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Flowers by Night

By Lucy May Lennox - Published 2020

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Flowers by Night is a legitimately fascinating novel. In 19th-century Japan, samurai Tomonosuke is living a prescribed life: dutiful to family, married to ...Read Review

Her Banished Knight’s Redemption

By Melissa Oliver - Published 2021

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Romance

In the year 1218, Isabel de Clancey is accosted as a girl while traveling to her betrothed’s home in France. William Geraint, also ...Read Review

Earl’s Well That Ends Well (The Way to a Lord’s Heart 5)

By Jane Ashford - Published 2020

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Romance

In this sweet second-chance Regency romance, Arthur Shelton, Earl of Macklin, is a widower who has been a matchmaker for others. Just north ...Read Review

The Secret Lives of Dentists

By W.A. Winter - Published 2021

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Mystery/Crime

In this hard-boiled crime novel set in 1955 Minneapolis, Minnesota, a young woman from North Dakota is murdered and left on abandoned trolley tracks. ...Read Review

A Rebel and Her Rogue

By Susan Varno - Published 2020

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Romance

In 1815, deep in Sherwood Forest, Cassiopeia Valient is a headstrong young lady who is supposed to become engaged to Blake, Lord Rayneford. Appalled ...Read Review

The Vanishing at Loxby Manor

By Abigail Wilson - Published 2021

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Inspirational Romance Mystery/Crime

In this Regency Noir romantic mystery, Loxby Manor is supposed to be a place of comfort for Charity Halliwell. After being suddenly whisked ...Read Review

Beauty Among Ruins

By J'nell Ciesielski - Published 2021

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Inspirational Romance

In 1914, American party girl Lily Durham is shipped over to Britain to stay with her English aristocrat cousins and learn some manners. But ...Read Review

Finding Paradise

By Jane Ver Mulm - Published 2020

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Just before the American Civil War, Ellen Schmidt was a spinster daughter from a well-respected plantation in Georgia. Instead of dancing and taking ...Read Review

Highland Heart: Love in the Time of War

By Jacqueline Seewald - Published 2020

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Romance

In this near-the-Highlands romance, set in 1746, young Frenchwoman Madeleine de Marnay is a 17-year-old who falls inexplicably in love with 28-year-old Colonel Gareth ...Read Review

The Memory House: A Love Story in Two Acts

By Jenetta James - Published 2020

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In this multi-period romantic mystery, young Victorian Society miss, Kitty Cathcart, is disenchanted with her lot. Beautiful, witty, and well-off, she appears to ...Read Review