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  • The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

    The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 70 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Trail of Broken Wings comes an epic story of the unrelenting force of love, the power of healing, and the invincible desire to dream. Nothing prepares Jaya, a New York journalist, for the heartbreak of her third miscarriage and the slow unraveling of her marriage in its wake...
  • The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King

    The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes are caught up in a case that turns intensely personal, shining light on a past that even Holmes himself did not suspectAfter their recent adventures in Transylvania, Mary Russell and Sherlock Holmes look forward to spending some time getting to know Holmes' son, the artist Damian Adler, and his family...
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  • Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

    Wild, Beautiful, and Free by Sophfronia Scott

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    From award-winning author Sophfronia Scott comes the story of one young woman’s bold journey to reclaim her birthright and carve out her own place in a world that tells her she doesn’t belong. Born the daughter of an enslaved woman and a Louisiana plantation owner, Jeannette Bébinn is raised alongside her white half sister―until her father suddenly dies...
  • Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse

    Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    "Never Look Back" is the latest from bestselling author Lesley Pearse. One good deed takes her into another world...Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime. She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York...
  • Chasing Moonlight by Raven St. Pierre

    Chasing Moonlight by Raven St. Pierre

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Bestselling author, Raven St. Pierre, returns with the third standalone in a breathtaking family saga filled with love, acceptance, and adversity. Jesse Peterson lives by the sweat of his brow and doesn’t hold back from defending his beliefs—even if that means getting dirty and breaking a few noses in the process...
  • A Royal Visit to Victory Street by Pam Howes

    A Royal Visit to Victory Street by Pam Howes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    From Amazon charts bestseller Pam Howes comes an emotional and uplifting saga about the power of family and a community trying to rebuild their lives after the terrible war that nearly destroyed everything…1956, Liverpool. With the shadow of the war looming over them and bomb craters littering the surrounding streets, hope feels far away for the residents of Victory Street...
  • Clover's Child by Amanda Prowse

    Clover's Child by Amanda Prowse

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the million-copy bestseller Amanda Prowse, the queen of heartbreak fiction. Amanda Prowse is the author of The Coordinates Of Loss and the no.1 bestsellers Perfect Daughter, My Husband's Wife and What Have I Done? When eighteen-year-old Dot meets Sol, she feels that love has arrived at last...
  • All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

    All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    If you loved A Man Called Ove, then prepare to be delighted as Jamaican immigrant Hubert rediscovers the world he'd turned his back on this "warm, funny" novel (Good Housekeeping).In weekly phone calls to his daughter in Australia, widower Hubert Birdpaints a picture of the perfect retirement, packed with fun, friendship, and fulfillment. But it's a lie...
  • When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel

    When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Kristin Harmel, a beautifully repackaged and updated edition of “one of her best” (RT Book Reviews) historical novels.Emily Emerson is used to being alone; her dad walked out on the family when she was a just a kid, her mom died when she was eighteen, and her beloved grandmother has just passed away as well...
  • Island in the East by Jenny Ashcroft

    Island in the East by Jenny Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Set in 1890s and 1940s Singapore, the stunning Island in the East is a story of love, sisterly rivalry and the true cost of betrayal. Vivid, authentic and utterly beautiful, it's the perfect read for fans of Victoria Hislop, Fiona McIntosh and Kate Morton. 1897: twenty-year-old identical twins, Harriet and Mae, born from a scandalous affair, have spent their lives slighted by gossips...
  • Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas

    Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    A spellbinding story of forbidden love, spanning three continents and three decades. Set against the Independence struggles of two British colonies, Of Marriageable Age is ultimately a story of personal triumph against a brutal fate, brought to life by a multicultural cast of characters:Savitri, intuitive and charismatic, grows up among the servants of a pre-war English household in the Raj...
  • The Musician by Tess Thompson

    The Musician by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Fiona Barnes has a secret. One so big she's afraid it will destroy everything she holds dear. Not even her beloved music can save her.Li Wu has fought prejudice his entire life. But he's always felt safe and protected within the fierce love of the Barnes family. If only the object of his desire were free to be his, all would be well...
  • Women in War by Erica Brown, Lizzie Lane

    Women in War by Erica Brown, Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Previously published as 'East of India' by Erica Brown1939 - IndiaWhen headstrong Nadine Burton learns that the woman, she thought was her Indian Ayah was in fact her mother, she rebels against her father in a flamboyant display of disrespect and dares to dance with her two local best friends at a public party.Her father, local official, Roland Frederick Burton is furious...
  • Savage Paradise by Cassie Edwards

    Savage Paradise by Cassie Edwards

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When Mariana Fowler arrives in the Minnesota territory, she is not prepared for the uncivilized world she encounters. What unsettles her most is the man who captures her attention, a handsome Chippewa brave named Lone Hawk - an enemy of her people...A fiercely proud warrior, Lone Hawk has every intention of resisting his powerful feelings for the beautiful woman whose life he saved...
  • The Flame Tree by Siobhan Daiko

    The Flame Tree by Siobhan Daiko

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Based on a little-known true story, from award-winning author Siobhan Daiko comes a tale of love and survival against all the odds.In the spring of 1939, dashing young William Burton and the beautiful Constance Han set sail from London on the same ocean liner to Hong Kong.Romance blossoms while they enjoy games of deck quoits and spend sultry tropical evenings dancing under the stars...
  • The Diplomat's Daughter by Karin Tanabe

    The Diplomat's Daughter by Karin Tanabe

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    During the turbulent months following the 1941 bombing of Pearl Harbor, twenty-one-year-old Emi Kato, the daughter of a Japanese diplomat, is locked behind barbed wire in a Texas internment camp. She feels hopeless until she meets handsome young Christian Lange, whose German-born parents were wrongfully arrested for un-American activities...
  • Glory and the Master of Shadows by Grace Callaway

