Melanie Dickerson
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2021
Language
English
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To live an unforgettable life, she would defy all expectations-including her own.
Ever since she was a child, Audrey wanted her life to be extraordinary. But as the daughter of a viscount born in late fourteenth-century England, the only thing expected of her was to marry-until an act of malice by her sister, Maris, four years ago damaged her prospects even further. Though Maris was sent away, twenty-year-old Audrey is still suffering the scars of...
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Series
Hagenheim volume 7
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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Evangeline is the ward and cousin of King Richard II, and yet she dreams of a life outside of Berkhamsted Castle, where she might be free to marry for love and not politics. But the young king betroths her to his closest advisor, Lord Shiveley, a man twice as old as Evangeline. Desperate to escape a life married to a man she finds revolting, Evangeline runs away from the king and joins a small band of servants on their way back to their home village....
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Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Language
English
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In 1424 Hamlin, Katerina reluctantly allies with the handsome but brash Steffan to protect herself and her city from formidable dangers--missing children, hordes of rats, a marauding beast, and her devious stepfather, the town's mayor.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
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New York Times bestselling author Melanie Dickerson beautifully re-imagines "The Goose Girl" by the Brothers Grimm into a medieval tale of adventure, loss, and love.
"When it comes to happily-ever-afters, Melanie Dickerson is the undisputed queen of fairy-tale romance, and all I can say is—long live the queen!" —JULIE LESSMAN, award-winning author of The Daughters of Boston, Winds of Change, and Heart of San Francisco
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Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Orphaned, Aladdin travels from the streets of his Arab homeland to Hagenheim, Germany. He meets Lady Kirstyn, whose father is the powerful Duke of Hagenheim. Despite the difference in their stations, Aladdin quickly becomes Kirstyn's favorite companion. Through his integrity, intelligence, and sheer tenacity, Aladdin earns a position serving as the duke's steward, but eventually decides to leave Hagenheim and seek his fortune. When Lady Kirstyn becomes...
Author
Series
Regency spies of London volume 1
Publisher
Waterfall Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
In England's Regency era, manners and elegance reign in public life--but behind closed doors treason and deception thrive. Nicholas Langdon is no stranger to reserved civility or bloody barbarity. After suffering a battlefield injury, the wealthy, well-connected British officer returns home to heal--and to fulfill a dying soldier's last wish by delivering his coded diary. At the home of the Wilherns, one of England's most powerful families, Langdon...
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Series
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
284 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1352 England, seventeen-year-old Annabel, granddaughter of a knight and a would-be nun, eludes a lecherous bailiff but falls in love with Lord Le Wyse, the ferocious and disfigured man to whom her family owes three years of indentured servitude, in this tale loosely based on Beauty and the Beast.
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
302 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
In this story loosely based on the Cinderella fairy tale, Gisela is determined to get an invitation to the ball being thrown for the duke's son, Valten, but meeting him may not lead to her happily-ever-after.
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
311 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Adela, youngest daughter of Duke Wilhelm of Hagenheim, is never allowed outside of the castle walls. She sneaks away one day to the market disguised as a peasant and meets a poor farmer with a kind heart. Frederick earns the income for his family and defends his mother from his father's drunken rages. He carves figures, animals, and scenes into wood, and he's asked to carve these scenes into cathedral doors when his talent is noticed. When he gets...
10) Fortress of snow
Author
Series
Dericott tales volume 4
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
336 pages ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Mazelina of Wexcombe has always dreamed of traveling with her father to lands beyond the confining walls of their castle. But his sudden death deprives her of the future she imagined. Abandoned by her eldest brother, Mazy is soon forced to seek help from her beloved brother Sir John at the great estate of Strachleigh. Her visit leads to a friendship with the dashing and noble Sir Berenger of Dericott. He has notions of rescuing a damsel in distress....
