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  • The Charlatan by D.K. Hamlin, Hyperion Knight

    The Charlatan by D.K. Hamlin, Hyperion Knight

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 34 ratings
    INTRODUCING A TIMELESS MASTERPIECE. Now appearing for the first time in English, The Charlatan, a tale of high drama, forbidden love, medicine, and mystery, was the masterpiece of Polish novelist Tadeusz Dolega-Mostowicz. Set in 1930s Warsaw, an era of prosperity and aristocracy, renowned heart surgeon Rafal Wolf suffers a heartbreak that culminates in severe memory loss...
  • The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    'But how will I look after them? Where can I hide them? ' She looked up at me and didn't try to stop the tears from falling. 'I'm begging you. Please, save our children. '. Paris, 1942. As the Germans occupy the city she calls home, Adele Basset is determined to keep her pupils' spirits up. Their dance class offers a moment of solace in the dark days of occupation...
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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...
  • Love and Duty at Blackberry Farm by Rosie Clarke

    Love and Duty at Blackberry Farm by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Cambridgeshire – 1942 As a new year begins and the war continues, young Artie Talbot feels trapped. In his heart he longs to fight, like his two brothers, for his king and country but is duty tied to Blackberry Farm. As feelings grow between Artie and Jeanie Salmons, Artie wonders if marriage will help him to finally accept his lot and settle down...
  • Lady's Well by L.J. Ross

    Lady's Well by L.J. Ross

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    THERE'S SOMETHING IN THE WATER. .. When the ancient waters of Lady’s Well in the rural village of Holystone begin to run red, it seems to be a nasty Hallowe’en prank and nothing more. But things take a sinister turn when the entire village suffers severe poisoning, and one old man turns up dead...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  historical
  • The German Daughter by Marius Gabriel

    The German Daughter by Marius Gabriel

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The band new absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War II historical novel from master storyteller Marius Gabriel. What readers are saying about Marius 'A must read for fans of WW2 books , it not only educates you. .. but also breaks your heart . .. . Five stars for this book. .. I loved it and cried at the end' Reader review, 5 stars'A wonderful, unputdownable book. .
  • 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 Murder in Trinity Lane by Magda Alexander

    A Murder in Trinity Lane by Magda Alexander

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    A forbidden passion. A dangerous secret. A truth some would kill for to keep buried. London, 1889. Hoping society has moved on from the scandal that once shadowed her, Lady Rosalynd turns her attention to one of her most cherished causes—the Home for Unwed Mothers, a discreet refuge where poor, unmarried women can give birth in safety and dignity...
  • The Little Angel by Rosie Goodwin

    The Little Angel by Rosie Goodwin

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    From Sunday Times bestselling author of Mothering Sunday, Rosie Goodwin, comes the next in this heartwarming and heartbreaking Christmas treat. 1896, Nuneaton. Left on the doorstep of Treetops Children's Home, young Kitty captures the heart of her guardian, Sunday Branning, who has never been blessed with a child of her own...
  • Murder on a Frosty Night by Verity Bright

    Murder on a Frosty Night by Verity Bright

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Wrapping presents and singing at midnight mass on a frosty night… Lady Swift is determined to enjoy Christmas at home this year, until another body turns up! Winter 1925. Eleanor and Hugh are decking the halls for their first married Christmas together when butler Clifford arrives with a mysterious telegram...
  • 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  historical  christian  audiobook
  • Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Fire and Fury for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    As war rages, everyone has to do their bit. .. Bristol 1941. As the clouds of war grow bleaker both at home and abroad, the Tobacco Girls are determined to do their bit for King and Country. To that end Maisie Miles and Bridget Milligan become voluntary ambulance drivers...
  • Greek Island Escape by Patricia M Wilson

    Greek Island Escape by Patricia M Wilson

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The new escapist novel from the author of Island of Secrets . Perfect for fans of Santa Montefiore and Lucinda Riley. 'I am Sofia. I am searching for my daughter, born 1st November 1972 . Can you help me? '. On the beautiful beaches of Crete, an old woman is handing out scraps of paper. Sofia, eighty-five years old, unable to speak, is desperate to find a daughter she has never known...
  • Murder in an Irish Castle by Verity Bright

