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Kate's Crucible

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Would you leave your loved ones to fight slavery?
 
In 1855, pro-slavery and free-state people flock to the Kansas Territory bent on winning the slavery issue for the new state--the conflict dubbed "Bleeding Kansas."
 
Nineteen-year-old Kate Collins leaves family, sa ...

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The Hawkes

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A decoded set of directions. A book of maps. A key. What does it all mean? Having found their true loves, the Hawke sisters, Sage, Raven, and Willow, reunite for the adventure of a lifetime. Fleeing from King Philip as he arrests and persecutes the Templar Knights in his unending pursuit of th ...

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Dreams in Conflict

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Her entire life hangs upon one choice. 

The debate over slavery churns 1854 America as new laws are passed and the country expands westward.  

Eighteen-year-old Kate Collins dreams of leading social reform for abolition and women's right to vote. She des ...

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DEN OF SPIES

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Den of Spies is the gripping true story of Vlad Dracula, the child who would become Vlad the Impaler.
As the Ottoman Empire spreads its shadow across Europe, young Vlad is thrust into a world of intrigue where alliances are as deadly as those who tear them apart. His father, Vl ...

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Vienna on Fire

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ESCAPE FROM NAZI VIENNA IS GRETA KOLBE’S ONLY HOPE

March 12, 1938: German troops swarm into Austria, and 18-year-old Jewish Greta Kolbe's comfortable life, along with her parents and the city's other 250,000 Jews, sinks i ...

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Secrets to the Wind
Secrets to the Wind

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Sometimes the past makes true love impossible. But you have to try.

1863. Daniel Anthony will stop at nothing to prevent slavery from gaining a foothold in the new state of Kansas, but after six years, he's ready to settle down and start a family.

Fr ...

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Rescuing Crockett

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A hero lost in battle. A shocking discovery. And a daring odyssey that will put a young man squarely in the crosshairs. 1838. Silas Grant prepares for a future with the girl of his dreams. The resourceful sixteen-year-old is learning the blacksmith trade from his father and frontier skills from Texa ...

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STIFF HEARTS

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At the end of twenty-year-old Gillian Rysert’s train journey from St. Louis to New York City in 1949, she believes she’s escaped her narcissistic mother Hannah. Magnetized to violence by her mother and bereft of her father, Gillian no longer lets love in. So far, Gillian’s reserve has shielded her f ...

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LAFITTE LIVES

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Secrets can’t stay buried forever—but maybe some should. In bustling, multicultural 1831 New Orleans, Tobias Whitney, the sexton of St. Louis Cemetery No. 2, uncovers a journal sealed inside the tomb of Dominique You—war hero of the Battle of New Orleans, privateer, and half-brother of the notori ...

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The Good Time Girls

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A novel of wild women, the bonds of friendship, a harrowing road trip, and help found in the least likely places.

In 1905 Kansas, ex-dancehall girl and outlaw Ruby Calhoun has settled into a (mostly) quiet and (mostly) lawful life. But out of the blue her past comes hustl ...

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Deceit in Time

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Deceit in Time is a prequel to the award-winning IN TIME series winner of the Bookfest Gold Medal for Best Fiction Series.  It combines historical fiction and mystery with a touch of romance.  It has the same elements of family, legacy, and truths wai ...

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California Bound

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U.S. Civil War is over. Mexico fights Emperor Maximilian. Border warlords wreak havoc along the Rio. Cattle are rustled. Innocents are killed. U.S. girls are stolen across the border. 2 Civil War vets wade the Rio to rescue a stolen girl. Texas Lawmen won’t go. The U.S. Cavalry can’t cross the bord ...

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Misfortune of Vision

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A magical gift of the fae. When a soothsayer faces her end of days, can she find her lone heir before more blood is spilled? Ireland, 1177. Royal seer Orlagh’s prophecies of war fall on deaf ears. So with her sons long dead and only an intractable girl for an apprentice, the aging visionary dreams o ...

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Shadows In Our Bones

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In the early 1900’s racial prejudice, eugenics, and religion influenced the beliefs of most Americans. On the island of Malaga, off the coast of Maine, greed and these societal forces came together in a shameful and shocking way. In this work of historical fiction generations of pain and suffering a ...

