Historical

THE BOOK WOMAN OF TROUBLESOME CREEK by Kim Michele Richardson is a historical book set in the 1930s about a blue-skinned woman in the hills of Kentucky, Cussy Mary Carter is the last of the blues. Ostracized by most of the hill people, she becomes a pack horse librarian, and while many still scorn her,...

A PRINCESS BY CHRISTMAS is the third book in the A ROYAL WEDDING series. I have only read the second book previously, A ROYAL KISS AND TELL, and I couldn’t wait to read more. This is a fast-paced, historical romance with a mystery in the middle, and it definitely entertains!  This time it is Hollis’s...

DAUGHTER OF FORTUNE by Isabel Allende is a historical novel that spans from 1833 Chile to 1853 California gold rush.  Eliza Sommers is told she was abandoned on the doorstep and that no one knows who her parents are. She’s raised by the woman and brother who found her. When she turns sixteen, she falls...

LORD HOLT TAKES A BRIDE by Vivienne Lorret is the first in the series The Mating Habits of Scoundrels. Winnifred Humphries is about to be married. A suitor is chosen by her parents, a despicable man who has given his heart to his mistress and told Winnifred that after the wedding night he will not...