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  • A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean

    A Fire Sparkling by Julianne MacLean

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    An Amazon Charts and Washington Post bestseller. From the USA Today bestselling author of A Curve in the Road comes a spellbinding novel about one woman’s love, loss, and courage during wartime...
  • The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley

    The Midnight Rose by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Spanning four generations, The Midnight Rose sweeps from the glittering palaces of the great maharajas of India to the majestic stately homes of England, following the extraordinary life of a remarkable girl, Anahita Chaval, from 1911 to the present day . .
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  • The Words We Whisper by Mary Ellen Taylor

    The Words We Whisper by Mary Ellen Taylor

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    As a hospice nurse, Zara Mitchell has already seen more death than most people will experience in a lifetime. So when her older sister asks her to help care for their ailing grandmother, Zara agrees—despite strained family relationships.Though pale and tired, Nonna has lost none of her sharp mind...
  • Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

    Right Ho, Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    This eBook has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Bertie returns to London from several weeks in Cannes spent in the company of his Aunt Dahlia Travers and her daughter Angela...
  • Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi

    Something Dangerous by Penny Vincenzi

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The dazzling Lytton twins, Adele and Venetia, are born into the great Lytton publishing empire. In 1928, on their eighteenth birthday, they are rich and admired, with a confidence verging on arrogance. But the spectre of Nazi Germany is growing... Gradually their privileged world darkens in unimaginable ways - but it is not just the twins whose lives have been irrevocably changed...
  • The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns

    The Woman in the White Kimono by Ana Johns

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Oceans and decades apart, two women are inextricably bound by the secrets between them.Japan, 1957...
  • Her Last Promise by Kathryn Hughes

    Her Last Promise by Kathryn Hughes

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    A mysterious letter from Spain. A surprising new beginning... Fall in love this summer with Her Last Promise, a gripping, heartwrenching story of how hope can blossom in the ruins of tragedy and of the redeeming power of love. From No. 1 bestselling author Kathryn Hughes. Tara Richards was just a girl when she lost her mother...
  • The Stationmaster's Cottage by Phillipa Nefri Clark

    The Stationmaster's Cottage by Phillipa Nefri Clark

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Christie is happy in her life... or so she tells herself. Despite the tragedy in her childhood, she has a satisfying career, a city apartment, and a long-term relationship. But deep down she yearns for a simpler life. Family. A garden. And a place to heal her heart.The decision to attend a funeral in a town she's never heard of throws her safe world into disarray, exposing the holes in her life...
  • Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams

    Along the Infinite Sea by Beatriz Williams

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Wives comes another riveting novel of the Schuyler sisters—where the epic story of star-crossed lovers in pre-war Europe collides with a woman on the run in the swinging '60s...In the autumn of 1966, Pepper Schuyler's problems are in a class of their own...
  • Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

    Four to Score by Janet Evanovich

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 50 ratings
    Stephanie Plum, Trenton, New Jersey's favorite pistol-packing, condom-carrying bounty hunter, is back - and on the trail of a revenge-seeking waitress who's skipped bail. With the help of 73-year-old Grandma Mazur, ex-hooker Lula, a transvestite musician named Sally Sweet, and the all-too-hospitable, all-too-sexy Joe Morelli, Stephanie might just catch her woman...
  • The Brighter the Light by Mary Ellen Taylor

    The Brighter the Light by Mary Ellen Taylor

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Honeysuckle Season comes an evocative dual-timeline novel detailing one woman’s journey to discover the hidden stories of her family’s seaside resort.When a shipwreck surfaces, old secrets are sure to follow.Or so goes the lore in Ivy Neale’s hometown of Nags Head, North Carolina...
  • Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

    Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    With a “knack for romantic tension and page-turning suspense, this one is a winner.” The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful New York Times bestselling novel by Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas (Booklist, starred review)...
  • Embers in the London Sky by Sarah Sundin

    Embers in the London Sky by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to wait out the Occupation. Separated from her three-year-old son, Theo, in the process, the young widow desperately searches for her little boy even as she works for an agency responsible for evacuating children to the countryside...
  • Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

    Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas.Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . .
  • Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

    Necessary Lies by Diane Chamberlain

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    Bestselling author Diane Chamberlain delivers a breakout book about a small southern town fifty years ago, and the darkest—and most hopeful—places in the human heart After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm...
  • The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

    The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 41 ratings
    1959 England. Laurel Nicholson is sixteen years old, dreaming alone in her childhood tree house during a family celebration at their home, Green Acres Farm. She spies a stranger coming up the long road to the farm and then observes her mother, Dorothy, speaking to him. And then she witnesses a crime.Fifty years later, Laurel is a successful and well-regarded actress, living in London...
  • The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

    The Venice Sketchbook by Rhys Bowen

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 39 ratings
    Love and secrets collide in Venice during WWII in an enthralling novel of brief encounters and lasting romance by the New York Times bestselling author of The Tuscan Child and Above the Bay of Angels.Caroline Grant is struggling to accept the end of her marriage when she receives an unexpected bequest. Her beloved great-aunt Lettie leaves her a sketchbook, three keys, and a final whisper…Venice...
  • The Last Party at Silverton Hall by Rachel Burton

    The Last Party at Silverton Hall by Rachel Burton

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A gripping and heartbreaking tale of family, duty and the secrets we keep from those we love most. Perfect for fans of Rachel Hore, Lorna Cook and Kathryn Hughes.Two women. Two centuries. A life-changing night...1952: Vivien and Max collide in the thick London smog...
  • Across the Winding River by Aimie K. Runyan

    Across the Winding River by Aimie K. Runyan

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    A woman unlocks the mystery of her father’s wartime past in a moving novel about secrets, sacrifice, and the power of love by the bestselling author of Daughters of the Night Sky.Beth Cohen wants to make the most of the months she has left with her elderly father, Max...
  • The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester

    The Disappearance of Astrid Bricard by Natasha Lester

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Three generations. One chance to prove themselves. Can the women of the Bricard fashion dynasty finally rewrite their history?French countryside, Present  Blythe Bricard is the daughter of famous fashion muses but that doesn't mean she wants to be one. She turned her back on that world, and her dreams, years ago...
  • Something New by P. G. Wodehouse

    Something New by P. G. Wodehouse

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    One thing that constantly disrupts the peace of life at Blandings is the constant incursion of impostors. Blandings has impostors like other houses have mice. Now there are two of them – both intent on a dangerous enterprise...
  • Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson

    Catching the Wind by Melanie Dobson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    What happened to Brigitte Berthold? That question has haunted Daniel Knight since he was thirteen, when he and eleven-year-old Brigitte escaped the Gestapo agents who arrested both their parents. They survived a harrowing journey from Germany to England, only to be separated upon their arrival...
  • Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson

    Hidden Among the Stars by Melanie Dobson

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    From the award-winning author of Catching the Wind, which Publishers Weekly called “unforgettable” and a “must-read,” comes another gripping time-slip novel about hidden treasure, a castle, and ordinary people who resisted evil in their own extraordinary way...
  • At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

    At Home in Mitford by Jan Karon

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Enter the world of Mitford, and you won't want to leave. It's easy to feel at home in Mitford. In these high, green hills, the air is pure, the village is charming, and the people are generally lovable. Yet, Father Tim, the bachelor rector, wants something more. Enter a dog the size of a sofa who moves in and won't go away...
  • Deadly Promise by Brenda Joyce

    Deadly Promise by Brenda Joyce

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    It is March of 1902, and Francesca Cahill-Fifth Avenue heiress, undaunted political activist and intrepid amateur sleuth-has just learned of a grave new danger haunting the streets of New York. A beautiful teenage girl named Emily O'Hare is missing and Francesca fears that the girl has been abducted...
  • The Lake House by Kate Morton

    The Lake House by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 47 ratings
    An abandoned house...June 1933, and sixteen-year-old Alice Edevane is preparing for her family's Midsummer Eve party at their country home, Loeanneth. But by the time midnight strikes and fireworks light up the night skies, the Edevane family will have suffered a loss so great that they leave Loeanneth forever.A missing child..
  • Her Mother's Secret by Rosanna Ley

