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  • Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Ponniyin Selvan- Whirlwinds : Part 2 by Kalki

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    Whirlwinds, the exciting second part of Kalki R Krishnamurthy's historic magnum opus Ponniyin Selvan, our hero Vallavarayan Vandhiyathevan's adventures continue as he rides into marshy quagmires, befriends a mysterious girl, becomes the object of intense suspicion by the wily Pazhuvettarayars - and meets the hero of his dreams...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  war
  • The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett

    The Ringed Castle by Dorothy Dunnett

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    For the first time Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles are available in the United States in quality paperback editions.Fifth in the legendary Lymond Chronicles , The Ringed Castle leaps from Mary Tudor's England to the barbaric Russia of Ivan the Terrible. Francis Crawford of Lymond moves to Muscovy, where he becomes advisor and general to the half-mad tsar...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  medieval
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  • The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley

    The Shadow Sister (The Seven Sisters) by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    Following on from the bestselling The Seven Sisters and The Storm Sister, The Shadow Sister is the third book in Lucinda Riley's spellbinding series, loosely based on the mythology of the Seven Sisters star cluster...
  • The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley

    The Sun Sister by Lucinda Riley

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    The Sun Sister is the sixth epic story in the Seven Sisters series by the number one international bestseller Lucinda Riley.To the outside world, Electra d'Apliese seems as though she is the woman who has everything: as one of the world's top models, she is beautiful, rich and famous...
  • The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Souls of Lost Lake by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Wren Blythe has long enjoyed being among the Northwoods, helping her father with programming at a youth camp. But when a little girl in the area goes missing, an all-out search ensues, reviving the decades-old campfire story of Ava Coons, the murderess, who still roams the woods. Joining the search, Wren stumbles upon the Coons cabin ruins and a rotting porcelain doll...
  • The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

    The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The year is 1327. Franciscans in a wealthy Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, and Brother William of Baskerville arrives to investigate. When his delicate mission is suddenly overshadowed by seven bizarre deaths, Brother William turns detective...
  • The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    A lost child: On the eve of the First World War, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her - but has disappeared without a trace. A terrible secret: On the night of her twenty-first birthday, Nell Andrews learns a secret that will change her life forever...
  • The City of Tears by Kate Mosse

    The City of Tears by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Following on from the Sunday Times number one bestseller, The Burning Chambers, Kate Mosse's The City of Tears is the second thrilling historical epic in The Burning Chambers series, for fans of Ken Follett and Dan Brown...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy  war  military
  • Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Dovetail by Karen McQuestion

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of Hello Love comes a spellbinding new novel of enduring love, family secrets, and mysterious death.Joe Arneson’s ordinary life is upended by troubling dreams of himself as a different man in another place and time. It isn’t until he visits his estranged grandmother, Pearl, in her Wisconsin hometown that a startling connection emerges...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  fantasy
  • A Family Affair by Mary Jane Staples

    A Family Affair by Mary Jane Staples

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1926 was the year of the General Strike, but Adams Enterprises, under the wily management of Sammy Adams, youngest entrepreneur in Walworth and Lambeth, was doing very well. All the Adams brothers worked in the business, and so did two of the wives, Emily and Susie. There was just one dark cloud on the horizon - the impending trial of Gerald Ponsonby...
  • On Mother Brown's Doorstep by Mary Jane Staples

    On Mother Brown's Doorstep by Mary Jane Staples

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The big event of the Walworth year was to be the wedding of Sammy Adams, King of Camberwell, to Miss Susie Brown. Everyone was looking forward to it, and Susie was particularly overjoyed when her soldier brother suddenly turned up on leave from service in India in time for the approaching 'knees-up'...
  • Wormwood Abbey by Christina Baehr

    Wormwood Abbey by Christina Baehr

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    As a Victorian clergyman’s daughter, Edith Worms has seen everything — until a mythical salamander tumbles out of the fireplace into her lap. When a letter arrives from estranged relatives, Edith is swept away to a crumbling gothic Abbey in the wilds of Yorkshire...
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    mystery  christian  fantasy  historical  victorian
  • The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    The Premonition at Withers Farm by Jaime Jo Wright

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In 1910 Michigan, Perliett VanHilton is a self-proclaimed rural healer, leaving the local doctor, George Wasziak, convinced she practices quackery. It doesn't help that her mother, Maribeth VanHilton, is a Spiritualist who regularly offers her services to help others speak to their dearly departed...
  • Firstborn by Tosca Lee

