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To Lie with Lions by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHaving wrested his little son from his estranged wife, Nicholas embarks on a business trip to Iceland. As he confronts the challenges of the frozen wastelands, he runs up against his vengeful wife, whose secrets threaten to topple all Nicholas has achieved... -
![Yesterday's Blood by Jane O'Brien]()
Yesterday's Blood by Jane O'Brien
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYesterday’s Blood, Book 5 of O’Brien’s series A Slip in Time, begins in the year 2025 where we last left Daniel Kent, the deputy sheriff. Having come across some heirlooms in an old secretary drawer, he handles each one carefully wondering who they belonged to and how they were connected to him... -
![Hand Of The Father by Duane Boehm]()
Hand Of The Father by Duane Boehm
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHand Of The Father is the exciting new sequel to the Bestselling Hand Of Fate.With their troubles behind them, Boone and Flannery anxiously await their wedding day, but men from Boone's past appear in Trinidad just days before the marriage is to take place... -
![Sinfully Wanton by Kathleen Ayers]()
Sinfully Wanton by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA seductive virgin. An experienced older rake. Lady Aurora Sinclair is no stranger to scandalous behavior, after all, she is a Deadly Sin. Now that she’s survived two Seasons, Aurora is bored. Far more curious about things of a physical nature than she should be, her interests will soon lead her down the path to ruin. A solution presents itself, in the form of Mr... -
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![Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett]()
Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsWith the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe...Categorized as:
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![War And Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy]()
War And Peace, Volume 3 by Leo Tolstoy
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible...Categorized as:
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![Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner]()
Where Butterflies Dream by Cindy Brandner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEach of us carries within a map of memory. The map is worn at the folds--sometimes right through--and so place names are missing first letters or last or have a hole through the middle. We carry those maps with us always, and this map is mine--an island on the edge of the world and beyond it a place of dragons and sunken cities with bells that still ring a thousand years on.. -
![The Ransom by MaryLu Tyndall]()
The Ransom by MaryLu Tyndall
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFamily and fortune betrayed her. Would fate do the same?Port Royal, Jamaica 1692 Living in a city deemed the wickedest in the world is no easy task for Miss Juliana Dutton. To make matters worse, with an ailing father and a drunken fool for a brother, she is forced to take over the running of the family business in order to survive...Categorized as:
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![A Love for All Time by Bertrice Small]()
A Love for All Time by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIn this sweeping historical epic featuring Skye O'Malley's brother, Conn, Bertrice Small-the "reigning queen of romance" (Literary Times)-chronicles the lives of two lovers separated by the royal deceptions of 16th century Europe..Categorized as:
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![Yesterday's Kin by Jane O'Brien]()
Yesterday's Kin by Jane O'Brien
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYesterday’s Kin brings a new chapter to A Slip in Time. Ginny and Daniel get closer as they share a passion for family tree research. Once Ginny learns of Daniel’s time travel adventure, she convinces him to show her the way to visit Twin Lake and Holton in the 1880s. When something unusual happens, it causes them to not end up in the same time and place... -
![Wheel of the Fates by J. Boyce Gleason]()
Wheel of the Fates by J. Boyce Gleason
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIT IS 742. The throne is empty; the pagan states are in rebellion; Charles Martel’s widow and youngest son have been imprisoned, and trust between Carloman and Pippin—the two brothers who remain in power—has been shattered... -
![Galloglass Book Two:: Defender of the Realm by Seamus O'Griffin]()
Galloglass Book Two:: Defender of the Realm by Seamus O'Griffin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsThe adventure continues as Ronan MacAlasdair is drawn deeper into the political intrigues and rivalries of the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem and Acre. New dangers arise as the Mamluk Sultan of Egypt moves closer to a war whose ultimate goal is to drive the last remaining Crusaders in the Holy Land into the sea... -
![Galloglass by Seamus O'Griffin]()
Galloglass by Seamus O'Griffin
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsEpic high adventure, Galloglass details the story of Ronan MacAlasdair,grandson of Angus Mor MacDonald, Lord of the Isles. Given to the Templars to save him from outlawry,the story takes the young Isleman from Islay to the Levant where he comes to manhood and finds fame, surviving intrigue, battle and seige. A rousing story with adult themes, this is the first in a series... -
![Fallen Angel by Tracy Borman]()
Fallen Angel by Tracy Borman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLife has never been quiet for Frances Gorges at the court of King James, but after finding herself at the center of plots and conspiracies for many years both as an accused witch and a secret Catholic, by 1614 Frances hopes to distance herself from the decadence and ruthlessness of the aging and venal monarch...Categorized as:
