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Carried Forward By Hope by Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsCarried Forward By Hope is the sixth book in the Bregdan Chronicles historical fiction series. As of today, there are 10 books in the series. Make sure you start reading with # 1 – Storm Clouds Rolling In. It's readers like you who have turned the series into a world-wide best-seller. Thank you! Book Description: The Civil War has ended, but the struggle to rebuild America is just beginning...Categorized as:
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On To Richmond by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsBurdened with the responsibility of running an entire plantation, Carrie Cromwell fights to understand the forces tearing her beloved country apart. She battles her own internal war; tied to the South by tradition, but pulled North by the emotions of her heart...Categorized as:
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Spring Will Come by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsSpring Will Come is the third book in the Bregdan Chronicles historical fiction series. As of today, there are 10 books in the series. Make sure you start reading with # 1 – Storm Clouds Rolling In. It's readers like you who have turned the series into a world-wide best-seller... -
Promises by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIndigo Hamilton was a lovely bride and the day was perfect as she walked down the aisle toward her smiling groom, Thomas Brewster. She was the absolute center of attention and loved being there - until the priest asked if anyone had any objections to the marriage. Then the doors of the church swung open and Indigo's world fell apart. Flannon Sullivan chose to sit at the back of the church... -
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A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsCora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must to keep a little girl safe in an inhospitable land.Convinced he won’t survive the war, Union Sergeant Ethan Howard determines to make his death count for something...Categorized as:
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Absolution by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThe Irish are hardheaded so Elspeth Hamilton doesn't like them. The Mexicans are hotheaded so likewise, she doesn't think much of them either. Since Rebels burned her family home, killing both her parents in the Chambersburg, Pennsylvania fire, it stands to reason she surely doesn't waste affection on Rebels. Colum Sullivan is all three: Irish, Mexican and Rebel...Categorized as:
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Nate's Destiny by Shirleen Davies
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNate’s Destiny, Book Six, MacLarens of Boundary Mountain Historical Western Romance Series Nate Hollis had everything, until a Confederate cannonball changed the course of his life. His job as a deputy in Conviction and his love for a beautiful woman allows him to dream of a future he once thought lost...Categorized as:
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Miss Katie's Rosewood by Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsDescription: The Stirring Conclusion to the Carolina Cousins Series! A lone rider galloped through the night. He could not slow down or it would be too late. Many lives, and his own future, depended on his getting there in time.... Winds of change are blowing over the Carolina cotton fields....changes that will rock the lives of all those who live at the Rosewood Plantation...Categorized as:
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Quinn: Cowboy Risk by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA Christian Historical Western Romance Quinn Kavanagh is never going to risk his heart again. In fact, he doesn't think he has a heart anymore. Everything he thought to be true wasn't and now he is traveling trying to find a place where he fits. Heaven Burke is about to be shot when Quinn arrives. He saves her then and again later that day in a shootout...Categorized as:
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Yankee Stranger by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the eve of the Civil War, Eden Day encounters Cabot Murray on Duke of Gloucester Street in Williamsburg. As they shelter together from a passing thunderstorm, they fall in love. The obstacles to their future are instantly obvious. Hers is a prominent Virginia family, and he is a Yankee newspaperman. Their country is about to split apart, and they will be on opposite sides...Categorized as:
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To Tame a Cowboy by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBrody McQuaid is a broken man, and he knows it. While his body survived the war, his soul did not. Besides loving his little niece, his only other sense of purpose comes from saving the wild horses that roam South Park. Ranchers in the area have taken to killing the horses, which are competing with their cattle to feed on the open grass... -
Engraved on the Heart by Tara Johnson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReluctant debutante Keziah Montgomery lives beneath the weighty expectations of her staunch Confederate family, forced to keep her epilepsy secret for fear of a scandal. As the tensions of the Civil War arrive on their doorstep in Savannah, Keziah sees little cause for balls and courting...Categorized as:
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Leaving Independence by Leanne W. Smith
