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Rescuing Her Heart (Healing Hearts)

By Cindy Ervin Huff - Published 2021

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Kansas, 1870. Delilah McLain is freed from a hellish life as an abused mail-order bride when Lemont James dies in the house fire he ...Read Review

Setting Two Hearts Free

By Janet Grunst - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

Set mostly in Virginia during the last years of the American Revolution, this is the story of rebel soldier Donald Duncan and of ...Read Review

The Scot Who Loved Me: A Scottish Treasures Novel

By Gina Conkle - Published 2021

Genres:

Romance

London, 1753. This is the story of widow Anne Neville, English-born and Scottish by marriage. She is determined to help her clans-people by finding ...Read Review

Truly Madly Plaid (Prince Charlie’s Angels 2)

By Eliza Knight - Published 2020

Genres:

Romance

Scotland,1746. Annie MacPherson is a healer working for Prince Charles Edward Stuart. Craig MacLean is an officer in his army. Their story opens ...Read Review

Murder in the Cloister (A Christine de Pizan Mystery 4)

By Tania Bayard - Published 2021

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

This is Book Four of the Christine de Pizan mysteries. In late March 1399, Christine, a scribe for King Charles VI in Paris, is ...Read Review

Cane Warriors

By Alex Wheatle - Published 2020

Genres:

Children/Young Adult

Jamaica, 1760. Fourteen-year-old Moa Umbassa is a field slave on a sugar plantation, overworked, underfed, and brutalized at the whim of cruel overseers and ...Read Review

Tempted by Her Viking Enemy

By Terri Brisbin - Published 2020

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Romance

This story, Book Five in the multi-authored Sons of Sigurd series, is set in 9th-century Scotland. Beautiful widow Katla Thorfinnsdottir was abused by ...Read Review

Softly Blows the Bugle (The Amish of Weaver’s Creek)

By Jan Drexler - Published 2020

Genres:

Inspirational Romance

This is the third book in The Amish of Weaver’s Creek series, set in Holmes county, Ohio, just after the Civil War. ...Read Review

A Resolution at Midnight (A Lady Dunbridge Mystery, 3)

By Shelley Noble - Published 2020

Genres:

Mystery/Crime

In this entertaining third Lady Dunbridge Mystery, Philomena Amesbury, the young, widowed countess of Dunbridge, is in New York City, residing at the ...Read Review