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An Orphan's Journey by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 10 ratings1874.Growing up in extreme poverty in London, Pearl thinks life can get no worse. But when her parents discover there's yet another baby on the way, they have to tighten the belt even further. Pearl's mother decides to send her and her younger sister Eliza to the workhouse, where they are forced into a new life of hardship and struggle... -
![A Treacherous Engagement: A Regency Romance by Laura Beers]()
A Treacherous Engagement: A Regency Romance by Laura Beers
Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHe was only supposed to find her sister. Falling in love wasn’t part of the agreement.Miss Dinah Ashmore has a problem. Her sister has gone missing, and the constable isn’t taking it seriously. She decides to take matters into her own hands by hiring a Bow Street Runner, not understanding the danger she has put herself in.Nathaniel Calvert, Earl of Hawthorne, is an agent of the Crown... -
![A Crying Shame by Rosie Goodwin]()
A Crying Shame by Rosie Goodwin
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsClaire Nightingale is haunted by the memory of childhood abuse and the painful choices she was forced to make. Longing to find peace, she knows she must first confront her demons.Moving to Solihull with her adopted daughter Nikki, she tries to make amends with the family she left behind... -
![Beyond the Distant Hills by AnneMarie Brear]()
Beyond the Distant Hills by AnneMarie Brear
Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of The Slum Angel.Beyond the Distant Hills is the sequel to A Distant Horizon.Australia 1853Settled in the colony, Ellen embarks on making a happy new life for her family and to forget the horrors of famine-struck Ireland... -
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Austin by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAustin Wagoner is a gunman on the right side of the law. As a deputy, he tracked down some bank robbers and in the following shoot out, his bullet killed Colin Martyn, the brother of Mae Martyn, the girl Austin was in love with. Knowing she would never be able to forgive him, he rides out of her life... -
![Forging the Shilling Girl by Emma Hardwick]()
Forging the Shilling Girl by Emma Hardwick
Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIt is December 1849. Young, widowed Clare Byrne, is escaping the famine in Ireland. On the coffin ship from Dublin, in the final hours of the journey to England, Clare goes into labour. Weakened and alone, the young, beleaguered mother gives birth near the quayside... -
![An Orphan's Christmas Dream by Rosie Darling]()
An Orphan's Christmas Dream by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIn the workhouse, little orphan Holly Green dreamed of a Christmas filled with roast beef and plum pudding. But Holly's beautiful Christmas dream was soon to contort into a cruel nightmare.One snowy Christmas Eve, two vulnerable little girls run away from the harsh workhouse, into the unknown and unforgiving world that was Victorian London... -
![The Blind Sibling by Hope Dawson]()
The Blind Sibling by Hope Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“When you have no more hope left, sometimes you have to join forces with the enemy to survive.”Lizzie White is so happy when her baby sister is born in their gloomy dwelling in the Seven Dials slum of Victorian London. Even when it turns out that little Annie will never be able to see in her life. But then cruel fate decides to serve the girls an even rougher hand... -
![The Christmas Candle Girl by Rosie Darling]()
The Christmas Candle Girl by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEvery Christmas Gracie Fellows would push her cart full of Christmas candles through the harsh snow covered streets of Victorian London. Despite her tender years she knew that the coins she would make selling them to the wealthy would sustain her and her war injured father for the year. Gracie was not the only child who relied on the rich market-shoppers for a livelihood... -
![The Christmas Orphan by Rosie Darling]()
The Christmas Orphan by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAfter her father’s sudden death little Jane Walker had been forced to sell flowers on the London streets to the wealthy in order to make ends meet. At the end of each day she would return to the terrible streets of Whitechapel where her heavily pregnant mother awaited her return... -
![The Workhouse Daughter by Rosie Darling]()
The Workhouse Daughter by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWork hard and avoid the workhouse her Papa had always told her. But Papa was dead, and now six-year-old Amelia Gladstone was living in her darkest dreams. Life would have been unbearable if it weren’t for Robert Merriweather, a fellow workhouse orphan, who had more than a touch of daring and adventure about him... -
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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...Categorized as:
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![Quinn Valley Ranch Pamela Kelley: Three Book Collection (Sweet Family Saga Series) by Pamela M. Kelley]()
Quinn Valley Ranch Pamela Kelley: Three Book Collection (Sweet Family Saga Series) by Pamela M. Kelley
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsThis is a collection of Pamela Kelley's three sweet romances in the Quinn Valley Ranch series. This is a family saga series, set in a small Idaho town near a big lake and mountains. The books are tightly connected and feature a loving family and siblings. Book one--Ryder Revisited--is a Second Chance romance featuring Bethany and Ryder. Chef Bethany Davis needs a job. Ryder Quinn needs a Chef... -
