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"Abé is an exquisite storyteller. Rich in detail and deeply moving." —Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Magnolia Palace
"One of the most beautifully written books I've ever had the pleasure to read. A gorgeous, phenomenal novel I won't soon forget." —Ellen Marie Wiseman New York Times bestselling Author of The Orphan Collector
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"One of the most beautifully written books I've ever had the pleasure to read. A gorgeous, phenomenal novel I won't soon forget." —Ellen Marie Wiseman New York Times bestselling Author of The Orphan Collector
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A PopSugar Best New Romance of November
A She Reads Fall Historical Romance Pick
A Bookclubz Recommended Read
"Unique characters and emotional depth...a winner. Spencer gives you all the feels!"
—Sabrina Jeffries
"Brilliantly crafted...an irresistible cocktail of smart characterization, sophisticated sensuality, and sharp wit."
—Booklist STARRED...
A She Reads Fall Historical Romance Pick
A Bookclubz Recommended Read
"Unique characters and emotional depth...a winner. Spencer gives you all the feels!"
—Sabrina Jeffries
"Brilliantly crafted...an irresistible cocktail of smart characterization, sophisticated sensuality, and sharp wit."
—Booklist STARRED...
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First published in 1904, this volume contains a collection of 12 essays written by Scottish author Andrew Lang dealing with various baffling historical mysteries, including the famous Gowrie conspiracy and much-investigated case of Elizabeth Canning. A fantastic collection of detailed examinations concerning some the world's most unsolvable secrets not to be missed by mystery lovers and those with an interest in true crime and history. Contents include:...
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Riveting, historical accounts of daredevils, pilots and brutal madmen that inspire many of today's cinematic blockbusters. Step back in time with these thrilling tales that appeared in the pages of the most popular pulp fiction magazines of the 1930's and 1940's. The Collection includes: International Book Awards Winners: On Blazing Wings, Tomb of the Ten Thousand Dead, National Indie Excellence Award Winner: Under the Black Ensign as well as The...
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His great-grandfather, John Hayman, came to this gently rolling grassland filled with marshes teeming with life, in 1855.
Now Chance Hayman, the lone heir to the Hayman acres, deals with the vanishing marshes that his parents and grandparents lovingly tended. The entire area has succumbed to the plow, earth-moving machines, irrigation, and natural disasters such as fowl cholera. Since farms such as his are not protected as federal wetlands there is...
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This is a boxset which contains two books. The hero's are half-brothers.A Knight's VowKatrina "Kit" Lawson goes on a camping trip only to awaken in twelfth century England. She's lost her horse, her time, and from the sword at her throat, most likely her freedom. Her captor however, allows her to remain unconfined and she fights her attraction for the baron as she searches for a way home.Marcus Quinn, Baron of Blackthorne, is one of the king's legendary...
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1930. When a body is discovered on the premises of the newly-established Maxstead Court School for Girls, Detective Inspector Herbert Reardon is called in to investigate. His wife Ellen having just accepted a job as French teacher, Reardon is alarmed to find the school a hotbed of scandalous secrets, suppressed passions, petty jealousies and wanton schoolgirl cruelty. As he pursues his enquiries, it becomes clear that the dead woman was not who -...
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Do you dream of wicked rakes, gorgeous Highlanders and muscled Viking warriors? Harlequin® Historical brings you three new full-length titles in one collection!
This box set includes:
PORTRAIT OF A FORBIDDEN LOVE
The Rebellious Sisterhood
By Bronwyn Scott
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Sparks of anger turn into flames of desire after artist Artemisia finds aristocratic art critic Darius Rutherford snooping in her studio. One lapse in judgment could ruin her career...
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Six short stories for different historical periods: Greetings From Jerusalem (Ancient Rome) Scruples (Middle Ages) The Holed Stone (England 1900) The Black Boar (Middle Ages) Beltane (Ancient Britain) Queen of Ithaka (Ancient Greece) Please note: some of these stories have been published in other collections. British English.
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An accidental meeting, a passionate love, a conflict of duty, an unexpected ending....
SECOND EDITION - REVISED AND EXPANDED !
Miss Catherine Thornberry led a quiet life, teaching in the parish school. Until the day that the Earl of Stanningfield knocked her into the river. And then employed her as governess to his niece.
It was immediately obvious to both Catherine and the Earl, as their desires overcame them, that they wanted a...
