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With this Pledge by Tamera Alexander
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
History takes on vivid life in the stunning first full-length installment of Tamera Alexander's new series, The Carnton Novels. On the night of November 30, 1864, a brutal battle in Franklin, Tennessee, all but decimates the Confederacy and nearly kills Captain Roland Ward Jones...

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The Heart's Charge by Karen Witemeyer
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Members of Hanger's Horsemen, Mark Wallace and Jonah Brooks arrive in Llano County, Texas, to deliver a steed, never expecting they'd deliver a baby as well. Left with an infant to care for, they head to a nearby foundling home, where Mark encounters the woman he'd nearly married a decade ago...

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The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice.England, 1939: The Penrose sisters couldn't be more different. Skye is a daring and brash pilot, and Liberty the one to defy her at every turn...

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Heart of Mine by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe makes love the grandest adventure on the frontier for the resistant darling of Eden, Colorado. Emma Brinkman is the most eligible bachelorette in town and staying that way. After learning twice that romance is a lie, she's focused only on making the mine she and her sisters inherited a booming success...

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Too Far Down by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Cowboys, Action, Humor, and History Collide in Connealy's Latest When an explosion kills men and damages the CR Mining Company, the Bodens realize their troubles are not behind them as they thought. Shadowy forces are still working against them. Cole Boden finds himself caught between missing his time back East and all that New Mexico offers...

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Harvest of Rubies by Tessa Afshar, Irena Modrijan
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
The prophet Nehemiah's cousin has been catapulted into the center of the Persian court—working long hours, rubbing elbows with royalty, and becoming the queen's favorite scribe.Not bad, for a woman living in a man's world. But a devastating past has left Sarah believing that God doesn't love her and her achievements are the measure of her worth—a measure she can never quite live up to...

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Finding Lady Enderly by Joanna Davidson Politano
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Raina Bretton is a rag woman in London's east end when a handsome stranger appears in a dank alley and offers her a glittering smile and a chance for adventure. Rothburne Abbey has a unique position for her, one that will take her away from her hardscrabble life and give her a chance to be a lady. Things she could only dream of might be coming true. But some dreams turn out to be nightmares...

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Harvest of Gold by Tessa Afshar
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Sarah married Darius,and at times she feels as if she has married the Persian aristocracy, too. There is another point she did not count on in her marriage-Sarah has grown to love her husband. Sarah has wealth, property, honor, and power, but her husband's love still seems unattainable...

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Orphan Train Christmas by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Kenny Clark knows Santa is magical and only he can find his family. Kathleen Collins fights poverty and desperation every day in her bid to find new homes for the orphans of New York...

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Bourne by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 17 ratings
BOURNE picks up right where TORRENT left off...Find out what has happened to men returning from the battle, gravely wounded, to the Betarrinis, fighting for the men they love, and just who is hunting them next..

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Tributary by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
· 17 ratings
Lia struggles to overcome the fear that constant battle has heaped upon her; Gabi and Marcello face an unexpected crisis; and Lord Greco just may be ready to leave the grief and loss of his past behind him, so that he might grab hold of the future..

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Cascade by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 25 ratings
What if you not only fell back through time...but fell in love, too?Gabi knows she's left her heart in the fourteenth century, and she persuades Lia to help her to return, even though they know doing so will risk their very lives...

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The Sheriff's Mail Order Rescue by Amelia Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Love is perilous – and that’s before you involve bandits and kidnapping.After five years of being the town’s sheriff, Matt Hanson is well and truly settled into his life in Iron Creek.Sure, there are still challenges, like the bandits that are occupying the nearby mountains, but Matt is content with his life in this small town...

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The Nature of a Lady (The Secrets of the Isles) by Roseanna M. White
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
1906Lady Elizabeth "Libby" Sinclair, with her love of microscopes and nature, isn't favored in society. She flees to the beautiful Isles of Scilly for the summer and stumbles into the dangerous secrets left behind by her holiday cottage's former occupant, also named Elizabeth, who mysteriously vanished...