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![Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon]()
Angelique, the Road to Versailles by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsHistorical Romance Large Print Edition For Ang lique, 17th-century Paris is a city of wild love and vicious hatred. Penniless, alone and sworn to take revenge on those who were responsible for her husband s death, she plunges into the dangerous underworld of the city to the nightmare Court of Miracles, a world of deformity, degradation, violence and lust...Categorized as:
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![Angelique and the King by Anne Golon]()
Angelique and the King by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTHE SUN KING AND THE QUEEN OF PLEASURE.Louis XIV was one of history's great lovers. Fought over by every exquisite woman in France, there was only one luscious jewel Louis really wanted to possess; the irresistible Angelique. But the emerald-eyed enchantress knew Louis discarded beautiful mistresses like toys. And that she would never bear... -
![Angelique: The Marquise of Angels by Anne Golon]()
Angelique: The Marquise of Angels by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe story begins in 1648 during a time of insurrection, terror and revolt in a divided France. Angélique de Sance de Monteloup, a vibrant twelve-year-old tomboy, is the daughter of a simple nobleman impoverished by taxes and other burdens...Categorized as:
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![The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson]()
The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland. Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were the island pastor, his wife and their three children. Although the raid itself is well documented, little is known about what happened to the women and children afterwards...Categorized as:
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![Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos]()
Severed Knot by Cryssa Bazos
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBarbados 1652. In the aftermath of the English Civil War, the vanquished are uprooted and scattered to the ends of the earth. When marauding English soldiers descend on Mairead O’Coneill’s family farm, she is sold into indentured servitude...Categorized as:
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![Lords of Misrule by Stella Riley]()
Lords of Misrule by Stella Riley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsStill tied to his desk in the Intelligence Office, Colonel Eden Maxwell has become increasingly disenchanted with both Oliver Cromwell and his own daily existence; and with the advent of new Royalist conspiracies, he despairs of ever getting away. Then a brick hurled through the window of a small workshop sets in motion a new and unexpected chain of events...Categorized as:
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![Isola by Allegra Goodman]()
Isola by Allegra Goodman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn unforgettable epic saga of a French noblewoman deserted on an island where her survival will depend on the power of her faith and love—from the New York Times bestselling author of Sam.Heir to a chateau with its own village and lands, Marguerite is destined for a life of prosperity and gentility... -
![A Dish of Spurs by Robert Low]()
A Dish of Spurs by Robert Low
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsIn the space between nations, nothing is out of bounds.1542. For centuries the Scottish and English borders were known as the Debatable lands: wild, lawless, and the province of reivers, tight-knit robber families that roamed and pillaged the remote passes without fear...Fifteen-year-old Mintie Henderson has just seen her father murdered... -
![Courtneys of Africa by Wilbur Smith]()
Courtneys of Africa by Wilbur Smith
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis trilogy of novels traces the fortunes of twin brothers Sean and Garrick Courtney from the end of the 19th century to the early decades of the 20th and their different struggles to find their place in the land of South Africa at a time of war and of violent struggles within their own family... -
![Port Royal by Linda Lee Chaikin]()
Port Royal by Linda Lee Chaikin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe scene is Jamaica in the 1700s--a world of smuggling, slaves, and sugar plantations. A British viscount turned pirate meets a woman with a noble cause. Romance, adventure, and Christian history are interspersed in this exciting series...Categorized as:
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![The Solomon Sigil: Templars and the Shamir by David S. Brody]()
The Solomon Sigil: Templars and the Shamir by David S. Brody
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA forgotten Holocaust-era safe deposit box engraved with a Templar cross ensnares historian Cameron Thorne in an age-old What happened to the magic, rock-cutting worm used by King Solomon to build his Temple? When the Mossad gets involved, the question becomes a life or death one, sending Thorne careening across New England--from Masonic lodges to ancient stone structures--trying to find the... -
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Castillon by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 9 ratings1450s France. A young Englishman, Tom Swan, is kneeling in the dirt, waiting to be killed by the French who've taken him captive. He's not a professional soldier. He's really a merchant and a scholar looking for remnants of Ancient Greece and Rome - temples, graves, pottery, fabulous animals, unicorn horns...Categorized as:
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![Angelique in Love by Anne Golon]()
