I listened to this book as I cleaned part of the basement, and did the laundry. I took the time to read the book of Esther, to compare what was written in this book. The author wrote this novel as a love story. There was no king by the name she used, from the period that story takes place. Sh...
Joan Wolf tells a uniquely fresh account of the life of the woman known today in Christian texts as Mary Magdalene. In the beginning of the story, a young Mary of Magdala is sent from her father's home because of conflicts with her stepmother. Leaving behind her younger sister, Martha, and her br...
I came to this one knowing it to be a historical mystery, set in the middle ages, but also knowing that the author is a fairly well-known romance writer. I have nothing against romance writers in general, preferring to judge every book and author on their own merits and not by some preconceived ...
Set way before the mists of time, when humankind was taking its first defiant steps to master the earth, this brilliantly imagined tale returns to the same setting of Joan Wolf's first novel of prehistory, Daughter of the Red Deer. The tribes who call themselves the Kindred and live in the lush g...
How could Lady Jane Fitzmaurice prefer her handsome horse trainer over the most attractive nobleman in England? She had taken London society by storm, but now a whirlwind of scandal was rising as she rode roughshod over all conventions and prepared to take a leap that could leave her heart foreve...
To a continent in turmoil, Prince Augustus of Jura is the battle-hardened war hero who saved his tiny nation from the clutches of Napoleon. His next challenge is to find an English wife with the political connections he needs to keep his country safe. When the object of his pursuit runs off with ...
When the rakish young Baron Reeve of Ormsby loses his shirt in a horse race, he asks his conservative uncle, the Lord Bradford, to give him access to his inheritance. The Lord agrees--if the young Baron will marry to add some stability to his life. Reeve enlists his childhood pal, Deborah, to "ma...
It was a marriage of inconvenience, both for the bride and for the groom. Margarita is a shocked refugee from the battlefields of Venezuela, and Nicholas, Earl of Winslow, is a high-handed young man with a distrust of love and a very satisfactory mistress. What happens when the two of them marry ...
THE DUTIFUL DAUGHTER Young and lovely Tracy Bodmin was as spirited and independent as the America she came from-but love for her father made her yield to his heart's desire. Though William Bodmin had made his fortune in the New World, he dreamed of a title for his daughter in his native England-...
In this beautifully executed continuation of The Road to Avalon, her earlier depiction of sixth-century Britain, Wolf tells the story of Niniane, a Celtic princess, and Ceawlin, bastard son of the King of the West Saxons. Eighty years after the death of Arthur, the Celts are disorganized, driftin...
Vanessa MacIan, daughter of a great clan chieftain, leaves the shelter of her Highland home to visit her mother’s family in England. There she meets Edward Romney, Earl of Linton, and falls desperately in love with a man who is an enemy to the Stuart Cause her father supports. He asks her to marr...
Joan Wolf mingles the past with the present in this romance about an American actress who falls in love with a nobleman. But his life is in danger and she must let herself be drawn into a mystery that dates back to the Regency era to save him.
Jessica O'Neill had made a desperate bid to save her family from ruin--and was likely to bring it on herself. Not only had she become a remarkable talent on the London stage, but she was sought by one of society's darlings, the handsome, wealthy Earl of Linton--as his mistress. Oh, what a tangled...
This is a great read. The year is 1140 and we are taken there as though it were yesterday. The detail is exquisite.Hugh is the heir to an earldom. He wants to marry Lady Cristen, but the approval does not appear to be forthcoming from all the powerful men involved. Hugh has been p...
After one terrible marriage, Laura Dalwood had sworn never to be duped again.But how could she refuse the proposal of handsome Mark Cheney? What could she do when, as his bride, she discovered how much she could love a man ... and how much she could fear him?
Napoleon's troops stand defeated and Wellington's Spanish campaign is over. Now a dedicated British soldier enters a very different kind of war: a battle for the woman he loves ...The eldest son of the Earl of Standish and heir to his late father's holdings, Alexander Devize is summoned home to h...
