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  • In This Moment by Gabrielle Meyer

    In This Moment by Gabrielle Meyer

    Rated: 4.62 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Maggie inherited a gift from her time-crossing parents that allows her to live three separate lives in 1861, 1941, and 2001. Each night she goes to sleep in one time period and wakes up in another. Until, that is, she turns twenty-one, when she will have to forfeit two of those lives--and everyone she knows in them--forever...
  • The Lord John Series by Diana Gabaldon

    The Lord John Series by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 13 ratings
    Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series, delivers captivating tales of history, intrigue, and suspense that feature one of her most popular characters: Lord John Grey. This thrilling eBook collection—featuring three novels and one collection of novellas—follows Lord John as he defends his country, ferrets out spies, and unravels a haunting family mystery...
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  • When the Day Comes by Gabrielle Meyer

    When the Day Comes by Gabrielle Meyer

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Libby has been given a powerful gift: to live one life in 1774 colonial Williamsburg and the other in 1914 Gilded Age New York City. When she falls asleep in one life, she wakes up in the other without any time passing. She has one conscious mind but two very different lives and bodies...
  • The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

    The Winter Sea by Susanna Kearsley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 45 ratings
    In the spring of 1708, an invading Jacobite fleet of French and Scottish soldiers nearly succeeded in landing the exiled James Stewart in Scotland to reclaim his crown. Now, Carrie McClelland hopes to turn that story into her next bestselling novel. Settling herself in the shadow of Slains Castle, she creates a heroine named for one of her own ancestors and starts to write...
  • The Villainess Turns the Hourglass by Ant Studio

    The Villainess Turns the Hourglass by Ant Studio

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After her lowly mother married a count, Aria enjoyed a life full of luxury while harassing her gentle stepsister Mielle. Several years later, Aria is about to be executed when Mielle reveals that she wickedly tricked Aria into building the bad reputation that ultimately brought her to the scaffold...
  • The Clearing by Lina J. Potter

    The Clearing by Lina J. Potter

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Enjoy the complete historical romance series now! You change the world, but the world changes you in turn — there is no getting around it. A simple wish to survive irrevocably changed the life of Aliya, a medical student from the modern era. Trapped in a body that isn’t hers in a world in which she does not belong to, Aliya has made her decision – she will live… and she will thrive...
  • The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

    The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 37 ratings
    When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina's ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own...
  • The Book of Carraig by Andrea Matthews

    The Book of Carraig by Andrea Matthews

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Almost 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
    · 6 ratings
    When 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
    · 10 ratings
    Kindle 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...
  • Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

    Mariana by Susanna Kearsley

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    From the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget... The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason...
  • A Fugitive Green by Diana Gabaldon, Jeff Woodman

    A Fugitive Green by Diana Gabaldon, Jeff Woodman

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 15 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Outlander series weaves a captivating story of secrets and intrigue, bringing together Lord John’s elder brother, Harold Grey, and his future wife, Minnie. This novella, originally published in Seven Stones to Stand or Fall, is now available as a standalone ebook...
  • Sleeper's Castle by Barbara Erskine

    Sleeper's Castle by Barbara Erskine

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Two 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...
  • Tryst by Elswyth Thane

    Tryst by Elswyth Thane

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Hilary Shenstone is dead, yet he haunts his old home. Only animals and a young girl Sabrina can sense his presence. The old housekeeper is aware of this, and helps Sabrina to contact the spirit...
  • Never Leave Me by Jody Hedlund

    Never Leave Me by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the last stages of a genetic disease, Ellen Creighton has decided to live out her remaining days at the estate of her longtime friend Harrison Burlington. Harrison cares deeply for Ellen, but as a wheelchair-bound paraplegic, he's never allowed himself to get serious in a relationship. However, he's desperately trying to save her by finding the holy water that is believed to heal any disease...
  • シノビライフ 10 by Shoko Conami

    シノビライフ 10 by Shoko Conami

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Many, many years ago, a ninja named Kagetora devoted his life to protecting Princess Beni (”Beni-Hime”). Unfortunately, they were attacked and Kagetora was flung into a lake, and sank to the bottom… And is somehow warped to the future where he sees the princess Beni being kidnapped.Little does Kagetora know that Beni is not the real princess, but rather her descendant...
  • House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne

    House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can remember nothing about the family gathered around her bed, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do . . . but these memories are not her own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall over four hundred years earlier . .
  • Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Seven Sisters, an antebellum restoration in downtown Mobile, has come to life recently...and not in ways historian Carrie Jo Jardine had expected. After battling and surviving a dangerous encounter with a visitor from the past, Carrie Jo and Seven Sisters’ handsome owner Ashland Stuart have one last mystery to uncover...
  • Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon

    Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    In 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...
  • The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick

    The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In 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 Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick

    The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “An engaging, fast-paced read for fans of Philippa Gregory and of dual-timeline historical fiction...
  • Gladly Beyond by Nichole Van

    Gladly Beyond by Nichole Van

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    An ancient curse, fractured at the birth of three brothers.Two strangers helplessly drawn to each other.A love story two hundred years in the making. Claire Raythorn arrives in Florence, Italy, shattered, alone, and anxious to rebuild her life--preferably one without men. But she soon finds herself hunted and haunted-- literally--when a mysterious stalker dressed like Mr...
  • Green Darkness by Anya Seton

    Green Darkness by Anya Seton

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 19 ratings
    "The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay—the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual souls in two periods of English history." Green Darkness is the story of a great love, in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century...
  • Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When a young, wealthy heiress, Calpurnia Cottonwood, disappears from Seven Sisters in 1850, rumors swirl. But no trace of the girl had ever been found--until now. Historian Carrie Jo Jardine and her handsome employer, Ashland Stuart, find clues to the heiress' whereabouts and even more mysteries are revealed. With Carrie Jo's ability to dream about the past, she watches a sinister plot unfold...
  • The Presence by Heather Graham

    The Presence by Heather Graham

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Revisit 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...
  • Shadows on the Aegean by Suzanne Frank

    Shadows on the Aegean by Suzanne Frank

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Suzanne 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...
  • The Edge of Dark by Pamela Hartshorne

    The Edge of Dark by Pamela Hartshorne

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Jane believes in keeping her promises, but a deathbed vow sets her on a twisting path of deceit and joy that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the golden lily in London's Mincing Lane. Getting what you want, Jane discovers, comes at a price...
  • 冷血公爵の心変わり 1 by Bandalbanji, 에디

    冷血公爵の心変わり 1 by Bandalbanji, 에디

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    백작가의 사생아였던 에르인.반역자가 되어 도망친 가족을 대신해 희생 되기 직전그녀는 목숨을 거두러 온 ‘사신’을 마주 하게 되는데!‘제발 살려주세요! 저는 이런 거, 저런 거 다 해보고 싶어요!’꽃다운 나이에 예쁜 드레스 한 번 못 입어봤다.구애도 받아보고 사랑 받으며 사는 것이 유일한 소원이었던그녀에게, 기적처럼 그녀를 위한 마법진이 발동되고“레이디, 저의 무례를 용서해 주십시오.”“전하!!”“나와 결혼해 주십시오, 내 영혼의 주군이시여...
  • Shifting Sands by Kathi Oram Peterson

    Shifting Sands by Kathi Oram Peterson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    All 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...
  • A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain

    A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan’s attempts to return to the twenty-first century have failed, leaving her stuck at Aldridge Castle in 1815...
  • A Highlander for Christmas by Christina Skye, Debbie Macomber

    A Highlander for Christmas by Christina Skye, Debbie Macomber

    Rated: 3.95 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Hauntingly Beautiful English Christmas Romance Includes a bonus Shirley, Goodness and Mercy mini tale by Debbie Macomber. ONE STRONG WOMAN When American jewelry expert Maggie Kincade arrives at Draycott Abbey, she's stunned to feel as if the abbey's weathered stone walls are somehow…familiar. To her surprise, the hauntingly beautiful English manor soothes her troubled soul...
  • When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin

    When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin

    Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Professor 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...
  • Echoes of Time by Calia Read

    Echoes of Time by Calia Read

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    For Etienne and me, our love has always left a trace.  It reigns over kingdoms, and rules over time.  With Etienne now in the present day, the echoes of time grow louder.  We must face the answers we seek to set things right. However, we must be incredibly careful. One false move and everything we love will be destroyed. And this time, could be the end of our surviving trace...
  • Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson

    Bid Time Return by Richard Matheson

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy...
  • A Plague of Zombies by Diana Gabaldon

    A Plague of Zombies by Diana Gabaldon

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 21 ratings
    Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the acclaimed Outlander series, delivers a captivating tale of history and suspense, with a touch of the supernatural, featuring Lord John Grey. This novella, originally published as “Lord John and the Plague of Zombies,” is now available as a standalone eBook...
  • Dancing with Paris by Juliette Sobanet

    Dancing with Paris by Juliette Sobanet

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In 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...
  • The Egyptian Years by Elizabeth Harris

    The Egyptian Years by Elizabeth Harris

    Rated: 3.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    ‘Unusual romance with a dramatic twist.’ — Woman In 1892, the newly married and vivacious Genevieve Montsorrel disappeared into the Egyptian desert. Only her parasol was ever found — the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, and assumed death, were never explained. A century later, Willa Jamieson comes into the possession of a trunk of Genevieve’s possessions...
  • The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux

    The Summerhouse by Jude Deveraux

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 21 ratings
    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...
  • Somewhere In Time by Richard Matheson

    Somewhere In Time by Richard Matheson

    Rated: 3.86 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Somewhere in Time is the powerful story of a love that transcends time and space, written by one of the Grand Masters of modern fantasy...
  • Twice a Hero by Susan Krinard

    Twice a Hero by Susan Krinard

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A time-travel romance “with all the grace and sensuality readers have come to expect from” the New York Times –bestselling author of Star-Crossed ( Library Journal ). To lift a family curse, MacKenzie Sinclair heads to the Guatemalan jungle to return an amulet her great-great grandfather, Perry Sinclair, took from a Mayan temple...
  • Crossings by Alex Landragin

    Crossings by Alex Landragin

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 20 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...
  • Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Carrie Jo has a secret—she dreams about the past. The handsome and wealthy Ashland Stuart has hired her to uncover the history and the secrets of Seven Sisters, an aging antebellum mansion in sultry downtown Mobile, Alabama. A series of dreams, an untimely death and the betrayal of someone she loves lead her back in time to uncover the truth about a missing young heiress and a web of secrets...
  • The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

    The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

    Rated: 3.85 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    Evelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m.There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.Understood? Then let's begin . . .Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest...
  • The Shoes Come First: A Jennifer Cloud Novel by Janet Leigh

    The Shoes Come First: A Jennifer Cloud Novel by Janet Leigh

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In Sunnyside, Texas, Jennifer Cloud is an assistant purchasing manager for an upscale shoe store. But after her boss is arrested, she's forced to find work elsewhere and ends up in her brother's chiropractic office, where she discovers a hidden passion for helping others...
  • Phantom in Time by Eugenia Riley

    Phantom in Time by Eugenia Riley

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    SEDUCED 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...
  • Fire And Honor by M.S. Parker

    Fire And Honor by M.S. Parker

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When twenty-four-year-old Honor Daviot returns to the States after her latest tour overseas as an army medic, she's ready to settle down with her fiancé, and open her own pediatric practice. A nice, quiet life, away from violence and war. But fate intervenes when she crashes her car...and wakes up to find a handsome stranger watching her...
  • Reflections in the Nile by Suzanne Frank

    Reflections in the Nile by Suzanne Frank

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Imagine that you, a contemporary tourist, are standing awestruck in an ancient Egyptian temple. Suddenly a vortex in time and space sends you back thousands of years to a desert kingdom of glittering splendor...
  • The Confectioner's Tale: A Novel of Paris by Laura Madeleine

    The Confectioner's Tale: A Novel of Paris by Laura Madeleine

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    At the famous Patisserie Clermont, a chance encounter with the owner's daughter has given one young man a glimpse into a life he never knew existed: of sweet cream and melted chocolate, golden caramel and powdered sugar, of pastry light as air. But it is not just the art of confectionery that holds him captive, and soon a forbidden love affair begins...
  • The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer

    The Scribe of Siena by Melodie Winawer

    Rated: 3.73 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Accomplished 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...
  • Midnight on Julia Street by Ciji Ware

    Midnight on Julia Street by Ciji Ware

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    New 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...
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