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Bone Deep by Kendra Elliot
Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars · 30 ratingsWhen two men kidnap former FBI agent Cate Wilde’s fiancé, the boldness of the crime rattles the community. Desperate to find the man she loves, Cate joins forces with the FBI and the local sheriff’s department to launch an investigation and bring Dr. Henry Powers home... -
![A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil]()
A Day Like This by Kelley McNeil
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsWhat if everything you’ve ever loved, ever known, ever believed to be true…just disappeared?Annie Beyers has everything—a beautiful house, a loving husband, and an adorable daughter. It’s a day like any other when she takes Hannah to the pediatrician…until she wakes hours later from a car accident. When she asks for her daughter, confused doctors tell Annie that Hannah never existed... -
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![The Hourglass by Tracy Rees]()
The Hourglass by Tracy Rees
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 29 ratings2014. Sensible Nora has always taken success for granted, until suddenly her life begins to fall apart. Troubled by anxiety and nightmares, she finds herself drawn to the sweeping beaches of Tenby, a place she's only been once before. Together with a local girl she rents a beautiful townhouse and slowly begins to settle in to her new life...Categorized as:
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![The Last Time I Saw Her by Karen Robards]()
The Last Time I Saw Her by Karen Robards
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsIn the sizzling new novel from New York Times bestselling author Karen Robards, Dr. Charlie Stone must prove the innocence of a dangerously sexy condemned man, or lose her one chance at true love. In this world, Dr. Charlotte “Charlie” Stone skillfully probes the twisted minds of incarcerated serial killers to better understand what makes them tick, and to help nab those who remain at large... -
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![Sleeper's Castle by Barbara Erskine]()
Sleeper's Castle by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTwo women, centuries apart. One endless nightmare tearing Wales apart – and only they can stop it.Sunday Times bestselling author Barbara Erskine returns to Hay in the year that marks the 30th anniversary of her sensational debut bestseller, Lady of Hay.Hay-On-Wye, 1400 – War is brewing in the Welsh borders, Catrin is on the brink of womanhood and falling in love for the first time... -
![The Book of Carraig by Andrea Matthews]()
The Book of Carraig by Andrea Matthews
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlmost a year after waking to find himself in twentieth-century New York, fifth-century Celt Ciarán Donnelly has finally returned to his childhood home, but Ireland is nothing like he remembers it. The realization is overwhelming and taking a toll on his relationship with archaeologist Caitlin O’Connell as well. Keeping his secret from her has been no easy task... -
![Wait for Me by Jody Hedlund]()
Wait for Me by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the darkness closes all around,Beauty is still there just waiting to be found.Dawson Huxham blames himself for his sister’s death . . . until he briefly crosses time and discovers she’s alive in the Middle Ages. Hoping to reconnect with her, he searches for the holy water that will help him visit the past for a longer duration... -
![Timeless Moments by Michele Kidd]()
Timeless Moments by Michele Kidd
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKindle Scout Winner - Jack Vines has the Victorian home of his dreams--or so it seems until he discovers an intriguing beauty lurking in the shadows. Stunned, he finds they share the house but live a century apart. The realization leads him to questions so disturbing it changes both their lives forever. She is a prisoner of the past, shrouded in a world of dark mysteries...Categorized as:
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![Love's Shadow by Nichole Van]()
Love's Shadow by Nichole Van
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBranwell D'Angelo . . .Six years ago, I fell in love with Lucy--my brother's girlfriend. Stupid of me, I know, but sometimes the heart doesn't listen to reason.Six years, I've lived on the sidelines. Seeing him love her, be with her, bask in her sunshine . . .I watched her break his heart and then cleaned up the shattered pieces of him she left behind... -
![Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose]()
Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
![Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose]()
Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
![The One Before The One by Emma Cooper]()
The One Before The One by Emma Cooper
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsLiv is given the chance to live one life-changing week over, but can she change her future...? And does she want to?When Liv’s boyfriend Kit disappeared on a hike, seven years earlier, she thought her life was over. But with the help of their family and friends, she’s pushed her way through the grief, and now, miraculously, she's found a way to love again...Categorized as:
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![Loving Her Lonely Highlander by Maeve Greyson]()
Loving Her Lonely Highlander by Maeve Greyson
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHer fit of anger becomes a leap back through time into the arms of a man she can never have.21st century bookshop owner, Lorna Merriweather is known for her patience. Especially regarding her fiancé. Tonight he’s promised to go to the cliffs to watch for the northern lights... -
![Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon]()
Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn this captivating novel from the author of Wife 22, a woman who feels lost in her own time stumbles across a California community that has, impossibly, been marooned in the early twentieth century perfect for readers of The Time Traveler's Wife, Time and Again, and Sarah Addison Allen.Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way when she discovers an idyllic community in the Sonoma Valley... -
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![Viking's Desire by Mariah Stone]()
Viking's Desire by Mariah Stone
*** previously published as The Tree of TimeSearching for her roots, American CEO Holly visits Scotland. An ancient ash isn’t the kind of family tree she had in mind. But when she touches a golden spindle carved into its rough bark, she is sucked through time to the ninth century—and captured in a Viking raid.Warrior Einar Birgirsson rescues the beautiful stranger... -
![The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick]()
The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the winter of 1483, Francis Lovell is Richard III’s Lord Chamberlain and confidante, but the threat of Henry Tudor’s rebels has the king entrusting to Francis and his wife, Anne, his most crucial mission: protecting the young Richard of York, his brother’s surviving son and a threat to Henry’s claims to the throne... -
![The Presence by Heather Graham]()
The Presence by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRevisit the misty hills of Scotland, where there might be ghosts and there’s certainly a killer, in this thrilling tale of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.It seemed like the ultimate moneymaking plan—buy an ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination... -
![After the Fall by Morgan O'Neill]()
After the Fall by Morgan O'Neill
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings"After the Fall" ratchets up the tension as time traveler Gigi Perrin and her husband, the Roman warrior Quintus Magnus, join forces with the Visigoth King Alaric to march on Rome. There waits Princess Galla Placidia, the admirable sister of the despicable Emperor Honorius. About to be forced into an arranged marriage by her brother, Placidia fears a bleak future, trapped in a loveless union... -
![Finding Her Vikings by Skye MacKinnon]()
Finding Her Vikings by Skye MacKinnon
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsVikings. I was going to meet Vikings. Real, fricking Vikings in the past. That was worth studying for. Lainie is busy with her studies, but her Old Norse teacher Hjalmar is doing everything he can to distract her. It's hard to concentrate when you've got a hot Viking vying for your attention... -
![Cave Man Need Wife by Frankie Love]()
Cave Man Need Wife by Frankie Love
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsI’ve been here a long ass time. Lonely as hell and wishing for a wife.When a woman arrives, she thinks she’s time-travelled to a prehistoric nightmare.I think she’s finally come home.She’s innocent, curvy, and all kinds of cute.And she thinks I’m nothing but a cave man.Growly. Grumpy. Gruff.She’s not wrong.She also has ideas about marriage... -
![My Highland Lover - A Scottish Historical Time Travel Romance by Maeve Greyson]()
My Highland Lover - A Scottish Historical Time Travel Romance by Maeve Greyson
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsShe jumps back through time to prove a point—not to lose her heart.As the proprietor of a homeopathic store in rural Kentucky, modern day Trulie Sinclair knows her neighbors think she is strange—but they have no idea how different she really is. Trulie was born in thirteenth-century Scotland to a gifted bloodline of time travelers...Categorized as:
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![Dark Viking: Viking Navy SEALs, Book 7 by Sandra Hill]()
Dark Viking: Viking Navy SEALs, Book 7 by Sandra Hill
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsRita, a former stunt woman, can’t believe she signed up to be a female Navy SEAL. She needed the signup money to pay her mother’s medical bills. Steven, a fierce Viking warrior, is depressed over the “death” of his brother Thorfinn. Yep, even Vikings get the blues... -
![Shadows on the Aegean by Suzanne Frank]()
Shadows on the Aegean by Suzanne Frank
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSuzanne Frank, writing in the bestselling tradition of Diana Gabaldon and Mary Renault, stunned the literary world with her provocative protrayal of Egypt at the time of the Exodus in Reflections in the Nile . The Detroit Free Press called the sweeping, evocative story "an adventure you won't want to put down... -
![Shifting Sands by Kathi Oram Peterson]()
Shifting Sands by Kathi Oram Peterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Gloryanna Griffin needs is a full-ride scholarship to finish her master’s degree in marine biology in order to pursue her dream of saving the ocean. However, to be a serious contender for the money, she needs to publish in a prestigious magazine. A research dive off the Olympic Peninsula is a dangerous proposition but one that just might give her article the impact it needs... -
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![The Angel Wore Fangs by Sandra Hill]()
The Angel Wore Fangs by Sandra Hill
New York Times bestselling author Sandra Hill continues her sexy Deadly Angels series, as a Viking vangel’s otherworldly mission pairs him with a beautiful chef who whets his thousand-year-old appetite . . . Once guilty of the deadly sin of gluttony, thousand-year-old Viking vampire angel Cnut Sigurdsson is now a lean, mean, vampire-devil fighting machine... -