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Katarina's Dark Journey

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Katarina's Dark Journey takes readers on a haunting journey through war-torn Ukraine in 1918 with a parallel story set in post-war Munich. When darkness falls, faith prevails. 1918: Southern Ukraine. When the Bolshevik Army sets fire to the German Mennonite villages, seventeen-year-old Katarina and ...

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Medieval Gower Stories

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If you like scandal, intrigue and true stories from history, then you’ll love Ann Marie Thomas’ book. Buy Medieval Gower Stories and witness the crimes of mad King John, the atrocities of the Ogre of Abergavenny and search for the lost treasure of Edward II.

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The Centre Cannot Hold

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Some men are remembered as heroes. Thomas Hargraves earned it: a young man who went to fight fascism in Spain, who pulled his neighbours from the rubble of the Manchester Blitz, and who spent the rest of his long life building a charity that lifted thousands out of hardship. When he dies, his jou ...

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My Splendid Concubine

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An outcast foreigner. A quiet lover. The fate of the Far East.

China, 1854. Robert Hart is on the run. Fleeing Ireland to escape a promiscuity scandal, the syphilitic nineteen-year-old arrives in the Middle Kingdom at the height of the Qing Dynasty. And though he buys a woman to share ...

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Those Who Remain

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Even lighthouses cast shadows.


Once a beacon of hope, the lighthouse is now a mockery Caroline can’t bear to face. That’s why she’s determined to leave home behind, along with all its bitter reminders. The only obstacle? A mother whose firm love won’t let her go.

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Coming to my Home

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The Civil War is almost over...but the suffering goes on. John Whitman struggles to reach his home before he dies from a wound. Sally Spires deserts her family but she cannot turn her back on the helpless man. Ruth, who's hiding from her master, risks her freedom to nurse the Confederate soldier bac ...

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Ten Texas Tales

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A deadly train stunt. A governor's "pardon palace." A UFO crash in 1897. A town that outlawed dancing. Here are ten tales from turn-of-the-century Texas.

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Devoted in Time

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A chilling discovery of a skull catapults TJ and Emma into a web of secrets surrounding the Man-in-the-Field, known as Gideon. Who was he? Why was he laid to rest in an unmarked grave more than a century ago? As Emma seeks answers, she uncovers a labyrinth of betrayal spanning from the Civil War e ...

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Vienna on Fire: A WWII Story of Survival

Vienna on Fire: A WWII Story of Survival

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In the heart of darkening Europe on the eve of WWII, Vienna on Fire tells the riveting story of Greta Kolbe, an eighteen-year-old Jewish woman whose life was upended when German troops annexed Austria in 1938. AudiobookReviewer.com has awarded VIENNA ON FIRE the 2024 Best Team Award.

Her ...

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The Courtesan's Secret

The Courtesan's Secret

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Far from the glittering lights of her palazzo, elite courtesan Belladonna is forced to hide among the shadows of the tenement buildings in the Venetian Ghetto.  Two men bearing secrets threaten her elite status and her life.  Can she reclaim her love without falling victim to her enemie ...

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The Secret Life of Sunflowers

The Secret Life of Sunflowers

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When Hollywood auctioneer Emsley Wilson finds her famous grandmother's diary while cleaning out her New York brownstone, the pages are full of surprises. The first surprise is, the diary isn't her grandmother's. It belongs to Johanna Bonger, Vincent van Gogh's sister-in-law. Johanna inherited Vincen ...

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Deeds of Deceit

Deeds of Deceit

Some deeds cannot be undone... After his brother's narrow escape from England, Thom Mowbray is left in a cell to rot. When a Prince of England returns him to the world for personal gain, Thom has a choice to make: Revert to his old ways – or forge a new reality. If you love historical fiction wit ...

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The Bad Girl

The Bad Girl

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A captivating debut novella for readers of Janet Fitch's White Oleander and Catherine Ryan Hyde's Don't Let Me Go, The Bad Girl unleashes an unforgettable cast of characters into a time and place known for its violence and peril where chances of survival are slim: 1971. New York Ci ...

