Historical romance
Diversified Publishing The Ball at Versailles
Book SynopsisFour American debutantes attend a renowned Paris cotillion in #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel’s captivating new novel.It’s the summer of 1959 and the Palace of Versailles is hosting an event that will make history. It is an exclusive dusk-to-dawn ball in which a select group of American and French debutantes will be presented to international society and royalty. Four young women, all with something to prove, receive what some see as the invitation of a lifetime.Amelia Alexander, who hopes to eventually attend law school, hesitates to participate in what she sees as an archaic and privileged tradition. But her indomitable widowed mother, Jane, who’s struggled financially and sacrificed for a career, encourages her to attend. Jane would do anything for Amelia to have the chance at a happily ever after.Felicity Smith is equally uncertain about the ball. Although her family is prominent in the Dallas social scene,
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Penguin Putnam Inc Becoming Belle
Book SynopsisA witty and inherently feminist novel about passion and marriage, based on a true story of an unstoppable woman ahead of her time in Victorian London.In 1887, Isabel Bilton is the eldest of three daughters of a middle-class military family, growing up in a small garrison town. By 1891 she is the Countess of Clancarty, dubbed the peasant countess by the press, and a member of the Irish aristocracy. Becoming Belle is the story of the four years in between, of Belle's rapid ascent and the people that tried to tear her down. With only her talent, charm, and determination, Isabel moves to London alone at age nineteen, changes her name to Belle, and takes the city by storm, facing unthinkable hardships as she rises to fame. A true bohemian and the star of a dancing double act she performs with her sister, she reigns over The Empire Theatre and The Corinthian Club, where only select society entertains. It is there she falls passionately in love with William, Visc
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Penguin Putnam Inc Acts of Love and War
Book SynopsisA remarkable story of love and sacrifice centred on three young English volunteers in the bloody Spanish Civil War, from the author of The Prisoner's Wife.1936. Civil war is tearing Spain apart, and the world is on the brink of chaos... Twenty-one-year-old Lucy is frustrated with her constrained life in Hertfordshire, teaching and keeping house for her domineering father. But she is happy to be living next door to Tom and Jamie, two brothers she has known since childhood, and whom she loves equally. But everyone's lives are turned upside down when Tom, the younger, decides to join the Republican cause in the bloody war in Spain. His older, fervently Catholic brother Jamie soon follows--but as a reporter for the opposing forces that support General Franco in keeping Spain rigidly authoritarian, with the help of both Hitler and Mussolini. Lucy decides the only way to ensure the brothers' safety is to defy her father and
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Simon & Schuster Other Boleyn Girl the Plantagenet and Tudor
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CamCat Publishing, LLC Bewitching a Highlander
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Allison & Busby The Season
Book SynopsisHenrietta Gaydon is making her debut in London society for the Season and while she finds herself popular with 'beaux', her apparent ease disguises the fact that she is out of her depth, and dreads the objective of her Season: finding a husband
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Baker Publishing Group Firefly Island
Book SynopsisLisa Wingate Is a Top Name in Inspirational Contemporary Romance At thirty-four, congressional staffer Mallory Hale is about to embark on an adventure completely off the map. After a whirlwind romance, she is hopelessly in love with two men--fortunately, they''re related. Daniel Everson and his little boy, Nick, are a package deal, and Mallory suddenly can''t imagine her future without them.Mallory couldn''t be more shocked when Daniel asks her to marry him, move to Texas, and form a family with him and motherless Nick. The idea is both thrilling and terrifying. Mallory takes a leap of faith and begins a sweet, mishap-filled journey into ranch living, Moses Lake society, and a marriage that at times reminds her of the mail-order-bride stories. But despite the wild adventure of her new life, she discovers secrets and questions beneath her rosy new life. Can she find answers on Firefly Island, a little chunk of property just off the lakeshore, where mysterio
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Baker Publishing Group From This Day Forward
Book SynopsisRevisit Old Friends in Blessing in This Heartwarming Series ConclusionDeborah MacCallister, head nurse at the Blessing hospital, has loved Toby Valders since her school days, but she''s had enough of their on-again, off-again relationship. Toby truly cares for Deborah, but he''s never felt like he could commit to marriage or a family.When Anton Genddarm, the new schoolteacher, comes to town, the young women of Blessing see a chance to force Toby''s hand with a little strategic matchmaking. But real sparks fly between Deborah and Anton, and she finds herself in an even more complicated situation. The attention she gets from Anton makes Toby do some serious soul-searching, but is it too late?Then Deborah receives an invitation to study the latest advances in nursing at a hospital in Chicago, and she faces a hard choice. To leave or stay? Should she give up on the dream of Toby and accept the interest of Anton?
