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  • Stormy Days On Mulberry Lane by Rosie Clarke

    Stormy Days On Mulberry Lane by Rosie Clarke

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    London 1950Peggy Ronoscki is happily settling into life running her guesthouse on Mulberry Lane, surrounded by close friends and family. Life just seems too good…But then disaster strikes.Pip, her beloved son is left in a coma following a devastating car crash and a young girl collapses in the market leaving Peggy no option but to nurse her back to health...
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    military  historical  20th century
  • The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester

    The Paris Secret by Natasha Lester

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Paris Orphan comes an unforgettable historical novel about a secret collection of Dior gowns that ties back to the first female pilots of WWII and a heartbreaking story of love and sacrifice.England, 1939: The Penrose sisters couldn't be more different. Skye is a daring and brash pilot, and Liberty the one to defy her at every turn...
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    military  historical  20th century  war  mystery
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  • Cocky Origins by Faleena Hopkins

    Cocky Origins by Faleena Hopkins

    Rated: 4.86 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A period-piece novel to charm the pants right off of you... New to the series? A prequel is a great place to start. Fan of the series? Oh boy, are you going to love this. Miss May Eloise Kearns meets for the very first time the young and oh-so-handsome Jerald Daniel Cocker, a submarine planesman for the Navy on special leave in Georgia, U.S.A., at the end of World War II...
  • The Last Letter from Juliet by Melanie Hudson

    The Last Letter from Juliet by Melanie Hudson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    "The USA TODAY bestseller for fans of Soraya M. Lane, Heather Morris, Fiona Valpy and Pam Jenoff. Inspired by the brave women of WWII, this is a moving and powerful novel of friendship, love and resilience. A story of love not a story of a war. A daring WWII pilot who grew up among the clouds, Juliet Caron's life was one of courage, adventure - and a love torn apart by war...
  • The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett

    The Disorderly Knights by Dorothy Dunnett

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The third volume in The Lymond Chronicles , the highly renowned series of historical novels by Dorothy Dunnett, Disorderly Knights takes place in 1551, when Francis Crawford of Lymond is dispatched to embattled Malta, to assist the Knights of Hospitallers in defending the island against the Turks...
  • The Secret Midwife by Soraya M. Lane

    The Secret Midwife by Soraya M. Lane

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The London Girls comes a story of courage and resilience amidst the horror of Auschwitz―and one woman’s last chance to share it with the world...
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    military  20th century  historical  war
  • The Land Beneath Us by Sarah Sundin

    The Land Beneath Us by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    In 1943, Private Clay Paxton trains hard with the US Army Rangers at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, determined to do his best in the upcoming Allied invasion of France. With his future stolen by his brothers' betrayal, Clay has only one thing to live for--fulfilling the recurring dream of his death...
  • 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
    · 12 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...
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    military  historical  christmas
  • The Country Bride: The final book in the heartwarming, romance saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Village Scandal by Dilly Court

    The Country Bride: The final book in the heartwarming, romance saga from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Village Scandal by Dilly Court

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The third book in the dramatic new Village Secrets trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author. The time had come to leave Creek Manor. Their relationship was doomed from the start, he was the master of the house and she the servant…  Summer, Little Creek 1879For most of her life, Judy Begg has been a loyal servant at Creek Manor and to Jack Fox, its future lord...
  • The Ops Room Girls: An uplifting and romantic WW2 saga by Vicki Beeby

    The Ops Room Girls: An uplifting and romantic WW2 saga by Vicki Beeby

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When Evie’s dreams come crashing down, she’s determined to still make something of herself in these trying times…It is 1939 and working class Evie Bishop has received a scholarship to study mathematics at Oxford when tragedy turns her life upside down...
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    military  historical  20th century  war
  • To Tame a Rogue by Alexa Aston