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Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation

Harriet: A Jane Austen Variation

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Harriet is an intriguing and original “take” on Jane Austen’s immortal Emma, by Publishers Weekly‘s 2021 BookLife Prize Quarterfinalist, Alice McVeigh.

Emma, a privileged young heiress, decides to mentor Harriet Smith, a pretty bo ...

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Friends & Enemies

Friends & Enemies

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Heidi became a widow when her husband’s U-boat sank in the Atlantic. She wonders how her American school chum Rachel is faring. Her husband Paul must be at war too.

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The Courtesan's Pirate

The Courtesan's Pirate

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1614. At long last, Belladonna has been reunited with Isaak, a pirate captain, on the island of Jamaica. Amidst the chaos of hurricanes and Spanish marauders, they are separated. When she discovers her beloved Isaak is captured and bound for execution in Spain, Belladonna goes back to Venice, pla ...

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Gifted Heart

Gifted Heart

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In 1947, Ray Petriani flees Texas in the middle of the night with a wife and young family. Desperate for work, he takes a job in California and is sent to inland China on a business venture. A gift exchange with the local potentate provides him with two things he doesnt want, things he cannot reject ...

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Callum's Bride
Callum's Bride

Callum's Bride

Sebastian thought he was irredeemable. Will Carly’s love set him free?

Bounty hunter Sebastian Callum is ambushed and seriously wounded by the McSweeney gang.

He finds his way to Carly’s house and she and her young son ...

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Blind Man's Labyrinth

Blind Man's Labyrinth

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A Jewish civil war is tearing apart northern Israel. In the south, servants of the goddess Ashtaroth abduct unwary refugees. Haim, an unwanted boy, escapes into this nightmarish landscape to find his way in a world gone mad. 92 BCE. A widow and an old scribe together raise Haim, a boy whose lineage ...

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Trouble In Glamour Town

Trouble In Glamour Town

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Murder. Corruption. Romance. Movie stars. A modern day TV shoot ‘em up? No. It’s 1926 Old Hollywood, and a film producer is gunned down in cold blood. In comes Rosie, a pretty bit-player, who, in spite of her stage-mother’s expectations, just longs to be happy. Silent screen idols Clara Bow, Gloria ...

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Wild Conviction

Wild Conviction

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GOLD WINNER in the 2024 Human Relations Indie Book Awards

In a hostile land, a young woman stands against enslavers and learns—survival isn't freedom. A socially conscious, epic adventure—sprinkled with magical realism and laced with southern gothic.

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The Pretense of Memory

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In a nation eager to forget, one young man dares to remember, risking everything to make the truth impossible to ignore. In West Germany in 1958, the post-war miracle economy is booming and everyone seems to have forgotten — or misremembered — the crimes of the Third Reich entirely. But Oskar Gru ...

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Ashes Like Bread: A Biblical Novel of Lamech and His Two Wives

Ashes Like Bread: A Biblical Novel of Lamech and His Tw...

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A scorned prophetess. A deadly omen. Will this kinswoman of Adam and Eve persevere with intuition she can’t deny? Zyla is used to the elders of the clan rejecting her dark glimpses into the future, and bitter that she doesn’t receive the honor she believes she deserves. When her forecast of a terrib ...

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Legacy of Truth

Legacy of Truth

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He gave her a gift. Using it could bring her to madness. Ireland, 1795. Esme Doherty believes the best of everyone. Despite a drunken father, a bullying twin sister, and a failing farm, the impoverished girl refuses to allow her sunny demeanor to dim. But when her grandfather gives her a magical br ...

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Last Class Citizen

Last Class Citizen

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They’ve gained their freedom from the South. But what if their new freedom is all a lie? Patrick Edgerton, leader of the Railway Association, has succeeded in the monumental task of freeing slaves from the once mighty Southern Republic. Following the fall of the South, the UN has decreed that the So ...

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The Deception

The Deception

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A sleight of hand. A trick up the sleeve. A call for the dead. It’s all part of the game in this twisty tale by the bestselling author of After Alice Fell. Maud Price was once a celebrated child medium, a true believer in lifting the veil between the living and the dead. Now penniless, her guiding s ...

