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As war moves ever closer, the sleepy English village of Crowmarsh Priors settles into a new sort of normal: Evacuees from London are billeted in local homes. The nightly German air raids become grimly mundane. Rationing curtails every comfort. Men leave to fight and die. And five women forge a bond of friendship that will change their lives forever in this engrossing novel of loyalty, loss, and love in the shadow of World War II.With the hardships of war intensifying every day, the women band together to defeat formidable enemies and find remarkable strength within themselves to help one another. It is a war-forged loyalty certain to endure years and distance. When four of the women return for a celebration fifty years later, their mission is not simply to commemorate or remember. They’ve returned to confront a traitor whose actions cost countless lives — and to avenge one of their own at last.

Trinh: Several months ago, I was lying in a hospital bed, dying of cancer, when a man showed up to offer me a deal. An alien race called the Cerasteans had lost all of their women and were in danger of dying out. It turns out that they are compatible with human women. Lucky us! If I agreed to join their Bride Program, the aliens could use their technology to save my life. Now I am on an alien spaceship living my best life. What can I say? They made me an offer I couldn't refuse. I vowed to live every day to the fullest and love living carefree on an alien spaceship. Each day is filled with ...

In 1968, as the Vietnam War raged overseas, the quiet campus of Mary Washington College—just twenty minutes from Quantico—became an unlikely crossroads of love, protest, and loss. Four young women, bound by friendship, are drawn into a conflict they never chose, their lives forever changed by the men sent to fight and the times that tore a nation apart. The Brides of War is a powerful story of love, courage, loyalty, and the unseen toll of war on those left behind—a tribute to the women who carried the weight of history in silence. “Steve Gladis’ The Brides of War is a moving and ...

At her assisted living center in Wedding Tree, Louisiana, 93-year-old Amelie O'Connor is in the habit of leaving her door open for friends. One day she receives an unexpected visitor - Kat Thompson, the ex-fiancée of her late husband, Jack. Kat and Jack were high school sweethearts who planned to marry when Jack returned from France after World War II. But in a cruel twist of fate, their plans were irrevocably derailed when a desperate French girl overheard an American officer's confession in a Parisian church...

With the destruction of their home colony, Captain Ben Gibson and his Army Rangers have nowhere else to go. Six months after humanity’s victory in Earth’s first ever interstellar war, a group of soldiers are tasked with running a convoy refueling base in a rural part of the occupied enemy world. When they arrive, they find the local village has been abandoned in anticipation of their arrival by the panicked residents.

In The Yankee and the British War Bride, two voices from opposite sides of the Atlantic come together to tell a deeply personal story of resilience, love, and the enduring spirit of the Greatest Generation. Through handwritten memoirs, Mary Irene Cooper-Dodd of Tipton, England, and Ernest Joseph...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes, a post-WWII story of the war brides who crossed the seas by the thousands to face their unknown futures 1946. World War II has ended and all over the world, young women are beginning to...

Three powerful dragon lords saved me. Now they plan to keep me for themselves, and there is no refusing their authority. It was dragons that burned my village, dragons that took away the maidens. I would have been among them. I should have been, but I was hidden. Now I fear that I will never see my sister again. It was also dragons who saved me, but these are not like the ones that burned Branlock. These are a different dragons, with a different power - the power to become men. They tell me they are Drakoryans, and that the dragons who destroyed my village are their mortal enemy - the ...

Fall for a soldier - or THREE! - today in this inspirational Civil War romance collection! Journey to South Carolina for a second chance, friends-to-lovers, and an opposites attract romance among a Southern small town setting in three heart-warming books from award-winning and international best selling Amazon author Jenna Brandt. Saved by Faith, Book 1: Faith works hard on her family’s plantation in Myrtle Grove knowing that while she fights for her family’s survival, she must also pray for the safe return of the soldier, Nathan, they all love. Freed by Hope, Book 2: The only thing ...

In the aftermath of the Second World War, two women leave England for new lives as GI brides. Gracie Brown starts her married life living with her husband Jeff's family: an overbearing mother-in-law and a brother-in-law whom her husband detests. Valerie Brampton and her lawyer husband, Ross, have their own property, but with a past girlfriend still holding on to hope of a relationship with him, all is far from settled.