    To Tame a Rogue by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A spy with a guilty conscience. A war widow who works for the government. Both united to bring down a ring of traitors...To prevent her father from marrying her off to an elderly suitor, Lady Gemma Barton begs her childhood friend to marry her, devising a way for them to be found in a compromising position...
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    regency  historical  victorian
  • The Secret Heart by Mary Lancaster

    The Secret Heart by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Betrayal, temptation and an impossible love.The final book in the Unmarriageable series...Some suspect that Lily Villin is the true heart of the Hart Inn, a lucky house where love always seems to blossom, whatever the obstacles. But Lily has another secret. She is in love with an enigmatic nobleman, and no luck in the world can make such a marriage possible...
  • Abandoned to the Prodigal by Mary Lancaster

    Abandoned to the Prodigal by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Who knew that love could be fun? Ruined and abandoned by her betrothed, Lady Juliet has no choice but to take the stagecoach home to her family in Yorkshire. Fortunately, she is protected on the journey by a handsome and amusing self-styled “wastrel”.Daniel Stewart—together with his enormous, unruly mongrel dog—is reluctantly answering a summons to his grandfather’s deathbed...
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    regency  victorian  historical
  • The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy

    The Skylark's Secret by Fiona Valpy

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Loch Ewe, 1940. When gamekeeper’s daughter Flora’s remote highland village finds itself the base for the Royal Navy’s Arctic convoys, life in her close-knit community changes forever. In defiance of his disapproving father, the laird’s son falls in love with Flora, and as tensions build in their disrupted home, any chance of their happiness seems doomed...
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    military  historical  highlander  20th century  war
  • On a Turning Tide by Ellie Dean

    On a Turning Tide by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Cliffehaven, October 1944 As the Allied troops draw closer to victory, life at Beach View Boarding House is still full of uncertainty. Rosie’s plans for her wedding to Ron Reilly are plagued with misunderstandings. And when Ron takes on a secret assignment just days before they are due to say their vows, it seems their plans for a future together may be doomed...
    Categorized as:
    military  20th century  historical  victorian
  • The Rebel by Tess Thompson

    The Rebel by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.74 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    She watches helplessly as the man she loves leaves to fight with the Allies overseas. He promises her he will return to her alive and well. Will he be able to keep his promise, or will he be yet another lost soldier in a war against tyranny?After four years at a university, Delphia Barnes returns home to Emerson Pass as America prepares to join the war...
    Categorized as:
    military  20th century  historical
  • The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

    The German Midwife by Mandy Robotham

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    For readers of The Tattooist of Auschwitz and Kate Furnivall comes a gritty tale of courage, betrayal and love in the most unlikely of places. Germany, 1944. Taken from the camps to serve the Fuhrer himself, Anke Hoff has been assigned as midwife to one of Hitler’s inner circle. If she refuses, her family will die...
    Categorized as:
    military  historical  20th century  war
  • Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler

    Life and Fate by Vasily Grossman, Robert Chandler

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Based around the pivotal WWII battle of Stalingrad (1942-3), where the German advance into Russia was eventually halted by the Red Army, and around an extended family, the Shaposhnikovs, and their many friends and acquaintances, Life and Fate recounts the experience of characters caught up in an immense struggle between opposing armies and ideologies...
  • A Mother''s Journey: A dramatic and heartwarming new saga from the bestselling author by Donna Douglas

    A Mother''s Journey: A dramatic and heartwarming new saga from the bestselling author by Donna Douglas

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    *FROM THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE NIGHTINGALE SERIES* A dramatic and heartwarming new saga series from the well-loved Donna Douglas, this will be one of Orion's biggest launches of 2020.Hull, 1940. Edie Copeland has just arrived on Jubilee Row, carrying a secret and a heavy suitcase...
    Categorized as:
    military  historical
  • The Forbidden Promise by Lorna Cook

    The Forbidden Promise by Lorna Cook

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The stunning new story of love and secrets from the Number One bestselling author of The Forgotten VillageScotland, 1940:War rages across Europe, but Invermoray House is at peace. Until the night of Constance’s twenty-first birthday, when she’s the only person to see a Spitfire crash into the loch...
  • Queens' Play by Dorothy Dunnett

