Linda Stephens
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Anna Iveys journey west with Asa Mercers girls is an escape from the griefs of her past. Shes not supposed to be a bride, though, just a cook for the girls. But when they land, shes handed to Joe Denton and the two find themselves in a knotty situation. She refuses to wed him and hes about to lose his land. With only a few months left, can Joe convince this provoking--but beguiling--easterner to be his bride?
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Violinist Britta Lindquist, having left Sitka, Alaska, six years earlier to get away from the love of her life, Yuri Belikov, returns home and finds herself caring for Yuri's children after his wife dies, and struggling to decide between living with him and his family or accepting a first-chair position in an orchestra in England.
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Newly widowed Lydia Sellers, longing to put the memories of a painful marriage behind her, determines to travel to Alaska to join her aunt. Lydia's arrival in Sitka, however, brings things she didn't expect: the acquaintance of Kjell Bjorklund, the handsome owner of the sawmill; and the discovery that she is pregnant with her dead husband's child. What will this mean for her budding relationship with Kjell? And what lengths will her stepchildren go...
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Sophie Broadmoor adores fancy balls, beautiful gowns, and expensive jewelry. Indeed, she enjoys everything the Broadmoor wealth provides and has earned a reputation as the wildest of the Broadmoor cousins. During a trip to England, she falls head over heels for Wesley Hedrick, a wealthy widower who promises her the world. But Wesley's promises never seem to come true, and soon Sophie finds herself in a very compromising situation. Why does it have...
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Women of the West (Janette Oke) volume 9
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IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 11
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A mother and daughter try to restore their bonds after the girl returns from boarding school.
Sarah Perry, hoping to provide her daughter with opportunities for a better life, sends Rebecca east to boarding school while she stays behind to run her late husband's freight-hauling business, but over the years the gulf between mother and daughter widens, and when Rebecca does finally come home, Sarah struggles to bridge the gap.
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When Phoebe Robbins learns her family will move to Sitka, Alaska, she is unsure what this untamed land might offer. But before she even sets foot on the new territory, she has an unexpected encounter with Dalton Lindquist, a man haunted by dark family secrets. When he decides to pursue answers to his past, Dalton finds he must leave Sitka and the lovely Phoebe. But he's not the only one who sought Phoebe's attention. As the past collides with the...
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Heart of the prairie volume 10
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Without rain or topsoil, Anna Mae Phipps and her husband Harley struggle to provide for their two young children on their family farm. With another baby on the way, Harley sells his mules and travels a hundred miles to earn money building an elaborate WPA monument. But after only receiving Harley's first paycheck, Anna Mae grows increasingly desperate as months drag on without even a word from her husband.
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In 1876 Deadwood, South Dakota, twenty-year-old Mattie O'Keefe, having left a job working at a gambling house as a singer, looks for her younger brother while struggling with the temptation of gold mining and the message of a handsome preacher who warns against the storing of riches.
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Swan house volume 1
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IL: UG - BL: 5.5 - AR Pts: 26
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Mary Swan Middleton has always taken her family's wealth for granted, but when her maid urges her to help those less fortunate, Mary meets Carl, a young man who has nothing in common with Mary, but who Mary finds herself drawn to.
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All She Ever Wanted is the emotion-packed story of three generations of women: Kathleen, her mother, Eleanor, and her grandmother, Fiona. Each woman left home to escape her family's past and to start a new life. Kathleen has been estranged from her family for 35 years, and she is torn between the need to forgive and the urge to forget. Hoping to find answers that will patch the wounds of her tattered heart and salvage her relationship with her daughter,...