Saga
The Legacy of Eden
Meredith Pincetti thought that she had escaped her family by changing her name and moving from Iowa to New York.…
The Sisters
Bertie and her older sister Mabel have stuck together since the death of their mother a few years ago. Life…
To Take Her Pride
Growing up in the Yorkshire countryside in 1898, Aurora Pettigrew has almost everything a young woman could want: adoring parents,…
Elizabeth Street: A Novel Based on True Events
Giovanna Costa is an amazing character whose life from 1890 through the 1900s is one of struggling, but finding peace…
Sonoma Rose
Sonoma Rose is nineteenth in Chiaverini’s Elm Creek Quilts series but can be read and enjoyed (as I did) as…
Four Sisters, All Queens
The four beautiful sisters of Provence grew up in a household where daughters were educated like sons and expected to…
The Promise
This is an outstanding historical saga, on a par with Pilcher’s The Shell Seekers, in its family complexity. In 1948,…
Strange Music
Eight couples share a large Hertfordshire house in the years following WWII. Many of the couples are involved in the…
A Searing Wind
In 1541, Spanish explorer Hernando DeSoto has spent several years exploring and conquering the native tribes of Florida. After a…
Liberty’s Children
In this third novel of the Smithyman series, More has provided interesting insight into the conflicts existing in the early…
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