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Bone Deep by Kendra Elliot
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen two men kidnap former FBI agent Cate Wilde’s fiancé, the boldness of the crime rattles the community. Desperate to find the man she loves, Cate joins forces with the FBI and the local sheriff’s department to launch an investigation and bring Dr. Henry Powers home... -
Promises to Keep by Diana Knightley
Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars · 11 ratings“I hae tae live up tae my promises. Or I ought not tae make them so earnestly.” —Magnus“I would never want the lesson to be to make fewer promises, less earnestly. It’s one of the greatest things about you.” —KaitlynMagnus and Kaitlyn have new commitments, adventures, and dangers. He has challenges that await. She has loved ones to protect... -
A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhat if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed... -
The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain
Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom bestselling author Diane Chamberlain comes an irresistible new novel. When Caroline Sears receives the news that her unborn baby girl has a heart defect, she is devastated. It is 1970 and there seems to be little that can be done. But her brother-in-law, a physicist, tells her that perhaps there is... -
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The Center by Maggie M. Lily
What happens when the Walker finally catches up to the Mistress? Things go boom.All his life, Sam Trellis has been... different. He doesn't sleep. He can't eat. And, he sees glimpses of the future.While he's tolerated his differences well - and made billions off his psychic tendencies - he has questions.It's time for some answers... -
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
From the New York Times bestselling author of Seven Days in June , A Love Song for Ricki Wilde is an epic love story one hundred years in the making…Leap years are a strange, enchanted time. And for some, even a single February can be life-changing.Ricki Wilde has many talents, but being a Wilde isn’t one of them... -
The Last Time I Saw Her by Karen Robards
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the sizzling new novel from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards, Dr. Charlie Stone must prove the innocence of a dangerously sexy condemned man, or lose her one chance at true love. In this world, Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone skillfully probes the twisted minds of incarcerated serial killers to better understand what makes them tick, and to help nab those who remain at large... -
Intersect by Elizabeth O'Roark
The stunning conclusion to Parallel. Someone has torn them apart in the past, and she plans to do it again… As Nick and Quinn piece together the truth about the life they once shared, they discover it was much deeper and darker than they ever imagined... -
Sleeper's Castle by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTwo women, centuries apart. One endless nightmare tearing Wales apart – and only they can stop it.Sunday Times bestselling author Barbara Erskine returns to Hay in the year that marks the 30th anniversary of her sensational debut bestseller, Lady of Hay.Hay-On-Wye, 1400 – War is brewing in the Welsh borders, Catrin is on the brink of womanhood and falling in love for the first time... -
The Book of Carraig by Andrea Matthews
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlmost a year after waking to find himself in twentieth-century New York, fifth-century Celt Ciarán Donnelly has finally returned to his childhood home, but Ireland is nothing like he remembers it. The realization is overwhelming and taking a toll on his relationship with archaeologist Caitlin O’Connell as well. Keeping his secret from her has been no easy task... -
Wait for Me by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the darkness closes all around,Beauty is still there just waiting to be found.Dawson Huxham blames himself for his sister’s death . . . until he briefly crosses time and discovers she’s alive in the Middle Ages. Hoping to reconnect with her, he searches for the holy water that will help him visit the past for a longer duration... -
Timeless Moments by Michele Kidd
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKindle Scout Winner - Jack Vines has the Victorian home of his dreams--or so it seems until he discovers an intriguing beauty lurking in the shadows. Stunned, he finds they share the house but live a century apart. The realization leads him to questions so disturbing it changes both their lives forever. She is a prisoner of the past, shrouded in a world of dark mysteries...Categorized as:
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Love's Shadow by Nichole Van
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBranwell D'Angelo . . .Six years ago, I fell in love with Lucy--my brother's girlfriend. Stupid of me, I know, but sometimes the heart doesn't listen to reason.Six years, I've lived on the sidelines. Seeing him love her, be with her, bask in her sunshine . . .I watched her break his heart and then cleaned up the shattered pieces of him she left behind... -
Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
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Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
The One Before The One by Emma Cooper
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLiv is given the chance to live one life-changing week over, but can she change her future...? And does she want to?When Liv’s boyfriend Kit disappeared on a hike, seven years earlier, she thought her life was over. But with the help of their family and friends, she’s pushed her way through the grief, and now, miraculously, she's found a way to love again...Categorized as:
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Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn this captivating novel from the author of Wife 22, a woman who feels lost in her own time stumbles across a California community that has, impossibly, been marooned in the early twentieth century perfect for readers of The Time Traveler's Wife, Time and Again, and Sarah Addison Allen.Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way when she discovers an idyllic community in the Sonoma Valley... -
Time of My Life by Mary Frame
