Aimie K Runyan
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"Leedswick Castle has housed the Alnwick family in the English countryside for generations, despite a family curse determined to destroy their legacy and erase them from history. 1870. After a disastrous dinner at the Astor mansion forces her to flee New York in disgrace, socialite Beatrice Holbrook knows her performance in London must be a triumph. When she catches the eye of Charles Alnwick, one of the town's most enviably-titled bachelors, she...
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Daughters of New France volume 1
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""In her illuminating debut novel, Aimie K. Runyan masterfully blends fact and fiction to explore the founding of New France through the experiences of three young women who, in 1667, answer Louis XIV s call and journey to the Canadian colony. "They are known as the "filles du roi, " or King's Daughters, young women who leave prosperous France for an uncertain future across the Atlantic. Their duty is to marry and bring forth a new generation of loyal...
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Daughters of New France volume 2
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In 1677, an invisible wall separates settlers in New France from their Huron neighbors. Yet every woman's fate depends on the man she marries. Set amid the promise and challenge of the first Canadian colonies, this vividly rendered novel provides a fascinating portrait of the women who would become the founding mothers of New France.