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Wooed by a Wicked Duke by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
He’s betrothed…but not to the woman who holds his heart She’s hiding from the past… Hoping to put the shame of her father’s disgrace behind her, Jessica Brentwood is determined to be the epitome of decorum and propriety her first London Season. All is well until she’s discovered naked in the arms of a notorious rake, Crispin, the wicked Duke of Bainbridge...

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To Steal a Heart by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
After a childhood as a street thief, Gabriella Goodhue thought she'd put her past behind her until a fellow resident at her boardinghouse is unjustly accused of theft. In the middle of breaking into a safe that holds the proof to prove her friend's innocence, Gabriella is interrupted by Nicholas Quinn, the man she once considered her best friend—until he abandoned her...

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The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
A Cross-Country Trip through Regency England Brings Intrigue, Rogues, and High Adventure The must-read conclusion to Michelle Griep’s Bow Street Runners Trilogy: Life couldn’t be better for Abigail Gilbert—but it’s been a long time in coming. Having lived with a family who hated her, it’s finally her time for love...

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The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan, 1957...

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The Story Keeper by Lisa Wingate
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 24 ratings
When successful New York editor Jen Gibbs discovers a decaying slush-pile manuscript on her desk, she has no idea that the story of Sarra, a young mixed-race woman trapped in Appalachia at the turn of the twentieth century, will both take her on a journey and change her forever...

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Lightning and Lawmen by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
How did a simple hello turn into something so complicated? Love is about to leave one lawman thunderstruck in this sweet historical romance! Cultured and full of grace, Delilah Robbins agrees to accompany her meteorologist father to his new post in Baker City, Oregon...

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The Lieutenant and the Lady by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
How can he choose between duty and the woman he’d give his life for? When Blaire Culpepper returns to England, she hopes to finally declare her love to dashing Lieutenant Julian Drake. Except, in her absence, he’s inherited his brother’s estate, sold his commission, and has been courting another woman. According to the rumor mills, a marriage announcement is expected any day...

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The Memory House by Rachel Hauck
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Wedding Dress comes a new captivating novel of two women whose lives have been destroyed by disaster but find healing in a special house. In the spring of 1953, Everleigh Applegate is happily married and newly pregnant. But a tornado sweeps through Waco, Texas, taking her hopes of a bright future with it...

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Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
What happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and eleven-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival...

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Wonderland Creek by Lynn Austin
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
Alice Grace Ripley lives in a dream world, her nose stuck in a book. But the happily-ever-after life she's planned on suddenly falls apart when her boyfriend breaks up with her, accusing her of living in a world of fiction instead of the real one. To top it off, Alice loses her beloved library job because of cutbacks due to the Great Depression...

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To Disguise the Truth by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
When Arthur Livingston arrives out of the blue at the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, anxious to hire the agency to seek out a missing heiress, Eunice Holbrooke realizes her past has finally caught up with her.Having fled from the scene of her grandfather's murder seven years before, Eunice is a lady with secrets--the most important that she is the missing heiress Arthur is seeking...

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To Write a Wrong by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Miss Daphne Beekman is a mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night. Known for her ability to puzzle out plots, she happily works behind the scenes for the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, staying well away from danger. However, when Mr...

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Anchor in the Storm by Sarah Sundin
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
One Plucky Female Pharmacist + One High-Society Naval Officer = Romance--and Danger For plucky Lillian Avery, America's entry into World War II means a chance to prove herself as a pharmacist in Boston. The challenges of her new job energize her. But society boy Ensign Archer Vandenberg's attentions only annoy--even if he "is" her brother's best friend...

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The Prince of Spies by Elizabeth Camden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Luke Delacroix has the reputation of a charming man-about-town in Gilded Age Washington, D.C. In reality, he is secretly carrying out an ambitious agenda in Congress. His current mission is to thwart the reelection of Congressman Clyde Magruder, his only real enemy in the world...