Every day is the worst day of Jane Stewart’s life. No really, that’s not a dramatization or overreaction, she’s reliving the same, terrible day over and over (and over and over) again.She’s late to the same meeting. Endures the same soul crushing lectures from her bosses, who ultimately fire her anyway. And—the cherry on top—she gets to experience getting dumped on repeat... -
The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the winter of 1483, Francis Lovell is Richard III’s Lord Chamberlain and confidante, but the threat of Henry Tudor’s rebels has the king entrusting to Francis and his wife, Anne, his most crucial mission: protecting the young Richard of York, his brother’s surviving son and a threat to Henry’s claims to the throne... -
Heart of a Highland Warrior by Anita Clenney
A bloodthirsty evil stalks the Connor Clan… Brave, beautiful, and haunted by her past, demon hunter Anna MacKinley will do anything to help the Connors. Under divine orders, the headstrong warrior travels the world, slaying demons and vampires... -
The Presence by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRevisit the misty hills of Scotland, where there might be ghosts and there’s certainly a killer, in this thrilling tale of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.It seemed like the ultimate moneymaking plan—buy an ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination... -
Shadows on the Aegean by Suzanne Frank
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSuzanne Frank, writing in the bestselling tradition of Diana Gabaldon and Mary Renault, stunned the literary world with her provocative protrayal of Egypt at the time of the Exodus in Reflections in the Nile . The Detroit Free Press called the sweeping, evocative story "an adventure you won't want to put down... -
Shifting Sands by Kathi Oram Peterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Gloryanna Griffin needs is a full-ride scholarship to finish her master’s degree in marine biology in order to pursue her dream of saving the ocean. However, to be a serious contender for the money, she needs to publish in a prestigious magazine. A research dive off the Olympic Peninsula is a dangerous proposition but one that just might give her article the impact it needs... -
When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything. A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn't stopped, Simon Cross might never be born...Categorized as:
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Twilight in Babylon by Suzanne Frank
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBabylon: a city of legendary richness, a civilization as sophisticated as it is decadent, provides fertile and fabulous backdrop for the final installment of the time travel series that began in ancient Egypt, transported us to a doomed Greek island inhabited by Gods, traveled to the court of the Biblical king David, and culminates with a historical adventure of epic proportion... -
Dancing with Paris by Juliette Sobanet
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Paris, a past life promises a second chance at love. Straitlaced marriage therapist Claudia Davis had a plan—and it definitely did not involve getting pregnant from a one-night stand or falling for a gorgeous French actor. She thinks her life can’t possibly get more complicated...Categorized as:
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The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux
What if a woman could go back to the beginning and rethink her choices for love and life? When Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott first met, they were in their early 20s and the world lay before them with its infinite possibilities... -
Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSomewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy... -
Destined by Allison Kraft
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhile flying across the Atlantic on the centennial anniversary of the Titanic's tragic maiden voyage, Apolline Greer, last in a long line of vampire hunters, finds herself suddenly transported from her airliner cabin to an eerily familiar ocean liner cabin—as well as the entirely unfamiliar body of her ancestor, Noelle Greer...Categorized as:
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Defiant Surrender by Tamara Gill
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsUnlucky in love, Maddie St. Clair hides behind an antique store and her mudlarking hobby. That is until she finds a medieval ring that throws her back to 1102 Cumberland and into the life of Lady Madeline Vincent, heiress to Norman lands and about to be married to an autocratic Baron, William Dowell, nine hundred years her senior. Lord William Dowell protects his own... -
The Ruby Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen the heir to MacKlenna Farm, paramedic Kit MacKlenna, discovers she is not who she thinks she is, she uses the magic of the ruby brooch to travel back in time to the mid-19th century American west to uncover her true identity. Her coming-of-age quest leads her down a dangerous path that could cost her not only her heart, but her life...Categorized as:
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Hearts Through Time by Marie Higgins
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a woman claiming to be a ghost from 1912 appears in Nick Marshal's office and begs for help in solving her murder, he thinks he has lost his mind. A scandal that rocked Hollywood almost destroyed his law practice, so he doesn't need any more fireworks as he rebuilds his life. Still, he is intrigued by Abigail Carlisle's plea, and he needs clients, even if this one insists she's dead... -
Thirteen for Dinner by Denise Daisy
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAverie Cooke is bribed to sit in as the fourteenth guest at an exclusive dinner party, in order to rescue the other attendees from bad luck. But it’s Averie who needs rescuing when all hell begins to break loose. Averie Cooke has never set foot on the old Faulkner plantation. The macabre history surrounding it is what keeps her away; not to mention everyone says the place is haunted... -
The Seeker by Lindsay McKenna
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDelia Sebastian is a trained historian and psychic. Former army captain Jake Tyler is her swaggering ex-lover, who can read her most intimate thoughts - and desires. Together they will make the risky leap back to 44 BC to infiltrate the court of Julius Caesar by posing as Grecian mercenaries. But with assassins everywhere, will old passions reignite to undermine their cover.. -
