C. Jane Reid

• Apr-2016
• / Historical
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There be dangers in old, untouched places. . . September, 1720: One month ago, Ailee Donaghue married a stranger to save herself from scandal. Now aboard a ship bound for the New World with ninety other Scots-Irish, she has no idea what she’ll be a...

• Aug-2016
• / Historical
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That woman will bring shame down upon us . . . The New World is no place for a penniless widow, even one as skilled at lace-making as Elsie MacClayne. Her choices are few: remain with the other Scots-Irish immigrants to become a burden on her friends...

• Jul-2018
• / Historical
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That woman will bring shame down upon us . . . The New World is no place for a penniless widow. Elsie MacClayne's choices are few: remain with the other Scots-Irish immigrants to become a burden on her friends or search out her cousin, Connor, who h...

• Mar-2019
• / Historical
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Deirdre, what have you done?  Deirdre Donaghue has led a sheltered life on Donaghue Island, surrounded by family who has no care about what happens on the mainland, even during a time of war. When three soldiers invade her isolated village, she ...

• Apr-2019
• / General Fiction
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I was twelve when I first heard the name Guthrie.Hollis Donaghue has been on the long hunt all his life, and he's thinking maybe he should settle down. Except now he's accused of killing a man.Wanted for murder and pursued by an unknown foe, Hollis s...

• Jun-2019
• / Historical
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Never trust charity. Ain't nothing ever free. Nan Prescott, daughter of the local drunk, works odd jobs around Metamora, Indiana, to earn their keep. Her only goal is to keep her and her pa from starving without losing their pride.Bradley Donagh...

• Aug-2019
• / Historical
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Lucy, you can't trust a man like that.Lucy Donaghue can't get out of Indiana fast enough. The meandering pace of her hometown where everyone knows everybody else is about as exciting as watching the mill stone turn. She wants a crowded city with fasc...

• Oct-2019
• / Contemporary Romance
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Everything had gone just as I'd planned. Unbeknownst to my family, I caught the train from West Texas to California and found a room at Mrs. Brown's Boarding House for Traveling Ladies. Now, at long last, I have accepted a position as a Lady's Compan...

• Feb-2024
• / Fantasy
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It was a path made by the honored dead for fools to follow.Fantasy, whimsy, and irony fill this collection of short stories and vignettes by C. Jane Reid, author of The Lola Rose Mysteries and The Donaghue Histories. It includes her first completed n...

• / Historical
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Fall, 2014. C. Jane Reid was an aspiring author in search of a story to write. Adelaide Rourke was a sheep farmer with a family secret. This is the story of a woman with an unusual family heritage and a writer driven to tell her story. It is a fictio...