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  • A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean

    A Storm of Infinite Beauty by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Beyond the Moonlit Sea comes an atmospheric tale of how one woman’s search for the truth uncovers long-hidden secrets and rocks the very foundation of her world.Scarlett Fontaine is a true Hollywood legend—a singer, actress, and beloved fashion icon. But Scarlett dies tragically at just thirty-six years old, leaving behind no children...
  • Maggie by Charles Martin

    Maggie by Charles Martin

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    The moving sequel to bestselling author Charles Martin’s The Dead Don’t Dance...
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  • A Gentleman Fallen on Hard Times by Grace Burrowes

    A Gentleman Fallen on Hard Times by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    A man dwelling in darkness...Lord Julian Caldicott has come home from the war in ragged health and with a reputation in tatters. All he wants is to recuperate in private without bringing any further scandal on the family’s good name...
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    mystery  regency  suspense  m-f  historical  war  length-medium
  • Love's Bright Tomorrow by Naomi Rawlings

    Love's Bright Tomorrow by Naomi Rawlings

    Rated: 4.68 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She’s just trying to start a new life for herself. If only it wasn’t so hard… It’s not as though there are a lot of options for a woman with barely two pennies to rub together.At least not in 1884.Or in the small town where she’s settled.Or anywhere else.It’s even harder when her past keeps coming back to haunt her. Aileen has tried putting it behind her. Truly she has...
  • Winter of Solace by Kathryn Le Veque

    Winter of Solace by Kathryn Le Veque

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Caius d'Avignon, the knight known as The Britannia Viper, finds himself on the opposite side of William Marshal... and the Executioner Knights are caught in the middle... Welcome to another Executioner Knights' tale! When Caius d’Avignon is sent north at the request of a cousin of William Marshal to help in a dispute between neighbors, Caius couldn’t have imagined how his life would change...
  • A Gentleman in Search of a Wife by Grace Burrowes

    A Gentleman in Search of a Wife by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Lord Julian Caldicott accepts a request to search for the missing wife of Mr. John Tait. Evelyn Tait disappeared five years ago, and as Julian attempts to follow a cold trail, he meets with resistance, lies, and suspicion from those who should seek most eagerly to aid him...
  • A Michaelmas Truce by Mary Kingswood

    A Michaelmas Truce by Mary Kingswood

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle.Madge Paton has been the mainstay of the Fletcher household for a quarter of a century, and even though her role managing the household and raising the children has been usurped by Harry Fletcher’s new wife, there’s still work to be done for a spinster aunt...
  • Taken to the Grave by Cara Devlin

    Taken to the Grave by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series comes to a thrilling conclusion in the seventh and final book, Taken to the Grave.As Audrey Sinclair reaches the end of her mourning period, she and Hugh Marsden, the Viscount Neatham, are at long last looking toward their future together — and hoping for a respite from the dangerous criminal investigations they’ve found themselves entrenched in...
  • A Name Unknown by Roseanna M. White

    A Name Unknown by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    Edwardian Romance and History Gains a Twist of Suspense Rosemary Gresham has no family beyond the band of former urchins that helped her survive as a girl in the mean streets of London. Grown now, they concentrate on stealing high-value items and have learned how to blend into upper-class society...
  • A Gentleman of Unreliable Honor by Grace Burrowes

    A Gentleman of Unreliable Honor by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He's cheated death...Lord Julian Caldicott is summoned by his estranged mother to search for old love letters she has misplaced. Julian soon realizes the letters along with other items of sentimental value have been stolen. The thief is preying on wealthy women, purloining mementos both dear and scandalous...
  • An Autumn Courtship by Mary Kingswood

    An Autumn Courtship by Mary Kingswood

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle.Johnny Fletcher is exactly where he wants to be - a Fellow at Cambridge, with a lifetime of scholarly pursuits in front of him. He’s not allowed to marry, but he has no need for a wife when he has his books for company...
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    regency  christian  m-f  historical
  • Secrets at Cedar Cabin by Colleen Coble

    Secrets at Cedar Cabin by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Colleen Coble delivers her signature blend of romance and suspense when Brenna Fleming flees to a cabin in Lavender Tides only to discover that everything she believed about herself has been a lie. Six months after her wedding, Bailey Fleming discovers she wasn't really married to Kyle Bearcroft...
  • The Duke's Magnificent Obsession by Chasity Bowlin