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The Haunting of Brynn Wilder by Wendy Webb
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsAfter a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective... -
Looking for a Hero by Patti Berg
Pretty Kate Cameron was looking for a man to sweep her off her feet, but she never expected him to be wielding a cutlass and claiming to be the infamous Morgan "Black Heart" Farrell, a pirate captain who lived nearly three hundred years before. Danger may have followed him from the past, but he's not about to leave while Kate needs him... -
Here and Now by Constance O'Day-Flannery
Here and and Now A woman alone, just weeks before she is to deliver a new life into this world, Suzanne McDermott is determined to remain strong and accept whatever the future might bring. But she never dreams it will bring her ... the past. The stranger who washes up on the New Jersey shore is badly injured -- and unprepared for the world into which he is about to walk... -
The Mulligan Curse by Diane Barnes
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of All We Could Still Have comes a charming tale about one woman who embraces a family curse, laying bare the dreams we give up—and the chances we take to get them back.Mary Mulligan has two problems: her wisdom teeth…and everything else. Her only daughter is moving overseas. Her husband would rather go golfing than spend time with her... -
Crossings by Alex Landragin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 31 ratings"A sparkling debut. Landragin’s seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling." — Publishers Weekly"Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel." — Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended... -
Time Enough for Love by Suzanne Brockmann
Maggie Winthrop honestly would’ve remembered if she’d met Chuck Della Croce before. He’s outrageously tall, dark, and handsome—and completely naked—as he pounds on her backdoor, calling for her to let him in. He know things about Maggie that he shouldn’t. And when he tells he’s a time-traveler, and that they’re close friends seven years in the future, she’s ready to call the police... -
Once a Pirate by Susan Grant
Once a pirate... ...Always her man RITA® winner and New York Times and USA Today bestselling author Susan Grant sweeps readers away to exciting new adventures in another romance and action-packed story When Navy Lieutenant Carly Callahan is forced to bail out of her fighter jet during a freak storm, she plummets into the greatest battle of her life--two centuries before she was born... -
Loving on Borrowed Time by Olivia Cunning
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLoving on Borrowed Time Lovers’ Leap #1 Lara Kensington is living a perfectly mundane life as a museum curator, when bad boy treasure hunter, Reece Jericho, leaps into her life. Literally. Obviously distressed, Reece tells Lara that one year in the future she will be murdered. The evidence he uses to back up his incredible story doesn’t convince Lara. She thinks he’s crazy... -
Return of the Rose by Theresa Ragan, Cathy Katz
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 19 ratingsTwin sisters are born in Medieval England. One of the infants is dying and is taken to the Witch of Devonshire, an old hag who uses supernatural powers to transport the ailing babe to the future... -
Midnight on Julia Street by Ciji Ware
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times and USA Today Bestseller! Scandal transcends time in the Big Easy Feisty reporter Corlis McCullough isn't afraid to push boundaries in the name of journalistic integrity. When passion for the truth lands her in New Orleans in need of a job, an assignment at a TV station pits her against her old college nemesis, King Duvallon... -
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The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAccomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is starting to impede her work. So when her beloved brother passes away, she welcomes the unexpected trip to the Tuscan city of Siena to resolve his estate, even as she wrestles with grief... -
Phantom in Time by Eugenia Riley
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSEDUCED ACROSS TIME . . . BY THE PHANTOM!!Murdered in his prime in 1896, the sexy, mysterious ghost of renowned tenor Jacques LeFevre haunts the spooky old St. Charles Opera House in New Orleans. Jacques’s lusty spirit still searches for the woman of his dreams, the diva with whom he can share life and the opera... -
George & the Virgin by Lisa Cach
Rated: 3.43 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsSometimes, slaying the dragon is the easy part. The medieval village of Markesew was besieged, its virgins demanded in tribute, so when St. George the Dragonslayer arrived from modern times -- in his silver pants and lace-up boots -- his task was clear. Being a professional wrestler didn't qualify him for the job, but a sword and imagination were all he needed.. -
Kilt Worthy by Catherine Bybee
Rated: 3.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings~**~EROTIC NOVELLA~**~ Peering at the world from behind her camera lens, "Plain Jane" Parker is stunned to see a handsome hunk wearing a kilt as he confidently strolls down a busy Seattle street. Her dormant libido roars to life even before their eyes meet. Aroused and intrigued, she tosses aside her usual caution and follows when Logan MacLaren beckons for a delightfully sinful one-night stand...Categorized as:
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Midnight Train to Paris by Juliette Sobanet
When Jillian Chambord’s twin sister is abducted from a luxury train traveling through the Alps, not even the threat of losing her coveted position at The Washington Daily can stop this hard-hitting reporter from hopping on the next flight to France... -
Time and Again: Time Was / Times Change by Nora Roberts
They crossed centuries to find a timeless love... He was stranded in the present, but time traveler Caleb Hornblower's biggest predicament wasn't returning to the 23rd century...it was leaving behind beguilingly innocent Liberty Stone, who'd shown him a love more powerful than Time Was. Cynical Jacob Hornblower had followed his brother, Caleb, into the past, hoping to lure him back...
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