    Murder in an Irish Castle by Verity Bright

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Irish whiskey, rolling green hills, a traditional Christmas feast and… a murder? Lady Swift will need the luck of the Irish to survive this holiday season! Christmas, 1924. Lady Eleanor Swift has received a rather unexpected invitation to the village Christmas party in the tiny, rural hamlet of Derrydee in the west of Ireland...
  • A Ration Book Christmas by Jean Fullerton

    A Ration Book Christmas by Jean Fullerton

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It's 1940 and the German Luftwaffe have started their nightly reign of death and destruction over London's East End. The Brogan family is braced and ready to take on Hitler single-handed, if need be, but with rationing, air-raids and the threat of Nazi invasion hanging over this doughty family, their spirits are taking a bit of a battering. .
    Categorized as:
    christmas  historical  length-long  audiobook
  • Vengeance in Venice by Mary Lancaster

    Vengeance in Venice by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Even on their rapturous honeymoon, mystery intrudes…. Constance and Solomon are enchanted by Venice and each other when a street fight forces Solomon to intervene, and Constance is abducted by strangers. Somehow, they have stumbled into a vicious feud and are forced to confront the seething aftermath of recent revolution, war and siege in the most serene city...
  • The Boy Who Granted Dreams by Luca Di Fulvio

    The Boy Who Granted Dreams by Luca Di Fulvio

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    1909. Ellis Island. Arriving off one of the many transatlantic freighters are Cetta Luminita and her illegitimate baby boy Natale, fleeing the poverty and violence of their Southern Italian hometown. Having sacrificed everything, and endured every possible shame, Cetta has but one wish: that her baby should be an American, and grow up with the freedom to decide his own destiny...
  • Hope by Beverley Watts

    Hope by Beverley Watts

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    There was no doubt that things had definitely looked better for Gabriel Atwood, one time Viscount Northwood. Mainly because everyone who knew him or of him almost certainly believed him dead - the bastard who’d betrayed him had made sure of that...
  • A Gentleman Under the Mistletoe by Grace Burrowes

    A Gentleman Under the Mistletoe by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Lord Julian Caldicott is standing in for his ducal brother as manager of Yuletide merriment at the family seat. Alas for his lordship, nothing is going as planned. Cranky relatives arrive uninvited, family squabbles ensue, and Julian's annual case of the blue devils is worsening by the day. Julian decides to combat the mayhem and melancholia by anonymously spreading good cheer...
  • Christmas with the Ops Room Girls: A festive and feel-good WW2 saga (The Women's Auxiliary Air Force) by Vicki Beeby

    Christmas with the Ops Room Girls: A festive and feel-good WW2 saga (The Women's Auxiliary Air Force) by Vicki Beeby

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    When there’s so much to be afraid of, can May help bring festive cheer to the Ops Room? After failing to help evacuee siblings whom she witnesses being separated, May wishes she’d had the confidence to speak up. When Jess suggests a pantomime to boost morale on the station, May is desperate to help – but is held back by her own insecurities...
  • 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...
  • Murder at Traitors' Gate by Irina Shapiro

    Murder at Traitors' Gate by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The chill of winter has descended on London. But for Sebastian Bell and Gemma Tate, there will be little cheer this season…. Gemma Tate has a new job and a new address. She is putting her past – her memories of nursing in the Crimean war – behind her. Until Jacob Harrow, a journalist with ties to Crimea, is found brutally killed, and Gemma is pulled into the investigation...
  • 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...
  • Christmas at O'Mara's by Michelle Vernal

    Christmas at O'Mara's by Michelle Vernal

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Welcome to the guesthouse on the Green, where Mammy and her girls will make you feel part of the family. Settle in and enjoy your stay at O'Mara's, where stories abound, romance lurks and laughter sounds. Two Christmases, two second chances. A heart-warming O’Mara family Christmas story that will have you laughing out loud. .
  • Evidence of Evil: Victorian Historical Romance Mystery by Mary Lancaster

