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Pub. Date
2018.
Description
"Journey through history as nine women make their escape from some of life's greatest challenges. West Indies, 1655: Temperance only wanted a better life. Instead, she's sold as an indentured servant. Atlantic Ocean, 1755: Charlotte is deported to the British colonies for her father's crimes. Virginia, 1850: With her life in peril, Lettie seeks escape from slavery. Barbary Coast, 1873: Goldie must pay the cost of her upbringing--or work at her...
562) The substitute bride
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Pub. Date
2011.
Description
They struck a bargain for marriage. Fleeing an arranged marriage, debutante Elizabeth Manning exchanges places with a mail-order bride bound for New Harmony, Iowa. Life on the frontier can't be worse than forced wedlock to pay her father's gambling debts. But Ted Logan's rustic lifestyle and rambunctious children prove to be more of a challenge than Elizabeth expects. She doesn't know how to be a mother or a wife. She doesn't even know how to tell...
563) At every turn
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Pub. Date
[2013]
Description
Caught up in religious fervor when missionaries speak at her church, Alyce Benson impetuously pledges three thousand dollars to mission work in Africa, certain her wealthy father will honor it. When he refuses, Alyce discovers that his company has sponsored a racing car - and that the driver could win prize money. She conspires with her father's mechanic to secretly train and compete. But as Alyce sees needs in her own community, the money slips through...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Life is not easy in Philistia for a woman and child alone. When beautiful, wounded Delilah finds herself begging for food to survive, she resolves that she will find a way to defeat all the men who have taken advantage of her. When she meets a legendary man called Samson, she senses that in him lies the means for her victory. By winning, seducing, and betraying the hero of the Hebrews, she will attain a position of national prominence. After all,...
565) Lily and the lawman
Author
Pub. Date
2011.
Description
"Lily has never been so alone. Her sister Violet has died and her niece Rose has been kidnapped. The U.S. Marshals who are supposed to be looking for Rose are ill and injured. Lily Whitman has two choices: find Rose herself, which she has no idea how to do, or trust Trace McConnell to find the baby for her. But Lily has trusted men for the last time. Trace - almost-bad-boy-turned-lawman - would be happy to hunt the kidnappers and find Rose. But how...
566) Into the Deep
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Kentucky Brides, Book1. Romance Complicates A Simple Way of Historic Life.
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Series
Pub. Date
2012, c2011
Description
Germany, 1918. Four years of fighting have finally ended, and an undercurrent of hope swells in the bustling streets of Munich. It's a dream come true for Annaliese Düray. Young and idealistic, she's fighting on the front lines of Munich's political scene to give women and the working-class a voice in the new government. But she's caught off guard by the arrival of Christophe Brecht, a family friend who's been sent to bring her home. That's the last...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Stubborn seclusion is just one of the obstacles in the way of this British couple. That's not even counting the pressures they are about to face when society gets wind of their unconventional romance....Lord Nicholas Kenswick wants no more of the world. So God brings the world to him. Christina Wakelin, the vicar's daughter, literally falls into his arms, just before his late brother's baby is sent to him to raise. But is love enough for a nobleman...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Description
A woman challenges Victorian assumptions that females are meek and needy ... but will doing so deafen her to the call of romance? Emma Delaney is providing well for her family. Hurts of the past keep her from considering a future with another man. How then is she to respond when her daughter suddenly claims a passerby on a manhunt her new pa? Can this independent South Dakota woman surrender her desires to her heavenly father and her heart to the...
571) Gingham bride
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Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Fiona O'Rourke doesn't believe in love - certainly not in a marriage arranged by her cruel father. Even if her unexpected betrothed seems honorable and kind, can she trust his motives ... or the attraction between them? Ian McPherson didn't come to Montana to take a wife. But he's instantly drawn to Fiona. He wants to protect her - even if that means pretending that they're engaged. In a season of surprises and miracles, there's nothing he won't give...
572) A dazzle of diamonds
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Series
Pub. Date
[2021].
Description
Penelope Hunter loves her job as the events manager at one of Savannah's premier historic venues--until her ex-fiancé walks into her office with his new bride-to-be. To make matters worse, a scheming social matriarch is intent on seeing Penelope fired, especially if she insists on being seen with her best friend, Tucker Westbrook. Since returning from serving two tours in the Middle East, Tucker has built a thriving security company. His work is...
573) Corner of blue
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Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Jemmabeth Forrester doesn't learn from anybody's mistakes but her own, so she's obliged to make plenty of them. She's always been a good girl, and she has a boxful of Sunday school perfect attendance certificates to prove it. Someday she'll marry Spencer, the hometown guy who's been in love with her since the first grade. But is that all there is to life? Or is there something more that she's missed? It seems that half of Chillaton-a small farming...
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
A Kentucky woman finds herself in an unexpected and difficult situation. When love comes knocking, will she be able to see it in the daily stresses she endures? After leaving the mountains of her childhood, widow Molly Pierpont returns to help raise the children of her dead sister. Jonas McLean lost his heart when he lost his wife, and he's not sure how he feels about his spirited sister-in-law. Will God soften their hearts to let love in?
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