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  • A Song Unheard by Roseanna M. White

    A Song Unheard by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 14 ratings
    Willa Forsythe is both a violin prodigy and top-notch thief, which makes her the perfect choice for a crucial task at the outset of World War I--to steal a cypher from a famous violinist currently in Wales. Lukas De Wilde has enjoyed the life of fame he's won--until now, when being recognized nearly gets him killed. Everyone wants the key to his father's work as a cryptologist...
  • The German Daughter by Marius Gabriel

    The German Daughter by Marius Gabriel

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The band new absolutely gripping and heartbreaking World War II historical novel from master storyteller Marius Gabriel. What readers are saying about Marius 'A must read for fans of WW2 books , it not only educates you... but also breaks your heart .... Five stars for this book... I loved it and cried at the end' Reader review, 5 stars'A wonderful, unputdownable book..
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  • The Trouble With Secrets: The Kilteegan Bridge Story by Jean Grainger

    The Trouble With Secrets: The Kilteegan Bridge Story by Jean Grainger

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Kilteegan Bridge, County Cork 1958For eighteen year old Lena Mullery, life is predictable and dull. A future of hard work, marriage to a local boy, and a family of her own one day is all she has to look forward to. People from her background know not expect too much, but Lena yearns for something different.Malachy Berger was different, for him, the world is at his feet...
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    suspense  christian  historical
  • Where the Sky Begins by Rhys Bowen

    Where the Sky Begins by Rhys Bowen

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    A woman’s future is determined by fate and choice in a gripping WWII novel about danger, triumph, and second chances by the New York Times bestselling author of The Venice Sketchbook and The Tuscan Child.London, 1940. Bombs fall and Josie Banks’s world crumbles around her. Her overbearing husband, Stan, is unreachable, called to service. Her home, a ruin of rubble and ash...
  • Home Sweet Home by Lizzie Lane

    Home Sweet Home by Lizzie Lane

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Will they meet again? Frances Sweet can’t really remember her real parents. Brought up by her uncle, her cousins Ruby and Mary have always treated her like their little sister.As the war continues to keep her cousins separated from the men they love – Frances is growing up fast enough to catch the eye of dashing American soldier Declan...
  • The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    The Dance Teacher of Paris by Suzanne Fortin

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    'But how will I look after them? Where can I hide them?' She looked up at me and didn't try to stop the tears from falling. 'I'm begging you. Please, save our children.'Paris, 1942. As the Germans occupy the city she calls home, Adele Basset is determined to keep her pupils' spirits up. Their dance class offers a moment of solace in the dark days of occupation...
  • He Walks Among Us by Christy Barritt

    He Walks Among Us by Christy Barritt

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Members of the Arctic Circle Murder Club get together to discuss the next case they'll take a deep dive into. But their plans are quickly derailed when three bodies emerge from an icy river nearby and a friend of one of the victims pleads for help...
  • Within These Walls of Sorrow: A Novel of World War II Poland by Amanda Barratt

    Within These Walls of Sorrow: A Novel of World War II Poland by Amanda Barratt

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    "As superbly written as it is haunting in its truth." --Kate Breslin, best-selling author of For Such a TimeZosia Lewandowska knows the brutal realities of war all too well. Within weeks of Germany's invasion of her Polish homeland, she lost the man she loves...
  • Finding Friends on Beamer Street: The start of a brand new historical saga series by Sheila Riley for 2022 by Sheila Riley

    Finding Friends on Beamer Street: The start of a brand new historical saga series by Sheila Riley for 2022 by Sheila Riley

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The start of a brand new series from Sheila Riley, bestselling author of the Reckoner's Row saga series!Liverpool 1921 Pregnant, Mary Jane Starlings secret wedding to Paddy Redfern ends in disaster when her fiancé is murdered on the way to the church. Paddy’s wayward twin ‘Red’ intercepts Mary Jane and warns that they must flee Ireland for fear of reprisals from her family, never to return...
  • Just Once: A Novel by Karen Kingsbury

    Just Once: A Novel by Karen Kingsbury

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    The #1 New York Times bestselling author “known for her deeply heartfelt novels” ( Woman’s World ) writes a sweeping World War II love story about a young woman torn between two brothers.In 1941, beautiful Irvel Holland is too focused on her secret to take much notice of the war raging overseas...
  • Abiding Hope by Jennifer H. Westall

    Abiding Hope by Jennifer H. Westall

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    "For whoever wants to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for me will find it." After three years of bloodshed in the jungles of the Philippines, guerrilla leader, Matthew Doyle, finds himself on the brink of freedom. The Americans are coming, bringing with them the promise of an end to the terror inflicted by the Japanese army on his mind, body, and soul...
  • Divine Creations: A Divine Cozy Mystery Novel by Hope Callaghan

