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Romance

The Rose Legacy

By Kristen Heitzmann - Published 2000

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In The Rose Legacy, having left her home in California, Carina Maria DiGratia sets out to seek her destiny in the tiny mountain ...Read Review

For Such a Time

By Elyse Larson - Published 2001

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Inspirational Mystery/Crime Romance

Elyse Larson skillfully combines inspiration, romance and suspense in the first novel of the Women of Valor series. Cousins, living across continents, join ...Read Review

Sweet Boundless

By Kristen Heitzmann - Published 2001

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Inspirational Romance Western

In Sweet Boundless, the evil that held Crystal has been taken away by a devastating flood. No one has been untouched by the ...Read Review

Rose of Nancemellin

By Malcolm MacDonald - Published 2001

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Adventure Romance

At the heart of this entertaining upstairs-downstairs tale is an effervescent, energetic working-class heroine who accepts her place in the world but is ...Read Review

The Sentimental Soldier

By April Kihlstrom - Published 2000

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Adventure Mystery/Crime Romance

The mystery content of this Regency romance is slight but definitely present. Miss Prudence Marland, guised as a Moroccan prince, is rescued by ...Read Review

Her Infinite Variety: Stories of Shakespeare and the Women He Loved

By Pamela Rafael Berkman - Published 2001

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Romance

Berkman’s first book is quite simply a celebration of the women in the world of William Shakespeare. With very little known about ...Read Review

Mozart’s Wife

By Juliet Waldron - Published 2001

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Romance

Mozart’s Wife is a delightfully written novel about Wolfgang Mozart as seen through the eyes of his beloved wife Konstanze. The ongoing ...Read Review

A Proper Affair

By Victoria Malvey - Published 2001

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Romance

Cassandra Abbott, the author of A Lady’s Guide to Proper Etiquette, follows her own advice to the letter. However, she has a ...Read Review

A Dangerous Compromise

By Shannon Donnelly - Published 2001

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Romance

Clarissa Derhurst is in London for her first season and is determined to a find a rake, with whom she can have a ...Read Review

The Winter Holiday Sampler: Seventeen Wonderful Stories of Regency England

By Kelly Ferjutz Ed. - Published 2000

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Romance

The result of a second contest designed to solicit story entries (the first resulted in A Regency Sampler), this collection’s requirements were ...Read Review