Escape Earth. AVOID finding an alien husband. #EpicFail. Ruby At some point a girl has to stop running. Escaping Earth via signing up to be a mail-order bride sounded smart. Escaping the alien husband she’d been matched to… even smarter. Stowing away on an alien ship expecting to find some little out of the way planet where she could live in peace… That’s where the bottom fell out of her life, a thousand miles above an alien planet. The owner of that vessel? Some blue, over-muscled, arrogant male who may have criminal ties to the Brotherhood. Ruby would be happy to jump ship once ...

Lady Augusta Penworthy is in dire straights. Her father has spent every last coin, and she and her sisters cannot even afford coal. One chance encounter and a torn gown changes everything. While one might think a sudden marriage to a wealthy lord a relief if that marriage is to the Duke of Blacktower, one would be vastly mistaken. For no young lady wishes to be that infamous rake's bride.

Alpha’s War Bride Book 4 of the Howlbound Series To end a war, she offered herself as collateral. To win peace, he had to love the enemy. When Lena Carter stands before the Ridge Stones and offers her life to secure peace, she expects to become a pawn. Instead, the enemy Alpha she’s promised to—Hunter Briggs—claims her as a partner. Their union begins as a treaty between rival packs, but beneath the banners and bloodlines, desire burns hotter than diplomacy. As sabotage spreads through the mountain keeps and old loyalties fracture, Hunter and Lena must decide what kind of bond ...

I've never been a good bet. I wear my emotions on my tattoo-covered sleeve, I say all the wrong things, and I revel in pissing off a certain redhead far more than I should. In other words, I'm the last person the court would choose to parent any child, let alone three of them. Yet being their father is all I want. So when the woman I love to hate offers to help make all my dreams come true, I jump at the chance. Marrying Ava is a convenient solution: she's my kids' favorite person and the court will absolutely approve of the woman who runs the biggest charity in Boston.

Brides of Bold Street is filled with beautiful, brand-new ivory gowns. But dressmaker Sabrina loves it when brides-to-be wear vintage, family heirloom dresses. Seeing wedding day photographs of future mothers and grandmothers beaming—as if knowing the happiness they feel will be passed down to their daughters—is a bittersweet reminder of the mother she's never known.

January 1920. Young Englishwoman Margaret Dalton is full of excitement as she arrives to begin a new life in the warm, golden land of Australia. She leaves behind the horrors of WWI and can't wait to see her husband, Frank, after two years' separation. But when Margaret's ship docks, Frank isn't there to greet her, and Margaret is informed that he already has a wife....

It just got awkward... With the Va'Shen villagers home safe, Army Ranger Captain Ben Gibson is ready to settle in for an easy deployment overseeing a sleepy refueling base on the occupied enemy homeworld and its small contingent of soldiers and sailors. That is until he returns from his shower and finds the alien priestess, Alacea, sitting on the floor of his room and his interpreter frantically banging on his door with something urgent to tell him.

Battle Born Prequel: Skyla’s prophetic dreams aren’t enough to keep her from being captured by a fierce Rodyte general, but they help her understand what he wants and why he needs her so desperately. She’s now his helpless captive and must decide if she’s brave enough to teach this embittered soldier how to love again. Tragedy, and years of war, have hardened Kryton Lux, made him ruthless and unfeeling. He’s fascinated with his new captive, ready and willing to seduce her curvaceous body. His heart, however, isn’t part of the bargain. She will submit to his sexual demands and ...

The second standalone romantic fantasy set in the world of the USA Today bestselling novel The Second Death of Locke. A ruthless spy. A deadly mission. A thief who could ruin it all. Nore Gordon is a woman of many talents: she can speak a variety of languages, disguise herself in plain sight...

Based on the true story of the Por family from WWII ravaged Slovenia, this historical novel shares the story of six Slovenian children who are followed through adulthood. Raised in a rural setting near the woods, toques, or red knitted caps, were made by their mother to keep the children safe, especially from hunters. But when Hitler’s planes rumble over the mountaintops into Slovenia, neither the soft peaks of the Alps nor the red toques can protect them. One brother goes immediately into battle for their King ending up in a Nazi POW camp; other siblings flee the country, one caught in ...