It's the summer of 1972. Maggie, a young schoolteacher, leaves the United States to settle with her boyfriend, Fletcher, on a farm near Niagara Falls. They've made the journey to keep him out of the draft, but they also have loftier plans - to start a commune and work the land. As the summer passes, Maggie is haunted by the lack of word from her father, a missionary in the war-torn jungles of Laos. Then the US government announces the end of the draft, and Fletcher faces pressure from his family...
Midsummer Moon (Regency Tales, #1)
by Amanda Moor Jay and Laura Kinsale
When a powerful, decisive aristocrat undertakes a mission to protect an absent-minded young inventress from England's enemies, he finds his orderly world turned into chaos. Merlin Lambourne's stubborn dream of flight puts her at risk-and is driving Ransom crazy. In spite of himself, he is oddly enchanted by this muddled miss and her eccentric ways . . . but can he overcome his own fears and realize her invention may be the answer to saving both of their lives? A whimsical Regency-era tale of...
From the author of the Orange New Writers shortlisted `The Book of Fires’, an extraordinary tale of love and science. When Henry Lyte brings his young bride Frances home to his Somerset estate, he hopes she will share in his devotion to the garden – a refuge of fruit trees and flower beds, with a knot of herbs at its heart. Henry is a scholar, and his life’s work is his `herbal’ – a book of plants and their medicinal properties, intended for those who cannot afford physicians’ expensive...
To Kiss a Count (Harlequin Historical, #997) (Mills & Boon Historical)
by Amanda McCabe
Her dashing nobleman... Leaving exotic Sicily behind, and with it her heart, Thalia Chase returns to England to visit her sister - and to try and forget the enigmatic Italian Count di Fabrizzi. She's shocked to suddenly see him in Bath - and in the company of a suspected thief! His determined lady... Marco, Count di Fabrizzi, is on a dangerous mission and doesn't need the beautiful Lady Chase hindering his progress. B...
What will she sacrifice for love? Growing up in London’s East End with six siblings, Nora Taylor has always been close to her younger sister Maggie. But when she meets Maggie’s fiancé Robert, they are immediately drawn to each other. Forced to choose between her family and her heart, Nora decides to marry the man she loves – even if it means losing her sister.When the First World War breaks out, Nora must fight to hold her family together through the challenges and tragedies to come. As her chil...
Clare was the latest tabloid gossip: the girl who'd had an affair with Jack Straker, the notorious tycoon. When Clare found herself pregnant, she knew it must remain a secret. Only now the papers knew - and so did Jack! And the eligible bachelor wanted his son.
One Christmas Night (Harlequin Historical, #487) (Mills & Boon Historical, #487)
by Ruth Langan, Jacqueline Navin, and Lyn Stone