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Victor’s Blessing

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Historical fiction with a twist. Meticulously researched tale of the Civil War not about the battles but about the everyday lives of the people and told from the often neglected northern point of view from an Osage blacksmith’s unique perspective.
Victor Gant’s life is abundant with blessings. Although his mother was an Osage Indian slave, he is a valuable member of the French and German community of Ste. Genevieve, Missouri. As the town blacksmith he makes a proper living for himself. He is further blessed when he marries the only woman that had ever caught his eye.
But blessings can be fleeting. When the Civil War erupts in 1861, Victor will have to make choices. Torn between doing what’s best for his family or following his conscience, between keeping promises or following his heart…to finally bestowing an agonizing blessing of his own.
Victor’s takes the reader on a historical journey from the patent offices of Washington, D.C. to the battle of Wilderness to the infamous Andersonville prison, where in order for Victor to keep one promise, another must be broken.

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The Bequest (A Regency Romance) by Jean Luntz

The Bequest (A Regency Romance) by Jean Luntz

Joseph Harwood and his cousin Claude Defrose have seven days to meet the criteria of Uncle Edgar’s will. Harwood must marry; Defrose must prevent it. Whoever fails faces financial ruin, social ostracism, and even death. They do not consider that Claude will fall in love with Rebecca, the woman Harwood has chosen because Gwen is out of his reach. In the shadows, another works diligently, manipulating events to gain ownership of both estate and fortune. Wo will win when the time runs out.

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Lust and Chastity (Sins of the Virtuous Book 1) by Faye Hall

About Lust and Chastity (Sins of the Virtuous Book 1) by Faye Hall

Darien Avery followed Caitlyn Sinclair to Rockhampton, Australia, memories of their very heated and intense love affair fresh in his mind. Arriving in North Queensland, he soon discovered he wasn’t the only man in this new country infatuated with this breathtaking blonde haired beauty.

Women fitting the description of Caitlyn were being found dead, victims of the worst kind of sexual sins. Every clue pointed Darien in the direction of his own family. Desperate to protect Caitlyn, he sends her up north to her family hoping to keep her safe. When he received word that her body, along with a man’s, was found shot dead near one of his packing sheds his heart broke.

Caitlyn Sinclair fled from the packing shed in Rockhampton, fearful of the murder she had just committed. Instinct told her to go to the one man who would always keep her safe – Darien Avery. But when she found him, he was already holding another woman in his arms. Broken hearted, she fled up north to the town of Jarvisfield and to her father, determined to live her life independent of any man.

Being accused of murder, Darien flees north to Jarvisfield to start again. It didn’t take long for more women to be found dead, and he knew the man who had been butchering women back in Rockhampton must have followed him north.

When he glimpsed the familiar beauty of Caitlyn Sinclair, relief filled him to find her still alive. He knew then he must warn her of the man hunting her and put an end to this horror. But when he goes to offer her his protection, Darien soon discovers she is no longer his lustful lover, rather a lady of chastity.

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A Song for kitty

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Lily Matthews had always known Aiden Donnelly, but nothing prepared her for the way their childhood friendship is deepening into something more.
Set in the turbulent years before World War I, and with preparations for the Coronation of King George and the suffragist movement in full sway, Lily and Aiden’s lives are about to change forever.
When a chance encounter with Music Hall star and suffragette activist Kitty Marion opens up a world of possibilities, will it bring them closer together or be the source of a devastating separation?
A Song for Kitty blends fictional and real-life characters to transport readers to a captivating time in history.
If you love romantic historical fiction, you’ll be enthralled by this gripping story full of powerful emotions, strong characters, and a dangerous conflict.
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Indulgence and Temperance (Sins of the Virtuous Book 2) by Faye Hall

About Indulgence and Temperance (Sins of the Virtuous Book 2) by Faye Hall

Would you abandon the woman you love for your own indulgence?

