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  • Home Sweet Home by Lizzie Lane

    Home Sweet Home by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Will they meet again? Frances Sweet can’t really remember her real parents. Brought up by her uncle, her cousins Ruby and Mary have always treated her like their little sister.As the war continues to keep her cousins separated from the men they love – Frances is growing up fast enough to catch the eye of dashing American soldier Declan...
  • Shelter from the Storm by Ellie Dean

    Shelter from the Storm by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Nineteen-year-old April Wilton has just enlisted in the WRENs in Portsmouth, where she works servicing engines on ships. She finds herself immersed in dockyard life and surrounded by soldiers - from England and America. The atmosphere is one of spontaneity and impulsiveness, brought on by the unpredictability of war...
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  • All My Tomorrows by Ellie Dean

    All My Tomorrows by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The compelling new Second World War novel from the author of Always in My Heart. In defending herself against her brutal husband, eighteen-year-old Ruby Clark is forced to flee London. She has no idea where Cliffehaven is, or what she will find there, but she knows that she will never be able to return home again. At first it seems she's fallen on her feet...
  • Sealed With a Loving Kiss by Ellie Dean

    Sealed With a Loving Kiss by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The gripping new Second World War novel from Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of While We're Apart.After the death of her parents in a bombing raid, Mary Jones discovers a secret in the pages of father’s diaries. Her search for the truth brings her to Cliffehaven on the south coast...
  • On a Turning Tide by Ellie Dean

    On a Turning Tide by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cliffehaven, October 1944 As the Allied troops draw closer to victory, life at Beach View Boarding House is still full of uncertainty. Rosie’s plans for her wedding to Ron Reilly are plagued with misunderstandings. And when Ron takes on a secret assignment just days before they are due to say their vows, it seems their plans for a future together may be doomed...
  • The Snow Orphan’s Destiny by Daisy Carter

    The Snow Orphan’s Destiny by Daisy Carter

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    As the snow falls and secrets swirl around her, Penny is torn between two worlds. Does a gift hold the key to her past, and will her true destiny bring her the happiness she longs for?FREE WITH KINDLE UNLIMITED.Penny Frost understands that she’s had an unusual start in life. Taken in by a kind-hearted woman, she becomes part of the close-knit Bevan family of Sketty Lane...
  • An Orphan's Christmas Dream by Rosie Darling

    An Orphan's Christmas Dream by Rosie Darling

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    In the workhouse, little orphan Holly Green dreamed of a Christmas filled with roast beef and plum pudding. But Holly's beautiful Christmas dream was soon to contort into a cruel nightmare.One snowy Christmas Eve, two vulnerable little girls run away from the harsh workhouse, into the unknown and unforgiving world that was Victorian London...
  • Vagabonds by Josephine Cox

    Vagabonds by Josephine Cox

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A beautiful historical novel of survival, love, and redemption It is 1885 and Emma Grady has returned to her home town of Blackburn and been reunited with her lover Marlow. Now married, with a beautiful home, loving husband and wonderful son, she is still haunted by the past, unable to forget the cruelty of her uncle Caleb Crowther, who ignored her pleas to save her and her tragic first-born...
  • Beguiled by a Baron by Christi Caldwell

    Beguiled by a Baron by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Lady with a Secret… Partially deaf, with a birthmark marring her face, Bridget Hamilton is content with her life, even if she’s been cast out of her family. But her peaceful existence—expanding her mind with her study of rare books—is threatened with an ultimatum from her evil brother—steal a valuable book or give up her son. Bridget has no choice; her son is her world...
  • 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...
  • The Christmas Orphan by Rosie Darling

    The Christmas Orphan by Rosie Darling

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    After her father’s sudden death little Jane Walker had been forced to sell flowers on the London streets to the wealthy in order to make ends meet. At the end of each day she would return to the terrible streets of Whitechapel where her heavily pregnant mother awaited her return...
  • The Hidden Letters by Lorna Cook

    The Hidden Letters by Lorna Cook

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home and one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever…As the storm clouds of war gather, Cordelia seeks refuge in the grounds of her family estate.Isaac has recently arrived to tend to the gardens, and the connection between him and Cordelia is as immediate as it is forbidden...
  • A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green

    A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Cora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works and has her arrested for treason and sent North. Faced with impossible choices, she does what she must to keep a little girl safe in an inhospitable land.Convinced he won’t survive the war, Union Sergeant Ethan Howard determines to make his death count for something...
  • The Asylum Daughter by Rosie Darling

