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Better Luck Next Time: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Alix James
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHis only job is to protect her. But first, he has to keep track of her. When Elizabeth Montclair’s privileged world shatters after witnessing a crime that could topple the crown, she vanishes into the quiet countryside, hiding in plain sight with the unsuspecting Bennet family. Her sharp tongue and quick wit make her impossible to ignore—and even harder to protect... -
Season of Blessing by Beverly LaHaye, Terri Blackstock
Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe fourth and final novel about the trials and joys of the residents of Cedar Circle. Sylvia Bryan has been feeling weak and tired, but is shocked when her internist finds a malignant lump in her breast. She and her husband can’t understand why God is allowing cancer to attack at a time when their missionary work is going so well...Categorized as:
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The Lost Letter by Jillian Cantor
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 36 ratingsA heart-breaking, heart-warming historical novel of love and survival inspired by real resistance workers during World War II Austria, and the mysterious love letter that connects generations of Jewish families. For readers of The Nightingale, Lilac Girls, and Sarah's Key. Austria, 1938. Kristoff is a young apprentice to a master Jewish stamp engraver... -
The Heavens Before by Kacy Barnett-Gramckow
Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsMarginalized by society and mistreated by her own family, Annah befriends a young man she's never seen before. Shem is captivated by Annah's courage, and he risks everything to help her gain her freedom... -
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Belle by Beverly Jenkins
Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsBelle Palmer is finally free! Separated from her father on the harrowing escape, Belle is lost and alone until she finds shelter with the Bests, the first free family she's ever known. For the first time in her 16 years, Belle can speak her mind - except for her feelings for a certain dark-eyed young man - The Beau... -
Training the Duke by Alexa Aston
Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsAn army officer who has returned to his childhood home . . . An earl’s daughter forced to earn her own living . . . Two damaged souls who find friendship . . . and love . . . Lieutenant-General Cyrus Cressley’s head wound leaves him blind in one eye and unsuited to lead men into battle... -
The Selection Series Collection by Kiera Cass
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe first four books in Kiera Cass's #1 New York Times bestselling Selection series are now available in one ebook collection! For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon... -
Lions of the Desert by Linda Lee Chaikin
Lions of the Desert opens up in 1915, over a year after the conclusion of Arabian Winds. Nurse Allison Wescott arrives in busy Cairo to serve the British military confronting Kaiser's Germany and their ally, Turkey. In Cairo, Allison meets Major Bret Holden again after his return from London, and their previous romantic but rocky relationship is resumed... -
Valiant Hearts by Linda Lee Chaikin
Valiant Hearts concludes the sweeping World War I saga begun in Arabian Winds and continued in Lions of the Desert... -
Jane Eyre by Stacy King
Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAs an orphaned child, Jane Eyre is first cruelly abused by her aunt, then cast out and sent to a charity school. Though she meets with further abuse, she receives an education, and eventually takes a job as a governess at the estate of Edward Rochester. Jane and Rochester begin to bond, but his dark moods trouble her... -
Wildflower Hill by Kimberley Freeman
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 37 ratingsSPANNING THREE GENERATIONS AND HALF THE WORLD, WILDFLOWER HILL IS A SWEEPING, ROMANTIC, AND COMPELLING STORY OF TWO WOMEN WHO SHARE A LEGACY OF SECRETS, HEARTBREAK, COURAGE, AND LOVE. Emma, a prima ballerina in London, is at a crossroads after an injured knee ruins her career. Forced to rest and take stock of her life, she finds that she’s mistaken fame and achievement for love and fulfillment... -
El Dorado: Further Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel (The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) #7) by Emmuska Orczy
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsThe elusive Pimpernel returns for another swashbuckling adventure in El Dorado. The still-raging French Revolution continues to claim lives, and the shadow of the guillotine draws ever nearer to the young Dauphin, son of Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette... -
The Perils of Lady Catherine de Bourgh by Claudia Gray
Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsThe third book in the Mr. Darcy & Miss Tilney Mystery series, which finds the amateur sleuths facing their most daunting challenge preventing the murder of the imperious Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Someone is trying to kill Lady Catherine de Bourgh. Esteemed aunt of Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy, generous patroness of Mr... -
