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Emerging from the Ashes

By John Anthony Miller

Love and loyalty in post-war Germany



Oeynhausen, Germany in the summer of 1945

As the Second World War comes to a close, Winnie Kraus is stunned when the British confiscate much of Oeynhausen for their post-war headquarters. Fluent in English, she’s assigned to Major Evan Crane, a British officer tasked with reviewing Nazi documents for upcoming war trials. Combative partners from the outset, their relationship evolves to a mutual respect before becoming so much more.



Jurgen Frank is a German war criminal hiding in the shadows of civilian life. After the British take his home, he’s forced to live on Winnie’s father’s farm. He falls in love with Mira, a beautiful Polish conscripted laborer who only wants to go home. But he knows he doesn’t deserve her—not with the life he’s led.



Four lives haunted by pasts they had hoped to forget as love and loyalty collide in a world ruled by the spoils of war. Together they face the future, cherishing each breath they are blessed to take, emerging from the ashes.

Pages: 368

Genre: Historical Fiction

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John Anthony Miller writes all things historical—thrillers, mysteries, and romance. He sets his novels in exotic locations spanning all eras of space and time, with complex characters forced to face inner conflicts—fighting demons both real and imagined. He’s published twenty novels and ghostwritten several others, including Another Soul Saved. He lives in southern New Jersey.

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The White Deer

By Regina McBride

In the summer of 1879, on his way to Moscow to study medicine, 19-year-old Anton Chekhov, from a bankrupt merchant class family, stops to spend a restful few weeks in the Ukrainian countryside, staying with his friend, Dr. Mitrofan, who is worried about Anton’s lingering bronchitis. 

It is here that Anton meets Vera Denisova, also 19, a budding actress, the daughter of theater aristocrats from Volkhov, a neighboring estate. The two spend much of their time wandering Volkhov’s vast property, hoping for a glimpse of a white deer that has been spotted in the back acreage.

As they grow closer, Vera confides in Anton about her secret romance and heartbreak over Petya, a servant her age who was gifted at drawing and who she helped to acquire an apprenticeship as a draughtsman in order to leave servitude for good. Anton is fascinated by her obsession, and a triangle forms between Vera, Anton, and the absent Petya. Anton, too, shares his secrets with her, his conflicted relationship with his indigent family and his frustrated wish to publish stories. Surreptitiously through Anton, Vera learns the truth about her family’s declining financial situation and the impending loss of her beloved childhood estate. Together in the long, extended light of summer days, Vera and Anton struggle to come to terms with their feelings for each other and the new profoundly changed world that is waiting for each of them at summer’s end.

The final section of the novel charts the correspondence between Vera and Anton over the next two decades. Vera has become a successful actress and Anton, a doctor who treats peasants for free, has more than realized his ambition as a writer.

In a final letter to Vera before his death at 44 of tuberculosis, Anton reveals that his play, The Cherry Orchard, was inspired by his time with her at Volkhov.

Praise for The White Deer:

"In this stirring tale, McBride evokes a sense of place with lush depictions of birch stands and daisy fields along with a soundtrack of Tchaikovsky and folk tunes, creating a backdrop for Vera’s tender and chaste friendship with Anton. It’s an evocative portrait of a vanishing way of life."

~ Publishers Weekly

"This transportive novel sweeps the reader up into a vivid, melancholic dream set on a nineteenth century Russian estate. Regina McBride creates her own Chekhovian tragi-comedy that delights as it captures a lost world frozen in time. The White Deer is a gripping must-read for anyone who loves literature and a love story gone awry."

~ Virginia Pye, author of Marriage and Other Monuments

Pages: 319

Genre: Historical Fiction / Russian Historical Fiction

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EXCERPT

The house was quiet. Anton and the doctor had probably not yet returned from fishing. I wandered up the hall looking into rooms, then climbed the stairs and knocked softly on doors, opening them and looking in. In one room I spotted Anton’s shirt from the day before, draped over a chair. A large window overlooking the gardens was open and morning sunlight came spilling in. Everything in the room seemed to be stirring, from the white covers on the unmade bed, to an errant sheet of the Evening Gazette that rose up like a cobra with every new breeze, crackling and writhing, before collapsing again onto the rug.  I stepped in and quietly closed the door.

