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Longing for Home: A Proper Romance Sarah M. Eden Shadow Mountain August 6th 2013 Adult | Historical | Romance Twenty-six-year-old Katie Macauley has placed all her hope in Hope Springs, a small town in the 1870 Wyoming Territory. But if she wants to return home to Ireland to make amends with her estranged family, she'll need to convince the influential Joseph Archer to hold true to his word and keep her on his payroll as his housekeeper despite her Irish roots. The town is caught in an ongoing feud between the Irish and the "Reds" the frontiersmen who would rather see all the Irish run out of town and the Irish immigrants who are fighting to make a home for themselves in the New World. When Joseph agrees to keep Katie on as his housekeeper, the feud erupts anew, and Katie becomes the reluctant figurehead for the Irish townsfolk. As the violence escalates throughout the town, Katie must choose between the two men who have been vying for her love th...

Blackmoore Julianne Donaldson Shadow Mountain September 9th 2013 Adult | Historical | Romance Kate Worthington knows her heart and she knows she will never marry. Her plan is to travel to India instead—if only to find peace for her restless spirit and to escape the family she abhors. But Kate’s meddlesome mother has other plans. She makes a bargain with Kate: India, yes, but only after Kate has secured—and rejected—three marriage proposals. Kate journeys to the stately manor of Blackmoore determined to fulfill her end of the bargain and enlists the help of her dearest childhood friend, Henry Delafield. But when it comes to matters of love, bargains are meaningless and plans are changeable. There on the wild lands of Blackmoore, Kate must face the truth that has kept her heart captive. Will the proposal she is determined to reject actually be the one thing that will set her heart free? Set in Northern England in 1820, Blackmoore is a Regency romance that tells ...

I am in denial. It is ugly but it is nevertheless the state of things. Here I will document my struggle with my book obsession. Behold my denial in all of its glory. Pile Escalation: Bought: Changeling by Phillipa Gregory Mail: Extracted by Sherry D. Ficklin Library: Lure of the Dead by Joseph Delaney   Pile Reduction: Read: Fyre by Angie Sage Auracle by Gina Rosati Otherkin by Nina Berry Longing for Home by Sarah M. Eden Winterveil by Jenna Burtenshaw Consume by Melissa Darnell Made to Last by Melissa Tagg If I Should Die by Amy Plum Siege and Storm by Leigh Bardugo Grasping at Eternity by Karen Amanda Hooper Opal by Jennifer L. Armentrout My Super Sweet Sixteenth Century by Rachel Harris Wolfsbane by Patricia Briggs Body and Soul by Stacey Kade Queen of the Dead by Stacey Kade The Ghost and the Goth by Stacey Kade Goddess by Josephine Angelini Onyx by Jennifer L. Armentrout First Frost by Jennifer Estep Torn by Erica O'Rourke Soulbound by ...