IN BYRON'S SHADOW
by Ashley J. Barnard
Aspiring poet Nicholas Price, heir to his father's fortune, is about to meet Ada Byron, the daughter of his idol Lord Byron. However, when an attempted elopement ends in disaster, he is disinherited. Ten years later he receives a visit from Catherine, an old friend seeking shelter after a rape that resulted in pregnancy. Nicholas agrees to take her on as a maid, though at first only his brother James can see through the submissive servant to the passionate woman within. Both brothers fall for Catherine, unaware that the secret she is harboring is about to shatter Nicholas’s fragile world. (Read excerpt)
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NICARAGUA IS MINE
by Mickey Dodson
Claudia is eight when she wakes to discover her village murdered by soldiers of the dictator. As an orphan living in the market streets of Granada, she shares the history of the dark years of Nicaragua and triumphs over her circumstances to reach her goal and become a person who can influence the future in her country. (Read excerpt)
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CHILDREN OF LIGHT
by Caron Guillo
For three commoners--Elisabeth, Simon, and Hugo--a peasant crusade offers an escape from the hopelessness of their circumstances. In an age of superstition and unquestioning religious fervor, they join thousands who carelessly follow a charismatic young leader on an ill-conceived journey to the Holy Lands in search of fame, wealth, and redemption. But their dreams are destroyed when Elisabeth and Simon are sold as slaves in Africa and Hugo finds himself adrift at sea. (Read excerpt)
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RAIN WITHOUT A MOTHER
by Laurie Lehman
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HOPE OF ISRAEL
by Patricia O'Sullivan
When survival requires deception and piety demands conformity--Based on the true story of the readmission of the Jews to England in 1656, Hope of Israel is the story of Domingo de La Cerda, who grows up in London among a small community of Jews who must pretend to be Catholic to survive. However, in seventeenth-century England, both Catholics and Jews are despised for their religion. Domingo must negotiate a world of both religious persecution and religious deception while coming to terms with his own conflicted identity. (Read excerpt)
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COMING HOME
by Lorna Peel
January 1919, and Anna Brett welcomes her husband Richard back to Wales from the war to end all wars. Married almost five years, but having lived together only a few months, Anna finds Richard a changed man. Richard is haunted by memories of the war, is rude and vulgar, and wants nothing more than to make love to his wife, return to work in the Bryn-y-Gwynt medical practice, and put the war behind him. Both Anna and he discover that it will be some time before he can do any of those things. (Read excerpt)
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LASSO MY HEART
by Meg Write
Mark Reid is the young cowboy that won the bucking bronc contest, and saved Mercy McCruther from the hand of a ruthless cowboy. Mercy falls head over heels in love, and she's not letting him ride out of her life.
Disguising herself as a young cowboy, she rides on the cattle drive and first gains Mark's trust then his love when her identity is revealed. But will his past come between hope of their future?
Rustlers, hard riding, gunfights, a hanging and love portray a western romance that's sure to please, with an ending that suits the strong young heroine. (Read excerpt)
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by Laurie Lehman
laurie@dannylehman.com
HOPE OF ISRAEL
by Patricia O'Sullivan
When survival requires deception and piety demands conformity--Based on the true story of the readmission of the Jews to England in 1656, Hope of Israel is the story of Domingo de La Cerda, who grows up in London among a small community of Jews who must pretend to be Catholic to survive. However, in seventeenth-century England, both Catholics and Jews are despised for their religion. Domingo must negotiate a world of both religious persecution and religious deception while coming to terms with his own conflicted identity. (Read excerpt)
posulliv@olemiss.edu
COMING HOME
by Lorna Peel
January 1919, and Anna Brett welcomes her husband Richard back to Wales from the war to end all wars. Married almost five years, but having lived together only a few months, Anna finds Richard a changed man. Richard is haunted by memories of the war, is rude and vulgar, and wants nothing more than to make love to his wife, return to work in the Bryn-y-Gwynt medical practice, and put the war behind him. Both Anna and he discover that it will be some time before he can do any of those things. (Read excerpt)
lpeel@gofree.indigo.ie
LASSO MY HEART
by Meg Write
Mark Reid is the young cowboy that won the bucking bronc contest, and saved Mercy McCruther from the hand of a ruthless cowboy. Mercy falls head over heels in love, and she's not letting him ride out of her life.
Disguising herself as a young cowboy, she rides on the cattle drive and first gains Mark's trust then his love when her identity is revealed. But will his past come between hope of their future?
Rustlers, hard riding, gunfights, a hanging and love portray a western romance that's sure to please, with an ending that suits the strong young heroine. (Read excerpt)
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