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My heart belongs
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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Fashion artist Priscilla Hutchens has a grudge against the Army that has ruined her family and taken the people she holds most dear. When her twin niece and nephew are left orphaned at Fort Bliss, Texas, she swoops down on Fort Bliss to gain custody of them immediately. There is just one thing standing in the way -- Post surgeon Major Elliot Ryder, who is also the twins uncle, also claims the children and thinks he knows what is best for them. Priscilla...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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Looking forward to a quiet life and a full stomach, mail-order bride Rebecca Rice is pleased to marry her shopkeeper intended, Mr. Fordham, until the justice of the peace calls him Thaddeus, not Theodore--proceeded by the title Deputy. When the newlyweds realize they've married the wrong partners with similar names, an annulment seems in order--and fast, since Rebecca's true intended is impatient to claim her as his own, not to mention Rebecca would...
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My heart belongs in the Shenandoah Valley: Lily's dilemma
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2017.
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Since being orphaned at age twelve, Carmela Wade has lived a lie orchestrated by her uncle, pretending to be a survivor of an Indian kidnapping and profiting from telling her made-up story on the speaker circuit. But as she matures into adulthood, Carmela hates the lies and longs to be free. On a stagecoach in Arizona Territory, Carmela and her uncle are fellow passengers with U.S. Marshal Freeland McKay and his handcuffed prisoner. The stage is attacked....
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My heart belongs on Mackinac Island: Maude's mooring
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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"Journey now to Galveston, Texas, of 1880... Where is Mrs. Smith's granddaughter? Who is the mysterious Mrs. Smith? Pinkerton agent Jonah Cahill is hired by the mysterious widow to find her lost granddaughter, rumored to be living in Galveston, Texas. Though Jonah prefers to travel alone, Mrs. Smith insists that she and her companion accompany him. Madeline Latour, investigative reporter, has been acting as Mrs. Smith's assistant for several months,...
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Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, a Cengage Company
Pub. Date
2019.
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"When war reaches Clarissa's back door, the trustworthy become even fewer. Journey into Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, of 1863 where Clarissa Avery Ross lives a full life. By day she is the daughter of a respectable shoemaker being courted by seminary student Kyle Forrester. But by night she is a conductor on the Underground Railroad, working with a mysterious man called Liberty. She would like to share her work with Kyle, but he refuses to enlist when...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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Journey now to healing spa town of Glenwood Springs, Colorado in 1888 where the past and present collide and a woman is on the precipice of unexpected love. Millie Cooper, fisherman's-daughter-turned-nurse, flees a painful entanglement with the wealthy Drexel family who summered near her childhood home in Nantucket, only to encounter them again six years later in Glenwood Springs. The serenity of her mountain hideaway in a town with healing springs...
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Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2018.
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"Journey now to San Francisco, California, of 1853 where... An English socialite finds more treasure than expected on her trip to the American West. When Abby Effingham becomes stranded in the middle of the California gold rush, her money depletes quickly even while her prospects for marriage increase daily. But Abby is on a mission to find her mother--not romance. Will a ridiculous scandal keep her from traveling on, or will it wake up an aloof innkeeper...