    Divine Creations: A Divine Cozy Mystery Novel by Hope Callaghan

    Rated: 4.83 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    As former convict and resident, Kelli Cole enters the last stretch of her time at Joanna Pepperdine’s rehabilitation farm in Divine, Kansas, new evidence that could prove her innocence is given to her from an unlikely ally…the news reporter who unfairly covered her trial...
  • To Treasure an Heiress by Roseanna M. White

    To Treasure an Heiress by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.71 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    Beth Tremayne has always been drawn to adventure. During her childhood, she fed that desire by exploring every inch of the Isles of Scilly. As an adolescent, she dreamed of love in London's ballrooms. Now, stumbling across an old map on her family's property, she's found more adventure than she ever craved in the hunt for pirate treasure...
  • The Boy Who Granted Dreams by Luca Di Fulvio

    The Boy Who Granted Dreams by Luca Di Fulvio

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    1909. Ellis Island. Arriving off one of the many transatlantic freighters are Cetta Luminita and her illegitimate baby boy Natale, fleeing the poverty and violence of their Southern Italian hometown. Having sacrificed everything, and endured every possible shame, Cetta has but one wish: that her baby should be an American, and grow up with the freedom to decide his own destiny...
  • Long Way Home by Lynn Austin

    Long Way Home by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    In this portrait of war and its aftermath, a young woman searches for the truth her childhood friend won't discuss after returning from World War II, revealing a story of courage, friendship, and faith.Peggy Serrano couldn't wait for her best friend to come home from the war...
  • All My Secrets by Lynn Austin

    All My Secrets by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bestselling author Lynn Austin returns with a luminous work of historical fiction set amid the opulence of Gilded Age New York, where three generations of women in one family must reckon with the choices they have made and their hopes for the future.New York, 1898...
  • Love's Bright Tomorrow by Naomi Rawlings

    Love's Bright Tomorrow by Naomi Rawlings

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She’s just trying to start a new life for herself. If only it wasn’t so hard… It’s not as though there are a lot of options for a woman with barely two pennies to rub together.At least not in 1884.Or in the small town where she’s settled.Or anywhere else.It’s even harder when her past keeps coming back to haunt her. Aileen has tried putting it behind her. Truly she has...
  • The Women of Fishers Wharf by Tracy Baines

    The Women of Fishers Wharf by Tracy Baines

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Can you leave the past behind and embrace the future? - A brand new series from Tracy BainesGreat Grimsby, 1912Newlywed fisherman Alec Hardy decides to make a fresh start with his young wife Letty and move to the thriving fishing port of Grimsby in search of a brighter future...
  • Warleggan by Winston Graham

    Warleggan by Winston Graham

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    Ross Poldark plunges into a speculative mining venture which threatens his financial security and his stormy marriage to Demelza. When the old attraction between Ross and Elizabeth begins to rekindle itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a Scottish cavalry officer...
  • God Still Don't Like Ugly by Mary Monroe

    God Still Don't Like Ugly by Mary Monroe

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Mary Monroe's heart-stopping tale about a woman who's suffered too much to give up on herself, even if everyone else has. . . Growing up, Annette Goode thought all men were as low-down as the father who abandoned her, including the boarder who abused her for years and the men she slept with to earn the money she needed to run away from her life...
  • Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

    Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 19 ratings
    The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful novel by #1 New York Times bestselling author Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas.Thatcher Hutton, a war-weary soldier on the way back to his cowboy life, jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble . .
  • The Sound of Light by Sarah Sundin

    The Sound of Light by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, assuming a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the waters to Sweden.American physicist Dr. Else Jensen refuses to leave Copenhagen and abandon her research--her life's dream...
  • The Sound of Light by Sarah Sundin

    The Sound of Light by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, assuming a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the waters to Sweden.American physicist Dr. Else Jensen refuses to leave Copenhagen and abandon her research--her life's dream...
  • The Hidden Letters by Lorna Cook

    The Hidden Letters by Lorna Cook

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    On the eve of a world war, a forbidden love will blossom in the garden of a stately home and one young woman will make a choice that will change her life forever…As the storm clouds of war gather, Cordelia seeks refuge in the grounds of her family estate.Isaac has recently arrived to tend to the gardens, and the connection between him and Cordelia is as immediate as it is forbidden...
  • Island in the East by Jenny Ashcroft

