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  • Mark of the Lion Collection by Francine Rivers

    Mark of the Lion Collection by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 39 ratings
    This classic series has inspired nearly two million readers. Both loyal fans and new readers will want the latest edition of this beloved series. Books in this latest edition include a foreword from the publisher, a preface from Francine Rivers, and discussion questions suitable for personal and group use...
  • A Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers

    A Lineage of Grace by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 33 ratings
    In this compilation of the five books in the best-selling Lineage of Grace series by Francine Rivers, we meet the five women whom God chose—Tamar, Rahab, Ruth, Bathsheba, and Mary. Each was faced with extraordinary—even scandalous—challenges. Each took great personal risk to fulfill her calling. Each was destined to play a key role in the lineage of Jesus Christ, the Savior of the World...
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  • Fire by Night by Lynn Austin

    Fire by Night by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Two young women in a land shattered by war test the limits of their strength Lovely Julia Hoffman has always enjoyed the carefree life of her well-to-do Philadelphia family. But when she fails to attract the attention of Nathaniel Greene, a fierce abolitionist, she shocks her family by becoming a Union nurse...
  • Sisters of the Southern Cross by Jean Grainger

    Sisters of the Southern Cross by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.59 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Queensland, Australia 1936Sister Claire McAuliffe has been called from Dungarvan, County Waterford, to do God’s work in Jumaaroo, Queensland. Along with four other sisters she is charged with setting up a Catholic school for the education of the gold rush families. But life between the tropical Australian rainforest and azure ocean is far from the spectacular paradise it seems...
  • A Time Of End by Kathryn Le Veque

    A Time Of End by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The Executioner Knights are back! Alexander de Sherrington seeks to marry a daughter of the great Christopher de Lohr (Rise of the Defender). But not if King John has anything to say about it! Alexander de Sherrington, the man affectionately referred to as ‘Sherry’ by his friends, is off on the greatest adventure of his life… and his target is Lady Christin de Lohr...
  • Coming Home to the Four Streets by Nadine Dorries

    Coming Home to the Four Streets by Nadine Dorries

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Trouble is coming to the four streets, especially for its redoubtable women, who've struggled through a bitter winter to put food on the table. The Dock Queen Carnival is only weeks away, but there's no money for the usual celebrations. No sign of a tramp ship with illicit cargo to be quietly siphoned off by the dockers...
  • Two Dragons by Octavia Randolph

    Two Dragons by Octavia Randolph

    Rated: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Two DragonsDragons are said to guard treasure with their lives...Ceric, beset with madness from the trauma of the losses he has suffered, wanders the forests of Kilton. An urgent need to stave off the hunger of his folk calls his younger brother Edwin, Lord of Kilton, to the Kingdom of Mercia, and though he fulfils his mission, finds the greater prize he sought out of reach...
  • Water Borne by Octavia Randolph

    Water Borne by Octavia Randolph

    Rated: 4.76 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Water Book Ten of The Circle of Ceridwen SagaIt is water Dwynwen lifted in her cup of silver. Water, too, the Lady Luned uses in her scrying bowl. And it is over water one must travel to resolve an old conflict.Set high upon its seaside cliff, the hall of Kilton is racked by inner turmoil. Ceric, on the margin of sanity, finds strength and even bliss returning to him...
  • The Leviathan: The Blackchurch Guild: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque

    The Leviathan: The Blackchurch Guild: A Medieval Romance by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Welcome to Book One in the exciting and diverse new series, The Blackchurch Guild: The Shadow Knights.Medieval England’s most elite training guild.The Blackchurch Guild is an elite knight training school. Men, and even women, are accepted into the program if they prove themselves worthy. Different from most training arenas in England, candidates don’t have to be from wealthy families...
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  • For Me Fate Wove This by Octavia Randolph

    For Me Fate Wove This by Octavia Randolph

    Rated: 4.72 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In an Angle-land riven by contesting Danes…Hrald of Four Stones has fallen in love with Dagmar, the daughter of dead King Guthrum, who once ruled all Anglia. Dagmar is beautiful and poised; very much a King's daughter. Yet she owns nothing but the jewels about her neck – and the secrets she carries with her...
  • A Wolfe Among Dragons by Kathryn Le Veque

    A Wolfe Among Dragons by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    "James died in Papa's arms ~ " Penelope de Wolfe from SERPENT Get ready for perhaps the greatest de Wolfe adventure yet.... The sons of William de Wolfe (The Wolfe) are immortal, so they say. Men who are known as ShadowWolfe... DarkWolfe... Nighthawk... are as legendary as their father. The eldest four sons - Scott, Troy, Patrick, and James have always run in a pack...
  • Appalachian Song by Michelle Shocklee