On the nightstand I found a novel: In the Land of Mantillas and Castanets, by Bezetsky. I sat down on the bed and opened it. Inside was an unsealed letter, the envelope not yet addressed. I resisted taking out the pages, but my curiosity was too great. The letter was not yet signed, clearly left unfinished. It was dated the night before, 11:45 PM. 

My dear brothers, it began. Much of the first long paragraph was about the area of the river that ran through Dr. Mitrofan’s property. He mentioned a huge pike he had seen eyeing him from the shallows. I am after him in the morning, he wrote. That grandfather’s hour is about to come. 

In the next paragraph he described the neighboring acreage, Volkhov, as the grand, though dilapidated and doomed estate of a theatrical family. My heart paused at the word doomed. 

Once great orchards are sad, run down now and neglected though everything that grows wild is thriving in the summer weather. Old trees of every kind, an Eden of sorts, only waiting for the apple to fall and the appearance of the serpent.

The matriarch, now dead, was the bombastic actress, Dashkova. She came through Taganrog in a Schiller play before any of us were born but left her reputation behind her, the worst kind of mannered actress, it is reported, with all the grace and sensitivity of an alligator. 

The room went four shades darker. 

Anton’s character here was so at odds with his gentle, earnestly polite manner.

I thought of folding the letter and putting it back, afraid if I kept reading, he might fall further in my estimation. But I took a breath and continued.

The squire of Volkhov, Sergei Denisov is reportedly a talented actor who hasn’t worked in more than a decade. An overly sentimental man, so sincere I find myself suffering for him. When praising Anatoly Slezkine, who performed on their summer stage, he froze in a deep, spasmodic bow, bent so far forward I thought he might touch his forehead to the ground. 

My heart raced with indignation and my throat tightened. But the sentence that followed was even worse.

 He is a handsome figure of a man and I am told that he is quite the hound with the women and travels about living the life of a playboy. 

I stared at the words and they smeared together on the paper.

I threw the letter onto the bed beside me and waited for my heart to slow down. When I picked it up again my eyes were drawn to the mention of my mother.

Sergei’s wife is a mysterious soprano who lives like a hermit in some unknown area of the house and who I have heard vocalizing in the distance but have yet to glimpse. Her brother, who spent years in a Siberian prison camp, wanders the back acres in turn-of-the century military regalia, carrying a rifle. 

There are two delightful young women in that house, Sergei’s daughter, Vera, and his stepdaughter, Sasha. Sasha is the older of the two, though it is difficult to say how old she is. I cannot quite describe the effect her beauty had upon me when I first saw her. I felt a painful though pleasant sadness, undefined as if in a dream. But she is not somehow at ease with her beauty and tries in strenuous ways to show it to effect, and I am afraid I find that tiring, as if she’s attempting to use any man she engages with as a mirror to somehow see herself.

The younger girl, Vera, is quite different. 

I watched Vera and Sasha perform a scene from Shakespeare on an outdoor stage. The breathtaking Sasha delivers her lines with adequate charm, but Vera is a genuine actress. There were a few moments as she stood there when I would have cast her as Joan of Arc having a vision, a radiance about her head. There were no false notes.

Any sense of wonder I may have felt over Anton’s words about my performance was eclipsed by the sensation of nausea over everything else I’d read. Polite, gentle Anton had been judging us every moment. We were transparent to him and apparently, ridiculous, and the worst was what he’d said about my father, which caused a hard, pulsating pain in my chest and stomach.

Regina McBride is the author of eight books. The White Deer ~ a novel of Anton Chekhov is her sixth novel. She is also the author of one memoir, Ghost Songs, and one book of poetry.

Her novel, The Nature of Water and Air, was a Booksense Pick (Independent Book Stores Selection), a Barnes and Noble Discover Great New Writers book, and a Borders Original Voices choice. It was optioned for a film. Her books have been translated into five languages.

