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Code Name Verity unfolds through a confession written under captivity in Nazi-occupied France.
Code Name Verity
Historical Fiction · Teen + Young Adult · War Fiction · World War 2
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Code Name Verity unfolds through a confession written under captivity in Nazi-occupied France. After a spy plane crashes, one young woman is imprisoned and forced to recount her mission piece by piece. As her story circles back to friendship, sacrifice, and survival, truth becomes both weapon and shield. This historical novel blends espionage with emotional depth, examining courage under pressure and the cost of loyalty.
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The beloved #1 New York Times bestseller, a "fiendishly plotted" (New York Times)
"A heart-in-your mouth adventure (Washington Post) that "will take wing and soar into your heart" (Laurie Halse Anderson).
October 11th, 1943—A British spy plane crashes in Nazi-occupied France. Its pilot and passenger are best friends. One of the girls has a chance at survival. The other has lost the game before it's barely begun.
When "Verity" is arrested by the Gestapo, she's sure she doesn't stand a chance. As a secret agent captured in enemy territory, she's living a spy's worst nightmare. Her Nazi interrogators give her a simple choice: reveal her mission or face a grisly execution.
As she intricately weaves her confession, Verity uncovers her past, how she became friends with the pilot Maddie, and why she left Maddie in the wrecked fuselage of their plane. On each new scrap of paper, Verity battles for her life, confronting her views on courage, failure and her desperate hope to make it home. But will trading her secrets be enough to save her from the enemy?
A universally acclaimed Michael L. Printz Award Honor book, Code Name Verity is a visceral read of danger, resolve, and survival that shows just how far true friends will go to save each other.
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The Wrong Ride Home opens with a return fueled by anger, grief, and unfinished history.
The Wrong Ride Home
Western · Romance
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The Wrong Ride Home opens with a return fueled by anger, grief, and unfinished history. When Duke Wilder comes back to the Colorado ranch he meant to leave behind, old wounds resurface alongside the woman he never stopped loving. Torn between revenge and belonging, he must confront the cost of past choices and the trust he broke. This is a contemporary cowboy romance shaped by second chances, lingering desire, and emotional reckoning.
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She’s my first love. She’s also my father’s mistress’s daughter.
I’m Duke Wilder, and this is my story.
I left Wildflower Canyon and Wilder Ranch ten years ago away from my father and Elena—the girl I loved before I found out she was the daughter of my father’s mistress.
Now my father is gone, and he’s left the ranch to me. I come back ready to sell it off piece by piece, to destroy his so-called legacy, and finally get revenge on the land that failed my mother.
But coming back to the Colorado ranch country feels like stepping into a part of myself I’ve tried to forget. The wide-open skies, the mountains, the horses—it’s all still in my blood. And so is Elena, no matter that I’ve brought my girlfriend with me.
Elena never left the ranch. Even after her mother passed, she stayed, caring for my father until the end. They call her the horse whisperer, and it’s easy to see why. She’s incredible at what she does.
I should hate her. But I can’t. The fire we had all those years ago never died. Being near her feels like standing too close to the sun—and it burns just the way I like it.
I try to fight how I feel for her, but I give up when I realize that I want more than revenge. I want Elena. I want the ranch. But after everything that’s happened, she doesn’t trust me. Maybe she never will.
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War reshapes lives long before the battlefield falls silent.
When the World Fell Silent
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · War Fiction
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War reshapes lives long before the battlefield falls silent. In When the World Fell Silent, two women in wartime Halifax navigate loss, duty, and fragile hope as their paths converge after a devastating historical tragedy. One seeks purpose through nursing, the other survival after personal ruin. Their intertwined stories explore grief, resilience, and the possibility of renewal amid irrevocable change.
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The Canadian Globe & Mail Bestseller!
'Extremely compelling' Historical Novel Society
'Alward tells this story of the wounded survivors and the people who cared for them with affecting grace' Toronto Star
1917. Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Nora Crowell wants more than her sister’s life as a wife and mother. As WWI rages across the Atlantic, she becomes a lieutenant in the Canadian Army Nursing Corps. But trouble is looming and it won’t be long before the truth comes to light.
Having lost her beloved husband in the trenches and with no-one else to turn to, Charlotte Campbell now lives with his haughty relations who treat her like the help. It is baby Aileen, the joy and light of her life, who spurs her to dream of a better life.
When tragedy strikes in Halifax Harbour, nothing for these two women will ever be the same again. Their paths will cross in the most unexpected way, trailing both heartbreak and joy its wake…
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War shatters safety and forces impossible choices when survival becomes an act of defiance.