    Queens' Play by Dorothy Dunnett

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions. Second in the legendary Lymond Chronicles , Queen's Play follows Frances Crawford of Lymond who has been abruptly called into the service of Mary Queen of Scots...
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    military  highlander  historical  medieval  mystery
  • What Happens in Piccadilly by Chasity Bowlin

    What Happens in Piccadilly by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    There's no such thing as just a kiss... Chaos! That is what greets Miss Calliope St. James when she enters the household of her prospective employer, Lord Winn Hamilton, the Earl of Montgomery. The newly appointed guardian for his nieces and nephew, he's clearly a man who has no idea what to do with children..
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical
  • The Star and the Shamrock by Jean Grainger

    The Star and the Shamrock by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Ariella Bannon has no choice: she must put her precious children, Liesl and Erich, on that train or allow them to become prey for the Nazis. Berlin 1939...
    Categorized as:
    military  historical
  • The Scent of Love by Meara Platt

    The Scent of Love by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 7 ratings
    Will The Book of Love work its magic on Belle and Finn?Belle Farthingale knows something is wrong in the family business and is worried her father has gotten in over his head. She needs Finn Brayden’s help to get him out of trouble, but after their humiliating encounter at Lady Dayne’s tea party, will he ever speak to her again?Finn Brayden has one rule: never mix business with pleasure...
    Categorized as:
    regency  historical  victorian  open-door
  • Unmasked by her Lover by Mary Lancaster

    Unmasked by her Lover by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Revealing the true love of her life! The thrilling conclusion to the Season of Scandal series! Lady Meg’s parents decide that the best solution to the scandal breaking over her head, is to marry her to her old childhood friend, Harry. Meg will not allow it. Instead, she persuades Harry to take her secretly to her twin sister’s house in Kent to ride out the storm...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical
  • Beguiled by a Baron by Christi Caldwell

    Beguiled by a Baron by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    A Lady with a Secret… Partially deaf, with a birthmark marring her face, Bridget Hamilton is content with her life, even if she’s been cast out of her family. But her peaceful existence—expanding her mind with her study of rare books—is threatened with an ultimatum from her evil brother—steal a valuable book or give up her son. Bridget has no choice; her son is her world...
    Categorized as:
    military  regency  historical  victorian
  • Meant for the Marquess by Alexa Aston

    Meant for the Marquess by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    An army major compelled to leave the military. A lady forced to earn her living. Two souls finding a new way of life . . . and each other . . . along with love. A brutal attack leaves Major Devin Hunt missing two fingers. Unable to fire a gun, he sells his commission and takes refuge with a former fellow officer who has now become a duke...
  • Deserted by Mary Lancaster

    Deserted by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Abandoned by all, saved a cold-hearted rake…Sophia, once betrothed to Major Giles Butler, who shot the Duke of Cuttyngham in a duel, has become the companion of the widowed duchess. In theory, at least. But when the duchess also abandons Sophia at Cuttyngs, her past catches up with her in the shape of her bullying cousins...
  • The Lost Lieutenant by Erica Vetsch

    The Lost Lieutenant by Erica Vetsch

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    He's doing what he can to save the Prince Regent's life . . . but can he save his new marriage as well? Evan Eldridge never meant to be a war hero--he just wanted to fight Napoleon for the future of his country. And he certainly didn't think that saving the life of a peer would mean being made the Earl of Whitelock...
  • Miss Desirable by Grace Burrowes

    Miss Desirable by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Miss Catherine Fairchild spent much of her life haring about the globe with her diplomat parents, though she grasped at a young age that as a legitimate by-blow, her social standing among Polite Society would be marginal at best...
  • The Broken Heart by Mary Lancaster

