Penelope Wain believes that her lover, Neil Macrae, has been killed while serving overseas under her father. That he died apparently in disgrace does not alter her love for him, even though her father is insistent on his guilt. What...
Historical fiction
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Author:MacLennan, HughSummary: - Author:Bayle, B.J.Summary:
Ben and Charity Muldoon are 15-year-old twins who find themselves in the midst of politically charged events in the Saskatchewan River Valley in 1885. One day, as Ben is walking through a ravine, he encounters a Cree boy named Red Eagle...
- Author:Eco, UmbertoSummary:
As Constantinople is being pillaged and burned in April 1204, a young man, Baudolino, manages to save a historian and a high court official from certain death at the hands of crusading warriors. Born a simple peasant, Baudolino has two...
- Author:Griffin, AdeleSummary:
JEAN: Could it be true' Instead of a summer playing handmaiden to Daphne, was I being delivered something entirely different--a summer in the spotlight' A summer starring Gil Burke and me' Summer flings and sexy romances were Daphne's...
- Author:Ritter, WilliamSummary:
In 1892, New Fiddleham, New England, things are never quite what they seem, especially when Abigail Rook and her eccentric employer, R. F. Jackaby, are called upon to investigate the supernatural. First, a vicious species of shape-...
- Author:Kim, JuheaSummary:
An epic story of love, war, and redemption set against the backdrop of the Korean independence movement, following the intertwined fates of a young girl sold to a courtesan school and the penniless son of a hunter In 1917, deep in the...
- Author:Cantor, JillianSummary:
Jillian Cantor revisits the glittering Jazz Age world of F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby, retelling this timeless American classic from the women's perspective.
- Author:Allen, Nancy CampbellSummary:
When Lucy travels to Blackwell Manor, she finds the lord of the manor unsettled by the recent deaths of his young wife and his sister. Because he is plagued by a family curse, he is horrified to think he might be to blame. But who then...
- Author:Blevins, WinfredSummary:
Disenchanted by his return home to Pennsylvania, 19-year-old Sam Morgan once again sets off for adventure in the American Plains of the 1820s. This time out, however, he is searching for his lost love--the Indian maiden Meadowlark.
- Author:Steinmetz, AndrewSummary:
Teenage brothers Hombre and Transformer spend their days locked up in their suburban Montreal bedroom, writing songs and dreaming of stardom. Hombre, the younger one, is quiet, contemplative, and talented, a poet in the making. His...
- Author:Flower, AmandaSummary:
Emily Dickinson and her housemaid, Willa Noble, realize there is nothing poetic about murder in this first book in an all-new series from USA Today bestselling and Agatha Award–winning author Amanda Flower. January 1855 Willa Noble knew...
- Author:Quinn, JuliaSummary:
Sometimes you find love in the most unexpected of places... This is not one of those times. Everyone expects Billie Bridgerton to marry one of the Rokesby brothers. The two families have been neighbors for centuries, and as a child the...
- Author:Mitchell, JaredSummary:
Becky Chan’s life gets off to a rocky start. She is born into a poor family, with a ne’er-do-well father. But by 1967, she is the reigning queen of the Hong Kong film industry, and her life is frequently confused by her public with the...
- Author:King, Laurie R.Summary:
King explores'Sherlock Holmes's initial meeting with Mary Russell. Holmes is in a decidedly dark temper as he searches the countryside for wild bees, until he meets the headstrong young woman who will become his apprentice and eventual...
- Author:Lang, MaureenSummary:
18-year-old Meg Davenport is in New York City after her father dies. Never close to the man--having been raised in an exclusive prep school--Meg is surprised to learn he was not a wealthy businessman but an accomplished thief....
- Author:Jenkins, BeverlySummary:
Tavern manager Leah Barnett can scarcely believe the path that destiny has chosen for her. Travelling from Boston to Colorado, Leah has come to face Ryder Damien, the son of her recently deceased lover. Ryder, an angry, ruggedly sexy...
- Author:Ross, OrnaSummary:
A historical murder mystery of love and revenge against the background of intimate war. It's August in the long, hot summer of 1995, and Jo Devereux can't believe that she still hasn't returned home to San Francisco, though the time for...
- Author:Hutchinson, Shaun DavidSummary:
Jack Nevin is an assistant to the Enchantress, a well-known stage magician in turn-of-the-nineteenth-century Europe. But when Jack's thievery catches up to them, they're forced to flee to America. However, they become...
- Author:Young, Ida LinehanSummary:
In the late nineteenth century, after disease and circumstance have left her alone in the world, Mary Rourke believes she is predestined to spinsterhood in her small community in Newfoundland. When a series of dramatic events brings a...
- Author:Perry, AnneSummary:
When a moneylender named William Weems is murdered, there is discreet rejoicing among those whose meager earnings he devoured. But the plot thickens when Inspector Pitt finds a list of London's distinguished gentlemen in Weems' office...
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