    Glory and the Master of Shadows by Grace Callaway

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 12 ratings
    Their love is forbidden…and irresistible. The daughter of a half-Chinese duke and a lady fossil hunter, Lady Glory Cavendish is an idealistic and spirited miss who belongs to a secret society of lady investigators. Through her covert activities, Glory meets the handsome and mysterious Wei Chen, a master of healing and fighting arts...
  • Cloud Mountain by Aimee E. Liu

    Cloud Mountain by Aimee E. Liu

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 11 ratings
    An epic saga of forbidden love that spans decades, cultures, and continents. Cloud Mountain is based on the true story of Aimee Liu's grandparents, a Chinese Scholar-Revolutionary and his American teacher, whose courtship blooms during the Great San Francisco Earthquake of 1906 and whose life together in China carries them through the Warlord Era and the beginning of WWII...
  • Silk, Swords and Surrender by Jeannie Lin

    Silk, Swords and Surrender by Jeannie Lin

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Be swept away to a land of silk and swords, passion and surrender  From USA TODAY bestselling author Jeannie Lin comes a tantalizing new five-story volume. Take a journey to Tang Dynasty China and join five unique heroines as they fight, seduce and steal their way into their heroes' hearts...
  • The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby

    The Tale of Murasaki by Liza Dalby

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The Tale of Murasaki is an elegant and brilliantly authentic historical novel by the author of Geisha and the only Westerner ever to have become a geisha. In the eleventh century Murasaki Shikibu wrote the world�s first novel, The Tale of Genji , the most popular work in the history of Japanese literature...
  • The Consorts by Melissa Addey

    The Consorts by Melissa Addey

    Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 15 ratings
    China, 1700s. The Consorts is a novella, written as a prequel to The Fragrant Concubine. Set a few years earlier, it tells the story of Lady Qing, who has spent the past seven years languishing inside the high red walls of the Forbidden City. Classed as an Honoured Lady, a lowly-ranked concubine, Qing is neglected by the Emperor, passed over for more ambitious women...
  • The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon

    The Outlaw Noble Salt by Amy Harmon

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 29 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Amy Harmon comes a sweepingly romantic tale of risk, redemption, and what happens when America’s most famous outlaw falls in love.When infamous outlaw Butch Cassidy decides to go straight, he discovers that too many of the powerful men he crossed won’t let bygones be bygones. To have a chance at a new life, he’ll have to become someone else entirely...
  • When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm

    When The Ties Bind by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of the Gideon Johann Western Series, the Wild Horse Westerns Series, and the Hand Of Western Series comes When The Ties Bind, a story of loss, love, acceptance, and revenge!With the death of his pa, Wyatt Roundtree not only lost the last of his family, but he also lost their ranch at the hands of an unscrupulous banker and a vengeful rancher...
  • Doctor Rose and the Outlaw by R. O. Lane

    Doctor Rose and the Outlaw by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Doctor Rose Devereaux moves to Durango, Colorado, after her father is killed by a business associate. She sets up her medical practice there. One night she's called out to help a gang of outlaws that have been shot to pieces while trying to rustle cattle. One of the outlaws is a young man that she develops feelings for, but he's in and out of her life for months on end...
  • Love and Marriage at Harpers by Rosie Clarke

    Love and Marriage at Harpers by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    London 1913The shop girls of Harpers Emporium on Oxford Street arehappy in their work and their lives are moving on at quite a pace.United by the suffragette cause and now living under oneroof, some will find love and marriage whilst others experience heartache andtears.Harpers is the bond that holds them together, bringingstrength through hardship and pain and friendship and love...
  • Ronan O'Higgins by R. O. Lane

    Ronan O'Higgins by R. O. Lane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Ronan O'Higgins is assigned to clean up a vicious gang in Las Vegas, New Mexico. He and his fellow marshal, Clive Sutton, take on the gang and start arresting them. O'Higgins narrowly escapes death. The Irish marshal meets an Irish woman with a son, and they make a life together...
  • The Homesteader's Sweetheart: Illustrated Edition by Lacy Williams

    The Homesteader's Sweetheart: Illustrated Edition by Lacy Williams

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    **Special illustrated edition**Homesteader Jonas White is a single father to a passel of orphaned boys--and the tiny girl whose birth changed his life and got him banished from the only home he'd ever known. Penny Castlerock is the daughter of a wealthy banker. Far out of Jonas's reach. And the only person in the small Wyoming town who knows his secret...
  • Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm

    Old Enough To Know Better by Duane Boehm

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    When the infamous retired gunman, Gabriel Wolff, took the job of city marshal in Crystal City, Kansas, he succeeded in taming the wild cattle town in short order. The trouble was that he took to the notion that taming the town would end all the evil that lurked there...
  • A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat

    A First Time for Everything by Dan Santat

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A middle grade graphic memoir based on bestselling author and Caldecott Medalist Dan Santat's awkward middle school years and the trip to Europe that changed his life.Dan's always been a good kid. The kind of kid who listens to his teachers, helps his mom with grocery shopping, and stays out of trouble...
  • A New Day Rising by Lauraine Snelling

    A New Day Rising by Lauraine Snelling

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The dream of their own farmstead and a good life in America had brought Roald and Ingeborg Bjorklund across the Atlantic to pioneer the virgin prairie of Dakota Territory. But Roald's tragic disappearance in a winter storm had turned Ingeborg's dreams into a living nightmare. Against nearly impossible circumstances and overwhelming grief, she struggles to keep the farm and her family together...
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