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Every Christmas Eve, little Carl Krinken hangs up his stocking. Santa Claus, busy with gilt books, rocking-horses and sugar-plums for rich children, has never once thought of filling it, and yet Carl's stocking is never empty. In a drift-wood-lit hut on a wild, windswept coast, his fisherman...

Three gentle Victorian tales from the beloved author of The Cuckoo Clock, each one a small adventure of the heart, where everyday troubles turn into lessons that stay with you long after the story ends. In the title story, young Ruth Perry leaves her village home for her first position as a...

Behind the walls of Llancader Castle, love and social rank are about to collide. The Earl of St. Austell rules his estate with a firm hand, yet his household is far from tranquil. His wife keeps lamenting that the family has no son to carry on its name, while their three daughters, Elizabeth...

Rishton Hall Farm has stood empty for years, its shutters closed, its chimneys cold, its rent lowered again and again. Now, on a bitter January afternoon in the West Riding of Yorkshire, a cab carrying two young women overturns at its very gate. So begins St. Cuthbert’s Tower, a gripping...

Paris, September. Felix Dane, a restless English sculptor and self-declared vagabond, has barely settled back into his eyrie above the Luxembourg Gardens when his formidable step-sister Marion arrives with an outrageous request: hide a young girl, known only as Fifine, from a father said to mean...

No servant has ever set foot in the haunted chamber. High in the old tower of an ivy-draped castle, behind walls that have kept their bloodstained secrets for generations, it waits in silence. Ghosts of dead-and-gone lords and ladies seem to peer out from its narrow openings, the floorboards...

She wears black, dresses in the latest fashion, and tells no one who she is. When the elegant widow Mrs. Dale settles in a sleepy English village, the gossip starts at once. Respectable ladies murmur that a woman so stylish has no business in mourning, and young Mabin Rose is warned by her...

Summer, 1870. On the banks of the Rhine, war is in the air, and so is love. Charlie Pierrepont, a young English officer in the Prussian army, is invited by his comrade to the ancient castle of Frankenburg. There he falls hopelessly in love with Ernestine, the dark-haired Countess who delights in...

Chicago, in the years before its darkest night. Dennis Fleet arrives in the city with empty pockets but an unshakable will, determined to support the family he loves after tragedy leaves them without a provider. From shoveling snow outside a fashionable art gallery to earning a place behind its...

On the raw edge of British Columbia's frontier, Harry Alton has spent eight hard years turning wilderness into a home — clearing timber, breaking wild Cayuse ponies, and earning a reputation as a man whose word carries more weight than gold. His quiet, hard-won world is thrown into turmoil...

In the gold-rushing hills of Montana, a curse seems to follow wherever Joan Stanmore goes. Raised by her bitter aunt Mercy Lascelles — a crystal-gazer convinced her niece is a living pariah who brings ruin to any man who loves her — Joan flees to a remote mining camp in search of peace...

A quietly moving Victorian romance from the author of John Halifax, Gentleman. In a Scottish household near St Andrews, a reserved young governess and her pupils' tutor are drawn together through years of small, everyday kindnesses rather than dramatic declarations. Craik builds their attachment...

Set in Victorian England and reaching as far as the sweeping landscapes of Jerusalem, Was I Right? by Mrs. O. F. Walton (Amy Catherine Walton) is a classic 19th-century Christian novel exploring the weight of personal choice, moral conviction, and spiritual devotion. Following the unexpected...