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAbigail Baldwyn might not be a widow after all.…Ever since she received word that her husband, Robert, was killed in the Civil War, Abigail has struggled to keep her Tennessee home and family together. Then a letter arrives claiming that Robert isn’t dead, yet he has no plans to return...Categorized as:
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Burning Sky: A Novel of the American Frontier by Lori Benton
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 14 ratings“I remember the borders of our land, though I have been gone from them nearly half the moons of my life. But who there will remember me? What I have seen, what I have done, it has changed me.I am the place where two rivers meet, silted with upheaval and loss.Yet memory of our land is a clear stream. I shall know it as a mother knows the faces of her children. It may be I will find me there...Categorized as:
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Montana Woman by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA NATION DIVIDED ONE WOMAN’S UNBRIDLED SPIRIT A Civil War widow, young Joline Masters leaves “bleeding” Kansas for Montana to settle under the Homestead Act. Mountain man Clint Reeves knows Montana well, having lost a wife and child there to an Indian attack. He has come home to Kansas, but his father-in-law and others blame him for his wife’s and he child’s deaths...Categorized as:
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Embers of the Heart by Rosanne Bittner
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the aftermath of America’s bloody Civil War, young Anna Kelley waits for her husband, Darryl, to come home. When he finally returns, he is a changed man who no longer loves her and has become cruel and unforgiving because of his war experiences. Anna decides that, for her own safety, she needs to get away from Darryl... -
Battered Souls by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn the aftermath of the Civil War so many people struggled to put their lives back together. Iris Sands travels from Virginia to Texas as a Mail-Order Bride. When she arrives in Sweet Water she finds that the man who sent for her died. The Union Soldiers thought her to be a new saloon girl and thought to get to her first before she started working...Categorized as:
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The Valentine's Curse by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsNew York Times bestselling author Jodi Thomas takes you back to the Old West, where two strangers find love in the least likely place, with the least likely person, just in the nick of time . . -
Yankee in Atlanta by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen soldier Caitlin McKae woke up in Atlanta after being wounded in battle, the Georgian doctor who treated her believed Caitlin's only secret was that she had been fighting for the Confederacy disguised as a man. In order to avoid arrest or worse, Caitlin hides her true identity and makes a new life for herself in Atlanta... -
The Red Feather by April W. Gardner
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWar, captivity, hunger that will not be denied. And a blackberry moon with enough pull to endure the test of time. Frontierswoman Adela McGirth has never feared her neighbors, the Creek Indians, but a suspicious encounter with a steely-eyed warrior shakes her confidence. As dreaded, a skirmish with the natives sends her family fleeing into a hastily constructed fort... -
A Wild Heart: An epic and emotional historical novel by Celeste De Blasis
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSweeping through history-from the lush Maryland horse country to the thunder of Gettysburg-the epic sage of Wild Swan continues. The unforgettable story of a family whose lives mirror their country's turbulent growth...a vibrant authentic panorama of its times...Categorized as:
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Valley of Dreams (Longing for Home) by Sarah M. Eden
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsShe's come to build a future. He's running from his past. Patrick O’Connor has seen far too much of the cruel and unforgiving world. Life has beaten him down relentlessly. Out of hope and out of options, he makes the terrifying and desperate decision to return home to the family he has lied to for years, the family he knows will never forgive him...Categorized as:
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The Soldier's Lady by Michael R. Phillips
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe young women of Rosewood face new challenges--and old enemies--when a wounded black soldier rides into town. Micah Duff is an educated, spiritual man, and even though he and "scatterbrained" Emma are very different, the two soon fall in love. But an ambitious white man who can't afford any skeletons in his closet--or a black son--plans to get rid of Emma and her boy for good...Categorized as:
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Josephine by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJosephine Best has it all figured out. Just seventeen, she's been to college, she has her own hairdressing shop and she refuses to be distracted from her goals. At least until handsome George Brooks begins to pursue her. Jojo isn't looking for romance, but she permits George to call on her.Adam Morgan has always been a Casanova, and no girl is immune to his charm... -
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Sisters of the Confederacy by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsUnforgettable Courage and Romance From Lauraine Snelling Warming countless hearts and bringing history to life, Lauraine Snelling's Sisters of the Confederacy is an exciting tale of courage, adventure, and romance. After finding her expected safe haven destroyed, Jesselyn Highwood must decide where to turn next. With no place left to go, Jesselyn decides to head west on the Oregon Trail... -
