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The Storyteller's Secret by Sejal Badani
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 69 ratingsFrom 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... -
Chasing Moonlight by Raven St. Pierre
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsBestselling 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... -
Go as a River by Shelley Read
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 60 ratingsA sweeping, heart-stopping epic of a young woman's journey to becoming, set against the harsh beauty of mid-century ColoradoOn a cool autumn day in 1948, Victoria Nash delivers late-season peaches from her family's farm set amid the wild beauty of Colorado. As she heads into her village, a disheveled stranger stops to ask her the way... -
The Lantern's Dance by Laurie R. King
Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsMary 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
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 32 ratingsFrom 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... -
A Royal Visit to Victory Street by Pam Howes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFrom 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... -
The Wood's Edge by Lori Benton
Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAt the wood's edge cultures collide. Can two families survive the impact? The 1757 New York frontier is home to the Oneida tribe and to British colonists, yet their feet rarely walk the same paths. On the day Fort William Henry falls, Major Reginald Aubrey is beside himself with grief. His son, born that day, has died in the arms of his sleeping wife... -
The Musician by Tess Thompson
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFiona 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... -
Catching Moondrops by Jennifer Erin Valent
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsJessilyn Lassiter no longer has to convince people she's not a child. Having just turned 19 in the summer of 1938, her love for Luke Talley has never been more real. And Luke is finally beginning to care for her in the way she's always dreamed of... -
All the Lonely People by Mike Gayle
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 39 ratingsIf 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... -
At the Foot of the Cherry Tree by Alli Parker
Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsA stirring story of love and hope, based on the incredible true story of Australia's first Japanese war bride and a love that changed a nation forever. Gordon Parker is just an eager eighteen-year-old Australian boy desperate to fight for his country, and Nobuko 'Cherry' Sakuramoto is a sixteen-year-old girl struggling to survive in Japan in the aftermath of World War II... -
Something Like Love by Beverly Jenkins
Blackboard bestselling author Beverly Jenkins delivers another lush historical novel featuring brothers that were first introduced in her award-winning novel Always and Forever . This is the story that readers have been waiting for. He was a wanted man. But no one wanted him more than she did. Desperate to escape an arranged marriage, Olivia Sterling flees Chicago and heads west... -
When We Meet Again by Kristin Harmel
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsFrom 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... -
Of Marriageable Age by Sharon Maas
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsA 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... -
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A Flight of Arrows by Lori Benton
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsOctober 1776--August 1777 It is said that what a man sows he will reap--and for such a harvest there is no set season. No one connected to Reginald Aubrey is untouched by the crime he committed twenty years ago. Not William, the Oneida child Reginald stole and raised as his own... -
Wedding Bells on Victory Street: Gripping and heartbreaking World War 2 saga fiction (The Bryant Sisters) by Pam Howes
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom Amazon bestseller Pam Howes comes a heartbreaking World War Two novel about a young woman trying to make the best of history’s darkest hour. Is a happy ever after impossible?Liverpool, 1943. For Bella Rogers, life is looking up... -
The Hour Before Dawn: A sweeping, emotional tale of love, loss and secrets across time by Sara MacDonald
Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsA rich, multi-generational saga, sweeping from Singapore to New Zealand. Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Rosanna Ley. Singapore in the 1970s. A handsome army officer falls in love with the young daughter of his captain. Although she is determined to become a ballerina, Fleur falls deeply for David and abandons her aspirations to become an army wife and mother... -
Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsGundagai, 1852The powerful Murrumbidgee River surges through town leaving death and destruction in its wake. It is a stark reminder that while the river can give life, it can just as easily take it away.Wagadhaany is one of the lucky ones. She survives... -
My Sister the Moon by Sue Harrison
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsAn abused and unwanted daughter of the First Men Tribe, young Kiin knows the harsh realities of life in a frozen land at the top of the world... -
The Tory by T.J. London
His King or His Conscience…which will he choose?It is the winter of 1776, and Captain John Carlisle, one of His Majesty’s not-so-finest, has gone back to the scene of the crime to right a wrong so dark it left a permanent stain on what was once an illustrious career and left a man broken, defeated, in search of justice…In an effort to win back his commission, he must discover the true nature of... -
