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This Courageous Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Christian Historical Romance Novel As the fifth daughter in a family of nine, Noelle Grant spent her life striving to be unique. Her love of telling stories helps define her goal—to be known around the country as one of the top news correspondents of her time...Categorized as:
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This Daring Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe only hope to keep her newborn baby alive is to reach the safety of her Indian people… This mountain man is the last person she should trust to get her there. As a half-Indian raised among her Peigan tribe, Moriah Clark knows better than to trust white people. The tragedy that resulted in her birth is proof enough... -
Honor in the Mountain Refuge by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThis epic journey is his last chance to start a new life.After being cast out of his Blackfoot village for his kindness to the Nez Perce captives, Chogan travels west in search of meaning for his life. Meaning that doesn’t require killing or torturing innocent people. Though the lovely face of Telípe, a Nez Perce woman, is imprinted on his heart, he avoids her village...Categorized as:
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A Heart's Yearning: Hearts of Willow Creek by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom a fan favorite author with more than one million books sold: Four women chase their dreams of love in this western historical series.Jenny has a secret dream that she’s nurtured since childhood. It’s a simple dream. She longs to have a family of her own. But Jenny has always been told she’s far too pretty to make a good wife...Categorized as:
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This Homeward Journey by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe’s desperate for a new life in the Canadian mountains…He’s the last person she should trust to get her there.After her husband’s death, Rachel Gray is finally free from the turmoil his addictions caused. She wants nothing more than a new life with her twelve-year-old son. If she can reach her brother in the wilderness of the Canadian territories, they’ll have help to start over in peace...Categorized as:
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The Matchmaker's Request by Ashtyn Newbold
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsHis new challenge: Keep himself from falling in love again at all costs.At odds with love, Matthew Northcott has firmly decided that he will never marry, much to the dismay of his relatives...and nearly every young lady he meets. Rather than seek a marriage for himself, he attempts to find matches for others, grateful to see that love is not entirely cruel—just cruel to him...Categorized as:
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Learning to Love by Jo Noelle
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClara Hatfield knows sorrow. Having been abandoned by her husband, then shamed with divorce, she traveled to Creede, Colorado to seek refuge with a brother who left the family a decade ago. She’s been living with him for the past year. Now he wants to sell her in marriage to settle his gambling debt to a known troublemaker, but Bernard Newell intervenes...Categorized as:
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On Eagles' Wings by Lynnette Bonner
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBoardinghouse owner Dixie Pottinger has done her best to avoid the attractive Dr. Griffin. But now that her mother-in-law is sick and he’s going to be coming around more to care for her, Dixie knows she must inform him about her past. She works up her courage and feels great relief when she finally tells Dr...Categorized as:
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Christmas in Clover Springs by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlicia Carstairs had it all—or so she thought. Financially secure, well brought up, engaged to a prominent young man. So why was she on a train headed west in the hopes of securing a position as a governess? Aaron Higgins thought he was happy until all his friends, his brother and now Little Beaver, too, were married and having children. He wrote to Mrs. Gantley, asking for a bride...Categorized as:
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The Reluctant Marquess: The Duke's Daughters - Prequel by Rose Pearson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan the love of a good woman change a man? The Reluctant Marquess - The Duke's Daughters Prequel Marquess Hugh Seaworth is far too busy enjoying himself in London to think about matrimony. Despite being next in line to a Dukedom, Hugh wants to get as much enjoyment out of life as he can before he is forced to settle down...Categorized as:
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The Secret Admirer of an Extraordinary Lady: A Historical Regency Romance Book by Bridget Barton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLydia Gibbs is much more interested in drawing beautiful dresses than settling for something less than a fairytale love. But when she unexpectedly starts receiving anonymous letters from a secret admirer, she begins to dream of a love she never knew she could have... -
Forever Safe by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRace Point, Massachusetts, 1876 Will she ever be able to stop running, even when she believes she’s finally safe? Heiress to a vast fortune, Victoria Cole has everything she wants, including the perfect fiancé. Having left two other men at the altar, Victoria is sure that now she’s found her true love and will finally live happily ever after... -