    The Asylum Daughter by Rosie Darling

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Born in the dark horrors of the Victorian Bedlam, Beth Thursday was a no-one. An inconsequential inconvenience.After eight years of dreaming of an unknown mother rescuing her from the workhouse, Beth is unexpectedly liberated to become an apprentice in Mr Whitaker's tailor's shop...
  • Alley Urchin by Josephine Cox

    Alley Urchin by Josephine Cox

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A captivating historical romance of revenge, hatred, lust and true love It is 1870 and Emma Grady has spent seven years of servitude as a convict in Australia. Now, having earned her ticket-of-leave, she is held by chains of honour and friendship...
  • The Orphan's Scandal by Jessica Weir

    The Orphan's Scandal by Jessica Weir

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Will the sins of the mother condemn the daughter to a life of loss?Heartwarming saga romance FREE on Kindle Unlimited. London, 1879. At just 13 years old, Florence Smith's life will change forever. Losing almost everything, she must grow up quickly and hope that a secret scandal does not come back to haunt her...
  • Courage of the Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell

    Courage of the Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sunderland, 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance… Polly’s sweetheart Tommy has been declared missing while serving overseas, and although there is no certainty that he is dead, there is no guarantee that he will return home. Now Polly needs her friends more than ever, and the other women welders are ready to rally around her while she waits for news...
  • The Nabob's Daughter by Jess Heileman

    The Nabob's Daughter by Jess Heileman

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’ll do anything to escape an arranged marriage. He’ll do anything to help her.Honora Crauford relishes her life in India...
  • Orphan Christmas Miracle: Historical Victorian Romance by Rosie Swan

    Orphan Christmas Miracle: Historical Victorian Romance by Rosie Swan

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Will little Mae ever experience the miracle she prays for and once again meet the boy who gave her hope so many years before…Mae Chester, the Christmas miracle girl, loses her parents at a very tender age and is reluctantly received by her loveless uncle. Cold and unforgiving, he makes no secret of his disdain for the waiflike child...
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    victorian  christian  historical  length-long
  • In Perfect Time by Sarah Sundin

    In Perfect Time by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Bold, sophisticated, and coy, flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts wherever she flies. So how can handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be immune to her charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the wounded and delivering paratroopers and supplies, every beat of their hearts draws them closer...
  • Colors of Truth by Tamera Alexander

    Colors of Truth by Tamera Alexander

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Based on the real history of Carnton, an antebellum home that served as a Confederate hospital, Colors of Truth follows the journey of an Irish immigrant arriving in a country where her kind isn’t wanted, and of a former Federal soldier returning to the scene of a battle that almost destroyed him...
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    military  christian  historical  length-long
  • The Scullery Maid's Salvation by Emma Hardwick

    The Scullery Maid's Salvation by Emma Hardwick

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The start to young Ebba Sheehan’s life would never be that of a fairy-tale princess.Born to an aggressive drunk of an Irish father, and an English mother lacking any maternal interest, times were hard.Facing many challenges, she is forced to look after herself at a tender age...
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    victorian  military  historical  length-short
  • The Love Note by Joanna Davidson Politano

    The Love Note by Joanna Davidson Politano

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1859 when she discovers a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor...
  • The Orphan of Howdall Heights by Catharine Dobbs

    The Orphan of Howdall Heights by Catharine Dobbs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    “Help me! Mother, Father, help me!” she cried, coughing and clutching at her throat. No help came… Tragedy strikes and snatches away Victoria Curzon from the peace and tranquillity of her family home.With her young life in ruins, a new world, miles away from everything familiar, is forced upon her...
  • Storm Clouds Rolling In by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye

    Storm Clouds Rolling In by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Carrie Cromwell comes of age as the dark clouds of the Civil War swallow the country. Born with a fiery spirit and a strong mind, she finds herself struggling between the common wisdom of the South and the truth she has discovered. The activities of the Underground Railroad and her close friendships with the Cromwell Plantation slaves create difficult choices...
  • I'll Be Seeing You: A spellbinding and emotional wartime novel of love and secrets by Margaret Mayhew

    I'll Be Seeing You: A spellbinding and emotional wartime novel of love and secrets by Margaret Mayhew

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When Juliet Porter's mother dies, she leaves Juliet some old letters and a photograph which shatter all her previously-held beliefs. They show that her real father was an American bomber pilot in the second world war, some forty years before, and that he had met her mother while serving in England...
  • The Workhouse Daughter by Rosie Darling

