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Across The Sweet Grass Hills
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In Montana Territory the wagon transporting Liza Ralston and her father is attacked by outlaws. Their guide is killed, and her father is ...Read Review
Star Bright
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The Fairbourne family saga continues in Star Bright. Diana Fairbourne left America for London to find a titled husband, and her mission is ...Read Review
Primrose Past
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This book is subtitled The 1848 Journal of Young Lady Primrose and indeed the book’s lovely design simulates a diary. Unfortunately, its entries ...Read Review
Snow Mountain Passage
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Based on the Donner Party tragedy of 1846-47, Snow Mountain Passage tells of American emigration to California in the mid-1800s. Through “The ...Read Review
An Ordinary Woman
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This is the story of Nancy Kelsey, the first American woman in California, and an elemental part of that great state’s early ...Read Review
Breaking The Rules
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Ursula Elcester find no happiness in the thought of her upcoming marriage, arranged by her father in order to keep Elcester village and ...Read Review
Sister Noon
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In Gilded Age San Francisco, Lizzie Hayes is a volunteer for the Ladies’ Relief and Protection Society. A plain spinster of forty, she’...Read Review
The Winter Holiday Sampler: Seventeen Wonderful Stories of Regency England
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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
A Dangerous Compromise
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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
Raven Mocker
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The twenty-ninth entry in Coldsmith’s Spanish Bit Saga, Raven Mocker follows the story of Snakewater, a conjurer (healer) of the Cherokee people ...Read Review