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Baker Publishing Group Caught by Surprise
Book SynopsisMiss Temperance Flowerdew is on her way to work when a stranger suddenly grabs her off the street and sends her on a Chicago-bound train before she can figure out what happened.When Mr. Gilbert Cavendish is called upon to rescue a missing woman, he follows the trail to Chicago only to discover that the woman is his good friend Temperance. Before they can discover who was behind the abduction, they''re seen alone together by a New York society matron, putting their reputations at risk.Gilbert is willing to propose marriage--except Temperance will have none of it. She''s finally stepped out of the shadow of her relations and won''t give up her independence. But when it becomes clear the misunderstanding in Chicago has escalated into a threat on her life and followed her to New York, accepting Gilbert''s help in solving the mystery may lead to more than she ever could have dreamed.
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Baker Publishing Group An Elegant Façade
Book SynopsisLady Georgina Hawthorne has worked hard to become the Incomparable for her debut season. She is determined to marry well--and Colin McCrae is not her idea of eligible. But as their paths continue to cross, their ongoing clash of wits has both Georgina and Colin questioning their first impressions as well as their priorities and ambitions.
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Baker Publishing Group The Artful Match
Book SynopsisCara Bernay has never fit in. At loose ends in 1881 London after a near tragedy costs her a job, she befriends a carefree artist. With his help, she begins planning a new life and developing her own artistic talent. But soon Cara finds herself at odds with the artist''s brother--a handsome but arrogant earl forcing his brother back to a 'respectable' life.Henry Burke, the Earl of Morestowe, feels the weight of growing financial burdens. His younger brother is the one person who can save their family, and Henry needs him back home. Despite misgivings about Cara''s mysterious background, Henry sees she''s a positive influence on his brother and on Henry''s young ward, and he strikes a deal with her to return with them to their estate. But the family has their own secrets, and when Cara, drawn ever closer to Henry, stumbles onto the truth, she must choose between following her heart and pursuing a bold plan that could bring disaster.
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Baker Publishing Group The Way of Love
Book SynopsisFaith Kenner is pursuing her dream to become a doctor at Willamette University''s medical college so she can use her gift for healing to help those in need, especially the native populations forced onto reservations and then neglected. When she meets Andrew Gratton, a handsome riverboat captain who has been injured on his ship, she uses her skills to tend his wound, and a friendship grows between them. Andrew admires her strength and willingness to stand her ground, and Faith appreciates his intelligence and compassion. But Faith holds a secret that means their friendship can never become anything more, so she must bury her feelings for Andrew as best she can.When her fellow students put together lectures to speak out against Oregon''s racist laws and policies, Faith is eager to participate. But some powerful men have other plans for their state, and soon Faith is caught in the middle of a plot to push the local Indian tribes to rebel. As she and Andrew fight for the rights o
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Baker Publishing Group Forever by Your Side 3 Willamette Brides
Book SynopsisAccompanied by her best friend, Thomas Lowell, Constance Browning returns from studying in the East to catalog the native peoples of Oregon--and to prove that her missionary parents aren't involved in a secret conspiracy to goad the oppressed tribes to war. As tensions rise amid shocking revelations, Constance may also have a revelation of the heart.
