Nancy J. Attwell
The Longing Season
Editors' choice
This is the most compelling novel about slavery that I have ever read, not because of horrific details, but because…
The Book of Samson
An angel announces to Samson’s barren mother that she will give birth to a son who will be remembered for…
The Commander
“Wanted, one Gentleman Husband.” When Julia O’Shea publishes an ad for a man to end her widowhood, she has not…
Under the Northern Lights
In this second book of the Alaskan Quest series, Leah Kincaid is kidnapped by her husband’s identical twin brother, Chase,…
Red River
Editors' choice
“This is not a story to go down easy, and the backwash still got hold of us today. The history…
Grace in Thine Eyes
In her Scottish trilogy, beginning with Thorn in My Heart, Higgs reset the biblical story of Jacob (Jamie McKie)…
Finding Anna
“Saved. Alone.” These two heartbreaking words, telegraphed to businessman Gates Spafford as he waited for news of his wife and…
Sweet Violet
Violet Rosse, daughter of a widowed East India Company businessman, dresses, acts, and thinks more like a native Bengali than…
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