The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. But in a house with seven sons and numerous servants, her presence soon becomes known...Categorized as:
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The Highwayman's Letter by Martha Keyes
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe waylays her carriage and runs off with her property. Can she keep him from stealing her heart as well?By day, Reginald Sinclair works in the post office, but by night, he is the increasingly infamous Paladin, the gallant highwayman making young women swoon all over Somerset...Categorized as:
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A Pony Express Romance by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAfter growing up as an orphan, Josiah English wants nothing more than to have his own ranch and raise Arabian horses. Riding for the Pony Express seems like the ticket to his dream. And when he meets the stationmaster’s beautiful sister, it seems he may be within reach of the happy life he craves...Categorized as:
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Penelope and the Wicked Duke by Sofi Laporte
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA princess in disguise. A charming lord. A quest for true love.Half-Indian, orphaned and abandoned......Penelope Reid is done waiting for love.Masquerading as a boy, she ventures to London to search for the man she’s loved her entire life: her elusive guardian, who’s all but forgotten she even exists. But proving her mettle in the bewildering world of men turns out to be a challenge...Categorized as:
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A Bride of Convenience by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUnemployed mill worker Zoe Hart jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being accused of a crime...Categorized as:
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A Widow's Hope by Mary Ellis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA bright new voice shares a tender love story set in the rolling green fields of Ohio Amish country. After the death of her husband, Hannah Brown is determined to make a new life with her sisterâ��s family. But when she sells her farm in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, and moves with her sheep to Ohio, the wool unexpectedly starts to fly... -
Love's Fortune by Laura Frantz
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsSheltered since birth at her Kentucky home, Rowena Ballantyne has heard only whispered rumors of her grandfather Silas's vast fortune and grand manor in Pennsylvania...Categorized as:
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Tenggelamnya Kapal Van Der Wijck by Hamka
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCerita ini berkisar tentang semangat juang Zainuddin, bagaimana merana dan melaratnya hidup Zainuddin setelah cintanya ditolak oleh keluarga Hayati. Kemudian beliau bangun semula dari segala kedukaan, membuka lembaran baru dalam hidupnya menjadi seorang penulis yang ternama dan berjaya. Ia menceritakan tentang kesetiaan, cinta dan kasihnya Zainuddin terhadap Hayati... -
The Duke's Refuge by Lorri Dudley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen love comes in a tempest, who knew it would wear pink? Georgia Lennox has traded in her boyish ways for pink gowns and a coy smile to capture the eye of the Earl of Claremont. However, on the day she's convinced the earl will propose, Georgia is shipped off to the Leeward Islands to care for her ailing father...Categorized as:
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Western Future by Janelle Daniels
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt finally happened. Charlotte’s bakery is open and thriving beyond anything she could have imagined. Her logical, business-driven tenant—one of the Copper Kings—thinks she should make changes to maximize her profit, but she isn’t ready—no matter how illogical. He confounds and fascinates her, and now he’s all she can think about. Max doesn’t need distractions...Categorized as:
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The Marquess and the Wallflower by Tiffany Baton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Historical Regency Romance Novel “I love you not in spite of your imperfections, but because of them.”The Bolton family has a tradition, kept for generations: they make dashing children, and they marry for love. Lady Emily, however, fears she will be the first to break both of these traditions...Categorized as:
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Mail Order Melancholy by Kirsten Osbourne
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGretchen Jensen has been in love with the same person for years. There are only two problems standing in the way of her marriage to him. She’s pregnant, and he’s dead. Most of the people in her town won’t even talk to her, because the woman who was to be her mother-in-law has shunned her...Categorized as:
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RNWMP: Bride for Colton by Cassie Hayes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhat happens when a lie turns into love? Honor was never a high priority for the thieves and charlatans Gemma Spurling was raised with. When she’s finally old enough to break free of her mother’s control, dear ol’ Mum has other ideas. Just one more swindle, she says, but Gemma knows it will never stop. The only way to live the honorable life she truly wants is to escape Ottawa forever...Categorized as:
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Ophelia: A Valentine's Day Bride by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsClint Jones came to Noelle for one purpose and one purpose only. Get in, assess the town, and get out. Then he'd report to his superiors at Wells Fargo and Company to let them know if Noelle was respectable and prosperous enough to open a branch there...Categorized as:
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The Pinkerton Matchmaker by Christine Sterling, Marianne Spitzer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsPairing prospective lady Pinkerton detectives with rough and ready agents? What could possibly go wrong? Head of the Denver Pinkerton office, Archie Gordon, has been tasked with hiring female agents. The problem? They need to be trained by existing agents while solving cases. Alone and unchaperoned. In 1871. The solution? Have each pair marry temporarily, for the duration of the case...Categorized as:
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Fae's Fantasy by Kay P. Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFae has always believed in true love and happy-ever-afters, even if she'd never thought it was something she would have for herself. As an orphan raised in the Wigg School and Foundling Home, she knows her options are limited, but she's content to spend her life in service to Madam Wigg as a teacher at the school...Categorized as:
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The Redemption of the Puzzling Governess: A Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe is her last chance. And she will protect him at any cost... Tormented by his guilt over the past, Mark Collingridge, the Earl of Dulshire, is blind to the danger that circles him closer and closer. Only one person can see the imminent threat: Delia Caulfield, his daughter’s new governess, who has confused him so much with the unexpected feelings she has awoken inside him... -
Wounds of A Viscount (The Valiant Love Regency Romance) (A Historical Romance Book) by Deborah Wilson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Honora ‘Nora’ Baxter has been caught… And now … she’s being blackmailed to do something she really doesn’t want to do. Actually … it’s something Nora really, really wants to do, but knows she shouldn’t. Kiss the Viscount of Coalwater! Where will one kiss lead? Marriage. With Nora’s daughter, they become a family of three...Categorized as:
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Quinlan's Quest: A Lipstick and Lead Story by Sylvia McDaniel
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEvil touched Quinlan once. Will it do so again?The best thing that ever happened to Quinlan Clark was the day the law took her to an orphanage. Now, the time has come for Quinlan and the other young teachers to go out on their own as mail-order brides. But childhood nightmares still haunt Quinlan, keeping her terror of men firmly set...Categorized as:
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Erin by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRunning from her past, Doc Erin arrives in Clover Springs for a short stay but it seems Father Molloy has other ideas. Mick Quinn can't leave his past behind him. There is trouble in Clover Springs. The opening of a new house, not the sort that hosts sewing bees or quilting circles, is having a negative impact on all residents particularly the girls who live there... -
The Baron's Malady: A Smithfield Market Regency Romance by Rose Pearson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLord Gideon Ward lived for adventure. He found all he could handle as a British Navy captain stationed in India. With the unrest that was brewing there, it was all too easy to ignore the trials existing back home with the Scarlet Fever once again ravaging the country...Categorized as:
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Rhyme or Reason by Amelia C. Adams
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTobias Redfern thought for sure he'd lost his chance for love when Lydia Pullman married another man and moved away from Creede. He's resigned himself to living out his days alone in his bookstore. But when he meets a mysterious auburn-haired beauty on the street one afternoon, he finds his heart coming alive again... -
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Tillie's Theatre by Keira K. Barton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTillie Thompson does not want to be a mail-order bride. Relinquishing the choice of who she falls in love with feels like giving up the only decision that would truly be her own in shaping her future. With the prospect of opening her own school—which will have an arts-based curriculum—hanging in the balance, Tillie decides to risk her autonomy on the handsome Dr. William T...Categorized as:
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Caring for the Cowboy by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA mistreated woman with hopes of a new life.A good-natured cowboy who can’t seem to get a wife.Sometimes things come in unexpected ways … with a little help.Baxter Hicks has finally saved up enough money to send off for a mail-order bride... -
A Second Chance for the Tormented Lady: A Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance Novel by Abby Ayles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThey say the darkest hours are just before the dawn. Now, her sun is about to rise again, ignited by his love. It was only a year ago that Frederica Chaput was rescued from her seemingly endless misery by her brother and his wife...Categorized as:
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A Mail Order Bride to Heal his Heart: A Historical Western Romance Book by Etta Foster
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis Mail Order Bride is everything he finally deserved. But without clearing up his past, will he be able to keep her? Caleb Turner decides that it is about time to heal his heart’s wounds and find himself a wife to start a family. He’s hoping that this mail order bride he is expecting, is the complete opposite of his former fiancée. And she is... -