![Cave Man by Frankie Love]()
Cave Man by Frankie Love
One minute I’m in an underground cave on a Special Ops mission,and the next thing I know, I’ve travelled through time.My life became prehistoric pretty damn fast.I may have fought the bad guys in the military, but now I had new enemies.Woolly mammoths and saber tooth tigers – and no other humans in sight.Five years later, I’m still stuck here... -
![When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin]()
When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything. A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn't stopped, Simon Cross might never be born...Categorized as:
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![Miranda's Viking by Maggie Shayne]()
Miranda's Viking by Maggie Shayne
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsReeducating RolfA Viking warrior was sitting in scientist Miranda O'Shea's living room, learning English and marveling over light bulbs. Yesterday Rolf Magnusson had been frozen solid, his body perfectly preserved in a glacial cave, where she'd discovered him...Categorized as:
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![Twilight in Babylon by Suzanne Frank]()
Twilight in Babylon by Suzanne Frank
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsBabylon: a city of legendary richness, a civilization as sophisticated as it is decadent, provides fertile and fabulous backdrop for the final installment of the time travel series that began in ancient Egypt, transported us to a doomed Greek island inhabited by Gods, traveled to the court of the Biblical king David, and culminates with a historical adventure of epic proportion... -
![Dancing with Paris by Juliette Sobanet]()
Dancing with Paris by Juliette Sobanet
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Paris, a past life promises a second chance at love. Straitlaced marriage therapist Claudia Davis had a plan—and it definitely did not involve getting pregnant from a one-night stand or falling for a gorgeous French actor. She thinks her life can’t possibly get more complicated...Categorized as:
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![Some Like It Kilted by Allie Mackay, Sue-Ellen Welfonder]()
Some Like It Kilted by Allie Mackay, Sue-Ellen Welfonder
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsIf you love Scotland and big, brawny men in kilts, this one's for you... Mindy Menlove lives in a castle that was transported stone by stone from Scotland to Pennsylvania. When she must sell the estate, her plans soon unravel. She's bound for the Hebrides, a place she'd hoped to avoid... -
![The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux]()
The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux
What if a woman could go back to the beginning and rethink her choices for love and life? When Leslie Headrick, Madison Appleby, and Ellie Abbott first met, they were in their early 20s and the world lay before them with its infinite possibilities... -
![Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson]()
Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsSomewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy... -
![The Big Book Of Time Travel Romance by Sarah Woodbury, Cassidy Cayman]()
The Big Book Of Time Travel Romance by Sarah Woodbury, Cassidy Cayman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Big Book Of Time Travel Romance presents for the time travel romance enthusiast the works of six bestselling artists in one stunning collection...Categorized as:
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![Destined by Allison Kraft]()
Destined by Allison Kraft
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsWhile flying across the Atlantic on the centennial anniversary of the Titanic's tragic maiden voyage, Apolline Greer, last in a long line of vampire hunters, finds herself suddenly transported from her airliner cabin to an eerily familiar ocean liner cabin—as well as the entirely unfamiliar body of her ancestor, Noelle Greer...Categorized as:
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![The Ruby Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan]()
The Ruby Brooch by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsWhen the heir to MacKlenna Farm, paramedic Kit MacKlenna, discovers she is not who she thinks she is, she uses the magic of the ruby brooch to travel back in time to the mid-19th century American west to uncover her true identity. Her coming-of-age quest leads her down a dangerous path that could cost her not only her heart, but her life...Categorized as:
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![Hearts Through Time by Marie Higgins]()
Hearts Through Time by Marie Higgins
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen a woman claiming to be a ghost from 1912 appears in Nick Marshal's office and begs for help in solving her murder, he thinks he has lost his mind. A scandal that rocked Hollywood almost destroyed his law practice, so he doesn't need any more fireworks as he rebuilds his life. Still, he is intrigued by Abigail Carlisle's plea, and he needs clients, even if this one insists she's dead... -
![Thirteen for Dinner by Denise Daisy]()
Thirteen for Dinner by Denise Daisy
Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAverie Cooke is bribed to sit in as the fourteenth guest at an exclusive dinner party, in order to rescue the other attendees from bad luck. But it’s Averie who needs rescuing when all hell begins to break loose. Averie Cooke has never set foot on the old Faulkner plantation. The macabre history surrounding it is what keeps her away; not to mention everyone says the place is haunted... -
