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American Gilt - Absinthe (Vol 2) Paris, 1883 – The new year finds Oliver and Sara enjoying their honeymoon on the Champs-Élysées. But their holiday is interrupted by the arrival of the bride’s mother and two sisters. Originally agreeing to Sara’s family sharing their apartment, Oliver recants...

As children, Mairi and Colleen were inseparable half-sisters roaming the wooded glen near their home in Killin, Scotland—until an argument between their parents turns violent and changes the future for all of them. After vowing on an ancient Promise Stone to reunite somehow one day, Mairi is taken...

Towards the middle of the 12th century, Milan had conquered for herself a powerful supremacy throughout all of Upper Italy, and with the exception of the proud Genoa and the maritime Venetian republic, all the cities of Lombardy acknowledged her sovereignty. Lodi, Pavia, and some few of the neighboring...

Belfast and Alaska 1889  A young woman haunted by her mother’s death embarks on an Alaskan adventure to escape an unwanted marriage. Cunning and determination get her there in the guise of teaching at the Tlingit Indian mission. But Alaska proves more difficult than she imagined, and...

In this book, Edith B. Gelles asserts that Abigail Adams' vivid, insightful letters are "the best account that exists from the pre to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman's life and world." Adams' spontaneous, witty letters serve dual purposes for the modern reader: it provides...

In the long slog of the Hundred Years’ War, the English forces’ decisive victory in the Battle of Agincourt proved to be a key turning point. In this gripping historical novel from G. P. R. James, a tender human drama unfolds against the backdrop of the epic battle.

Winner, 2016 Maggie Award of Excellence, Historical Category When her parents, the Earl and Countess of Ravingate, inform Elizabeth that her father has made arrangements for her to marry the embittered Marquess of Kenrick, she knows she must try to explain to the marquess that she is not the...

Tasked with covertly investigating a string of suspicious deaths, Charles Hunter finds himself reunited with Georgiana Huffington, darling of the ton, who broke his heart many years before. She's a woman with a mysterious past-mere days after taking their vows, Georgiana's two husbands have perished...

THE EARL OF GLENROSS WOULD HAVE HIS REVENGE-BUT AT WHAT PRICE? Rob McHugh had survived an agonizing ordeal in foreign climes only to discover his family’s tragedy was rooted in British soil. For a terrible irony revealed that Afton Lovejoy, his beautiful English rose, had dangerous thorns-and...

Inheriting an earldom had obviously gone to Nicholas Hollander's head. After he'd left Emily's reputation in tatters years before, how could he expect that she would ever agree to marry him? Yet still he insisted that her rash efforts to find her missing brother had left them no choice but to wed,...

Victim of an abusive marriage, Iana vowed in her widowhood never again to put her fate in masculine hands. But one man, Henri Gillet, heir to the Trouville dynasty, had aroused her slumbering desires-and endangered her deepest resolve. Love, Henri Gillet pondered, was simple. Noble obligations...

SHE'D SAVED HIS LIFE AND NOW SHE OWNED HIM! Lady Sara Fernstowe claimed as her due marriage with Richard Strode, the knight she'd rescued from death's icy embrace. For surely this marvel of a man could look past her scars to her warrior's heart and create both their lives anew! RICHARD...

England, 1770. Young gardener Francis Masson is asked by the King to search for a rare orange blossom in South Africa. As his ship departs, Masson has no idea that he's about to embark on the adventure of a lifetime. During his hunt for the mysterious flower, he doesn't anticipate the untamed nature...

Thomas Dixon is most famous for his novel The Clansmen, which was subsequently turned into The Birth of a Nation, one of America’s most notorious movies. The Fall of a Nation is the sequel to his most famous work, and this is another historical work.