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The Secret Life of Winnie Cox

The Secret Life of Winnie Cox
  • Author(s): Sharon Maas
  • Location(s): Guyana, West Indies
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): Early 20th Century

Winnie Cox lives a privileged life of dances and dresses on her father’s sugar cane plantation. Life is sweet in the kingdom of sugar and Winnie along with her sister Johanna, have neither worries nor responsibilities, they are birds...

The Starling Dance

The Starling Dance
  • Author(s): Lucy Elena
  • Location(s): Rome
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Contemporary

In a sweltering Roman summer, Laure is trying to start a new life. But can she manage in a city where walls have ears, trees have eyes and even the birds are acting strangely? It’s been exactly one year...

The Tiger Catcher

The Tiger Catcher
  • Author(s): Paullina Simons
  • Location(s): London, Los Angeles
  • Genre(s): Fantasy, Romance

Can true love ever die? Julian lives a charmed life in Los Angeles. Surrounded by friends, he is young, handsome, and runs a successful business. Everything changes after he has a fateful encounter with a mysterious young woman named...

The Wind is not a River

The Wind is not a River
  • Author(s): Brian Payton
  • Location(s): Alaska, The Aleutian Islands
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1940s

April 1943. In the bloody turmoil of war, John Easley, a journalist mourning his lost brother, is driven to expose a hidden and growing conflict: the Japanese invasion and occupation of Alaska’s Aleutian Islands. But when his plane is...

Under The Golden Sun

Under The Golden Sun
  • Author(s): Jenny Ashcroft
  • Location(s): Queensland
  • Genre(s): Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): WW2 onwards

Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia. All expenses as well as passage covered. Interested parties to apply without delay to 32 Williams Street, Belgravia. London, 1941. There are so many reasons Rose Hamilton she...

Victory Colony, 1950

Victory Colony, 1950
  • Author(s): Bhaswati Ghosh
  • Location(s): Kolkata (Calcutta)
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Historical, Romance
  • Era(s): 1950

A novel set in Calcutta, shortly after the Partition of India. Along with other refugees from what is now Pakistan, a young woman makes her way to the teeming city of Calcutta and tries to adjust to a new...

Water Drumming in the Soul: A Novel of Racy Love in the Heart of Africa

Water Drumming in the Soul: A Novel of Racy Love in the Heart of Africa
  • Author(s): Eric Madeen
  • Location(s): Africa
  • Genre(s): Romance
  • Era(s): Present

From the moment Peace Corps volunteer David Fields sees Assam Mabino water drumming, playing the stream as a drum, in the early stretches of the novel there’s a tension or excitement between them that never dissipates in this literary...

You Are Here

You Are Here
  • Author(s): David Nicholls
  • Location(s): Cumbria, Yorkshire
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): Easter 2021

Sometimes you need to get lost to find your way Marnie is stuck. Stuck working alone in her London flat, stuck battling the long afternoons and a life that often feels like it’s passing her by. Michael is coming...

The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen

The Particular Charm of Miss Jane Austen
  • Author(s): Ada Bright, Cass Grafton
  • Location(s): Bath
  • Genre(s): Mystery, Romance
  • Era(s): Present Day

It’s September, and the beautiful city of Bath is playing host to the annual Jane Austen Festival, a celebration of the famous author and her works. Rose Wallace, Bath resident and avid Jane Austen fan, can’t wait for her...

Memoirs of a Geisha

Memoirs of a Geisha
  • Author(s): Arthur Golden
  • Location(s): Kyoto
  • Genre(s): Fiction, Romance
  • Era(s): 1929 onwards

Chiyo-chan is a nine year old girl from a small fishing village,who has experienced a simple life until her Mother becomes fatally ill. She is sent by her Father to Gion, one of the Geisha areas of districts of...

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