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Hatfield 1677

Hatfield 1677

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Accursed Women: a collection of short stories

Accursed Women: a collection of short stories

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Five stories, five women, five legends. Phaedra, a Minoan princess, marries out of duty and to safeguard her precious home. She falls in love with Hippolytos, her husband’s son and asks the Goddess Aphrodite for help. He spurns her affections. The Trojan War, one of history’s greatest stories ever t ...

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Past Storm and Fire

Past Storm and Fire

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She wrote herself into history. Will she sample the sensual spoils? Val Masterson longs for a taste of passion. With a loveless husband and a soul-sucking job, it’s no surprise when a bump on the head gives her vivid dreams of life as a powerful heroine. Losing herself in rugged fantasies with tw ...

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The Music Inside

The Music Inside

Heidi Murphy has been raised by a religious family and spent the last three years of high school at a private Christian boarding school. At 19 she is living in Pennsylvania, married, bored, directionless, and apathetic. After a devastating personal tragedy, her best friend's invitation to visit San ...

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Shattering Tme

Shattering Tme

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The number one best-selling thriller Stealing Time continues it’s “breathtakingly original” journey. Ronnie Andrews returns from eighteenth century London shell-shocked from her first terrifying time travel encounter. Her boyfriend, Jeffrey Brennan, casts doubt on her sanity leaving Ronnie wondering ...

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SILENT SENTINELS

SILENT SENTINELS

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WW1, Ukraine, Early winter. 1918: When the battlefront enters their village, Katarina and her injured sister, Anna, flee into the smoke-filled dense forest at night. When Anna stops to rest, Katarina searches for water. As snow falls, obstacles and wild creatures create a scary adventure. This sho ...

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THE WHITE ROSE RENT

THE WHITE ROSE RENT

In the tumultuous Tudor Era, Katherine Plantagenet finds herself caught between the shadows of her past and the uncertainty of her future. At just fifteen, she feels the weight of her lineage as Richard III's illegitimate daughter. Married to the Earl of Huntingdon, she fears rejection, haunted b ...

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Honor Among Outcasts: DarkHorse Trilogy, Book 2

Honor Among Outcasts: DarkHorse Trilogy, Book 2

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After a harrowing escape from Mississippi, abolitionist Durksen Hurst, his fiancée Antoinette DuVallier, and their friends — a group of undocumented slaves — land in guerrilla-infested Civil War Missouri, the most savage whirlwind of destruction, cruelty, and death in American history. Trapped in a ...

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The Adulterer: A tortured love story set during the Crusades.

The Adulterer: A tortured love story set during the Cru...

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Kerak Castle, Jordan, 1184. With the deafening thunder of hooves and the cries of Saladin's approaching army growing louder, the castle walls tremble as it teeters on the edge of being besieged...

In the treachero ...

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Canary and the Mothman

Canary and the Mothman

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The Book of Uriel: A Novel of WWII

The Book of Uriel: A Novel of WWII

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An otherworldly tale with indelible characters in a realistic wartime setting. Hoffmans novel sublimely fuses world history and Jewish folklore.---Kirkus Reviews

In the fires of World War II, a child must save his people from darkness…

Ten-year-old Uriel has al ...

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The Conquest of Wales: A Brief History

The Conquest of Wales: A Brief History

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In 1066 William of Normandy won the Battle of Hastings, but Wales wasn't conquered for over two hundred years. The Welsh princes were a thorn in the side of the English kings until Edward I, building castles and roads as he went, finally conquered Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the last Prince of Wales. Tol ...

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The Guardian of Secrets

The Guardian of Secrets

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After fleeing from an abusive husband accused of murder, Celia Merrill becomes embroiled in a Spanish Civil War. Celia’s two sons march under opposing banners, whilst her twin daughters take different paths; one to the Catholic Church and the other to the battlefields. And in the shadow of war ...

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Hatfield 1677

Hatfield 1677

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Hatfield 1677 is inspired by a true story of love, courage, and survival in seventeenth-century New England. Benjamin Waite, devoted husband and father, is the volunteer military scout for the colonial Massachusetts town of Hatfield during King Philip’s War. He protests a planned attack against a N ...

