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  • Two Dragons by Octavia Randolph

    Two Dragons by Octavia Randolph

    Rated: 4.78 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two Dragons. Dragons 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: 4.77 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Water Book Ten of The Circle of Ceridwen Saga. It 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...
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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...
  • 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 1958. For 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...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  christian  historical  audiobook
  • 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...
  • Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman

    Time and Chance by Sharon Kay Penman

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The long-awaited sequel to Sharon Kay Penman's acclaimed novel When Christ and His Saints Slept, Time and Chancerecounts the tempestuous marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II in a magnificent story of love, power, ambition-and betrayal. He was nineteen when they married, she eleven years his senior, newly divorced from the King of France...
  • The Women of Fishers Wharf by Tracy Baines

    The Women of Fishers Wharf by Tracy Baines

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Can you leave the past behind and embrace the future? - A brand new series from Tracy Baines. Great Grimsby, 1912. Newlywed fisherman Alec Hardy decides to make a fresh start with his young wife Letty and move to the thriving fishing port of Grimsby in search of a brighter future...
  • 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...
  • Drawn by the Current by Jocelyn Green

    Drawn by the Current by Jocelyn Green

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A birthday excursion turns deadly when the SS Eastland capsizes with Olive Pierce and her best friend Claire on board. Hundreds perish during the accident, and it's only when Olive herself barely escapes that she discovers her friend is among the victims...
  • The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep

    The Captured Bride by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Mercy Lytton, a scout with keen eyesight raised among the Mohawks, and Elias Dubois, a condemned traitor working both sides of the conflict, must join together to get a shipment of gold safely into British hands. A brand new series for fans of all things related to history, romance, adventure, faith, and family trees. A War-Torn Countryside Is No Place for a Lady...
  • Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury

    Shades of Blue by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Brad Cutler, twenty-eight, is a rising star at his New York ad agency, about to marry the girl of his dreams. Anyone would agree he has it all … a great career, a beautiful and loving fiancée, and a fairy tale life ahead of him—when memories of a high school girlfriend begin to torment him...
  • 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...
  • Surrender the Night by MaryLu Tyndall, M.L. Tyndall

    Surrender the Night by MaryLu Tyndall, M.L. Tyndall

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Step into a breathtaking novel of adventure and romance set amid the War of 1812. During an assault by an enemy sailor, timid farm girl Rose McGuire is saved by the least likely of heroes—a British Naval Lieutenant. Now that he’s wounded, she’ll have to heal as well as hide him. Alex Reed is being aided and abetted by his enemy—albeit an innocent and attractive one...
  • A Song in the Dark by Kimberley Woodhouse

    A Song in the Dark by Kimberley Woodhouse

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Against the simmering backdrop of the impending WWII, blind virtuoso pianist Chaisley Frappier embarks on a concert tour through a rapidly changing Europe despite the dangers. When she learns that Hitler's escalating regime of injustice is targeting other disabled people, Chaisley realizes she is in a prime position to help those who are threatened reach safety...
  • 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 VICTOR. The 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 Juliet Code by Pepper Basham

    The Juliet Code by Pepper Basham

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley Finally Reach Their Honeymoon Destination Only to Encounter a New Mystery in Need of Solving. Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice...
  • 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. THE ONE HE CAN NEVER FORGIVE...
  • 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  suspense  historical  humor  regency  audiobook
  • 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 NORMAN. Sir 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...
  • The Vexing by Tamara Leigh

    The Vexing by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    USA Today best-seller Tamara Leigh returns to the medieval Age of Faith series with a romance three years in the making—Sir Durand’s tale. A VEXING LADY. Answering her father’s summons to return home, Lady Beata Fauvel must evade capture by noblemen who seek to wed a great heiress...
  • 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 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. DECEIT WRAPPED IN SOMETHING SWEET...
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • His Accidental Amish Family by Rachel J. Good

