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Sarah's Roses, Book I: Roses of Blue (Revised) by cradle_life
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Some secrets are best left unrevealed. A twist of fate takes Sarah away from the brothel she was born in to the cotton plantation of her Aunt and Uncle. As she tries to fit in with High Society, Sarah struggles to accept and abide by the cruel morals of the Antebellum South. And when she forms a tender attachment to her slave, Samuel, her complicated life becomes even more complicated. Living in an era where to be a bastard is to be an outcast and to love a black man is criminal, Sarah struggles to find meaning to her life and hope for a forbidden love.
In The Arms of My Enemy Book 1 by TenayaGatrell2
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Full version available on Amazon! https://a.co/d/8Mj3nhv Fidelia Atwell, a fiery red-headed American, will do anything to protect her sister during the war of 1812: even marry her enemy, the British spy Lord William Greyville. **** When British spy Lord William Greyville promises to protect the American sisters of his childhood friend in exchange for his life, fiery American Fidelia Atwell finds herself married to her enemy to protect his cover and her sister's life. The couple immediately butts heads, but Fidelia soon discovers her handsome husband to be a gentle and loving man who softens her feisty temper. When new dangers threaten Fidelia's life and William's cover, she finds herself playing the part of the spy to protect the man she loves and end the war that keeps them apart, but a traitor and an old enemy mean that failure will be something worse than death for William and the Atwell sisters. As spies, they could both lose their lives. As husband and wife, they could both lose their hearts. (Book One of the "In The Arms of My Love" Series) [[Winner of the Watty's 2020 Historical Fiction Award!]] [[Runner-up in the 2019 Covenant Communications StoryCatchers Contest]] [[Featured on the Editor's Picklist! (4-29-21)]] Highest Rankings: #17 for Historical Fiction! Content warning: this book contains PG-13 rated violence with some descriptions of blood, gunshots, and sword fights.
For The Love Of My Scotsman by TenayaGatrell2
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FULL STORY AVAILABLE ON AMAZON! Regency debutante Lottie Atwell must silence a blackmailing killer before her secrets are exposed and her family is ruined. She's killed before, but can she do it again? *** One year ago, Lottie Atwell killed a man to defend her honor. Now, a blackmailing killer claims to have proof of the incident and will reveal her secrets unless she agrees to his demands. Lottie must silence the killer by any means necessary, even if she must give up her love for Thomas, the gentle Scottish stablehand. To protect the woman he loves from afar, Thomas Hawthorne hides his position as a Lord and poses as a stablehand. He's been hiding from the world and avoiding his duties since returning from war a broken man, but when Lottie's life is threatened, he must make a choice. Continue hiding or rise to his birthright and save the only woman who inspires him to live again. How far would you go to protect the ones you love? Updated every weekend!
At First Light by Spiszy
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When Hannah Templeton ran away from an arranged marriage, she did not expect everything to go so wrong, so quickly. Now she's snowed into a barn on her first night of freedom - along with a drunken, obnoxious stranger. In the cold light of dawn, perhaps arranged marriage will be the least of her troubles...
A Siren's Crown (Book Two in the APK Trilogy) by iluvdaisychain
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Book Two in the A Pirate's Kiss Trilogy (Original Title - A Pirate's Kiss: Sunken Treasures) Circe is back and she is up in the air. Literally. She is a guest at the Royal Air Temples and with Nathaniel back by her side, she suddenly feels as though she can take on the world. But the world might be slightly bigger than Circe has expected. What is she to make of the Queen of the Air, who seems to hold all the answers to Circe's questions in the palm of her hand, both those she has asked, and those which she is still to ask? And what of Prince Zalas, the white eyed boy who radiates an untamed and mysterious power from every pore? Meanwhile the dark and dangerous Obsidian Bones waits for her just outside the Kingdom walls with perhaps the biggest secret of them all ... Everything has changed from that fateful day that Circe was snatched in the night. Her questions begin to outweigh the answers she is receiving and when a shocking truth is revealed, will her priorities change in order to protect the one that she loves most? Or will she find the strength to let him go?
The Bride Price by QuenbyOlson
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To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry. Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss. Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.
An Unexpected Love by nmmorton
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*Highest Rank #1 in Historical Fiction* Shy and awkward Elizabeth Montgomery doesn't think she'll ever find love. As her family's former plantation struggles in Reconstruction era Virginia, she's afraid she'll find herself either betrothed to the wrong man through an arranged marriage, or a spinster living with her widowed father. However, Elizabeth's sister Amelia is vibrant and charming, and sure to secure a valuable match. When two wealthy, eligible bachelors come to her family's plantation home for a visit, Elizabeth finds that she has to depend on her faith more than ever. Edward Stanton is a cocky bank owner's son, and his father, Charles, is pressuring him to take a wealthy wife to create a banking empire. As Edward resists his father's demands, the stakes become higher and higher, pointing to evidence that Charles has underlying motives for forcing a particular match on Edward. Will an unexpected love emerge from so much greed and manipulation? *Completed May 2015*
Capture My Heart by DivineRomance
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When a suitor comes hoping to win Princess Suzanna's heart, her whole world is turned upside down. With a reputation of talking far too much and wild red hair to match her temper, Suzanna can't imagine what the Duke of Adryrwen sees in her. In a sudden decision, she accepts the betrothal. But the more Suzanna questions whether she is ready to marry, the more her heart is drawn to another. When Suzanna discovers a startling, unsettling secret about the Duke, she turns to Samuel, knight and close friend to her brother, for help. In the midst of the fear and desperation, Samuel and Suzanna are pulled closer and closer together. It does not take long for the two to realise they are falling for each other. But a betrothal is not easily broken, nor is a knight welcome to marry a Princess. The fight for her heart just became a whole lot harder. (Book #2)
Redemption by CaitlynRachelC
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Not everything that has been hurt is broken ~ Jessie Steele is on the run from something. She had no idea from who or what, but she knows that there is someone on her heels, just waiting for the chance to take her captive. She has nothing but a broken leg and a head injury to tell her how she ended up in one of the most rural places in Arizona, face down in the dirt without a horse or buggy in sight. She has no recollection of what she was doing so far away form her home in South Carolina, but then again, she can’t even remember what she was thinking five minutes ago. Between her pounding head and the searing pain in her leg, she has no idea how to make it to a safe place. Colt Kidd is recovering from the recent nuptials of the love of his life. Enveloping himself in his work and caring for his adventurous grandmother takes up most of his time until the small line shack he calls home houses a party of three. As if finding a strange, disoriented woman out in the middle of nowhere without as much as a horse in sight wasn’t stressful enough, she will have to stay with him and his grandmother until her broken leg heals. Even worse, the woman can’t seem to remember anything that happened in the past week. Sometimes trusting God for the outcome of a situation isn’t easy, but it’s possible with the healing power of love.
The Reason For Grace (Sequel to A Reason To Stay) by I_like_to_read_alot
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Joshua and Payton finally give themselves over to their love. They have both experienced so much pain and loss in their lives that they are ready to find happiness and find it together. Joshua battles joy and fear when Payton tells him she wants to give him a child of his own. But when the time comes and things don't go the way they wanted how will Joshua deal with this new trial. Payton shuts down and doesn't want to talk to Joshua about their baby. She doesn't want to talk to or see anyone and she turns her back on the people who love her and want to help. They neither one can understand why this trial has happened to them and as Joshua finds Grace with the Lord, Payton blames God for what has happened to them. Can Joshua help Payton through the valley and up the mountain to see the beauty God has in store for them or will she push him away to?