Fiction - Sagas

The Past France, 1640. In a French coastal village during the Thirty Years War, Altheia de Savoir waits for her Scottish sailor love, Matthew, to return from the sea. But when marauders descend upon her village, Altheia barely escapes with her life. Matthew rescues...

In 1927, in a town deep within the Calabrian mountains, an oppressed and isolated family lives under the tyranny of a violent baron who wants to subdue and recruit the brothers Pietro and Ferruccio by any means possible. When the brothers reject his offer,...

'One of the most lovely and heartwarming books I have ever read! 5 STARS' - Between the Pages Lancashire, 1930.Leah Turner's father has been killed in an accident at the laundry, and since her mother died years ago it falls to her to become...

Germany 1939, and Christa Sommer boards the Kindertransport, unsure that she'll ever see her beloved mother and father again. Once in England she is taken in by elderly Mrs Pelling, who grows to love Christa as the daughter she never had. But in 1945...

In Common is the life story of Margaret Jefferson-Butler, an old southern belle born on her families' slave plantation in the deep south of Florida during the 1800's. It is not the typical story of run-away slaves being captured and whipped into obedience. Rather,...

An ancient war reignites as the international bestselling fantasy saga continues...At the height of its power, the elven court of Queen Emerelle revels in the joyful Festival of Light. Yet, as tribes gather to reaffirm their loyalty to the queen, treachery festers within the...

Author: Ckf MacphadyenISBN-10: 1503530892ISBN-13: 9781503530898Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2015Pages: 300Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.31lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.81d

Have you been a model Citizen today?Lena Carr is a Citizen who does not exist. Being invisible can have its advantages, but not when the Chief Overseer knows what your alias is. She can no longer use the gift her father left her.But she...

From the author of The Last of the Whitfields and New Girl comes an emotional and heart-wrenching story about the maneuvers of a Southern girl as she returns home from a trip abroad and faces the reality of her family and questions her own...

He's losing who he is because of his past. His life is in jeopardy. He keeps hearing a voice--"I am coming to keep you safe." Jace's past seems an impossibility, only one will understand. Things that happened then still haunt him now. He knows...

Complete Mel & Chloe series bundle WARNING FOR OVER EIGHTEENS ONLY This is a work of fiction. All characters depicted are over the age of eighteen. None of the characters are related to each other. This work contains graphic descriptions of sexual acts and...

The sky is an allegory for fate. Unfortunately, the Voltinis, a family of six children and their widowed mother Norina, live under a dark sky. They all struggle to survive in a small Italian town in the 1950's. The eldest daughter, Grazia, is the...

Cami Crenshaw's life never was normal, though it seemed that way to anyone on the outside. She grew up on a farm in Kansas with her two older brothers and younger sister. Her father was not exactly the model father. Her brothers had to...

Author: William BuccannanISBN-10: 1499002297ISBN-13: 9781499002294Publisher: XlibrisLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/16/2014Pages: 260Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d

Levi's Ultimatum is book 2 in the Purgatory Masters series, Book 1 is Tucker's Fall and is available now. "This isn't "Fifty Shades" - this is SO much better " 5 stars for Purgatory Masters Book 1 from Not Now Mommy's ReadingIn search of...

William Mackenzie's wealth came from the slave trade, plantations in Jamaica, and an Atlantic smuggling racket. He marries Delia, daughter of Judge Fogo, but the Judge discovers William's smuggling secret and, before he can lay information, dies in a shooting "accident." Robert Thomson, made...

*FROM SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DONNA DOUGLAS*Autumn, 1942. The Blitz has come to an end, but for many families, it's not over yet. As the residents of Jubilee Row begin to rebuild their lives, twins Sybil and Maudie Maguire decide to go off and...

Two families - and their secrets . . . A superb Liverpool saga from bestselling author Maureen Lee 'The queen of saga writing' MY WEEKLY 'Maureen Lee is one of those hugely talented authorswho writes great women for women readers. Her books don't just...

A love of a lifetime is hard to come by these days. We all chase that ever-elusive happily-ever-after.But when that love is written in the stars, you'll find yourself falling faster than a comet from the sky.Valentine's Day shouldn't be just one day--love should...

Pregnant and ostracized, 16-year-old Dani seeks out her long-ago religion teacher for help. She never expected his reaction.Gary Sheldon's former students could always turn to him with any problem. His wife, Michaela, has been supportive of his involvement in their lives thus far; but...

Halifax, 1876. On the death of her mother and sister, Isabelle Gibson is left to fend for herself and her brother in a privately-run workhouse. After the matron's son attacks her, Isabelle decides to escape him and a life of drudgery by agreeing to...

The story of what happened to the Norse people who inhabited the West Settlement of Greenland is one that is shrouded in mystery. Based on a true story, this historical epic provides a new explanation as to what befell the Norse people in Greenland....

Based on a true story. Dreaming of America covers the lives of the Fielden family from 1900 to 1914 on both sides of the Atlantic. In 1905, Clara left her husband, Walter, in Accrington, Lancashire. She sailed off to Philadelphia in America with her...

Brett Howard had exceeded the American dream. He started with nothing and was fully retired by the age of thirty-seven. After such a blazing career where he battled his way to the highest levels of big business, was it finally his time to unwind...

Brett Howard had exceeded the American dream. He started with nothing and was fully retired by the age of thirty-seven. After such a blazing career where he battled his way to the highest levels of big business, was it finally his time to unwind...