    His Accidental Amish Family by Rachel J. Good

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the picturesque Amish community of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, life's detours may prove the path to true happiness . . . After a buggy accident when she was a teenager, Anna Flaud was told she would never walk again. Unwilling to be an object of pity, she put aside her dreams of marriage and found purpose as an assistant at a Community Care Center...
  • 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...
  • A Picture of Hope  (Heroines of WWII) by Liz Tolsma

    A Picture of Hope (Heroines of WWII) by Liz Tolsma

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Photojournalist Risks Her Life to Save Children. Full of intrigue, adventure, and romance, this new series celebrates the unsung heroes—the heroines of WWII. Journalist Nellie Wilkerson has spent the bulk of the war in London, photographing pilots taking off and landing—and she’s bored. She jumps at the chance to go to France, where the Allied forces recently landed...
  • The Doctor Prince and the Outsider by Cami Checketts

    The Doctor Prince and the Outsider by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A feisty billionaire framed for murder. The generous ‘Doctor Prince’ who discovers her. Will Prince Steffen believe her, or is she destined to live life on the run? Hattie Ballard, a billionaire heiress, spends her days traveling and rarely visits home, especially after the tragic death of her parents in an accident two years ago...
  • The Ninja Prince and the Investigator by Cami Checketts

    The Ninja Prince and the Investigator by Cami Checketts

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A prince hiding from the truth. A female athlete trying to protect him. Can Ellery save Prince Derek and his family or will she only lose her heart? Prince Derek has thrown his heart into the American Ninja Warrior circuit after he lost his beloved mother. He knew he couldn’t stay in Augustine and face his own pain or his family’s...
  • As Sure as the Sea by Jamie Ogle

    As Sure as the Sea by Jamie Ogle

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Once she denied everything she believed in. Now she’d give anything to choose differently. But in the shadow of the Roman Empire’s persecution and the shame of her past, she fears that what she wants most will be forever out of reach. Eastern Roman Empire, AD 310...
  • 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. A NAMELESS NORMAN...
  • Like a Bee to Honey by Jennifer Beckstrand

    Like a Bee to Honey by Jennifer Beckstrand

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Affectionately dubbed The Honeybee Sisters in their Wisconsin Amish community, the three Christner girls are devoted beekeepers who are coming-of-age—and discovering the sweet surprise of love…. Shy, skittish Rose Christner is more comfortable tending to the beehives on the family farm and keeping her aunt’s unruly cats in line than attending social gatherings with the rest of the die youngie...
  • To Write a Wrong by Jen Turano

    To Write a Wrong by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Miss Daphne Beekman is a mystery writer by day, inquiry agent by night. Known for her ability to puzzle out plots, she happily works behind the scenes for the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, staying well away from danger. However, when Mr...
  • To Disguise the Truth by Jen Turano

    To Disguise the Truth by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When Arthur Livingston arrives out of the blue at the Bleecker Street Inquiry Agency, anxious to hire the agency to seek out a missing heiress, Eunice Holbrooke realizes her past has finally caught up with her. Having fled from the scene of her grandfather's murder seven years before, Eunice is a lady with secrets--the most important that she is the missing heiress Arthur is seeking...
  • A Daughter's Courage by Misty M. Beller

    A Daughter's Courage by Misty M. Beller

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    After accidentally destroying the intricate chalice her people have treasured for over a hundred years, Charlotte Durand sets out on an expedition in search of a skilled artisan who can repair the damage. What she expected to be a two-day hike becomes much more daunting when a treacherous snowstorm sets in...
  • A Mark of Grace by Kimberley Woodhouse

    A Mark of Grace by Kimberley Woodhouse

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Ruth Anniston survived an injury that left her physically scarred, broken, and angry at God. Now she finds herself working behind the scenes as a kitchen supervisor at the El Tovar Hotel, hidden away from curious eyes. When money begins to disappear from the hotel, Ruth's entire livelihood is put at risk...
    Categorized as:
    christian  suspense  historical  mystery  audiobook
  • Through Every Danger by Lisa Phillips, Michelle Aleckson