    The Duke's Magnificent Obsession by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    If there is one thing I know, kisses have a tendency to alter things irrevocably.Abandoned at the family’s country estate by her employer, Minerva Stone realizes that the concerns harbored about her position with Mrs. Charlotte Entwhistle-Graves were well founded...
  • A Winter Chase by Mary Kingswood

    A Winter Chase by Mary Kingswood

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle.Julia Fletcher is the unimportant daughter of the Fletcher family, with neither beauty nor wit nor accomplishments, but always in a scrape. Somehow she never manages to get through the day without breaking or spilling or tearing something...
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    regency  christian  m-f  historical  length-medium
  • Where Shadows Dance by C.S. Harris

    Where Shadows Dance by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The “rich period detail [and] riveting action”* C.S. Harris delivers in her Sebastian St. Cyr mystery series reaches new heights as the aristocratic sleuth navigates dangerous political waters to bring a murderer to justice…   Regency London: July 1812.  How do you set about solving a murder no one can reveal has been committed? That’s the challenge confronting C.S...
  • The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beloved writer Sean Dietrich—also known as Sean of the South—will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her.Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local paper’s weekly gossip column...
  • Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

    Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr’s past combine to put C. S. Harris’s “troubled but compelling antihero” (Booklist) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery.London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St...
  • When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

    When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Ayleswick-on-Teme, England, 1813. Sebastian has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme, a bottle of laudanum at her side, the village’s inexperienced new magistrate turns to St. Cyr for help...
  • What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

    What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The latest request for help from Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin--from the Archbishop of Canterbury, no less--is undeniably intriguing: The bodies of two men have been found in an ancient crypt, their violent deaths separated by decades. One is the Bishop of London, the elderly Archbishop's favored but controversial successor...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  regency  mystery  m-f  historical  length-medium
  • Nature of the Crime by Cara Devlin

    Nature of the Crime by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series continues in January 2024 with the sixth Audrey Sinclair and Hugh Marsden investigation...When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey’s packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer...
  • Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel by Tim LaHaye

    Thunder of Heaven: A Joshua Jordan Novel by Tim LaHaye

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Economies have fallen, freedom has been suppressed, and peace is a distant memory. The world is falling apart. Joshua Jordan's protege Ethan March, along with Jimmy Louder and Rivka Reuban have been left behind in a world that is rapidly coming under the complete influence of the Antichrist...
  • What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris

    What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious killer had been brought to justice until a shocking series of gruesome new murders stuns the city in this thrilling historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Speaks for the Damned.It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over and Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together...
  • Irresistible by Darcy Burke

    Irresistible by Darcy Burke

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Jessamine Goodfellow has spent six Seasons avoiding the parson’s trap, and spinsterhood is finally within her grasp. A brilliant scholar, she longs for adventure and new experiences, things her family frowns upon. Presented with the opportunity to use her puzzle-solving talent on a secret mission for the Foreign Office, Jess eagerly accepts...
  • A Brush with Shadows by Anna Lee Huber

    A Brush with Shadows by Anna Lee Huber

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Sebastian Gage returns home to battle the ghosts of his past and prevent them from destroying his future with Kiera in the latest exciting installment in this national bestselling series.July 1831. It's been fifteen years since Sebastian Gage has set foot in Langstone Manor...
  • An Independent Woman by Sarah F. Noel

    An Independent Woman by Sarah F. Noel

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Summoned to Edinburgh by the Dowager Countess of Pembroke, Tabitha and Wolf reluctantly board a train and head north.The dowager's granddaughter Lily refuses to participate in the preparations for her first season unless Tabitha and Wolf investigate the disappearance of her friend, Peter...
  • The Lost Lieutenant by Erica Vetsch

    The Lost Lieutenant by Erica Vetsch

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    He's doing what he can to save the Prince Regent's life . . . but can he save his new marriage as well? Evan Eldridge never meant to be a war hero--he just wanted to fight Napoleon for the future of his country. And he certainly didn't think that saving the life of a peer would mean being made the Earl of Whitelock...
  • The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl by AnneMarie Brear

