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Two years ago, Prosperity Jones waved farewell to her beloved David as the army sent him to faraway Key West. Now with her parents gone, she has but one prospect for the future: make the dangerous journey from Nantucket to Key West to reunite with David and secure a happier life.
In the tenth century, when pagan holy women rule the Viking lands, Gudrid turns her back on her training as a seeress to embrace Christianity. Clinging to her faith, she joins her husband, Finn, on a voyage to North America.
Having escaped Egypt with the other Hebrews during the Exodus, Shira is now living in freedom at the foot of Mt. Sinai, upon which rests the fiery glowing Cloud containing the shekinah glory of God.
A Story of Love, Desperation, and Hope During a Great Biblical Epoch... Sold into slavery by her father and forsaken by the man she was supposed to marry, young Egyptian Kiya must serve a mistress who takes pleasure in her humiliation. When terrifying plagues strike Egypt, Kiya is in the middle of it all.
Violet Hawthorne is beyond mortified when her brother Ezra turns their deceased parents' New England country inn into a brothel to accommodate the nearby lumberjacks; but when Violet's own reputation is compromised, the inn becomes the least of her worries.
Glad tidings, hearts binding. Theyโve weathered a lot worse than winter. For widow June Harper, another cold front is about to hit. Most call him Hugh. Sheโd call him Scrooge, except as the man ensures her needs are met, June canโt help but wonder how to meet the needs of his heart.
If you love hymns and history and romance, like me, I have no doubt that you will adore Newton and Polly by Jody Hedlund!
On the run from a brute of an aristocratic employer, Eleanor Morgan escapes England to America, the land of the free, for the opportunity to serve an upstanding Charles Town family. But freedom is hard to come by as an indentured servant, and downright impossible when she's forced to agree to an even harsher contract - marriage to a man she's never met.
Sent away for protection, hotel heiress Estella Everstone finds herself living undercover as a ladyโs companion named Elle Stoneburner at one of her fatherโs opulent hotels in the mountains of Maineโthe one she'd always loved best and always hoped to own one day, Everston.
It is 1664 and Patience Terry is devastated to learn that Captain Jeremy Horton's ship has been shipwrecked off the coast of Barbados, with no survivors. She had hoped that Jeremy would someday give up the sea and settle down with her in Southold, Long Island.
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