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Love, Theodosia is a smart, funny, swoony take on a fiercely intelligent woman (Aaron Burr's daughter, Theodosia) with feminist ideas and ideals far ahead of her time. Not only a work of well-researched historical fiction, but, a refreshing spin on the Hamiltonian era and the characters we have grown to know and love so well. Goldstein shines a bright light on Theodosia, who has long deserved center stage, a young woman struggling to be heard in a...
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Beautiful eighteen-year-old Catherine Wilmershire runs away from her unhappy home to start a life in the new country of America. Unfortunately, she fails to consider that the world is a dangerous place for a young woman traveling alone. But she learns quickly after two thugs kidnap, rob, and sell her to the madam of a brothel and she wakes up the next in the arms of a handsome brown-eyed stranger. She must decide. Will she give...
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Determined to keep a vow made to her dying father, independent eighteen-year-old Rebecca Pierce sets out on a wagon train on the Oregon Trail in 1845 with her mother. Rebecca is strong and takes on a leadership role. Zachary Miller is traveling alone with nothing more than what he can carry and his horse. He is assigned to help Rebecca and her mother from the first day on the trail. Zachary falls fast for Rebecca but she is conflicted about her growing...
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The year is 1896, and the women's rights movement is forging ahead. Eighteen-year-old Jenna Newell is at the threshold of her life, hoping to fulfill her dream of becoming a journalist at a time when women are still expected to follow the traditional paths of marriage and motherhood. Sarah Newell, Jenna's grandmother, has other plans for her, however. Consumed with hatred because of her obsessive love for her deceased daughter, Sarah connives to ensnare...
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A WRONG TIM TO LOVE; Rubin and Naomi were in love at the time in life when it was wrong for a white man to love a black woman. But it did not stop Rubin and Naomi from falling in love and crossing over the race barriers. Their love made a baby boy, Henry who was ripped away from Naomi and raised by another woman. He re-connected with his mother but never met or saw his white father.
A WRONG TIME TO LOVE; Alice was a black woman, she was passing for...
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It's 1897, and an abandoned wife and mother with a rebellious teenage daughter faces a dilemma: how to earn enough cash for food and upkeep, and maintain respectability? The gossips would have it that her laundry business is a sham. She's too friendly with her customers at the local bordello and the men at the logging camp. When she takes in a border, a doctor who arrives without his bride, then tongues really start to wag. There is a second chance...
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New Banker in Town Paul Weaver felt Sweetwater, Kansas, was going to be one of those towns along the railroad that would grow quickly. Everything Paul looked for before building a large bank was present — and much more... The woman who had broken his heart, almost broken his spirit, was also there. A woman he thought lost to him. Was pain from her betrayal so raw it would cripple him more than his missing limb? Would old wounds resurface and loss...
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In Landry, Wyoming, outspoken, bossy Dr. Bea Inseldorf secretly longs for a home and family of her own. She fills her life with caring for everyone else instead. Widower Tate Reed is filled with bitterness and refuses to celebrate Christmas- his wife died in childbirth at the holiday several years ago. His young daughter misses her mother but also her father, who is no longer the happy, loving man he used to be. Four days of isolation together in...
9) Until
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When Talmadge Hammond drifts into the Idaho mining camp he has no intention of using his law degree. He's there for whiskey and the gold he can win at cards. Instead, he must save the life of the woman who'd once vowed to love him until... Noletta Kittridge begins that day covered in a man's blood and accused of murder. She has sinned to stay alive. Redemption can come only by giving her life to save the person who accidentally killed the man. Even...
10) The Last Pirates
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The Lafitte brothers were privateers, legally commandeering ships and cargoes with permission from the USA and Spain. They were also American patriots who assisted Andrew Jackson in the Battle of New Orleans against the British (1814-15). Their lieutenants, heroes of these stories, are entirely fictional characters. Christian must win the trust of the governor's niece to free Lafitte, but she isn't in her uncle's good graces. Shipwrecked off the Texas...
