Nancy J. Attwell
Before Green Gables
In 1908 Lucy Maud Montgomery first published Anne of Green Gables, the story of the irrepressible redhead who brings…
Honorable Intentions
Set in the Territory of New Mexico, in 1881, Honorable Intentions (a sequel to The Doctor’s Daughter) is a thoroughly…
A Daughter’s Inheritance
Set in upstate New York (Rochester and Broadmoor Island, a fictional island in the Thousand Island region of the St.…
Sarah, My Beloved
Sarah Woodward believes God led her to answer an ad for a bride through the Marriage Made in Heaven Agency,…
The Bloodstone Papers
Editors' choice
This story about an Anglo-Indian family, and the bloodstone ring that was stolen from them during the last days of…
As High as the Heavens
It is 1568, and a group of loyalists plan to rescue Mary Queen of Scots from her imprisonment in Lochleven…
Conqueror
This second book in Stephen Baxter’s Time Tapestry series, an alternative history epic, spans the history of England from 453…
Bachelor’s Puzzle
Zach Hartley has been on the run ever since he fled an abusive stepfather at the age of twelve, but…
The Sylph
The Sylph was published anonymously in 1779, four years after Georgiana Spencer married the fifth Duke of Devonshire and thus…
Never Too Late
Josepha Black is a young slave, living in Louisiana, who decides to protect herself from the pain of loss by…
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