    Appalachian Song by Michelle Shocklee

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Forever within the memories of my heart.Always remember, you are perfectly loved.Bertie Jenkins has spent forty years serving as a midwife for her community in the Great Smoky Mountains of East Tennessee. Out of all the mothers she’s tended, none affects her more than the young teenager who shows up on her doorstep, injured, afraid, and expecting, one warm June day in 1943...
  • The Harp and the Rose: The Queenstown Series - Book 3 by Jean Grainger

    The Harp and the Rose: The Queenstown Series - Book 3 by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Queenstown, County Cork. 1920For twenty-year-old Harp Devereaux, life should be idyllic. At university, she feels for the first time in her life that she belongs, her mother Rose is running the Cliff House as a successful business, and her childhood sweetheart JohnJoe is by her side, but the storm clouds of war grow ever darker...
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    christian  historical  audiobook
  • Just Once: A Novel by Karen Kingsbury

    Just Once: A Novel by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author “known for her deeply heartfelt novels” ( Woman’s World ) writes a sweeping World War II love story about a young woman torn between two brothers.In 1941, beautiful Irvel Holland is too focused on her secret to take much notice of the war raging overseas...
  • Miriam by Mesu Andrews

    Miriam by Mesu Andrews

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The Hebrews call me prophetess, the Egyptians a seer.But I am neither. I am simply a watcher of Israel and the messenger of El Shaddai.When He speaks to me in dreams, I interpret. When He whispers a melody, I sing.At eighty-six, Miriam had devoted her entire life to loving El Shaddai and serving His people as both midwife and messenger...
  • The Trouble With Secrets: The Kilteegan Bridge Story by Jean Grainger

    The Trouble With Secrets: The Kilteegan Bridge Story by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958For eighteen year old Lena Mullery, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not expect too much, but Lena yearns for something different.Malachy Berger was different, for him, the world is at his feet...
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    christian  historical  suspense  audiobook
  • The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett

    The Spring of the Ram by Dorothy Dunnett

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe...
  • Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers

    Her Daughter's Dream by Francine Rivers

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 38 ratings
    In the dramatic conclusion to the New York Times best seller Her Mother's Hope , Francine Rivers delivers a rich and deeply moving story about the silent sorrows that can tear a family apart and the grace and forgiveness that can heal even the deepest wounds. Growing up isn't easy for little Carolyn Arundel...
  • Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett

    Race of Scorpions by Dorothy Dunnett

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett presents The House of Niccolò series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe...
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    medieval  historical  length-long  audiobook
  • The Protector by Kathryn Le Veque

    The Protector by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.79 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    They call him The Protector.But once upon a time, he was a knight who had failed in his greatest duty.It has been said that the Plantagenet royal family is full of vipers. No one knows that so well as Sir Fox de Merest, a knight of the highest order once given the ultimate assignment – to protect a royal bastard from the rage of Eleanor of Aquitaine...
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    medieval  historical  audiobook
  • The Unicorn Hunt by Dorothy Dunnett

    The Unicorn Hunt by Dorothy Dunnett

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    With the bravura storytelling and pungent authenticity of detail she brought to her acclaimed Lymond Chronicles, Dorothy Dunnett, grande dame of the historical novel, presents The House of Niccolo series. The time is the 15th century, when intrepid merchants became the new knighthood of Europe...
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    medieval  historical  length-epic  audiobook
  • Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin

    Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her...
  • The Land Beyond the Sea by Sharon Kay Penman

    The Land Beyond the Sea by Sharon Kay Penman

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Filled with drama and battle, tragedy and romance, Sharon Penman’s The Land Beyond the Sea tells the epic tale of a clash of cultures that will resonate with readers today.1172. The Kingdom of Jerusalem, also known as Outremer – the land beyond the sea.A young realm, Outremer was baptized in blood when the men of the First Crusade captured Jerusalem from the Saracens in 1099...
  • Mine Is the Night by Liz Curtis Higgs

    Mine Is the Night by Liz Curtis Higgs

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    SHE LOST EVERYTHING SHE LOVED. HE HAD EVERYTHING SHE NEEDED. BUT COULD SHE FIND THE COURAGE TO TRUST HIM? Stepping from a battered coach on a rainy April eve, newly widowed Elisabeth Kerr must begin again, without husband or title, property or fortune...
  • Dauntless by Tamara Leigh

    Dauntless by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 5.00 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    THE D’ARGENTS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMAN…TOO.Medieval Normandy. Before William the Conqueror conquered, there was the family D’Argent. And a marriage alliance destined to give rise to England’s formidable Wulfriths.BEHOLD THE VICTORThe day Godfroi D’Argent defeats his brother in a contest of arms, he gains his family’s lands. And a less than desirable bride...
  • The Longing by Tamara Leigh

