by Mary Jayne Baker (2018)
"The first in a new romantic comedy series, set in a beautiful Yorkshire village. In a lost corner of the Yorkshire Dales, Lana Donati runs a medieval theme tourist trap restaurant with her brother. As a distraction to help them get over losing the father they loved dearly, and as a tribute to his passion for the beautiful area they live in, Lana hatches a plan to boost business for everyone by having the Grand Depart route pass through their village. This entails getting the small community to work together to convince the decision-makers that their beloved village is Tour material. Not an easy task when the people involved include Lana's shy, unlucky-in-love brother Tom, the man-eating WI chair Yolanda, bickering spouses Gerry and Sue, arrogant celebrity Harper Brady, and Lana's (attractive) arch-nemesis, former pro-cyclist turned bike shop owner Stewart McLean, whose offbeat ideas might just cost them everything."--Provided by publisher.
Tasha Alexander
Recovering at her mother-in-law's estate in Normandy after a brush with death, Lady Emily Hargreaves discovers a murder victim whose death looks like the act of Jack the Ripper, a killing that compels her to follow clues to the medieval city of Rouen in search of a lost child.
Anne Carsley
She endured the bruising passions of a man she tried to hate. . . . She defied the evil lust of another who schemed to corrupt and control England. . . . Daughter of a nobleman exiled by Edward IV, Katherine Hartley's flashing beauty and hot-blooded pride took her from dire poverty to the dangerous glamour of Westminster Court. Threatened by royal intrigue, forced into satanic sacrificial ceremonies, Katherine finally discovered why her father had been labeled a traitor. And, at last, when the one man who might claim her soul as totally as he had captured her flesh was freed of his haunted past, she would know the glorious ecstasy of passion's wild fulfillment.
Claudia Dain
The Medieval Knight Series #4 Temptation wrestles with restraint throughout Claudia Dain's historical romance set in mid-12th-century England. Meet Elsbeth of Sunnandune, a young noblewoman who is determined to live a life of prayer in the convent. It seems to be the only alternative to dying in childbirth, like her mother and, later, her stepmother. When her father marries her off to the handsome and noble Hugh of Jerusalem, the cloister seems far away, unless she can avoid his touch -- but Hugh is equally determined to awake passion within his new bride. Fans of medieval romances will enjoy the war of wills that ensues between these two fiery characters. Medieval Knights: The Holding (Medieval Knights, #1) The Marriage Bed (The Medieval Knight Series #2) The Willing Wife (Medieval Knights, #3) The Temptation (The Medieval Knight Series #4) The Fall (The Medieval Knight Series #5)
Charles Dickens
Upon its publication in 1857, Little Dorrit immediately outsold any of Dickens's previous books. The story of William Dorrit, imprisoned for debt in Marshalsea Prison, and his daughter and helpmate, Amy, or Little Dorrit, the novel charts the progress of the Dorrit family from poverty to riches. In his Introduction, David Gates argues that "intensity of imagination is the gift from which Dickens's other great attributes derive: his eye and ear, his near-universal empathy, his ability to entertain both a sense of the ridiculous and a sense of ultimate significance.