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Roaring Liberty by Jean Grainger
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsNew York City, 1922Harp Devereaux is torn. Part of her desperately wants to return to Ireland to finish what she and her family and friends started, and to witness the departure of the British forces from Ireland after eight hundred long years. But the other part finds life in America during the Roaring Twenties too exciting to trade for the sleepy streets of County Cork... -
The Winter Promise by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratings1850.When Opal Sharp finds herself and her younger siblings suddenly orphaned and destitute, she thinks things can get no worse.But soon three of them - including Opal - are struck down with the illness that took their father from them, and her brother Charlie is forced to make an impossible decision. Unable to afford a doctor, he knows the younger children will not survive... -
The Heart of a Vicar by Sarah M. Eden
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsYoung love is all too fleeting, as Harold Jonquil painfully discovered years ago when Sarah Sarvol, the niece of a neighboring landowner, captured his heart. After an idyllic few weeks in the throes of blossoming love, reality intervened. They could have no future. Following their disastrous parting, Harold attempted to push aside thoughts of love and regret, but Sarah has never left his heart...Categorized as:
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The Country Bride: The final book in the heartwarming, romance saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Village Scandal by Dilly Court
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe third book in the dramatic new Village Secrets trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author. The time had come to leave Creek Manor. Their relationship was doomed from the start, he was the master of the house and she the servant… Summer, Little Creek 1879For most of her life, Judy Begg has been a loyal servant at Creek Manor and to Jack Fox, its future lord... -
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Rag-and-Bone Christmas: the new heartwarming Christmas historical fiction saga from the No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller by Dilly Court
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDon’t miss the brand-new winter saga from bestselling author Dilly Court...Categorized as:
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Light to the Hills by Bonnie Blaylock
Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsA richly rewarding novel about family bonds, the power of words, and the resilience of mothers and daughters in 1930s Appalachia.The folks in the Kentucky Appalachians are scraping by. Coal mining and hardscrabble know-how are a way of life for these isolated people...Categorized as:
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The Children from Gin Barrel Lane: A heartwarming family saga from top 10 bestseller Lindsey Hutchinson by Lindsey Hutchinson
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTen-year-old Jack Larkin has seen more than his fair share of shocking sights, growing up in the notorious Crown Saloon. Broken hearts and broken bones are just a fact of life in a Gin Palace, but for orphan Dolly, the Crown is her last hope. After the death of her mother, Dolly ran away from her sleazy step father Arthur, only to find herself living on the streets... -
Embrace the Wind by Susan Denning
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsEMBRACE THE WIND continues the story of Aislynn Maher, heroine of FAR AWAY HOME, an Amazon bestseller for five years in the categories of Historical Fiction-US and Romance-Western. What is the cost of living life on your own terms? For a young woman on the American Frontier, the price can be high. Aislynn Maher trusted the wrong man...Categorized as:
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The Gardener by Sarah Stewart
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBy the author-and-illustrator team of the bestselling The LibraryLydia Grace Finch brings a suitcase full of seeds, plenty of stationery, and a passion for gardening to the big gray city, where she goes to stay with her Uncle Jim, a cantankerous baker. There she initiates a gradual transformation, brightening the bakery and bringing smiles to customers' faces with the flowers she grows...Categorized as:
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Freedom's Ring by Heidi Chiavaroli
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBoston, 2015 Two years after nearly losing her life in the Boston Marathon bombing, Annie David is still far from “Boston strong.” Instead she remains isolated and defeated―plagued by guilt over her niece, crippled in the blast, and by an antique ring alongside a hazy hero’s face...Categorized as:
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Philippa Holds Court by Jennie Goutet
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe’s capable of many things—including driving him mad.At the start of their London Season, Philippa Clavering discovers her friend, Susan, is being pursued by the wrong gentleman and decides to turn Susan’s head to a worthier suitor. Not one to shrink from what she views as her duty and gift, Philippa sets in motion plans to bring about the happy ending her friend deserves... -
The Wretched Needle Worker by Iris Cole
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsVera has uncovered things she never wanted to know. Her father was a monster.How could Vera have been so blind to what was right before her eyes?After the death of her kind and loving Papa, Vera’s home is claimed by ne’er do well Uncle Merritt, who drives the household with cruelty and deprivation... -
Just Grace by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsGrace Benjamin Listen was just trying to rescue a poor helpless kitten. She certainly didn't plan on falling out of the tree and landing on Dodsworth's newest resident, Dr. Gatlin O'Malley-breaking her arm and wounding her pride in the fall. Gatlin only arrived from Atlanta, Georgia, the week before...Categorized as:
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Betsy and Joe by Maud Hart Lovelace
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsMade for Each Other? Betsy Ray has always thought that she and the fascinating Joe Willard would make the perfect couple. Now, in her senior year at Deep Valley High School, it looks as though she'll get her wish. As soon as Joe returns from his summer job in North Dakota, he's on the Rays' porch with sweet words for Betsy...Categorized as:
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Five Novels: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFive Novels, Complete and Unabridged: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations...Categorized as:
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That First Montana Year by Donna L. Scofield
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen B’Anne (Beatrice Anne) marries Will, she knows he is a reluctant groom. But she's a minister’s daughter and pregnant. To save embarrassment for the families, and hoping a fresh start will help them become the sweethearts they were before, B’Anne agrees to leave everyone and everything she knows and go with Will to the Montana Territory...Categorized as:
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Runaway Widow by Dilly Court
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDon’t miss the third book in the heartwarming six-part series from the No.1 Sunday Times bestselling author Dilly Court!When Patricia’s husband dies suddenly, she is left with nothing. At twenty-four she finds herself a penniless widow with nowhere to turn...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... -
The Book Woman's Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsAn Instant New York Times and USA Today Bestseller Bestselling historical fiction author Kim Michele Richardson is back with the perfect book club read following Honey Mary Angeline Lovett, the daughter of the beloved Troublesome book woman, who must fight for her own independence with the help of the women who guide her and the books that set her free...Categorized as:
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The Lost Daughter by Iris Cole
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsClary only wanted to find her mother. She couldn’t know the terrible price she would pay.Clary’s home is the foundling hospital where she has lived since birth. When a terrible tragedy occurs, Clary is blamed and thrown to the streets with her only possession - a token, left by her birth mother...Categorized as:
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Saltwick River Orphan: Historical Victorian Saga by Dolly Price
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsDrugged and supposedly drowned by the mother who should have loved her, 6-year-old Gwendoline is dredged from the Saltwick River. Poverty-stricken but rich in love Mr. and Mrs. Paul love the tiny child as their own until hard times and tragedy drive them to the workhouse...Categorized as:
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Christmas Oranges by Linda Bethers, Ben Sowards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe illustrated edition of the timeless, classic...Categorized as:
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Little Women by Lucia Monfried, Louisa May Alcott
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsReprint. Originally published: New York: Baronet Books, c1989...Categorized as:
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Betsy in Spite of Herself by Maud Hart Lovelace
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBetsy Ray is now a sophomore, and she and her Crowd are in the thick of things at Deep Valley High. Whether she's carrying out her duties as class secretary, trying to charm the exasperating Joe Willard, or juggling the demands of rhetoricals, football games, parties, and exams, Betsy's got her hands full. She should be happy... but she is dissatisfied...Categorized as:
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The Orphans of Warrenby Mill by Catharine Dobbs
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFREE with Kindle UnlimitedThe ominous letter arrives… and what of its repercussions for Warrenby Mill?When fate delivers a series of terrible blows, Veronica must first look out for her brother and sister.Outrageous. Perilous. Disheartening.These are their living conditions for several years, abandoned and alone with few options to consider...Categorized as:
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Carved in Stone by Margaret Manchester
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFROM AMAZON INTERNATIONAL NUMBER ONE BESTSELLING AUTHOR Northern England 1881. Sent away during her brother’s trial, Phyllis Forster returns home as mistress of Burnside Hall only to find that the Weardale people have turned against the Forster family, and she desperately wants to win back their respect...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... -
The Brave Mill Girl by Rachel White
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom homeless to a maid, to homeless again. She ends up in a hazardous cotton factory. After her mother dies of tuberculosis, Annabelle Walker is told by her stepfather that he has arranged work for her as a maid. When Annabelle arrives at Rosewood House in Huddersfield, there is no job. It is just her stepfather’s ploy to chase her out of the house... -
Melting a Duke's Winter Heart: A Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance Novel by Abby Ayles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNo secret stays hidden forever. Neither does true love… On the outside, Sarah and Lucille Lockridge look like two drops of water. On the inside, they couldn’t be more different... -
A Sea Rose for the Duchess by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor a Sea Rose appeared to save her when all seemed lost, and from the storm of her past, a new life shall come forth... Captain Arnold Reynes has found a lot of things at sea: peace, freedom, and an escape from a past he avoids facing. What he never expected to find, however, is a beautiful young woman who has lost her memory. All he knows about her is her name.. -
A Christmas Worth Remembering by Abby Ayles
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn his search for a lost lady, he found true love… Now he must save her from those who would try to harm her again, just like all those years ago on a tragic Christmas night…As a friend of the Duke of Hartford, Lewis Darby feels it is his duty to help the man track down his long-lost daughter, Anastasia... -
The Midwife's Dream by Jessica Weir
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKathryn Barton dreams of becoming a midwife. In Victorian London, dreams have a nasty habit of turning into nightmares. FREE with Kindle Unlimited. Kathryn has watched her mother suffer through many miscarriages and prays to one day be able to help women like her. When her mother’s latest baby dies her father callously abandons them... -
Taming the Thorn of Blackwell by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA rose may be full of thorns, but that does not take away from its beauty… And lucky is the man that finds a way to hold it without getting hurt…Selina Griffiths created a fierce reputation for herself, after being forced to run a Duchy all by herself. But it was all worth it to protect her son’s heritage... -
Love Lessons for a Lady by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsYielding to their hearts’ desires would be oh-so-sweet…and oh-so-dangerous…She’s illegitimate… Chastity Noble finally has the security she’s always craved. She may have been born on the wrong side of the blanket, but now that she’s been promoted to assistant headmistress at the girls’ seminary, that no longer matters...Categorized as:
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Moondrop Miracle by Jennifer Lamont Leo
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsChicago, 1928. Pampered socialite Connie Shepherd lives the kind of glossy life other women read about in the society pages. Engaged to a handsome financier, she spends her days and nights in a dizzying social round. When eccentric Aunt Pearl, an amateur chemist, offers her an unusual wedding present—the formula for a home-brewed skin tonic—Connie laughs it off...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... -
The Abandoned Waif's Christmas Miracle: Victorian Romance by Nell Harte
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the small hours of Christmas morning, a shrouded figure moves quickly through the biting storm in the Old Nichol, a tiny bundle wrapped in tattered rags hidden beneath its coat. “I’m sorry” the figure whispers, as it places the bundle on the cold stone of the work-house steps, “There is no other way...Categorized as:
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A Night Rose for the Duke: A Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance by Fanny Finch
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn English rose, they’d called her once, and her beauty and grace were admired by many. But then things changed, and she was named a flower poisonous... Having suffered tragedy after tragedy, Eleanor Ashford is but a shadow of her former self... -
Marriage by Mistake by Abby Ayles, Starfall Publications
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe was the most beautiful lady he had ever laid his eyes upon. Well-educated, opinionated, well-spoken, intelligent…but she was Helena, not Elizabeth!She bumped into him. The woman he had been waiting for his whole life, the one who could calm even the stormiest of seas and make them more beautiful than ever before...Categorized as:
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New York Bound by Rachel Wesson
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsClover Springs goes to New York but who will survive the trip and return home? Erin Quinn, Clover Springs, Colorado’s beloved doctor, and her party arrive in New York to meet her past—just when the most devastating blizzard ever recorded is about to hit the city. Nora Doherty has spent years hearing tales of Doc Erin’s skill and kindness, but she anticipates her arrival with mixed feelings...Categorized as:
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Greg by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Award Winning, Best-Selling Author Kathleen Ball A handsome man, Greg Settler, one of the many orphans taken in by Lynn and Smitty Settler, decides to go and make his own mark on the world. He travels to California to try his luck at gold mining. From the first day he realizes he knows nothing about gold mining...Categorized as:
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A Mysterious Governess for the Reluctant Earl by Abby Ayles
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAll he wanted was a governess for his children. He never thought he would find his second chance in love. Sebastian Blackburn Earl of Grimshaw is more the perturbed at the loss of his last governess. It would seem that she only used her employment as a means of securing a desirable match... -
Abigail's Adventure by Caroline Lee
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWidow Abigail Hembree’s entire world has been the Wigg School and Foundling Home. She and her precious children have found a home there, safe from the evils of men, as she taught and nurtured the orphans who shared their lives...Categorized as:
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Only a Duke Would Dare: A Regency Romance by Collette Cameron
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Delightful, dazzling, and oh-so delicious...Categorized as:
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Betsy Was a Junior by Maud Hart Lovelace
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Best School Year Ever That's the kind of junior year Betsy Ray has planned for herself. And when her childhood friend Tib Muller moves back to Deep Valley, Betsy's sure her perfect year is off to a grand start. With charming, funny Tib around, Crowd doings are more fun than ever -- especially after Betsy starts Okto Delta, the first -- ever sorority at Deep Valley High...Categorized as:
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Outbound Train by Renea Winchester
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn 1976, memories from a night near the railroad tracks sixteen years earlier haunt Barbara Parker. She wrestles with past demons every night, then wakes to the train’s five-thirty whistle. Exhausted and dreading the day, she keeps her hands busy working in Bryson City’s textile plant, known as the “blue jean plant,” all the while worrying about her teenage daughter, Carole Anne... -
The Planter's Daughter by Michelle Shocklee
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAdella Rose Ellis knows her father has plans for her future, but she longs for the freedom to forge her own destiny. When the son of Luther Ellis's longtime friend arrives on the plantation to work as the new overseer, Adella can't help but fall for his charm and captivating hazel eyes... -
The Odd Mystery of the Cursed Duke by Abby Ayles
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Clean & Sweet Regency Historical Romance Novel When all hope seems lost, a deal between them offers them a new life. But within his castle walls, something evil seeks to destroy their happiness... After her heart was broken, Beatrice Leeson has forsaken love. Close to spinsterhood, she is content to help with her sister’s family...Categorized as:
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Dancing with a Gracious Lord by Bridget Barton
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAfter a childhood illness left her with a scarred face, Juliana Rothmond is determined that no man will ever look at her except for her generous dowry. When her father announces that she is soon to marry Ira Galbrathe, an opportunistic and arrogant man, Juliana desperately tries to escape from her future misery...Categorized as:
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The Lost Lass of Sheffield by Rosie Swan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll alone in the world, Amelia Baxter is forced to flee her childhood home. The world outside for an orphan teen on dark Victorian streets is not a kind one.Bradford Pikes has loved Amy since their first childhood games together, but now his sweetheart has disappeared and his love remains unspoken...Categorized as:
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