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A Necessary Deception

Laurie Alice Eakes · 346 pages

"When young widow Lady Lydia Gale helps a French prisoner obtain parole, she never dreamed he would turn up in her parlor. But just as the London Season is getting under way, there he is, along with a few other questionable personages. While she should be focused on helping her headstrong younger sister prepare for her entre into London society, Lady Lydia finds herself preoccupied with the myster

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Petticoat Ranch

Mary Connealy · 288 pages

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Blowing on Dandelions

Miralee Ferrell

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The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill

Julie Klassen · 548 pages

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Forsaken Dreams

MaryLu Tyndall · 313 pages

Eager to leave the South after seeing the devastation caused by the Civil War, Blake Wallace embarks on a journey to Brazil, while widow Eliza Crawford seeks passage on Wallace's ship while harboring a dirty secret.

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The Midwife's Tale

Delia Parr · 410 pages

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Here Burns My Candle

Liz Curtis Higgs

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The Widow of Larkspur Inn

Lawana Blackwell · 432 pages

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Love Without End

Robin Lee Hatcher · 369 pages

When 84-year-old Anna McKenna returns to King's Meadow and to the Leonard ranch, she becomes an agent of change and healing for the two hurting families. Kimberly Welch lost her husband to a heart attack in the blink of an eye, but she's losing her daughter slowly, in the day-to-day tension. Chet Leonard lost his teenage son in a car accident, then his wife abandoned him and their two remaining

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A Noble Groom

Jody Hedlund · 363 pages

Recently widowed Annalisa Werner has the feeling her husband was murdered but can't prove it. Alone with her young daughter in 1881 Michigan, she has six months left to finish raising the money needed to pay back the land contract her husband purchased, and the land is difficult to toil by herself. She needs a husband. With unmarried men scarce, her father sends a letter to his brother in the Old

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Beauty for Ashes

Dorothy Love · 336 pages

"She's a beautiful young widow. He's a Southern gentleman with a thirst for adventure. Both need a place to call home. It's 1876 and eligible bachelors are scarce in Hickory Ridge. But Carrie Daly has found love. Not the weak-in-the-knees kind, but something practical. Still, she isn't quite ready to set a date with Nate Chastain. Griff Rutledge is passing through to collect an old debt. Formerly

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High Desert Haven

Lynnette Bonner · 322 pages

"When her husband dies in a mysterious riding accident, Nicki Trent is left with a toddler and a rundown ranch. Determined to bring her ranch back from the brink of death, Nicki hires handsome Jason Jordan to help. But when William, her neighbor, starts pressing for her hand in marriage, the bank calls in a loan she didn't even know about, bullets start flying, and a burlap dummy with a knife in i

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Blue Skies Tomorrow

Sarah Sundin · 427 pages

In a time of peril, can they find the courage to confront their fears and embrace a love that lasts? When her husband becomes a casualty of the war in the Pacific, Helen Carlisle throws herself into volunteering for the war effort to conceal her feelings. But keeping up appearances as the grieving widow of a hometown hero is taking its toll. Soon something is going to give. Lt. Raymond Novak prefe

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Whirlwind

Cathy Marie Hake · 375 pages

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Land of My Heart

Tracie Peterson · 392 pages

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True Devotion

Dee Henderson · 352 pages

Kelly Jacobs has already paid the ultimate price of loving a warrior; she has the folded flag and the grateful thanks of a nation to prove it. Navy SEAL Joe “Bear” Baker can't ask her to accept that risk again—even though he loves her. But the man responsible for her husband's death is back; closer than either of them realize. Kelly is in danger, and Joe may not get there in time. Uncommon Heroes

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A Love Woven True

Tracie Peterson, Judith McCoy Miller · 349 pages

Jasmine Houston, a widow with a young son, agrees to harbor former slaves at her horse farm outside of Lowell, even though her father, a plantation owner, supports slavery. When a boardinghouse keeper unwittingly becomes involved with a traveling peddler who sells something infinitely more valuable than shoes, Jasmine is devastated to discover that her son and the former slaves have been kidnapped

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Sixty Acres and a Bride

Regina Jennings

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Within My Heart

Tamera Alexander · 494 pages

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Going Home

Wanda E. Brunstetter · 188 pages

It was a very good book.It gave some of the triditions of the amish church ,and used many German-Dutch words.The story was about,an amish woman who came back home to a old order amish community,to give her daughter a stable home.As soon as her daughter gets settled in, she will go back to the "English"world.But,she unexpectedly falls in love.Excellent story.I would recamend this to anyone.

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Widow of Gettysburg

Jocelyn Green · 454 pages

"The farm of Union widow Liberty Holloway is confiscated and converted into a Confederate field hospital, bringing Liberty face-to-face with unspeakable suffering. In the wake of shattered homes and broken bodies, Liberty and Bella, her hired help and a former slave, struggle to pick up the fragments the battle has left behind"--

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Amish Widow's Hope

Samantha Price · 208 pages

Newly widowed Amish woman, Anita Graber, has returned to live with her brother and his family in Lancaster County. As an expectant widow, she is quite surprised when everyone from the bishop's wife to her brother decides that her baby needs a father. Anita endures many embarrassing moments as she's forced into one awkward situation after another. Even though another man is the last thing on her mi

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As You Are

Sarah M. Eden · 193 pages

A horse breeder by trade, Corbin Jonquil is more at home in the stables than in the ballroom of his sprawling estate. Corbin is the quietest of the Jonquil brothers and has always faded into the background, contentedly unnoticed. When a mysterious young widow, Mrs. Clara Bentford, moves into the neighborhood, horse breeder Corbin Jonquil quickly falls in love -- but the menace of Clara's past thre

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Love Comes Softly

Janette Oke · 192 pages

WHEN MARTY CLARIDGE'S HUSBAND IS KILLED IN A HORSE ACCIDENT, SHE MARRIES CLARK DAVIS, WHO IS IN NEED OF A MOTHER FOR HIS DAUGHTER, MISSIE. AS TIME PROGRESSES MARTY BEGINS TO ATTACH TO LITTLE MISSIE AND CLARK. WHEN THE WAGON TRAIN RETURNS IN THE SPRING WILL SHE GO HOME, OR STAY WITH CLARK AND MISSIE?

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