Author
Series
Hagenheim volume 1
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
261 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rose has been appointed as a healer's apprentice at Hagenheim Castle, a rare opportunity for a woodcutter's daughter like her. While she often feels uneasy at the sight of blood, Rose is determined to prove herself capable. Failure will mean returning home to marry the aging bachelor her mother has chosen for her -- a bloated, disgusting merchant who makes Rose feel ill. When Lord Hamlin, the future duke, is injured, it is Rose who must tend to him....
12) The golden braid
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Rapunzel can throw a knife better than any man. She paints beautiful flowering vines on the walls of her plaster houses. She sings so sweetly she can coax even a beast to sleep. But there are two things she is afraid her mother might never allow her to do: learn to read and marry. Fiercely devoted to Rapunzel, her mother is suspicious of every man who so much as looks at her daughter, and warns her that no man can be trusted. After a young village...
Author
Series
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
308 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"Mulan is trying to resign herself to marrying the village butcher for the good of her family, but her adventurous spirit just can't stand the thought. At the last minute, she pretends to be the son her father never had, assumes his duties as a soldier, and rides off to join the fight to protect the castle of her liege lord's ally from the besieging Teutonic Knights. Wolfgang and his brother Steffan leave Hagenheim with several other soldiers to help...
14) The princess spy
Author
Series
Publisher
Zondervan
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
293 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Margaretha has always been a romantic and hopes her newest suitor, Lord Claybrook, is destined to be her one true love. But then an injured man is brought to the castle, claiming to be an English lord who was left for dead by Claybrook's men. She convinces herself 'Lord Colin' is just an addled stranger, until Colin retrieves an heirloom she lost in a well and asks her to spy on Claybrook as repayment. Margaretha knows she could never be a spy--not...
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Pub. Date
2012
Lexile measure
790L
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Sophie is trying desperately to escape her stepmother's jealousy, when a young man named Gabe arrives from Hagenheim Castle announcing that she is betrothed to his older brother. As Gabe, who is also betrothed, fulfills his mission to find Sophie, emotional conflict ensues as they realize that their feelings for each other have developed into romance, though they are both promised to other partners.
16) Court of swans
Author
Series
Dericott tales volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
328 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In medieval England, after her seven brothers are falsely accused of murder and treason, eighteen-year-old Delia flees their cruel stepmother and becomes a seamstress at Westminster Palace, hoping to gain their release, with Sir Geoffrey's assistance.
17) Magnolia summer
Author
Series
Publisher
GraceFaith Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Truett Beverly returnes to Bethel Springs, Alabama, after finishing medical school. Fighting a secret war with a corrupt lawman wasn't in his plans, but when Sheriff Suggs threatens his childhood friend, Truett dons a cape and hood and becomes the Hooded Horseman, placing him squarely in the sheriff's crosshairs. Celia Wilcox arrives in Bethel Springs in June of 1880. She's come from Nashville to help her sister care for their younger siblings. She...
Author
Series
Medieval fairy tale romance volume 1
Publisher
Thomas Nelson
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Swan Lake meets Robin Hood when the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant by day becomes the region's most notorious poacher by night, and falls in love with the forester"--
19) A deadly secret
Author
Series
Publisher
GraceFaith Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
vii, 262 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Lillian Courtney's husband's criticizing and bullying ways culminate with him physically striking her, and she runs away to the Isle of Wight, taking her young daughter with her. Her husband follows her there--and is found dead the next day. Her mother-in-law accuses her of killing her husband, then tries to take her child away from her. Lillian is devastated at the prospect of losing her daughter. Nash Golding, Earl of Barrentine, was not looking...
Author
Series
Publisher
GraceFaith Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
306 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Rebecca Heywood thought marriage would make her happy, but that hope was destroyed by her husband's infidelity. When he is murdered, everyone assumes it was at the hands of the angry husband of one of his paramours. Then rumors emerge of a pirate's treasure buried somewhere on their estate, and she discovers a long-lost treasure map among her late husband's grandfather's papers. Could her husband have been murdered by treasure hunters? Thomas Westbrook...