Beth Meridian has returned home, hoping to leave her sordid past behind her and settle into a quiet life. When her childhood friend, Hannah Raeburn, offers her a place to stay, Beth knows it won’t be long until she runs into Hannah’s brother, Daniel. What she doesn’t expect is for him to reignite feelings deep in her heart, reminding her of the kiss they shared before she left town.

Daniel Raeburn’s past is scandalous, his sinful indulgences allowing him more wealth than he could ever need. Still, he wants more, and his gluttonous appetite for wealth and women leads him to buy into a partnership at the local hellfire club.

When Hannah goes missing, Beth and Daniel follow her trail through the Australian outback. Witnessing the womanizer Daniel is, Beth flees on a cattle train headed north. Desperate to explain his actions, Daniel follows her.

Arriving in the small town of Jarvisfield, Daniel is shocked to learn that Beth is now the owner of the largest cattle company in the area. He’s even more shocked to discover that the preacher controlling the town, and stealing from the townspeople, is his once business partner William Maxon. He’s convinced this man is also responsible for his sister’s disappearance. When he learns William has Beth picked out as his next victim, Daniel knows he must do whatever it takes to make her listen to the truth. But she has no interest in hearing anything he has to say.

Faced with losing the two women he loves, Daniel is forced to choose between their freedom and the possessions and wealth he has hoarded over the years. But even if he gives it all up, he still might lose everything.

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Dancing in the Ring by Susan E. Sage

About Dancing in the Ring by Susan E. Sage

Detroit in the 1920s proved to be the Paris of the West for many – including Catherine McIntosh and Robert Sage. These two law school students become as passionate about each other as they are their dreams.

From a poor family in the Detroit neighborhood of Corktown, Catherine learned early on, the necessity of being resilient. She becomes one of the first women in Detroit to obtain a law degree. Bob, the ‘battling barrister,’ boxes in order to pay for law school. Despite his gruff and tough-boy personality, my great uncle Bob was a friend to all: judges, cops, and even a couple members of the notorious Purple Gang. The couple becomes legendary in legal circles for their commitment to social justice causes – as well as notorious in the local speakeasies and dancehalls.

At first, their optimism seems boundless, as it had for so many following an era of trauma and challenges that include the 1918 flu pandemic. It isn’t long before their passionate courtship turns into a tempestuous marriage. Then the Great Depression hits and their lives are forever changed.

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Avarice and Charity (Sins of the Virtuous Book 3) by Faye Hall

About Avarice and Charity (Sins of the Virtuous Book 3) by Faye Hall

Would you risk everything to protect the one you love from relentless greed?

After the death of her mother, Charity Bohdan vowed to carry on her work—providing free treatment to those who are sick or injured. What started off as patching up wounds soon took a very different direction when she was being called to treat young women who’d been brutally raped and left pregnant. She knows the risks involved with treating and re-homing these women, but she can’t turn them away.

When Charity is called to treat a drunk’s wounded hand, she expects to find some elderly station hand. Instead she finds a handsome, young man, who isn’t drunk at all. As she tends to his injury, she can’t ignore the feelings he stirs inside her when their skin touches.

Avarice Licciardi has spent his life working for his father—a greedy, loveless man who has destroyed everyone in his way. But when Avarice meets Charity, a woman with the touch of an angel, he discovers there’s something he craves much more than his father’s money. He wants this woman to be a part of his life.

As they spend time together, talking of Irish legends and going on picnics, Avarice begins to win the beautiful woman’s heart. But then his father orders him to retrieve some hidden papers at Charity’s estate. He refuses…until his father threatens to go get the papers himself. Avarice is determined to protect Charity from this brutal man—even if that means deceiving her.

What Avarice finds at her estate is a hidden tunnel with incriminating mysteries far greater than hidden papers. Together Avarice and Charity uncover secrets from the past that sicken their souls as an evil, greedy man threatens to tear them apart in his search for the evidence hidden at the Bohdan estate.