Enemy Women
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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War shatters safety and forces impossible choices when survival becomes an act of defiance. During the American Civil War, young Adair Colley endures imprisonment, loss, and betrayal before escaping into a hostile countryside marked by violence and suspicion. As she travels south on faith and memory, Enemy Women blends historical fiction with romance, tracing resilience, moral courage, and the fragile hope of rebuilding a life after ruin.
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For the Colleys of southeastern Missouri, the War between the States is a plague that threatens devastation, despite the family’s avowed neutrality. For eighteen-year-old Adair Colley, it is a nightmare that tears apart her family and forces her and her sisters to flee. The treachery of a fellow traveler, however, brings about her arrest, and she is caged with the criminal and deranged in a filthy women’s prison.
But young Adair finds that love can live even in a place of horror and despair. Her interrogator, a Union major, falls in love with her and vows to return for her when the fighting is over. Before he leaves for battle, he bestows upon her a precious gift: freedom.
Now an escaped "enemy woman," Adair must make her harrowing way south buoyed by a promise . . . seeking a home and a family that may be nothing more than a memory.
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A single failure shadows every decision when the fate of a war depends on secrecy.
The Torch Betrayal
Historical Fiction · Historical Thriller · World War 2
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A single failure shadows every decision when the fate of a war depends on secrecy. The Torch Betrayal follows disgraced OSS agent Conor Thorn as he races through wartime London to recover stolen invasion plans before they reach Nazi hands. This WWII espionage thriller blends historical tension, moral reckoning, and intelligence tradecraft as loyalty fractures and redemption remains uncertain.
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A disgraced agent. A missing battle plan. Will he find redemption or damage the Allies beyond repair?
A high-stakes WWII thriller inspired by true events.
London, 1942. OSS Agent Conor Thorn is desperate for a second chance. After a botched mission in Tangier, Thorn knows failure is not an option. When confidential directives for Operation Torch, the invasion of North Africa, go missing, the agent must recover the plans before the Nazis thwart the crucial mission.
Thorn teams up with MI6 agent Emily Bright to seek out the traitor in their midst. Untangling the web of suspects leads them to Nazi sympathizers, double-crossing Soviet spies, and Vatican clergymen with motives of their own.
As their mission grows more and more dangerous, Thorn and Bright have one chance to retrieve the document before it falls into enemy hands, leaving countless Allied troops in danger.
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Survival leaves traces that surface long after danger has passed, binding lives across time and place.
After Paris
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · World War 2
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Survival leaves traces that surface long after danger has passed, binding lives across time and place. After Paris follows Ruby Nevins as her research into a vanished French actress reveals the intertwined fates of two women navigating love, secrecy, and resistance in wartime France. This historical fiction blends generational memory, resilience, and emotional reckoning as past courage reshapes a fragile present.
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From the author of The Brighter the Light comes a haunting tale of hope that spans generations, intertwining the lives of three women who fight for survival in 1940s France and present-day Virginia.
At twenty-five, Ruby Nevins has already endured more than most. But after two years of battling cancer, she’s warily determined to move forward. Researching a new project about a French actress, she soon uncovers an old diary that will change her life forever…
Cécile, the “it” girl of early 1940s French cinema, vanished from Nazi-occupied Paris in 1942. Sylvia Rousseau, Cécile’s dressmaker and confidante, left that same year. Working to piece together the truth behind Cécile’s disappearance and Sylvia’s extraordinary life, Ruby recognizes the women as kindred spirits. They risked their hearts and lives to aid the Resistance, and each day was a struggle to survive.
Ruby knows her cancer could come back, but she’s learning to embrace the future rather than fear it. If Cécile and Sylvia could live their lives in the shadow of death, so can Ruby. Because she knows there’s so much life—and love—to fight for.
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A forgotten wartime letter draws a heartbroken researcher from an English country house to the streets of Florence, uncovering a lost love and a devastating family secret.
The Florence Letter
Historical Fiction · Women's Fiction · World War 2
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A forgotten wartime letter draws a heartbroken researcher from an English country house to the streets of Florence, uncovering a lost love and a devastating family secret. As past and present collide, forgiveness and belonging are put to the test. Readers rate this emotional dual narrative 4.3 stars on Amazon and 4.2 on Goodreads.
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Looking out over the twinkling city lights of Florence, Claire thinks of the letter that has brought her here. Written by a woman who escaped the Blitz, it holds a secret kept for a lifetime… but can Claire make the woman’s dying wish come true?
Claire arrives at her new job as researcher at a grand English country house, nursing a broken heart. But tucked into the back of a long-forgotten drawer she finds a letter written in an elegant hand. It tells of a wartime secret about the beautiful Lady Violet – whose passionate affair with an Italian prisoner of war scandalised the village and ended in tragedy.