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To Dream of Shadows: A Gripping Holocaust Novel Inspired by a Heartbreaking True Story

To Dream of Shadows: A Gripping Holocaust Novel Inspire...

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Inspired by a previously untold true story, “To Dream of Shadows” is one of the most heartwarming, heartbreaking, and heroic tales of the Holocaust. She will save hundreds of lives. But can she save her own? 1943. 18-year-old Czech, Inge is torn from her family and imprisoned in some godforsak ...

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A Family Shattered

A Family Shattered

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“A Family Shattered” is book two in the “Michal’s Destiny” series Taavi Margolis is arrested on Kristallnacht when he races out of his apartment to protect his daughter’s fiancée, Benny, who is being attacked and killed by a gang of Nazi thugs as they pilla ...

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A Maiden's Honor

A Maiden's Honor

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Can a Scottish woman, who was raised on a primitive Polynesian island, survive living in a complex Western culture? Sarah Campbell is a rarity among women in her time. Raised by her Scottish father and the natives of a remote island in the South Pacific, Sarah and her father embark on a perilous jou ...

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The Long Journey

The Long Journey

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The Trail of Tears stole George Massey's home, his people, and nearly his faith. But God isn't finished with him yet. When a Christian family rescues him from the wilderness, George's path takes him across the expanding American frontier—from Kentucky to the Oregon Trail—on a journey not only of ...

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Rings, Rustlers, Tyrants and Rules: 4 Travis Cooper Tales

Rings, Rustlers, Tyrants and Rules: 4 Travis Cooper Tal...

With justice their goal, they ride the harsh landscape of the unforgiving Arizona Territory.

From lost souls of the Pleasant Valley feud, to escaped convicts of Yuma Territory Prison, Travis Cooper — Bounty Hunter, and Robert Fitzsimmons — Arizona Ranger — team up to hunt down rustlers, ...

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The Seafaring Women of the Vera B.

The Seafaring Women of the Vera B.

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Josephine's Daughter

Josephine's Daughter

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In the late nineteenth century, Wealthy and headstrong Kit Firestone chafes under the strictures of the Golden City’s high society, especially the interference of her charming but overbearing mother, Josephine. Kit’s secret rebellion leads to potentially catastrophic results and keeps her from findi ...

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Sawbones

Sawbones

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Wrongfully accused of murder, Dr. Catherine Bennett is destined to hang... unless she can disappear.

With the untamed territory of Colorado as her most likely refuge, she packs her physician's kit and heads West. But even with a new life and name, a female doctor wit ...

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A Hundred Magical Reasons

A Hundred Magical Reasons

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Most fairy tales have happy endings, but is it too late for this one? If you’re an Oz fan, meet the real mastermind behind Oz: author L. Frank Baum. This heartwarming novel spotlights Baum's influence through an unlikely childhood friendship. ~ Hawthorne Prize Winner < ...

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Search for the Golden Serpent

Search for the Golden Serpent

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Evan has been having some very strange dreams. The Perth-based architect dismissed an unexpected phone call from an entrepreneur in Greece, asking him to restore his family home, as the ravings of a crank. Until, that is, the dreams begin, each more vivid than the last. A dream encounter with a myst ...

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Operation Underpants

Operation Underpants

87-year-old ex-spies Max and Olivia live in a nursing home forgotten and waiting to die when they are dragged back into the world of international espionage. The fate of much of the world hangs in the balance. Also, in this series: Claudia – Operation Chaos and Operation OBE – Over Bloody Eighty. Th ...

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Sendero Esperanza: #1 Trail of Hope #2 Convergence #3 Firestorm

Sendero Esperanza: #1 Trail of Hope #2 Convergence #3...

Raised in the saddle, shipped off to boarding school, wed into money, she longs for the simple way of life she left behind, but she never expected it to start with a run for her life.

After given no choice but to defend herself, Carlee Bols Gibbons flees St. Louis, and sets her route for ...

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Misfortune of Vision

Misfortune of Vision

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A magical gift of the fae. When a soothsayer faces her end of days, can she find her lone heir before more blood is spilled? Ireland, 1177. Royal seer Orlagh’s prophecies of war fall on deaf ears. So with her sons long dead and only an intractable girl for an apprentice, the aging visionary dreams o ...