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Caught by Surprise by Jen Turano
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
· 12 ratings
Miss Temperance Flowerdew is on her way to work when a stranger suddenly grabs her off the street and sends her on a Chicago-bound train before she can figure out what happened. When Mr. Gilbert Cavendish is called upon to rescue a missing woman, he follows the trail to Chicago only to discover that the woman is his good friend Temperance...

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A Lady Unrivaled by Roseanna M. White
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
White Is Quickly Becoming the Top Name in Edwardian Romance Lady Ella Myerston can always find a reason to smile--even if it's just in hope that tomorrow will be better than today. All her life everyone has tried to protect her from the realities of the world, but Ella knows very well the danger that has haunted her brother and their friend, and she won't wait for it to strike again...

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Texas Twilight by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
TEXAS TWILIGHT - Book Two in the McCutcheon Family Series Fresh out of medical school, John McCutcheon finds his stagecoach under attack by brutal outlaws. With the help of a feisty acquaintance, Lily Anthony, he manages to fend off the assault. Lily is attracted to the charming cowboy-doctor, with his chiseled good looks and teasing ways, then heartbroken to learn he's engaged to be married...

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The Innkeeper's Daughter by Michelle Griep
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
A London officer goes undercover to expose a plot against the Crown Dover, England, 1808: Officer Alexander Moore goes undercover as a gambling gentleman to expose a high-stakes plot against the king—and he’s a master of disguise, for Johanna Langley believes him to be quite the rogue. . .until she can no longer fight against his unrelenting charm...

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A Rumored Fortune by Joanna Davidson Politano
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
· 14 ratings
Tressa Harlowe's father did not trust banks, but neither did he trust his greedy extended family. He kept his vast fortune hidden somewhere on his estate in the south of England and died suddenly, without telling anyone where he had concealed it. Tressa and her ailing mother are left with a mansion and an immense vineyard and no money to run it...

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The Spice King by Elizabeth Camden
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
· 16 ratings
Gray Delacroix has dedicated his life to building an acclaimed global spice empire, but it has come at a cost. Resolved to salvage his family before they spiral out of control, he returns to his ancestral home for good after years of traveling the world...

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The Planter's Bride by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
· 18 ratings
1922: cousins and best friends, Sophie and Tilly, are looking for love and adventure. Sophie, orphaned at six, when her tea planter parents died suddenly of fever in India, has been brought up by a radical aunt in Edinburgh. Tilly meanwhile has lived a sheltered life in Newcastle...

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Vienna Prelude by Bodie Thoene, Brock Thoene
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
Predating the events of The Zion Chronicles Series, Vienna Prelude opens in pre-World War II Austria. Elisa Lindheim, a violinist with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, is of Jewish heritage but has adopted an Aryan stage name. Thus she is able to travel and play in Germany even though a 1935 law forbade Jewish musicians to do so...

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Friends and Foes by Sarah M. Eden
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
· 20 ratings
After five years of tracking and capturing spies on English soil, Philip Jonquil, Earl of Lampton, is in pursuit of his last quarry. But at a traveler’s inn, he encounters an unexpected and far more maddening foe: Sorrel Kendrick, a young lady who is strikingly pretty, shockingly outspoken, and entirely unimpressed with him...

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Winds of Paradise by Vivi Holt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Dusty Lewis has a hard heart. Years of loose living and of following the open trail have left him lonely and empty inside. All he has left, all he loves, is the homesteading life and the band of fellow ranch hands who he travelled with from Fort Worth Texas, to Montana Territory, to set up a new life. Paradise Ranch is his home now: he’s come to terms with not having a family of his own...

