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The Stars Over Rome

By Charlotte Betts - Published 2025

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Rome, 1913. Part-Italian Gabriella Hazelwood has no interest in marriage because she dreams of an independent future as a journalist. She meets and, under ...Read Review

Salome

By Joanna Courtney - Published 2025

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Biographical Fiction

The story of Salome, granddaughter of Herod the Great, has inspired many writers, artists and composers. As she’s almost always depicted as ...Read Review

Remember When: Clarissa’s Story (A Ravenswood Novel)

By Mary Balogh - Published 2025

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Romance

1818. With family responsibilities discharged and her fiftieth birthday fast approaching, Clarissa Ware, Dowager Countess of Stratton, retires home for a quiet summer alone ...Read Review

Cleopatra & Julius

By Joanna Courtney - Published 2024

Genres:

Biographical Fiction

Cleopatra is best-known for her relationship with Mark Antony because that love affair has taken centre-stage in representations such as Shakespeare’s play ...Read Review

The Ballad of Jacquotte Delahaye

By Briony Cameron - Published 2024

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Briony Cameron’s queer, feminist seafaring romance debut begins in Yaquimo (now Jacmel), Saint-Domingue, in 1655. Jacquotte Delahaye works as a skilled shipwright, with ...Read Review

The Lost Daughter of Venice

By Charlotte Betts - Published 2023

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Venice 1919. When Phoebe Wyndham responds to an urgent telegram from Contessa di Sebastiano, the aunt who took her and her sister in after ...Read Review

The Bride Wore White (Burning Cove, California, 7)

By Amanda Quick - Published 2023

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Mystery/Crime

When the life of Prudence Ryland, aka Madame Ariadne, takes a strange turn, she calls Luther Pell, nightclub owner and investigator in Burning ...Read Review

A Mansion for Murder (Kate Shackleton mysteries, 13)

By Frances Brody - Published 2022

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Mystery/Crime

1930: Kate Shackleton, war widow and private investigator, comes to Saltaire, Yorkshire to meet Ronnie Cresswell, a 22-year-old mill worker who has written that ...Read Review

When She Dreams (Burning Cove, California)

By Amanda Quick - Published 2022

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

Passion, danger, intrigue, and murder return to glamorous 1930s Burning Cove, California, in this sure-handed winner. By now, Quick has perfected her formula. ...Read Review

A Cornish Homecoming (The Fox Bay Saga)

By Terri Nixon - Published 2021

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Saga

England, 1930. This third-in-series novel encompasses various dramas at the Fox Bay Hotel on the Cornish Riviera. Widow matriarch Helen Fox rules the roost ...Read Review