Captivated, Claire promises to find Violet’s daughter, Tabitha, and reunite her with a priceless piece of her mother’s jewellery. With only the name of an Italian bakery, Pasticceria Mancini, to guide her, and the help of her handsome neighbour Jim, Claire travels to Tabitha’s last known location – Florence.
Winding through the colourful streets, the sun warm on her bare shoulders, a tantalising scent of freshly baked bread floats on the air and Claire’s heart leaps at the sight of an ageing bakery sign: Mancini. Although she learns that Tabitha hasn’t been there for many years, Claire refuses to give up. And as she and Jim talk late into the night over glasses of local chianti, Claire looks into his piercing blue eyes and finds herself growing closer to him…
But when they finally track Tabitha down, it isn’t the happy reunion she expected and Claire is left reeling in the wake of discovering a devastating family secret.
Violet’s story has an ending – but will the truth lead to forgiveness, or will it only bring more pain? And will Claire be forced to walk away from a chance of happiness with Jim at last?
Escape to Italy in this gorgeous story of past and present colliding. Readers of Lucinda Riley and Fiona Valpy will be utterly enchanted by this sweeping, romantic page-turner.
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After devastating personal loss, Libby McKenzie takes a photography job at a historic estate where new connections and an overgrown greenhouse pull her toward long-avoided truths.
Honeysuckle Season
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · Women's Fiction
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After devastating personal loss, Libby McKenzie takes a photography job at a historic estate where new connections and an overgrown greenhouse pull her toward long-avoided truths. A discovery in her late father’s office reveals secrets that reshape her past and future. This reflective women’s fiction explores grief, healing, and inheritance, with 4.4 stars on Amazon and over 34,000 Goodreads ratings.
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An Amazon Charts bestseller.
From bestselling author Mary Ellen Taylor comes a story about profound loss, hard truths, and an overgrown greenhouse full of old secrets.
Adrift in the wake of her father’s death, a failed marriage, and multiple miscarriages, Libby McKenzie feels truly alone. Though her new life as a wedding photographer provides a semblance of purpose, it’s also a distraction from her profound pain.
When asked to photograph a wedding at the historic Woodmont estate, Libby meets the owner, Elaine Grant. Hoping to open Woodmont to the public, Elaine has employed young widower Colton Reese to help restore the grounds and asks Libby to photograph the process. Libby is immediately drawn to the old greenhouse shrouded in honeysuckle vines.
As Libby forms relationships and explores the overgrown—yet hauntingly beautiful—Woodmont estate, she finds the emotional courage to sort through her father’s office. There she discovers a letter that changes everything she knows about her parents, herself, and the estate. Beneath the vines of the old greenhouse lie generations of secrets, and it’s up to Libby to tend to the fruits born of long-buried seeds.
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In wartime Berlin, a woman with a dangerous secret enters a marriage of convenience that becomes something far deeper.
The Pianist’s Wife
Historical Fiction · Historical Romance · World War 2
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In wartime Berlin, a woman with a dangerous secret enters a marriage of convenience that becomes something far deeper. Friendship, loyalty, and love are tested as danger closes in from all sides. The Pianist’s Wife is a moving World War II novel about quiet resistance, earning 4.6 stars on Amazon and Goodreads from thousands of readers.
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A heartbreaking story of friendship, loyalty and the true cost of love, from the bestselling author of The Secret Midwife and Wives of War.
Berlin, 1944: Amira and Gisele have been best friends since they were children, and now Gisele is the only person who knows Amira’s secret. A secret that puts her and everyone she loves in unimaginable danger amid the daily horror and violence of Nazi Germany.
With the threat of exposure drawing closer, Gisele’s suggestion that Amira marries her friend Fred, a famous pianist, might just be the lifeline she needs to keep them both safe. Because Fred has secrets too.
As the two strangers promise to look after each other, a profound love develops. But while the war rages on, Amira, Fred and Gisele are soon faced with terrible choices that will test their loyalty—and their courage—to the ultimate limits. How far will they go to keep each other alive?
An unforgettable World War Two novel about those who chose to defy the Nazis from within Germany.
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Snowbound in a Texas town called Christmas Creek, a haunted drifter finds himself protecting a widowed shopkeeper and her son from a violent gang.
The Edge of Nowhere
Historical Fiction · Western
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Snowbound in a Texas town called Christmas Creek, a haunted drifter finds himself protecting a widowed shopkeeper and her son from a violent gang. As a brutal winter storm closes in, vengeance and mercy collide in The Edge of Nowhere, a tense Western where survival depends on standing your ground. Rated 4.4 stars on Amazon and 4.3 on Goodreads.
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Nationally bestselling western authors William W. and J.A. Johnstone reunite no there’s nothing like a Christmas showdown in Texas.
Johnstone Country. Where Miracles Need Bullets.