![The Seeker by Lindsay McKenna]()
The Seeker by Lindsay McKenna
Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsDelia Sebastian is a trained historian and psychic. Former army captain Jake Tyler is her swaggering ex-lover, who can read her most intimate thoughts - and desires. Together they will make the risky leap back to 44 BC to infiltrate the court of Julius Caesar by posing as Grecian mercenaries. But with assassins everywhere, will old passions reignite to undermine their cover.. -
![The Haunting of Brynn Wilder by Wendy Webb]()
The Haunting of Brynn Wilder by Wendy Webb
Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars · 40 ratingsAfter a devastating loss, Brynn Wilder escapes to Wharton, a tourist town on Lake Superior, to reset. Checking into a quaint boardinghouse for the summer, she hopes to put her life into perspective... -
![The Mulligan Curse by Diane Barnes]()
The Mulligan Curse by Diane Barnes
Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsFrom the author of All We Could Still Have comes a charming tale about one woman who embraces a family curse, laying bare the dreams we give up—and the chances we take to get them back.Mary Mulligan has two problems: her wisdom teeth…and everything else. Her only daughter is moving overseas. Her husband would rather go golfing than spend time with her... -
![Crossings by Alex Landragin]()
Crossings by Alex Landragin
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 31 ratings"A sparkling debut. Landragin’s seductive literary romp shines as a celebration of the act of storytelling." — Publishers Weekly"Romance, mystery, history, and magical invention dance across centuries in an impressive debut novel." — Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)"Deft writing seduces the reader in a complex tale of pursuit, denial, and retribution moving from past to future. Highly recommended... -
![Tall, Dark, and Kilted by Allie Mackay, Sue-Ellen Welfonder]()
Tall, Dark, and Kilted by Allie Mackay, Sue-Ellen Welfonder
What’s an age-old curse compared to a modern woman’s charm? Cilla Swanner has been jilted by her lover, and she is struggling with a jewelry business that’s far from sparkling. She needs a getaway someplace quiet and remote. Someplace like Dunroamin Castle in Scotland. But what she finds there may be more than she can handle... -
![Highlander In Her Bed by Allie Mackay]()
Highlander In Her Bed by Allie Mackay
Rated: 3.80 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsAll-business American Mara McDougall thinks there are no such things as ghosts. But a trip to Scotland and one gorgeous phantom are about to prove her dead wrong . . . A self-employed tour guide, Mara is weary from leading her charges all over London. So she takes a breather at an antique shop—and spots perhaps the handsomest bed ever. Then she bumps into the handsomest man ever... -
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![Loving on Borrowed Time by Olivia Cunning]()
Loving on Borrowed Time by Olivia Cunning
Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsLoving on Borrowed Time Lovers’ Leap #1 Lara Kensington is living a perfectly mundane life as a museum curator, when bad boy treasure hunter, Reece Jericho, leaps into her life. Literally. Obviously distressed, Reece tells Lara that one year in the future she will be murdered. The evidence he uses to back up his incredible story doesn’t convince Lara. She thinks he’s crazy... -
![If I Can't Have You by Patti Berg]()
If I Can't Have You by Patti Berg
Rated: 3.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsTrevor Montgomery, the dashing playboy movie star from the 1930s, mysteriously disappeared more than 50 years ago. Ever since she was a little girl, Adriana Howard has loved the enigmatic screen icon--collecting Hollywood memorabilia and studying his life. Then, one night, a handsome stranger wearing the face Adriana has always loved walks into her bedroom... -
![Midnight on Julia Street by Ciji Ware]()
Midnight on Julia Street by Ciji Ware
Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsNew York Times and USA Today Bestseller! Scandal transcends time in the Big Easy Feisty reporter Corlis McCullough isn't afraid to push boundaries in the name of journalistic integrity. When passion for the truth lands her in New Orleans in need of a job, an assignment at a TV station pits her against her old college nemesis, King Duvallon... -
![The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer]()
The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer
Rated: 3.76 of 5 stars · 31 ratingsAccomplished neurosurgeon Beatrice Trovato knows that her deep empathy for her patients is starting to impede her work. So when her beloved brother passes away, she welcomes the unexpected trip to the Tuscan city of Siena to resolve his estate, even as she wrestles with grief... -
![Phantom in Time by Eugenia Riley]()
Phantom in Time by Eugenia Riley
Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsSEDUCED ACROSS TIME . . . BY THE PHANTOM!!Murdered in his prime in 1896, the sexy, mysterious ghost of renowned tenor Jacques LeFevre haunts the spooky old St. Charles Opera House in New Orleans. Jacques’s lusty spirit still searches for the woman of his dreams, the diva with whom he can share life and the opera... -
![Midnight Train to Paris by Juliette Sobanet]()
Midnight Train to Paris by Juliette Sobanet
When Jillian Chambord’s twin sister is abducted from a luxury train traveling through the Alps, not even the threat of losing her coveted position at The Washington Daily can stop this hard-hitting reporter from hopping on the next flight to France...
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