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A Voice in the Wind transports readers back to Jerusalem during the first Jewish-Roman War. Following the prides and passions of a group of Jews, Romans and Barbarians, the story centers on an ill-fated romance between a steadfast slave girl, Hadassah, and Marcus, the brother of her owner. Is it possible for their love to flourish considering not only their different stations in life, but also Hadassah's unrelenting faith and Marcus's lack of belief?...
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Mark of the lion volume ll
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"Through the courageous faith of the Christian slave girl Hadassah and the troubled lives of the Roman masters, An Echo in the Darkness continues this moving tale of first-century Rome. Having narrowly escaped death, Hadassah conceals her scars - and identity - with veils. But it is her God-given ability to heal others that brings her to perhaps her greatest trial. God's forgiveness and redemption triumph as this young woman, assumed to be dead, is...
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Mark of the lion volume III
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In this final installment of the trilogy, the Germanic warrior Atretes vows to move heaven and earth to find his son -- the baby he thought was dead --and take him back to Germania. Only one thing stands in his way: Rizaph, a Christian widow who has cared for the child since his birth. Atretes hadn't counted on Rizaph's fiery resistance to "her son" being taken away, nor is he prepared for the woman's strength and beauty. The two are caught in a stormy...
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Carolina and James Baldwin's already strained marriage suffers even more when the upper-class couple moves from Baltimore to a small rural town in the Allegheny Mountains where James is to supervise the building of a tunnel for the B&O Railroad amid severe weather and escalating tensions with the Irish railroad workers.
7) Unforgiven
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"Moira Hayes hadn't seen Kenneth Woodfall in nearly eight years. Nor did she want to see this man who stirred such feelings of anger in her. After all, their families had been rivals since their great-grandfathers' day. And he was the reason--though indirectly--for her own brother's death. But Kenneth has returned from war and is home for good. And he isn't willing to forget the past--a time he shared with his first and only love, Miss Moira Hayes....
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Ribbons west volume 1
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Traveling west together, Brenton and Jordana Baldwin provide a safe escort for Caitlan O'Connor on her journey to locate her brother, Kieran, in the gold fields of California, while Brenton photographs the developing lands of the West.
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As the Civil War rages across the land, courageous young Jesselynn Highwood promises her dying father that she'll take her younger brother and their Thoroughbred horses to Missouri for safekeeping during the war. Dodging both Confederate and Union troops, enduring sickness and hunger, they arrive at their destination only to encounter even greater danger. But Jesselynn will stop at nothing to save her family, the horses, and whatever remains of Twin...
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Lights of Lowell volume 2
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Young and recently widowed, Jasmine Houston confronts the vital issues of freedom and slavery, love and hate, life and death. As Jasmine's opposition to slavery grows and her friendship with her bachelor brother-in-law Nolan deepens, her Massachusetts horse farm soon becomes a stop for the Underground Railroad. With both her mother and mammy dying, she and her young son rush to the family plantation in Mississippi--escorted by Nolan. Keeping a death-bed...
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Miss Pickworth novels volume 1
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All of high society is abuzz with the arrival of the man who miraculously survived a pirate attack at sea. Little do they know that more than riches were stolen that fateful day. For it was then that Sarah Carlyle stole Charles Locke's heart. But now that they are safely back home in England, they discover that perhaps love is not strong enough to hold their lives together. And was it ever truly love anyway? Perhaps Charles was only after Sarah's...
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A soldier battling profound loss finds a man to trust with her heart in this stirring inspirational romance from the USA Today–bestselling author.
Only faith sustained Lindsey Mandel after the loss of her beloved twin brother. Now a freak accident would test the US Army sergeant's mettle once again. Desperate to save her brother's injured horse, Lindsey placed her trust in handsome veterinarian Brian Cutter.
When Brian saw...
Only faith sustained Lindsey Mandel after the loss of her beloved twin brother. Now a freak accident would test the US Army sergeant's mettle once again. Desperate to save her brother's injured horse, Lindsey placed her trust in handsome veterinarian Brian Cutter.
When Brian saw...
16) Falconer's quest
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At the request of a friend whose son has been captured by slave traders, John Falconer and his son, Matt, sail across the Atlantic to France and on to North Africa seeking the deadly pirate, Ali Saleem.
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The Cherokee Nation is being forced to moved onto reservations within the Oklahoma District. The remaining land is being opened up for homesteading. These are challenging times for the settlers, the Cherokee and Britt Claiborne, United Cherokee Nation Chief of Police and his wife Cherokee Rose.
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"The "orphan train" seemed like small-town spinster Adelaide Crum's last chance to know the simple joys of family life. So many lost children, every one of them dreaming only of a caring home--the home she longed to offer. And yet the narrow-minded town elders refused to entrust even the most desperate child to a woman alone. Newspaperman Charles Graves believed his heart was closed forever, but he swore to stand by this lovely, lonely woman who...