In His Father's Footsteps by Danielle Steel
Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this powerful novel, #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel tells the story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success. When U.S... -
Savage Moon by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Savage Moon, bestselling author Cassie Edwards brings readers another passionate historical romance set on the American frontier. Misshi Bradley knew two lives. As a settler girl, she'd seen her family die, one by one, on the grueling trail west. Stolen by renegade Indians, she'd grown to womanhood with an Indian family... -
Savage Skies by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShirleen has always been self-reliant and adventurous, but after dealing with a husband who beat her, the disappearance of her four-year-old daughter and kidnapping at the hands of the notorious Comanche renegade Big Nose, she’s almost given up hope. When the most handsome man she’s ever seen sweeps in to rescue her, she sees a man in whom she can finally put her trust... -
A River Too Deep by Sydney Tooman Betts
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the Spring of 1817, Alcy Callen and her father visit a step-uncle they have long presumed dead; but instead of enjoying a loving reunion, they are plunged into treachery and deceit. Nothing is as they expected and little is what it seems. Even the man who helps her escape is not the reliable suitor he appears... -
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The Lost Pearl by Emily Madden
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA sweeping family saga of long lost love, for readers of Fiona McIntosh and Mary-Anne O'Connor. From Pearl Harbor to the shores of Sydney, a family secret that spans generations could unite a family – or destroy it... -
The Lost Pearl by Emily Madden
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA sweeping family saga of long lost love, for readers of Fiona McIntosh and Mary-Anne O'Connor.From Pearl Harbor to the shores of Sydney, a secret that spans generations could unite a family - or destroy it... -
A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf
A breathtaking, romantic debut novel by Tammye Huf. Based on the true story of the author’s great-great grand-parents, A More Perfect Union is an epic love story between an Irish immigrant and a black slave, set in the pre-Civil War Southern state of Virginia in 1849 when inter-racial marriage was illegal... -
A More Perfect Union by Tammye Huf
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsInspired by true events, A More Perfect Union is an epic story of love and courage, desperation and determination, and three people whose lives are inescapably entwined…Henry O’Toole sails to America in 1848 to escape the famine in Ireland, only to face anti-immigrant prejudice... -
Savage Paradise by Cassie Edwards
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsWhen 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... -
Under a Blackberry Moon by Serena B. Miller
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsJust a few days after she gave birth alone in the northwoods, a recently widowed young Chippewa woman stumbled into a nearby lumber camp in search of refuge from the winter snows... -
No Honour by Awais Khan
Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA young woman defies convention in a small Pakistani village, with devastating results for her and her family. A stunning, immense beautiful novel about courage, family and the meaning of love, when everything seems lost… In sixteen-year-old Abida’s small Pakistani village, there are age-old rules to live by, and her family’s honour to protect... -
The Duke’s Untamed Desire by Amy Jarecki
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsHe's the most notorious rake in London...Though he uses the reputation to his advantage, the exotic Duke of Evesham is misunderstood and mysterious. He sidles around societal rules, especially when it comes to pursuing a wife. Though when he sets his sights on Lady Georgiana, the rules find a way of bending on their own accord... -
Secret Daughter by Shilpi Somaya Gowda
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 57 ratingsSomer's life is everything she imagined it would be — she's newly married and has started her career as a physician in San Francisco — until she makes the devastating discovery she never will be able to have children.The same year in India, a poor mother makes the heartbreaking choice to save her newborn daughter's life by giving her away... -
Tender Ecstasy by Janelle Taylor
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsKiss of the night wind. . .Whispered kisses. . .Follow the wind. . .Each novel that Janelle Taylor writes is filled with heart-pounding passion and romantic adventure. Yet it is the compelling saga of the beautiful Alisha and her Indian lover Gray Eagle and their descendants which continues to enthrall her readers the most. . -
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Chasing the Butterfly by Jayme H. Mansfield
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFrom a vineyard in the south of France to the sophisticated city of Paris, Ella Moreau searches for the hope and love she lost as a young girl when her mother abandoned the family. Ella's journey is portrayed through a heartbroken child, a young woman's struggles during the tumultuous times surrounding World War II, and as a reflective adult... -
The Prodigy Slave, Book One: Journey to Winter Garden: by Londyn Skye
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAt the age of nine, Lily is forcefully torn from her mother's arms and sold at a Negro auction by her master, a man that Lily learns that day is her very own father. Seeking solace from such devastation, Lily secretly begins teaching herself to play her new master's piano: an instrument that she is forbidden from touching... -
