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Maureen Peters
Book List in Order: 30 titles
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The Queen Who Never Was
- Jul-1980
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The struggle for the British Kingdom during 1455-1584, known as the War of the Roses, signifies the battle between the House of Lancaster (Whose badge was a red rose) and the House of York (known by a white rose). Elizabeth Woodville comes to the une...
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Night of the Willow
- Nov-1981
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Lucy Mary O'Malley leaves Lancashire to marry Prince Chang Lee, son of a Mandarin and, in the Forbidden City of Peking, she faces the Dragon Empress, Boxer rebels, and repeated threats to her life and her love...
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The Virgin Queen
- Jul-1985
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This is an historical romance in the old-fashioned, storytelling style. Our heroine, Elizabeth I, was a woman of great charm and energy. Born of the union of King Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn, she inherited the power and passion of her parents, and w...
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Child of Fire
- Jun-2002
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Was Charlotte Bronte the dutiful, loving daughter who rose with courage above the blows life dealt her, or was she a coldhearted, manipulative woman? This carefully researched novel traces the life of the ambitious, desperately shy girl whose emotion...
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The Haunting of Houses
- Jun-2006
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Aspen Stewart lives with her grandfather in 19th century rural Ireland. Her mother died at her birth, and she has no idea who her father might be until the day a dark stranger with a ring of bone on his finger comes calling. He introduces himself as...
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Sun of Silver, Moon of Gold
- Feb-2008
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When Flora is sent off to America to live with her uncle, she finds that he has a housekeeper who is something more to him than just hired help, and that behind the easy and luxurious life she has entered lay sorrow and...
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Beggarmaid Queen
Anne Neville, daughter of Warwick the Kingmaker, was destined to know the most amazing switches of fortune before she became Queen of England and wife to King Richard III. This novel traces her strange history from the security of her beloved home at...
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A Child Called Freedom
When Tansy Malone first looks into the eyes of Tom Wolf, she falls in love. But Wolf is a half-breed Native American returning to his father's tribe, and Tansy has an elderly husband and a delicate sister, with whom she is setting out for the New Wor...
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Child of Earth
An atmospheric tale of an extraordinary woman and the influences that shaped her. Damaged by the deaths of her mother and older sisters and more at ease with the animals she tamed from the wild, Emily Bronte's unusual mind found its release in her br...
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England's Mistress
Elizabeth Tudor has survived uncertainty and danger to ascend the throne. Now Europe waits to see whom she will choose as her husband from her many suitors. Only Elizabeth herself knows that she is wedded to England - an England under threat from Spa...
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Kate Alanna
Among the people escaping to Liverpool from the Irish famine are the Malone sisters, the gentle Kate and dreaming Tansy.
But Liverpool teems with new dangers, violence and corruption. Tansy fights for survival, meeting many strange characters as sh...
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Princess of Desire
Romance Reigned Mary-Rose Tudor, princess and daughter to King Henry VII, had been taught that ladies of the blood royal do not marry for love but for political reasons. Fated by her position to be wed to gain prestige and power for England, she w...
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Proud Bess
In her inimitable fashion, Maureen Peters once again brings history to life. The story opens with twenty-five-year-old Elizabeth anxiously waiting at Hatfield House for news of Queen Mary's death. It follows her progress from her coronation and appoi...
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Tansy
The first volume in the Tansy Trilogy. Living in a village forty miles west of Dublin, Tansy's family find her yearning for freedom hard to understand. Raleigh Devereux, the English youth to whom Tansy first offers her heart, treats her as a playthin...
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Trumpet Morning
The Petrie family live on a small farm in Anglesey, North Wales. Grandfather Taid is a Revivalist preacher and his wife, Nain, is an Irish gypsy who casts spells to annoy her husband. Then there are the two aunts and three uncles, and all must face u...
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Vashti
Tansy Clark is intrigued when her father, a retired police officer, shows her items in the newspapers about two assistant curators who have both died suddenly of gastric influenza at a time when no epidemic exists. Tansy begins her own investigation ...
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Verity
Tansy Clark is an independent woman with a pleasant house in Chelsea, and a close friend, Frank Cartwright. But this is London in the 1870s, and the Thames that flows at the bottom of Tansy's garden yields macabre secrets. It is beside the river tha...
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Witch Queen
Joanna of Navarre's childhood was dominated by her cruel and scheming father, Charles of Navarre. He introduced her to the arts of healing and sorcery that were to brand her with the unwarranted reputation of witch. When widowed, Joanna becomes queen...