Susan Higginbotham
Emma and Knightley
As Emma and Knightley opens, the titular couple has been married for over a year when tragic news arrives: Jane…
Distant Heart
In this second book in Bateman’s Westward Hearts trilogy set in 19th-century America, ex-prostitute Toni Rodden has joined a wagon…
Mary of Nazareth
When Herod’s mercenaries make one of their nighttime raids on Nazareth, quick-thinking young Miriam—later renamed Mary by census officials—helps the…
More Letters from Pemberley
When we left Elizabeth Darcy in Letters from Pemberley, she and her husband had been married for a year or…
Lady Macbeth
As the descendant of Scottish kings, young Gruadh is a valuable prize, as a man who marries her can claim…
On Wings of the Morning
Georgia Carter and Morgan Glennon have something in common: both grew up as out-of-wedlock children. They have another thing in…
Fancy Pants
Newly arrived in the United States in 1890, Lady Sydney Hathwell cannot bring herself to enter into a loveless marriage…
Whispers Along the Rails
In this, Miller’s second novel set in the 1890’s “company town” of Pullman, Illinois, Olivia Mott is not only working…
Cassandra’s Sister
Cassandra’s Sister opens in revolutionary Paris as a young man is guillotined. In due time, his English widow, Eliza, makes…
Rhiannon
In 12th-century England, fourteen-year-old Rhiannon is fascinated by the fate of King Henry’s White Ship, wrecked just months before. After…
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