lying dead on the snow: a skier in black is spotted speeding away towards the Matterhorn. Lisette leaves her husband, Brian, and rushes to her grieving father’s side, rekindling media suspicions of an incestuous relationship. Jealous, and driven by guilty secrets of his own, Brian abandons Lisette, who is pregnant with his son. For the sake of Lizzie’s youngest daughter, Greta, he is determined to find the killer and mete out justice. The Swiss police ask the London force for help and the detective chief inspector assigned to the case is hostile, influenced by paparazzi stories that Lisette, Michael, or both, wanted Lizzie dead. Who stabbed the woman everybody loved, and why? How can twins, secret lovers Harriet and Kit, help Greta, and will the way they choose bring the showbiz family empire crashing to the ground? Can rejected, deserted, Lisette keep her solemn promise to Lizzie to pass on Margaret Tudor’s Book of Hours with its Royal Command, “find love where ye may” to a daughter conceived in love? 
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Sweet Temptation: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Passion
(Royal Command Family Saga, Book Four)
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Romantic Suspense
Evie Taylor is a career girl with no time for men, but she has a secret passion for Michael Marsh, the unattainable world-famous singer, The Diamond Superstar. Michael has been widowed for two years and the young detective who helped close the case on his wife’s murder still haunts his dreams. He doesn’t expect to find a deadly enemy in Evie’s mother. Teenage Greta, jealous of her adored father paying attention to Evie, makes a dangerous contact in an Internet chatroom. The Spy, a journalist hell-bent on destroying Michael, sets out to prove he has an incestuous relationship with his eldest daughter, he encourages his adult twins to sleep together, and he is responsible for appalling injuries inflicted on Greta. Can Evie defeat the virus intent on her death, The Spy, and her mother, to win the heart of the man who’s turned her life upside-down? 
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Sizzling Sunset: Second Chances for Star-Crossed Lovers
(Royal Command Family Saga, Book Five)
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Romantic Suspense
Michael Marsh escaped backstreet poverty and has enjoyed over forty years of showbiz success, but still his life is dogged by The Spy, a faceless journalist intent on bringing down the Diamond Superstar and seeing him jailed. Michael has been accused of incest with his eldest daughter, Lisette, and murdering his first wife, Elspeth. Now, his youngest daughter, Greta, is in trouble, again, and Michael’s second wife, Evie, begins to doubt him! 
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Three Against the World: A Waif, a Stray, and a Romance? (Richard and Maria, Book One)
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Christian, Clean Romance
Richard loses his job, so his gold-digging fiancée ditches him, leaving him alone but for Ben, a stray dog he adopted. But the day isn’t over! His ex-wife dumps a daughter he didn't know he had on his doorstep. Rejected by her mother, Maria believes she's an unwanted burden. Can a single dad, an anxious teenager, and an ill-treated animal find in one another the love, and the family, they crave? Richard is determined that they will; he’ll find a woman who will love him no matter what and accept Maria as her stepdaughter. Unfortunately, Richard tends to date the wrong women… 
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Two Face the World: Marry in Haste (Richard and Maria, Book Two)
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Christian, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary Romance
Richard and Maria's wedding is dreamily romantic, but both of them are still haunted by past rejections. Sinister letters and unwanted gifts arrive, and the more each tries to protect the other by keeping them secret, the heavier the burden of guilt and anxiety. However, when vicious attacks on lives and property begin, Richard and Maria are determined to uncover the identity of their enemy, but they have no idea who might have a motive. Will their love hold fast or the old saying “marry in haste, repent at leisure” prove true? 
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One Alone in the World: All She Wanted Was His Time (Richard and Maria, Book Three)
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Christian, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary Romance
Richard and Maria's inheritance, The White Hart Inn, is in financial trouble, and they are working very long days. Richard's audience is shrinking as he gets older, and for Maria, all the fun has gone out of cooking, and yet only The White Hart Eatery profits stand between them and bankruptcy. After an overheard row, their daughter Eleanor tries to help by locating and contacting her maternal grandmother, reviving dangerous secrets from the past. 
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Series Firsts: An Anthology (Sarah Stuart and Rebecca Bryn)
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Christian, Romantic Suspense, Contemporary Romance
First Series comprises six novels, the first books of six award-winning trilogies or sagas. Themes are historical, romance, and thrillers. The authors have created a tapestry rooted in Tudor times, through transportation to Australia and the conflict and turmoil of the Industrial Revolution, to present-day London, England. Lifelong friends, they invite you to share their characters’ dreams, fears, struggles, and successes. 
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The Memorial - A Short Story
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Crime Thriller, Short Story
What might drive a loving husband and father to murder? |