The Other Princess by Denny S. Bryce
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsA stunning portrait of an African princess raised in Queen Victoria’s court and adapting to life in Victorian England—based on the real-life story of a recently rediscovered historical figure, Sarah Forbes Bonetta... -
Tsura by Heather Anastasiu
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsIn WWII Romania, Tsura, a young Roma (gypsy) woman, has no choice but to leave her lover, Andrei, behind and marry the grandson of the man whose basement she and Andrei have been hiding in. An epic WWII saga, for fans of The Bronze Horseman and Outlander. “It won’t be a real marriage.” Tsura put her hands to Andrei’s shirt and pulled him in close. “I’ll never share a bed with him. I love you... -
Don't Wake a Sleeping Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Sara Adrien
The Widow of Whitehall will get them in the game, but what are they willing to put on the line for a match?Ada must marry soon or else she’ll lose access to the trust money her father left her. Can she gamble as Mrs... -
Whisper of the Moon Moth by Lindsay Jayne Ashford
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsFrom the author of The Color of Secrets and The Woman on the Orient Express comes a poignant novel inspired by the Hollywood legend—and the secrets of—actress Merle Oberon, famous for playing Cathy to Laurence Olivier’s Heathcliff in the film Wuthering Heights. For nineteen-year-old Estelle Thompson, going to the cinema is more than a way to pass the time…it’s a way out... -
Death Brings a Shadow by Rosemary Simpson
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFor fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries…Investigators Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter discover all that glitters is not gold in the Gilded Age, whether on the island of Manhattan or an island off the coast of Georgia … DEATH BRINGS A SHADOW In spring 1889,... -
Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad: Stories by Damilare Kuku
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsThe anti-rom-com debut collection that took Nigeria by storm, featuring twelve outrageous, bold, and laugh-out-loud stories about the perils and pitfalls of dating men in Lagos, from a rising star of Nollywood. One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off... -
Beneath a Marble Sky by John Shors
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsIn 1632, the Emperor of Hindustan, Shah Jahan, overwhelmed with grief over the death of his beloved wife, Mumatz Mahal, commissioned the building of a grand mausoleum to symbolize the greatness of their love... -
No Land to Light On by Yara Zgheib
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsExit West meets An American Marriage in this breathtaking and evocative novel about a young Syrian couple in the throes of new love, on the cusp of their bright future…when a travel ban rips them apart on the eve of their son’s birth—from the author of The Girls at 17 Swann Street... -
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Olga Dies Dreaming by Xóchitl González
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 47 ratingsIt's 2017, and Olga and her brother, Pedro "Prieto" Acevedo, are bold-faced names in their hometown of New York. Prieto is a popular congressman representing their gentrifying Latinx neighborhood in Brooklyn while Olga is the tony wedding planner for Manhattan's powerbrokers.Despite their alluring public lives, behind closed doors things are far less rosy... -
An Undisturbed Peace by Mary Glickman
Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsA Jewish immigrant, a Cherokee woman, and a black slave find love, friendship, and redemption in the midst of the tragedy of the Trail of Tears Abrahan Bento Sassaporta Naggar has traveled to America from the filthy, Jew-hating streets of East London in search of a better life... -
An Earl by Any Other Name by Lauren Smith
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAn earl in the streets, a rogue in the sheets . . .Leopold Graham, Lord Hampton, was never a man to let propriety stand in the way of his pursuit of pleasure. Hedonism is his only desire in life---until his father's death saddles him with debts that threaten to bankrupt the entire family... -
Serena Singh Flips the Script by Sonya Lalli
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSerena Singh is tired of everyone telling her what she should want--and she is ready to prove to her mother, her sister, and the aunties in her community that a woman does not need domestic bliss to have a happy life.Things are going according to plan for Serena. She’s smart, confident, and just got a kick-ass new job at a top advertising firm in Washington, D.C... -
Room Service by Rochelle Alers
Bestselling author Rochelle Alers’ heartwarming and seductive series follows four very different women risking second chances deep in the sultry heart of New Orleans . . . New Yorker Jasmine Washington had a successful interior design business, a high-powered marriage, and a chance at motherhood—until her perfect husband betrayed her big-time... -
The Woman on the Painted Horse by Angela Christina Archer
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlexandra Monroe is a slave smuggler, smuggling slaves north to Tennessee where they can live as free people. Her crime is sedition and her punishment, if caught, is death. The daughter of one of the wealthiest men in Montgomery, Alexandra lives a life not by her own accord, but a life she willingly accepts for her secret quest to save the lives of slaves...
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