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Baker Publishing Group Waiting on Love
Book SynopsisShe''s made big promises. It''ll take everything she''s got to keep them. Crisscrossing the Great Lakes onboard her father''s freighter ship, the Mary Elise, Elise Wright has grown up cooking and caring for the crew. It is a life she loves. Unlike her estranged sister, Elise has turned down numerous opportunities for a 'respectable life' with their wealthy relatives. And now, because of promises she made to her dying mother, she''s bound to the ship and her deeply grieving father more than ever. Nick Clark is grateful to be hired on as the Mary Elise''s first mate as he works to overcome his own guilt and others'' censure for a fatal decision he made captaining another ship. He feels protective of the Wrights and their generous natures, especially when a rough new sailor seems intent on causing serious trouble. As the sailor''s misdeeds grow, tragedy swells up from another corner. Left to pick up the pieces of the commitments they''ve made to themselves and to each other, Nick and Elise will have to rely on their faith to see them through.
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Baker Publishing Group Woman of Sunlight
Book SynopsisAfter they're forced off their land by a ruthless cattle baron, Mitch Warden follows his family to the mountain, but he doesn't expect to fall smitten with a woman dressed like Robin Hood. Intent on reclaiming his land, he must journey to the city--and when Ilsa insists on joining, the mismatched pair find themselves on an adventure they'll never
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Baker Publishing Group Her Secret Song
Book SynopsisAfter a rough winter spent alone, Ursula Nordegren realizes she must overcome her fears of the outside world and begins a trek down Hope Mountain. Along the way she finds a badly wounded stranger and realizes God may have used her decision to leave as a way of saving the man. Wax Mosby was climbing Hope Mountain in part to atone for his terrible choices. He was hired to drive out the Warden family and now knows he was duped. But when he''s wounded during the climb, the last person he expects to rescue him is a beautiful blond woman with the voice of an angel. As both Ursula and Wax weigh the costs of living new lives, the two find an unlikely bond. And they''re joined by Ursula''s sisters and the Warden family as the final showdown over the family ranch looms with the coming of spring.
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Baker Publishing Group Love Comes Softly
Book SynopsisHeading west with her adventurous husband to claim land, Marty is struck by tragedy and left alone with her great loss and no way to return home. After his wife's death, Clark and his little girl are also in great need. His proposal to Marty comes with good intention, but will courage and faith be enough to bring them true love?
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Baker Publishing Group To Treasure an Heiress
Book SynopsisWhen Beth Tremayne stumbles across an old map, she pursues the excitement she's always craved. But her only way to piece together the clues is through Lord Sheridan--a man she insists stole a prized possession. As they follow the various leads, they uncover a story of piratical adventure, but the true treasure is the one they discover in each other.
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Baker Publishing Group Beyond the Desert Sands
Book SynopsisCan she reconcile who she''s become with who she''s meant to be? Accustomed to an opulent life with her aunt, the last thing twenty-five-year-old Isabella Garcia wants is to celebrate Christmas in her parents'' small silver-mining desert town, leaving her handsome beau, Diego Morales, behind in California. Adding insult to injury, she must bear the company of Aaron Bailey, the disapproving Santa Fe Railroad businessman her father has sent to escort her home, who clearly finds her spoiled. But she is surprised to see how much the town of Silver Veil has grown and how fragile her father''s health has become. Then a surprise visitor shows up with news that entirely upends the comfortable life she''s been leading. Faced with all these changes, Isabella struggles to sort through her future and who she wants to be. But trouble is brewing, and there are those who hope she stays just as she is, even if it costs her everything.
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Baker Publishing Group Under the Starry Skies
Book SynopsisWhen an accident leaves Cassandra Barton incapacitated, she spends her time compiling a book of stories about the men working on the Santa Fe Railroad. But worry grows as revolutionaries set out to destroy the railroad. As the danger intensifies, Cassie and her longtime friend Brandon must rely on their faith to overcome the obstacles that stand in the way.