    Island in the East by Jenny Ashcroft

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Set in 1890s and 1940s Singapore, the stunning Island in the East is a story of love, sisterly rivalry and the true cost of betrayal. Vivid, authentic and utterly beautiful, it's the perfect read for fans of Victoria Hislop, Fiona McIntosh and Kate Morton. 1897: twenty-year-old identical twins, Harriet and Mae, born from a scandalous affair, have spent their lives slighted by gossips...
  • The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Beloved writer Sean Dietrich—also known as Sean of the South—will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her.Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local paper’s weekly gossip column...
  • The Sound of Light by Sarah Sundin

    The Sound of Light by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    When the Germans march into Denmark, Baron Henrik Ahlefeldt exchanges his nobility for anonymity, assuming a new identity so he can secretly row messages for the Danish Resistance across the waters to Sweden.American physicist Dr. Else Jensen refuses to leave Copenhagen and abandon her research--her life's dream...
  • Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction’s most enduring and endearing protagonists...
  • These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon

    These High, Green Hills by Jan Karon

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 26 ratings
    For years, Mitford's sixtysomething rector has been happily married to his parish. Now he's also married to Cynthia, his vivacious next-door neighbor. For Father Tim, life in Mitford has never been so full of surprises. His wife is "aging" his already ancient kitchen walls, not to mention burning his draperies. The mountain boy he's learned to love as his own makes a heartrending decision...
  • A Gilded Lady by Elizabeth Camden

    A Gilded Lady by Elizabeth Camden

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 11 ratings
    Caroline Delacroix is at the pinnacle of Washington high society in her role as secretary to the first lady of the United States. But beneath the faade of her beauty, glamorous wardrobe, and dazzling personality, she's hiding a terrible secret. If she cannot untangle a web of foreign espionage, her brother will face execution for treason...
  • The Waiting Hours by Ellie Dean

    The Waiting Hours by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The thirteenth heart-warming novel in the Beach View Boarding House series, from Sunday Times bestselling author Ellie Dean. Slapton Sands, Devon 1943 Carol Porter has had a difficult war. Less than a year ago she lost both her husband and baby, and with them her heart. Only recently has she’s found peace, working as a land girl at Coombe Farm...
  • A Family for Gracie by Amy Lillard

    A Family for Gracie by Amy Lillard

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    For the Amish of Pontotoc, Mississippi, faith and family are everything—even when they pose the greatest challenge . . .   Gracie Glick is known for being the helpful one, always available for a relative in need. But now that she’s longing for a home and family of her own, it’s time to help herself. With few eligible men in Pontotoc, Gracie’s choices, and her time, are limited...
  • Chasing Shadows by Lynn Austin

    Chasing Shadows by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Lena is a wife and mother who farms alongside her husband in the tranquil countryside...
  • The Mersey Mothers by Sheila Riley

    The Mersey Mothers by Sheila Riley

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Liverpool 1953January sees the dawn of the Queen Elizabeth’s Coronation year as the mothers of Reckoners Row unite in preparation for the celebration of the new Queen.Meanwhile Evie Kilgaren is dreaming of her summer wedding to Danny Harris, but trouble looms for Skinner & Sons with a new rival trying to put them out of business, but no-one knows why...
  • Codes of Courage by A.L. Sowards

    Codes of Courage by A.L. Sowards

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a battle of torpedoes, depth charges, and secret codes, nothing is as vulnerable as the human heart. 1940: Austrian refugee Karl Lang has lost everything―his country, his home, and his family. All that is left to him is a burning ambition to see the Nazis defeated...
  • The Queen of Beauty by Petra Durst-Benning, Edwin Miles

    The Queen of Beauty by Petra Durst-Benning, Edwin Miles

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Petra Durst-Benning’s captivating historical novel pays homage to the trailblazing women of the early twentieth century—like Elizabeth Arden and Estée Lauder—who shaped culture, shattered convention, and strived to make the world around them more beautiful...
  • Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

    Blind Tiger by Sandra Brown

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    With a “knack for romantic tension and page-turning suspense, this one is a winner.” The year 1920 comes in with a roar in this rousing and suspenseful New York Times bestselling novel by Sandra Brown. Prohibition is the new law of the land, but murder, mayhem, lust, and greed are already institutions in the Moonshine Capitol of Texas (Booklist, starred review)...
  • The Orphan Daughter by Sheila Riley

    The Orphan Daughter by Sheila Riley

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Winter, Liverpool 1947. Evie Kilgaren is a fighter. Abandoned by her mother and with her father long gone, she is left to raise her siblings in dockside Liverpool, as they battle against the coldest winter on record. But she is determined to make a life for herself and create a happy home for what's left of her family...
  • The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

