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Crossed
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It’s just weird and creepy, Little Dude.
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Well written and funny but I still DNF
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Lady Honora Parker must get engaged as soon as possible, and only a particular type of man will do. Nora seeks a mate so abhorrent, so completely unacceptable, that her father will reject the match—leaving her free to marry the artist she loves....
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2nd review, Great
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New twist on a period piece.
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Well written and funny but I still DNF
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Classic Romance Novel Comes to Life
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Same as the first book
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Great ending to this series!
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The Clockmaker's Daughter
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The Clockmaker's Daughter
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Historical romance, surgical implements too!
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A Sinister Revenge
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So good, but sad it’s over so soon.
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It was a pretty good read!
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A Chance at Love
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Loreli Winters never imagined she'd end up a "mail-order bride" in middle-of-nowhere Kansas - until the two adorable orphan nieces of a dusky dream named Jake Reed beg her to be their new "mama"....
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Devon Ravenel, London's most wickedly charming rake, has just inherited an earldom. But his powerful new rank in society comes with unwanted responsibilities....
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Glorious!
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The Gentleman's Gambit
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Bookish suffragist Catriona Campbell is busy: An ailing estate, academic writer’s block, a tense time for England’s women’s rights campaign—the last thing she needs is to be stuck playing host to her father’s distractingly attractive young colleague....
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Tour de force
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The Gentleman's Book of Vices
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Charlie Price is a man dedicated to his vices. Chief among them is his explicit novel collection, though his impending marriage to a woman he can’t love will force his carefully curated collection into hiding. Before it does, Charlie is determined to meet his favorite author in person....
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Honed in Havoc
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They want an heir and I’m the only way they can get it. With or without my cooperation. I thought Cadieux Island would be a new beginning, but the privileged estates and elite college turned into a nightmare.
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This narration is literal fire.
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Knockout
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New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell’s Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble)....
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Sex, seduction, sex
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By: Sarah MacLean
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Devil's Daughter
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Phoebe has never met West Ravenel, but she knows one thing for certain: He’s a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband’s life a misery. But when Phoebe attends a family wedding, she encounters a dashing and impossibly charming stranger: West Ravenel....
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Delicious Perfection!
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A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem
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An intrepid female reporter matches wits with a serious, sexy detective in an award-winning author's fun and flirty historical rom-com, perfect for fans of Evie Dunmore, Julia Quinn, and Tessa Dare....
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Adult Romance +18 read
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Tempt Me at Twilight: A Novel
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Though she adores her quirky family, Poppy longs for a conventional life. But nothing, especially love, is ordinary when you’re a Hathaway.... During a stay at the magnificent Rutledge Hotel in London, effervescent Poppy Hathaway captures the attention of Harry Rutledge himself....
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Better and Better !
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Chasing Cassandra
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Railway magnate Tom Severin is wealthy and powerful enough to satisfy any desire as soon as it arises. Anything - or anyone - is his for the asking....
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Good but...
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Where the Light Enters
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Obstetrician Dr. Sophie Savard returns home to the achingly familiar rhythms of Manhattan in the early spring of 1884 to rebuild her life after the death of her husband. With the help of Dr. Anna Savard, her dearest friend, cousin, and fellow physician she plans to continue her work....
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Why change narrators?
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The Magpie Lord
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Exiled for 20 years, Lucien never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, he has inherited an earldom - and enemies. He needs magical assistance, fast....
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Absolutely outstanding
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Slightly Tempted
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From the moment he spies Lady Morgan Bedwyn across the ballroom, Gervase Ashford, Earl of Rosthorn, knows he has found the perfect instrument of his revenge....
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Doesn’t compare to other books in series
- By Eva on 01-24-19
By: Mary Balogh
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Miss Hazel has been alone for sixteen years following the death of her beloved husband. For more than a year, she has been finding brides for different Mounties, and it has mostly kept her fulfilled, but lately, she’s realized something is still missing from her life. For the first time since her wedding many years before, she takes off her wedding ring, and decides it’s time to live again. When she takes three ladies to meet their Mounties, the first person she sees is their handsome commander, George Jacobs. George sees Miss Hazel, and he knows why he has remained unattached for so ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Merchant
- Brides of Beckham
- By: Kirsten Osbourne, Cowboys and Angels
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 41 mins
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When Toria Miller realized her only option to get away from her over-amorous employer was to escape from Beckham, Massachusetts, her first thought was to become a mail order bride. After talking to her niece, the matchmaker for the only agency in town, she chose a letter and embarked on a journey that would take her all the way to Creede, Colorado. When Toria arrived, she was excited to start her new life with her husband, the owner of the mercantile. Mortimer Jackson was blessed with the perfect wife. Now that he’s a widower, he’s convinced he needs someone just like his first wife. He...