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Baker Publishing Group Knowing You
Book SynopsisCould a captivating art exhibit hold the key to truth--and love?Budding artist May Parker is captivated by the Japanese exhibits at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition and longs to know more about her mother''s heritage--which her mother refuses to speak of because of the heartache she left behind in Japan. Wanting to experience more of the exhibits, May works as a Camera Girl--but her curiosity leads her into danger when a suit of samurai armor becomes the target of an elusive art forger.After ten years apart, May is reunited with her childhood friend Lee Munro, a police detective assigned to keep a watchful eye on the exposition. Their friendship immediately begins to blossom with hints of something more, but when they become entangled in a dangerous heist involving the samurai armor and their love is threatened, can they overcome the odds against them?
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Baker Publishing Group Dreams of Savannah
Book SynopsisCordelia Owens can weave a hopeful dream around anything and is well used to winning the hearts of everyone in Savannah with her whimsy. Even when she receives word that her sweetheart has been lost during a raid on a Yankee vessel, she clings to hope and comes up with many a romantic tale of his eventual homecoming to reassure his mother and sister. But Phineas Dunn finds nothing redemptive in the first horrors of war. Struggling for months to make it home alive, he returns to Savannah injured and cynical, and all too sure that he is not the hero Cordelia seems determined to make him. Matters of black and white don''t seem so simple anymore to Phin, and despite her best efforts, Delia''s smiles can''t erase all the complications in his life. And when Fort Pulaski falls and the future wavers, they both must decide where the dreams of a new America will take them, and if they will go together.
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Baker Publishing Group My Dear Miss Dupré
Book SynopsisWillow Dupré never thought she would have to marry, but with her father''s unexpected retirement from running the prosperous Dupré sugar refinery, she is forced into a different future. The shareholders are unwilling to allow a female to take over the company without a man at her side, so her parents devise a plan--find Willow a spokesman king in order for her to become queen of the business empire.Willow is presented with thirty potential suitors from the families of New York society''s elite group called the Four Hundred. She has six months to court the group and is told to to eliminate men each month to narrow her beaus until she chooses one to marry, ending the competition with a wedding. Willow reluctantly agrees, knowing she must do what is best for the business. She doesn''t expect to find anything other than a proxy . . . until she meets a gentleman who captures her attention, and she must discover for herself if his motives are pure.
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Baker Publishing Group Carved in Stone
Book SynopsisWhen lawyer Patrick O'Neill agrees to resurrect an old mystery and challenge the Blackstones' legacy of greed and corruption, he doesn't expect to be derailed by the kindhearted family heiress, Gwen Kellerman. She is tasked with getting him to drop the case, but when the mystery takes a shocking twist, he is the only ally she has.
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Mira Books Halfway to Heaven
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Mira Books Enchanted Afternoon
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Mira Books The Charm School
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Baker Publishing Group The Light Before Day
Book SynopsisAfter three years on a whaling voyage, Henry Macy returns to Nantucket to news that his grandmother has passed, bequeathing her vast fortune to him and his sister, Hitty. And it was truly vast. But Lillian Coffin was no fool. The inheritance comes with a steep cost, including when they should marry and whom--a Quaker in good standing, of course. But if they relinquish the inheritance, it all goes to Tristram Macy, their father''s thieving business partner.As Hitty and Henry seek a way to satisfy the will''s conditions, they''ll be faced with obstacles on every side--and it may be that Lillian Coffin will have the last word after all.Bestselling author Suzanne Woods Fisher surprises and delights with this story of hope and renewal, love and redemption, arriving just when most needed.