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Sister of the Moon

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Scahta is queen of the Sidhe, the ancient, secretive people of Ireland’s forests. But they are being destroyed by the Tall Invaders, whose iron weapons crush the bronze swords of the Sidhe.

Believing a king can help her save her people, Scahta looks to the kind and handsome Anluan. But he carries the blood of both Sidhe and Invader, and there is a great rift in Scahta’s tribe when she marries Anluan and names him king.

Their tribe divided, the Invaders closing in, Scahta and Anluan are caught between two worlds. If they cannot bring peace to both, this last tribe of Sidhe will suffer the same fate as all the others and become lost forever.

NOTE: Battlefield violence. Mild sexual content; no explicit scenes. This book was first published by Dorchester in 2001. Re-edited by the author and given a new cover, but the same story as the original novel.

No part of this work was created using artificial intelligence (AI) software of any kind.

Each book in this series tells a complete story, so they may be read in any order.

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Queen of the Sun

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Teresa MacEgan, a bold and restless American woman, is vacationing in Ireland. When she insists on riding out alone on Midsummer Eve, the old stablemaster gives her his finest horse: the “true mare.”

Riding into an ancient ring fort, Terri is swept back through the ages to a powerful Irish king. Terri loves this wild, beautiful place and soon King Conaire wishes to make her his queen.

But Terri fears that as queen, she will lose her freedom. Then she learns that the king has rivals determined to take all he has, including the woman he loves. Terri will have to choose between her old ways and a new life with Conaire– if they can save his kingdom before it is too late.

NOTE: Battlefield violence. Some brief scenes of sexual content. This book was first published by Dorchester in 1998. It has been given a re-edit by the author, along with a new cover, but is the same story as the original novel.

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A Court of Blood & Roses

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Sometimes life has a way of kicking you in the teeth…

That is what happened to me when my father traded me and my twin to keep his crown. I was hurled into a new world. Navarre was definitely not the court that I ran the halls in as a child. It was the most sophisticated snake pit I’d ever stepped foot into. I’d done the hard part. I was here, standing in the middle of the viper’s den. Now I must learn how to dance with that which slithers.

My only ally in this sin den is the Prince of Navarre. If anyone can save me from servitude and shield me from his mother, it is him.

One thing is for certain, if I can survive Navarre and the queen mother, I can survive anything…

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Prometheus’ Priestess

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Every stupid thing anyone has ever done has been done for power, or love … or love of power. The Gods are no exception.

Athena has been told by the Fates that humanity is on the brink of extinction. Unbelieving in magic or gods, the insidious fear within the humans will drive them to their demise.

Only a priestess sent by the Gods can save them.

Prometheus, creator of the humans and bearer of foresight, is adamant that sending the priestess to Earth will cause more harm than good. He has no intention of aiding the goddesses’ plan; Fates be damned. He also has no intention of falling in love.

When he steals white fire, a symbol of the Gods’ knowledge, and gives it to the priestess … the Fates align. Humanity will never be the same again. A new era will begin.

But at what cost to those involved?

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Saving Taylor by Lynn Landes

About Saving Taylor by Lynn Landes

Taylor Allen is an eyewitness to a double murder. Raised in the church, she only sang for the Lord, until her father sold her to pay off his gambling debts to the local Opera House. Taylor’s voice is a magnet that draws in crowds but not even her talent can save her from a murderer. After a brutal attack she runs for her life.
On the train to New York, they are hunting for the woman that robbed and set fire to a saloon, killing the owner, and burning down several buildings in the process. How did she end up in his private sleeper car with a gun pointed at him?

John Fielding Jr. is determined to help prove her innocence and claim her heart in the process.

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His Hand-Me-Down Countess (Lustful Lords, Book 1)

About His Hand-Me-Down Countess (Lustful Lords, Book 1)

His brother’s untimely death leaves him with an Earldom and a fiancée. Too bad he wants neither of them…

Theodora Lawton has no need of a husband. As an independent woman, she wants to own property, make investments and be the master of her destiny. Unfortunately, her father signed her life away in a marriage contract to the future Earl of Stonemere. But then the cad upped and died, leaving her fate in the hands of his brother, one of the renowned Lustful Lords.

