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The Songbook of Benny Lament: A Novel by Amy Harmon
Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars · 18 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of What the Wind Knows and From Sand and Ash comes a powerful love story about a musical duo who put everything on the line to be together. New York, 1960: For Benny Lament, music is his entire life. With his father’s deep ties to the mob, the Bronx piano man has learned that love and family can get you in trouble... -
The Unknown Beloved by Amy Harmon
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsChicago, 1923: Ten-year-old Dani Flanagan returns home to find police swarming the house, her parents dead. Michael Malone, the young patrolman assigned to the case, discovers there’s more to the situation - and to Dani Flanagan herself - than the authorities care to explore. Malone is told to shut his mouth, and Dani is sent away to live with her spinster aunts in Cleveland... -
Shameless Duke by Scarlett Scott
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsLucien, Duke of Arden, is on the brink of disaster, about to lose everything he worked so hard to attain as the leader of the Special League. When Home Office obliges him to join forces with a Pinkerton agent to keep his position, he is determined to send the fellow back to American shores faster than he can say “Yankee Doodle... -
Cocky Earl by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn honorable Earl, an American Girl, and one lost bet that changes everything.Miss Charley Jackson didn’t want to sail to England. The British are stuffy, and arrogant, and think far too highly of themselves. Particularly, the ones who referred to themselves as Lords.Julian Wellstone, the Earl of Westerley, never walked away from a bet but should have known his luck would someday run out... -
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Under a Falling Star by Caroline Fyffe
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsTwo sweethearts find their new love put to the test in Book Four of USA Today bestselling author Caroline Fyffe’s Prairie Hearts series. Wyoming Territory, April 1883 After a disastrous marriage, Sheriff Albert Preston never expects to fall in love again…until a feisty, take-charge young woman sneaks past his defenses. Now, he’d like nothing more than to make Susanna Robinson his wife... -
Willow by Carolyn Brown
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWillow Gail Dulan didn't like Rafe Pierce when he read her father's will. She sure didn't like him when he tried to talk Hank Gibson out of letting her and her four newly-found sisters travel to California with the wagon train of mail-order brides. Rafe was totally against the idea of Jake Dulan's daughters going with the train... -
Wicked Again by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA scandalous affair with a much younger man...Lady Marissa Cupps-Foster has buried three husbands. Only one, her dear Reggie, was a love match. As a woman considered past her prime with two grown sons, she's decided on discreet trysts when she feels the need for male companionship. Lord Trenton Haddon was only a dalliance. Haddon is tempting but far too young for her... -
S'kal by Honey Phillips
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA troubled alien, a runaway human, and a haunted past…Evie is in trouble. She’s out of money, out of luck, and out of time. Desperate to get out of Port Cantor, she stows away on a trading caravan heading for the remote settlements in the hinterlands of Cresca. When she’s found by the biggest and most intimidating alien she’s ever seen, she’s terrified... -
Healing the Mountain Man's Heart by Misty M. Beller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsIn the wild mountains of the Montana Territory, the Coulter ranch is a place of family, loyalty…and a hidden fortune.Jericho Coulter, the eldest of six fiercely devoted brothers, is entrusted with safeguarding his family and the secret that binds them together: the Sapphire mine. To keep tragedy from striking again, he allows no outsiders on their land... -
Jude Deveraux Collectors' Edition Box Set: Lavender Morning, Days of Gold, and Scarlet Nights by Jude Deveraux
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRediscover all of the magic and romance of Edilean in this special collector's edition box set of Jude Deveraux's New York Times bestsellers: Lavender Morning, Days of Gold, and Scarlet Nights—plus a sneak peek at her latest, Heartwishes.In Lavender Morning, Jocelyn Minton is a woman torn between two worlds. Her mother grew up wealthy, but she married the local handyman... -
Fearless Hope: A Novel by Serena B. Miller
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen an Amish woman falls for the New York crime writer who buys her family farm, she must decide whether to follow the longings of her heart or the rules of her faith. When Hope Yoder loses her husband, she is left trying to support her two small children—and one on the way—however she can... -
Lady of Mystery by Ellie St. Clair, Dragonblade Publishing
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsEllie St. Clair has a brand-new series! Read Book One in the Unconventional Series - Regency ladies in unconventional roles find love in unexpected ways! She’s determined to make a difference... Raised to believe the world is open to her, Lady Phoebe Winters reads periodicals and newspapers with growing upset. Everything within her world is shaped by a man’s point of view...Categorized as:
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Redeeming the Prodigal by Jodi Basye