    Her Mother's Secret by Rosanna Ley

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    'Sun-soaked escapism' BestFor many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland - the magical island of Belle-Île-en-Mer in Southern Brittany - afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears about her mother Thea's failing health and realises that the time has come for her to go home...
  • No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

    No Angel by Penny Vincenzi

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    No Angel is an irresistibly sweeping saga of power, family politics, and passion-a riveting drama and a fervent love story. Celia Lytton is the beautiful and strong-willed daughter of wealthy aristocrats and she is used to getting her way...
  • Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie

    Absent in the Spring by Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Escrevendo anonimamente sob o pseudônimo de Mary Westmacott, Agatha Christie, conhecida mundialmente como a Rainha do Crime, deixa de lado a investigaçăo policial para explorar a alma humana, seus conflitos e emoçőes.Em "Ausęncia na primavera", Mary Westmacott conta a história de Joan Scudamore, uma típica dona de casa que está voltando do Oriente após fazer uma visita a sua filha em Bagdá...
  • Her Mother's Secret by Rosanna Ley

    Her Mother's Secret by Rosanna Ley

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    For many years Colette has avoided returning to her homeland - the magical island of Belle-?le-en-Mer in Southern Brittany - afraid to confront the painful memories she left behind. She is living on the Cornish coast when she hears about her mother Thea's failing health and realises that the time has come for her to go home...
  • The Girl from Bletchley Park by Kathleen McGurl

    The Girl from Bletchley Park by Kathleen McGurl

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Will love lead her to a devastating choice?1942. Three years into the war, Pam turns down her hard-won place at Oxford University to become a codebreaker at Bletchley Park. There, she meets two young men, both keen to impress her, and Pam finds herself falling hard for one of them...
  • In Love's Time by Kate Breslin

    In Love's Time by Kate Breslin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the summer of 1918, Captain Marcus Weatherford arrives in Russia on a secret mission, with a beautiful ballerina posing as his fiancée. Marcus searches for the Romanov Tsarina and her son--who both allegedly survived the murdering Bolsheviks--and the information behind an allied plot to assassinate Lenin. But Marcus's sense of duty battles his desire to return home to Clare--his actual love...
  • In Love's Time by Kate Breslin

    In Love's Time by Kate Breslin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the summer of 1918, Captain Marcus Weatherford arrives in Russia on a secret mission, with a beautiful ballerina posing as his fiancée. Marcus searches for the Romanov Tsarina and her son--who both allegedly survived the murdering Bolsheviks--and the information behind an allied plot to assassinate Lenin. But Marcus's sense of duty battles his desire to return home to Clare--his actual love...
  • In Love's Time by Kate Breslin

    In Love's Time by Kate Breslin

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Captain Marcus Weatherford arrives in Russia on a secret mission with a ballerina posing as his fianc�ee, but his sense of duty battles his desire to return home to Clare. Clare Danner fears losing her daughter to the father's heartless family, but only Marcus can provide the proof to save her...
  • The Making of a Matchmaker: A Prequel by Tess Thompson

    The Making of a Matchmaker: A Prequel by Tess Thompson

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the fall of 1910, a violent patriarch with many enemies is murdered, freeing his long-suffering wife and four misfit children. Can a secret matchmaking plan find love for the eccentric members of the Tutheridge family?The four Tutheridge siblings grew up under the savage dictatorship of their wealthy and powerful father...
  • All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes

    All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When a baby is discovered floating in a basket along the canals of 1807 Venice, a guild of artisans takes him in and raises him as a son, skilled in each of their trades. Although the boy, Sebastian Trovato, has wrestled with questions of his origins, it isn't until a woman washes ashore his lagoon island that answers begin to emerge...
  • All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes

    All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    "Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins...
  • All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes

    All the Lost Places by Amanda Dykes

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Discovered floating in a basket along the canals of Venice, Sebastien Trovato wrestles with questions of his origins. Decades later, on an assignment to translate a rare book, Daniel Goodman finds himself embroiled in a web of secrets carefully kept within the ancient city and in the mystery of the man whose story the book does not finish: Sebastien...
  • The Curator's Daughter by Melanie Dobson