    The Longing by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In The Unveiling, The Yielding, The Redeeming, and The Kindling, the lives of the formidable Wulfrith family unfold during Duke Henry’s battle for the English throne and his succession. The fifth book in the series, The Longing, belongs to the last Wulfrith brother, the enigmatic Sir Everard, and the much maligned Lady Susanna de Balliol...
  • Fearless by Tamara Leigh

    Fearless by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    THE WULFRITHS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMAN.A battle. A crown. The conqueror. The conquered. Medieval England—forever changed by the Battle of Hastings. And the rise of the formidable Wulfriths.A CAPTIVE NORMANSir Guarin D’Argent knew the danger of allowing a woman to turn him from his purpose, and yet he answered her cry across a bloody battlefield...
  • Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows by Sigrid Undset

    Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows by Sigrid Undset

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The initial volume in the Nobel Prize–winning author’s tumultuous, epic story of medieval Norway—the first new English translation in nearly a century As a child, Olav Audunssøn is given by his dying father to an old friend, Steinfinn Toressøn, who rashly promises to raise the boy as his foster son and eventually marry him to his own daughter, Ingunn...
  • The Redeeming by Tamara Leigh

    The Redeeming by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    IN THE EYES OF THE CHURCH AND MEN, HERS IS NO SMALL SIN Lady Gaenor Wulfrith is a woman scorned—and now King Henry’s pawn. After three broken betrothals, she is ordered to wed her family’s enemy, a man she has never met and has good reason to fear...
  • Boundless by Tamara Leigh

    Boundless by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    THE WULFRITHS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMANA battle. A crown. The conqueror. The conquered. Medieval England—forever changed by the Battle of Hastings. And the rise of the formidable Wulfriths...
  • DANGEROUS: A Medieval Romance by Tamara Leigh

    DANGEROUS: A Medieval Romance by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    The late middle ages. England’s king seeks to recover the French lands of his ancestor William the Conqueror and claim the continental throne. France’s king aspires to seize the remainder of his royal vassal’s lands and retain his throne. So begins the Hundred Years’ War, the backdrop against which the formidable Wulfriths of the AGE OF CONQUEST and AGE OF FAITH series continue their tale...
  • Nameless by Tamara Leigh

    Nameless by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    THE WULFRITHS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMAN. A battle. A crown. The conqueror. The conquered. Medieval England—forever changed by the Battle of Hastings. And the rise of the formidable Wulfriths...
  • Baron of Emberly by Tamara Leigh

    Baron of Emberly by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A WARRIOR DANGEROUSLY IN CONTROL England, 1334 ~ In the second book of The Feud series, Baron Magnus Verdun is a warrior whose handsome face gives little indication of the darkness he struggles to contain...
  • The Secrets of Saffron Hall: An absolutely gripping Tudor historical fiction novel by Clare Marchant

    The Secrets of Saffron Hall: An absolutely gripping Tudor historical fiction novel by Clare Marchant

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Two women. Five centuries apart.One life-changing secret about to be unearthed…1538New bride Eleanor impresses her husband by growing saffron, a spice more valuable than gold...
  • A Fire Within by Kathleen Morgan

    A Fire Within by Kathleen Morgan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It is May 1568, and Caitlin Campbell has recently had her heart broken by a callous young nobleman. With a track record of not choosing men well, she meets Darach MacNaghten, whose clan has been outlawed. Not only is he everything Caitlin should be wary of, but he is a man of many secrets, none of which bode well for the Campbells...
  • Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey by Abigail Wilson

    Masquerade at Middlecrest Abbey by Abigail Wilson

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    In this new Regency romance, Elizabeth knows she must protect her heart from the charm of her new husband, Lord Torrington. She is not, however, prepared to protect her life. When the widowed Lord Torrington agreed to spy for the crown, he never planned to impersonate a highwayman, let alone rob the wrong carriage...
  • The Kindling by Tamara Leigh

    The Kindling by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    THE UNVEILING, THE YIELDING, and THE REDEEMING introduced readers to the formidable Wulfrith family during Duke Henry’s battle for the English throne and his succession. THE KINDLING, the fourth book in the Age of Faith series, is the story of Sir Abel, the youngest and, perhaps, most dangerous of the Wulfrith brothers. “’TIS SAID FAMILY CREATES A MULTITUDE OF SINS...
  • Great Protector: Inspirational Version by Kathryn Le Veque

    Great Protector: Inspirational Version by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Note: This the clean, inspirational version. For the regular Historical Romance version, please find the same novel with the solitary knight on the cover. 1402 A.D. – Eighteen years ago, Sir Richmond le Bec, a knight in the service of Henry of Bolingbroke, was tasked with a mission of great importance...
  • Highland Heartbeats Boxed Set 1: Books 1-3 by Aileen Adams

