Love’s Sweet Song by Annabelle Stevens

Contemporary Romance, Settings: New York; Savannah, Georgia

Angelica Castle Murray loses almost everything in a tragic car accident.  In the aftermath of this disaster, she must not only struggle to regain her health, but to come to terms with the fact that ever since she and her former fiance Winston broke up seven years before, she has been living a lie.

Winston Murray has never stopped loving Angelica, even when she was married to his brother.  Her old life is now in shambles. How can he tell her that her life with Oliver has been one big lie?

Only through Angelica’s determination to find meaning in her loss does she come to truly understand Winston, and recognize that she has never stopped loving him. As she copes with her grief and injuries, with Winston close by her side, she dares to hope that he might feel the same about her.

But the secrets Angelica has kept hidden from him threaten any chance they have of a happy future. Winston risks everything he owns for the sake of the woman he loves, but even giving Angelica his all, will it ever be enough?

Angelica has her own doubts about her worthiness, and how far Winston will ever be able to forgive her once he learns the truth about their past. She must trust Winston completely with her life and love at last if they are ever to have a chance of a happy future together.

Love’s Sweet Song
Annabelle Stevens
Setting: New York, Savannah
Rating: Moderately Sensual

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Journey of the Heart
Volume One of The Starbuck Saga
Jacinta Carey

Samantha Barnes, daughter of a wealthy ship-builder from Nantucket, discovers that her father has engaged her to a business rival’s son to further his own interests. Samantha flees to her uncle’s house in a desperate attempt to keep her freedom and save the Barnes Shipyard from bankruptcy.

At her uncle’s she meet dashing whaling captain Dare Starbuck, a wealthy man with excellent family connections and the Devil’s own luck on the high seas. The friendship which springs up between them soon grows to overwhelming attraction.

Samantha risks all by disguising herself as a boy and shipping out as one of Dare’s crew to help restore her family’s fortunes. Only when she sails with Dare can she decide if he is just interested in her because of her social connections, or whether she can trust her life and love to him, her body and soul….

Samantha was just reaching for the towel when the door opened. She gasped, for the standing in the doorway was Dare, a look of complete shock on his face.

He stared at her–and stared. His mouth open, he could barely get a word out. “W-w-what the- Who-”

Finally, he clamped his lips shut, turned on his heel, and marched out, leaving her dripping in the tub, and feeling as though she were about to faint.

Drat it all. She had fully intended to tell him the truth.

To have him find out her real identity in such an abrupt and embarrassing manner was not something she had ever counted on in her dreams of a romantic reunion in which they pledged their undying love for each other.

Journey of the Heart
Volume One of The Starbuck Saga
Word Count: 77,000
Setting: Nantucket, USA, 1836
Rating: Sensual

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Scars Upon Her Heart
Book 1 of The Scars of the Heart Series
Sorcha MacMurrough

Lady Vevina Joyce and her brother are forced to flee Ireland after being falsely accused of treason. On the road with Wellington’s army, they meet an unexpected ally in the enigmatic Major Stewart Fitzgerald. Side by side they fight with their new-found comrades in some of the most bitter battles of the Napoleonic Wars.

Even when her fortunes seem to be improving, a series of seemingly random suspicious events begins to look like a pattern to Vevina.  Soon she uncovers a plot so momentous, that all she loves is put in jeopardy, engineered by the person responsible for her family’s disgrace.

Vevina is forced to question the very foundation on which her new life has been built. Is Stewart really all that he seems? Appearances can be deceptive…

Stewart was in love once before back home in Ireland, but the bitter sting of betrayal is more than he can bear. To love is to risk everything, and he can’t be sure Vevina is worth the gamble. For despite her seeming patriotism, she has been labeled a traitor.  Does he dare risk everything for love?

Vevina  must clear her name, protect those she loves, and stop the Grand Army from taking over the whole of Europe. She is willing to risk everything she holds most dear to stem the tide of Napoleon’s quest for power, and win the love of the man who has come to mean more to her than life itself.

Scars Upon Her Heart
Book 1 of The Scars of the Heart Series
Sorcha MacMurrough
Word Count: 121,000
Setting: Spain and Portugal, Peninsular War, 1811-1812
Genre: Historical, Regency, Napoleonic
Rating: Sensual

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The Napoleonic Period spans little more than two decades, yet the mark it has left upon Western civilization cannot be underestimated.

Napoleon Bonaparte was a Corsican who hated France, but went to live there in order to further his personal ambitions. From a humble artillery sergeant, he emerged from the turmoil of the French Revolution to become the ruler of half of the known world.

The Napoleonic Period spans roughly 1797 to 1815, with his final defeat at Waterloo. The hostilities between France and various other nations was intermittent, but one thing was clear: England was the only country to consistently remain at war with France throughout this period.

While Napoleon was able to win stunning victories against all of the other European nations, the English not only held, their own, their heroic efforts in “The Peninsular War,” from 1808 until 1814, to take back Portugal and Spain and eventually invade the South of France, was a monumental achievement that could only have been engineered by one man: Sir Arthur Wellesley, later known as The Duke of Wellington.

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