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2) The wolf den
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Wolf Den volume 1
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A slave and prostitute in Pompeii's notorious Wolf Den brothel, Amara, once the beloved daughter of a doctor in Greece, is buoyed by the sisterhood she forges with the other women and dreams of a new beginning--if she can pay the high price for her freedom.
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Prehistorical romances volume 1
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Tells of conflicts between the generations and tribes of the Red Deer and the Horse during prehistoric times in Southern France.
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Wolf Den volume 2
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"Amara has escaped her life as a slave in the Wolf Den, the city's most notorious brothel, but now her survival depends on the affections of her patron: a man she might not know as well as she once thought. At night in the home he bought for her, the house with the golden door, Amara's dreams are haunted by her past. She longs for her sisterhood of friends--the women at the brothel she was forced to leave behind--and worse, finds herself pursued by...
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I, Claudia: A Novel of the Ancient World
"They were the faces of my dreams..."
Claudia Procula--wife of one of the most controversial figures in ancient history--comes alive to twenty-first-century readers in a groundbreaking new novel by the award-winning author of the Lindsey McCall medical mystery series.
For decades, the daughter of the last Oracle at Delphi has suppressed the secrets of her birth, extensive education, and marriage to the...
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In the dark, decadent last days of the Roman Empire, a pagan soldier sees a girl of exotic beauty and decides he must have her as his concubine. But unknown to him, Ligia is a Christian intent on living a pure life, even as Nero's ruthless persecution sweeps the city. As the lives of Vinicius and Ligia intertwine, they watch the world they know change before their eyes. While the apostles Peter and Paul seek to save the immoral city from ruin, Christians...
7) Cleopatra
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Cleopatra is probably one of the most well-known women in history, right alongside Joan of Arc and many other prominent ladies who have changed the face of history as we know it.
The lesser known details of her reign, as well as her methods of seduction, philosophies and involvement in world politics, however, are seldom discussed at length. Jacob Abbott's Cleopatra is probably one of the few books that truly discusses these matters in great detail,...
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"Appointed by a dream-plagued young pharaoh to the unwanted position of Great Royal Scribe, peasant boy Ptah-hotep finds himself surrounded by envious rivals; while the beautiful Nefertiti participates in a shocking scheme to bear children to an impotent king; and zealous monotheist Akhnaten plots to suppress the worship of all other gods in the Black Land."--From NoveList.
9) Wife of Ay
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Temehu, the daughter of Nomarch Paser, is expected to live a certain life, marry at a certain age to a man of certain status, and have children.But in her attempts to pursue what she wants for her life, she finds herself questioning the fate of her heart on the journey to the afterlife. Enduring the wrath of a new jealous stepmother and the nobility's harmful gossip and ostracism does not soothe her reservations either.Is she reaping divine punishment...
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Hickory Ridge romances volume 3
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"Ethan and Sophie long to share a future together. But the secrets they're not sharing could tear them apart. Sophie Caldwell has returned to Hickory Ridge, Tennessee after years away. Despite the heartaches of her childhood, Sophie is determined to make a home, and a name, for herself in the growing town. A gifted writer, she plans to resurrect the local newspaper that so enchanted her as a girl. Ethan Heyward's idyllic childhood was shattered by...
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Britannia: land of mist and magic clinging to the western edge of the Roman Empire. A red-haired queen named Boudica led her people in a desperate rebellion against the might of Rome, an epic struggle destined to consume heroes and cowards, young and old, Roman and Briton . . . and these are their stories.
A calculating queen foresees the fires of rebellion in a king's death.
A neglected slave girl seizes her own courage as Boudica calls for war.
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12) Beauty for ashes
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"She's a beautiful young widow. He's a Southern gentleman with a thirst for adventure. Both need a place to call home. It's 1876 and eligible bachelors are scarce in Hickory Ridge. But Carrie Daly has found love. Not the weak-in-the-knees kind, but something practical. Still, she isn't quite ready to set a date with Nate Chastain. Griff Rutledge is passing through to collect an old debt. Formerly a member of Charleston society, Griff has been estranged...
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A Novel: Two sisters from the ancient line of Tyrian royalty cross the Great Sea to North Africa where they establish the city of Carthage.
This story reveals the beginnings of one of the longest lasting empires in human history and the root cause of the eternal strife between Carthage and the Roman Empire. The characters include Trojan War heroes, a famed Greek physician, Egyptian royalty, one of the Ionian creators of the modern alphabet, North...
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Nefertiti's Sister takes place in a historically accurate ancient Egypt of the 18th Dynasty in the New Kingdom-the time of Nefertiti and her husband, King Akhenaten, as well as ultimately by the famous "boy king" Tut.
The story centers around a clutch of royal women who are doing everything they can to keep each other safe and supported in a dominantly patriarchal culture, particularly in the areas of sex, politics, love, and birth. Out of necessity,...
15) Pompeii Fire
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AD 79
Drusilla was the woman of his dreams. Suetonius swore his eternal devotion to the merchant's daughter.
A gladiator's word is his bond.
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Classics professor Damiano De Luca feels ridiculous in the gladiator costume he wears after losing a bet, and seeing Stephanie Marlowe waiting in line outside the Pompeii Archaeological Park makes him feel even worse. She's gorgeous ... and looks so familiar. Without thinking, the handsome Italian...
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A second chance at love, or will his need for revenge steal away their one chance at happiness? The latest story in the bestselling Lotus Palace Mystery series. Three years ago, Pearl and Lu Xian were forced together by tragedy and formed an unexpected bond. After they were abruptly torn apart, Pearl returned to her life as a courtesan and was left wondering what could have been. Once a promising scholar, Lu Xian threw away his future to avenge his...
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During Julius Caesar's famed conquest of Gaul, the Roman Army was frequently raided by marauding Germanic warriors. Angered by these persistent attacks, Caesar built the first bridge on record over the Rhine River-in only ten days-and conducted a brief but devastating invasion of Germania.
That's what history records. Caesar Obsessed offers an engrossing tale of what really happened.
Following Caesar's narrow victory over the tribes of...
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Now you can have the complete Hannah's Heirloom Trilogy all together in one kindle book When Hannah Wilson decides to accompany her best friend to Masada, in an attempt to discover the origins of a ruby clasp, she has no idea how much her life is about to change. A series of extraordinary events sees her somehow connect with an ancient ancestor, also called Hannah, who is a Hebrew woman and a healer, brought to Masada by her brother when a group of...
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The first woman – wise, strong, determined and good-hearted.
Sophia brought the art of writing to the world, desperately wishing to love and be loved.
Unfortunately, to meet her perfect man, she had to wait... for death, three thousand years and rebirth as Julia Drusilla, the Roman princess.This work is not just a love story. In the new body, Sophia is chosen to lead the epic battle of the Good against the Evil.
20) The Dark Angel
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No other city in the world could compare with it in grandeur, splendor, and wealth. And when it fell to the Turks in 1453, it must have seemed like the end of the world to Christians. Famed author Mika Waltari takes us into the last months of this dying city as revealed in the diary of John Angelos, a strange man hopelessly in love with the daughter of an eminent Byzantine official.
In this powerful novel which closely follows actual historical events...
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