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Penellephe (Poppy) has always been told that she is the Chosen, the Maiden. She is to remain pure, untouched, unfriended, unexperienced, going through her life either in her room with her designated companion or escorted by her guards to her lessons with the Duke and the high priestess. Most don’t even know what she looks like, because she’s required to wear a veil any time
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The Alice Network is a dual-timeline story about two women. In 1947 we have Charlie, an American college girl who is visiting Europe with her socialite mother in order to get a secret abortion. Except Charlie has other plans. Her French cousin Rose disappeared during World War II, and Charlie is determined to find out what happened to her. All she has to go on
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This large collection of romantic suspense short stories was a little hit or miss. Some of the authors I was familiar with, and some I would add to my TBR. But I think that calling some of these stories romantic suspense was a stretch. I think it’s hard to build up the “suspense” part of the romantic suspense in the length of a short story.
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It’s been many years since I read the 5th book in this series, which I remember struggling with, so I’d forgotten that Diana Gabaldon is really great at what she does. This part of the series covers the years right before the Revolutionary War, so you have politics mixed in with the art of living in the mountains of North Carolina in the late 1700s.
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