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Fleming H. Revell Company Trusting Grace
Book SynopsisAll of her life, Grace Bidwell has longed for a loving husband and children, but now the chances of her dreams coming true are looking slim. Widowed and caring for her elderly father, she struggles to maintain her late husband''s ranch, until she places an ad for a hired hand.Robert Frasier arrives in town with three pitiful, bedraggled children who have nothing but the tattered clothes on their backs and a load of hurt, pride, and anger. Believing this is divine intervention in her life, Grace welcomes them with open arms. As feelings grow between her and Robert, Grace will have to convince him that she is a woman who can be trusted with his heart.Readers will be swept away into 1860s Montana''s lush Gallatin Valley, nestled among towering mountains and proud pines, in this emotional conclusion to the Virtues and Vices of the Old West series.
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Baker Publishing Group A Moonbow Night
Book SynopsisAfter fleeing Virginia, Temperance Tucker and her family established an inn along the Shawnee River. It''s a welcome way station for settlers and frontiersmen traveling through the wild Cumberland region of Kentucke--men like Sion Morgan, a Virginia surveyor who arrives at the inn with his crew looking for an experienced guide. When his guide appears, Sion balks. He certainly didn''t expect a woman. But it is not long before he must admit that Tempe''s skill in the wilderness rivals his own. Still, the tenuous tie they are forming is put to the test as they encounter danger after danger and must rely on each other.With her signature sweeping style and ability to bring the distant past to vivid life, Laura Frantz beckons readers to join her in a land of Indian ambushes, conflicting loyalties, and a tentative love that meanders like a cool mountain stream.
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Fleming H. Revell Company Lady Jayne Disappears
Book SynopsisWhen Aurelie Harcourt''s father dies in debtor''s prison, he leaves her just two things: his wealthy family, whom she has never met, and his famous pen name, Nathaniel Droll. Her new family greets her with apathy and even resentment. Only the quiet houseguest, Silas Rotherham, welcomes her company.When Aurelie decides to complete her father''s unfinished serial novel, writing the family into the story as unflattering characters, she must keep her identity as Nathaniel Droll hidden while searching for the truth about her mother''s disappearance--and perhaps even her father''s death.Author Joanna Davidson Politano''s stunning debut set in Victorian England will delight readers with its highly original plot, lush setting, vibrant characters, and reluctant romance.
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Baker Publishing Group A Distance Too Grand
Book SynopsisWhen a spunky photographer wrangles her way onto an 1871 survey crew of the Grand Canyon she thinks nothing can stand in her way. But her mind changes when she finds out she'll be working alongside the one man she doesn't want to fall in love with.
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Random House USA Inc The Virgins Daughter
Book SynopsisA captivating historical novel that poses the thrilling question: What if Elizabeth I, the celebrated Virgin Queen, gave birth a legitimate heir?—the first installation of the Tudor Legacy trilogy “[Laura] Andersen brilliantly blends the history and historical characters we know into her wondrous new world.”—RT Book ReviewsSince the death of her brother, William, Elizabeth I has ruled England. She’s made the necessary alliances, married Philip of Spain, and produced a successor: her only daughter, Anne Isabella, Princess of Wales. Elizabeth knows that her beloved Anabel will be a political pawn across Europe unless she can convince Philip to grant her a divorce, freeing him to remarry and give Spain its own heir. But the enemies of England have even greater plans for the princess, a plot that will put Anabel’s very life and the security of the nation in peril. Only those closest to Elizabeth&mdas
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Random House USA Inc The House at the Edge of Night
