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The Moonstone Pirate: A Regency Historical Romance by Meara Platt
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWelcome to Moonstone Landing, where moonstones shimmer beneath the sea and a pirate’s heart is about to be captured with true love’s kiss. Lady Imogen Stockwell is convinced her handsome new neighbor, Draco Waring, Earl of Woodley is a pirate...Categorized as:
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![The Far Horizon by Gretta Curran Browne]()
The Far Horizon by Gretta Curran Browne
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA Complete stand-alone Novel and the second novel in The Macquarie Series As a young British officer, Lachlan Macquarie served his country in America, the West Indies, India and Egypt, but now he is being asked to go to a wilderness on the other side of the world where famine and strife amongst the inhabitants is flourishing... -
![Return to Bonnybrae by Gwen Kirkwood]()
Return to Bonnybrae by Gwen Kirkwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIt is the start of 1919 and Miss Rina Capel, granddaughter of the Laird of Stavondale has one ambition - to set aside her life of privilege and become a nurse. But when she is summoned back to the Bonnybrae to see her dying grandfather just before her eighteenth birthday, he reveals to her family secrets which turn her world upside down... -
![3 in 1: Love Only Once \ Tender Rebel \ Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey]()
3 in 1: Love Only Once \ Tender Rebel \ Gentle Rogue by Johanna Lindsey
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHere, in a Rhapsody exclusive edition, are the first three books in Johanna Lindsey's stirring series featuring the Malorys--a family of dashing rogues and adventurers and ladies of uncommon beauty and incomparable spirit whose amorous exploits are spoken of in envious whispers from Regency London to America's shores... -
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![The Vizard Mask by Diana Norman]()
The Vizard Mask by Diana Norman
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPenitence Hurd and the Plague arrived in London on the same day...Bound up in righteousness as tight as a parcel, she journeys from Puritan America to find her aunt, and steps into a city full of rogues, hell-fire and fleshly pleasures. When she discovers her aunt is running a brothel in St Giles-in-the-Fields, Penitence has no option but to point out the wickedness... -
![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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![Um Milionário em Lisboa by José Rodrigues dos Santos]()
Um Milionário em Lisboa by José Rodrigues dos Santos
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBaseado em acontecimentos verídicos, Um Milionário em Lisboa conclui a espantosa história iniciada em O Homem de Constantinopla e transporta-nos no percurso da vida do arménio que mudou o mundo - confirmando José Rodrigues dos Santos como um dos maiores narradores da literatura contemporânea... -
![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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![To Catch a Falling Star by Anna Belfrage]()
To Catch a Falling Star by Anna Belfrage
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSome gifts are double-edged swords … For Matthew Graham, being given the gift of his former Scottish manor is a dream come true. For his wife, Alex, this gift will force her to undertake a perilous sea journey, leaving most of their extensive family in the Colony of Maryland. Alex is torn apart by this, but staying behind while her husband travels to Scotland is no option... -
![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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![A Very Highland Holiday: A collection of six enchanting seasonal novellas by Jennifer Ashley, Tanya Anne Crosby]()
A Very Highland Holiday: A collection of six enchanting seasonal novellas by Jennifer Ashley, Tanya Anne Crosby
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAshley… Crosby… Le Veque… Knight… Burke… Byrne…It’s an enchanting Christmas in the Highlands with some of your favorite Historical Romance authors!It’s Christmas Eve 1747, and the Highlands are snowy. In the village of Calvine, north of Tay Forest, along a road that leads straight into Inverness, the only tavern in town is packed to the rafters with travelers... -
![The Lady Chosen & A Gentleman's Honor 2 In 1 by Stephanie Laurens]()
The Lady Chosen & A Gentleman's Honor 2 In 1 by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSix ex-spies return from the Napoleonic Wars to discover the threat of matrimony looming large. In response, they create the Bastion Club, a retreat for exchanging intelligence and escaping from matchmaking mamas. Lady Chosen is the story of Tristan, fourth Earl of Trentham and Leonora Carling, a neighbor to the club... -