A recipient of fellowships from the NEA and the New York Foundation for the Arts, Regina lives in New York City, where she taught fiction writing for thirty years at Hunter College and continues to teach privately.

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The Phantom Archer

By N.A.Shaw

"Exciting historical fantasy adventure with twist of fairy tales, mythology, and magical creatures."

“Fables and fairytales are for silly hearts and children...”

When Gwen witnesses her friends death by a creature she didn't think existed she finds herself accused of his murder. On the run from the very beast that killed her friend, she finds an ally in the ghostly vigilante The Phantom Archer.

He protects her and together they discover that there is a reason the beast is hunting her and far more monsters are going to be on her trail...

Praise for The Phantom Archer:

"A cleverly plotted mystery / adventure packed full of twists and turns. A FINALIST and highly recommended!" 
~ The Wishing Shelf Book Awards



"Absolutely brilliant book. Really enjoyed it, great story and compelling characters."
~ Amazon 5* Review



"A beautifully written novel, with a strong compelling story and characters. Part historical fiction, part supernatural, part murder mystery, it's a perfect blend of all three." 
~ Amazon 5* Review

Pages: 412

Genre: Historical Fantasy (non romance or spicy fantasy)

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N.A Shaw lives in Hampshire where she works full time while fitting her writing around her day.

She loves history, folklore, and the supernatural and enjoys weaving these themes together in her novels.

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The Queen’s Tears

By Elizabeth St.John

A stolen crown jewel and an enigmatic portrait force two women to confront the devastating choices they made for love—and summon the courage to live with the truth.

1619: Barbara, Lady Villiers, at the bidding of her brother-in-law, the Duke of Buckingham, has stolen the dying Queen Anna’s jewels—and kept the greatest prize for herself. The Queen’s Tears, a brooch of extraordinary value, torments her: too dangerous to sell, too priceless to discard, and possibly her only means of securing her children’s future. When the family fortunes are shattered, Barbara faces an impossible choice: remain loyal to Buckingham—or betray him by confessing the theft to King Charles.

Present Day: Julia Darke opens her Cotswolds bookshop to start life over peacefully. Instead, a Van Dyck portrait of Barbara’s daughter, with tantalising signs of the missing Queen’s Tears hidden in plain sight, brings her face-to-face with Oliver Villiers, the Oxford art conservator she once loved and walked away from.

Reluctantly drawn together to uncover Barbara’s secret, Julia and Oliver follow the trail of the Queen’s Tears—and the closer Julia comes to Barbara’s truth, the harder it becomes to hide from her own.

Inspired by the true stories of Queen Anna of Denmark’s stolen jewels and a missing Van Dyck painting, The Queen’s Tears weaves history, fiction, and family research across the centuries. Readers of The Lydiard Chronicles will find old favourites—and a new heroine following in their footsteps.

Pages: 400
Genre: Dual-Timeline Historical Fiction

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Where the Story Came From

By Elizabeth St.John

How a mislabelled portrait led me to a Queen’s stolen jewels

Inspiration, as always, came when I least expected it. I was idly looking for some background on Barbara St.John Villiers when a search turned up a portrait that a Victorian book had named as her. I couldn’t quite believe it. Only one other portrait of Barbara has ever been registered, and this one was a Van Dyck. Quite unheard of.

So, I started digging. It took a lot of searching (the sort that keeps a historian up well past midnight), but in the end I could show that the sitter was not Barbara at all. She was her daughter, Anne, Lady Dalkeith, later Countess of Morton, and a celebrated heroine of the English Civil War in her own right. Cool.

I kept going back to the portrait, though, because I was struck by Anne’s dress and her jewellery. That sent me off to do some serious reading on early seventeenth-century jewels, and that’s how I came across the extraordinary collection belonging to Queen Anna of Denmark, James I’s consort. And then, tucked into a footnote, was an even better story. When Anna died, her trusted servant, Pierre Hugon, helped himself to her jewels from the deathbed, and he was later caught and clapped in the Tower of London before being released to the care of King Louis XIII of France. I found a three-page inventory of everything that had been taken, along with what was recovered from a mansion in Paris.