Book Synopsis“A perfect summer read [that] brims with heart . . . Don’t be surprised if you keep turning the pages long into the night, spellbound by its magic.”—The Denver PostA sweeping saga about four generations of a family who live and love on an enchanting island off the coast of Italy—combining the romance of Beautiful Ruins with the magical tapestry of works by Isabel Allende.NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • Los Angeles Public Library • Kirkus Reviews“Captivating . . . [Catherine] Banner’s four-generation saga is set on an island near Sicily, where myths of saints get served up with limoncello at the Esposito family’s bar. . . . The island is fictional, but consider this dreamy summer read your passport.”—People “A lusty page-turner that weaves romance, rivalry and the intricacies of family expectations into one glorious tale.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune Castellamare is an island far enough away from the mainland to be forgotten, but not far enough to escape from the world’s troubles. At the center of the island’s life is a café draped with bougainvillea called the House at the Edge of Night, where the community gathers to gossip and talk. Amedeo Esposito, a foundling from Florence, finds his destiny on the island with his beautiful wife, Pina, whose fierce intelligence, grace, and unwavering love guide her every move. An indiscretion tests their marriage, and their children—three sons and an inquisitive daughter—grow up and struggle with both humanity’s cruelty and its capacity for love and mercy. Spanning nearly a century, through secrets and mysteries, trials and sacrifice, this beautiful and haunting novel follows the lives of the Esposito family and the other islanders who live and love on Castellamare: a cruel count and his bewitching wife, a priest who loves scandal, a prisoner of war turned poet, an outcast girl who becomes a pillar of strength, a wounded English soldier who emerges from the sea. The people of Castellamare are transformed by two world wars and a great recession, by the threat of fascism and their deep bonds of passion and friendship, and by bitter rivalries and the power of forgiveness. Catherine Banner has written an enthralling, character-rich novel, epic in scope but intimate in feeling. At times, the island itself seems alive, a mythical place where the earth heaves with stories—and this magical novel takes you there.Praise for The House at the Edge of Night“A gorgeous, sweeping story set over four generations . . . calls to mind Captain Corelli’s Mandolin and Beautiful Ruins.”—Interview“Like pictures of a childhood summer, or a half-forgotten smell, this book is sweet and heady with nostalgia . . . [and] comforting as a quilt.”—NPR “Rich and immersive, this book will take you away.”—Vox“A masterful piece of storytelling, infused with the miraculous (both in stories and in everyday life) while maintaining the difficult balance between the explainable versus the inexplicable . . . captivating and beautifully rendered.”—Sara Gruen, author of At the Water’s Edge
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Kregel Publications Echoes of a Silent Song
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Autumn Hill Books A Castle in Romagna
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Lady Chatterleys Lover
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Random House USA Inc Mothering Sunday A Romance Vintage International
Book SynopsisFrom the Booker Prize-winning author, an intensely moving tale that begins with a secret lovers’ assignation in the spring of 1924, then unfolds to reveal the whole of a remarkable life. • Don’t miss the major motion picture starring Odessa Young, Josh O’Connor, Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù, Colin Firth, and more“Exquisite ... shows love, lust, and ordinary decency struggling against the bars of an unjust English caste system.” —Kazuo Ishiguro, The GuardianOn an unseasonably warm spring day in the 1920s, twenty-two-year-old Jane Fairchild, a maid at an English country house, meets with her secret lover, the young heir of a neighboring estate. He is about to be married to a woman more befitting his social status, and the time has come to end the affair—but events unfold in ways Jane could never have predicted. As the narrative moves back a
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Penguin Putnam Inc Where the Light Enters
Book SynopsisFrom the international bestselling author of The Gilded Hour comes Sara Donati''s enthralling epic about two trailblazing female doctors in nineteenth-century New York Obstetrician Dr. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician she plans to continue her work aiding the disadvantaged women society would rather forget. As Sophie sets out to construct a new life for herself, Anna''s husband, Detective-Sergeant Jack Mezzanotte calls on them both to consult on two new cases: the wife of a prominent banker has disappeared into thin air, and the corpse of a young woman is found with baffling wounds that suggest a killer is on the loose. In New York it seems that the advancement of women has brought out the worst in some men. Unable to ignore the plight
