In the spring of 1788, Renn Arelia Sheridan stares up at a portrait of the First Duchess of Chippenham, and the painting clearly shows an emerald brooch on her gown. Renn Arelia's hand slips into her pocket fingering the brooch her deceased mother gave her. Her nape prickles with caution. This piece is what they sought when they ransacked her parent's manor and forced her to London, betrothing her to marry a French Marques. The proverbial straw, the significance of her mother's locket, embroils Renn Arelia. She escapes the ancestral estate, hoping the heirloom is a blessing and not a curse. Her quest is a teaching position at an orphanage in Gravesend. Spiraling from one disaster to the next, she deceitfully gains passage aboard a ship and tumbles into the circle of a devil captain, forever changing the course of her life. She has no idea the locket will define her as though it is a certificate of birth.

Devil's Grace

Romance

Benson, Karen Dean

Paranormal

Satin Romance, an imprint of Melange Books, LLC

In the spring of 1836, eighteen-year-old Chenoa Sandoval escapes the suffocating Mt. Saint Dominic Convent in Boston and sails around the tip of South America to the wild land of her birth, Carmel, Alta California. Chenoa is determined to honor the memory of Padre Tomas, Mission San Carlos Borromeo's last executor, who was also her adopted father. She will teach the Indian children born the years she was in the convent. Only her guardian, Don Sebastian Viandante, stands in her way.

Mission Song

Prickly Hawthorn Village, Book 11816 County Waterford, Hawthorn Village, IrelandMairéad, left in a basket on the steps of The Sacred Heart Convent and raised by the nuns, intends to take vows in the fall when she turns eighteen. Having lived her life within the cloister, she knows nothing of the secular world except for the dealings she has had with people who bring their manuscripts to be illuminated. Her delicate artistry is a source of income for the convent. A local aristocrat, Lord Darnley, willing to pay a vast amount for work on his manuscript, demands she stay at Rockmore Hall for the summer to illuminate a book he wrote about his ancestors. Conflicted about leaving the convent for the first time, Mairéad experiences a life she's never known. Being on the outside of cloistered walls overwhelms her. She witnesses the power of family, the fierce loyalty, and the bad blood that rises from time to time. Cast into the center of their lives, Mairéad is aware of what she does not have, family. And, she begins to question her identity. Her awareness of the problems in the Darnley household has her questioning what she might find in her own family. Would it be happiness, or heartache? She almost convinces herself wishing can be a dangerous thing.

Secret at Dark Castle (Prickly Hawthorn Village)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Satin Romance

Come Here To Me (Prickly Hawthorn Village)

A Break in the Clouds (Prickly Hawthorn Village)

Historical

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