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The Dove: The Second Day by Shanna Hatfield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Bewitched, beguiled, and in over his head. . . The marvelous, mysterious woman is his bride-to-be? Culver Daniels spent years cultivating a peaceful, orderly existence with his blacksmith shop and livery business. Then the pastor of Noelle landed upon a crazy scheme to save the town by sending for a bunch of mail-order brides...

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True Nobility by Lori Bates Wright
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Left alone in an unfamiliar land where her noble title is of no importance. Everything she believes in crumbles, nothing is as it seems. Driven by desperation, she risks it all to return to the one man whose love remains true. When Lady Victoria Haverwood, beloved daughter of a prominent English earl, becomes the target of a murderous plot, her idyllic world is swiftly turned upside down...

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An Agent for Wilhelmina by Sophie Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Wilhelmina Cutler had wanted to be a Pinkerton agent ever since she moved in with her aunt and uncle who was an agent himself. Now’s her chance. They are hiring women in the Denver Pinkerton Detective Agency. Already trained in most of the skills needed, Mina is confident she can handle any case they assign her...

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An Agent for Audrey by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
When heiress Audrey Hardwick is given the opportunity to become a Pinkerton Agent, she wholeheartedly leaves her life in Cincinnati behind and sets out for a new adventure. But her mission turns into mayhem when she meets Agent Warren Rockwell, a former gunslinger, who is too stubborn – and handsome – for his own good...

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An Agent for Belle by Nerys Leigh
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
· 6 ratings
Marriage is the last thing Belle wants, but she’ll have to get married to avoid it.When Isabelle Wood answers a newspaper advertisement for female Pinkerton detectives, it seems the perfect way to avoid her parents’ desire for her to wed… until she discovers she has to marry her training agent for the duration of her first case...

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Baron of Emberly by Tamara Leigh
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
A WARRIOR DANGEROUSLY IN CONTROL England, 1334 ~ In the second book of The Feud series, Baron Magnus Verdun is a warrior whose handsome face gives little indication of the darkness he struggles to contain...

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Across the Blue by Carrie Turansky
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
· 8 ratings
Set in Edwardian England and ideal for readers who enjoy Julie Klassen novels, this romance about an English aviation pioneer and the girl who falls in love with him is filled with adventure and faith. Isabella Grayson, the eldest daughter of a wealthy, English newspaper magnate, longs to become a journalist, but her parents don't approve...

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Charity's Cross by MaryLu Tyndall
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
From the Winner of 2015's Inspirational Readers Choice Award for The Ransom comes a new romantic adventure ! Suspected of killing her husband, Charity Westcott flees on the first ship out of Portsmouth, England heading for the colonies. Loathing all men after her abusive marriage, she hopes to reunite with her family in Charles Towne, but the ship’s destination is Nassau...

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Out of the Embers (Mesquite Springs (1)) by Amanda Cabot
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Ten years after her parents were killed, Evelyn Radcliffe is once more homeless. The orphanage that was her refuge and later her workplace has burned to the ground, and only she and a young orphan girl have escaped...

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Where the Fire Falls by Karen Barnett
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Stunning Yosemite National Park sets the stage for this late 1920s historical romance with mystery, adventure, heart, and a sense of the place John Muir described as "pervaded with divine light." Watercolorist Olivia Rutherford fashioned her image as an avant-garde artist to appeal to the region's wealthy art-collectors...

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By Hook or By Rook by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
The most dangerous journeys... Jeremy Pratt is a spy for the Crown, and one of the best. He had been in more dangerous situations than he can admit, and has always come out unscathed. But escorting his colleague’s cousin home to her family, even in disguise, just might be beyond his skills, and the temptation beyond his ability to withstand. May be ones of the heart..

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A Perilous Circumstance by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
· 10 ratings
Desperate times call for desperate measures…Miss Georgie Holbrooke is in the most dire of circumstances. Her brother has arranged for her to marry a vile man, and she has no doubt that he will punish her severely if she refuses. When an opportunity to work at an orphanage in the rookeries arises, she takes it, knowing it may be her only chance to escape...

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