Showing results for "Only One" in Historical Fiction

Seattle, 1942. News of the war is interrupted by the kidnapping of young Max Ellis, heir to the wealthiest banking family on the west coast. When the boy’s parents comply with the ransom demands, the kidnapper is found dead and their son remains missing. For newlywed Vera Chandler, the story hits close to home—her husband Hugh is just six months into his job as the Ellis’s private pilot.

Maggie Sturgus thought she knew the man she married. She couldn’t be more wrong. Trapped in an abusive marriage inside a prominent family, she sees no means of escape when her husband announces his candidacy for the US Senate. Four friends enlisted after Pearl Harbor. The secret they brought home will rock their small town. Josh Parrish made a promise to protect the girl he’s always loved.

Keen to get away from her abusive father, Lydia happily accepts the post of housekeeper at the Jackson family home. But when William senses romance in the air between Lydia and his son William-Wetherby, he is determined to put an end to it. For good.

To fulfill his friend's dying wish, James sets up a fake courtship to deliver Poppy from her Cinderella situation. But this Cinderella is a minx who tempts him with stolen kisses...but he shouldn't be falling for her, given he is sworn not to marry. James Delaney, Lord Kingsley's best friend's dying wish was that he married his spinster sister. Unluckily, James is honor-bound to fulfill another oath and can never marry Miss Poppy Ashford, no matter how delightfully charming and sensual he finds her.

A compelling feel-good novel featuring a proud and gutsy heroine, for anyone who believes in the resilience of the human spirit. A RESILIENT SPIRIT Dolly Jamieson is not homeless, she's merely between permanent abodes. The 78-year-old spends her days keeping warm at the local library, where she...

A snarky faery princess, a Scottish knight with a gambling problem, and a murderous earl all add up to one thing: trouble. Maggie’s medieval education never prepared her for life in the Middle Ages! Do-gooder Maggie Chase throws her thesis out the window when she wakes up in the arms of a hot Scottish knight. When she realizes she’s somehow ended up back in time, she embraces the persona of Lady Margaret. But she may be in over her head when she realizes she has to keep the sexy knight alive during a jousting tournament in order to get back to her own time.

In My One and Only Knight, Penelope finds a strangely dressed man washed up on the beach. Thomas was stolen from his home, duty, and responsibility to find himself in an unfamiliar time and place. Find out what happened before the Merriweather sisters came to live with Aunt Pittypat. This novella can be listened to at any point in the series as it takes place before the other novels.

Als Adlige geboren, wie ein Wildfang aufgewachsen, bewegt sich Lady Narissa mit Leichtigkeit zwischen der Londoner Elite und den nicht ganz so ehrenwerten Einwohnern. Ihre Rolle als Tochter eines Earls nie ganz annehmend, eröffnet sie eine geheime Spielhölle nur für Frauen, um zu der Unterhaltung der Damen der feinen Gesellschaft etwas beizutragen. Sie ist entschlossen, ihr Lebenswerk um jeden Preis zu schützen.