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"Anyone who loves romance must read Sabrina Jeffries!" —Lisa Kleypas, New York Times bestselling author
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author comes a dazzling new series perfect for fans of Bridgerton, featuring a talk-of-the-ton trio of young women who've eschewed working as governesses to utilize their talents for fashion, food, and music, by running their own party planning enterprise, Elegant...
From the beloved New York Times bestselling author comes a dazzling new series perfect for fans of Bridgerton, featuring a talk-of-the-ton trio of young women who've eschewed working as governesses to utilize their talents for fashion, food, and music, by running their own party planning enterprise, Elegant...
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A GENTLEMAN'S BRIDE. Anne Gray is forced to marry for the chance of a better life. Until she learns the truth about her husband and her life is in jeopardy. She flees Devon and escapes to Australia.
James Barratt emigrated from Sussex to Australia to make his fortune. After an unfortunate romance, he vows never to fall in love again.
In Australia, Anne changes her name and, in unusual circumstances, becomes James' wife. But her blossoming romance...
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1746, England and Virginia Colony --Wrongly accused of murdering her abusive step-father, Shannon Kilmartin never expected to leave Newgate prison until she's sold as an indentured servant to work as a governess in the Virginia Colony. Brandon Fleming never escaped the memory of the beautiful raven-haired woman he met in Cambridge. He was so captivated that upon returning to the Tidewater Plantation in the Virginia Colony, he married Aurora because...
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The year is 1870.
Torn from the protective community of American missionaries in China, young, innocent teenager Lydia Holt has no idea of the harsh realities she will soon face. Forced into a loveless marriage to a sadistic Chinese nobleman, Lydia escapes her cruel confines and flees to San Francisco, only to meet the man she once trusted with her life-a man who now threatens to destroy the cosmetics empire she has established and rules with an...
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Yahzi, a strong Navajo woman captured in 1820 by the Spanish in Canyon de Chelly in what is now northeastern Arizona when she was a teenager, is determined to escape by whatever means necessary. In a forced marriage with a cruel man for seventeen years and pregnant, she manages to stampede a flock of sheep and flees in the confusion. But she faces even more difficulties in the unknown lands between the Spanish Nuevo Mexico frontier and her home in...
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In The Aftermath of War, A Young Woman Struggles to Find Peace and Love in Velvet Night, a Historical Romance by Jo Goodman
-- England Countryside and London; Boston 1815 --
Abducted, drugged, and sold to a brothel, Kenna Dunne is believed dead. If not for Rhys Canning's timely rescue, her death would be a reality. Escaping England and a shadowy past with Rhys, the only person she trusts to protect her, Kenna arrives in Boston as Rhys's wife and...
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A Missing Heiress, a Gambling-Hall Hostess, and a Seductress Vie to Take Down a Millionaire in Jo Goodman's Scarlet Lies--1868, on the Mississippi and 1872, San Francisco--Brooklyn Hancock, accomplice to her swindling partner and protector, meets her match in Ryland North. When he turns the tables on her aboard a Mississippi sternwheeler, she manages to escape, believing she murdered Ryland. Four years later, Ryland North is investigating the disappearance...
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Courageous Pirate Lass Rescues Ship's Captain, in Falcon's Angel by Judith E. French-- Outer Banks, Carolina Coast, 1810 --Captain Will Falcon can't help but admire the mysterious young woman known as Angel, who twice saved his life, but he doesn't consider their forced hand fasting a binding marriage. To regain his fortune he must marry an heiress-the daughter of his wealthy employer will do. As passion seeks to pull Will and Angel together, Will's...
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A moving historical tale and remarkable literary achievement, City Wolves is the story of Canada's first woman veterinarian, Meg Wilkinson. Born in 1870 on a farm near Halifax, Meg's childhood experience with wolves makes her determined to be a veterinarian. Supported by the seemingly eccentric Randolph Oliphant and inspired by the ancient Inuit who first turned wolves into sled dogs, Meg surpasses the horse doctors at vet college and becomes the...
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During the Reconstruction era, the United States attempted to rebuild itself after the end of both slavery and the Civil War. Despite some successes by Congress to secure the rights for newly freed African Americans through civil rights acts and constitutional amendments, racial conflicts plagued the South. Northerners believed the only way to resolve this was to leave the Southerners to manage their own affairs. In 1877, President Rutherford B. Hayes...
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