I had a portrait, jewels, and I had a theft. What I needed was something to tie them together.

George Villiers, the Duke of Buckingham, kept turning up. He was Barbara’s brother-in-law and Anne’s uncle, and he seemed to be connected to the jewels, the theft, the French court, and what happened to Queen Anna’s possessions afterwards. Well, that was my family. I could place Barbara Villiers right in the middle of the intrigue, and she belonged there. From my earlier novel, The Lady of the Tower, Barbara had often been called the woman that everyone loved to hate. Now I could not only give her a leading role, I could perhaps rehabilitate her reputation. Or at least explain it.

At the same time, I’d been playing with the idea of a present-day protagonist of a certain age. Julia Darke has just turned fifty. I wanted her to return to England in search of herself and reconcile with her past, and I wanted it to be somewhere in the Cotswolds, one of my favourite places, with a bookstore. And I wanted a really strong reason why her peaceful life would be completely upset, which is where a lost love from her Oxford days comes in.

Although all of these characters are fictitious, they were inspired by the world I wanted to put them in, and then shaped by the actions and circumstances of fate, destiny and the impact of decisions made over time. I could pick the places I loved, and they grew up around them.

So the dual timeline ended up being two things at once. The historical story is based in fact, the modern one in fiction, and the blend of the two is seasoned with a healthy dose of imagination. And all because one morning I found a portrait I didn’t know existed.

Elizabeth St.John's acclaimed historical fiction brings to life her ancestors—remarkable women linked to England's royalty—offering unique insights into Medieval, Tudor, and Stuart times. Her novels unfold not just as traditional series, but as an interlocking web of lives: The Lydiard Chronicles—including the celebrated The Lady of the Tower—The Godmother's Secret, and The King's Intelligencer explore everything from the English Civil War to the mystery of the Princes in the Tower. Her newest novel, The Queen’s Tears, a dual timeline pursuing a stolen crown jewel, reunites favourite characters from the seventeenth-century with a present-day bookstore owner heroine.

At the heart of her writing is the transformation of real ancestral histories into narratives of historical continuity. She follows threads of legacy through generations, guided as much by wills, letters, portraits, country churches, ruined castles, manor houses, and lost gardens as by imagination. Locations become constant companions through time, while characters whisper across centuries—their decisions resonating in the lives of their descendants to reveal how choices shape legacies. Grounded in historic sites like Lydiard Park and the Tower of London, her work creates a living archival flow that continues to flourish as the past yields its secrets.

Elizabeth divides her time between California, England, and the past, surrounded by books, gardens, and animals, with a slightly bewildered, ever-supportive husband beside her.

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The Shadowless

(At the Corner of Eden and Darkness, #1)

By R.J. Garcia

Modern Faerie Tale Meets Murder

Mae Dawson returns to her family’s cabin in a mysterious forest to search for her missing sister. One night, she goes to sleep in her bed only to awaken in the depths of the woods surrounded by eerie and indiscernible voices that lead her to her sister’s grave.

A year has passed. Mae has pieced her life back together. She has a supportive boyfriend and is completing her first semester in college. However, everything begins to unravel when strange late-night calls come from the beyond, and a malevolent force begins to invade her friends.

Adding to her unease is the presence of a mysterious stranger, Brandon Sills, who seems to lurk in the shadows, watching her every move. Despite the warning bells ringing in her mind, Mae feels an inexplicable attraction to him.

As mortal and magical forces conspire against them, Mae must trust Brandon to uncover the secrets of the fae. Secrets that will change her life forever, if she even survives.

Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult
Page: 284

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The Spellbound

(At the Corner of Eden and Darkness, #2)

By R.J. Garcia

Magic Meets Mayhem

Back in Willows End, Mae and Brandon find themselves in the thick of things after kidnapping her ex. As they attempt to banish a changeling, Mae begins to question her sanity, and the threat of a serial killer draws ever closer.

Even sleep offers no reprieve. Mae can no longer find Emmie in the Garden—her dreams of wonder have become nightmares. Before long, she discovers her sister is lost in Limbo.