    Firstborn by Tosca Lee

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    From New York Times bestselling author Tosca Lee comes the much-anticipated, high-speed sequel to The Progeny. Face-to-face with her past, Audra Ellison now knows the secret she gave up everything—including her memory—to protect. A secret made vulnerable by her rediscovery, and so powerful neither the Historian nor the traitor Prince Nikola will ever let her live to keep it...
  • A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

    A Dangerous Fortune by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    In 1866, tragedy strikes at the exclusive Windfield School. A young student drowns in a mysterious accident involving a small circle of boys. The drowning and its aftermath initiates a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives...
  • A Man Called Blessed (The Caleb Books Series Book 2) by Ted Dekker

    A Man Called Blessed (The Caleb Books Series Book 2) by Ted Dekker

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    One man holds the key to locating the Ark of the Covenant—but he’s hidden deep in the desert and no one has seen him since he was a boy. In this explosive sequel to Blessed Child, Jewish soldier-turned-archaeologist Rebecca Soloman leads a team deep into the Ethiopian desert to find the one man who may know the final resting place of the Ark of the Covenant...
  • The Axe by Sigrid Undset

    The Axe by Sigrid Undset

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Set in 13th-century Norway, The Axe is the first volume in Undset's epic tetralogy, The Master of Hestviken. In it, we meet Olav Audunsson and Ingunn Steinfinnsdatter, who were betrothed as children and raised as brother and sister. In the heedlessness of youth, they become lovers, unaware that their ardor will forge the first link in a chain of murder, exile, and disgrace...
  • The Call of the Sea by Sian Ann Bessey

    The Call of the Sea by Sian Ann Bessey

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A Viking Historical RomanceOn the eve of her betrothal to a nobleman she’s never met, Rhiannon seeks comfort on the shores of the sea she loves so well. But instead of offering peace to her uneasy heart, the ocean heralds doom with the arrival of dreaded Viking ships. A vicious raid leads to the death of her beloved father and leaves Rhiannon’s life in tatters...
  • The Last Dollar Princess by Linda Bennett Pennell

    The Last Dollar Princess by Linda Bennett Pennell

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It must be said: Scandal follows her family like an ever-faithful hound. No matter how hard they kick it away, it comes slinking around time after time. Although her relatives are obsessed with social position and the opinions of others, heiress India Elisabeth Petra De Vries Ledbetter is determined to live life on her own terms, family expectations and society's demands be damned...
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    mystery  20th century  historical  fantasy
  • Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies

    Night Train to Marrakech by Dinah Jefferies

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    MARRAKECH 1966 Vicky Baudin steps onto a train winding through Morocco, looking for the grandmother she has never met. It’s an epic journey that’ll take her to the edge of Atlas Mountains – and closer to the answers she’s been craving all her life. But dark secrets whisper amongst the dunes. And in unlocking the mystery of Clemence’s past, Vicky will unearth great danger too . .
  • Tales of Love, Madness and Death by Horacio Quiroga

    Tales of Love, Madness and Death by Horacio Quiroga

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    This is an English translation of the famous collection of 18 weird tales of Horacio Quiroga, which is presented as a Spanish/English bilingual edition.Most of the stories are dark and strange and describe situations that offer no clear way out for the protagonist...
  • A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    A Place Called Freedom by Ken Follett

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER   Scotland, 1766. Sentenced to a life of misery in the brutal coal mines, twenty-one-year-old Mack McAsh hungers for escape. His only the beautiful, highborn Lizzie Hallim, who is trapped in her own kind of hell. Though separated by politics and position, these two restless young people are bound by their passionate search for a place called freedom...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy
  • Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier

    Frenchman's Creek by Daphne du Maurier

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Bored and restless in London's Restoration Court, Lady Dona escapes into the British countryside with her restlessness and thirst for adventure as her only guides.Eventually Dona lands in remote Navron, looking for peace of mind in its solitary woods and hidden creeks. She finds the passion her spirit craves in the love of a daring French pirate who is being hunted by all of Cornwall...
  • The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

    The Half Life of Valery K by Natasha Pulley

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    From the author of The Watchmaker of Filigree Street and The Kingdoms, an epic Cold War novel set in a mysterious town in Soviet Russia...
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    mystery  suspense  20th century  historical  fantasy  war  m-m
  • Awakening by Tracy L. Higley

    Awakening by Tracy L. Higley

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Awakening Critically-Acclaimed Romantic Suspense Novel Kallie Andreas is a mystery, even to herself. Seven years ago Kallie woke up in a New York City museum, injured and traumatized. Alone and unclaimed...
  • Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Dreaming Death by J. Kathleen Cheney