    The Workhouse Daughter by Rosie Darling

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Work hard and avoid the workhouse her Papa had always told her. But Papa was dead, and now six-year-old Amelia Gladstone was living in her darkest dreams. Life would have been unbearable if it weren’t for Robert Merriweather, a fellow workhouse orphan, who had more than a touch of daring and adventure about him...
  • Saltwick River Orphan: Historical Victorian Saga by Dolly Price

    Saltwick River Orphan: Historical Victorian Saga by Dolly Price

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Drugged and supposedly drowned by the mother who should have loved her, 6-year-old Gwendoline is dredged from the Saltwick River. Poverty-stricken but rich in love Mr. and Mrs. Paul love the tiny child as their own until hard times and tragedy drive them to the workhouse...
  • The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

    The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childhood, which launches her across the world to the heart of Berlin just before the wall comes tumbling down...
  • The Lost Daughter by Iris Cole

    The Lost Daughter by Iris Cole

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Clary only wanted to find her mother. She couldn’t know the terrible price she would pay.Clary’s home is the foundling hospital where she has lived since birth. When a terrible tragedy occurs, Clary is blamed and thrown to the streets with her only possession - a token, left by her birth mother...
  • The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

    The Berlin Letters by Katherine Reay

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Near the end of the Cold War, a CIA code breaker discovers a symbol she recognizes from her childhood, which launches her across the world to the heart of Berlin just before the wall comes tumbling down...
  • 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...
  • The Cotton Mill Girl by Rosie Darling

    The Cotton Mill Girl by Rosie Darling

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The mill was set to break Lottie. Heston mill had already broken so many young lives, robbed innocents of digits and limbs, snuffed out the light behind so many eyes, all without a glimmer of remorse. Such was life for thousands in Victorian England. Why should Lottie be any different? But the mill was Lottie’s World; she knew nothing else...
  • The Pit Brow Sisters by Hope Dawson

    The Pit Brow Sisters by Hope Dawson

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The sweet and heartbreaking Victorian romance saga of a young woman who loses nearly her entire family in the coal mines of Lancashire – FREE to read with Kindle Unlimited. Jenny Swift is born into a coal mining family in the north of England. As the eldest daughter, it's her responsibility to look after her three siblings. A duty that doesn't always sit well with her...
  • The Paris Orphan by Natasha Lester

    The Paris Orphan by Natasha Lester

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    From the USA Today bestselling author of The Paris Seamstress comes a World War II novel that spans continents and crosses generations as an American soldier and an enterprising Vogue photographer brave war-torn France to help a lost little girl find the one thing she never had: a family...
  • On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin

    On Distant Shores by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    Lt. Georgiana Taylor has everything she could want. A comfortable boyfriend back home, a loving family, and a challenging job as a flight nurse. But in July 1943, Georgie’s cozy life gets decidedly more complicated when she meets pharmacist Sgt. John Hutchinson. Hutch resents the lack of respect he gets as a noncommissioned serviceman and hates how the war keeps him from his fiancée...
  • Newton & Polly by Jody Hedlund

    Newton & Polly by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Amazing grace! How sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. I once was lost, but now am found… Now remembered as the author of the world’s most famous hymn, in the mid-eighteenth century as England and France stand on the brink of war, John Newton is a young sailor wandering aimlessly through life...
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    christian  military  historical  length-long
  • The Marquess' Angel by Julia Sinclair

    The Marquess' Angel by Julia Sinclair

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Everyone knows that good missionary girls are plain and dull.  And that's just the way Blythe likes it!  . Lady Blythe Dennings has craved adventure her entire life, but due to her relation to the powerful Carrow family, there was no way she was going to get it. So... she became a missionary...
  • The Toymaker's Daughter by Rosie Darling

    The Toymaker's Daughter by Rosie Darling

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “Guilty.” Sixteen-year-old Anne Besant was thrust into the role of mother, father, and bread-winner to her young siblings when her father was incarcerated for a crime he didn’t commit. She battles to save the little shop where her father crafted the toys of children's dreams...
  • The Orphans of Warrenby Mill by Catharine Dobbs