    The Curator's Daughter by Melanie Dobson

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A young girl, kidnapped on the eve of Word War II, changes the lives of a German archaeologist forced into the Nazi Party and--decades later--a researcher trying to overcome her own trauma.1940. Hanna Tillich cherishes her work as an archaeologist for the Third Reich, searching for the Holy Grail and other artifacts to bolster evidence of a master Aryan race...
  • Sins of the Fathers by Susan Howatch

    Sins of the Fathers by Susan Howatch

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Full of fascinating dialogue, surprising twists of plot, and well-developed, memorable characters, a stunningly successful work of fiction. NASHVILLE BANNER This is the tumultuous novel of men and women pitted against a world of wealth, power, and privilege..
  • Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell Ciesielski

    Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell Ciesielski

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In Ciesielski’s latest sweeping romance, an American heiress finds herself in Scotland amid the fallout of the Great War, and a wounded Scottish laird comes face-to-face with his past and a woman he never could have expected.American socialite Lily Durham is known for enjoying one moment to the next, with little regard for the consequences of her actions...
  • For Renata by B. Robert Sharry

    For Renata by B. Robert Sharry

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Moving at a fast clip...the narrative explores many weighty issues...which Sharry covers with insight and finesse. ...the tale becomes quite gripping as... past mysteries unfold. A nostalgic romance, rich with Portuguese culture and a few surprising twists at the end." KIRKUS REVIEWS...
  • The Olive Tree by Lucinda Riley

    The Olive Tree by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It is said that anyone who comes to stay at 'Pandora' for the first time will fall in love . . . It has been twenty-four years since a young Helena spent a magical holiday in Cyprus, where she fell in love for the first time. When the now crumbling house, 'Pandora', is left to her by her godfather, she returns to spend the summer there with her family...
  • With Hope by Dorothy Garlock

    With Hope by Dorothy Garlock

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Oklahoma, 1932: Trouble seems to be rolling up like the dust on the dry yellow horizon beyond Henry Ann's farm. Her father is dead and her two rebellious half-siblings are now her responsibility. Then Tom Dolan, a new neighbor, comes into her life bringing both a ray of hope and burdens of his own. Before they can fully love each other, tragedy strikes. Tom is suspected of murder..
  • Deadly Desire by Brenda Joyce

    Deadly Desire by Brenda Joyce

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    The time is turn-of-the-century New York City. Society's elite host glittering balls inside sprawling mansions while outside, the teeming street harbor secrets of their own. New York City's Police Commissioner Rick Bragg has been called upon to investigate a shocking crime...
  • Deadly Caress by Brenda Joyce

    Deadly Caress by Brenda Joyce

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Brenda Joyce's New York Times best-selling novels have thrilled millions of readers. Now, in her latest Francesca Cahill novel, return to the lush mansions and teeming streets of New York City's Gilded Age, where intrigue and seduction lie on every corner... The year is 1902. The place is New York City...
  • Deadly Pleasure by Brenda Joyce

    Deadly Pleasure by Brenda Joyce

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Brenda Joyce has enthralled millions of readers with her New York Times bestselling novels. Now, join us in the next chapter of her unforgettable storytelling: the Francesca Cahill novels. Step into the glittering world of New York City's high society at the turn of the last century, where murder and pleasure are one and the same, and love becomes the ultimate weapon..
  • The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

    The Secret Life of Violet Grant by Beatriz Williams

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    Manhattan, 1964. Vivian Schuyler, newly graduated from Bryn Mawr College, has recently defied the privilege of her storied old Fifth Avenue family to do the unthinkable for a budding Kennedy-era socialite: break into the Mad Men world of razor-stylish Metropolitan magazine...
  • The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley

    The Orchid House by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Spanning from the 1930s to the present day, from the Wharton Park estate in England to Thailand, this sweeping novel tells the tale of a concert pianist and the aristocratic Crawford family, whose shocking secrets are revealed, leading to devastating consequences...
  • Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell Ciesielski

    Beauty Among Ruins by J'nell Ciesielski

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    In Ciesielski’s latest sweeping romance, an American heiress finds herself in Scotland amid the fallout of the Great War, and a wounded Scottish laird comes face-to-face with his past and a woman he never could have expected.American socialite Lily Durham is known for enjoying one moment to the next, with little regard for the consequences of her actions...
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