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• Girl in a Blue Dress: A Novel Inspired by the Life and Marriage of Charles Dickens

• Good Things I Wish You

• A Civil General

• A Flickering Light (Portraits of the Heart, Book 1)

• A Mending at the Edge

• A Proper Education for Girls

• A Secret Alchemy: A Novel

• A Silent Ocean Away: Colette's Dominion

• A Wretched Man: A Novel of Paul the Apostle Review

• Across the Endless River

• Adelsverein: The Gathering

• Alone: The Journey of the Boy Sims

• An Accomplished Woman

• As High as the Heavens

• Axe of Iron: The Settlers

• Border Wedding

• Brief Gaudy Hour: A Novel of Anne Boleyn

• Camp Follower: A Novel of the Revolution

• Charley’s Choice – The Life and Times of Charley Parkhurst

• Cottonwood Whispers

• Dangerous Heart: Westward Hearts Series #3

• Dreamers of the Day: A Novel

• Etta: A Novel

• Everything Under the Sky

• Far Bright Star

• Fires in the Wilderness: A Story of the Civilian Conservation Core Boys

• Glassblower of Murano

• Gone Over

• Hawk’s Valley: A Good Place to Die

• Her Highness’ First Murder

• King's Fool: A Notorious King, His Six Wives, and the One Man Who Knew All Their Secrets

• Lambrusco

• Leaving Rock Harbor

• Leaving Rock Harbor

• Life Class

• Long Journey Home: a Novel of the Post-Civil War Plains

• Love Finds You in Maiden, North Carolina

• Mr. Allbones’ Ferrets

• Mrs. Darcy’s Dilemma

• My Lady of Cleves: a novel of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves

• My Name Is Will: A Novel of Sex, Drugs and Shakespeare

• On Sparrow Hill

• Peace

• Pictures at an Exhibition

• Pope Joan: A Novel

• Prayers for Sale

• President Lincoln’s Secret

• President Lincoln’s Spy

• Seduced by a Spy

• Skeletons at the Feast

• Surrender of a Siren

• Sway

• Sword Song: The Battle For London

• Tallgrass

• The Black Tower

• The Bridegrooms

• The Brothers Boswell

• The Color of Lightning

• The Commoner

• The Confidential Life of Eugenia Cooper

• The Courtier’s Secret

• The Dakota Cipher

• The Dark Lantern

• The Fall of the Templars

• The Heretic Queen

• The Lancelot Murders: A Merlin Investigation

• The Last Aloha

• The Magician’s Death: A Hugh Corbett Medieval Mystery

• The Poisoner of Ptah

• The Polski Affair

• The Reavers

• The Road to Jerusalem: Book One of the Crusades Trilogy

• The Scarlet Spy

• The Secret Life of Josephine: Napoleon's Bird of Paradise

• The Secret of the Glass

• The Tsarina’s Daughter

• The Virgin Queen’s Daughter

• The Witch’s Trinity: A Novel

• Three Times Blessed: Belles of Timber Creek series

• Torbjorn’s Gold: The Secret of Isle Royale

• Twilight of a Queen: A Novel

• Two Brothers - One North, One South

• Under This Unbroken Sky

• What Happens In London

• With Violets: A Novel of the Dawn of Impressionism

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