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1) Croatoan
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I am an ardent student of American history, as a matter of fact, that most colonists came here chasing a dream or more strongly we came chasing the essence of love, either in search of or escape from. This, then begs a closer examination of what this term "love" truly is. If we take the Biblical description of "love", which is probably what most colonists had for reference, then we find Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not...
2) Summer
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Originally born in an impoverished community, Charity's parents sought out the most educated man in the nearby New England town to raise their daughter. After being surrendered to a lawyer named Royall, Charity was raised comfortably by Mr. Royall and his wife. However, when Mrs. Royall tragically passes away, Charity's relationship with Royall is threatened. After his wife's death, Royall begins to feel sexually attracted to Charity, and when she...
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A young millionaire named Geoffrey Holland, concerned about a recent string of thefts in the locale, visits his country home in Hillsborough and surprises a burglar, in the form of his old schoolmate, Billy McVay. McVay convinces him to set out, in the midst of a blizzard, to rescue his sister, living nearby in a rundown shack, and wholly ignorant of his (McVay's) career as a thief. Against his better judgement, Holland agrees, and finds himself falling...
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Love, Theodosia is a smart, funny, swoony take on a fiercely intelligent woman (Aaron Burr's daughter, Theodosia) with feminist ideas and ideals far ahead of her time. Not only a work of well-researched historical fiction, but, a refreshing spin on the Hamiltonian era and the characters we have grown to know and love so well. Goldstein shines a bright light on Theodosia, who has long deserved center stage, a young woman struggling to be heard in a...
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In the Spring of 1881, indigent seamstress Ginny Dahlke arrives in one of the earliest Polish American settlements-Parisville, Michigan. Deemed charmless and awkward by her mean-spirited sister-in-law, Ginny disparages her chance of securing love. But sought-after widowed farmer Peter Nickles is enamored by Ginny's perseverance, her pioneer spirit and, her inclusive acceptance of the indigenous peoples of Michigan. The seductiveness of a buxom heiress,...
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Tamsyn McKiernan thinks her dreams have come true. She's engaged to a dashing Key West bachelor and finally in her widowed father's good graces. But in her heart, she knows something's wrong. She loves the ocean and the quiet pleasures of nature-so what does the aristocratic life she'll lead truly hold for her? Mercenary captain Drake Ashton is neck deep in preparations for the Spanish-American War, running guns and other supplies to Cuban natives...
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The year is 1896, and the women's rights movement is forging ahead. Eighteen-year-old Jenna Newell is at the threshold of her life, hoping to fulfill her dream of becoming a journalist at a time when women are still expected to follow the traditional paths of marriage and motherhood. Sarah Newell, Jenna's grandmother, has other plans for her, however. Consumed with hatred because of her obsessive love for her deceased daughter, Sarah connives to ensnare...
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Sam Langhorne loves his carefree life in Key West. The island is perfect for forgetting the woman who broke his heart. When he rescues Livvie Collins from a watery grave, he's swept away by her beauty. He has sworn off love but is soon captivated by Livvie's wit and independent spirit. Olivia Collins never planned to visit Key West or to fall in love with Sam. Handsome and attentive, he's constantly surprising her with his intelligence, but she knows...
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Rowena Mumford has the eye of every single man in quiet Cedar Point, Massachusetts. Her beauty and fortune outweigh her mischievous black cat, Tiger, and the murmurs of witchcraft that surround her. Tired of pointless suitors, Rowena states the man who can place a bell around Tiger's neck may woo her. Soon, all of Cedar Point is hoping for a spring engagement! Augustus Warwick, a dreamer who owns the local sweet shop, believes he has no chance of...
10) Isabella
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Isabella is a novel of its time when life was hard and intimidating, often short and frequently brutal in the cause of making many rich men even richer on both sides of the Atlantic. Even so, there were more people willing to stand up to legislate for the cause in America just as happened in Great Britain 50 years earlier to help the oppressed escape to live a better life.
It is a story of love during the Civil War when unlikely people made individual...
