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Bride of Pendorric
Favel Farington met Roc Pendorric when he arrived in Capri to see her father, a famous artist. After knowing each other for only a few short weeks, th...

Kirkland Revels
Catherine marries Gabriel - not out of love but more because she feels protective about him and also to escape from the gloomy atmosphere of her fathe...

Lord of the Far Island
Ellen Kellaway was determined to learn about her past. Raised by her Cousins William and Agatha Loring, she was always treated as the poor relation. ...

Menfreya in the Morning
Harriet Delvaney always loved looking at the great house of Menfreya. She viewed it as an escape from her indifferent father and controlling aunt. Whe...

Mistress of Mellyn
Martha Leigh and her sister has a happy childhood, but after their parent's death they go to live with an aunt. They have a "season" and Martha's sist...

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My Enemy the Queen (Romance)
Lettice Knollys is Queen Elizabeth's cousin on her mother's side. Introduced to court at a very young age, her taste for the high life overtakes her ...



My Enemy the Queen (Literature)
Lettice is the fairest of them all. To herself, at least. From the time she was a little girl, she was told stories of her cousin who would be Queen...

On the Night of the Seventh Moon
When Helena Trant leaves for boarding school in Germany, she has no idea that her life is about to be dramatically changed. It begins with a walk thro...

Secret for a Nightingale
As a young girl in India, beautiful Susanna Pleydell first realized that she had a gift for soothing the sick and injured. But a meeting between Susa...

Seven For A Secret
Frederica's mother is taken ill and she must go live with her aunt. She shares a governess with the daughter of a rich family, and gradually falls in...

Snare of Serpents
Davina Glentyre has to deal with her father's marriage to her governess. Shortly after, she must deal with his murder and the evidence that pointed to...

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The Captive
Rosetta Cranleigh becomes stranded on an island after a storm overturns the boat she is on along with its passengers. On the island with her is Lucas...

The Curse of the Kings
Judith falls in love with Tybalt early on in her life. He's a young archaeologist with the dream of taking up the work of his father. Tybalt's father...

The House of a Thousand Lanterns
This story takes place in England and then in China in a beautiful house known as The House of a Thousand Lanterns. Jane heard stories of this enchant...

The India Fan
Drusilla Delaney grows up in a small village in England basically ruled by the Framlings. Drusilla first comes into contact with the Framlings when s...

The Judas Kiss
Pippa Ewell is determined to discover who murdered her sister and she wants to find her sister's son. But nobody seems to know anything about the murd...

The King of the Castle
Dallas Lawson is a young woman who learns painting and other forms of art from her father. When her father dies, she decides to take over his business...

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The Legend of the Seventh Virgin
Kerensa Carlee was a poor but beautiful cottage girl. She was completely obsessed by the gorgeous home of the St. Larnston family. She was determined ...

The Mask of the Enchantress
Suewellyn Mateland decided to commit a daring crime. She decided to take on the identity of a woman whom she really knew nothing about. She inherited ...

The Pride of the Peacock
Young english woman discovers who her real parents were...participates in arranged marriage to rich man, travels to Australia, encounters adventure, f...

The Queen's Confession
Victoria Holt took the life of Marie Antoinette and wrote this book as if she, herself, was the young French queen. The story begins with Marie marryi...

The Road to Paradise Island
The book starts off in the 19th century in England with Annalice living with her grandma and brother Phillip. She trips over a grave with Annalice's n...

The Secret Woman
Anna Brett is a quiet young woman who takes over her aunt's antique business when her aunt gets sick. Anna hires a nurse to take care of her aunt unti...

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The Shadow of the Lynx
Nora Tamasin loses her father and her welfare is entrusted to a man known as "The Lynx." This man was accused of a crime when he was younger and he is...

The Shivering Sands
Caroline Verlaine's famous husband dies suddenly, so she goes to be with her sister. Her sister dies mysteriously at an archaelogical dig. Caroline de...

The Silk Vendetta (Romance)
Lenore lives and grows up in the house of the Sallongers along with her grandmother whom is very skilled at dressmaking. The Sallongers have had a lon...

The Silk Vendetta (Thriller/Action)
Lenore St. Allengere discovers as a young girl that she is no more than a higher servant in the Silk House where she lives with her grandmother, who w...

The Spring of the Tiger
After Sarah Ashington's actress mother dies, she is taken in by her father's family. When she finally meets her father, she becomes entranced by his s...

The Time of the Hunter's Moon
Cordelia Grant is a young woman who lives through very strange event. Back in Switzerland, in an exclusive girl school, Cordelia and her friends find...

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