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The Asylum Daughter by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsBorn in the dark horrors of the Victorian Bedlam, Beth Thursday was a no-one. An inconsequential inconvenience.After eight years of dreaming of an unknown mother rescuing her from the workhouse, Beth is unexpectedly liberated to become an apprentice in Mr Whitaker's tailor's shop... -
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![The Christmas Journey by Emma Ashwood]()
The Christmas Journey by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThis Christmas Violet needs to find a husband before the orphanage finds one for her.Violet had been an orphan all her life and although she is grateful to the orphanage for their care, she knew she couldn’t stay forever. With her eighteenth birthday looming it was only a matter of time before she was turned out to find her own way... -
![Redeeming the Rogue by Kit Morgan]()
Redeeming the Rogue by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA RogueAn InnocentAnd one forgetful angel …Persephone Dodge had never been out of New York City, so a trip to visit her cousin in Creede, Colorado was a big adventure. So what if her father tagged along? She was determined to have an adventure. Then he showed up on her cousin’s doorstep.Atticus Judrow was a bounty hunter with a reputation for bringing in men more dead than alive... -
![Dear Mr. Stone by Kit Morgan]()
Dear Mr. Stone by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHeiress Beryl Branson didn’t plan on becoming a mail-order bride, but doggone it! Desperate times called for desperate measures. Her friend, Katie Haverdash, had the stubbornest set of parents she’d ever met. They were determined to marry Katie off to a man of their choosing... -
![Shea: Cowboy Chance : A Christian Historical Western Romance: The Kavanagh Brothers Book 10 by Kathleen Ball]()
Shea: Cowboy Chance : A Christian Historical Western Romance: The Kavanagh Brothers Book 10 by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsShea Kavanagh is in Abilene, Kansas looking for a new bull. As they load the bull onto the train it breaks loose and runs Phoebe Kagan over. She can no longer walk.Phoebe Kagan came to Abilene as a mail-order bride. Her groom never showed and now that she was paralyzed, she didn’t expect him to.Shea Kavanagh is more than helpful and invites to his ranch... -
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Adoring the Architect by George H. McVey
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAileen McRae took one look at the handsome man at her brother’s wedding and knows he is the man for her. Only one problem: her brother forbids the man from even talking to her. What’s a woman supposed to do to get courted by the man of her dreams? Break the rules, of course. Sterling McCormick is the most unlucky man in the game of love in all of Creede... -
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Ivy by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIvy Pembrooke has a problem. With her brother gone, she's now the heir to the Pembrooke fortune and estate. That is, if she lives long enough. After over hearing a plot to kill her, she does what any other heiress would do. She makes a run for it... -
![The Forgotten Daughter by Hope Dawson]()
The Forgotten Daughter by Hope Dawson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsMaggie could have had a great childhood. But her mother dies while her father is far away in America. Hated by her grandparents, Maggie ends up in the dreaded workhouse where she finds a friend and protector in Jack. When Jack is sold off as an apprentice, Maggie must flee for her life. Again and again, Maggie is thrown in the deepest darkest despair as she seems to lose her closest friends... -
![Angus: Cowboy Bewildered: A Christian Historical Western Romance by Kathleen Ball]()
Angus: Cowboy Bewildered: A Christian Historical Western Romance by Kathleen Ball
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHistorical Christian Western RomanceAngus Kavanagh is being watched. When he gets the drop on the spy, he finds a young boy, Julian, who has a sick father. Angus is more than happy to help. He finds out the Fields have been swindled and they have no idea. Angus plans to deal with the swindlers, the Fields have more than enough on their plate... -
![The Rumor by Hannah Miller]()
The Rumor by Hannah Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsEli Schrock’s life is pleasant enough. He likes his work as a farrier in his father’s smithy. He likes the girl he’s courting, Rebecca Hochstettler. Yet there is no passion for what he does or where he lives, and part of him yearns to see more of the world and get more of an education than the standard Amish eighth grade.When he meets Susanna Wittmer, though, everything changes... -
![The Forgotton Match Girl's Christmas Birthday by Iris Cole]()
The Forgotton Match Girl's Christmas Birthday by Iris Cole
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the grip of a winter freeze at Christmas. Taking refuge in a garden seems Holly's only hope. She had no idea of the terrible secrets she would discover.Holly Tavistock ekes out a living on the streets of London selling matches... -
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![A Mother's Choice by Val Wood]()
