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Petticoat Ranch

Mary Connealy · 288 pages

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The Loyal Heart

Shelley Shepard Gray · 309 pages

"Robert came to Galveston to fulfill his promise to a dying man and look after his widow. He didn't expect to find love in the unlikeliest of places. Robert Truax, former Second Lieutenant and Confederate officer in the Civil War, made a promise to his comrade Phillip Markham. If anything happened to Phillip, Robert would look after his beloved wife, Miranda. She was his life, his world, his every

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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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Here Burns My Candle

Liz Curtis Higgs

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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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The Midwife's Tale

Delia Parr · 410 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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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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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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The Widow of Larkspur Inn

Lawana Blackwell · 432 pages

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Whirlwind

Cathy Marie Hake · 375 pages

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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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Within My Heart

Tamera Alexander · 494 pages

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Sixty Acres and a Bride

Regina Jennings

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Land of My Heart

Tracie Peterson · 392 pages

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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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The Innkeeper of Ivy Hill

Julie Klassen · 548 pages

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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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In the Field of Grace

Tessa Afshar · 353 pages

After losing her husband, Ruth leaves her home to follow her beloved mother-in-law, Naomi, to Israel, where she lives a life of hardship until the wealthy and honored owner of the field where she works begins to show her favor.

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The Mistress of Tall Acre

Laura Frantz · 395 pages

In the aftermath of the American Revolution a destitute young woman agrees to a marriage of convenience and becomes Mistress of Tall Acre. But when secrets from her husband's past are revealed, loyalties and ties are torn asunder.

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Belonging

Robin Lee Hatcher

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Sixteen Brides

Stephanie Grace Whitson · 348 pages

Sixteen Civil War widows settle in Nebraska after they are wooed by a land speculator, only to discover that they were lured there in hopes that they would accept marriage proposals shortly after their arrival.

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The Redemption

M.L. Tyndall, MaryLu Tyndall · 320 pages

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