    The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl by AnneMarie Brear

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yorkshire Dales 1850As a terrible storm rages, Annabelle Wallis is shocked to find a distressed young woman at her cottage door, heavy with child. Moments later a baby girl is born. But by dawn, the mother has vanished, leaving behind the helpless child wrapped only in a silk peacock shawl...
  • The Mersey Mothers by Sheila Riley

    The Mersey Mothers by Sheila Riley

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Liverpool 1953January sees the dawn of the Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation year as the mothers of Reckoners Row unite in preparation for the celebration of the new Queen.Meanwhile Evie Kilgaren is dreaming of her summer wedding to Danny Harris, but trouble looms for Skinner & Sons with a new rival trying to put them out of business, but no-one knows why...
  • Codes of Courage by A.L. Sowards

    Codes of Courage by A.L. Sowards

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In a battle of torpedoes, depth charges, and secret codes, nothing is as vulnerable as the human heart. 1940: Austrian refugee Karl Lang has lost everything―his country, his home, and his family. All that is left to him is a burning ambition to see the Nazis defeated...
  • The Sapphire Intrigue: A Crown Jewels Regency Mystery by Lynn Morrison, Anne Radcliffe

    The Sapphire Intrigue: A Crown Jewels Regency Mystery by Lynn Morrison, Anne Radcliffe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A stolen code, a locked-down Pavilion, and a love on the line—Regency Brighton’s season of secrets is just beginning.Brighton, 1813: The upper class departs London’s bustling streets for the serene seaside elegance of the Royal Pavilion. A summer of relaxation and romance beckons, especially for Lord Roland Percy and Lady Grace Tilbury...
  • The Queen's Cook by Tessa Afshar

    The Queen's Cook by Tessa Afshar

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In the heart of ancient Persia, the empire's Jewish citizens face an ominous edict that threatens their very existence. Roxannah, the daughter of a once-privileged but now impoverished Persian lord, is devastated by the news...
  • The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

    The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Cross-Country Trip through Regency England Brings Intrigue, Rogues, and High Adventure  The must-read conclusion to Michelle Griep’s Bow Street Runners Trilogy: Life couldn’t be better for Abigail Gilbert—but it’s been a long time in coming. Having lived with a family who hated her, it’s finally her time for love...
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    christian  regency  suspense  historical  humor
  • Murder at the Country Club by Helena Dixon

    Murder at the Country Club by Helena Dixon

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Kitty Underhay is playing doubles… with death.Kitty Underhay is accompanying her fiancé, Matthew Bryant, and Bertie, his new cocker spaniel, on an outing to Torbay Country Club. However, the delightful day soon turns to disaster...
  • Miss Devoted by Grace Burrowes

    Miss Devoted by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Psyche Fremont has known two constants in life: Her passion for her art, and society’s determination to ignore her talent. She isn’t looking for anything other than a handsome model when she crosses paths with Michael Delancey, and he’s only interested in making a few discreet coins lounging about in the altogether...
  • Murder at Kingscote by Alyssa Maxwell

    Murder at Kingscote by Alyssa Maxwell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For 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… In late nineteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, journalist Emma Cross discovers the newest form of transportation has become the newest type of murder weapon . .
  • The Starlet Spy by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    The Starlet Spy by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Hollywood Star Turns Spy In 1943, Movie producer Henrik Zoltan approaches Amelie Blake under the guise of offering the Hollywood star a leading part in his upcoming film, but he has a more meaningful role in mind. Amelie’s homeland of Sweden declared neutrality in the war, but Stockholm has become the ‘Casablanca of the North...
  • The Sisters of Sea View by Julie Klassen

    The Sisters of Sea View by Julie Klassen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers convinces her sisters to open their seaside home to guests to provide for their ailing mother. Emily and Georgiana agree, but Viola, who wears a veil to cover a scar, detests the idea. Determined to stay together, the sisters begin the new venture...
  • A Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    A Beautiful Disguise by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Left with an estate on the brink of bankruptcy after their father's death, Lady Marigold Fairfax and her brother open a private investigation firm marketed to the elite . . . to spy on the elite. Dubbed The Imposters, Ltd., their anonymous group soon becomes the go-to for the crème of society when they want answers delivered surreptitiously...
  • The Secret of the Lost Pearls by Darcie Wilde