Achilles Denton, the Earl of Stonemere, is far more prepared to be a soldier than a peer. Deeply scarred by his last tour of duty, he knows he will never be a proper, upstanding pillar of the empire. Balanced on the edge of madness, he finds respite by keeping a tight rein on his life, both in and out of the bedroom. His brother’s death has left him with responsibilities he never wanted and isn’t prepared to handle in the respectable manner expected of a peer.

Further complicating his new life is an unwanted fiancée who comes with his equally unwanted title. Saddled with a hand-me-down countess, he soon discovers the woman is a force unto herself. As he grapples with the burden of his new responsibilities, he discovers someone wants him dead. The question is, can he stay alive long enough to figure out who’s trying to kill him while he tries to tame his headstrong wife?

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One Enchanted Evening

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Lord Archer Sinclair and his twin brother, Lucas, had built a life centered on duty as the heads of the magical Oaken and never intended to marry for love until they met sisters Garnet and Jade Renaux. With one look, everything changed. Now, they just had to convince the daughters of a Pirate King that one enchanted evening was just the beginning…

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The Mermaid and the Bear

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Isobell needs to escape. She has to. Her life depends on it.

She has a plan and it’s a well thought-out, well observed plan, to flee her privileged life in London and the cruel man who would marry her, and ruin her, and make a fresh start in Scotland.

She dreams of faery castles, surrounded by ancient woodlands and misty lochs… and maybe even romance, in the dark and haunted eyes of a mysterious Laird.

Despite the superstitious nature of the time and place, her dreams seem to be coming true, as she finds friendship and warmth, love and safety. And the chance for a new beginning…

Until the past catches up with her.

Set in the late sixteenth century, at the height of the Scottish witchcraft accusations, The Mermaid and the Bear is a story of triumph over evil, hope through adversity, faith in humankind and – above all – love.

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Sedition Book I: Xian by Grea Alexander

About Sedition Book I: Xian by Grea Alexander

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Qing Dynasty, China.

Having done the unthinkable, Lady Choi Xian finds herself in an impossible situation.

Fleeing with her personal bodyguard, Commander Ishikawa Kenji, to The Forbidden City in China – where her lover and soon to be coronated Emperor holds sway, Xian believes she is safe.

However, with the Korean princess and future Empress determined to make her life a living hell, can Xian escape The Forbidden City before it’s too late?

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A Touch of Romance By Paullett Golden

About A Touch of Romance By Paullett Golden

Release Day – December 26th!!

Despite the odds, two poets manifest their dreams.

His recent appointment as Regius Professor has Jules Knowlton enjoying a life of leisure, one that begins with a writing retreat to stimulate his mind but ends with the unanticipated arousal of his heart. The problem? His newfound ladylove is arranged to marry someone else.

Leila Owen is a loyal and devoted daughter, one who would do anything for her family, anything except marry the suitor they’ve chosen for her. Using her poetic cunning, she schemes ways to convince her parents the man of her choice is a better match. The problem? The suitor is nothing if not perfect.

This is the love story of Jules and Leila, two poets who playact through life’s charade.

From second chance romances to mistaken identities, experience A Touch of Romance in this collection of one short novel and twelve bonus flash fiction pieces.

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A Secret Christmas by Lauren Royal

About A Secret Christmas by Lauren Royal

It’s 1651, and Christmas has been outlawed by England’s new Commonwealth government. But that won’t stop Lady Chrystabel Trevor from embracing the holiday spirit. When she finds herself snowed in with handsome and intriguing Joseph Ashcroft, the Viscount Tremayne, merrymaking leads to mayhem. In a time of fear and oppression, can the magic of Christmas bring two hearts together?

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