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA soiled dove at rock bottom. A mountain man broken and lonely. Can an unexpected encounter be their second chance at love?Jo Bradford never thought she’d end up a fallen woman in a mining-town brothel.But after running away from a family who loves her and falling into the clutches of a sinister outlaw, Jo found herself left with a devastating choice. Starvation or prostitution...Categorized as:
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Rescued by the Hunter by Lynnea Lee
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKORIV’N My mate’s scent calls to me. I hunt it, each step taking me closer to the one thing I came to Earth to find.These silly humans think they’ve captured me. What a joke. They’ve captured nothing! I’m here for my female, and nothing can stop me. I will find her, and I will claim her. She is mine!When my mate runs right into me and begs for me to take her away, I can hardly believe my ears... -
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The Duke’s Wife by Jess Michaels
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAfter she found out her husband was a bigamist with three wives, Abigail Montgomery’s world fell apart. She was still reeling when she found out he was courting yet another woman, the sister of the Duke of Gilmore. She intervened anonymously and Gilmore’s reaction brought her world down around her. She has seen him as an enemy ever since. An arrogant, interesting, very handsome enemy... -
Lord of Night by Erica Ridley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsUnlike proper debutantes, Miss Dahlia Grenville is secretly Robin Hood in a bonnet. Her home for wayward girls has too many dependents and not enough donations. But just as she's about to pull off the heist of the Season, she tumbles straight into the arms of the handsome detective who has sworn to deliver Mayfair's mysterious thief straight to the gallows... -
Eli's Little Easter by Dakota Trace
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe youngest son of the Atheron family, Elias has been a huge disappointment to his overbearing parents, particularly his mother. He’s done everything right, including relocating to another state to head up the office in the newest addition to the family party business, but it still never seems enough. She now wants him to come home for Easter, to reunite with an old flame, which he refuses to do... -
An Heiress for August by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsLondon’s most notorious rake needs to wed.August Wade was never meant to be the Duke of Courtland. Now he’s inherited the title from his uncle along with the poorly managed ducal estates. After months of attempting to remedy the situation, August concludes that he must wed an heiress. Specifically, Miss Hazel Dartmont, only child of an obnoxiously wealthy textile merchant...Categorized as:
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Lady of Mystery by Ellie St. Clair
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe’s predictable. She’s a mystery. Can love bridge all that separates them?Raised to believe the world is open to her, Lady Phoebe Winters reads periodicals and newspapers with growing upset. Everything within her world is shaped by a man’s point of view...Categorized as:
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Silver Savior by Iona Strom, L.S. Anders
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAmyI had been abducted by aliens, survived a crash-landing in a spaceship--none of which I, thankfully, remembered. Then, an alien medic--who looked like an elf from The Lord of the Rings--miraculously healed my injuries in record time. I made it through all that and even a trek through a deadly jungle to relative safety... -
High Wycombe Wedding by G.L. Snodgrass
Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLord Edington is torn between two responsibilities, one to the crown and one to his family. Heaven knew he already had more than enough reasons to be angry at the world. Years of war, the loss of his wife, and two young daughters who barely knew him. And now, after helping to win the war, the powers that be want to have him abandon his girls and return to the continent to help form the peace...Categorized as:
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Dare to Love Again by Julie Lessman
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe's a sassy socialite burned by love. He's a jaded cop burned by the upper class. When sparks fly...will love catch fire again? Spunky Allison McClare is determined to be a fearless, independent woman. But when she takes a notion to explore the wild Barbary Coast, she quickly discovers she's no match for the unsavory characters that haunt the dark streets... -
Cowboy Bodyguard by K.L. Donn
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMarilyn Monroe Kingsley was coveted on the pageant circuit. Winning Miss California set her up to compete in the Miss America competition this year. Anyone who knew anything about pageant life knew she was going to win it, too. She had the looks, the skills, and the brains. But was it what Monroe wanted?She had private dreams of normalcy, family, and living a life she’d only seen on T.V... -
A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA breathtaking, romantic debut novel by Tammye Huf. Based on the true story of the author’s great-great grand-parents, A More Perfect Union is an epic love story between an Irish immigrant and a black slave, set in the pre-Civil War Southern state of Virginia in 1849 when inter-racial marriage was illegal... -
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The Study of a Rake by Kathleen Ayers
