historical fiction

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historical fiction

A cup of tea

1997
Set against the backdrop of New York society during the uncertain days of World War I, Rosemary Fell watches her world unravel as her fiance begins an affair with another women only to have it end when he is sent off to war.

Sword song

the battle for London
2009
In ninth-century England, Uhtred of Bebbanburg is ordered by King Alfred to secure the borders of London and resist the attacks of the Norse Viking brothers Sigefrid and Erik Thurgilson, but his uncertain loyalties toward the crown, and his daughter's recent marriage, make it difficult for him to carry out the command.

A Jew must die

2010
A fact-based novel about a Jewish merchant in Payerne, Switzerland, who was murdered by Swiss Nazis, blaming unemployment and bankruptcies on the Jews, and vowing to set the murdered man's mother up as an example.

Midnight never come

2008
Michael Deven, working for spymaster Francis Walsingham thirty years into the reign of Queen Elizabeth, falls in love with Anne Montrose, a lady who serves at Hampton Court Palace, not realizing she is really Lady Lune, an unwilling servant to Invidiana, the faerie queen who rules the dark and unseen world of Onyx Court with the complete knowledge and cooperation of the Tudor monarch.

Mistress Shakespeare

2009
A fictionalized account of the life of Anne Whateley of Temple Grafton, who was betrothed to William Shakespeare days before he was forced to marry the pregnant Anne Hathaway of Shottery, and went on to secretly marry her great love during a treacherous time in Elizabethan England.

A bride in the bargain

2009
Joe Denton requests a Mercer bride to fulfill his obligations of needing a wife in order to retain ownership of his Seattle timberland in 1860, but when Anna Ivey arrives in Seattle and refuses to marry Joe, he must find a way to woe the beautiful young woman before he loses his land.

The centurion's wife

2009
Leah, a young Jewess of mixed heritage, is forced into a marriage with Alban, a Roman centurion; but when he is asked to find the truth behind rumors of a political execution gone awry, Alban's career, beliefs, and his life are put at risk.

A summer to remember

2002
Kit Butler, Viscount Ravensberg, is one of London's most infamous bachelors, and when his family demands he marry, he chooses the first woman he encounters, a fiercely independent woman who challenges him at every turn and teaches him about unconditional love.

Maid to match

2010
Tillie Reese, having agreed to tutor footman Mack Danvers in proper servant etiquette, debates if she should act on her feelings for Mack, even though it would break a rule concerning relationships between servants, or deny her own emotions in order to become Edith Vanderbilt's lady's maid, and, when Tillie and Mack get caught up in a cover-up at the orphanage, she finds her job is threatened even further.

The children of the king

2014
"Cecily and Jeremy have been sent to live with Uncle Peregrine in the English countryside, safe from the war, along with a young refugee named May. But when Cecily and May find two mysterious boys hiding out in the ruins of a nearby castle, their extraordinary adventures are just beginning."--Dust jacket.

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