The Heart of a Gypsy
10 best books like The Heart of a Gypsy (Roberta Kagan): The Kommandant's Mistress, The Monmouth Summer, Celtic Skies, Passion and Pride, Captured, Flashy Fiction and Other Insane Tales, Lady Iona's Rebellion, The Sweetest Revenge, Dreams of Eli, The Whiskey Tide
Author | Sherri Szeman |
ISBN | 1559705426 |
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After reading Amy Harmon's FROM SAND AND ASH, I found myself still thinking melancholically about WWII. Reading something super cheery or fantastical felt kind of disrespectful while in this mood, so I decided to delve into...
1685. King Charles II dies unexpectedly, and is succeeded by his brother James II, England's first Catholic monarch since Bloody Mary. English Protestants feel threatened, and King Charles’s illegitimate son, the handsome young duke of Monmouth, rises against his uncle in armed rebellion.
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Celtic Skies
Celtic Steel, Book 3
Flynn Montgomery has just taken a new commission as the chieftain of O’Malley clan troops in Western Ireland. His cousin, Patrick MacCahan-O’Malley, is the new Laird of the O’Malley clan; and they are expanding their shipping enterprise across...
Passion will bring them together...but pride may rip them apart.
Dashing aristocrat Evan Blake has seduced some of London's most beautiful women, but he has one ironclad rule: never touch a servant, because she must say 'yes' or risk losing her livelihood.
That rule is sorely tested...
Author | Victoria Lynne |
ISBN | 0380780445 |
3.5 stars
Charleston, 1861. Captain Cole McRae has been charged with the task of escorting Englishwoman Devon Blake to Old Capitol Prison where she's to be hanged as a spy and murderess. The man Devon was accused of spying for is the same man Cole blames for his brother's death and the loss of his...
Flashy Fiction and Other Insane Tales
Author | Jen Wylie |
ISBN | 0615631436 |
An anthology of the strange, bizarre, and just plain weird. Zombies, vampires, ghosts, and ...crickets? Try a taste of writing from two very different fantasy authors. Flash stories are super short and perfect for when you 'just have a minute'. This anthology contains 15 stories from authors Sean...
She was looking for freedom....
When the always obedient Lady Iona is pressured into accepting a husband of her father's choosing, she seeks out the notorious rake, Lord Nathan Wynter, for his help in learning how to standup for herself.
He was looking for respect...
While Iona is...
Three Determined Women, One Fallen Man
When the Earl of Leothaid took Isabelle Frasier’s innocence, the resulting scandal drove Isabelle to England in humiliating exile. Seven years later, she befriends Anna Newton and Susan, Lady DeLinn, two other women whom Leo has similarly debauched...
There should be "SIX STARS" available for beautifully written books such as this. The author captures that rare ability to evoke emotions in a person. The characters are so well developed that you feel for them, sympathize with them and cry for them. Dreams of Eli takes you on an emotional journey with...
At the height of Prohibition three sisters in a genteel Massachusetts family turn rumrunners to save their family. Desperate to provide for their newly widowed mother and little brother, they use the family’s pleasure schooner to smuggle whiskey from Canada.
Kate, the bookworm, hatches...
Lord Thurston Tarrant, known as Hotspur on the London social scene, thinks Lady Taffeta Grantham is too young and idealistic. Experience has taught him that love is found only in fairy tales and that very few women can be trusted—especially young and attractive ones.
As for Taffy, she finds...
Catalina Flores de la Peña's tongue got her in more trouble than any other part of her body, even though there were far more likely candidates. But when a storm rolls into her sleepy port town, she finds herself embroiled with a gang of adventurers, mercenaries, and prostitutes on a journey to free South...
When down-on-herself Rebecca Fowley traipses after a small, intriguing insect and onto the private property of heart-hardened rancher Elias Dellin, confusion and attraction abound. Rebecca is certain that she’s just become turned around in the brush by the highway and Elias is just as sure that...
Author | Tracey Devlyn |
ISBN | 1402258224 |
British agent Cora deBeau has spent the last three years seducing secrets from the most hardened of French spies while searching for her parents’ killer. When her latest assignment goes awry, she suffers at the hands of her French captor until Guy Trevelyan, the Earl of Helsford and master cryptographer,...
A medieval story of love and betrayal.
As a rebellion sweeps England, Lady Annabel finds her home overrun by rebels. Much to her relief, a dark knight comes to her rescue, claiming to have been sent to protect her by her uncle.
But Nicholas holds a secret about the job he was sent to do and...
Author | Connie Mason |
ISBN | 0843964030 |
Lord of Devil Isle
3.5 Stars
Known as the “Lord of Devil Isle”, Nicholas Scott is a skilled ship’s captain and a notorious womanizer. So when he pulls Eve Upshall from the waves, he naturally assumes she will be his latest conquest. Eve, however, has other ideas on the matter …
A...
The year is 1910. Katherine Davis, M.D. is an intelligent, self-assured, and attractive woman whose confidence perfectly reflects the confidence of a new century overflowing with scientific, medical, and technological breakthroughs. Without a moment's hesitation, young Dr. Davis accepts the...
Author | Alexandra O'Hurley |
ISBN | 1771302771 |
Sybille de Campion has been raising her three youngest brothers after her family abandons them for Paris. She has her hands full with trying to hold the floundering castle together with only two doddering knights and a rheumy cook to aid her. When a knight with a violent reputation rides to the gates with...
This review is from: Bold (The Handfasting) (Kindle Edition)
Bold is very badly written. I have never read any book quite this bad. Its so disjointed and their is no character development or back story to help you understand what the story is about. The story made me feel like I had just walked in a room...
The Handsomest Man in the Country
Orphaned by the Civil War, an 18-year-old girl from the hills of Kentucky heads west on a wagon train, only to discover the devils she knew at home may have been preferable to the devils in disguise she encounters along the trail.
Despite a couple of formatting, word-choice, and punctuation...
We Never Lost Hope: A Holocaust Memoir and Love Story
Author | Naomi Litvin |
ISBN | 1439204217 |
We Never Lost Hope by Naomi Litvin is a powerful and haunting memoir and love story about her family's lives before, during, and after the Holocaust. Told in five indelible voices, the book gives a you-are-there punch and a moving immediacy. Litvin recreates her parents' incredible love story of a Holocaust...
When Quentin Blackwell, Earl of Devlyn, discovered the woman he loved was carrying another man’s child, he refused to marry her. In retaliation, her father ruined Devlyn. When Sophie Hamilton, the man’s eldest daughter, comes to him with an unexpected offer, Devlyn seizes the chance for vengeance....
Author | Gerri Russell |
ISBN | 0843962607 |
Fleeing from a man who wants to rape her before marriage to ensure a crown, the heroine sees no other escape than to run strength into a war zone. The hero, a Templar knight, leads his severely outmatch and unnumbered men against the Moors but soon the battle turns for the worst and he watches all of his men...