One night, Mae is alone in the cabin when she hears someone breaking in. Her only hope is her possessed ex—chained in the spare room. Mae is forced to choose the lesser of two evils. Once Mae makes her choice, the changeling assumes human form, an ancient prophecy stirs, and nothing is as it seems.

Haunted by fear and doubt, Mae clings to her love for Brandon, the last sure thing in her life, and her greatest hope of saving her sister. But are things really as certain as they seem?

Genres: Paranormal, Young Adult

Pages: 276

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SNEAK PEEK QUOTES

The Shadowless:

“I pulled myself out of a dream and glared with a pirate eye at my buzzing phone. Then I caught sight of Emmie’s name flashing on the screen. There would be nothing unusual about it except, of course, it’s the middle of the night and my sister’s dead.”

The Spellbound:

“It was more than the way his blue eyes twinkled, and how his mouth moved like honey. It was more than him being handsome, kind, and magical. It was the feeling I had, a connection I can’t quite explain.”

R.J. Garcia is a wife, and proud mom of two smart kids. She earned her MSW and worked with foster children and as a school social worker. Writing has been her other great love. She has been writing short stories for as long as she can remember. To her amazement, those short stories became novels!

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When the Stones Held

By David E. Owen

When the Stones Held is a historical novel inspired by the remarkable true story of William Edwards, the self-taught Welsh stonemason who built one of the great bridges of the eighteenth century.

Growing up in rural South Wales, William lives in a world of hard physical labour, dangerous rivers and limited opportunity. From an early age, he develops an instinctive understanding of stone, balance and the possibilities hidden within the landscape around him.

As the coal trade begins to transform the valleys and the need for safer routes grows, William accepts an extraordinary challenge: to build a bridge across the River Taff at Pontypridd. He is twenty-seven years old and has never built a bridge before.

What follows will test far more than his skill as a stonemason. Flood destroys his first bridge. Later attempts bring new failures and new problems to solve. With his reputation, livelihood and family affected by every decision he makes, William must decide how much he is prepared to risk for something no one can promise will succeed.

Set against a South Wales beginning to experience profound change, When the Stones Held is a story of ambition, family, community and resilience, and of an apparently ordinary man whose determination would leave a legacy that survives more than two and a half centuries later.

Pages: 331

Genre: Historical Fiction 

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MY THOUGHTS

One of the things I enjoyed most about When the Stones Held by David E. Owen was the way the story made me think about the people whose names never appear in history books. We remember William Edwards because of the bridge he built, but what about the people who worked alongside him, encouraged him, argued with him or simply carried on with their lives while he was busy trying to achieve something extraordinary?

I particularly enjoyed the way Owen portrays life in the Welsh valleys. There is a real sense of how closely everyone lives together, and how difficult it must have been to keep anything private. Everyone seems to know everyone else's business, and a person's reputation can be affected by something as simple as who they speak to or which family they associate with. I found that fascinating, particularly when money and social standing came into it.

The Price family are a good example of this. Rhys Price is a man who knows exactly how much influence he has, and he isn't particularly interested in using it kindly. What frustrated me was how easily people like him could interfere in the lives of those who had very little power to challenge them. William might be an exceptionally skilled craftsman, but that doesn't mean he is treated with the respect he deserves.

I also found the religious side of the novel much more interesting than I expected. The chapel is such an important part of the community, and William's involvement with it adds another side to his character. He isn't simply a man who works with stone all day. His beliefs matter to him, and as the years pass, he finds himself facing difficult situations where doing what he believes is right could come at a considerable personal cost.

There is a particularly satisfying development involving the chapel and the Price family later in the novel. I won't spoil it, but I was very pleased with how that situation unfolded. Sometimes you spend so long watching certain characters get away with their behaviour that you begin to wonder whether anyone is ever going to stand up to them!

Another aspect I appreciated was that the novel doesn't forget how much William's work depends upon other people. A bridge might begin as one man's idea, but somebody has to quarry the stone, move it, prepare the foundations and do the exhausting physical work. I liked seeing the men working together, particularly when the weather turned against them. There is something rather satisfying about watching a group of people who know their trades tackle a difficult job.