A Damsel in Distress by P.G. Wodehouse
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsIn P. G. Wodehouse's novel 'A Damsel in Distress,' the reader is transported into a whimsical world of romantic misadventures and comedic escapades. Set in early 20th-century England, the novel follows the story of a young American composer who becomes entangled in the lives of an eccentric aristocratic family... -
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A Wish Upon a Marquess by Maggie Dallen, Katherine Ann Madison
How does a socially inept bluestocking find love? One ruined chemistry set. A marquess in need of a scientific mind. Three meddling friends and, of course. One wish upon a maypole. Miss Camilla Fairbanks' romance starts with a bang. Literally. The explosion is heard by everyone in the Marquess of Ashburn's country estate. But Camilla isn't searching for love when she arrives at Ashburn's manor... -
A Season for Scandal by Laura Wood
“ The Agency for Scandal is glorious! Clever, funny, charming, and achingly romantic, it is a delight from start to finish... -
Loving Lieutenant Lancaster by Sarah M. Eden
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 33 ratingsOrphaned as a child, Arabella Hampton was the unwanted and unloved charge of a cruel aunt and neglectful uncle. The only light in her young life was the kindness of the Jonquil family, and she clung to the childish dream of someday living with them at Lampton Park... -
Web of Lies by Brandilyn Collins
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsShe was washing dishes when her world began to blur. Chelsea Adams hitched in a breath, her skin pebbling. She knew the dreaded sign all too well. God was pushing a vision into her consciousness. Black dots crowded her sight. She dropped a plate, heard it crack against the porcelain sink. Her fingers fumbled for the faucet. The hiss of water ceased. God, I don’t want this... -
Secrets of a Spinster by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsBehind every little secret. .. Mary Hamilton has had enough of being passed over by all of the eligible men in London, though she's had years and years of practice, and she's ready to give it up. But before she hangs up her dancing shoes for good, she wants one season of everything she's never had - invitations, flirtation, and suitors...Categorized as:
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For the Summer by Camille Harte
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsIt's 1983 and eleven-year-old Cat Rossi watches the launch ramp at her dad's marina in Arizona. She's used to the carousel of single summer friends who visit until she meets Will Henderson, the only son of a wealthy doctor. They bond over ice cream, boat rides, and pinky promises, and when August ends, Will vows to come back next year...Categorized as:
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Every Time You Hear That Song by Jenna Voris
They say to never meet your idols. But they never said anything about upending your life for a quest designed by one. Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase has been a lifelong fan of country music legend Decklee Cassel, who’s as famous for her classic hits as she is for her partnership with songwriter Mickenlee Hooper...Categorized as:
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Breakneck by Erica Spindler
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 29 ratingsThe first victim is murdered in his bed. A clean-cut college boy with no criminal record. Then a second victim is killed in the shower, then a third…each one striking closer to home for M. C. When loved ones become targets, M. C. must walk a fine line between upholding the law and taking it into her own hands. At stake is her job, her relationship with Kitt, and possibly, her life... -
An Arrangement of Sorts by Rebecca Connolly
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsHe was intrigued. .. Nathaniel Hammond, Earl of Beverton, is working to restore his new estate and aid his tenants. But everything changes when he meets the beautiful and mysterious Moira Dennison, a bold young woman who offers to hire him, unaware of his title, to help her find her fiancE...Categorized as:
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The Heart of Thomas by Moto Hagio
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsThe setting: a boys boarding school in Germany, sometime in the latter 20th Century. Fourteen year-old Thomas Werner falls from a lonely pedestrian overpass to his death immediately after sending a single, brief letter to a schoolmate:. To Juli, one last time. This is my love. This is the sound of my heart. Surely you must understand... -
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So Cute It Hurts!!, Vol. 6 by Gō Ikeyamada, Tomo Kimura
Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars · 9 ratingsThe Kobayashi twins, Megumu and Mitsuru, were named after historical figures, but only Megumu has grown up with a taste for history... -
Playing Saint by Zachary Bartels
