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The colonel's daughter
Par Cynthia Harrod-Eagles. 2005
In 1954 soldier George West falls for colonel's daughter Josella Grace, unaware of her tragic past. Jo leaves George and…
for a decade wanders Great Britain, taking various jobs and lovers. Only when George helps Jo confront her heartache do they realize their love. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2005Summer breeze (Coulter Family Historical #1)
Par Catherine Anderson. 2006
Colorado, 1880s. Rachel Hollister isolates herself after her parents and siblings are murdered during a picnic. Five years later terror…
returns when her foreman, Darby, is shot near the same area. Neighbor Joseph Paxton offers his help and falls in love with Rachel. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2006Second sight
Par Amanda Quick. 2006
Victorian England. Venetia Milton visits Gabriel Jones's estate to photograph relics of the Arcane Society, a secret organization founded by…
Gabriel's alchemist ancestor. Gabriel is reported dead but surfaces later to protect Venetia and catch a murderous thief who is after his family's secrets. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2006Shōgun: a novel of Japan
Par James Clavell. 1975
Seventeenth-century Japan. Saga of the struggle between Japanese warlords vying for the military title of shogun. John Blackthorne, a shipwrecked…
British sea pilot, and Mariko, a Japanese noblewoman, figure prominently in the intrigues and confrontations. Explicit descriptions of sex, violence, and strong language. 1975The widow of the south
Par Robert Hicks. 2005
1864. Carrie McGavock's Tennessee plantation becomes a Confederate hospital. Caring for wounded sergeant Zachariah Cashwell rejuvenates Carrie, who is mourning…
her children's deaths. Decades later, before 1,500 graves can be plowed for farmland, Carrie has the soldiers reburied in her backyard--then Zachariah returns. Some strong language. 2005The green lantern: a romance of Stalinist Russia
Par Jerome Charyn. 2004
Moscow, 1930s. Apprentice Ivan Azerbaijan is cast as Shakespeare's King Lear opposite his beloved, actress Valentina Michaelson, who plays Cordelia.…
He enters a web of paranoia, brutality, and shifting alliances when his performances draw Soviet leader Joseph Stalin's attention. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2004Train from Marietta
Par Dorothy Garlock. 2006
Texas, 1933. A nefarious businessman abducts nurse Kate Tyler as she is traveling to San Francisco. Kate's wealthy father hires…
rancher Tate Castle to get her back, and the two fall in love despite their differences. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2006Simply unforgettable (Simply Quartet Ser. #Bk. 1)
Par Mary Balogh. 2005
Regency England. Music teacher Frances Allard is returning to Miss Martin's School for Girls in Bath after Christmas when her…
carriage overturns in a snowstorm. She and Lucius Marshall, the viscount Sinclair, who caused the accident, take refuge together in a nearly deserted inn. Explicit descriptions of sex. 2005The way West (Western saga ; #2)
Par A. B. Guthrie Jr.. 2002
1840s. Dick Summers has been to Oregon before, but now that his wife has died he decides to return. He…
will guide a group of men and women from Missouri on the difficult journey along the Oregon Trail. Sequel to The Big Sky (RC 37502). Pulitzer Prize. 1949The masqueraders
Par Georgette Heyer. 1928
Temporarily abandoned by their reckless father, Prudence and her brother Robin each disguise themselves as the opposite sex to avoid…
capture by their political enemies. Dangerous entanglements develop when Prue falls in love with Sir Anthony and Robin is smitten by a lovely heiress. Foreword by Anne Stuart. 1928A loving scoundrel: a Malory novel
Par Johanna Lindsey. 2004
Danny, a street-living London lass dressed as a lad, helps gentleman rake Jeremy Malory steal back jewels lost in a…
card game. Intrigued by her spunk, Jeremy hires her as a maid. When Danny poses as his new love, someone recognizes her, endangering her future. Some explicit descriptions of sex. 2004The winter queen: A Novel
Par Jane Stevenson. 2002
Holland, 1630s. Freed African slave Pelagius van Overmeer, a former prince of the Yoruba tribe, studies theology and has a…
reputation as a seer. With the Winter Queen--Elizabeth of Bohemia, exiled widowed sister of England's Charles I--he develops a bond that turns to love, yet must remain secretSan Francisco earthquake, 1906 (Historical Romance Ser.)
Par Kathleen Duey. 1999
San Francisco, 1906. Chambermaid Sierra O'Neille works in the hotel where rancher Joseph Harlan and his family are staying. While…
rescuing others when disaster strikes, the two are thrown together and fall in love. For junior and senior high readers. 1999A Palestine affair: A Novel
Par Jonathan Wilson. 2003
Jerusalem, 1924. English artist Bloomberg and his American wife, Joyce, a non-Jewish Zionist, arrive in British-ruled Palestine to begin a…
new life. After a murder in their garden Joyce has an affair with Robert Kirsch, the British policeman investigating the crime. Some explicit descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 2003The great fire
Par Shirley Hazzard. 2003
1947. Thirty-two-year-old British major Aldred Leith comes from China to Occupied Japan to report on Hiroshima conditions. Postwar loneliness haunts…
him and his friend Peter Exley, who saved his life in battle. Leith falls in love with teenaged Australian Helen Driscoll, who is also struggling to recover from personal trauma. National Book Award. 2003So wild a heart
Par Candace Camp. 2003
Devin Aincourt, earl of Ravenscar, needs money to save his family estate and pay his gambling debts. Miranda Upshaw, a…
strong-willed American heiress, wants his estate and social status. The result is a marriage of convenience that turns deadly for Miranda. Prequel to Hidden Heart (BR 14565). Some descriptions of sex. 2002Secrets of the heart
Par Candace Camp. 2003
Seven years ago Rachel Aincourt tried to elope with another man on the eve of her marriage to Michael, the…
earl of Westhampton. Now, as she begins to love Michael, she discovers he leads a double life. Suddenly both existences are endangered. Sequel to The Hidden Heart (BR 14565). Some descriptions of sex. 2003Lucy: a novel
Par Ellen Feldman. 2003
A fictionalized account of Lucy Mercer's longtime love affair with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, beginning in 1914 when she was his…
wife Eleanor's social secretary. Describes Roosevelt's termination of the relationship in 1918 to preserve his presidential ambitions, Mercer's subsequent marriage, and resumption of the affair nearly twenty years later. 2003The birth of Venus: a novel
Par Sarah Dunant. 2003
Renaissance Florence. Sixteen-year-old Alessandra Cecchi, the educated, artistic daughter of a wealthy merchant, is forced to marry an older man,…
who promises her freedom. Upon discovering his true intentions, she turns for love to an artist commissioned by her father. Some explicit descriptions of sex and some strong language. Bestseller. 2003Paradise: based on a true story of survival
Par Joan E Goodman. 2002
In 1542, sixteen-year-old French Huguenot Marguerite de La Rocque sails to America with her uncle. When he discovers Marguerite in…
the arms of her Catholic lover, he abandons them both on a Canadian island, where they struggle to survive. Some descriptions of sex. For senior high readers. 2002