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Edilean series volume 2
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English
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The second book in the multi-generational Edilean series, Days of gold is a sweeping romance set in 1766 Scotland. Angus McTern, the laird of the clan, is captivated by Edilean Talbot. When she needs help, he tries to intervene, and is accused of kidnapping and theft. To avoid being prosecuted, they escape to America, and overcome almost insurmountable obstacles, finding a love as wild and free as the land itself.
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Edilean series volume 5
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English
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Historian Gemma Ranford and Colin Frazier must work together to find the Heartwishes stone that's been missing for over one hundred years -- and with an international thief also on the hunt, the clock is ticking. Because in the wrong hands, no one named Frazier will ever be safe.
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Darkly handsome and rich beyond imagining, the bold English conqueror was called "the Black Lyon" for his ferocity. He had no match among men or women ... until he met Lyonene, the green-eyed beauty with the fiery spirit. Through a whirlwind romance and stormy marriage, she endured every peril to be by his side, until vicious lies drove her into danger. Now only the Black Lyon can save her--for he alone has the courage to defeat the ruthless plot...
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Charleston, 1799: A daughter of Southern gentility and a gifted painter, Catherine Edilean Harcourt has no lack of suitors at home in Virginia, waiting to fulfill her dream of marriage and family. But Cay's adventurous spirit, fostered by growing up with her three brothers, is piqued while visiting her godfather in South Carolina. Bedridden with a broken leg, he asks Cay to fill in for him on an urgent task: on her way to a fancy dress ball, she must...
5) Meant to be
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"It's 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas. Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their ambitions. Vera is an activist who wants to join her boyfriend in the Peace Corps. But she is doing her duty caring for her widowed mother and younger sister until Kelly is firmly established. Kelly is studying to become a veterinarian. She plans to marry her childhood sweetheart and eventually take over his father's veterinary...
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Once upon a time, as a fair maiden lay weeping upon a cold tombstone, her heartfelt desire was suddenly made real before her: tall, broad of shoulder, attired in gleaming silver and gold, her knight in shining armor had come to rescue his damsel in distress. Thoroughly modern Dougless Montgomery meets her sixteenth-century hero who carries her heart away.
16) Legend
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Legend Colorado USA volume 1
Pub. Date
1996.
Physical Desc
374 pages ; 25 cm.
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English
Description
An antique wedding dress takes Kady back to 1873 and Legend, Colorado where she saves a man from a hanging and in the process falls in love with him.
17) Mountain laurel
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[1990]
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English
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Captain Montgomery receives a peculiar assignment: to escort an opera singer into the gold fields of the Colorado Territory so she can sing to the miners.
18) Velvet angel
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[1983]
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200 pages ; 20 cm
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English
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They were both outcasts by a harsh decree -- and on the brink of a shared destiny of passion! With her father murdered, her home burned, lovely Alyx Blackelt fled to the woods -- and sanctuary in the camp of Raine Montgomery, a nobleman outlawed by the king's edict. There she hid her beauty in the guise of a boy, and her sorrow in her work as Montgomery's squire. But how long could such loveliness as hers be hidden? How long could such a gallant man's...
19) Remembrance
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A woman novelist, obsessed by her book's hero to the point of being ill, is diagnosed with problems from a past life. She is hypnotized back to the 16th Century as Lady de Grey, whose husband, a man just like her hero, is divorcing her for adultery which she did not commit. By the author of Sweet Liar.
20) River lady
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As a child, Leah was given a $20 gold piece from handsome Wesley Stanford and vows to marry him in the future. When she grows up and is ready to marry, she finds that he is engaged to someone else.
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