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsYesterday, Parker Saint's only concern was his swiftly rising star power. Today, he's just trying to stay alive. Parker Saint is living the dream. A cushy job at a thriving megachurch has him on the verge of becoming a bestselling author and broadcast celebrity--until life takes an abrupt turn that lands him on the wrong side of the law... -
The Last Valentine by Felix Alexander
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Olivia Villalobos finds a bloodstained love letter she endeavors to deliver it before Chief Inspector Sedeño finds it in her possession. A city along the southern coast of Puerto Rico emerges in the aftermath of the Spanish-American War... -
The Trouble with Friends: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Kelly Miller
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA country miss from a modest estate may destroy Fitzwilliam Darcy’s closest friendship! Darcy and his good friend Simon Lockhart are guests of Charles Bingley at Netherfield Park in Hertfordshire. When the otherwise sensible Lockhart becomes infatuated with Miss Elizabeth Bennet, who has neither wealth nor a renowned family name, Darcy attempts to make his friend see reason... -
The Courtship of Jo March: A Variation of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women by Trix Wilkins
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsIt’s the classic story of four sisters we’ve come to love, and yet we can’t help but wonder... -
Conspiracy of Blood and Smoke by Anne Blankman
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 28 ratingsThe girl known as Gretchen Whitestone has a secret: She used to be part of Adolf Hitler’s inner circle. More than a year after she made an enemy of her old family friend and fled Munich, she lives with a kindly English family, posing as an ordinary German immigrant, and is preparing to graduate from high school. Her love, Daniel Cohen, is a reporter in town... -
A Wish upon an Earl by Katherine Ann Madison, Maggie Dallen
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsHow does a near spinster find love? A knight in shining armor. A little wish about the Maypole. A masquerade ball. And one injured foot…. Lady Sarah Appleton stands accused of a terrible crime. She’s a known romantic. Or at least she was until one epically awful attempt to use her romanticism to catch the love of her life...Categorized as:
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The Cartographer's Secret by Tea Cooper
Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsA map into the past. A long-lost young woman. And a thirty-year family mystery. The Hunter Valley, 1880. Evie Ludgrove loves to chart the landscape around her home—hardly surprising since she grew up in the shadow of her father’s obsession with the great Australian explorer Dr. Ludwig Leichhardt... -
Roanoke: The Lost Colony by Angela Elwell Hunt
Rated: 3.94 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsSeries premiere special price! The Lost Colony recounts the life of Jocelyn Colman, whose faith is tested and refined when she follows the husband she barely knows to an unexplored land. Jocelyn struggles with her husband's bitterness and guilt until God's forgiveness becomes a lifesaving reality...Categorized as:
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Stranger by Keren David
Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsAstor, Ontario. 1904. A boy staggers out of the forest covered in blood and collapses at the feet of 16-year-old Emmy. While others are suspicious and afraid, Emmy is drawn to him. Is he really the monster the townsfolk say he is? Astor, Ontario. 1994. Megan arrives from London for her great grandmother Emmy’s 105th birthday... -
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Seeing Mary by Sarah Adams
One gaze across the ballroom changed my life forever. Lady Mary Ashburn intends to end her Season in London the same way she has ended her past four Seasons—as a single independent woman. If it weren't for her determination to help her friend make a match, she wouldn't be in London at all...Categorized as:
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Sir Percy Leads the Band (The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) #2) by Emmuska Orczy
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe League of the Scarlet Pimpernel has disguised themselves as a group of shabby second-rate musicians, in order to save an innocent family from death. But Citizen Chauvelin is hot on their heels, and still looking for revenge against his bitter enemy. The Pimpernel's plans are, however, complicated by betrayal of a trusted League member... -
Sir Percy Leads the Band (The Scarlet Pimpernel (chronological order) #2) by Emmuska Orczy
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe League of the Scarlet Pimpernel has disguised themselves as a group of shabby second-rate musicians, in order to save an innocent family from death. But Citizen Chauvelin is hot on their heels, and still looking for revenge against his bitter enemy. The Pimpernel's plans are, however, complicated by betrayal of a trusted League member... -
