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Diana Gabaldon

DRUMS OF AUTUMN 1/1997 ISBN: 044022425X. Time-transcending soulmates Jamie Fraser and Claire Randall return in this novel of romance and adventure. Jamie and Claire have landed on the shores of Charleston, South Carolina, in the year 1767--the eve of the American Revolution. In search of a new life far removed from the perils of war, they join a community of exiled Scottish Highlanders. When Jamie's daughter Brianna crosses into the past in search of the father she has never known, Jamie realizes that war spares no one--and that love is the only thing worth fighting for.

THE FIERY CROSS 11/2001 ISBN: 0385315279. The year is 1771, and war is coming. Jamie Fraser’s wife tells him so. Little as he wishes to, he must believe it, for hers is a gift of dreadful prophecy -- a time-traveler’s certain knowledge. Born in the year of Our Lord 1918, Claire Randall served England as a nurse on the battlefields of World War II, and in the aftermath of peace found fresh conflicts when she walked through a cleftstone on the Scottish Highlands and found herself an outlander, an English lady in a place where no lady should be, in a time --1743 -- when the only English in Scotland were the officers and men of King George’s army. Now wife, mother, and surgeon, Claire is still an outlander, out of place, and out of time, but now, by choice, linked by love to her only anchor -- Jamie Fraser. Her unique view of the future has brought him both danger and deliverance in the past; her knowledge of the oncoming revolution is a flickering torch that may light his way through the perilous years ahead -- or ignite a conflagration that will leave their lives in ashes....

Lisa Gregory

BITTERLEAF 7/1983.  ASIN: 0515073601.  Her desire was her shame. In sultry Charleston, Meredith Whitney was known as the icy Mistress of Bitterleaf. Then she met the regal blue gaze of a golden-haired slave upon the auction block, and with one burning look he branded her as the victim of his desire and revenge. Tall, sapphire-eyed Jeremy Devlin was no simple servant. He was a nobleman's son betrayed into bondage, unhumbled by the lash, who treated Meredith and every woman as his possession. Again and again, she would be shamed by her own secret desires. Then they were secret no longer...and as her wildfire passions locked with his, all fears and doubts were swept away in the ecstatic storm of unexpected love...

Nathaniel Hawthorne

THE SCARLET LETTER 1850.  ISBN: 0553210092.  A small Puritan community in seventeenth century Boston punishes an adulterous woman. Yet she resists oppression and unearths new temptations at the margins of society, where the primeval forests hang their evil influence pendulously over the evil flourishing within the community itself

Meagan McKinney

MY WICKED ENCHANTRESS 12/1988.  ISBN: 0440203015.  In her dreams, she is Kayleigh again. She and her twin sister Morna are happy and carefree at Mhor Castle in the Highlands, their biggest concern whether to wear silks or taffeta. Erased from her memory is the terrible day Morna was murdered and Kayleigh barely escaped with her own life. Now she is Kestrel, a beautiful pickpocket in New Orleans -- and still running from danger when she meets St. Bride Gerringer, a man driven by revenge. Sensual and mysterious, he could be the salvation she seeks...or the most treacherous enemy of all.    

Teresa Medeiros

BREATH OF MAGIC 3/1996. ISBN: 0553563343.  An exquisite enchantress lost in time. Arian Whitewood hadn't quite gotten the hang of the powerful amulet she'd inherited from her mother, but she never expected it to whisk her more than three hundred years in the future. Flying unsteadily on her broomstick, she suddenly finds herself among towers of glass and metal, then tumbling from the sky to land at the feet of a man with frost-gray eyes and a seemingly flint-hard heart... A skeptical tycoon out of his element.  Reclusive billionaire Tristan Lennox didn't believe in magic, but he had his own reasons for offering one million dollars to anyone who could prove it existed. Now he finds himself besieged by fakes, frauds, and an old nemesis ready to leap on this opportunity to destroy him. But the smoky-voiced beauty who appeared to fall from the clouds into his climate-controlled existence is something else entirely - a woman able to enchant his lonely heart with wonder, but who can't possibly be what she seems.     

Nora Roberts

THE MacGREGORS: Daniel ~ Ian 4/1999.  ISBN: 0373483902. For self-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor, convincing fiercely independent Anna Whitfield to marry him may be the challenge of his lifetime. Meet one of the MacGregors' ancestors in this historical short story. Battling the British couldn't prepare Minuteman Ian MacGregor for his battle to win the heart of Irish spitfire Allanna Flynn. 

Valerie Sherwood

THIS LOVING TORMENT 8/1977. ASIN: 083982873X.  Perhaps the brawling colonies would have been safer for a plainer girl, one more demure and less accomplished in language and manner. But Charity Woodstock was gloriously beautiful with pale golden hair and topaz eyes and she was headed for trouble. She was accused of witchcraft by the man who had attacked her. She was whisked from the stake by a highwayman in whose arms she found joy but no sanctuary. Fate flung her from the manor of a Dutch patroon to the simple hut of a Quaker, from a pirate ship to plantation. Beauty might have been her downfall, but Charity Woodstock had a reckless passion to live and a fine determination to give herself only for love. She would challenge this new world and win.

Penelope Williamson

A WILD YEARNING 4/1990.  ISBN: 0440217318.  Desperate to escape her abusive father and Boston's brutal waterfront for a respectable life, Delia McQuaid answered an advertisement to become a stranger's wife.  But when she applied in person to Dr. Ty Savitch, the ruggedly handsome physician admitted he had merely placed the ad for a neighbor, a widower with two children.  One look and Delia knew she would follow the devastating doctor anywhere -- even into the Maine wilderness as a mail-order bride for another man.  Raised by Indian, educated abroad, Dr. Ty Savitch was an outsider in both worlds, eager to escape to the only home he knew -- the small Maine community where he was bringing the ravishing Miss McQuaid.  The woman was a revelation of character, courage, and brains, a conquest no man could resist -- a challenge to his divided soul.  Recklessly, he followed his passions, trying to deny his heart -- until he delivered her to her promised groom, and then tried to reclaim the beauty who compelled him to embrace his true identity ... and taught him the healing power of love...    

Kathleen E. Woodiwiss

SHANNA 1977.  ISBN: 0380385880.  A pact is sealed in secret behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison. In return for a night of unparalleled pleasure, a dashing condemned criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress, thereby rescuing her with his name from an impending and abhorred arranged union. But in the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a solemn promise is broken, as a sensuous free spirit takes flight to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the stranger she married to face the gallows unfulfilled. But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with that of the tempestuous, intoxicating Shanna. He will be free... and he WILL find her. For no iron ever forged can imprison his resolute passion. And no hangman's noose will deny Ruark the ecstasy that is rightfully his. 

 

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