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Paris, September. Felix Dane, a restless English sculptor and self-declared vagabond, has barely settled back into his eyrie above the Luxembourg Gardens when his formidable step-sister Marion arrives with an outrageous request: hide a young girl, known only as Fifine, from a father said to mean...

A quietly moving Victorian romance from the author of John Halifax, Gentleman. In a Scottish household near St Andrews, a reserved young governess and her pupils' tutor are drawn together through years of small, everyday kindnesses rather than dramatic declarations. Craik builds their attachment...

Summer, 1870. On the banks of the Rhine, war is in the air, and so is love. Charlie Pierrepont, a young English officer in the Prussian army, is invited by his comrade to the ancient castle of Frankenburg. There he falls hopelessly in love with Ernestine, the dark-haired Countess who delights in...

On the raw edge of British Columbia's frontier, Harry Alton has spent eight hard years turning wilderness into a home — clearing timber, breaking wild Cayuse ponies, and earning a reputation as a man whose word carries more weight than gold. His quiet, hard-won world is thrown into turmoil...

No servant has ever set foot in the haunted chamber. High in the old tower of an ivy-draped castle, behind walls that have kept their bloodstained secrets for generations, it waits in silence. Ghosts of dead-and-gone lords and ladies seem to peer out from its narrow openings, the floorboards...

She wears black, dresses in the latest fashion, and tells no one who she is. When the elegant widow Mrs. Dale settles in a sleepy English village, the gossip starts at once. Respectable ladies murmur that a woman so stylish has no business in mourning, and young Mabin Rose is warned by her...

Chicago, in the years before its darkest night. Dennis Fleet arrives in the city with empty pockets but an unshakable will, determined to support the family he loves after tragedy leaves them without a provider. From shoveling snow outside a fashionable art gallery to earning a place behind its...

In the gold-rushing hills of Montana, a curse seems to follow wherever Joan Stanmore goes. Raised by her bitter aunt Mercy Lascelles — a crystal-gazer convinced her niece is a living pariah who brings ruin to any man who loves her — Joan flees to a remote mining camp in search of peace...

Set in Victorian England and reaching as far as the sweeping landscapes of Jerusalem, Was I Right? by Mrs. O. F. Walton (Amy Catherine Walton) is a classic 19th-century Christian novel exploring the weight of personal choice, moral conviction, and spiritual devotion. Following the unexpected...