A Mother's Choice by Val Wood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFor ten years, Delia has had to fend for herself and her son Jack, and as a young unmarried mother, life has never been easy. Every new coat and pair of shoes was bought with what little money she could scrape together as a singer on the stage... -
![The Orphan's Scandal by Jessica Weir]()
The Orphan's Scandal by Jessica Weir
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWill the sins of the mother condemn the daughter to a life of loss?Heartwarming saga romance FREE on Kindle Unlimited. London, 1879. At just 13 years old, Florence Smith's life will change forever. Losing almost everything, she must grow up quickly and hope that a secret scandal does not come back to haunt her... -
![The Pit Brow Sisters by Hope Dawson]()
The Pit Brow Sisters by Hope Dawson
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe sweet and heartbreaking Victorian romance saga of a young woman who loses nearly her entire family in the coal mines of LancashireJenny Swift is born into a coal mining family in the north of England. As the eldest daughter, it's her responsibility to look after her three siblings. A duty that doesn't always sit well with her... -
![The Pickpocket Girl by Rosie Darling]()
The Pickpocket Girl by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsMolly had been a pickpocket for as long as she could remember. In Victorian London on the filth covered streets of the Old Nichol, everyone was a thief, it was a way of life, the only way to survive. Molly had spent her childhood perfecting her craft. A craft that had snatched her father from her, like she snatched pocket watches... -
![The Toymaker's Daughter by Rosie Darling]()
The Toymaker's Daughter by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratings“Guilty.” Sixteen-year-old Anne Besant was thrust into the role of mother, father, and bread-winner to her young siblings when her father was incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. She battles to save the little shop where her father crafted the toys of children's dreams... -
![Between Two Shores by Jocelyn Green]()
Between Two Shores by Jocelyn Green
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe daughter of a Mohawk mother and French father in 1759 Montreal, Catherine Duval finds it is easier to remain neutral in a world that is tearing itself apart. Content to trade with both the French and the British, Catherine is pulled into the fray against her wishes when her British ex- fiance, Samuel Crane, is taken prisoner by her father... -
![THE JARROW TRILOGY: all 3 enthralling sagas in 1 volume; The Jarrow Lass, A Child of Jarrow & Return to Jarrow by Janet MacLeod Trotter]()
THE JARROW TRILOGY: all 3 enthralling sagas in 1 volume; The Jarrow Lass, A Child of Jarrow & Return to Jarrow by Janet MacLeod Trotter
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsPassionate tales of love, heartache and survival against the odds, The Jarrow Trilogy follows the lives of 3 remarkable heroines and their families from the dire poverty of Victorian dockyards through the momentous times of the First and Second World Wars to the changed world of 1950s Britain... -
![The Lost Daughter by Iris Cole]()
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... -
![Saltwick River Orphan: Historical Victorian Saga by Dolly Price]()
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... -
![The Cotton Mill Girl by Rosie Darling]()
The Cotton Mill Girl by Rosie Darling
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe mill was set to break Lottie. Heston mill had already broken so many young lives, robbed innocents of digits and limbs, snuffed out the light behind so many eyes, all without a glimmer of remorse. Such was life for thousands in Victorian England. Why should Lottie be any different? But the mill was Lottie’s World; she knew nothing else... -
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![Love is Blind by Kit Morgan]()
Love is Blind by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLucius Judrow was good at his job, maybe too good. Hired by Jack Carlson of Cutter’s Creek to track down and retrieve his sister Emma, Lucius got more than he bargained for. The free-spirited Emma wasn’t what he expected, nor was the family she’d taken refuge with... -
![The Orphan's Notebook by Eliza Lawley]()
The Orphan's Notebook by Eliza Lawley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIn March 1876, the life of eight-year-old Josephine Mary Jones changed forever. Torn from the protection and love of her family and her beloved wolfhound, Clyde, Josie finds herself cold and alone at the Foundling Hospital, where her spirit and outspokenness is seen as nothing but trouble... -
![Levi's Blessing: Cowboys of Coulee Crossing by Linda Ford]()
Levi's Blessing: Cowboys of Coulee Crossing by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom a fan favorite author with more than one million books sold: Four brothers find love in unexpected places in this western historical series. Levi Hooper is the youngest brother and tired of being ‘the kid.’ No one takes him seriously. Not even the girl he hoped to marry. Zola Minor needed an escape from a controlling relationship. She found one by moving west with her parents... -
![The Orphans of Warrenby Mill by Catharine Dobbs]()
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... -
![The Brides of Wicklow: Mail Order Bride 5-Book Box Set by Maddie Walker]()
The Brides of Wicklow: Mail Order Bride 5-Book Box Set by Maddie Walker