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The Berllin Tunnel: A Cold War Thriller

The Berllin Tunnel: A Cold War Thriller

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Books, movies and popular media have eulogized the major role that British breaking of the Enigma Code played in the winning of World War II. During the Cold War, a more monumental effort was made by America and her allies to intercept and exploit Russian and communist countries communications. In t ...

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Chadwick Yates and the Ascent of Mt. Dolymtiud

Chadwick Yates and the Ascent of Mt. Dolymtiud

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“If it’s meaning you seek, there’s no better place to be than here, or perhaps, up there.” A Shining Mountain. Mt. Dolymtiud: the roof of Tanzia and the home of the godlike Altaicans. Their motives inscrutable, they have invited Yates and Sharp to the majikal palaces at the s ...

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The Queen's Dog
The Queen's Dog

The Queen's Dog

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In the Bronze Age Syrian kingdom of Ugarit, a eunuch slave mistakenly believes his mistress the queen loves him, so when asked to spy on her under threat of punishment, he finds a way to avoid it. When she shows she cares nothing for him, he justifies reporting her disloyal activities but cant escap ...

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The Lies That Bind: DarkHorse Trilogy, Book 1

The Lies That Bind: DarkHorse Trilogy, Book 1

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"…a gripping tale for fans of Southern fiction...a story of deceit, slavery, and dangerous complicities..." - Readers' Favorite. Broke and despondent, trickster Durksen Hurst arrives in rural Mississippi seeking redemption for his disreputable past — and maybe some glory. When he encounters a dozen ...

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The Music Maker's Daughter

The Music Maker's Daughter

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Something is deeply wrong in the Belaugh household, and Madeline Brooks is about to step right into it. When her beloved pianist father dies, Madeline loses everything - her family, her friends and home. But she never abandons hope. She dreams passionately of following in her father’s footsteps a ...

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The Singer and Her Song
The Singer and Her Song

The Singer and Her Song

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Uqnitum is a singer from a famous musical lineage in the kingdom of Mitanni. When the fall of their city to the Assyrians costs her the life of her husband and her youngest child, she and her pregnant, widowed daughter flee to the court of Ugarit. Haunted by guilt over her part in her husbands death ...

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Dangereuse: Grandmother of Eleanor of Aquitaine

Dangereuse: Grandmother of Eleanor of Aquitaine

Dangereuse is not an ordinary medieval woman. Red-haired, headstrong and fiercely intelligent, she shocks the nobility of her time...especially when she abandons her husband and children to be the mistress of William of Aquitaine, the Troubadour Lord. William's repudiated wife, Philippa, will not le ...

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To Condemn a Witch

To Condemn a Witch

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A stolen scroll. A cursed bloodline. A prophecy that binds three witches across life and death…
Scotland, 1729. When clairvoyant healer Fiona MacLeod discovers an enchanted scroll, she uncovers a prophecy linking her fate to two other women: Eleanor, a servant-turned-mistress of a scandalous ...

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The Last Climb: A Missoula Flood Short Story (True Disaster Fiction)

The Last Climb: A Missoula Flood Short Story (True Disa...

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In the fading days of the Ice Age, a monster is unleashed. The Last Climb is a pulse-pounding, bite-sized tale of survival based on one of history’s greatest floods.

When young Chief Tupak feels the ground shake beneath his feet, he knows something is terribly wrong. The ...

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Age of Druids: An Irish Historical Fantasy

Age of Druids: An Irish Historical Fantasy

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Ireland, 470. In an ancient world torn between old traditions and new beliefs, a pagan woman finds herself caught in a perilous struggle to protect her family from the clutches of both zealous Christians and power-hungry Fae. Clíodhna mourns the presumed loss of her husband, and as the months pass w ...

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Finding Anna: One Mother One War One Mission

Finding Anna: One Mother One War One Mission

writermccoy.com

She was a beautiful woman in search of her son. He was a photojournalist in search of fame. In a war-torn land, their paths would collide. The hardships that he witnesses will change his goals. She will change his life.