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe widowed Duke of Averell is trying to be a better man...But when he spies a young woman, reading "The Iliad" beneath a tree, no less, Marcus forgets all his good intentions. Miss Weatherly is outspoken, intelligent and enamored of the ancient Greeks. When she brazenly offers to show him the constellations later that night, Marcus readily agrees... -
An Ivy Tangles by Kari Trumbo
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIvy Masters is done running from her dead husband and haunting memories, but how can she start over again without money or family to help her? Levi Towne has known heartache and disappointment, and is now determined to find a wife who’ll meet his needs but leave his heart out of it. When his letter to the mail-order bride service goes missing, he figures it’s a sign he’s just meant to be alone... -
A Wallflower's Guide to Becoming a Bride by Eva Devon, Tamara Gill
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThree sensual, witty, and sigh-worthy happy-ever-afters featuring Wallflowers following a guide to seducing the heart of rakes and rogues of the ton...A Wallflower’s Kiss by Eva DevonLady Ophelia is the last of her sisters to be unmarried! She knows she has to find a husband, but she's been on the shelf for three seasons...Categorized as:
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Renegade Love by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsRosa’s friend warned her not to look at Esteban Cesare that he was evil and once she looked upon evil she was doomed. But she felt sorry for the handsome ranchero. He had finally returned after having been abducted sixteen years ago by renegades and no one but his family welcomed him home. Rosa didn’t heed her friend’s warning. She looked upon him... and sealed her fate... -
Highlander's Scarred Bride by Maddie MacKenna
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“She’s under me protection… I’ll kill anyone who hurts her.”One look at Laird Dominic’s scarred face is enough to terrify anyone. Except a beautiful healer who doesn’t shy away from his gaze when they meet. And now images of her on his bed start haunting him…Violet’s hard work as a healer is not enough to raise her siblings... -
The Chemistry of Familiar Objects by Alexandra Vasti
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings57 Gresham Street is the most incendiary building in London. Upstairs, unconventional chemist Emmeline Starling uses combustion to solve scientific mysteries. Downstairs, buttoned-up children’s book printer Robert Vane tries very hard not to panic when the ceiling catches on fire. And when these two opposing forces are contained within one small building? Explosions are just the beginning...Categorized as:
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The Cruel Highlander’s Bride by Eloise Madigan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I’ll end this war…if ye marry me.”Ciara would do anything to protect her sister; even marry the most cruel Highlander in her stead.Known for killing his own father, Laird Magnus needs a bride to bring peace to his clan. And the moment he sees the defiant look in Ciara's eyes, he knows he wants her.But wanting her is dangerous... -
The Highlander’s Virgin Wife by Eloise Madigan
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“If ye want me to kiss ye, ye must do somethin’ for me as well.”Desperate to feel pleasure before she has to marry the man her parents chose, Lady Keira asks the most wicked Laird in Scotland for a kiss.Laird Raphael can't marry. But when the sweet English lass tempts him so, he can't resist claiming her lips…In return, she must stay in his castle for exactly two weeks... -
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... -
Too Deep for Tears by Kathryn Lynn Davis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA rare, exquisite novel of courage and passion, betrayal and love. Dashing English diplomat Charles Kittridge relished the abundant pleasures of the world...and in his far-flung wanderings, he left behind three remarkable daughters: Ailsa Rose, a beauty of the Scottish highlands, endowed with her father's lust for adventure. She betrays her heart to follow the one man who promises her the world... -
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Always the Bluestocking by Emily E.K. Murdoch
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlways the bluestocking and never the bride—not that any woman should have to choose… Miss Mariah Wynn was adopted and has spent her life attempting to prove herself worthy. Intelligent and witty, it's nonetheless not a good idea to let a gentleman know you actually have brains. After all, no one marries the bluestocking, even if she is beautiful and but twenty one... -
The Baron's Dangerous Contract by Kate Archer
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAn audacious lady and an adventurous lord. Miss Penny Darlington, daughter of the famed horseman Lord Mendbridge, has spent the past two seasons happily flirting with Lord Cabot. On the night of the Tudor ball, all of her ideas are crushed. The lord showed her, in no uncertain terms, how inconsequential she really was...Categorized as:
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More than Tempted by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe has loved him secretly for years.Miss Helen Langley felt the first pangs of love seven years ago when her brother’s best friend examined her sprained ankle. She has suffered in silence ever since. A lady might engage in mild flirtation, but Nicholas St. Clair is considered part of her family and acts like a brother... -
The Cottage by Coniston by Deborah M. Hathaway