In this bold, new Western from the bestselling Johnstones, a lonely drifter finds himself snowbound with a lovely widow, her young son—and a gang of trigger-happy thieves . . .
DON’T OPEN FIRE UNTIL CHRISTMAS
Patrick Foley is a haunted man. After losing his family in a brutal Commanche raid, he drifts from town to town seeking justice and revenge. His mission—to track down the killers—has hardened his heart against all men, good or bad. But his icy resolve begins to melt when he arrives in the small Texas town of Christmas Creek—along with a massive winter storm that traps him there with a good woman, her little boy, and some very bad men . . .
Texans call it a Blue Norther. A fast-moving onslaught of heavy sleet and snow, it brings Foley’s search to a halt, but also gives him a chance to warm up with the charming young widow who runs the general store. Her name is Lovejoy Peace. She has a friendly smile, a six-year-old son—and a terrible problem with mean-spirited cowboys stealing supplies from her store. Being a gentleman, Foley raises his gun to defend the widow and stop the thieving snakes. But the battle is far from over . . .
The storm is getting worse. The cowboy gang is snowbound, too—and they’re ready for a rematch. If Foley, the widow and her son can survive the night, it’ll be a Christmas miracle . . .
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In 1991 Georgia, Dina’s life is shattered by bride kidnapping as the Soviet Union collapses.
The Valley Between Us
Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction · Women's Fiction
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In 1991 Georgia, Dina’s life is shattered by bride kidnapping as the Soviet Union collapses. In 2018, Callie escapes heartbreak and rigid routines for a mountain internship that exposes painful family truths. Their intertwined journeys explore trauma, resilience, faith, and healing across generations. This moving novel has earned 4.5 stars on Amazon and strong reader acclaim.
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"I read 26+ books a year and this is the best book I have read in several years. Yes, it's THAT GOOD!"-- Glenn, Goodreads review
This gripping novel follows two women— a young Soviet college student whose life is upended by the ancient practice of bride kidnapping, and a millennial American bound by her crippling sensory processing issues— and weaves their stories together in a riveting tale of love and resilience.
1991: The Soviet Union is on the verge of collapse when 20 year-old Dina comes face-to-face with the ancient Caucasus tradition of bride kidnapping. The life she had planned is torn out from under her feet and she is forced to dig deep inside to find the strength to survive her new harsh reality.
2018: Callie keeps her life as predictable and organized as possible— Dr. Paekl says that's the best way to keep a handle on her sensory processing issues. And Callie always listens to Dr. Paekl. So, no surprises— daily run in Golden Gate Park at 6:20 am, oatmeal and a banana for breakfast, the thermostat always set at exactly 68 degrees. But a break-up with her long-time boyfriend and frustration in her high-stress job pushes her to do something uncharacteristically risky—take a leave of absence from work and travel to Georgia for a three-month internship at a mountain guesthouse. What she thinks will be merely a summer adventure ends up completely shifting her world, making her reexamine who she is, what she believes, and who she loves. While at the guesthouse, Callie uncovers a shocking family secret that could bring everything crumbling down around her.
The Valley Between Us is a heart-wrenching tale of deep friendships, faith, first loves, trauma, and, ultimately, healing.
Fans of The Nightingale or All the Light We Cannot See will be captivated by this powerful story.
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Clara Kelley enters Andrew Carnegie’s household under a stolen identity, hiding poverty and ambition behind a maid’s apron.
Carnegie’s Maid
Biographical Fiction · Historical Fiction · Literary Fiction · Historical Literary Fiction
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Clara Kelley enters Andrew Carnegie’s household under a stolen identity, hiding poverty and ambition behind a maid’s apron. Her intelligence earns his trust, but affection and secrets threaten her future and her family’s survival. This richly imagined historical novel explores power, class, and the unseen influence of women, with 4.4 stars on Amazon and widespread book club acclaim.
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The USA Today Bestseller
From the bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room comes a mesmerizing tale of historical fiction that asks what kind of woman could have inspired an American dynasty.
Clara Kelley is not who they think she is. She's not the experienced Irish maid who was hired to work in one of Pittsburgh's grandest households. She's a poor farmer's daughter with nowhere to go and nothing in her pockets. But the woman who shares her name has vanished, and assuming her identity just might get Clara some money to send back home.
Clara must rely on resolve as strong as the steel Pittsburgh is becoming famous for and an uncanny understanding of business, attributes that quickly gain her Carnegie's trust. But she still can't let her guard down, not even when Andrew becomes something more than an employer. Revealing her past might ruin her future—and her family's.
With captivating insight and heart, Carnegie's Maid is a book of fascinating 19th century historical fiction. Discover the story of one brilliant woman who may have spurred Andrew Carnegie's transformation from ruthless industrialist to the world's first true philanthropist.
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