Grave Consequences by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars · 20 ratingsFor Cora Kensington, the journey of a lifetime has taken unexpected turns. And her future—her very life—depends on the decisions she’ll make at each crossroad. As the Grand Tour with her newfound family winds through France, Austria, and Italy, an unseen enemy trails close behind. And a forbidden love continues to put everyone’s plans at risk... -
Glittering Promises by Lisa Tawn Bergren
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsFor Cora Kensington, the Grand Tour was to be the trip of a lifetime. She discovered the family she never knew she had and may have even found the love she longs for in Will. Yet her life has just become infinitely more challenging . . -
Sirens by Janet Fox
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Jo Winter’s parents send her off to live with her rich cousin on the glittering island of Manhattan, it’s to find a husband and forget about her brother Teddy’s death. But all that glitters is not gold. -
Rosemary for Remembrance by Felicity Pulman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen Janna is saved from a wild boar by the villein Godric, she's not sure whether to kiss him or slap him. The last thing she needs is a beau. Janna wants the freedom to follow her dreams - and a marriage proposal isn't in her plans. But Janna's life is shattered when her mother Eadgyth, a healer, dies suddenly, and Janna suspects poison... -
Rue For Repentance by Felicity Pulman
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe second medieval mystery in the deliciously readable Janna Mysteries. After her mother dies and her home is burned to the ground, Janna is forced to flee for her life. She is given shelter at a manor farm, but all is not as it seems... -
Jewel of the Thames by Angela Misri, Sydney Smith
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThere’s a new detective at 221 Baker Street. Set against the background of 1930s England, Jewel of the Thames introduces Portia Adams, a budding detective with an interesting — and somewhat mysterious — heritage. Nineteen-year-old Portia Adams has always been inquisitive. There’s nothing she likes better than working her way through a mystery... -
Masquerade by Kylie Fornasier
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIt's the Carnevale of 1750 and Venice's ballrooms, theatres, palazzos and squares are filled with delicious gossip, devilish fun and dangerous games. In this glittering masked world, everyone has a secret. . -
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Drawing a Blank: Or How I Tried to Solve a Mystery, End a Feud, and Land the Girl of My Dreams by Daniel Ehrenhaft, Trevor Ristow
Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsI don't know how this happened. One day I'm snug in my loner existence at Carnegie Mansion School, and the next I'm tramping through the Scottish wilderness looking for my dad. Who's been kidnapped. Because of a feud that started in medieval times. Or something. Suffice it to say, I never paid too much attention because I thought the whole thing was some twisted figment of my dad's imagination... -
Heavy Vinyl, Vol. 2: Y2K-O! by Carly Usdin, Nina Vakueva
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsAn all-new original graphic novel follow up to the award-nominated Heavy Vinyl: Riot on The Radio that reunites everyone’s favorite girl vigilantes to save the day by stopping Big Music from killing digital music in 1999! SAVE THE INTERNET, SAVE THE WORLD (OF MUSIC)! It’s 1999 and Chris is living her dream: working at Vinyl Destination by day and fighting for (musical) justice by night (okay,... -
To Capture His Heart by Nancy Campbell Allen
Seaside, England, 1886. Eva Caldwell is an accomplished and well-known photographer who often works with the local constabulary to assist in documenting crime scenes, which means she also often works alongside the handsome and charming detective, Nathan Winston...Categorized as:
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Lilies For Love by Felicity Pulman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove, revenge, secrets, and murder in medieval England. On the run from Lord Robert, the man who will stop at nothing to hide his secret, Janna takes refuge at Wiltune Abbey. While there, she desperately seeks to learn to read so she can uncover the truth about her unknown father—but first there are mysteries to be solved... -
Willows For Weeping by Felicity Pulman
Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsMurder at Stonehenge, and a letter that could change the fate of a medieval kingdom at war. Janna has joined a band of pilgrims en route to Oxeneford. Along the journey she finds a dead man carrying a letter bearing the seal of Henry, Bishop of Winchester, now a supporter of the Empress Matilda... -
Size 12 and Ready to Rock by Meg Cabot
Rated: 3.89 of 5 stars · 45 ratingsSummer break . . . and the livin' ain't easy! Just because the students at New York College have flown the coop doesn't mean assistant residence hall director Heather Wells can relax...Categorized as:
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