    The Secret of the Lost Pearls by Darcie Wilde

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Beyond the glittering ballrooms and elegant parties of Regency London lurk all manner of unexpected dangers. In Darcie Wilde’s captivating mystery series inspired by the novels of Jane Austen and written with the wit of “Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s cheeky asides in Fleabag” (Bookpage), no one is better equipped to help ladies who find themselves wronged than “useful woman” Rosalind Thorne..
  • A Lark's Release: A Regency Cozy by Lynn Messina

    A Lark's Release: A Regency Cozy by Lynn Messina

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It is hardly surprising Verity Lark can’t sleep at night with all the thoughts darting through her her recent stay in Newgate, her debt to Colson Hardwicke, the horrible abuse suffered by the children at Fortescue’s that her reporting on the orphan asylum several years earlier had failed to uncover...
  • Millstone of Doubt by Erica Vetsch

    Millstone of Doubt by Erica Vetsch

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Regency London's detective duo is back on a new case--and this one is going to be a killerCaught in the explosion of the Hammersmith Mill in London, Bow Street Runner Daniel Swann rushes to help any survivors only to find the mill's owner dead of an apparent gunshot...
  • The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Vanishing at Castle Moreau by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    In 1865, orphaned Daisy Francois takes a position as housemaid at a midwestern Wisconsin castle and finds that the reclusive and eccentric Gothic authoress inside hides more than the harrowing tales in her novels. With women disappearing from the area and a legend that seems to parallel these eerie circumstances, Daisy is thrust into a web that may threaten to steal her sanity, if not her life...
  • The House at the End of the Moor by Michelle Griep

    The House at the End of the Moor by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    What Can a London Opera Star and an Escaped Dartmoor Prisoner Have in Common?   Opera star Maggie Lee escapes her opulent lifestyle when threatened by a powerful politician who aims to ruin her life. She runs off to the wilds of the moors to live in anonymity. All that changes the day she discovers a half-dead man near her house...
  • A Precarious Gamble by Laura Beers

    A Precarious Gamble by Laura Beers

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Is Love worth the gamble?Lord Hugh Calvert has managed to disgrace himself again. He gambled and won a small fortune, as he usually does, but this time the pot included a ward. He has never been responsible for someone other than himself. Perhaps it would be best if he just turns the care of his new ward over to his mother, washing his hands of her...
  • The Vengeance Trail by Elizabeth Bailey

    The Vengeance Trail by Elizabeth Bailey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Join Lady Fan in her most dangerous case yet! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen.Is someone from her past trying to kill Lady Fan…?1796, EnglandWhen Lady Ottilia Fanshawe finds herself launched into a river and fighting for her life, she becomes convinced someone pulled her under the water...
  • Children of the Shadows by Erica Vetsch

    Children of the Shadows by Erica Vetsch

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    >Detective Daniel Swann and debutante Juliette Thorndike once again team up to solve a dangerous mystery--while trying to keep their growing romance secret. Someone is preying upon the street children of Regency London. They seem to think no one will notice when urchins go missing--and even if they are noticed, who will care? Daniel needs to do something about the missing children...
  • Soul Raging by Ronie Kendig

    Soul Raging by Ronie Kendig

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Sometimes, the only hope is the enemy.Leif Metcalfe is done waiting for answers and seizes control, a move that comes with a high price and a deadly risk: teaming up with the enemy. He can only hope that what he uncovers will heal the wounds he's inflicted on those he loves...
  • Undercurrent of Secrets (Doors to the Past) by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Undercurrent of Secrets (Doors to the Past) by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Two women, a century apart, are bound by a haunting secret aboard a legendary steamboat.Walk through Doors to the Past via a new series of historical stories of romance and adventure...
  • Vacancy: Viscount Preferred by Tammy Andresen

    Vacancy: Viscount Preferred by Tammy Andresen

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lady Priscilla is in trouble…When a cousin she didn’t even know existed inherits her father’s title, the new Earl of Purlington wants more than just the earldom, he want’s Priscilla too. Or at least, her dowry. What she needs is a hero. A man to swoop in and save her despite her cousin’s intimidating lurking...
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