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St Martin's Press If a Poem Could Live and Breathe
Book SynopsisA fact-based romantic speculative novel about Teddy Roosevelt's first love, by Mary Calvi, author of Dear George, Dear Mary.Studded with the real love letters between a young Theodore Roosevelt and Boston beauty Alice Leemany of them never before publishedIf a Poem Could Live and Breathe makes vivid what many historians believe to be the pivotal years that made the future president into the man of action that defined his political life, and cemented his legacy.Cambridge, 1878. The era of the Gilded Age. Alice Lee sets out to break from the norms of her mother's generation. Women are fighting for educational opportunities and exploring a new sense of intellectual and personal freedom. Native New Yorker, Harvard student Teddy Roosevelt, is on his own journey of discovery, and when they meet, unrelenting currents of love change the trajectory of his life forever. If a Poem Could Live and Breathe is an indelible portrait of the authent
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St. Martin's Press Hit Me With Your Best Scot
Book SynopsisA Buzzfeed 19 Anticipated Books That Have Finally Been Released For You To ReadThe final book in the wickedly seductive new Scottish historical romance trilogy from New York Times bestselling author Suzanne Enoch, Hit Me With Your Best Scot!The MacTaggert brothers have one task:Find English brides or lose their land!Coll MacTaggert, Viscount Glendarril, is a big, brawny Highlander who doesn't like being told what to do-not even by his exasperated English mother who is determined to see her eldest son wedded and bedded. However, when he comes to the rescue of an irresistibly beautiful woman, Coll discovers that he may have found his perfect match...The challenge isn't that Persephone Jones is famous, wealthy, independent, and smarter than anyone he knows.The problem is that she isn't interested in marrying any man-especially not a hot-headed Scot-even if he is the only man who seems to understand who she re
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St Martin's Press The Brightest Star in Paris
Book SynopsisDiana Biller''s The Brightest Star in Paris is a thrilling story of first loves and second chances. She never expected her first love to return, but is he here to stay?Amelie St. James is a fraud. After the Siege of Paris, she became St. Amie, the sweet, virtuous prima ballerina the Paris Opera Ballet needed to restore its scandalous reputation, all to protect the safe life she has struggled to build for her and her sister. But when her first love reappears looking as devastatingly handsome as ever, and the ghosts of her past quite literally come back to haunt her, her hard-fought safety is thrown into chaos.Dr. Benedict Moore has never forgotten the girl who helped him embrace life after he almost lost his. Now, years later, he's back in Paris. His goals are to recruit promising new scientists, and maybe to see Amelie again. When he discovers she's in trouble, he's desperate to help herand hold her in his arms.When she fin
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St. Martin's Publishing Group Trouble
Book SynopsisA Regency-era romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist and queer twist, from the New York Times bestselling author of Gwen & Art Are Not in Love.There''s a new governess at Fairmont House, and she''s going to be nothing but trouble.Emily Laurence is a liar. She is not polite, she''s not polished, and she has never taught a child in her life. This position was meant to be her sister''sbrilliant, kind Amy, who isn''t perpetually angry, dangerously reckless, and who does (inexplicably) like children.But Amy is unwell and needs a doctor, and their father is gone and their mother is useless, so here Emily is, pretending to be something she''s not.If she can get away with her deception for long enough to earn a few month''s wages and slip some expensive trinkets into her pockets along the way, perhaps they''ll be all right.That is, as long as she doesn''t get involved with the Edwards family''s dramas. Emily refuses to
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Picador USA The Other Bennet Sister
