Private investigators Frank Malloy and Gino Donatelli get a case that’s very close to home. Gino’s sister-in-law Teo asks for help in finding a missing volunteer worker who is a resident at the settlement house in Italian East Harlem. They fear she’s been kidnapped by Nunzio Esposito and his gang who’s operating under the Black… Continue reading Murder on Pleasant Avenue by Victoria Thompson
The man known only as The Rook has a past that he can’t remember beyond the moment he was rescued by Lorelai Weatherstroke and her family. He was found badly beaten and damaged near a roadside Ash tree and Lorelai willed him to live through her loving care and sweetness. As he recovered, she gave… Continue reading The Duke with the Dragon Tattoo by Kerrigan Byrne
Englishwoman Madeline (Maddie) Wallace married Scotsman Angus Wallace six years ago and he promptly left to fight England’s wars, leaving her with his family. After four years, two letters and one visit, Maddie decides to come to America’s western frontier when she’s offered a job capturing the territory through her photography. It’s been two years… Continue reading Colorado Dawn by Kaki Warner
What Gavin St. James wants most in life is to be emancipated from the Mackenzie name and family and he sees the way to do that is through acquiring the Erradale property currently owned by absent heir Alison Ross. She’s lived in America since her father was killed by Hamish Mackenzie the elder and Gavin… Continue reading The Scot Beds His Wife by Kerrigan Byrne
Odie O’Banion and his older brother Albert were orphaned when his father died, their mother having passed years before. The two then had to call the Lincoln Indian Training School in Minnesota home, the only white boys in attendance and under the supervision of its cruel superintendent Thelma Brickman and her husband Clyde. After four… Continue reading This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger
Imogen Pritchard is a nurse by day and at night she works as a maid and barkeep at the Bare Kitten Gin and Dance Hall in London to take care of her mother and sister, as well as help repay her father’s gambling debt to the owner. She has a special arrangement with him where… Continue reading The Duke by Kerrigan Byrne
Edwina Ladoux has reached the end of the line financially in trying to keep her southern Louisiana family home in the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. Unable to pay the back taxes, Edwina made plans to marry a Colorado rancher in response to his ad for a wife. She and her half sister, Prudence… Continue reading Heartbreak Creek by Kaki Warner
Dougal Drummond, son of the Laird of Bruard, comes from a long line of fierce warriors. But now that his family’s long standing feud with the Mackinnon clan is over, there’s no cause to fight for. Dougal’s restless and decides that he’s going to set sail and rescue the Fair Ellen, a young woman rumored… Continue reading The Highlander’s Christmas Quest by Anna Campbell
Philomena (Mena) St. Vincent was punished by her husband for her role in exposing his sister and brother-in-law in the last book. He had her declared insane and institutionalized in an asylum. Just as things were beginning to get even bleaker, she’s rescued by her benefactor who then helps to hide her. She’s disguised as… Continue reading The Highlander by Kerrigan Byrne
Jane Eyre was orphaned and left in the care of her uncle and his wife as an infant. When her uncle died, life change dramatically for Jane as her aunt resented her existence and ultimately sent her away to boarding school when she was ten years old. This is her story, how she grew to… Continue reading Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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