    The Broken Heart by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Danger, loyalty and loving the enemy… Book 4 in The Unmarriageable Series is now available! Read for Free with Kindle Unlimited! Shunned by society and even by her own family after the treachery of her late husband, Isabelle de Renarde has long given up any thought of love or remarriage...
  • Captured by Mary Lancaster

    Captured by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Awakening life and love… On the sudden death of her oppressive father in a duel, the cool and distant Lady Hera Severne finds herself floundering in her new freedom, and instantly attracted to sardonic doctor, Justin Rivers. Determined to change her life, she travels incognito to Lincolnshire, to take up a post as companion to Lady Astley and learn about life.But nothing is as she imagined it...
  • From the Fields of Porthlenn by Deborah M. Hathaway

    From the Fields of Porthlenn by Deborah M. Hathaway

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    A Regency Romance—Cornwall, 1818Poppy Honeysett wants to be seen as the woman she is—not as the naive young lady she was. She will no longer race across beaches or collect seashells like a child. And she will not, under any circumstances, pine after the lieutenant who broke his promise—and her heart—two years before...
  • Sin and the Soldier by Mary Lancaster

    Sin and the Soldier by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A damaged soldier bound to a musician with a past.They have never spoken. But for two years, the haunted soldier has attended Natalie’s concerts at Maida Gardens, bringing her a little self-belief and a few harmless daydreams.Captain Lord Richard Gorse, wounded in body and soul, finds the beautiful harpist’s music is the only thing that soothes his troubled spirit...
    Categorized as:
    regency  military  victorian  historical
  • The Rogue and the Wallflower by Collette Cameron

    The Rogue and the Wallflower by Collette Cameron

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    He loved her beyond anything and everything—precisely why he must never marry her. Love—sentimental drivel for weak, feckless fools. Since an explosion ravaged Captain Morgan Le Draco’s face and cost him his commission in the Royal Dragoons, he’s fortified himself behind a rampart of cynicism and distrust. He’s put aside all thoughts of marrying until he risks his life to save a drowning woman...
  • Schooling the Duke by Christi Caldwell

    Schooling the Duke by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Book 1 in a brand-new Regency series by Christi Caldwell! There once was a gypsy’s pendant said to bring its wearer the heart of a duke. Some found love and others--heart ache...
  • To Bed the Baron by Emma V. Leech

    To Bed the Baron by Emma V. Leech

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Girls who dare – Inside every wallflower is the beating heart of a lioness, a passionate individual willing to risk all for their dream, if only they can find the courage to begin. When these overlooked girls make a pact to change their lives, anything can happen. Eleven girls – eleven dares in a hat, twelve passionate stories. Who will dare to risk it all? To Bed the Baron...
  • The Art of Victory by Martha Keyes

    The Art of Victory by Martha Keyes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Diana Donovan was raised aboard a naval ship on a steady diet of war strategy, so when her orphaned friend, Lucy, is denied a perfectly respectable love match by her controlling guardian, Diana sees an opportunity to put her battle knowledge to use in service of a deserving friend.But Marmaduke Russell is not the middle-aged curmudgeon Diana is expecting...
  • The Weaver's Daughter by Sarah E. Ladd

    The Weaver's Daughter by Sarah E. Ladd

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Kate's loyalties bind her to the past. Henry's loyalties compel him to strive for a better future...
    Categorized as:
    military  regency  historical  christian
  • Captivated by a Lady's Charm by Christi Caldwell

    Captivated by a Lady's Charm by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In need of a wife… Christian Villiers, the Marquess of St. Cyr, despises the role he's been cast into as fortune hunter but requires the funds to keep his marquisate solvent. Yet, the sins of his past cloud his future, preventing him from seeing beyond his fateful actions at the Battle of Toulouse...
    Categorized as:
    military  regency  historical  victorian
  • Miss Dignified by Grace Burrowes