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMeet the brave Brides of Wicklow... Seven young women venture West to find love and adventure in 5 Mail Order Bride sweet and inspirational romance stories. Book 1 - The Prospector's Bride Meet Lily Madsen and Etta Oakley who leave their home town of West Ridge, Georgia, when Etta becomes the mail order bride of Jeb Parkhurst, a wealthy prospector in Wicklow, Montana... -
![Angels of the West Collection (15 Book Box Set) by Emma Ashwood]()
Angels of the West Collection (15 Book Box Set) by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLose yourself in these clean romance stories of fifteen brave and beautiful angels who travel West to find love, hope and family. Fifteen courageous young women travel to what they hope will be a better future, but they face many struggles and heartbreak along the way... -
![Finding Faith at Christmas by Emma Ashwood]()
Finding Faith at Christmas by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAbigail lost her faith around the same time she lost both her parents, Can she rediscover it as well as true love this Christmas?When Abigail’s father was lost during the civil war, life became even harder for her and her mother. Living in Five Points and working in a factory was not the life she had envisaged for herself. After scarlet fever robbed her of her mother, Abigail had no one... -
![A Valentine's Sorrow by Emma Ashwood]()
A Valentine's Sorrow by Emma Ashwood
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFor Mary Beth life has been nothing but cruel, becoming a mail-order bride is her last hope. Or would it be another cruel disappointment? After her mother passed, Mary Beth spent her entire childhood taking care of her alcoholic father. His last act as a father was to marry Mary Beth off to the man to whom he was indebted due to his gambling addiction... -
![The Clocksmith of Her Dreams: A Historical Western Romance Book by Ellen Knightley]()
The Clocksmith of Her Dreams: A Historical Western Romance Book by Ellen Knightley
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMilly McDonald has always dreamed of two things: having her own bakery and finding true love. When her parents try to marry her to a man who is far from her idea of a perfect match, Milly is horrified. In a fit of despair and with her protests falling on deaf ears, she decides to run away... -
![A Mail Order Bride for the Cattle King and Other Western Bride Stories: Boxed Set by Charlotte Dearing]()
A Mail Order Bride for the Cattle King and Other Western Bride Stories: Boxed Set by Charlotte Dearing
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA three-story collection from Charlotte Dearing, featuring clean, inspirational stories. A Mail Order Bride for the Cattle King Jake Kerr can have anything money can buy. What he wants is a sweet, docile bride. Instead he gets a feisty, stubborn girl who vows to tame his rawhide heart. A Bride for the Texas Ranger Levi Calhoun never met a more exasperating woman than the lovely Pearl... -
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![Glory and the Rawhide Preacher by Linda Ford]()
Glory and the Rawhide Preacher by Linda Ford
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLevi and God have a deal: Levi will devote his life to preaching and reaching people with God's word, and God will bring Levi's outlaw brother Matt back into the fold. It sounded easy enough at first, until Levi rode into Bonners Ferry, Idaho, and straight into the path of britches-wearing, horse-riding, independent Glory Hamilton... -
![Love Finds a Way by Kit Morgan]()
Love Finds a Way by Kit Morgan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsBartholomew Brown had been a successful business man in his day, a very fine one. But after serving in the war, he sold his business and ran off with his father and brother to mine gold, even though they were years late to the gold rush. But, they had to give it a try. After all, what did they have to lose? Unfortunately, Bart lost plenty. But he did gain a friend... -
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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... -
![Keeping Her Billionaire Cowboy CEO by April Murdock]()
Keeping Her Billionaire Cowboy CEO by April Murdock
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs new CEO of Bolton Farms, Adam Tucker is in his element. Running a billion-dollar corporation is what he was meant to do. He’s been working to make it to this point his whole career and he knows this business inside and out.Faye Wilson loves life on a ranch. She's anything but a city girl. She isn’t impressed by any man who can’t hold his own on a horse, either... -
![Saving Her Billionaire Cowboy Hero by April Murdock, Josephine Blake]()
Saving Her Billionaire Cowboy Hero by April Murdock, Josephine Blake
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDakota Johnson has a bit of a chip on her shoulder. Her true calling is working with horses but not in a way an old school veterinarian might hold in high regard. She’s often accused of not being a “real” vet.Brady Shipley owns Hickory Hollow Ranch with his brother. They’d worked hard, made good decisions, and it had all paid off. In a huge way... -
![A Groom for Celia by Cat Cahill]()
A Groom for Celia by Cat Cahill
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsCelia Thornton would give anything to start over after the blizzard ends her loveless marriage.Jack Wendler needs to leave New York immediately after one too many business deals left his investors penniless.Figuring marriage in remote western Nebraska must be better than the reckoning he's facing in New York, Jack pens a response to a marriage advertisement...
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