![The Bastard Son by Jerri Hines]()
The Bastard Son by Jerri Hines
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSumner Meador walked in a world of wealth and privilege as part of Charles Town’s elite, but that was years ago. Now he fights in the Southern backwoods driven by the passion he holds for the Patriot cause, shadowed by his past. Reeling from a devastating defeat at the hands of the British, Sumner seeks haven at his farm, only to find an interloper—an unwelcome and unwanted distraction... -
![Clair de Lune by Pierre la Mure]()
Clair de Lune by Pierre la Mure
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNovel about France's probable greatest musician & composer... -
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![The Currans and The Quinns: The Currans, Book Three by Donna Foley Mabry]()
The Currans and The Quinns: The Currans, Book Three by Donna Foley Mabry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSeventh in 'The Manhattan Stories' by Wall Street Journal Top 10 Best Selling author, Donna Foley Mabry, "The Currans and The Quinns | The Manhattan Stories: The Currans, Book Three" continues the saga of the Curran Family... -
![Secrets Between Lovers by Charlie Lane]()
Secrets Between Lovers by Charlie Lane
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUncovering secrets can be dangerous. She has no other choice. Lady Maggie’s dowry is gone, her family’s estate is in disrepair, and each new work of art her parents purchase lead them closer to bankruptcy. They’re all headed for ruination unless she can use the yearly house party her parents host to discover secrets and spin them into gold...Categorized as:
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![The Rakish Duke and his Wallflower by Tessa Brookman]()
The Rakish Duke and his Wallflower by Tessa Brookman
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I can prove you don’t like my brother.”“How?” she asked. He inched closer, his warm breath tingling her skin, and then kissed her…Lady Violet must protect her pregnant sister. The only way to keep her secret hidden and save her from her dire fate of marrying a cruel Lord is to seduce the most famous Marquess in London...Categorized as:
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![Charles Towne by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
Charles Towne by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCould Rachelle's father really be an Indian? All her life, Rachelle Bailie has believed that her father was an English clergyman killed in an Indian attack. But her mother now confesses to Rachelle that her father, Mojag Bailie, still lives--and that Indian blood courses through his veins. "Find your father," her mother pleads from her deathbed...Categorized as:
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![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... -
![The Prodigal Son by Anna Belfrage]()
The Prodigal Son by Anna Belfrage
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSafely returned from an involuntary stay in Virginia, Matthew Graham finds the Scottish Lowlands torn asunder by religious strife. His Restored Majesty, Charles II, requires all his subjects to swear fealty to him and the Church of England, riding roughshod over any opposition. In Ayrshire, people close ranks around their evicted Presbyterian ministers... -
![Bless This House by Norah Lofts]()
Bless This House by Norah Lofts
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe fortunes of a beautiful Elizabethan house called Merravay, Built in Suffolk for a queen to sleep in then loved and hated through four centuries. Told in eight episodic narratives by a fascinating pageant of characters including -- a pirate, witch, bawd, rake, recluse, and lovers all of whom play a vital part in the house's history... -
![The Maiden by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The Maiden by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1720 - George I; George II; the Young Pretender (Bonnie Prince Charlie, 1745 Rebellion) Political intrigue is rife as the Stuart-Hanoverian struggle continues. Jemmy, heir to Morland Place, contracts a dutiful marriage to the chilly Lady Mary in order to secure Hanoverian protection and safeguard his inheritance... -
![The Colonists by Jack Cavanaugh]()
The Colonists by Jack Cavanaugh
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the years before America became a nation, new generations were born to the Puritans, men and women historians have called the Colonists. The untimely death of Benjamin Morgan, great-grandson of Drew Morgan, has splintered his Boston family into feuding factions... -
![Oddity of the Ton by Emily Royal]()
Oddity of the Ton by Emily Royal
