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StormWolfe: Sons of de Wolfe by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe 'little' de Wolfe Brother, Thomas, is no longer little. The de Wolfe cub has become a big, powerful Wolfe all his own... 1290 A.D. - Thomas de Wolfe, commander of Wark Castle, an outpost for Castle Questing, his father's powerful fortress, has come out from the shadow of his mighty father and brothers. Now, they call him StormWolfe for his fearlessness and cunning... -
The Physician by Noah Gordon
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsIn the 11th century, Rob Cole left poor, disease-ridden London to make his way across the land, hustling, juggling, peddling cures to the sick—and discovering the mystical ways of healing. It was on his travels that he found his own very real gift for healing—a gift that urged him on to become a doctor...Categorized as:
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The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsA glorious novel of the controversial Richard III - a monarch betrayed in life by his allies and betrayed in death by history...Categorized as:
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The Reckoning by Sharon Kay Penman
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 32 ratings"Never forget, Llewelyn, that the world's greatest fool is a Welshman who trusts an English king." His father's words haunt Llewelyn ap Gruffydd, Prince of Wales, who has been ruling uneasily over his fractious countrymen. Above all else, Llewelyn fears that his life and his own dream—of an independent, united Wales—might be lost to Edward I's desire to expand his English empire...Categorized as:
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The Twisted Sword by Winston Graham
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe eleventh novel in the legendary Poldark saga. Cornwall, 1815: Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons - and travel to Paris with his family, as an "observer" of the French armed forces... -
A Portrait of Loyalty by Roseanna M. White
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsZivon Marin was one of Russia's top cryptographers, until the October Revolution tore apart his world. Forced to flee after speaking out against Lenin and separated from his brother along the way, he arrives in England driven by a growing anger and determined to offer his services to the Brits... -
Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 91 ratingsThe year is 1945. Claire Randall, a former combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach—an “outlander”—in a Scotland torn by war and raiding border clans in the year of Our Lord...1743... -
The Beantown Girls by Jane Healey
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAn Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller.A novel of love, courage, and danger unfolds as World War II’s brightest heroines—the best of friends—take on the front lines.1944: Fiona Denning has her entire future planned out. She’ll work in city hall, marry her fiancé when he returns from the war, and settle down in the Boston suburbs... -
The Autumn Throne by Elizabeth Chadwick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThe Son She Loved. The Betrayal She Faced. The Legend She Became. The stunning conclusion to the Eleanor of Aquitaine trilogyImprisoned by her husband. Separated from her children. If King Henry II thought these things would push his queen into submission, he was wrong. Eleanor of Aquitaine refused to give into his tyranny. Freed by his death, she became dowager Queen of England... -
The House at Mermaid's Cove by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsAs World War II rages, love, mystery, and secrets collide on the English coast in a riveting novel by the bestselling author of The Snow Gypsy. In April 1943 a young woman washes ashore on a deserted beach in Cornwall, England. With shorn hair and a number stitched on her tattered chemise, Alice is the survivor of a ship torpedoed by a German U-boat...Categorized as:
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Here Be Dragons by Sharon Kay Penman
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsThirteenth-century Wales is a divided country, ever at the mercy of England's ruthless, power-hungry King John. Then Llewelyn, Prince of North Wales, secures an uneasy truce with England by marrying the English king's beloved, illegitimate daughter, Joanna. Reluctant to wed her father's bitter enemy, Joanna slowly grows to love her charismatic and courageous husband who dreams of uniting Wales...Categorized as:
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A Leaf on the Wind of All Hallows by Diana Gabaldon
Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsAvailable for the first time as an exclusive eBook in this original Outlander novella, Diana Gabaldon reveals what really happened to Roger MacKenzie Wakefield’s parents. Orphaned during World War II, Roger believed that his mother died during the London Blitz, and that his father, an RAF pilot, was killed in combat. But in An Echo in the Bone, Roger discovers that this may not be the whole story...Categorized as:
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When We Were Brave by Suzanne Kelman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsThe face of woman in the photograph was tilted upwards, as if enjoying the sunshine just for a moment, even as the wreckage of the bombed-out street lay behind her… 1944, Cornwall: Blinded by love, Vivienne Hamilton eloped to Paris with a Nazi prisoner-of-war, never to be seen again. A disgrace to her family, her name would not be mentioned by any of her relatives for over 75 years...Categorized as:
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One Good Earl Deserves a Lover by Sarah MacLean
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe second in the incredible new Rules of Scoundrels series from New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean. Lady Philippa Marbury is odd. The bespectacled, brilliant fourth daughter of the Marquess of Needham and Dolby cares more for books than balls, flora than fashion and science than the season...Categorized as:
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The Hourglass by Tracy Rees
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 18 ratings2014. Sensible Nora has always taken success for granted, until suddenly her life begins to fall apart. Troubled by anxiety and nightmares, she finds herself drawn to the sweeping beaches of Tenby, a place she's only been once before. Together with a local girl she rents a beautiful townhouse and slowly begins to settle in to her new life...Categorized as:
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When Christ and His Saints Slept by Sharon Kay Penman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA.D. 1135. As church bells tolled for the death of England's King Henry I, his barons faced the unwelcome prospect of being ruled by a woman: Henry's beautiful daughter Maude, Countess of Anjou. But before Maude could claim her throne, her cousin Stephen seized it. In their long and bitter struggle, all of England bled and burned...Categorized as:
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The Black Moon by Winston Graham
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsThe birth of a son to Elizabeth and George Warleggan seems to make the rift between the Poldark and Warleggan families worse. When Morwenna Chynoweth, governess to Elizabeth's son, grows to love Drake Carne, Demelza's brother, things get worse... -
The Wordsmith by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe didn’t want to fall in love with him. He was too old, too English, and too much her sister’s best friend. Worst of all, he’s promised to another woman. Will duty keep them apart forever?As a child Adelaide Barnes felt sure she wouldn’t live to be an adult. However, she’s grown into a beautiful and ambitious young woman with big dreams for a literary career... -
The Highland Girls at War by Helen Yendall
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsCan the Highland girls prove everyone wrong? Don’t miss this poignant and heartwarming WW2 novel for fans of Rosie Clarke, Dilly Court and Rosie Archer, from the author of A Wartime Secret. Scotland, 1942. The Lumberjills, the newest recruits in the Women’s Timber Corps, arrive in the Scottish Highlands to a hostile reception from doubtful locals...Categorized as:
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A Week to Be Wicked by Tessa Dare
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsWhen a devilish lord and a bluestocking set off on the road to ruin... time is not on their side. Minerva Highwood, one of Spindle Cove's confirmed spinsters, needs to be in Scotland. Colin Sandhurst, Lord Payne, a rake of the first order, needs to be... anywhere but Spindle Cove...Categorized as:
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Templar Silks by Elizabeth Chadwick
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom New York Times bestselling author Elizabeth Chadwick comes another long-awaited novel about William Marshall, The Greatest Knight. To save his soul, young knight William Marshall takes the perilous road to Jerusalem, but the greatest danger he faces there is losing his heart... -
The Footman by A. O'Connor
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsFrom the country mansions of 1930s Ireland, to the decadence of 1940s wartime Paris to the courtrooms of London in modern times.What the Footman saw . . .In 1930s Ireland, Joe Grady becomes the footman at the stately home Cliffenden, owned by the glamorous Fullerton family... -
The Lady Julia Grey Bundle by Deanna Raybourn
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsTo say that I met Nicholas Brisbane over my husband's dead body is not entirely accurate. Edward, it should be noted, was still twitching on the floor. Starting with her husband's sudden death, Lady Julia Grey is swept into a world of mystery and deceit. It is also the world of the enigmatic and maddeningly attractive private investigator Nicholas Brisbane..Categorized as:
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Love Wild and Fair by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA Love For All Time She is Catriona, Countess of Glenkirk, the dazzling green-eyed beauty whose silken sensuality fires the passion of men's very souls -- making her a pawn in a dangerous game of royal intrigue. wife to a count, unwilling mistress to the king, she has the undying live of the most courageous lord in all of scotland. .Categorized as:
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Think of England by K.J. Charles
Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsLie back and think of England... England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident. Alone, purposeless and angry, Curtis is determined to discover if he and his comrades were the victims of fate, or of sabotage...Categorized as:
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Letters to the Lost by Iona Grey
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsAn accomplished novel from a talented writer, Letters to the Lost is a stunning, emotional love story. Iona Grey's prose is warm, evocative, and immediately engaging; her characters become so real you can't bear to let them go.I promised to love you forever, in a time when I didn't know if I'd live to see the start of another week. Now it looks like forever is finally running out...Categorized as:
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The Moon Gate by Amanda Geard
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsFrom the author of the Richard & Judy pick The Midnight House. A wartime secret. An abandoned house. How long can they run from the past? A mesmerising story of love, war, and a mystery that ensnares three generations, moving between Tasmania, London, and Kerry in 1939, 1975 and 2004. Perfect for fans of Natasha Lester, Kate Morton, and Lucinda Riley...Categorized as:
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Hearts Aflame by Johanna Lindsey
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsKristen Haardrad met the icy fury in her captor's crystal-green gaze with defiance. She was the prisoner of Royce of Wyndhurst, but his slave she'd never be. This powerful Saxon lord had at last met his match in the Viking beauty - his equal in pride, in strength...and in the fierce, hot hunger of insatiable desire...Categorized as:
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Mrs. Tim Gets A Job by D.E. Stevenson
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMrs. Time Gets a Job is an amusing, entertaining story of Hester Christie's adventures in her first job. Old admirers of D. E. Stevenson will be delighted with this third volume in the series, and new readers will be charmed with Mrs. Tim's adventures. With her husband still with his Regiment in Egypt, Mrs. Tim takes a job to fill the months before her husband's demobilization...Categorized as:
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The Axe by Sigrid Undset
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSet in 13th-century Norway, The Axe is the first volume in Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it, we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were betrothed as children and raised as brother and sister. In the heedlessness of youth, they become lovers, unaware that their ardor will forge the first link in a chain of murder, exile, and disgrace...Categorized as:
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In Her Highlander's Bed by Lynsay Sands
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor fans of Outlander, New York Times bestselling author Lynsay Sands’ newest installment of the Highland Brides series brings us a sweeping tale of passion as a laird’s swim in a loch leads to the love of a lifetime.An invigorating swim in the loch was exactly what Calan Campbell, Laird of Kilcairn, needed after defeating his enemies in battle...Categorized as:
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The Stolen Hours by Karen Swan
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA reluctant bride. A forbidden romance. An island full of secrets . . .It’s the summer of 1929 and Mhairi MacKinnon is in need of a husband. As the eldest girl among nine children, her father has made it clear he can’t support her past the coming winter. On the small, Scottish island of St Kilda, her options are limited...Categorized as:
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A Little Love Song by Michelle Magorian
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA classic young love story set in the middle of World War II It is the summer of 1943, and war continues to rage. For Rose and her sister Diana, it’s a time of independence and self-discovery as they find first loves. But when Rose uncovers an extraordinary love story from another war, she is forced to question that love. Rose is about to discover a secret that will change everything...Categorized as:
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Theatre by W. Somerset Maugham
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsIn Theatre, W. Somerset Maugham–the author of the classic novels Of Human Bondage and Up at the Villa–introduces us to Julia Lambert, a woman of breathtaking poise and talent whose looks have stood by her forty-six years. She is a star UK stage actress–-so good, in fact, that perhaps she never stops acting...Categorized as:
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Defy Not the Heart by Johanna Lindsey
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 21 ratingsReina seethes with rage over her fate: taken captive by the knight Ranulf — a golden giant of a man — who has pledged to deliver her to the nuptial bed of the despised Lord Rothwell. She will never accept such bondage — and Reina offers herself to her kidnapped instead, offering to make Ranulf a great lord...if he agrees to wed her...Categorized as:
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The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsDunnett introduces her irresistible hero Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegrace nobleman of elastic morals and dangerous talents whose tongue is as sharp as his rapier. In 1547 Lymond is returning to his native Scotland, which is threatened by an English invasion. Accused of treason, Lymond leads a band of outlaws in a desperate race to redeem his reputation and save his land... -
The Last Kiss by Sally Malcolm
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA tender and triumphant story of forbidden love in the aftermath of warWhen Captain Ashleigh Arthur Dalton went to war in 1914, he never expected to fall in love. Yet over three long years at the front, his dashing batman, Private West, became his reason for fighting—and his reason for living.But Ash’s war ends in catastrophe...Categorized as:
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A Wayside Tavern by Norah Lofts
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA Wayside Tavern tells, in a series of dramatic incidents, the story of a Suffolk drinking place from the end of the Roman occupation of Britain, until the present day... -
The Promise of Peace by Carol Umberger
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA riveting story of betrayal and love set in the highlands of 14th-Century... -
Tobias by Emma Lang
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA broken man. A woman who needs a hero. A love that should never have been.Rebecca Graham always knew she was to marry a hero and leave home in blissful happiness. She chose that man when she was seventeen. Unfortunately, her family hated him. In a fury over being swindled by someone else, Tobias burned down the Circle Eight, her family's ranch... -
When Skies Have Fallen by Debbie McGowan
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWinner of the Lambda Literary Award for Gay Romance.For many in war-torn 1944, love blossoms in the dance hall, and airman Arty Clarke is no exception. He’s a thinker and a dreamer; however, it’s not the beautiful, talented dancer in his arms—his best friend Jean—who inspires his dreams. For when his gaze meets that of Technical Sergeant Jim Johnson, Arty dares to imagine a different dance...Categorized as:
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The Price of Freedom by Carol Umberger
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThough he is the kingdom's fiercest fighter, the atrocities he's witnessed in Scotland's struggle for independence have shaken his faith. She is a spirited noblewoman who has lost her protector and whose fervent prayers have gone unanswered. They have been cast together by forces beyond their control... -
Circle of Honor by Carol Umberger
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA riveting story of betrayal and love on the highlands of medieval Scotland - beautifully packaged with French flaps and deckled edges. It is 14th century Scotland and Gwenyth Comyn has a choice to make. She can accuse her sworn enemy, Adam Mackintosh, of assaulting her-though that crime was committed by another-or she can tell the truth and remain in captivity to her actual attacker...Categorized as:
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One Love is Enough by Juliette Benzoni
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn turbulent 15th Century France, young Catherine Legoix grows into a woman of dangerous beauty. Her distinctive violet eyes and stunning mane of golden hair inflame the desires of the powerful Duke Philippe, who schemes to make her his mistress by having her unwillingly married to the hugely wealthy but emotionally distant Royal Treasurer... -
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Until We Meet by Camille Di Maio
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMargaret Beck is proud of her work at the Brooklyn Navy Yard sewing stars onto the Stars and Stripes, but she yearns to contribute to the war effort more meaningfully. She's angling for a promotion to the mechanic section, but she doesn't want to wait to make a difference. So with her two best friends, she decides to start a knitting club, where they will knit socks for the boys at the front... -
The Sinful Ways of Jamie Mackenzie by Jennifer Ashley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhen in trouble, seek a Highlander...Even if you pushed him into a river ten years ago...When Evie McKnight slams into Jamie Mackenzie on a quay on Southampton, she flashes back to the day she accidentally knocked him into the river Cam. When she fished him out again, he shocked her with a searing, bold kiss before walking away in dripping wet shirt and kilt...Categorized as:
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The Last Dollar Princess by Linda Bennett Pennell
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIt must be said: Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time after time. Although her relatives are obsessed with social position and the opinions of others, heiress India Elisabeth Petra De Vries Ledbetter is determined to live life on her own terms, family expectations and society's demands be damned...Categorized as:
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Amberwell by D.E. Stevenson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsIt was dark when Nell Ayrton got to Carlisle. There had been a raid in the Midlands and the station was blacked-out and in chaos. Nell ran wildly from one side of the enormous station to the other, despair clutching at her heart...Categorized as:
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The Elusive Pimpernel by Emmuska Orczy
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsIt is the early days of the French Republic, and Robespierre's revolutionaries find their wicked schemes repeatedly being thwarted. It appears that Sir Percy Blakeney--the cunning and heroic Pimpernel--is more than a match for them all. But Sir Percy's spy-catching archenemy, Chauvelin, has devised a plan...Categorized as:
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The Capture of the Earl of Glencrae by Stephanie Laurens
Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsThree heros, three rescues, three weddings.We joyfully request your attendance at the wedding of Miss Angelica Cynster...but not until she and her hero confront a devious enemy and lay to rest an ancient grudge in the Scottish Highlands! Headstrong Angelica Cynster is certain she'll recognize her fated husband at first sight...Categorized as:
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