Book SynopsisA NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF THE YEARJane fans rejoice! . . . Exceptional storytelling and a true delight. Helen Simonson, author of the New York Times bestselling novels Major Pettigrew''s Last Stand and The Summer Before the WarMary, the bookish ugly duckling of Pride and Prejudice's five Bennet sisters, emerges from the shadows and transforms into a desired woman with choices of her own.What if Mary Bennet's life took a different path from that laid out for her in Pride and Prejudice? What if the frustrated intellectual of the Bennet family, the marginalized middle daughter, the plain girl who takes refuge in her books, eventually found the fulfillment enjoyed by her prettier, more confident sisters? This is the plot of Janice Hadlow''s The Other Bennet Sister, a debut novel with exactly the affection and authority to satisfy Jane Austen fans.Ultimately, Mary's jou
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St. Martin's Griffin Never Fall for Your Fiancee
Book SynopsisFilled with fabulously British banter, wit, and heart, this delightful book is one of my must-read rom coms of the year. - Evie Dunmore, USA Today bestselling author of Portrait of a ScotsmanVirginia Heath's fun characters and situations will have you laughing out loud! Don't miss this wonderful read! - Sabrina Jeffries, New York Times bestselling authorThe first in a new historical rom-com series, a handsome earl hires a fake fiancée to keep his matchmaking mother at bay, but hilarity ensues when love threatens to complicate everything. The last thing Hugh Standish, Earl of Fareham, ever wants is a wife. Unfortunately for him, his mother is determined to find him one, even from across the other side of the ocean. So Hugh invents a fake fiancée to keep his mother's matchmaking ways at bay. But when Hugh learns his interfering mother is on a ship bound for England, he realizes his complicated, convoluted but convenient
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St Martin's Press Never Wager with a Wallflower
Book SynopsisNever Wager with a Wallflower is the third and final delightful installment in Virginia Heath''s Merriwell Sisters Regency rom-com series.Miss Venus Merriwell has been waiting for her prince to come since the tender age of fourteen. She wants a man who is a selfless academic like her, and free from all the wretched vices her gambler father enjoyed far too much before he left the Merriwell sisters practically destitute. Unfortunately, after a slew of romantic disappointments, there is still no sign of that prince at twenty-three and the only one true love of her life is the bursting-at-the-seams orphanage in Covent Garden that she works tirelessly for. An orphanage that desperately needs to expand into the empty building next door.For Galahad Sinclair, gambling isn't just his life, it's in his blood. He grew up and learned the trade at his grandfather's knee in a tavern on the far away banks of the Hudson in New York. But when fate took all that a
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St. Martin's Press Perfect Temptations
Book SynopsisTwo of Lisa Kleypas's beloved Hathaways novels, now collected in one volume,Perfect Temptations.In Seduce Me at Sunrise Kev Merripen has longed for the beautiful, well-bred Winnifred Hathaway ever since her family rescued him from the brink of death when he was just a boy. But this handsome Gypsy is a man of mysterious origins-and he fears that the darkness of his past could crush delicate, luminous Win. So Kev refuses to submit to temptation...and before long Win is torn from him by a devastating twist of fate. Then, Win returns to England...only to find that Kev has hardened into a man who will deny love at all costs. Meantime, an attractive, seductive suitor has set his sights on Win. It's now or never for Kev to make his move. But first, he must confront a dangerous secret about his destiny-or risk losing the only woman he has lived for. In Tempt Me at Twilight Poppy Hathaway loves her unconventional family, though she longs for norma
£9.99
St. Martin's Griffin Reputation
Book SynopsisBridgerton meets Gossip Girl with a dash of Jane Austen, in Reputation, a Regency-era historical romantic comedy with a deliciously feminist twist, from a hilarious new British voice, Lex Croucher.Abandoned by her parents, bookish and sheltered Georgiana Ellers is spending the summer with her stodgy aunt and uncle at their home in the English countryside. At a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic Frances Campbell, a wealthy member of the in-crowd who delights Georgiana with her disregard for so-called polite society.Lonely and vulnerable, Georgiana quickly falls in with Frances and her wealthy, wild, and deeply improper friends, who introduce her to the upper echelons of Regency aristocracy, and a world of drunken debauchery, frivolous spending, and mysterious young men. One, in particular, stands out from the rest: Thomas Hawksley, who has a tendency to cross paths with Georgiana in her most embarrassing moments. Sparks
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