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the Novels of the Golden City, J. Kathleen Cheney created a “mesmerizing” (Publishers Weekly) realm where magic, history, and intrigue combine. Now, she presents a new world ruled by psychic talents and fatal magic... Shironne Anjir's status as a sensitive is both a gift and a curse...
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    suspense  mystery  fantasy  historical  magic
  • The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    The Smoke Hunter by Jacquelyn Benson

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "Indiana Jones meets Lara Croft in Benson's engrossing action thriller."-RT Book Reviews, Top Pick THE DEBUT OF A CAPTIVATING VOICE AND RIVETING STORYTELLER!Frustrated suffragette and would-be archaeologist Ellie Mallory stumbles across a map to a city that shouldn't exist, a jungle metropolis alive and flourishing centuries after the Mayan civilization mysteriously collapsed...
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    suspense  mystery  historical  fantasy
  • When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

    When We Were Gods by Colin Falconer

    Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Caesar, Antony, Cleopatra, Augustus. Only one can rule. Only one can live.Alexandria, 51 BC: When Cleopatra VII assumes the throne of Egypt, the Roman empire rules the Mediterranean with an iron fist. But Cleopatra has an audacious plan to change the course of history. Allied first with Caesar and then with his protégé Marc Antony, she dares to challenge the might of Rome...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  ancient times  fantasy  war
  • The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him...
  • The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him...
  • The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him...
  • The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    The Clockmaker’s Wife by Daisy Wood

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The world is at war. And time is running out…London, 1940. Britain is gripped by the terror of the Blitz, forcing Nell Spelman to flee the capital with her young daughter – leaving behind her husband, Arthur, the clockmaker who keeps Big Ben chiming. When Arthur disappears, Nell is desperate to find him...
  • The Scent of Jasmine by Jude Deveraux

    The Scent of Jasmine by Jude Deveraux

    Rated: 3.97 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 16 ratings
    Would you risk your life—on the love of a lifetime? Charleston, 1799: A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in Virginia, waiting to fulfill her dream of marriage and family. But Cay’s adventurous spirit, fostered by growing up with her three brothers, is piqued while visiting her godfather in South Carolina...
  • The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    The Burning Chambers by Kate Mosse

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    Carcassonne 1562: Nineteen-year-old Minou Joubert receives an anonymous letter at her father’s bookshop. Sealed with a distinctive family crest, it contains just five words: SHE KNOWS THAT YOU LIVE. But before Minou can decipher the mysterious message, a chance encounter with a young Huguenot convert, Piet Reydon, changes her destiny forever...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  fantasy
  • Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn

    Dark Road to Darjeeling by Deanna Raybourn

    Rated: 3.87 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 28 ratings
    After eight idyllic months in the Mediterranean, Lady Julia Grey and her detective husband are ready to put their investigative talents to work once more. At the urging of Julia's eccentric family, they hurry to India to aid an old friend, the newly widowed Jane Cavendish...
  • Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by C.J. Archer

    Murder at the Mayfair Hotel by C.J. Archer

    Rated: 3.91 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    It was the most fashionable place to stay in London, until murder made a reservation. Solve the puzzle in this new cozy historical mystery from USA Today bestselling author of the Glass and Steele series.December 1899. After the death of her beloved grandmother, Cleopatra Fox moves into the luxury hotel owned by her estranged uncle in the hopes of putting hardship and loneliness behind her...
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    mystery  suspense  historical  victorian  regency  fantasy
  • Pompeii: City on Fire by T.L. Higley, Tracy L. Higley

    Pompeii: City on Fire by T.L. Higley, Tracy L. Higley

    Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Pleasure-seeking Romans find the seaside town of Pompeii the perfect gateway. But when the rich patrician Cato escapes Rome, intent on a life of leisure, he is unprepared for the hostility he encounters. In the same place, but at the opposite end of society, Ariella has disguised herself as a young boy to be sold into a gladiator troupe. Survival is her only ambition...
  • Christie, Agatha - Spiders Web by Christie Agatha

    Christie, Agatha - Spiders Web by Christie Agatha

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    Clarissa, the wife of a Foreign Office diplomat, is given to daydreaming. ‘Supposing I were to come down one morning and find a dead body in the library, what should I do?’ she muses. Clarissa has her chance to find out when she discovers a body in the drawing-room of her house in Kent...
  • Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau

    Dreamland by Nancy Bilyeau

    Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    'Achingly believable' - Publishers Weekly 'Beautifully written and impeccably researched, Dreamland is a rollicking ride...
  • The Brilliance of Stars by J'nell Ciesielski