The Long Way Home by Lauraine Snelling
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWill the War's End Bring the Highwood Family Together Again? When a disastrous decision by the new wagon master forces Jesselynn Highwood and her companions to separate from the wagon train, she races back to Fort Laramie to find a guide to take them to Oregon. But the guide has a far different plan, and following her heart, Jesselyn agrees to join him, her rag-tag band in tow... -
Stuck Together by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTina Cahill, newly arrived from the East, is determined to get the saloon in Broken Wheel, Texas, closed for good. To that end, she pickets outside the place every afternoon. Unfortunately, so far no one has paid any attention. Vince Yates earned the nickname "Invincible Vince" because of his reputation for letting absolutely nothing stop him. Not his tyrant of a father...Categorized as:
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Over the Edge by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBestselling Author Mary Connealy Delivers Her Trademark Historical Romantic Comedy Seth Kincaid survived a fire in a cave, but he's never been the same. He was always a reckless youth, but now he's gone over the edge. He ran off to the Civil War and came back crazier than ever. After the war, nearly dead from his injuries, it appears Seth got married...Categorized as:
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All Things New by Lynn Austin
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives when they return to their Virginia plantation...Categorized as:
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Victor's Blessing by Barbara Sontheimer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAmerican Legacy Book Awards - Finalist Romance General For fans of Kristen Hannah, Jodi Picoult and Shana Abe, Victor's Blessing offers an interwoven love triangle of passion, torment, betrayal and the most challenging of all human emotions, forgiveness.Victor Gant 6'5",the son of an Osage slave, is an unexpected hero for a Civil War tale. A self-made man he prospers In Ste. Genevieve Missouri... -
Love and War by John Jakes
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe Hazards and the Mains -- the first fatal shot fired at Fort Sumter divided them irrevocably with loyalties more powerful than family ties. The young would clash on the bloody battlefields of Bull Run and Fredericksburg, while in intrigue-ridden Washington and Richmond strong-willed men and beautiful women would defend their principles with their lives.. -
Savage Conquest by Janelle Taylor
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThere was no Virginia belle more irresistible than ebon-haired Miranda Lawrence. Though the willful beauty had her pick of handsome beaux, she felt a wild need deep within her for the kind of man she'd never meet in polite society. Heeding the call of her destiny, Miranda stole away from her plantation home, back to the land of her mother's people... -
One Wore Blue, And One Wore Gray, And One Road West by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom inside front flap: Here in this exclusive Rhapsody edition, are the three stirring novels of Heather Graham's Civil War Series. One Wore Blue: Kiernan Miller & Jesser Cameron. And One Wore Gray: Jesse's brother, Daniel Cameron & and the romance with Callie Michaelson. And One Road West introduces Christa, sister to Jessse and Daniel and her romance with Colonel Jeremy McCauley... -
Trail of Longing by Merry Farmer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmma Sutton fell in love with Dr. Dean Meyers on the very first day of their journey west on the Oregon Trail. Dean is handsome, caring, and noble. If only she could tell him! But between her crippling shyness and the marital machinations of her mother, she despairs of ever being able to say what’s in her heart... -
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Sarah: Bride of Minnesota by Katie Crabapple
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSarah, Bride of Minnesota is #32 in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.Sarah, along with one-hundred other women, is out of a job thanks to a fire in the factory where she's worked since she left school. At loose ends, she decides to become a mail-order bride, moving to Minnesota to marry a man she's never met... -
Emma: Bride of Kentucky by Peggy L. Henderson
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEmma: Bride of Kentucky is fifteenth in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series. Emma Waterston is determined, headstrong, and comes from a lifestyle where class structure determines one’s associations. Left destitute after the death of her mother, she takes a job at a textile factory... -
Mercy: Bride of Idaho by Jacquie Rogers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMERCY, BRIDE OF IDAHO American Mail-Order Brides #43 One woman bent on saving her family. One rancher determined to save his own heart. Is her love enough to save them all? Mercy Eaton has come to Idaho to marry the man of her father’s choosing in order to help her family make ends meet back home. She just knows it’ll all work out... -
Plains Of Promise by Colleen Coble
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Emma Croftner’s “husband” is killed, she realizes he was already married to someone else. The house and life she thought she had belongs to someone else. She joins the Campbell at Fort Laramie and must learn to trust God with her security. And only kind Lt. Isaac Liddle can break through the wall she’s erected against ever loving again... -