Charming the Caregiver by Marianne Spitzer
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKaterina Lorbiecki wanted to raise her daughter and continue her nursing career away from the memories and difficulties of living with her brother and sister-in-law and the unwanted advances of her employer. The young widow is recommended for a nurse’s position in the Western town of Creede, Colorado. Logan O’Leary arrives in Creede to work with his brother after a failed romance...Categorized as:
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A White Rose for the Marquess by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA bush of white roses there once was, and she was the fairest of them all. Then that cold winter came and wiped them all away, leaving her alone against a monster… until he comes, and he is not afraid of her thorns... After losing her family in a terrible accident, Gwendoline Hathaway becomes a servant in her cruel aunt’s home... -
Emer: Clover Springs Mail Order Brides by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLife isn't easy for a young woman alone in 19th Century Colorado, but when Emer Matthews needs to escape an untenable situation, she only has herself to depend on. She has no time for men having seen first hand the high price women pay for love, so she seeks solace with the sister she's never met, Sorcha...Categorized as:
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Lily For My Enemy: A Lockhart Sweet Regency Romance by L.G. Rollins
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHe's from Lords. She sides with Commons.Watch out London, sparks will fly.Felix Lockhart is tired of balls, tired of musicales, and most especially tired of society only seeing him as the heir apparent to a powerful seat in Lords. Then, one evening he meets the witty Jocelyn Hunt—perhaps the only young lady in London who isn’t impressed with him...Categorized as:
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A Foolish Game: A Regency Romance by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLady Isabella Beauchamp is beautiful, clever and rich. But she is not happy with the restrictions that Society has placed upon her. She is determined to prove that she can be so much more than what people expect her to be, even if it means that she is destined to become a spinster...Categorized as:
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Mail Order Holly by Charlotte Dearing
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsTo avoid an unwanted suitor, Holly Ross becomes a mail order bride. She travels to Copper Creek a few short weeks before Christmas. Along the way, she’s asked to take a bundle of letters to a certain cowboy in Copper Creek. They’re from another mail order bride who’s had a change of heart.The journey seems endless. Holly peeks at the letters, reads one, and then another...Categorized as:
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Angela's Hope by Leah Banicki
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook 2 of Wildflowers series Angela Fahey has a lot to overcome after surviving the Oregon Trail. She loves her new home in Oregon but longs to reunite with her brother, his last known whereabouts was California territory. With her dear friend Clive she sails off to San Francisco, a dark city of sin and corruption...Categorized as:
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Mary by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMary Ryan leaves the orphanage and heartbreak behind and follows her friend Katie to Clover Springs to become a mail order bride. She's nervous but reminds herself that Davy Sullivan must be a nice man or Katie wouldn’t have recommended him. Davy Sullivan needs a wife, but he's not looking for love. In his experience, that only leads to heartbreak...Categorized as:
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The Dishonorable Miss Delancey by Carolyn Miller
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWill a damaged reputation and desire for society's approval thwart the legacy of grace? Tainted by scandal and forced to leave London for the quieter Brighton countryside, the Honorable Miss Clara DeLancey is a shadow of her former society self. She's lost the man she loved to another and, in a culture that has no patience for self-pity, is struggling with depression...Categorized as:
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A New Beginning by Rose Pearson
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCan Emily, a widow, help others find love, and have a chance at love herself? Lady Emily Smithton has returned to society with the sole objective of enjoying herself. Having completed her mourning for her late husband, she has no intention of finding herself a new husband nor even allowing herself to be courted by a gentleman... -
To Conquer Pride: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Jennifer Altman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe course of true love never did run smooth... When Fitzwilliam Darcy departs Hunsford after his disastrous proposal to Elizabeth Bennet, he does not expect their paths to cross again. Indeed, knowing the lady's true feelings for him, he makes every effort to see that they do not... -
The Reluctant Guardian by Laura Beers
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBaldwin, the Viscount of Mountgarret, was content with his life. Unexpectedly, his childhood friend dies, leaving him his most prized treasures: his two young daughters. Baldwin’s priorities begin to shift as he arrives home and meets his wards’ infuriatingly stubborn governess. His interest is piqued by the mystery surrounding her, but she’s only a governess. He certainly can’t pursue her...Categorized as:
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