11) Wylder Opal
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Gunslinger turned playwright Opal Calahan is handy with a pistol and even handier with a pen. She arrives in town dreaming of creating the new Wylder Playhouse. Rugged prospector Heath Rawdon tantalizes as her perfect leading man-but why does he hate theaters? And why does he have a price on his head? Heath is running from his past and wrestling mental demons. Thanks to his visit to the playhouse in the lawless Ballarat goldfields, he lost his mate...
12) Precious Burdens
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Sarafina di Ramonicci sets sail for America as the promised bride in an arranged political marriage. Taken prisoner at sea, she clashes with her captor and demands freedom, only to discover he is planning her future husband's demise, with her as a pawn in their deadly feud. The challenge of escape tests her loyalty to family, human decency, and love. Captain Nye Tarquin is a dangerous man. Left to die on the streets of New Orleans, he swears retribution...
13) The Painted Lady
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Aspiring artist Delaney Harper sails to New Orleans after her mother's death. On the night of her arrival, she's welcomed by a masked stranger who steals one breathless kiss. Alderic Beaumont is a fallen aristocrat. Once a corsair and now a smuggler, he's a force to be reckoned with. On the night of his friend's celebration, he's captured by an irresistible beauty. He kisses her, promising to find her come morning. By then, Delaney's world has crumbled-the...
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Ghostly gunslinger Zachariah is condemned to spend eternity in the room now inhabited by Blossom Cherry, an easygoing yet hot-blooded doxie. Their scrappy relationship endures though he taunts and aggravates her. He also exacts fitting vengeance on those clients who dare, to their eternal regret, mistreat his feisty roommate. The attraction between the young prostitute and the outlaw intensifies to undeniable, unquenchable, unearthly desire until...
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It's a dangerous time for desire...
In the summer of 1692, Nicholas Cleary arrives in Salem Village. There on orders from the new Governor, he hopes to restore his good name by ascertaining the root of the witchcraft madness so the ridiculous trials can end. He does not expect the widow he boards with to be a mysterious beauty...
Hannah Hibbard knows plants, the moon, and other things a good Puritan woman shouldn't, and is doing her best to go unnoticed...
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In the Spring of 1881, indigent seamstress Ginny Dahlke arrives in one of the earliest Polish American settlements-Parisville, Michigan. Deemed charmless and awkward by her mean-spirited sister-in-law, Ginny disparages her chance of securing love. But sought-after widowed farmer Peter Nickles is enamored by Ginny's perseverance, her pioneer spirit and, her inclusive acceptance of the indigenous peoples of Michigan. The seductiveness of a buxom heiress,...
17) Isabella
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Isabella is a novel of its time when life was hard and intimidating, often short and frequently brutal in the cause of making many rich men even richer on both sides of the Atlantic. Even so, there were more people willing to stand up to legislate for the cause in America just as happened in Great Britain 50 years earlier to help the oppressed escape to live a better life.
It is a story of love during the Civil War when unlikely people made individual...
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The First First Gentleman is an epic love story about the obstacles overcome by Melinda Sherman, a physically and emotionally wounded war hero who falls in love with a worldly political operative who manages her campaign for President of the United States. Their love is their greatest political asset. She speaks out in a stunning way that punctures the cultural orthodoxy and feeds the public's hunger for a different political leader, while dark forces...
19) The Mark of Cain
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Millionaire Rowland Trowbridge has been found murdered, and his niece is determined to find the culprit. A young boy called Fibsy who worked in Trowbridge's office is able to piece together key clues, showing up the inefficiency of the police investigation so far, and requests the help of skilled detective Fleming Stone. With a whole host of suspicious characters and devious motives, this will be a tricky crime to solve. A classic whodunnit from the...
20) Victim of Love
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In an era when cultures maintain a cautious truce; one man's pursuit, in the name of love, endangers all those he cares for; while another man's obsession spawns a devastating drive to massacre all who stand in his way-trapping one woman between them; the victim of love. www.LiteraryAdventures.net
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