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn unlikely pairing becomes the perfect match.Eleanor Howard has never fitted in. To her, Society is an unfathomable world where success is measured by the number of suitors’ names on her dance card. And her card is always empty. Constantly outshone by her younger sister, and continually criticized by her ambitious mother, Eleanor yearns to be loved for herself, not what others expect her to be...Categorized as:
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![A casa das sete mulheres by Leticia Wierzchowski]()
A casa das sete mulheres by Leticia Wierzchowski
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA Casa das Sete Mulheres é um envolvente romance histórico e de amor no cenário da Revolução Farroupilha de 1835, no Rio Grande do Sul... -
![Songbird by Karen Heenan]()
Songbird by Karen Heenan
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBess has the voice of an angel, or so Henry VIII declares when he buys her from her father. As a member of the Music, the royal company of minstrels, Bess grows up within the decadent Tudor court, navigating the ever-changing tide of royals and courtiers. Friends come and go as cracked voices, politics, heartbreak, and death loom over even the lowliest of musicians...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... -
![Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen by Alison Weir]()
Katherine of Aragón: The True Queen by Alison Weir
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBestselling author and acclaimed historian Alison Weir takes on what no fiction writer has done before: creating a dramatic six-book series in which each novel covers one of King Henry VIII's wives. In this captivating opening volume, Weir brings to life the tumultuous tale of Katherine of Aragón. Henry's first, devoted, and "true" queen... -
![Die Stunde der Lilie by Sandra Regnier, Vanida Karun]()
Die Stunde der Lilie by Sandra Regnier, Vanida Karun
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEs sollte ein gewöhnlicher Ausritt nach einem anstrengenden Schultag werden. Niemals hätte sich die sechzehnjährige Julia träumen lassen, dass es sie an der mit Lilien gesäumten Weggabelung aus dem Deutschland der Gegenwart ins Frankreich des 17. Jahrhunderts verschlagen würde. Und das ohne eine Möglichkeit der Rückkehr...Categorized as:
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![More Than Willing by Laura Landon]()
More Than Willing by Laura Landon
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsGrayson Delaney knows what it's like to do something so horrific he can never be forgiven. As penance, he lives up to everyone's low expectations. But when his father tires of his wastrel existence, Gray is forced to earn his living by running the brewery his father won in a card game... -
![Consuming Fire by Kathleen Morgan]()
Consuming Fire by Kathleen Morgan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSet in the Scottish Highlands in 1694, this epic novel tells the gripping story of one woman's struggle to find true freedom and love. Deceived by her father and betrayed by the man she loved, Maggie Robertson must turn to God for refuge...Categorized as:
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![The Moon Below by Barbara Bickmore]()
The Moon Below by Barbara Bickmore
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Moon Below is the sweeping saga of Hallie Morgan, who, in the early 1800s, sailed to Australia, halfway around the world from her native England, not knowing where she was going, to join a man she had seen only twice, when she was a child. Here she would find a country that brought her soul to life, a sun-drenched land of opportunity, peopled by convicts that England had no room for at home... -
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![Sophie's Heart by Tanya Anne Crosby, Alaina Christine Crosby]()
Sophie's Heart by Tanya Anne Crosby, Alaina Christine Crosby
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“SOPHIE’S HEART” is the SWEET/CLEAN edition of “HAPPILY EVER AFTER“ by Tanya Anne Crosby, a New York Times bestselling author and her daughter Boston heiress Sophia Vanderwahl has come to realize her fiancé is a rotten philanderer. Looking for retribution, she sets out to find the wastrel to give back his engagement ring, hiring an old rival of his to take her to Mexico... -
![The Chains of Fate by Pamela Belle]()
The Chains of Fate by Pamela Belle
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe blood red tide of civil war ran deep over the land, and Thomazine became the man of a wife she would learn to hate for his perfidy. She married Dominic whom she could never love, believing her Francis to be dead. When she learned the truth ... that Francis lived, Thomazine rode north on a mission hung with the chains of fate... -
![The Enchanted Isle by D.E. Stevenson]()
