Category: Historical Fiction
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The Lost Girls of Paris by Pam Jenoff: Content Guide
Publication Date: Jan 2019 Synopsis: 1946, Manhattan. Grace Healey is rebuilding her life after losing her husband during the war. One morning while passing through Grand Central Terminal on her way to work, she finds an abandoned suitcase tucked beneath a bench. Unable to resist her own curiosity, Grace opens…
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Regency & Regicide by J. J. Fischer: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Aug 2024 Synopsis: When aspiring young novelist Miss Diana Crewe falls asleep on her manuscript in early nineteenth century England, the last thing she expects is to wake in the middle of the world she’s created…a world in which, she’s horrified to discover, she’s both venerated as a…
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The Story Girl by L.M. Montgomery: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Jan 1911 Synopsis: Sara Stanley is only fourteen, but she can weave tales that are impossible to resist. In the charming town of Carlisle, children and grown-ups alike flock from miles around to hear her spellbinding tales. And when Bev King and his younger brother Felix arrive for…
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Only the Beautiful by Susan Meissner: Content Warnings
Publication Date: April 2023 Synopsis: California, 1938—When she loses her parents in an accident, sixteen-year-old Rosanne is taken in by the owners of the vineyard where she has lived her whole life as the vinedresser’s daughter. She moves into Celine and Truman Calvert’s spacious house with a secret, however—Rosie sees…
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Murder In Highbury by Vanessa Kelly: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: Less than one year into her marriage to respected magistrate George Knightley, Emma has grown unusually content in her newfound partnership and refreshed sense of independence. The height of summer sees the former Miss Woodhouse gracefully balancing the meticulous management of her elegant family estate…
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To Love the Brooding Baron by Jentry Flint: Content Warnings
Publication Date: June 2024 Synopsis: Arabella Latham is a free spirit who longs to feel the spark of true love, but few men can match her passion for Shakespeare or her zest for life. Though her prospects seem slim, Arabella knows she can always count on the handsome but stoic…
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So True a Love By Joanna Barker: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Sep 2024 Synopsis: London, 1803. As the daughter of a renowned actress, Verity Travers is a privileged lady of high society —and the last woman one would suspect of working as a private investigator. But after one case nearly costs her everything, she makes the hard decision to…
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The Fabled Earth by Kimberly Brock: Content Warnings
Publication Date: Oct 2024 Synopsis: 1932. Cumberland Island off the coast of Southern Georgia is a strange place to encounter the opulence of the Gilded Age, but the last vestiges of the famed philanthropic Carnegie family still take up brief seasonal residence in their grand mansions there. This year’s party…
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Behind the Light of Golowduyn by Deborah M. Hathaway: Content Warnings
Publication Date: May 2019 Synopsis: Abigail Moore will do anything to keep Golowduyn Lighthouse shining brightly, even if she must do so alone. When a shipwreck occurs near her home one stormy evening—bringing with it a dashing captain keen to offer his aid at every turn—her days of isolation vanish.…
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A Matter of Honor by Laura Frantz: Content Warnings
Publication Date: July 2024 Synopsis: Orin Hume from The Rose and the Thistle comes of age in A Matter of Honor and ventures beyond Scotland’s borders, achieving a renown all his own, only to return home again to reclaim the life and lady he once loved. Having grown up at Wedderburn Castle in the serene…
