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The Golden Bride (Kimberley Woodhouse) – Review

Can Olivia survive the crime and Gold Rush fever of 1849…and the countless marriage proposals?

The Daughters of the Mayflower series continues when Olivia Brighton finds herself widowed and working her brother’s restaurant in San Francisco during the height of the rush for gold. Even though she receives at least twenty marriage proposals a day, she will never marry a gold miner. Her brother’s friend Joseph Sawyer has gotten caught up in local politics and the plight of Chinese in forced labor. The more Joseph gets pulled into investigating crime in the city, the less Olivia sees of the compassionate man. And just when she thinks she could love again, a fire threatens to steal all hope.

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5 April 2020

Fast Five Review Roundup

It’s been a long time since I’ve done a Fast Five Review Roundup, but I have several books that are sitting on my “Read” pile that are waiting for reviews, so it seems like it’s a good time to bring this feature back. What do you think?

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16 February 2019

The Innkeeper's Daughter (Michelle Griep) – Review

~ About the Book ~ A London officer goes undercover to expose a plot against the Crown Dover, England, 1808: Officer Alexander Moore goes undercover as a gambling gentleman to expose a high-stakes plot against the king—and he’s a master of disguise, for Johanna Langley believes him to be quite the rogue. . .until she can no longer fight against his unrelenting charm. All Johanna wants is to keep the family inn afloat, but when the rent and the hearth payment are due at the same time, where will she find the extra funds? If she doesn’t come up with

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15 March 2018

First Line Friday – 16 February 2018 – Love the War Woman (April Gardner)

Welcome to First Line Friday, hosted by Hoarding Books! Do you enjoy reading novels about Native Americans? If so, you need to discover April Gardner’s Creek Country Saga! I read the first in this series at the end of last year, and I was hooked! (You can read my review here.) Book number five in the series, Love the War Woman, released last week, so I’m going to share the first line with you today.

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16 February 2018

Where We Belong (Lynn Austin) – Review

~ About the Book ~ The Adventure of a Lifetime for Two Indomitable Socialite Sisters In the city of Chicago in 1892, the rules for Victorian women are strict, their roles limited. But sisters Rebecca and Flora Hawes are not typical Victorian ladies. Their love of adventure and their desire to use their God-given talents has brought them to the Sinai Desert–and into a sandstorm. Accompanied by Soren Petersen, their somber young butler, and Kate Rafferty, a street urchin who is learning to be their ladies’ maid, the two women are on a quest to find an important biblical manuscript.

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14 October 2017

Waves of Mercy (Lynn Austin) – Review

Publisher’s Description: Geesje de Jonge crossed the ocean at age seventeen with her parents and a small group of immigrants from the Netherlands to settle in the Michigan wilderness. Fifty years later, in 1897, she’s asked to write a memoir of her early experiences as the town celebrates its anniversary. Reluctant at first, she soon uncovers memories and emotions hidden all these years, including the story of her one true love. At the nearby Hotel Ottawa Resort on the shore of Lake Michigan, twenty-three-year-old Anna Nicholson is trying to ease the pain of a broken engagement to a wealthy Chicago

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30 September 2016

The Magnolia Duchess (Beth White) – Review

  Publisher’s description As the War of 1812 rages across the newly formed United States, another war rages in Fiona Lanier’s heart–one that threatens to tear her family apart. Fiona can scarcely take in the news of her brother’s capture and imprisonment by the British Navy. It is almost as unbelievable as the half-drowned British sailor who is washed ashore on the beach of Navy Cove. Charlie Kincaid claims to have no memory of his life before being discovered by Fiona, but in a world that seems saturated with treachery, she cannot be sure he is telling the truth. As

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15 April 2016