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsWhat could possibly go wrong by asking someone else to make all of her decisions?After a misguided kiss and subsequent rejection by yet another gentleman, Miss Amy Paxton convinces her brother to make all of her future decisions, especially in finding her a husband. His strategy? She must seek his advice before doing anything... -
The Mark of a Rogue by Adele Clee
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsRead the next sizzling installment in the Scandalous Sons series. The path to true love begins in the most unlikely place. A late-night encounter in a graveyard. When Lawrence Trent, illegitimate son of Viscount Ranfield, discovers someone is secretly tending his brother’s grave, he feels compelled to investigate... -
The Duke and the Lass by Jessie Clever
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLady Catriona Cordelia Mackenzie became a burden the moment she was born. Unwanted by her Scottish father for being born a girl and scorned by her grandmother for carrying a hated name, Della is only left with books for comfort. But when she reaches her majority, her father summons her to his Scottish keep to marry her off to the gentleman who will pledge the greatest alliance to him... -
A Sweetness to the Soul (Dream Catcher) by Jane Kirkpatrick
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBased on historical characters and events, A Sweetness to the Soul recounts the captivating story of young, spirited Oregon pioneer Jane Herbert who at the age of twelve faces a tragedy that begins a life-long search for forgiveness and love... -
Two Texas Hearts by Jodi Thomas
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsKora Adams doesn't believe in curses, but she has known nothing but bad luck all of her life. Until the night a handsome stranger knocks on her front door. Winter McQuillen has inherited a sprawling Texas ranch--but the only way he can claim it is to have a wife--this very night. Now, Kora has to make a choice--turn Winter out of her home or take a chance on the possibility of love... -
Crimes Of The Brothers by D. L. Carter
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsBrothers are supposed to be kind... caring... supportive... protective. Catherine Walman's brother, however, is not. He has maligned her reputation until no honorable man will seek her company, wasted her dowry and endangered her home with his gambling and now his new wife has made it clear Catherine is no longer welcome... -
The Bookseller and the Earl by Callie Hutton
Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMiss Addie Mallory is finished with the husband hunt. After six London Seasons as a wallflower, she convinces her parents that she should be allowed to use her dowry to buy a bookstore in Bath where she can live her life the way she wants.Lord Grayson, Earl of Berkshire, has never gotten over his deceased wife’s betrayal with his own brother...Categorized as:
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Black Wolf by Isabel Keats, Ian Davis
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor as long as Taima can remember, her life has never been a bed of roses. Growing up as an orphan among the Nei Me tribe means hard work, little food and cruel punishments, but all that is about to change. The black wolf of her dreams has come to the rescue.Zane Wade, a former Union soldier turned bounty hunter, is a dangerous man who has lost faith in humanity... -
Sword of Rage by Jennifer Anne Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHarley has three goals—stay alive, avenge her brother’s death, and overthrow the traitorous king.When Harley receives an invitation to the royal castle for her cousin’s birthday, she’s elated at the offer. As the queen’s niece, she’s expected to make an appearance, but this will also be her first time attending a formal function as a married woman...Categorized as:
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Desire Lines by Elizabeth Kingston
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAll he ever wanted was to go home.Leaving his life as a noble hostage behind him, Gryff has fled from one danger to another, never safe, always longing for a forbidden return to his conquered Welsh homeland. Held captive by villainous men, his unlikely savior is the most beautiful woman he’s ever seen – and the most deadly... -
Dangerous Weakness by Caroline Warfield
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsIf women were as easily managed as the affairs of state—or the recalcitrant Ottoman Empire—Richard Hayden, Marquess of Glenaire, would be a happier man. As it was the creatures—one woman in particular—made hash of his well-laid plans and bedeviled him on all sides.Lily Thornton came home from Saint Petersburg in pursuit of marriage... -
The Blacksmith's Bravery by Susan Page Davis
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHas the blacksmith been bowled over by beauty? By age twelve, Vashti Edwards was orphaned and working her way west by way of saloons. In the mountain town of Fergus, Idaho, she has found faith and new hope in her friends from The Ladies Shooting Club and an employer who turned her saloon into a restaurant... -
The Convenient Bride Collection: 9 Romances Grow from Marriage Partnerships Formed Out of Necessity by Erica Vetsch, Amanda Barratt
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsJoin nine brides of convenience on their adventures in a variety of times and settings gone by—from a ranch in California…to the rugged mountains of Colorado…to a steamship on the Mississippi…to the dangerous excitement of the Oregon Trail…into high society of New York City. No matter the time or place, the convenient brides proceed with what must be done, taking nuptials out of necessity. .
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