Angelique in Love by Anne Golon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFleeing the ruthless persecution of Louis XIV, Angelique, the most hunted woman in France, is finally forced to seek refuge on the high seas. With the outcast Huguenots, she embarks for the New World aboard a mysterious pirate vessel whose masked, enigmatic commander is Rescator, Black-sheathed spectre of her past...Categorized as:
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![Angelique in Revolt by Anne Golon, Marguerite Barnett]()
Angelique in Revolt by Anne Golon, Marguerite Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe beautiful setting of the Poitou region makes a stunning contrast with the story which often boils over into bloody violence. The political situation is destined to bring multiple tragedies for Angélique and, after enjoying a moment of revenge, finds that she is pregnant with an unwanted daughter...Categorized as:
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![Angelique in Barbary by Anne Golon, Monroe Stearns]()
Angelique in Barbary by Anne Golon, Monroe Stearns
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThis fourth book in the series, which was first published in England in 1960, sees Angélique leave the confines of France for the first time. She embarks on a series of adventures around the Mediterranean - more precisely the Barbary Coast of North Africa, which led to the American editions of the book being called Angélique in Barbary. In French the book was called Indomitable Angélique... -
![Luther and Katharina by Jody Hedlund]()
Luther and Katharina by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsShe was a nun of noble birth. He, a heretic, a reformer…an outlaw of the Holy Roman Empire. In the 16th century, nun Katharina von Bora’s fate fell no further than the Abbey. Until she read the writings of Martin Luther. His sweeping Catholic church reformation—condemning a cloistered life and promoting the goodness of marriage—awakened her desire for everything she’d been forbidden... -
![Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter by Christian Cameron]()
Tom Swan and the Keys of Saint Peter by Christian Cameron
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTom Swan and his friends are trying to save Europe from the Turks, but most of his adversaries seem to be other Europeans. This time, an unnamed cabal is trying to kill him and, incidentally, ruin the banks and trade of England, France, and Italy. .Categorized as:
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![Assassin's Creed: Revelations by Oliver Bowden]()
Assassin's Creed: Revelations by Oliver Bowden
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsOlder, wiser, and more deadly than ever, master assassin Ezio Auditore embarks on an epic journey to find the lost library of Altair—a library that may hold the key to defeating the templars. However, a shocking discovery awaits him... -
![The Continental Risque by James L. Nelson]()
The Continental Risque by James L. Nelson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom Simon & Schuster, The Continental Risque is James L. Nelson's powerful saga of the American Revolution and a stirring dramatic maritime adventure.Nelson's exciting seafaring trilogy concludes. As cries for independence ring through the chambers of the Second Continental Congress, Captain Isaac Biddlecomb and his crew are called upon to engage The Royal Navy... -
![The King's Falcon by Stella Riley]()
The King's Falcon by Stella Riley
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAn alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.Following his coronation in Scotland, Charles ll leads an army south to reclaim his throne but the dream ends in a crushing defeat at Worcester, leaving no other choice but flight...Categorized as:
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![The Kingdom of Nefertiti by M.L. Bullock]()
The Kingdom of Nefertiti by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWho Will Be Egypt's Next Great Queen? Can Nefertiti Defeat a Dangerous Rival? When Nefret, the mekhma of the Meshwesh, leads her people back to their homeland of Zerzura, everything changes. Forced to make a deal with the determined Queen Tiye, Nefret abandons her tribe and the man she loves to obey the queen’s command...Categorized as:
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![Death Magic by C.S. Quinn]()
Death Magic by C.S. Quinn
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings'Quinn is a brilliant new talent!’ —Peter JamesFrom author of the bestselling Thief Taker seriesLondon 1663. A murdered girl. An attic full of charms …Charlie Tuesday has a new case. A maid-servant has been brutally murdered, leaving an array of strange protectorates in her attic room. Stolen from her body was a silver thimble which no-one can explain how she came to have...Categorized as:
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![Angelique and the Ghosts by Sergeanne Golon]()
Angelique and the Ghosts by Sergeanne Golon
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe's one of the most ravished and ravishing heroines in the history of fiction. Her stormy adventures have taken her from the gutters of Paris to the harems of Africa to the silken prison of a king. Angelique has loved, intrigued, hated and fought her way into the hearts of millions of readers all over the world...Categorized as:
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![Jamaican Sunset by Linda Lee Chaikin]()
Jamaican Sunset by Linda Lee Chaikin
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPublicly betrothed to Baret Buckington, her handsome sea captain, Emerald Harwick can scarcely contain her joy. She will manage her plantation's Great House on Jamaica until his return from sailing with buccaneer Henry Morgan, and then they will marry. Meanwhile, she will begin a singing school and translate the African slave chants God's songs of redemption...Categorized as:
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![Forsaking All Other by Catherine Meyrick]()
Forsaking All Other by Catherine Meyrick
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLove is no game for women; the price is far too high. England 1585. Bess Stoughton, waiting woman to the well-connected Lady Allingbourne, has discovered that her father is arranging for her to marry an elderly neighbour. Normally obedient Bess rebels and wrests from her father a year to find a husband more to her liking... -
![In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy by G.A. Henty]()
In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy by G.A. Henty
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHarry Sandwith, a Westminster boy, becomes a resident at the chateau of a French marquis. After various adventures, he accompanies the family to Paris at the height of the French Revolution. Imprisonment and death reduce their number, and Harry finds himself beset by perils with the three young daughters of the house in his charge...Categorized as:
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![Mistress Cromwell by Carol McGrath]()
Mistress Cromwell by Carol McGrath
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe powerful, evocative new novel by the critically acclaimed author of The Handfasted Wife, The Woman in the Shadows presents the rise of Thomas Cromwell, Tudor England's most powerful statesman, through the eyes of his wife Elizabeth...Categorized as:
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![The Countess Angelique by Sergeanne Golon, Marguerite Barnett]()
The Countess Angelique by Sergeanne Golon, Marguerite Barnett
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen she landed on the virgin shores of America, Angelique was unaware of the rich abundance of pleasures-and perils-that lay ahead. Sacredly recovered from a joyous reunion with a long-lost husband, she became a pawn in the bloody struggle between virile settlers and hungry-eyed savages...Categorized as:
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![The Tokaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson]()
The Tokaido Road by Lucia St. Clair Robson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter the execution of her father, the young and beautiful Lady Asano is in grave danger from the powerful Lord Kira. In order to save herself Asano must find Oishi, the leader of the fighting men of her clan. She believes he is three hundred miles to the southwest in the imperial city of Kyoto...Categorized as:
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![The Sword of Truth by Gilbert Morris]()
The Sword of Truth by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTwo families--the Wakefields of nobility and the lower-class Morgans--are the focus of this sweeping generational saga, joined by intriguing personalities such as Elizabeth I, William Tyndale, and John Bunyan. Linking the people and events through the ages is the struggle of men and women who sought God as the answer to their difficulties...Categorized as:
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![Blaze Wyndham by Bertrice Small]()
Blaze Wyndham by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the New York Times bestselling "resigning queen of romance" (Literary Times), comes a love story on a grand scale, featuring an innocent country girl who catches the eye of the most powerful man in England-and filled with all the sensuality, drama, and thrilling intrigues of Henry Tudor's glittering sixteenth century court..Categorized as:
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![Loistava orsini by Samuel Shellabarger]()
Loistava orsini by Samuel Shellabarger
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsA swashbuckling tale of Italy in the 1500s...Categorized as:
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![The House of Echoes by Alexandra Walsh]()
The House of Echoes by Alexandra Walsh
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHampton Court Palace 1530sAnne Brandon has always understood the power of a king’s patronage and, though the court of Henry VIII is a dangerous place for women, as the daughter of the king’s best friend, Anne feels safer than most... -
![Almost A Scoundrel by Tanya Wilde]()
Almost A Scoundrel by Tanya Wilde
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat if the biggest scoundrel in town has been by your side all along? Phaedra Sharp is an heiress with a mind of her own—and her mind is dead set on becoming a cat-loving spinster and avoiding the scheming entanglements of men. But her plan goes awry when she is suddenly thrust into a whirlwind of wagers, fortune-hunters, and indecent encounters with the earl-next-door...Categorized as:
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![Fire Catcher by C.S. Quinn]()
Fire Catcher by C.S. Quinn
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 16 ratings1666. London burns. And a killer tracking a dangerous secret fuels his own deadly blazes…Charlie Tuesday is the city’s best thief taker. And as fire ravages London he’s on the hunt for a killer fanning the flames. But time is running out. Each death brings the murderer closer to the ultimate prize—a fabled chest with the power to destroy London... -
![1635: The Eastern Front by Eric Flint]()
1635: The Eastern Front by Eric Flint
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Thirty Years War continues to ravage 17th century Europe, but a new force is gathering power and influence: the United States of Europe, a new nation led by Gustavus Adolphus, King of Sweden, and the West Virginians from the 20th century led by Mike Stearns who were hurled centuries into the past by a mysterious cosmic accident...Categorized as:
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