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Abner's Adventure
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 57 mins
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Catherine Peartree, young woman born to wealth, lost her family in an accident and must now work in a factory to make a living. When she is offered the opportunity to move to Texas as a mail-order bride, she jumps at the chance, hoping to be able to start a new life. Her new husband, and her new home, aren’t everything she dreamed they would be, and she must learn to adjust to life as a married woman. Abner Phelps has wanted a wife for years, but none of the women in Nowhere, Texas will give him the time of day. When he approaches Edna Petunia Sanders about finding him a bride, she ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Menace
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 39 mins
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Tired of being remembered only for her misdeeds as part of the demon horde, Ernestine Miller agrees to go out West to marry a banker in need of a wife. When she arrives in Montana, she discovers her groom has met with a fatal accident, and she has two choices. She can either find a way to support herself or go back home in shame. So she uses her former fiancé’s home to start a boarding house, happy to have a use for her superior cooking skills. When Clifford Solomon moves to Prairie Dog, Montana, he’s thrilled to find a boarding house where he and his business partner can stay. It ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Jessamine's Journal
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 9 mins
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Jessamine Stewart has felt rejected for most of her life. Now she is being sent away by the woman who has been her surrogate mother for the past six years. She moves to Texas to start a school and marry a stranger as his mail-order bride. When she arrives, it seems that all has worked out for the best, but it doesn’t take long for her to realize that he’s not attracted to her. Robert Samuels has a well-ordered routine. He eats at the diner in town three times per day, and he works five days a week at his very own barber shop. When he sends off for a mail-order bride, he expects the ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Meddler
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 16 mins
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Francis knew something needed to change immediately. He was only sixteen, but he understood that his family couldn’t keep living on bread and beef jerky. In town one day, he noticed an advertisement for a mail order bride, and sent off a letter…after signing his older brother’s name. He’d just make sure to tell Andrew that his fiance was coming before she arrived. What could go wrong? Tracy had lived in an orphanage since she was just a few months old. She only had a month before she turned eighteen and had to find a new place to live, complete with employment or a wedding ring. ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Motherhood
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
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When Clara's husband dies and leaves her with two children and a farm she can't run on her own, the bank evicts her small family, and she needs to find a new home fast. She answers an advertisement to be a mail order bride, hoping that the agency will find a place where she can not only be useful, but her children can be loved. Recently widowed Montana rancher, Albert, can't raise his children alone, but won't risk loving another woman. Albert is convinced that he'll never love another woman like his deceased wife. When Clara shows up with two children, he's certain he’s made a mistake by...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Melancholy
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 34 mins
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Gretchen Jensen has been in love with the same person for years. There are only two problems standing in the way of her marriage to him. She’s pregnant, and he’s dead. Most of the people in her town won’t even talk to her, because the woman who was to be her mother-in-law has shunned her. Unable to see beyond her love for him, she refuses to marry the mail order groom who has traveled across the country to be her husband. Reginald Lindon left town at a moment’s notice, but he took time to leave his fiancée a letter to let her know that he would return in six months. He entrusted ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Memories
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 35 mins
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Mary Brown is forced to start over in Beckham, Massachusetts, when the love of her life is killed out West. She has no desire to be in the town where they grew up together and memories of him will flood through her at every turn. After five years as a cook, her employer suggests she become a mail order bride to a man who has no desire to find love…only a life partner. Unsure if she’s making a mistake, she sends a letter in reply to the ad, unsure if she’ll be able to handle marriage to a stranger after expecting a life of love. William Jones has always known he’d marry his love, but...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Meals
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 3 hrs and 3 mins
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Gertrude Miller is well-known for her cooking, working for the diner there in Beckham, Massachusetts. When she spots an old crush eating with his new wife, she realizes that there is no chance she will ever be able to find love there in Beckham, where everyone remembers her as a member of the demon horde. After some serious thought, she goes to her sister Elizabeth and asks to be sent west as a mail order bride. Douglas Charleston wants nothing more from life than regular meals. When he writes a letter to a matchmaker in the east, he makes it clear that he’s not worried about looks or age...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Minx
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 32 mins
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When Millie's friend, Berta, elopes instead of fulfilling her obligations to be a mail order bride, she decides to take her friend's place and be the best mail order bride a man has ever seen. Of course, she can't exactly cook, and she enjoys meddling in other people's lives under the guise of "helping them," but surely, her future husband won't mind that. Connor waits excitedly for his Berta to get off the train in Idaho, knowing that she is the answer to his prayers. She's an excellent cook and a hard worker, just what he needs for his restaurant. He's confused when Millie gets off the ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne
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Mail Order Miller
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 2 hrs and 38 mins
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When Doris Miller gets completely fed up with her younger siblings and knows she needs a break, she does the only thing she knows to do. She goes to her sister Elizabeth to ask to be matched as a mail order bride. Doris needs to forget all about her past as a member of the demon horde and go where no one else remembers it either. This book was previously published in the anthology "Pistols and Poplin." Harvey Butler knows that his children are terrors. He knows he's not doing the right thing by them since their mother died, but he has no idea what to do with them. Instead, he spends all his...
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Mary's Musket
- By: Kirsten Osbourne
- Narrated by: Virtual Voice
- Length: 4 hrs and 7 mins
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When Mary Mitchell agrees to go on the Oregon Trail with her family, she certainly has ulterior motives. Believing that married women are no more than servants to men and children, she wants to get her own homestead, and Oregon is the place she can do just that. Her father discovers her plans, and he tells her she must marry one of the single men who are on the Trail with them, and she only has a week to decide who it will be. Bob Hastings is enamored of boyish Mary from the moment he meets her, and he continually asks her to dance with him when they have music nights on the trail. One ...
By: Kirsten Osbourne