Friday, July 24, 2020

A Manifest Destiny by Julia Magruder

A Manifest Destiny tells the story of Bettina Mowbray, a sweet-natured and beautiful American girl who meets the heir of a British lord. He falls madly in love with her and they are engaged to be married. But his cousin, Lord Hurdly, is vehemently opposed to the union and Bettina's attempts to win him round are fruitless. Instead Bettina receives an offer and makes a decision that seems to doom her for a life of unhappiness and disappointment... This charming love story from 1900 may sound highly fanciful, but Julia Magruder's own cousin Helen had married a Baron to become Lady Abinger, so she had recent family experience on which to draw. 

Monday, July 13, 2020

A classic romance and historical tale.
Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 - May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.

Friday, May 29, 2020

Beth Coldwell should have died.  At fourteen years old, she was dying in a hospital bed, when her guardian, Christian Henderson, swept in and turned everything upside down.  Years later, she''s alive and well, but she doesn''t know why.  Christian did something unthinkable, possibly criminal, to save her life, but what?  Beth must pick apart the mystery of why he''s being chased, kidnapped, spied upon, and drugged at every turn.  How can she pull down the wall between them so he will welcome her to his world?