Bobby Wallace was a talented photojournalist. He delivered on time ...

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The Curse of Conchobar―A Prequel to the Adirondack Spirit Series

The Curse of Conchobar―A Prequel to the Adirondack Spir...

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Before Columbus discovered America, Conchobar washed ashore! A young man is lost at sea and survives a terrifying ordeal only to arrive in a new land with nothing but his memories. His father abandoned him and left him with a curse. His mother gave him a name befitting a king, then died during child ...

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The Paris Orphans

The Paris Orphans

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Clutching her suitcase, Charlotte Valette tightens her grip, determined the five orphaned children will not see her fear, because she is their last hope. Paris, 1943. A Nazi guard watches her from the shadows, his eyes fixed on her as if he’s already chosen her. On the platform, her sisters wait ...

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Daughter of the Gods

Daughter of the Gods

www.bryanEcanter.com

Summer, 367 A.D. In a land of mystery and enchantment, in an age of Celtic gods, Highland warlords, Roman legions, and powerful druids, a young Pictish healer finds herself embroiled in an epic struggle between gods and men. The Celtic tribes of the lands we now know as Scotland and Ireland consp ...

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The Seeker: A Medieval Saga of honour, love and betrayal. Book 1 of The Hidden Truths Saga

The Seeker: A Medieval Saga of honour, love and betraya...

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In the heart of 13th-century Constantinople, Deanda wields a rare gift—the power to unravel hidden truths that grip the very essence of reality itself. Yet when Emperor Alexius III exploits her visions for his own treacherous games of power, a web of deceit unfurls, casting a dar ...

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Southern Republic

Southern Republic

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In a world where the South has won the Civil War… It’s 1982. A hundred years have passed since the South emerged victorious in the War of Northern Aggression. From the ashes of the aftermath, the industrial North has evolved into the technical center of the modern world, while the agrarian South, no ...

Category Historical Fiction
Legacy of Luck

Legacy of Luck

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When he falls for a woman promised to another, can an enchanted family heirloom aid his quest to Scotland and his ardent desire? Ireland, 1746. Traveler Éamonn Doherty thrives on wine, gambling, and song. But when his womanizing draws him to a fiery-haired lass impervious to his charms, he finds hi ...

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Black Entry

Black Entry

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This is a fictionalized account of "Project Tiger", which was an operation spanning 1962 and 1963 in which the CIA inserted numerous indigenous agent teams into North Vietnam for the purposes of espionage, sabotage and other special operations. It also relates the story to earlier CIA operations in ...

Category Historical Fiction
Lily of the Nile

Lily of the Nile

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With her parents dead, the daughter of Cleopatra and Mark Antony is left at the mercy of her Roman captors. Heir to one empire and prisoner of another, Princess Selene must save her brothers and reclaim what ...

Category Historical Fiction
Scepter of Flint
Scepter of Flint

Scepter of Flint

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During the Great Jubilee of the Aten, a mysterious series of tomb robberies takes place, and witnesses begin to die. With plague ravaging the palace, where Hani’s daughter is a physician, and Egypt’s ally, Naharin, collapsing into the hands of a usurper, Hani must make sense of what is happening. An ...

Category Historical Fiction
Songbird in the Marsh: Prequel to the Dauntless Series

Songbird in the Marsh: Prequel to the Dauntless Series

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In this historical suspense novelette, Annie Osborn thrills at the chance to become somebody through her music. But when she hears of a freedom seeker on the run near her home in Martha's Vineyard, she recognizes her opportunity to achieve a different kind of greatness. This page-turning tale of qui ...

Category Historical Fiction
It's Going to Be a Good Day: 25 Feel-Good Short Stories of Kindness, Inspiration, and Grace inspired by true events

It's Going to Be a Good Day: 25 Feel-Good Short Stories...

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The Perfect Uplifting Gift for Anyone Needing a Dose of Hope and Comfort

Discover a collection of heartwarming short stories designed to brighten even the darkest days. "It's Going to Be a Good Day" offers 25 carefully crafted tales inspired by true events, featuring beautiful full-color ...