    Through Every Danger by Lisa Phillips, Michelle Aleckson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Undertow - Lisa Phillips. Selena is ready to retire from her career as a social media stunt star. After a disastrous breakup, one last job—on a cruise—will give her the cash to take charge of her future. Peter wants to make full operative at Vanguard Security...
  • 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...
  • Blinded by Prejudice by KaraLynne Mackrory

    Blinded by Prejudice by KaraLynne Mackrory

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Into what kind of hell had I emerged from under those ruins? ELIZABETH BENNET ANTICIPATED NOTHING MORE than a pleasant day among friends and relations when the pleasure trip to the ruins of Bodden chapel commenced...
  • 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…. 1538. New bride Eleanor impresses her husband by growing saffron, a spice more valuable than gold. His reputation in Henry VIII’s court soars – but fame and fortune come at a price, for the king’s favor will not last forever…. 2019...
  • Saving Amelie by Cathy Gohlke

    Saving Amelie by Cathy Gohlke

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Increasingly wary of her father's genetic research, Rachel Kramer has determined that this trip with him to Germany--in the summer of 1939--will be her last. But a cryptic letter from her estranged friend, begging Rachel for help, changes everything...
  • Shadows of the White City by Jocelyn Green

    Shadows of the White City by Jocelyn Green

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The one thing Sylvie Townsend wants most is what she feared she was destined never to have--a family of her own. But taking in Polish immigrant Rose Dabrowski to raise and love quells those fears--until seventeen-year-old Rose goes missing at the World's Fair, and Sylvie's world unravels. Brushed off by the authorities, Sylvie turns to her boarder, Kristof Bartok, for help...
  • A Bride of Convenience by Jody Hedlund

    A Bride of Convenience by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Unemployed mill worker Zoe Hart jumps at the opportunity to emigrate to British Columbia in 1863 to find a better life and be reunited with her brother, who fled from home after being accused of a crime...
  • 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. ”...
  • Dead Wrong by Susan Sleeman

    Dead Wrong by Susan Sleeman

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Enjoy this thrilling romantic suspense story from Susan Sleeman’s The Justice Agency series! The Justice Agency: Family and law enforcement go hand in hand. When her client and old college friend is murdered, P. I. Kat Justice knows the killer will come for her next. Her survival depends on finding her unknown enemy first…and working with homicide detective Mitch Elliot, her one-time crush...
  • 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...
  • Where the Fire Falls by Karen Barnett

    Where the Fire Falls by Karen Barnett

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Stunning Yosemite National Park sets the stage for this late 1920s historical romance with mystery, adventure, heart, and a sense of the place John Muir described as "pervaded with divine light. ". Watercolorist Olivia Rutherford fashioned her image as an avant-garde artist to appeal to the region's wealthy art-collectors...
  • Diamond in the Rough by Jen Turano

    Diamond in the Rough by Jen Turano

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As part of a bargain with her grandmother, Poppy Garrison accepts an unusual proposition to participate in the New York social season. Forced to travel to America to help his cousin find an heiress to wed, bachelor Reginald Blackburn is asked to give Poppy etiquette lessons, and he swiftly discovers he may be in for much more than he bargained for.
  • The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Sean of the South’s latest novel, a small 1950s town takes in a mysterious visitor whom they believe needs saving—but she might be the one who saves them. When a seemingly mute runaway with no clear origin arrives in the small Southern town of Moab, the residents do what they believe is right and take her in—until two suspicious strangers arrive and begin looking for her...
  • The Road to Runnymede by David Field

    The Road to Runnymede by David Field

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse…. England, 1199. After the death of Richard the Lionheart, his brother, John takes the English throne with the support of his mother, Eleanor of Aquitaine. But John has a rival in the person of young Arthur, Duke of Brittany, who Richard had acknowledged as his rightful heir...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  medieval  historical  war  length-short
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