Georgiana Newbury and her sister Anna are left penniless by the sudden death of their father -- a criminal who blackmailed five men for cheating at cards (or on their wives). The only way she can now survive, and save her sister, is to gamble herself on the risky prospect of marriage. Using her f...
The pageantry and passionate intrigues of King Arthur’s court are expertly re-created in this historical novel—the only Arthurian novel in which all of the central characters are portrayed as intrinsically good people. This realistic retelling of the legend shows Arthur severing the bonds of bast...
Escaping the constrictions of Regency society, Valentine Ardsley disguised herself as a groom on Lord Leyburn's Yorkshire estate. But the arrogant (and irresistible) Diccon discovered her deception quite easily and felt he was honor-bound to offer marriage to the young lady. Valentine would rathe...
He waved the frightened girls in, then closed the door behind them. Rahab could hear the sound of his feet as he walked away. The room itself contained a stone basin set on the floor, a table with a large jug of steaming water, and a pile of linen towels. The two women looked stonefaced at Rahab ...
And one week ago it would have provoked such a simple answer. But now, she was not so sure. She bent her head and looked at her hands clasped in her lap. A week ago, instantly, unreflectingly, she would have said no; she would have said, Go ahead, move out, leave me alone. Tonight she sat listeni...
Macintosh served potted chicken stuffed with herbs, and I realized that Mrs. Macintosh had sacrificed one of her hens to the necessity of feeding a man the size of the Earl of Savile. There was a fragrant potato casserole to go along with the chicken and a large loaf of delicious crusty bread. I ...
At Saks she bought a lovely spring-green silk dress by Bill Blass and a new pair of evening sandals with heels lower than those she usually wore. She went home, showered, had a light supper, and put on the new dress. She brushed her hair away from her face and high up on the back of her head, wit...
The room was warm and I was all alone in the big bed. I had a vague recollection of Adrian waking me in the dark to put my nightgown back on, but I thought he had stayed with me. I sat up against the pillows and drank my chocolate while the maid added a new log to the fire. It had obviously been ...
They rode for hours through the mountains, always climbing, with only the blowing of the horses and the creak of leather to break the silence. Caroline was awed by the wild beauty and epic grandeur of the country through which they rode. They stopped when they reached Misty Moon Lake, and her bre...
Liam said. He looked over the boy’s shoulder. “Where is Claire?”“She’s up at the cottage, sir. Mrs. O’Rourke sent me to fetch you.”Liam said to the blacksmith, “Carry on, Jem.” Then, to the groom who was holding the colt’s halter rope, “put him out in a paddock when he’s done. Give him a cha...
“Pennyroyal is having problems, Annie. Can you come?““I'll be right over,” I said.I put on my jeans, pulled a warm Virginia Tech sweatshirt over my head and ran out the door.The light over the foaling stall was on in the mare's barn when I arrived and found Liam and Jacko in the stall with a groa...
Alfred slept later than usual, then opened heavy eyes to find Ethelred standing over him. “Time to get up, my boy,” his brother said boisterously. “We must be at the church in an hour.” Alfred lay perfectly still for a minute. Then, when Ethelred had turned away, he moved his head cautiously on i...
It had been founded eighty years ago as a small men’s liberal-arts college and had managed to survive with much of its original character intact. It offered its students—who now included women—an excellent academic program coupled with one of the best ski schools in the country. In the summer it ...
She had left the White Mountains ski lodge of a school friend a few hours earlier, when the snow had been light and flaky. Now, however, it was beginning to look like a blizzard, and she was afraid she had been foolish to insist upon leaving. She had been traveling the side roads; she decided she...
“This is Almack’s?” Lizzie said to her mother.“What makes it so exclusive, Elizabeth, is not what is outside, but who is inside,” Aunt Barbara replied. One of Aunt Barbara’s footmen jumped down from the driver’s seat and opened the carriage door for us. Aunt Barbara went first, then Lizzie, then...