And the weather certainly doesn't make things easy! I had never given much thought to what happened when builders were halfway through a project and the frost arrived, or when a river suddenly rose after heavy rain. You can't simply carry on regardless, however much work has already gone into it. I found myself appreciating just how much patience these projects must have required.

I also enjoyed the way the years pass in this novel. People grow older, children become adults, relationships change and familiar faces disappear. There is a sadness to that, particularly towards the end, when William begins looking back on the people who have been part of his life. I found those later chapters surprisingly emotional. By then, I had become so accustomed to these characters being around that their absence really mattered.

What I liked most about When the Stones Held was that David E. Owen didn't make William's famous bridge the only thing worth reading about. The everyday lives of the people in the valley were just as interesting to me. Their arguments, friendships, beliefs and struggles gave me plenty to think about, and I particularly enjoyed the way the community changed over William's lifetime.

By the time I finished, I felt I had read about much more than the achievements of one remarkable Welshman. I had spent time in a community where life could be desperately unfair, but where ordinary people could also show tremendous loyalty and courage when it mattered.

If you enjoy historical fiction that takes its time with the characters and gives you plenty of everyday history alongside the bigger events, I would happily recommend When the Stones Held. It is a thoughtful, sometimes heartbreaking novel, and one I thoroughly enjoyed.

After decades spent teaching around the world—from the UK to the Caribbean, Africa, and the Middle East—I came to writing fiction later in life. I started with fantasy before finding my voice in fast-paced, real-world spy thrillers. My stories are grounded in current issues like corruption, gender bias, and power, but always emphasise pace, surprise, and character-driven tension.

I’ve visited over 80 countries, worked as a radio host in Abu Dhabi, directed Shakespeare for African audiences in the bush, and even survived a flash flood in Mali and an armed hold-up. I was arrested for drug-smuggling in Nigeria but was eventually released when I refused to pay off the police captain, and I was boat-wrecked alone on a desert island in the Arabian Sea (but no tree) and rescued through a police search. Now retired from teaching, I split my time between writing, photography, and trying to get fit (thanks to a stubborn rowing machine). My latest novel, Hate Machine, tackles misogyny and gender radicalisation — not typical thriller territory, but I like a challenge.

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Secrets of the Penny University

By Amanda Roberts

Tilly risks everything on a promise. Amy wants the truth.

“I think something terrible happened here”

2025: When Amy and her husband buy an old property on Oxford’s High Street with plans to open a new coffee shop, the discovery of a mural painted on a wall hints at a story that has lain dormant for centuries. Before long, Amy is seeing and hearing echoes of the past, and a young woman who once lived there. As the penny university reveals its secrets, will Amy’s growing obsession with the past lose her everything she has in the present? 

1656: Abandoned by her lover and pregnant, Tilly is sent from the small village of Islip to live with cousins in Oxford where she will work in their coffeehouse. She is soon drawn into the excitement of her new life in the city, until the return of a nightmare from her past changes the course of her future. As the time for her child to arrive draws closer, Tilly is faced with a difficult decision; does she turn her back on everything she has hoped for and settle for a different life? She follows her instincts and gambles.

Pages: 282

Genre: Historical Fiction / Dual-Timeline / Timeslip

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Author, bookworm and history lover, Amanda grew up in Derbyshire but has lived in Oxfordshire since 1997. A magazine editor by profession, she has published four novels and a short story. Her first novel, The Roots of the Tree, was based on a true family story and is close to her heart, but her real love is historical fiction. She has published two dual timeline books set in Oxfordshire (The Woman in the Painting and its sequel Secrets of the Penny University) and Lady of the Quay, the first in a series of historical crime/suspense novels set in 1560 in Berwick-upon-Tweed. Second book in this, the Isabella Gillhespy series, will follow in 2027.

When not writing or attending bookish events, she can be found exploring crumbling ruins – wherever in the world she happens to be – or relaxing with her two ginger cats.

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