Screw the rules.Army veteran Richie Tallin returns to South Dakota from a disastrous war with nothing to gain and nothing to lose. With no real home, his family in shambles, his dad's old motorcycle becomes the key to a new life as Wreck, the...

"Destiny is what you are supposed to do in life. Fate is what kicks you in the ass to make you do it." With these opening words by the venerable American writer, Henry Miller, a young man named Sean McAllister begins an American journey...

Inspired by true historical events, The Great Game is a gripping narrative of the personal ambitions and geopolitical interests in the very first fight for oil that played out on the shores of the Caspian Sea. The struggle to control Baku's oil pitted the...

Point of No Return is an epic, moving tale of a young man's life, loves and loss in the latter half of the 1800's. While crossing the country in a wagon train, the boy's family rescues an Indian child from a massacre, leading to...

The women from the Legacy Series, along with their families, are spending the summer at the beach together. They'll share memories, surprises and another wonderful time of closeness. Legacy Series: Book 1: Buying Time Book 2: In Her Own Time Book 3: Matter of...

"Under the Moon" is the third novel in the acclaimed, epic Muskoka series. It continues to follow the lives, loves, and fortunes of the privileged Wyndhams and their summer friends. The catastrophic Great War is over, but those who survived now face the final...

THE QUEEN'S TRAGEDY is Robert Hugh Benson's third in a series of novels designed to tell the story of the English Reformation from the Catholic point of view. Benson handles a difficult subject with skill and compassion, succeeding in breaking through centuries of prejudgment...

BY WHAT AUTHORITY? is Robert Hugh Benson's (1871-1914) first published historical novel. In it he portrays the story of the English Reformation in Elizabethan times from the Catholic point of view. This he achieved without the use of the stereotypes that characterized virtually all...

In 'The Tinker Girl', a family saga about women for women, the protagonist Cate, battles against poverty, gender and class to save a highland estate and its people from ruin. The 1899 setting is Kevinishe, a village on the west coast of Scotland, ruled...

It is over ten years since the manipulative Sheila Malone tolerated having all her family home in Dublin to celebrate the twenty-first birthday of her second youngest daughter. Yet a further ten years will elapse before they will be together again for another family...

Matthew Sharpe's debut collection, Stories from the Tube, was praised in the Los Angeles Times Book Review for its "wildly effective-and often touching-collisions of the banal and the surreal." Wiredcalled it "unsettling, lovely, creepy"; Forbes FYI heralded it as a "remarkable fiction debut." In...

Chosen as Book of the Year in London by both the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, Kate Caterina is a passionate love story and a heartbreaking saga of a family torn apart by war, situated against a canvas of Italy during World War...

Author: Frank J. PettinelliISBN-10: 0759667578ISBN-13: 9780759667570Publisher: 1st Book LibraryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/03/2002Pages: 204Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.76lbsSize: 9.06h x 6.14w x 0.54d

1779, France. On the island paradise of Martinique, two beautiful, well-bred cousins have reached marriageable age. Sixteen-year-old Rose must sail to France to marry Alexandre, the dashing Vicomte de Beauharnais. Golden-haired Aimee will finish her education at a French convent in hopes of making...

THE THIRD NOVEL IN THE HEART-WARMING SAGA SERIES BY MAGGIE MASON - MEET THE HALFPENNY GIRLS. . . Don't miss Maggie Mason's brand-new saga series, The Fortune Tellers, available to pre-order now! 'In the grand tradition of sagas set down by the late and...

When her mother leaves the family home in Belfast for her lover, Louise McGuigan is left feeling betrayed. It is up to Louise to look after her brother and sister while her father loses himself to alcohol. Returning to work at the local linen...

Author: Jessica BlairISBN-10: 0751545511ISBN-13: 9780751545517Publisher: PiatkusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/07/2011Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.48lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.30w x 1.30d

Whitby farmer, John Dugdale, is involved with a local band of smugglers, seeing it as an easy and harmless way of making money. But John is shocked when Mark Roper - his daughter Emma's childhood sweetheart - turns up on a secret mission for...

The year is 1850, and Susannah Charlesworth loves the estate and open air life of the North Lincolnshire Wolds. She stands to become a very rich woman too - inheriting the estate, as well as her father's and uncle's wealth, one day. But then...

Author: Elizabeth JeffreyISBN-10: 0749957875ISBN-13: 9780749957872Publisher: PiatkusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/09/2013Pages: 368Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.30w x 1.10d

Author: Jessica BlairISBN-10: 0749954604ISBN-13: 9780749954604Publisher: PiatkusLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/05/2013Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.45lbsSize: 6.90h x 4.30w x 1.20d

1858 - When a wheel breaks on 20-year-old Betsy Palmer's trap as she is crossing the North York Moors on her way to Rosedale with jewellery to sell to the ironstone miners, she is helped by Jim Fenwick, a supervisor on the mining project,...

Olivia Coulson is pretty and determined enough to attract any man's eye. George Chilton-Brookes, heir to the Cropton estate, is visibly enchanted by her, while handsome gentleman farmer Kit Fernley is also drawn to her looks and vivacity. Olivia wavers between her two suitors,...

Author: Jessica BlairISBN-10: 0749932791ISBN-13: 9780749932794Publisher: Piatkus FictionLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2001Pages: 378Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.61lbsSize: 7.00h x 4.25w x 0.78d

Scarborough, 1938. When Jane and Nell are brought together by a chance encounter, Jane, unhappy at home, sees an opportunity to escape when Nell invites her to visit her family in Lowestoft. However, they have no idea that their friendship will be tested through...