11) A New Tomorrow
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The Ellis Family, the trial of their lives during the Civil War. Cooper, the patriarch, with two of his sons on opposite sides of the war, he is determined to remain neutral, wanting nothing to do with the war. While the young bride of his son Bonner has become the victim of an unknown stalker and assailant. He clings to his family, friends, and neighbors as well as to the family homestead settled and cleared by the sweat and blood of his father and...
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It's 1897, and an abandoned wife and mother with a rebellious teenage daughter faces a dilemma: how to earn enough cash for food and upkeep, and maintain respectability? The gossips would have it that her laundry business is a sham. She's too friendly with her customers at the local bordello and the men at the logging camp. When she takes in a border, a doctor who arrives without his bride, then tongues really start to wag. There is a second chance...
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In Landry, Wyoming, outspoken, bossy Dr. Bea Inseldorf secretly longs for a home and family of her own. She fills her life with caring for everyone else instead. Widower Tate Reed is filled with bitterness and refuses to celebrate Christmas- his wife died in childbirth at the holiday several years ago. His young daughter misses her mother but also her father, who is no longer the happy, loving man he used to be. Four days of isolation together in...
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It's a dangerous time for desire...
In the summer of 1692, Nicholas Cleary arrives in Salem Village. There on orders from the new Governor, he hopes to restore his good name by ascertaining the root of the witchcraft madness so the ridiculous trials can end. He does not expect the widow he boards with to be a mysterious beauty...
Hannah Hibbard knows plants, the moon, and other things a good Puritan woman shouldn't, and is doing her best to go unnoticed...
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New Banker in Town Paul Weaver felt Sweetwater, Kansas, was going to be one of those towns along the railroad that would grow quickly. Everything Paul looked for before building a large bank was present — and much more... The woman who had broken his heart, almost broken his spirit, was also there. A woman he thought lost to him. Was pain from her betrayal so raw it would cripple him more than his missing limb? Would old wounds resurface and loss...
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When town undertaker Gus Wright accepts delivery of a client's fancy casket, he certainly doesn't expect to find a beautiful young woman hidden inside. And when she throws herself on his mercy, his gentlemanly nature kicks in. He offers assistance despite his suspicion there's trouble brewing. On the run from a heist, Phoebe Corbet has a fortune in jewels following her, along with just a few pesky problems. If she can use Gus Wright as a refuge until...
17) Runaway Heart
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London England
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Beautiful eighteen-year-old Catherine Wilmershire runs away from her unhappy home to start a life in the new country of America. Unfortunately, she fails to consider that the world is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone. But she learns quickly after two thugs kidnap, rob, and sell her to the madam of a brothel and she wakes up the next in the arms of a handsome brown-eyed stranger. She must decide. Will she give...
18) Wylder Opal
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Gunslinger turned playwright Opal Calahan is handy with a pistol and even handier with a pen. She arrives in town dreaming of creating the new Wylder Playhouse. Rugged prospector Heath Rawdon tantalizes as her perfect leading man-but why does he hate theaters? And why does he have a price on his head? Heath is running from his past and wrestling mental demons. Thanks to his visit to the playhouse in the lawless Ballarat goldfields, he lost his mate...
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Determined to keep a vow made to her dying father, independent eighteen-year-old Rebecca Pierce sets out on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail in 1845 with her mother. Rebecca is strong and takes on a leadership role. Zachary Miller is traveling alone with nothing more than what he can carry and his horse. He is assigned to help Rebecca and her mother from the first day on the trail. Zachary falls fast for Rebecca but she is conflicted about her growing...
20) Precious Burdens
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Sarafina di Ramonicci sets sail for America as the promised bride in an arranged political marriage. Taken prisoner at sea, she clashes with her captor and demands freedom, only to discover he is planning her future husband's demise, with her as a pawn in their deadly feud. The challenge of escape tests her loyalty to family, human decency, and love. Captain Nye Tarquin is a dangerous man. Left to die on the streets of New Orleans, he swears retribution...