    Highland Heartbeats Boxed Set 1: Books 1-3 by Aileen Adams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Three full-length Highland romances from author Aileen Adam’s Highland Heartbeats series. Purchase this limited edition boxed set or read for free in KINDLE UNLIMITED! Book One of the Highland Heartbeats Series! A Laird’s Promise Some promises are hard to keep… Phillip promised he’d let her go home. He promised, after she completed her task, she’d be free...
  • A Mother’s Dilemma by Emma Hornby

    A Mother’s Dilemma by Emma Hornby

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Minnie Maddox cares deeply for mothers and their babies – she makes a living by taking in unwanted children and finding them good adoptive homes – and is delighted for her neighbour when she finally becomes a mother after decades of trying...
  • Heartless by Tamara Leigh

    Heartless by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    THE WULFRITHS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMANA battle. A crown. The conqueror. The conquered. Medieval England—forever changed by the Battle of Hastings. And the rise of the formidable Wulfriths.A HEARTLESS NORMANChevalier Maël D’Argent lost more than his striking looks when he aided the Duke of Normandy in taking the English throne from King Harold...
  • Jingle Bell Rock by Tamie Dearen

    Jingle Bell Rock by Tamie Dearen

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    There's only one problem with my upcoming royal wedding. . . I didn't choose the groom!MarkiI'm a secret princess on the run. You'd be running, too, if your uncle was going to make you marry Carlisle the Argyle.I need a fake husband fast!Except I have my head stuck on a shrub. (Long story..
  • The Serpent King by Tim Hodkinson

    The Serpent King by Tim Hodkinson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The fight for vengeance has no victors...AD 936The great warrior, Einar Unnsson, wants revenge. His mother's assassin has stolen her severed head and Einar is hungry for his blood. Only one thing holds him back. He is a newly sworn in Wolf Coat, and must accompany them on their latest quest...
  • The Raveling by Tamara Leigh

    The Raveling by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    BY HONOR BOUND TO SEEK THE FOUND, HERE BEGINS A TALE Sir Elias De Morville is no ordinary man of the sword, possessing both the heart of a warrior and a troubadour. When he sets out to rescue a boy who may be his son, more than ever he must prove worthy of the Wulfrith dagger that ranks him among the greatest of knights...
  • Reckless by Tamara Leigh

    Reckless by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    THE WULFRITHS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMANA battle. A crown. The conqueror. The conquered. Medieval England—forever changed by the Battle of Hastings. And the rise of the formidable Wulfriths.A REBEL MOST WANTEDVitalis of the Saxon resistance wearies of leading men to victory only to next lead them to death at the hands of the invaders...
  • Lawless by Tamara Leigh

    Lawless by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    THE WULFRITHS. IT ALL BEGAN WITH A WOMAN.A battle. A crown. The conqueror. The conquered. Medieval England—forever changed by the Battle of Hastings. And the rise of the formidable Wulfriths.THE CONQUEROR’S MANHaving lost all—the woman he loved, great friendship, and lands—Sir Guy wants only to end the insurrection plaguing England...
  • Wings of Morning by Kathleen Morgan

    Wings of Morning by Kathleen Morgan

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 21 ratings
    Orphan heiress and Scotswoman, Regan MacLaren, is a bride of but one day when her husband is murdered. As a result, Regan loses her memory and with it her place in the world. Laird and warrior, Iain Campbell, is waiting for the love he knows God will bring him. But a woman near death and without a memory isn't quite what he expected. With their clans feuding, Regan and Iain should never have met...
  • The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt

    The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    THE HEIRS OF CAHIRA O’CONNOR SERIESBOOK TWOA line of women who would be warriors for truth“It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O’Connor, lay dying of a wound from a Norman blade, she lifted her hand toward heaven and beseeched God that others would follow after her, bright stars who would break forth from the courses to which they are bound and restore right in this...
  • Rosamund by Bertrice Small

    Rosamund by Bertrice Small

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 21 ratings
    Rosamund Bolton is the heiress to the manor of Friarsgate in the wild Cumbrian border between England and Scotland. More than a splendid inheritance, Friarsgate will chart the fate of the orphaned beauty widowed at a precious young age...
  • The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt

    The Golden Cross by Angela Elwell Hunt

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    "It is said that as Cahira, daughter of the great Irish king Rory O'Connor, lay dying of a wound from a Norman blade, she lifted her hand toward heaven and beseeched God that others would follow after her, bright stars who would break forth from the courses to which they are bound and restore right in this murderous world..
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