The Enchanted Isle by D.E. Stevenson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCharlotte Fairlie, while still under 30, had been appointed headmistress of St. Elizabeth's, a fine school with great traditions. Charlotte soon learned, however, that a headmistress' life is the loneliest of all - a long round of coping with the hidden tensions of the staff room, the handling of over 300 girls and - worse still - their parents... -
![The Braes of Huntly by Kristin Gleeson]()
The Braes of Huntly by Kristin Gleeson
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsScotland, Autumn 1556Forcefully separated from Iain, Abby is placed by her father in the care of the Earl of Huntly to keep her safe from the Comte de Damville. Bereft of the one she loves, Abby soon realises that the castle isn't the quiet refuge she hoped for... -
![Love in a Mist by Patricia Grasso]()
Love in a Mist by Patricia Grasso
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsKeely Glendower, a homeless pagan priestess, and England's wealthiest earl, Richard Deveraux, discover a passion and a secret that could destroy them both in sixteenth-century Wales and England...Categorized as:
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![Theena's Landing by Gretchen Craig]()
Theena's Landing by Gretchen Craig
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOn the Miami River of the 1880s, amid exotic tropical blooms, terrifying reptiles, and devastating storms, the settlers include one lonely, bewildered girl. Theena Theophilus, at home in the Everglades or on the bay, wants only to love and be loved... -
![Always by Cheryl Holt]()
Always by Cheryl Holt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNathan Blake is an adventurer and explorer who's spent nearly two decades in the wilds of Africa. But scandal and injury have finally driven him home to England to assume his role as Earl of Selby. He's a lonely, solitary man who's estranged from his family and haunted by a past he can't seem to remember. Nell Drummond was orphaned as a girl and raised by her mother's wealthy friends... -
![Rehoboth by Angela Elwell Hunt]()
Rehoboth by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA brother and sister search for each other after being separated by an Indian prince and his war. The adventures of the keepers of the ring continue . . .About the AuthorChristy-award winner Angela Elwell Hunt has authored over eighty books, including the best-selling THE TALE OF THREE TREES, THE IMMORTAL, and THE JUSTICE...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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![Circle Of Pearls by Rosalind Laker]()
Circle Of Pearls by Rosalind Laker
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA family saga set in Sussex and spanning the turbulent period of history from the Civil War to the Restoration and the Great Fire of London. The author's previous books include "This Shining Land", "The Silver Touch" and "To Dance with Kings"...Categorized as:
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![The Winds of God by Gilbert Morris]()
The Winds of God by Gilbert Morris
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEngland, 1553. A nation torn by religious and political unrest, on constant guard against Spain's attempts to overthrow the Protestant monarchy. But England has a most effective weapon: one man, driven by a deep anger and a desire for vengeance--Robin Wakefield...Categorized as:
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![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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![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 Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles]()
The Dark Rose by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1501: Henry VIII Paul, great-grandson of Elanor Morland, has inherited the Morland estates, and his own Amyas is set to be his heir. But Paul fathers a beloved illigitimate son, and bitter jealousy causes a destructive rift between the two half-brothers which will lead to death... -
![Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I by Sandra Byrd]()
Roses Have Thorns: A Novel of Elizabeth I by Sandra Byrd
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the acclaimed author of To Die For comes a stirring novel told that sheds new light on Elizabeth I and her court. Sandra Byrd has attracted countless fans for evoking the complexity, grandeur, and brutality of the Tudor period... -
![The Duke and I by Heather Boyd]()
The Duke and I by Heather Boyd
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWidowed Nicolas Westfall, the Duke of Stapleton, cannot prevent the upcoming debut of his youngest daughter no matter how much he wishes her eventual marriage wouldn't leave him all alone. Convinced to host a Christmas Ball to prepare her for the season, he's aware he's considered a catch on the marriage mart too, but Nicolas is drawn to companion Gillian Thorpe instead...Categorized as:
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