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A Convenient Fiction (Mimi Matthews) – Review

She Needed A Husband…

It’s been three years since Laura’s father died, leaving her and her invalid brother to subsist on the income from the family’s failing perfume business. But time is swiftly running out. What she needs is a husband, and fast. A noble gentleman who can rescue them all from penury. When a mysterious stranger arrives in the village, he seems a perfect candidate. But Alex Archer is no hero. In fact, he just might be the opposite.

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1 November 2019

First Line Friday – A Convenient Fiction (Mimi Matthews)

Happy Friday, book lovers, and welcome to First Line Friday hosted by Hoarding Books. I’ve just started reading A Convenient Fiction, Mimi Matthews’ newest release in her Parish Orphans of Devon series, and am already in love with the story. I mean, first chapter, and we’ve already had lines like, “You weren’t swimming. You were floating beneath the water like some demented Ophelia.”

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25 October 2019

Carry Me Home (Dorothy Adamek) – Review

Finella Mayfield hates two things: liars and thieves. And she’s determined to marry a man who’s neither. Chasing her dead father’s dreams, the twenty-year-old English bride arrives in Australia in 1875 for an arranged marriage. Anticipating her future as village preacher’s wife, she records her thoughts in her Everlasting journal. 

But instead of her fiancé, Finella is met by Shadrach Jones, a poor farmer sent to collect her from…

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12 October 2019

Guest Post by Stephenia H. McGee – Pullman Parlor Cars

Hello, book lovers! And hello, train lovers! If you’ve been hanging around here lately, you will have already heard of Stephenia H. McGee’s new release, Missing Mercy, set a generation after the Civil War. Today, Stephenia is going to be sharing a little about the Pullman parlor cars, which she researched for Missing Mercy.

Now, I don’t know about you, but I happen to come from a train-loving family. Nothing excites my kids like steam trains, so I can only imagine what the excitement would be like if they got to travel cross-country in the kind of style a Pullman car could provide.

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10 October 2019

The Yellow Lantern (Angie Dicken) – Review

Forced to Spy for Grave Robbers
True Colors – Fiction Based on Strange-But-True History

In 1824, Josephine Clayton is considered dead by everyone in her Massachusetts village—especially the doctor she has assisted for several months. Yet, she is still very much alive.

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9 October 2019

Interview + Giveaway: Stephenia H. McGee

Hello, book lovers! Do you enjoy novels set in the Civil War era? If so, you’ve likely read some of Stephenia H. McGee’s novels. (And if you haven’t, make sure you do!)

Yesterday was the release day for Stephenia H. McGee’s newest release, Missing Mercy, which is set one generation after the end of the Civil War and is part of…

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2 October 2019

Four Dreams of You (Sondra Kraak) – Review

Unfulfilled dreams have left Grace Thomas vowing not to let her imagination roam wild again. Resigning herself to the goal of owning a dress shop, she accepts a position as a housekeeper at Monaghan Lumber Camp in order to earn funds. The plan is simple, easy, and safe. But Torin Monaghan is not. The reclusive brother who seems indifferent to her presence is ironically the one stirring up her imagination.

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5 September 2019