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  Gap Creek - The Story of a Marriage

  Robert Morgan

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  An Oprah's Book Club SelectionAn unflinching tale of turn-of-the-century Appalachian life, Gap Creek chronicles the challenging first year in the marriage of Julie Harmon and Hank Richards.  After losing both her father and brother before turning 17, Julie faces fire, flood, grifters, sickness, and starvation with grim determination and remarkable stamina.  By capturing the earthy details of rural life, including raw, riveting accounts of everything from hog slaughtering to childbirth, Robert Morgan weaves the human and the heroic that coexist in every individual.

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  The Boy Who Wanted Wings - Love...

  James Conroyd Martin

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  AN IPPI GOLD MEDAL WINNER 
  Expert archer Aleksy has his heart set on joining the elite hussars at the Battle of Vienna. 
  Countess Krystyna turns his heart in a different direction. 
  As an outsider, Aleksy knows that both dreams are forbidden. And yet, one day he finds that he must choose between the two. 
  -~Romeo and Juliet with a Twist 
  ~~"A pitch-perfect follow-up to his Poland Trilogy"~Historical Novels Review 
   It is September 11, 1683, and the Ottoman Turks stand at Vienna poised to bring down the weakening citadel and impose jihad. Their sights are set on all of Europe. 
  Aleksy, a Tatar raised by a Polish peasant family, holds in his heart the wish to become a Polish winged hussar, a Christian lancer who carries into battle a device attached to his back that holds dozens of eagle feathers. As a Tatar and as a peasant, this is an unlikely quest. When he meets Krystyna, the daughter of the noble who owns the land that his parents work, he falls hopelessly in love. But even though she returns his love, race and class differences make this quest as impossible as that of becoming a hussar. Under the most harrowing and unlikely circumstances, one day Aleksy must choose between his dreams.  
  An IPPY GOLD MEDAL 2017 winner from the Independent Publisher Book Awards 
   Historical Novels Review 
  "This classic different-worlds love affair provides the human grounding for a larger story replete with well-researched period details about the struggle of 17th-century Europe against the forces of Islam, and Martin is a skilled enough storyteller to keep the whole narrative moving forward briskly to a very satisfying conclusion. The author has written a pitch-perfect follow-up to his Poland Trilogy." 

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  The Devil in the Marshalsea

  Antonia Hodgson

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  It's 1727. Tom Hawkins is damned if he's going to follow in his father's footsteps and become a country parson. Not for him a quiet life of prayer and propriety. His preference is for wine, women, and cards. But there's a sense of honor there too, and Tom won't pull family strings to get himself out of debt—not even when faced with the appalling horrors of London's notorious debtors' prison: The Marshalsea Gaol.Within moments of his arrival in the Marshalsea, Hawkins learns there's a murderer on the loose, a ghost is haunting the gaol, and that he'll have to scrounge up the money to pay for his food, bed, and drink. He's quick to accept an offer of free room and board from the mysterious Samuel Fleet—only to find out just hours later that it was Fleet's last roommate who turned up dead. Tom's choice is clear: get to the truth of the murder—or be the next to die.

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  The Inconvenient Duchess

  Christine Merrill

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  “Merrill deftly delivers a well-crafted, potent and passionate” Victorian romance in her RWA Golden Heart Award–winning debut novel (Romantic Times). 
   
  Dear Cici and Father, 
   
  I have come to Devon and married a duke. And I’m more tired and hungry than I have ever been in my life. Please let me come home. 
   
  Compromised and wedded on the same day, Lady Miranda was fast finding married life not to her taste. A decaying manor and a secretive husband were hardly the stuff of girlish dreams. Yet every time she looked at dark, brooding Marcus Radwell, Duke of Haughleigh, she felt inexplicably compelled—and determined—to make their marriage real!

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  Windfall - A Novel

  Penny Vincenzi

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  Be careful what you wish for. Inheriting a fortune propels one woman into a whirlwind of ambition, temptation, glamour—and deception. 
   
  Sensible Cassia Tallow is married to a doctor for seven years when she inherits a large amount of money from her godmother. This enables her to leave her old life behind and embark on a new life filled with danger and passion. This is Penny Vincenzi at her utmost. 
   
  “Once again, Vincenzi delivers grade-A entertainment.” —Publishers Weekly 
   
  Praise for Penny Vincenzi 
   
  “The doyenne of the modern blockbuster.” —Glamour 
   
  “Soap opera? You bet—but with her well-drawn characters and engaging style, Vincenzi keeps things humming.” —People 
   
  “Nobody writes smart, page-turning commercial women’s fiction like Vincenzi.” —USA Today 
   
  “Will draw you in against your better judgment and keep you awake reading all night.” —The Boston Globe 
   
  “Vincenzi does it again with another captivating and entertaining family saga that combines power, riches, lies, and greed . . . For fans of Barbara Taylor Bradford and Danielle Steel.” —Library Journal

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  The Lady Travelers Guide to...

  Victoria Alexander

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  An earl’s love language is Egyptian hieroglyphs in this sparkling adventure in the #1 New York Times-bestselling author’s Lady Travelers Society series.   Harry Armstrong has spent years in Egypt, recovering relics and disregarding rules. Now he’s back in England with a new title and a new purpose: penning his exploits. But his efforts are overshadowed by London’s favorite writer about Egypt—a woman they call The Queen of the Desert, of all things. Worse, her stories—serialized in newspapers and reprinted in books—are complete rubbish.   Miss Sidney Honeywell didn’t set out to deceive anyone. It’s not her fault readers assumed her Tales of a Lady Adventurer in Egypt were real! Admitting her inadvertent deception now would destroy her reputation and her livelihood. But when the Earl of Brenton challenges her to travel to Egypt to prove her expertise, accompanied by his dashing, arrogant nephew, what choice does she have but to pack her bags?   With the matchmaking founders of the Lady Travelers Society in tow, Harry is determined to expose Sidney’s secret. But the truth might not be as great a revelation as discovering that love can strike even the most stubborn of hearts.  “Alexander continues her celebration of multigenerational female bravado and intensifies the complexity of this delightfully over-the-top series through a fantastical Egyptian travelogue, and playfully praises the value of telling a good adventure tale through its imaginative, fiction-writing female lead.” —Publishers Weekly

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