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White Gardenia
Belinda Alexandra’s Wild Lavender was one of my favorite sweeping epic novels, and the highlight of the year in which…
Things Half in Shadow
Philadelphia in 1869 is feeling the aftereffects of the American Civil War. Through spiritualism, wives and mothers are trying to…
Veil of Time
This time-travel story is set in both present day and 8th-century western Scotland. Maggie Livingstone Griggs moves from Glasgow to…
Tuscan Rose
Bright, musically talented with both flute and piano, and extraordinarily sensitive toward animals and people, Rosa Bellocchi has been raised…
The Harem Midwife
In this second in the series following The Midwife of Venice, Hannah and Isaac have now made their way to…
The Sleeping Dictionary
In 1930s Bengal, ten-year-old Pom is orphaned when a tidal wave sweeps through her coastal village. She is rescued by…
Mrs. Poe
Editors' choice
In this tremendously detailed account of Edgar Allan Poe’s supposed affair with poet Frances Osgood, the years 1845 to 1847…
Royal Inheritance
Royal Inheritance, the latest novel in Kate Emerson’s Tudor Court series, tells the story of Audrey Malte. Although raised to…
Banquet of Lies
London, 1812. Giselle “Gigi” Barrington is the daughter of a gentleman folklorist, traveling Europe and collecting recipes for her passion…
Summerset Abbey: A Bloom in Winter
Wealthy sisters Rowena and Victoria Buxton, along with their friend Prudence Tate, return in this sequel to Summerset Abbey. Victoria…
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