    The Brilliance of Stars by J'nell Ciesielski

    Rated: 3.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Amid the chaos of the Great War, two master assassins risk it all for love.Washington DC, 1914. Taken in from the streets as a child, Ivy Olwen attends a prestigious school for orphans but soon discovers that her training goes far beyond arithmetic and spelling...
  • Christie, Agatha - Three Act Tragedy by Christie Agatha

    Christie, Agatha - Three Act Tragedy by Christie Agatha

    Rated: 3.84 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    At an apparently respectable dinner party, a vicar is the first to die...Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house. It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington, who choked on his cocktail, went into convulsions and died...
  • The Vesuvius Club: Graphic Edition by Mark Gatiss, Ian Bass

    The Vesuvius Club: Graphic Edition by Mark Gatiss, Ian Bass

    Rated: 3.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Mark Gatiss' cult creation, Lucifer Box, as you've never seen him before—in a new graphic-novel edition of his first adventure! On it's first publication, Mark Gatiss' The Vesuvius Club was critically acclaimed as an inspired cult creation. Now you are invited, more intimately, into the world of Lucifer Box, as his first adventure plays out in this graphic-novel edition...
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    mystery  suspense  fantasy  humor  historical  steampunk
  • The Third Son by Elise Marion

    The Third Son by Elise Marion

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Prince Damien, the spoiled youngest son of the king of Cardenas, finds that his world will never quite be the same again when a fiery Gypsy girl, Esmeralda, comes dancing into his privileged life. Rake. Rogue. Scoundrel. Each of these words has been used to describe Damien Largess, youngest prince of Cardenas, most frequently by his ridiculously somber eldest brother...
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    mystery  suspense  fantasy  historical  victorian
  • The Sweetest Hallelujah by Elaine Hussey

    The Sweetest Hallelujah by Elaine Hussey

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An unforgettable story of two courageous women brought together by one extraordinary little girl   Betty Jewel Hughes was once the hottest black jazz singer in Memphis. But when she finds herself pregnant and alone, she gives up her dream of being a star to raise her beautiful daughter, Billie, in Shakerag, Mississippi...
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    20th century  christian  historical  fantasy
  • Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi

    Chanakya's Chant by Ashwin Sanghi

    Rated: 3.79 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    The year is 340 BC. A hunted, haunted Brahmin youth vows revenge for the gruesome murder of his beloved father. Cold, calculating, cruel and armed with a complete absence of accepted morals, he becomes the most powerful political strategist in Bharat and succeeds in uniting a ragged country against the invasion of the army of that demigod, Alexander the Great...
  • The Curse of Penryth Hall by Jess Armstrong

    The Curse of Penryth Hall by Jess Armstrong

    Rated: 3.64 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    An atmospheric gothic mystery that beautifully brings the ancient Cornish countryside to life, Armstrong introduces heroine Ruby Vaughn in her Minotaur Books & Mystery Writers of America First Crime Novel Award-winning debut, The Curse of Penryth Hall...
  • City of Lies by Victoria Thompson

    City of Lies by Victoria Thompson

    Rated: 3.66 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Elizabeth Miles scours 1920’s Washington, D.C. for a killer in the first Counterfeit Lady novel from the author of the New York Times bestselling Gaslight mysteries. Every woman plays a part—but some are more dangerous than others… Like most women, Elizabeth Miles assumes many roles; unlike most, hers have made her a woman on the run...
  • The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson

    The Tenth Gift by Jane Johnson

    Rated: 3.74 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    In an expensive London restaurant Julia Lovat receives a gift that will change her life. It appears to be a book of exquisite 17th-century embroidery patterns but on closer examination Julia finds it also contains faint diary entries...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  fantasy  historical  pirates
  • Masks by Fumiko Enchi

    Masks by Fumiko Enchi

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Following the death of her son, Mieko Toganō takes an increasing interest in the personal affairs of her widowed daughter-in-law, Yasuko. Devastated by her loss, she skillfully manipulates the relationships between Yasuko and the two men who are in love with her, encouraging a dalliance that will have terrible consequences...
  • The Romance Reader's Guide to Life by Sharon Pywell

    The Romance Reader's Guide to Life by Sharon Pywell

    Rated: 3.49 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    As a young girl, Neave was often stuck in a world that didn’t know what to do with her. As her mother not unkindly told her, she was never going to grow up to be a great beauty. Her glamorous sister, Lilly, moved easily through the world, a parade of handsome men in pursuit. Her brother didn’t want a girl joining his group of friends...
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