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Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"Complications arise when Marietta's secret love letters are accidentally found by the wrong man. 1828, the London countryside. For years, Marietta Stone has harbored a secret infatuation for the handsome Frederick Finch and has poured out her deepest feelings in a series of passionate love letters that she keeps in a locked drawer. But when Marietta's private letters are accidentally delivered to Frederick's house, she must retrieve them immediately...
Author
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The London Countryside, 1820. Eleanora Coventry comes from a life of title and privilege, but even that isn't enough to prevent her from being wed at sixteen to a controlling and dismissive husband. So when she finds herself a widow at only twenty-six, the idea of choosing her own path forward both thrills and terrifies her. She knows how to be a daughter and a wife, but she has no idea how to be Eleanora. She moves her son and daughter to her late...
Author
Series
Penn-Leiths of Thistle Muir volume 1
Publisher
Fiorenza Publishing
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
As a young woman, Leah Penn-Leith fell hopelessly in love with Captain Fox Carnegie--the only irrational mark on her decidedly sensible life. Fox, unfortunately, did not return her regard. Their story should have ended there. After all, Fox left for India. But twenty years later, Fox appears on Leah's doorstep--older, scarred, and world-weary--proposing a marriage of convenience between them. He needs a mother for his young ward, and Leah, with her...
4) Desertion
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Language
English
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Description
Early one morning in 1899, an Englishman named Martin Pearce stumbles out of the desert into an East African coastal town and collapses at the feet of Hassanali, a local shopkeeper. When Hassanali's sister, the beautiful and disillusioned Rehana, nurses Pearce back to health, a love affair sparks, with consequences that will ripple decades into the future when another clandestine affair bursts into flame with equally unforeseen and dramatic consequences....
Author
Series
Publisher
Shadow Mountain
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"London, 1887. When newly graduated medical doctor Charlotte Duvall receives word that her father has died, she immediately leaves America and returns home to see to her family's estate. Among her father's possessions is a box of her late mother's letters, which feels like a balm to Charlotte's grief-stricken heart. But the letters contain some inconsistencies that suggest there was more to her mother's death than Charlotte had been told. She turns...
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