Category Historical Fiction
Miller's Secret

Miller's Secret

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Miller's Secret Obsession. Ambition. Betrayal. Left in an orphanage as a young child, Miller Dreeser vowed to someday live a life of wealth and prestige. He obtained that life, with no thought of the consequence to those he used as puppets on a string to get there. His acceptance into the world of t ...

Category Historical Fiction
Legacy of Luck

Legacy of Luck

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When he falls for a woman promised to another, can an enchanted family heirloom aid his quest to Scotland and his ardent desire? Ireland, 1746. Traveler Éamonn Doherty thrives on wine, gambling, and song. But when his womanizing draws him to a fiery-haired lass impervious to his charms, he finds hi ...

Category Historical Fiction
MY FATHER, MY ENEMY

MY FATHER, MY ENEMY

Juliane is the baseborn daughter of Henry I, King of England. Her father finds her a suitable match with a Norman lord, Eustace, and she has two daughters that she adores. But Eustace is hot-headed and sometimes cruel; he maims the young son of a man who is involved in a hostage exchange to bind pea ...

Category Historical Fiction
The Ties That Loose

The Ties That Loose

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An F-15 goes down behind enemy lines, challenging an Air Force family's faith. When survival is questionable, will their ties to God fray? While clearing out her mother’s estate, Dani Robicheau Kirkland makes a shocking discovery: a box containing pieces of her parents’ life hidden away after her ...

Category Historical Fiction
The Inn of Fallen Leaves

The Inn of Fallen Leaves

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In the turmoil of Japan, before the banishment of the samurai class, a disillusioned samurai, Itashima Chobei, is confronted by Akiyama, a samurai on a mysterious errand for his powerful leader. Their conflicted worlds lead to a battle of wits, ego and pursuit. In the middle is a beautiful woman, Mi ...

Category Historical Fiction
Gone Away: A novel of sacrifice and secrets during the Manhattan Project

Gone Away: A novel of sacrifice and secrets during the ...

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In the dark stretch of World War II, ambitious student and newlywed Adrienne Kennedy is asked to give up everything she’d planned for her future—her degree, her home, even her name—when her husband Joe is recruited for a top-secret wartime mission in the New Mexico deser ...

Category Historical Fiction
Call of the Morrigú: An Irish Historical Fantasy

Call of the Morrigú: An Irish Historical Fantasy

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Ireland, 1798. Tomboy Dosey Latimer hates playing prim and proper. Despite her reluctant engagement, her true passion lies with her grandfather's plans to excavate an ancient site on the estate. When they stumble upon an enigmatic stone box hidden in a sacred cave, Dosey’s curiosity gets the best of ...

Category Historical Fiction
A Minor Deception: A Joseph Haydn Mystery

A Minor Deception: A Joseph Haydn Mystery

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Kapellmeister Joseph Haydn would like nothing better than to show his principal violinist, Bartó Daboczi, the door. But with the Empress Maria Theresa’s visit scheduled in three weeks, Haydn can ill-afford to lose his surly virtuoso. But when Bartó disappears—along with all ...

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Girl Braiding Her Hair

Girl Braiding Her Hair

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Her friends included Van Gogh, Degas, and Renoir. Paris celebrated her as a sought-after model, until she picked up the brush herself, at a time when art schools refused to accept female students. By the time Suzanne Valadon was 15 years old, she'd been a horse walker, a milliner, a funeral wreat ...

Category Historical Fiction
I, RICHARD PLANTAGENET: TANTE LE DESIREE

I, RICHARD PLANTAGENET: TANTE LE DESIREE

 1471 : The battle of Barnet rages.  Richard of Gloucester, King Edward IV's youngest brother, is only eighteen.It is his first battle and he is wounded…. but when the Kingmaker falls in the fray,  Richard and his brother Edward press on to ultimate victory at Tewkesbury.  Ric ...

Category Historical Fiction
Freedom Skies
Freedom Skies

Freedom Skies

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One day in 1860, everything changed for everyone, everywhere.  In Victorian London, in an age when steam and clockwork power are all-important, a series of events throws Oliver, Jake and Charlotte into conflict with the authorities. They come from very different backgrounds and join forces w ...

Category Historical Fiction