Josi S. Kilpack
Meet Me under the Kissing Bough
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Set in England in the early 1800s, this collection contains three romantic Christmas tales of about a hundred pages each. Each story involves ...Read Review
Love and Lavender (Proper Romance: Mayfield Family, 4)
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1822. One would think that her wealthy uncle’s offer to bestow upon her a substantial dowry would delight Hazel Stillman, especially since the ...Read Review
Rakes and Roses (Proper Romance Regency)
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Early in the 19th century, Harry Stillman is known in London as a rake—a gambler, a drinker, a womanizer—until he runs ...Read Review
Daisies and Devotion (Proper Romance Mayfield Family Regency)
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Impoverished Timothy Mayfield seeks a wealthy wife; Maryann Morrington has a substantial inheritance but is not as pretty as some younger debutantes. Impressed ...Read Review
Promises and Primroses
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England, 1822. Lord Elliott Mayfield has decided that, with the help of his wealth, he will guide his nephews and nieces towards responsible marriages. ...Read Review
Miss Wilton’s Waltz
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This Regency sequel shifts attention to Lenora, the sister whose engagement was broken off in The Vicar’s Daughter. Embarrassed and humiliated by ...Read Review
All That Makes Life Bright: The Life and Love of Harriet Beecher Stowe
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For those familiar with the 1852 anti-slavery novel Uncle Tom’s Cabin, a likely mental image of the author is that of a stodgy ...Read Review
The Vicar’s Daughter: A Proper Romance
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Cassie Wilton is eager to come out socially, but her vicar father has decreed only one daughter can be out at a time, ...Read Review
The Lady of the Lakes: The True Love Story of Sir Walter Scott
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Biographical FictionInspirationalRomance
Edinburgh, 1790s: Walter Scott, a young man with a romantic temperament, falls deeply in love with a young girl, Mina, from the very ...Read Review
Forever and Forever: The Courtship of Henry Longfellow and Fanny Appleton
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This “historical proper romance” is based on poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s seven-year courtship of Fanny Appleton. The writer covers the period from ...Read Review