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A Reluctant Queen: The Love Story of Esther

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Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther

Ginger Garrett · 298 pages

Wrenched from a simple life for her beauty, Esther finds herself at the mercy of King Xerxes. Leaving behind her only relative, her cousin Mordecai, and her first true love, Cyrus, she is thrown headlong into the unrestrained extravagance of palace living. Quick of mind and strong in spirit, she refuses to suffer the fate of her harem sisters and boldly challenges Xerxes to give of his heart befor

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Esther: Royal Beauty

Angela Elwell Hunt · 352 pages

"Based on the biblical account of Esther, this story imagines the life and passion of this beautiful woman whose courage and influence impacted history and the fate of her people"--

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Hadassah: One Night With the King

Tommy Tenney · 351 pages

Teen-aged Hadassah, a reluctant candidate for Queen of Persia, feels sorrow at leaving her family but she is eager to have a chance to protect her people from persecution.

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Royal Target

Traci Hunter Abramson · 257 pages

"When CIA agent Janessa Rogers meets the royal family of Meridia on assignment, she expects to use her skills in linguistics and security detail to protect and serve, but she doesn't expect to find herself engaged to Prince Garrett Fortier, Meridia's most eligible bachelor, as part of the security plan. And she certainly doesn't expect to fall in love with him"--Cover.

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The Princess

Lori Wick · 294 pages

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Once Upon a Prince

Rachel Hauck · 435 pages

Susanna Truitt never dreamed of a great romance or being treated like a princess -- just to marry the man she has loved for twelve years. But life isn't going according to plan. When her high-school-sweetheart-turned-Marine-officer breaks up instead of proposing, Susanna scrambles to rebuild her life... The last thing Prince Nathaniel expects to find on his American holiday to St. Simon's Island

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Abigail

Jill Eileen Smith · 379 pages

Abigail's hopes and dreams for the future are wrapped up in her handsome, dark-eyed betrothed, Nabal. But when the long-awaited wedding day arrives, her drunken groom behaves shamefully. Nevertheless, Abigail tries to honor and respect her husband despite his abuse of her.Meanwhile, Abigail's family has joined David's wandering tribe as he and his people keep traveling to avoid the dangerous Saul.

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Mine Is the Night

Liz Curtis Higgs

The emotional and spiritual journey that began with Here Burns My Candle soars to a triumphant finish in Mine Is the Night, a dramatic and decidedly Scottish retelling of the biblical love story of Boaz and Ruth.

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Wicked in Your Arms

Sophie Jordan · 370 pages

One of the most notoriously eligible bachelors in Europe is finally ready to marry . . . For fiercely independent Grier Hadley, being the illegitimate daughter of one of London's most unsavory characters has only one advantage: an enormous, ill-gotten dowry. Prince Sevastian Maksimi knows where his duty lies: he must find a well-bred young lady—one with a considerable fortune to her name—wed

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Love Amid The Ashes

Mesu Andrews

This is a wonderful story of JOB. While fiction it takes the story of his love of God close to the biblical version.

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How to Propose to a Prince

Kathryn Caskie · 384 pages

If the tiara fits, wear it!And that is exactly what Elizabeth Royle intends to do. After all, if you can't be acknowledged as the daughter of a prince, the least you can do is marry one.When Elizabeth, youngest of the notorious Royle sisters, comes face-to-face with her future husband, a man she's seen only in her dreams, she nearly swoons—especially when she discovers he is a prince. But her ecst

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The Runaway Princess

Christina Dodd · 384 pages

An unexpected inheritance lets Evangeline live the life of her dreams -- to travel abroad as a lady of mystery. But one night a darkly handsome Crown Prince claims her as his fiance, and he'll do anything to seduce her into his royal world of peril, promise, and passion.MasqueradeEnglish orphan Miss Evangeline Scoffield has spent her life contenting herself with dreams. But with an unforseen inher

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The Princess

Jude Deveraux · 378 pages

Her name was Aria...a beautiful, arrogant princess from a small European kingdom. Stranded in a storm of intrigue near the Florida Keys, she is swept ashore and into the arms of dashing J.T. Montgomery, an officer of the American Navy. Disdainful at first, Aria is secretly tantalized by the handsome Lieutenant's brash independence...and beneath her proud reserve, J.T. discovers a woman of sensuous

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The Princess and the Peer

Tracy Anne Warren · 533 pages

When a royal summons from her brother arrives, Emma knows it’s time to embrace her duties as the princess of a small European kingdom, and marry the man her brother has chosen for her…a stranger she has never met. Instead she does what any self-respecting princess would do—she runs away. All she wants is one week in London. One week to experience everything life has to offer, before she is locked

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The White Queen

Philippa Gregory · 441 pages

the breathtaking tale of Elizabeth Woodville, the woman whose beauty besotted a king Edward IV and won her a crown. Their love was worthy of legend and plunged the country deeper into chaos and later splendor. The first of Gregory's trilogy, the book captivated us with England's infamous civil war, where power was coveted by all, trust was a privilege, love forged in secret and both sides believ

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The Forbidden Queen

Anne O'Brien · 400 pages

An innocent pawn A kingdom without a King A new dynasty will reign... 1415. The jewel in the French crown, Katherine de Valois, is waiting under lock and key for King Henry V. While he's been slaughtering her kinsmen in Agincourt, Katherine has been praying for marriage to save her from her misery. But the brutal King wants her crown, not her innocent love. For Katherine, England is a lion's den o

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Red River, Vol. 23

Chie Shinohara · 186 pages

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The Prince's Bride

Victoria Alexander · 377 pages

Once upon a time there was a young debutante of means who dreamed of marrying a prince. So she traveled to London to become...The Prince's BrideAs a poor but proud young lady, Jocelyn Shelton had but one dream: to marry a prince and bring comfort to herself and her family. Now circumstances bring her to London, where her charms could make her wish come true. But her rendezvous with royalty is dang

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Ella

Jessilyn Stewart Peaslee · 240 pages

Dreaming of a better life than being treated like a servant in her own home, Ella Blakeley feels a glimmer of hope when she hears that charming Prince Kenton has announced a grand ball.

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You Belong to Me

Johanna Lindsey · 400 pages

BETRAYED In all the world, no man exists who can tame 25 year old Alexandra Rubliov. A fiery and beautiful free-thinker, Alex's steadfast refusal to marry has frustrated her hapless father. And so he creates a "long-forgotten" agreement and sends his rebellious daughter away - falsely maintaining that Alexandra has been promised since childhood to a handsome, insufferable 31 year old liberti

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The Truth About Leo

Katie MacAlister · 381 pages

"Dagmar Marie Sophie is a poverty-stricken Danish princess whose annoying royal cousin is about to have her stuffed away in a convent. When she finds a wounded man unconscious in her garden, she sees a way out of her desperate situation. Leopold Ernst George Mortimer, seventh Earl of March, and spy in the service of the king, finds himself on the wrong end of a saber and left for dead. He wakes up

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Before the Crown

Flora Harding · 400 pages

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Delilah

Eleanor De Jong · 368 pages

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