Deprecated: Array and string offset access syntax with curly braces is deprecated in /www/libraryLand/subs/dystopia/engine/classes/templates.class.php on line 232 Call Stack: 0.0003 407504 1. {main}() /www/libraryLand/subs/dystopia/engine/rss.php:0 Dinah Dean - Free Library Land Online - Dystopia https://dystopia.library.land/ ru Dinah Dean - Free Library Land Online - Dystopia DataLife Engine The Cockermouth Mail https://dystopia.library.land/dinah-dean/639856-the_cockermouth_mail.html https://dystopia.library.land/dinah-dean/639856-the_cockermouth_mail.html The Cockermouth Mail

Snowed-in for Christmas!

The penniless orphan of a disgraced Baronet, Miss Dorcas Minster catches the Mail coach north to work as a governess. Her traveling companions are very jolly, but on Christmas Eve the coach breaks down in thick snow and Dorcas finds herself walking back to the inn with kind and gruff Sir Richard Severall, a Colonel in the Dragoons.

She's shocked when, caught in the freezing weather, Sir Richard kisses her! Rescue, safety, and warmth at the inn brings new perils: Sir Richard insists on loaning her money, but what will he want in return? And there's a highwayman at large who they suspect is one of their companions...

Though the snowbound inn is full of friendship, good food, and laughter, Dorcas' future is bleak. If only she could stay in the inn—and with Sir Richard—forever...

A sweet and clean Christmas snowed-in story that will delight fans of Regency romance in the style of Austen,...]]> Wed, 16 Feb 2022 07:36:26 +0200 Silk and Stone https://dystopia.library.land/dinah-dean/647196-silk_and_stone.html https://dystopia.library.land/dinah-dean/647196-silk_and_stone.html Silk and Stone

Sometimes the miracles you were praying for were there all along...

Italy, 1136

Norman-born Elys de Wix fills her time with embroidery on the long pilgrimage to Rome to pray for healing of brother's injury. She never thought much of it, until their new traveling companion, Saxon master-mason Aylwin, admires her skill. While not as handsome and diverting as Sir Fulk, when Elys is dreading entering a nunnery, it is Aylwin who whispers a solution: she could make a living from her embroidery.

On her return to England, Elys finds her brother Matthew living in Waltham, a little church known for its miracles. She has always known her calling was to be a mother, not a nun, but with her dowry already paid to the nuns, Elys will need a miracle of her own to find a husband, or someone who believes in her needlework, to keep her out of the cloister walls.

With glorious historical detail of Medieval Christian life and the crafting of...]]> Tue, 22 May 1990 09:11:20 +0400 Flight From the Eagle https://dystopia.library.land/dinah-dean/184397-flight_from_the_eagle.html https://dystopia.library.land/dinah-dean/184397-flight_from_the_eagle.html Flight From the Eagle

He was sick of the violence, the killing

In the face of the advancing might of Napoleon's Grande Armee, Major Lev Orlov longed for a return to normality. And the bewitching young countess, whom a bizarre twist of fate had placed in the hands of his band of battle-scarred infantrymen, seemed to embody all that was sane and beautiful.

Unfortunately, she was now completely at the mercy of these men who hadn't seen a woman in months. Orlov was determined to protect her...

... but how long could he protect her from his own wild stirrings of desire?
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