    Evidence of Evil: Victorian Historical Romance Mystery by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Pursuing murder and fighting love…. Several weeks after they parted company, courtesan Constance calls on the wealthy business-man Solomon Grey to request his help solving another mystery. Her old friend Elizabeth, now the wife of respected magistrate Sir Humphrey Maule, is being accused of murder...
  • Ghost in the Garden by Mary Lancaster

    Ghost in the Garden by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.70 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 10 ratings
    Partners in crime… but not in love? Silver & Grey take on their first official inquiry, when Mrs. Angela Lambert hires Constance and Solomon to discover the truth about the ghost haunting her garden...
  • A Pearl Before Spies by Rebecca Connolly

    A Pearl Before Spies by Rebecca Connolly

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A spy by any other name. .. Abigail Chateris is embarking on her first operative assignment in five years-on the island of Guernsey. Her task is to play governess to the young daughters of Mr. Bichard, the man suspected of direct involvement in the plot against Lucy Allred months ago...
  • Betrayal from Beyond by Deb Marlowe

    Betrayal from Beyond by Deb Marlowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Every betrayal is rife with pain--but betrayal from beyond the grave? Terrifying. After terror, turmoil and more than their fair share of murder, the newly married Duke and Duchess of Sedwick have reached a calmer, more serene phase, both in life and in their relationship...
  • Murder in the Soho Graveyard by Emily Organ

    Murder in the Soho Graveyard by Emily Organ

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A churchyard discovery. A shocking secret. A deadly confrontation. London,1889. When the body of a wealthy widow is found in the neglected graveyard of St Anne’s Church, Soho, Emma Langley and Penny Green soon discover her respectable façade concealed a web of bitter enemies...
  • Dark Tidings on the Thames by Deb Marlowe

    Dark Tidings on the Thames by Deb Marlowe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    London’s great river runs as dark, dirty, and deep . . . as murder. The Duke and Duchess of Sedwick and their small band of friends and family are recovering from some serious losses. They are slowly making steps to get back to normal routines when they receive a cry for help from one of their own. The Waif’s Wardrobe, a charitable place of good works, has encountered tragedy...
  • The Nanny Outside the Gates by Shari J. Ryan

    The Nanny Outside the Gates by Shari J. Ryan

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Auschwitz, 1944. With trembling hands, Halina unfolds the letter hidden in the book her mother left her, then drops it with a strangled cry. The letter contains the answers she’s always searched for—and puts her in unimaginable danger…...
  • Knave of Diamonds by Laurie R. King

    Knave of Diamonds by Laurie R. King

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Mary Russell’s allegiances are tested by the reappearance of her long-lost uncle—and a tantalizing case not even Sherlock Holmes could solve. When Mary Russell was a child, she adored her black sheep Uncle Jake. But she hasn’t heard from him in many years, and she assumed that his ne’er-do-well ways had brought him to a bad end somewhere—until he presents himself at her Sussex door...
  • Petteril's Christmas by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Christmas by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A merry Christmas for the Petterils? Piers wants to make their first Christmas together special, and so it proves to be - just not quite in the way he planned. His eccentric Great Aunt Prudence summons him to London with the news that she is dying and that one of her servants is stealing from her. Only one of these claims turns out to be true, though both require investigating...
  • Beyond the Moonlit Sea by Julianne MacLean

    Beyond the Moonlit Sea by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    From the bestselling author of These Tangled Vines comes a gripping novel about one woman’s search for answers when her husband vanishes in the night. Olivia Hamilton is married to the love of her life, Dean, a charismatic pilot who flies private jets for the rich and famous. But when he vanishes over the Bermuda Triangle, Olivia’s idyllic existence unravels...
  • 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...
  • Dark Days for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Dark Days for the Tobacco Girls by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Nothing will stop the The Tobacco Girls not even war. .. BRISTOL 1940. The Tobacco Girls cling together as they realise that the clouds of war are turning dark, the world is becoming more dangerous and their lives more unpredictable. Bridget Milligan’s big, happy family fragments when her siblings are evacuated to North Devon, then a letter from America further fills her with dismay...
  • Hold Me Close by Siobhan Davis, Kelly Hartigan (XterraWeb)