    Miss Dignified by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Lydia Lovelace has taken the housekeeper’s post in the London home of Captain Dylan Powell. The captain is short on charm, but he’s known for his rapport with, and support of, former soldiers trying to make a peacetime life in London...
  • What Darkness Brings by C.S. Harris

    What Darkness Brings by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The death of a notorious London diamond merchant draws aristocratic investigator Sebastian St. Cyr and his new wife Hero into a sordid world of greed, desperation, and the occult, when the husband of Sebastian’s former lover Kat Boleyn is accused of the murder...
  • The Bluestocking's Fortune by Audrey Harrison

    The Bluestocking's Fortune by Audrey Harrison

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    An unexpected fortune can transform a young woman’s prospects in society, whether she likes it or not.Miss Lydia Hesketh is a confirmed bluestocking. As she is also tall, bespectacled and has no fortune to speak of, she does not have suitors beating down her door, which is absolutely fine.Surrounded by good friends, she enjoys her studious life until an unexpected inheritance upends her world...
    Categorized as:
    regency  military  historical  christian
  • Wintercombe by Pamela Belle

    Wintercombe by Pamela Belle

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Historical fiction set during the English Civil War between the Royalists of Charles I and the Roundheads of Oliver Cromwell. Civil war has raged across England for two years while a beautiful Puritan lady guards her husband’s ancestral home, Wintercombe. When enemy troops invade the house and a maniacal Lieutenant terrorizes the family, Silence St...
    Categorized as:
    military  regency  contemporary  historical
  • An Affair by the Sea by Erica Ridley

    An Affair by the Sea by Erica Ridley

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    What happens when a wallflower's extremely make-believe fake suitor appears in the flesh just in time to ruin all her spinsterly plans?Orphaned pianist Allegra Brown is a poor relation with nothing much to recommend her, save a minuscule dowry and a very big imagination...
    Categorized as:
    regency  military  historical  humor  plain heroine
  • Saving Captain Drummond by Audrey Harrison

    Saving Captain Drummond by Audrey Harrison

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A Regency Romance They thought falling in love was easy. The uncertainties of war was to prove it wasn’t. Captain Cameron Drummond is away from the woman he loves, fighting in the Peninsular War with Arthur Wellesley, the soon to become Duke of Wellington. The battle at Talavera will see Cameron’s life changed forever…Lady Helena Ashton has led a sheltered life in Berkshire...
    Categorized as:
    regency  military  historical
  • Miss Dauntless by Grace Burrowes

    Miss Dauntless by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Matilda Merridew, former hoyden of the first water, finds herself widowed, weary, and in want of coin. Along comes Marcus, Lord Tremont, with an interesting–and decent–proposition. Tremont will provide Matilda a handsome salary and keep a commodious roof over her head if she will relieve him of the burden of managing a houseful of unruly former soldiers...
    Categorized as:
    regency  military  historical  mystery  war
  • A Duke Worth Fighting For by Christina Britton

    A Duke Worth Fighting For by Christina Britton

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A fake relationship becomes the real thing in this Regency romance from the bestselling author Publishers Weekly calls "irresistible."To protect the dukedom from an incompetent and greedy cousin, Daniel Hayle, Duke of Carlisle, has promised to find a bride in London this season...
    Categorized as:
    military  regency  historical
  • Into the Whirlwind by Elizabeth Camden

    Into the Whirlwind by Elizabeth Camden

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 15 ratings
    After her father's death, Mollie Knox takes over his watchmaking company and uses her head for business to solidify the good name of the 57th Illinois Watch Company. Her future looks bright until the night her beloved city is destroyed in the legendary Great Chicago Fire...
  • Commander of His Heart by Arlem Hawks

    Commander of His Heart by Arlem Hawks

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Love is a luxury she can't afford until he comes aboard.Lessons in propriety did little to prepare Marah Kinsley for life on board a creaky old boat. Now widowed, the boat is her livelihood, if she can only keep the navy from learning that she has shouldered the work of maintaining it...
    Categorized as:
    regency  military  historical  christian
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