Posts Tagged ‘historical fiction’
A Wild Colonial Girl, by Jean Harrington
A Wild Colonial Girl, by Jean Harrington 1686: Bored with village life, 18 year old Abby O’Donnell longs to sail away into the exciting world beyond the ocean. She has little hope of that ever happening until Lord Harry Rushmount, a man unlike any she’s ever met, sails into Providence harbor. Abby is convinced fate…
Read MoreIn the Lion’s Mouth, by Jean Harrington
In the Lion’s Mouth, by Jean Harrington It has been less than a year since Johanna Hudson realized that her research Stalked by a lecherous tyrant, Owen and Grace flee their beloved Ireland. Determined to pursue freedom and happiness in the New World, they sail to Liverpool, England. But with no ship departures until spring,…
Read MoreThe Mistress of Fashion, by Evelyn Richardson
The Mistress of Fashion, by Evelyn Richardson Juliette de Flournoy refuses to be imprisoned by her past — the French Revolution that robbed her family of their heritage, and the rape that left her homeless — comforting herself with her dreams of becoming London’s premier modiste, and by her friends, the enterprising ladies off Mrs.…
Read MoreThe Necklace, by Carla Kelly
The Necklace, by Carla Kelly Hanneke Aardema is the daughter of an ambitious Dutch herring merchant. It is 1211, when Spain’s kingdoms are planning a final push to drive the weakening caliphate from the Iberian Peninsula. Warriors fired by the flames of Islam have ruled Spain for five hundred years. Because Hanneke’s dowry will finance…
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