    Hold Me Close by Siobhan Davis, Kelly Hartigan (XterraWeb)

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sons pay for the sins of their fathers…. Bodhi and Easton Lancaster O’Donoghue have grown up sheltered from the truth. Until it’s time for their parents to reveal what happened and how it shaped the events that came later. Bodhi is quiet. An intelligent, introspective boy who hides his pain deep inside...
  • The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

    The Woman on the Orient Express by Lindsay Jayne Ashford

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Hoping to make a clean break from a fractured marriage, Agatha Christie boards the Orient Express in disguise. But unlike her famous detective Hercule Poirot, she can’t neatly unravel the mysteries she encounters on this fateful journey. Agatha isn’t the only passenger on board with secrets...
  • The Gilded Lily by Irina Shapiro

    The Gilded Lily by Irina Shapiro

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Every old house has its secrets, so it comes as no surprise when a relic of a noble Victorian family is discovered in the new home of historical author Nicole Rayburn and her husband Kyle. Curious about the lovely young woman in the sepia photograph, Nicole delves into the history of the family and stumbles on a long-forgotten mystery...
  • Aphrodite by D.G. Rampton

    Aphrodite by D.G. Rampton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    70,000+ readers have already discovered the Regency Goddesses Series. The books, which can be read in any order, are regularly in the U. S. top 20 for Historical Romance and Humor & Satire. #1 Amazon Best Seller, Regency Historical Romance. #1 Amazon Best Seller, British Humor & Satire. #6 Amazon Best Seller, Kindle Store (all genres). ♥ a Regency Christmas. ♥ a masterful heroine...
    Categorized as:
    christmas  humor  historical  regency
  • What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris

    What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 32 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...
  • 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...
  • The Christmas Book Flood by Roseanna M. White

    The Christmas Book Flood by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In this charming World War II historical romance novella inspired by Jolabokaflod, Iceland’s Christmas Book Flood, an author falls in love with a man who doesn’t know he is her editor. Iceland. December 1944. Tatiana Eliasdottir is looking forward to welcoming her niece Elea for Christmas. She’s determined to give the little girl a joyful holiday and take her mind off troubles at home...
  • A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry

    A Corruption of Blood by Ambrose Parry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA HISTORICAL DAGGER 2022A Raven and Fisher Book 3Edinburgh, 1850. This city will bleed you dry. Sarah Fisher is keeping a safe distance from her old flame Dr Will Raven. Having long worked at the side of Dr James Simpson, she has set her sights on learning to practise medicine herself. A notion everyone seems intent on dissuading her from...
  • 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...
  • The Whisper Sister by Jennifer S. Brown

    The Whisper Sister by Jennifer S. Brown

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    The author of Modern Girls delivers an atmospheric coming-of-age story set in Prohibition-era New York, tracing one immigrant family’s fortunes and a young girl’s journey from the schoolyard to the speakeasy. The streets of New York in 1920 are most certainly not paved with gold, as Minnie Soffer learns when she arrives at Ellis Island...
  • Velvet, Vol. 2: The Secret Lives of Dead Men by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting

    Velvet, Vol. 2: The Secret Lives of Dead Men by Ed Brubaker, Steve Epting

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The white-hot spy series from the creators of Captain America: The Winter Soldier is back! Everything Velvet Templeton ever believed about the worst night of her life has turned out to be a lie, and now she's coming back to London, taking the hunt back to the hunters, to find the truth or die trying...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  mystery  historical  length-novella
  • Deadly Betrayal by Carla Simpson

    Deadly Betrayal by Carla Simpson

    Rated: 4.58 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Ghosts of the past…. The very case that made Brodie leave the Metropolitan Police returns to jeopardize his private inquiry business, his relationship with Mikaela Forsythe, and perhaps even his life. Ten years earlier, after Brodie refused to divulge the name of his source in a murder case, Chief Inspector Abberline threatened to have charges brought against him for withholding evidence...
  • 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...
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