    The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A Cross-Country Trip through Regency England Brings Intrigue, Rogues, and High Adventure  The must-read conclusion to Michelle Griep’s Bow Street Runners Trilogy: Life couldn’t be better for Abigail Gilbert—but it’s been a long time in coming. Having lived with a family who hated her, it’s finally her time for love...
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    christian  suspense  historical  humor  regency
  • Worthy of Legend by Roseanna M. White

    Worthy of Legend by Roseanna M. White

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    After a summer of successful pirate-treasure hunting, Lady Emily Scofield and her friends must hide the unprecedented discoveries they've made, thanks to the betrayal of her own family. Horrified by her brother, who stops at nothing to prove himself to their greedy father, Emily is forced to take a stand against her family--even when it means being cut off entirely...
  • In Perfect Time by Sarah Sundin

    In Perfect Time by Sarah Sundin

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Bold, sophisticated, and coy, flight nurse Lt. Kay Jobson collects hearts wherever she flies. So how can handsome C-47 pilot Lt. Roger Cooper be immune to her charms? In fact, he seems to do everything he can to avoid her. Still, as they cross the skies between Italy and southern France, evacuating the wounded and delivering paratroopers and supplies, every beat of their hearts draws them closer...
  • Catching Moondrops by Jennifer Erin Valent

    Catching Moondrops by Jennifer Erin Valent

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Jessilyn Lassiter no longer has to convince people she's not a child. Having just turned 19 in the summer of 1938, her love for Luke Talley has never been more real. And Luke is finally beginning to care for her in the way she's always dreamed of...
  • The Love Note by Joanna Davidson Politano

    The Love Note by Joanna Davidson Politano

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course during the summer of 1859 when she discovers a never-opened love letter in a crack of her old writing desk. Compelled to find the passionate soul who penned it and the person who never received it, she takes a job as a nurse at the seaside estate of Crestwicke Manor...
  • The Enemy and Miss Innes by Martha Keyes

    The Enemy and Miss Innes by Martha Keyes

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    All that stands between him and freedom? Turning her hatred to love.Elizabeth Innes has a tongue too sharp for her own good, and she is never more ready to employ it than when faced with the MacKinnons. With just one piece of evidence connecting their clan to a near-deadly attack, she is determined to prove the laird guilty and see him brought to justice...
  • Stay With Me by Liz Bradford, Sara Blackard

    Stay With Me by Liz Bradford, Sara Blackard

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Abandoned - Liz BradfordPolice officer Zara Grant is new to Hazel Hill, and despite her attempts to keep people at arms-length, she’s connected with the strong and steady, Officer Will Cooper. But how long will he stay around? Everyone else in her life leaves, why not him? Especially when her past creeps up on her in the form of a previous arrestee coming to town and making threats...
  • A Mother's Choice by Kristin Noel Fischer

    A Mother's Choice by Kristin Noel Fischer

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    For thirty years, Nadine Kingsley has kept a heart-wrenching secret. When a letter arrives threatening to reveal the truth that could destroy her tight-knit family, Nadine embarks on a difficult journey to explain her painful decision, especially to her youngest daughter, Autumn. Meanwhile, Autumn Anderson, Speech Pathologist and mother of two, is struggling in her marriage...
  • Secrets at Cedar Cabin by Colleen Coble

    Secrets at Cedar Cabin by Colleen Coble

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Colleen Coble delivers her signature blend of romance and suspense when Brenna Fleming flees to a cabin in Lavender Tides only to discover that everything she believed about herself has been a lie. Six months after her wedding, Bailey Fleming discovers she wasn't really married to Kyle Bearcroft...
  • The Girl from Vichy by Andie Newton

    The Girl from Vichy by Andie Newton

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    1942, occupied France.As the war in Europe rages on, Adèle Ambeh dreams of a France that is free from the clutches of the new regime. The date of her marriage to a ruthless man is drawing closer, and she only has one choice – she must run.With the help of her mother, Adèle flees to Lyon, seeking refuge at the Sisters of Notre Dame de la Compassion...
  • I'll Be Seeing You: A spellbinding and emotional wartime novel of love and secrets by Margaret Mayhew

    I'll Be Seeing You: A spellbinding and emotional wartime novel of love and secrets by Margaret Mayhew

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    When Juliet Porter's mother dies, she leaves Juliet some old letters and a photograph which shatter all her previously-held beliefs. They show that her real father was an American bomber pilot in the second world war, some forty years before, and that he had met her mother while serving in England...
  • A Shadow in Moscow by Katherine Reay

    A Shadow in Moscow by Katherine Reay

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A betrayal at the highest level risks the lives of two courageous female spies: MI6's best Soviet spy and the CIA's newest Moscow recruit. As the KGB closes in, a compromise must be struck if either woman hopes to survive...
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