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Joy Miller loves life. She's happy to be able to spend time in the fields helping her father and is willing to work for anyone who needs some harvesting or planting done. But she feels like she's ready to marry and leave her demon horde existence behind. Thomas Worthington is a wealthy bank manager from Boston, who needs a wife to help him with clients and entertaining. He decides to contact a matchmaker to provide him with a mail-order bride. When...
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Set against the turbulent and glamorous backdrop of Prohibition and the rise of the jazz age, Jamie Brenner's The Gin Lovers was first published as a six-part e-serial. Now this sensual and romantic story of how one high society woman's passion and courage lead her to love is available for the first time ever as a complete book.
It's 1925, and the Victorian era with its confining morals is all but dead. Unfortunately, for New York socialite Charlotte...
3) Poppy's War
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Internationally bestselling author Dilly Court writing as Lily Baxter returns with another emotional, heart-pounding saga set in World War II England.
In 1939, thirteen-year-old Poppy is forced to evacuate her London home and flee to a grand country house on the coast of England. Alone and frightened, she arrives with only a set of clothes, a gas mask, and memories of the family she left behind, whom she may never see again. But the cruel inhabitants...
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The Prescott Brides. A thrilling new series by USA Today Bestselling Author Cynthia Woolf!Five outlaw brides. Five brothers. They take a chance and each find love.You can only live through Hell once, or so it's said. Maisie would disagree, but now she has a chance to forget her past and have a promising future by becoming a mail-order bride. Will this marriage of convenience help her to forget her past and find love with her new husband?He's faced...
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From a USA Today Bestselling Author...The Prescott Brides. A thrilling new series by USA Today Bestselling Author Cynthia Woolf!Five outlaw brides. Five brothers. They take a chance and each find love.The love of mother for her child can never be broken. Fiona O'Neill knows that love. To save her child she would do anything, even become a mail-order bride to a stranger.Her new groom is unlike any man she's ever known, he's physically stronger than...
6) Home Signal
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When one of their own betrays them, Jane begins to lose faith in her friends, and herself.
She and Cole fight to reclaim their lives. With the pregnancy on tenterhooks, and the underage whore they take on as a ward, life doesn't show any signs of letting them rest.
The darkest hour comes just before dawn, and what should be a rescue turns into an hour of great sacrifice.
Jane is left with a choice - succumb to the darkness like her...
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Join Sam Keene on a heartfelt journey of self-discovery in this compelling story. From the ashes of the Vietnam War, Sam's life takes an unexpected turn when she's adopted by an American soldier and his wife, who whisk her away to the bustling streets of Brooklyn. Yet, even amidst the vibrant tapestry of New York City, Sam grapples with a lingering question: Who is she really? After college, Sam's quest for identity leads her to the enchanting city...
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Pinkerton Agent Vincent Brooks wants only one thing–to stop the southern rebels from uprising and creating another war. His assignment is to be the temporary sheriff of Bonham, Texas, which seems easy enough, until he runs across a woman he'd met eight months earlier, Francis Carlton, sneaking around in the dark, spying on the bank. Not only is the confounded woman following him around and prying into his Pinkerton business, but she has a strange...
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Alexina Kimball is an experienced Pinkerton Agent, and arguably one of the best agents at the Chicago office. She works alone and always catches the bad guys. However, everything changes when she's transferred to the Denver office and is assigned a partner.Finally, Dawson Wayne's dream of becoming a Pinkerton Agent is becoming a reality. The only catch is that he must marry his trainer… a beautiful, infuriating woman.Together, they're sent to the...
10) Mustang Meadow
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Clean and wholesome historical western romance.As frontier Montana rages with felons and floods,Their hearts wage the greatest battle.Sean MacLaren is ready for the challenges awaiting him in Splendor, Montana. As the town's first veterinarian, he must overcome doubt, fear, and distrust to convince local ranchers to give his skills a try. It's a tricky proposition, hampered by his growing affection for a certain outspoken New York socialite determined...
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In this magical realism spooky thriller, the author connects the universe to the Earth world with roots in two of the most powerful West African empires in the 1600s: Mali and Songhai. From there, trace the slave trade across Europe and into the Americas landing in the fictitious town of Baldwin, Alabama built exclusively for immigrants, known as Towners. Towners will die from an outbreak of smallpox, following the hanging of an enslaved African prince...
12) A Bride for Clay
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he Prescott Brides. A thrilling new series by USA Today Bestselling Author Cynthia Woolf!Five outlaw brides. Five brothers. They take a chance and each find love.She might be forging a new life as a bride for Clay, but Gwen has a past. A lawless past she escapes by becoming a mail order bride where she hopes to find a love she could only dream about.Her new groom is all she imagined. Bold, kind and fiercely protective. But he's been hurt too and fiercely...
13) I Guess I Am
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Edna and Cara are as close as sisters can be. Cara misses Edna when she goes to Texas to become a mail-order bride, but is devastated when she gets a letter from her saying she's witnessed a man killing a lady. Before she can send a letter in response, she and her family get a telegram saying Edna's been found dead. When they get no further information, Cara goes to Texas to get some answers her family needs. It soon becomes clear she needs help,...
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En 1866, Alistair, un Écossais grand et viril aux yeux bleus perçants, fait ses adieux à sa maison ancestrale à Glasgow, laissant derrière lui les collines brumeuses et les difficultés qui ont défini ses premières années. Attiré par l'attrait du rêve américain, il traverse l'Atlantique, à la recherche de réconfort et d'opportunités dans les déserts ensoleillés du Texas. Il est loin de se douter que son voyage deviendra une tapisserie...
15) Pink Ribbon
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Poppy Bennington knows one thing. She has terrible luck. Not only has she lost both of her parents, her two previous suitors broke her heart, and now her fiancé has left her at the altar on their wedding day. At the age of twenty-seven, Poppy worries she will remain a spinster and be the talk of the town for years. So she has one solution, which is to run away. Poppy's plan is simple. She will go to a new town and start over.Finn Weston is Poppy's...
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In the quaint, lantern-lit town of Ravenswood, nestled on the edge of an ancient and mystical forest, darkness looms. A sinister sorcerer, wielding shadowy tendrils of power, threatens to consume the town in darkness, compelling its inhabitants into a fight for survival and the very soul of their community. Amidst this chaos stands Emily, a determined young woman whose courage shines as a beacon of hope. Alongside Father O'Connor, a priest armed with...
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Mira, une enfant de six ans vivant en Alabama en 1924, adore chanter malgré les défis de la ségrégation raciale. Elle sera confrontée au racisme et à la violence du Ku Klux Klan mais trouvera la force dans la musique. Devenue adulte, sa mission est claire : lutter pour l'égalité raciale et la paix, même si cela implique de rencontrer le Président des États-Unis pour changer les lois.
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