Lilly: Bride of Illinois by Linda K. Hubalek
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA clean, sweet romance set in 1890. Lilly Lind was forced to emigrate from Sweden two years ago, due to circumstances beyond her control. She finds a job as a garment maker in the Brown Textile Mill in Lawrence, Massachusetts, finally feeling as though she is settling in her new country. Then a suspicious fire burns the mill, making Lilly seek another way to survive... -
Della: Bride of Texas by Trinity Ford
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDella, Bride of Texas, is 28th in the unprecedented 50-book, American Mail-Order Brides series. If there's one thing life has taught Della Owens, it's that well-laid plans fall through. When faced with a dire situation where choices are limited, she puts her fate in the hands of a matchmaker and braces for the surprises her future holds... -
A Bride's Dilemma in Friendship, Tennesse by Diana Lesire Brandmeyer
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHeaven’s Stolen His Heart A woman's father draws his last breath and puts her fate into the hands of a stranger. After witnessing the ravages of the Civil War, Travis Logan vowed to give up doctoring. But when fellow steamboat passenger Caleb Wharton collapses at his feet, Travis knows he must lend his aid... -
A Man With a Past by Mary Connealy
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFalcon Hunt awakens without a past, or at least not one he can recall. He's got brothers he can't remember, and he's interested in the prettiest woman in the area, Cheyenne. Only trouble is, a few flashes of memory make Falcon wonder if he's already married. He can't imagine abandoning a wife. But his pa did just that--twice...Categorized as:
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Now and Forever by Cecelia M. Chittenden
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsUnder Louisiana laws in 1865, an unmarried woman could neither own nor inherit property, which leaves Roseanna Ravenna, at the mercy of her uncle, Ben Ravenna. His intent is to claim the plantation, Pelicans Haven, which was left to Roseanna and her brothers on the death of their father. Both brothers are missing after the Civil War...Categorized as:
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Charity by Sylvia McDaniel, Angel Creek Christmas Brides
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Mail Order Bride, Secrets, Lies and a Christmas MiracleFive Charleston women desperate for marriage minded men and the chance to rebuild their lives, after the Civil War answer an ad in the Grooms Gazette. Charity Kingston has to get out of Charleston or face life working in a brothel...Categorized as:
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Separate Roads by Judith Pella, Tracie Peterson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBook Two in repackaged RIBBONS WEST Series While the Civil War is raging, Brenton Baldwin has promised to provide a safe escort to California for Caitlan O'Connor. But now that his heart is totally hers, how can he leave her once they finally arrive? Meanwhile, Kiernan and Victoria O'Connor struggle as his work on the Central Pacific Railroad keeps them separated for long periods of time...Categorized as:
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Valley of the Shadow by Stephanie Grace Whitson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMama had been gone for several years, now, but Gen could still hear her voice. Someday someone is going to call you a stupid squaw. When they do, you must remember who you are. You are the daughter of a French nobleman. Your father speaks four languages. He has studied at schools most whites could never hope to enter... -
Leveraging Lincoln by Stephenia H. McGee
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSome secrets change the world...Once a privileged heiress, Annabelle Ross is now struggling to hold her home and her life together through the devastation of the War Between the States. But with a forced marriage and a desolate future on the horizon, her hopes are beginning to dwindle...Categorized as:
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Tattered Hearts by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAmid the aftermath of the Civil War, Georgie O'Rourke the last surviving member of her family decides her only choice is the leave her beloved state of Tennessee by answering a Mail Order Bride Advertisement. With only a few items of rag like clothing she travels the Southwest Trail by covered wagon to meet up with her Groom in Texas...Categorized as:
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Traces of Mercy by Michael Landon Jr., Cindy Kelley
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAt the war’s end, a young woman suffers an accident that leaves her unconscious and alone. Waking with amnesia, she takes the name Mercy and wants more than anything to find out the truth of her past. But then a handsome stranger arrives, who may hold the key to everything she has forgotten. What he knows could devastate her future, and even end her life...Categorized as:
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Ever My Love by Gretchen Craig
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsOn the eve of Civil War, the daughter of Southern planters finds her loyalties tested in a magnificent saga of family pride and forbidden love...Brought up amid the luxury of plantation life, Marianne Johnston never questions her sheltered life until, driven by her conscience, she joins the Underground Railroad...
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