    The Orphans of Warrenby Mill by Catharine Dobbs

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    FREE with Kindle UnlimitedThe ominous letter arrives… and what of its repercussions for Warrenby Mill?When fate delivers a series of terrible blows, Veronica must first look out for her brother and sister.Outrageous. Perilous. Disheartening.These are their living conditions for several years, abandoned and alone with few options to consider...
  • The Lost Orphan of Cheapside: Victorian Romance by Dolly Price

    The Lost Orphan of Cheapside: Victorian Romance by Dolly Price

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Caroline is an orphan. Vulnerable and passed from family member to family member until the fateful day she disappears in Surrey Gardens.No one could imagine the hell this innocent girl would now endure at the hands of her kidnappers. All hope seems lost until Arthur stumbles through the doors of the Lanyard Arms...
  • None Stood Taller: An inspirational WWII story to make your heart soar. (Historical fiction) by Peter Turnham

    None Stood Taller: An inspirational WWII story to make your heart soar. (Historical fiction) by Peter Turnham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    This book is a window into Britain's secret wartime past, step through it and this inspirational story of life and love will make your heart soar.It is March 1941, large swathes of the East End of London lie in ruins. Lily Heywood is just one more victim of the Blitz, lying beneath the rubble of her home. An unbreakable spirit, this is not the end for Lily, it is merely the beginning...
  • A Lady in Attendance by Rachel Fordham

    A Lady in Attendance by Rachel Fordham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Five years in a New York state reformatory have left a blemish on Hazel's real name. So when she takes a job as Doctor Gilbert Watts's lady in attendance in 1898, she does so under an alias. In the presence of her quiet and pious employer, Hazel finds more than an income. She finds a friend and a hope that if she can set her tarnished past in order, she might have a future after all...
  • The Christmas Convent Child: A Warm PureRead Christmas by Dolly Price

    The Christmas Convent Child: A Warm PureRead Christmas by Dolly Price

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After her parents die in a suspicious boating accident little Eliza is abandoned by her uncaring, unscrupulous guardians. If not for the love of the nuns in the convent she would surely have died. Little did she know that her coming of age would throw her back into peril when, after so many years, her scheming guardians reappear to kidnap and incarcerate her...
  • The Blind Sibling by Hope Dawson

    The Blind Sibling by Hope Dawson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “When you have no more hope left, sometimes you have to join forces with the enemy to survive.”Lizzie White is so happy when her baby sister is born in their gloomy dwelling in the Seven Dials slum of Victorian London. Even when it turns out that little Annie will never be able to see in her life. But then cruel fate decides to serve the girls an even rougher hand...
  • The Twelve Thieves of Christmas by Rosie Darling

    The Twelve Thieves of Christmas by Rosie Darling

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    On the snowy streets of Victorian London, twelve orphans steal to survive. But they soon find that Christmas isn't always filled with festive cheer. Jack and Mary are orphaned and alone on the streets of London. When Maggie rescues them from a certain road to the hangman and takes them into her care, they see her as the mother they lost too early...
  • The Hangman's Daughter by Rosie Darling

    The Hangman's Daughter by Rosie Darling

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Unlike many in London, Grace had an idyllic childhood. Until she came to understand how her father earned his living. Then she realised that danger would stalk her for the rest of her life, as the bitter desire for revenge never leaves shattered hearts."Always keep them calm," her father, Llewellyn, had mysteriously told his friend...
  • The Match Girl & The Lost Boy's Christmas Hope by Dolly Price

    The Match Girl & The Lost Boy's Christmas Hope by Dolly Price

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Her parents disappear into the curious, uncaring crowd. They never return... Will Rose find a safe haven in the dark underworld of London's Victorian streets?Despite the helping hand of a young stranger, her parents are gone, and Rose is left alone among throngs of visitors at the Crystal Palace Exhibition...
  • Secretly Yours, My Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Emma Linfield

    Secretly Yours, My Duke: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Emma Linfield

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “With you, I have found a missing piece of myself I never knew was gone”Lady Felicity knows her place. She must dazzle and charm, find a rich and powerful husband, and save her family. That is her purpose, that is her duty. Even if it is not her desire.Cold, calculating, and strategic, Benjamin has always been a military man...
  • The Duke and His Wallflower: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Tiffany Baton

    The Duke and His Wallflower: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Tiffany Baton

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “I have spent every day regretting the answer that I gave you.”The Follet family has never abided by societal rules. Which might explain why Lady Emma is still unmarried, and with no prospects whatsoever. Until her bossy aunt decides to intervene, and promises she will see her married by the end of the season, even if she has to make the match herself...
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