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From an orphanage to college, Jerusha, or Judy, Abbott hopes to continue her education, but has no funds. When an anonymous benefactor offers to finance her studies, Judy accepts. Her witty letters to this generous man may bring her closer to knowing his identity than she expects.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

Like heroines in many romantic stories, Jane Eyre was a penniless orphan who was an ugly duckling. She left an unhappy time at a boarding school to become a teacher and governess for a proud man with a secret.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

This love story is set in the 1920s - a period of jazz and decadence. Jay Gatsby, a poor army officer falls for Daisy who marries a rich man while Jay is overseas. After the war, Jay becomes a multi-millionaire focusing on making money, throwing parties and enticing Daisy to return to his life.

Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance

Margaret is torn from her comfortable home in Hampshire and has to move to industrial northern England. She becomes passionate about the suffering of the local mill workers and clashes with mill owner John Thornton. Their disagreements over her sympathy for the workers turn to passion. Thornton falls in love with Margaret, who rejects his marriage proposal. Only when he withdraws his affections does Margaret reconsider.

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Christina had loved Rafael all her life, all eight years of it anyway. But things change when she is moved away across the country. She pines for her friend and her home in New Orleans. But time has a way of healing what ails you.

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The adored and indulged youngest child of a wealthy plantation owner in the South Carolina colony, Jessie Maclaine is determined to marry Robbie Stewart, her childhood playmate and recent obsession. She hatches a plan to capture the heart of her beloved, but the outcome shakes her world to the foundations and ultimately very nearly claims her life—and Robbie's.

Categories: Romance, Contemporary Romance, Historical Romance

This is the love story of a tormented foundling who falls in love with the daughter of his benefactor. They long for each other and have to share the violence and misery caused by their attraction.

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In love with a woman he had only seen once and could not find, the Highlander Kevin MacGreagor needed a wife to give him sons. No other woman pleased him, even the daughters of other larids, so he finally settled for Anna sight unseen. But when his men went to meet her escort, they found her alone in a clearing and badly beaten. Who could have done such a thing and why?

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Judy Abbott has come a long way from the orphanage where she grew up in this sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs. She reaches back through time to help childhood friend Sallie McBride improve conditions for the children living there now, but romantic entanglements may foil their plans.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

Hester Prynn carries with her a mark signifying adultery, a true sin in 17th century Puritan Boston. The red letter A on her clothing brings public shame, but she will not name the father of her daughter, Pearl, no matter the threat to her own reputation and her life.

Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance