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REVIEW of Until the Day Breaks (California Rising #1), by Paula Scott

When Rachel Tyler sails around Cape Horn to join her father in California, she finds a new home simmering with tension and unease. Revolution is in the air and the question of whether California will join the United States or forge its own destiny. Eager to increase his own influence, Rachel’s father betroths her to…
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REVIEW of Lady Crenshaw’s Christmas (Miss Delacourt #3), by Heidi Ashworth

Anthony and Ginny (or to use their titles–Lord and Lady Crenshaw) have been married for seven months and are just as much in love as ever. But with Ginny now expecting their first child, how will she find the strength to put on a Christmas ball, cope with Anthony’s spiteful relatives, and find Anthony a…
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REVIEW of Forsaking All Other, by Catherine Meyrick

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REVIEW of A Song Unheard (Shadows over England #2), by Roseanna M. White

Willa Forsythe never knew her father, and her mother ran out on her when she was only six years old. Consequently, Willa Forsythe doesn’t trust anyone–and especially not the ridiculously handsome Belgian violinist Lukas de Wilde, who is crazy enough to ask her to marry him within an hour of meeting her. The second book…
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REVIEW of A Name Unknown (Shadows over England #1), by Roseanna M. White

It’s 1914. Rosemary Gresham has been living on the streets of London since she was eight years old. Her only family is a gang of other orphans who have banded together to look after each other by picking pockets. As the story opens, their thieving expertise has reached the level of museum-heists, and they have…
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REVIEW of The Shadow Palace (The House of Closed Doors #3), by Jane Steen

In this third book in The House of Closed Doors series, Nell makes her way to Chicago with Sarah and Tess in tow. Thanks to the investments Martin has made in her behalf, she is an independent woman, with finances to maintain a comfortable establishment of her own. She longs to see the palatial Rutherford’s department store…
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REVIEW of Eternal Deception (The House of Closed Doors #2), by Jane Steen

In this sequel to The House of Closed Doors, Nell Lillington leaves the Poor Farm with her infant daughter Sarah and friend Tess and journeys to Kansas where they hope to make a new life for themselves. Nell is hired as a seamstress for Eternal Light Seminary, the one stone building in a land of sod…
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REVIEW of Lady Helena Investigates, by Jane Steen

At first, the death of Lady Helena’s husband, Justin Whitcombe, seems nothing more than a senseless tragedy–an accidental drowning while he was trying to help a sheep trapped on the riverbank. But when handsome French physician Armand Fortier insists that the death might in fact be murder, Lady Helena must decide whether to investigate her…
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REVIEW of A Lady Unrivaled (Ladies of the Manor, #3), by Roseanna M. White

Ella Myerston didn’t know that the earrings she borrowed from her sister-in-law contained the mysterious Fire Eyes, but once she finds out, she is determined to break the curse and restore them to their original owners. As she visits her friend Brook, Lady Stafford, she finds herself intrigued by Brook’s cousin-in-law, Lord Cayton. The moody…
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REVIEW of The Reluctant Duchess (Ladies of the Manor, #2), by Roseanna M. White
