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ISBN 978-3-95533-032-3 (mobi), 978-3-95533-031-6 (epub)
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ISBN 978-3-95533-049-1 (mobi), 978-3-95533-050-7 (epub)
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ISBN 978-3-95533-028-6 (mobi), 978-3-95533-027-9 (epub)
Length: 146,540 words
“Luke” Hamilton has always been sure that she’d never marry. She accepted that she would spend her life alone when she chose to live her life disguised as a man.
After working in a brothel for three years, Nora Macauley has lost all illusions about love. She no longer hopes for a man who will sweep her off her feet and take her away to begin a new, respectable life.
But now they find themselves married and on the way to Oregon in a covered wagon, with two thousand miles ahead of them.
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Fervent Charity
Paulette Callen
Fervent Charity continues the story of the friendship of five women who have nothing in common but the ground they walk on and the vicissitudes of post-frontier prairie life.
Lena, a young mother living on the edge of heartbreak. Her sister-in-law, Mary, more beautiful than loved. Alvinia, midwife to the county and mother of ten. Gustie and Jordis, trying to make a home together but finding their place on either the reservation or in Charity precarious.
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Kicker’s Journey
Lois Cloarec Hart
In 1899 two women from very different backgrounds are about to embark on a journey together—one that will take them from the Old World to the New, from the 19th century into the 20th, and from the comfort and familiarity of England to the rigours of Western Canada, where challenges await at every turn.
The journey begins simply for Kicker Stuart when she leaves her home village to take employment as hostler and farrier at Grindleshire Academy for Young Ladies. But when Kicker falls in love with a teacher, Madelyn Bristow, it radically alters the course of her tranquil life.
Together, the lovers flee the brutality of Madelyn’s father and the prejudices of upper crust England in search of freedom to live, and love, as they choose. A journey as much of the heart and soul as of the body, it will find the lovers struggling against the expectations of gender, the oppression of class, and even, at times, each other.
What they find at the end of their journey is not a new Eden, but a land of hope and opportunity that offers them the chance to live out their most cherished dream—a life together.
True Nature
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When wolf-shifter Kelsey Yates discovers that fourteen-year-old shape-shifter Danny Harding is living with a human adoptive mother, she is sent on a secret mission to protect the pup and get him away from the human.
Successful CEO Rue Harding has no idea that the private teacher she hires for her deaf son isn’t really there to teach him history and algebra—or that Danny and Kelsey are not what they seem to be.
But when Danny runs away from home and gets lost in New York City, Kelsey and Rue have to work together to find him before his first transformation sets in and reveals the shape-shifter’s secret existence to the world.
Charity
© by Paulette Callen
ISBN (paperback): 978-3-95533-075-0
ISBN (mobi): 978-3-95533-076-7
ISBN (epub): 978-3-95533-077-4
Published by Ylva Publishing, legal entity of Ylva Verlag, e.Kfr.
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First Edition: 1997 by Simon & Schuster
Revised Second Edition: October 2013
Credits:
Edited by Judy Underwood and Cheri Fuller
Cover Design by Streetlight Graphics
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