Beverly Jenkins
1) Rebel
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"Valinda Lacy's mission in the steamy heart of New Orleans is to help the newly emancipated community survive and flourish. But soon she discovers that here, freedom can also mean danger. When thugs destroy the school she has set up and then target her, Valinda runs for her life -- and straight into the arms of Captain Drake LeVeq. As an architect from an old New Orleans family, Drake has a deeply personal interest in rebuilding the city. Raised by...
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Theres never a dull day in Henry Adams, Kansas.Tamar July has never had a great relationship with certain members of her family. In fact, shed characterize it as a "hate/hate relationship." But when her cousin calls her with the news that shes dying and wants Tamar to plan the funeral, shes shocked but is willing to drop everything for her. After a horrendous storm, Gemma finds a young boy and his little sister walking on the side of the road. She...
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Logan Yates, a self-important ranch owner, must confront his feelings for his beautiful, free spirited housekeeper, Mariah Cooper. While they bicker incessantly, their sexual tension is palpable, and it only rises when potential suitors start paying visits to Mariah. Will she accept Logan's heart?
4) Indigo
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English
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As a child Hester Wyatt escaped slavery, but now the dark skinned beauty is a dedicated member of Michigan's Underground railroad, offering other runaways a chance at the freedom she has learned to love. When one of her fellow conductors brings her an injured man to hide, Hester doesn't hesitate...even after she is told about the price on his head.
The man in question is the great conductor known as the "Black Daniel" a vital member of the North's
...5) Vivid
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"It's 1876 and Dr. Viveca Lancaster is frustrated by the limits placed upon female physicians of color. When she is offered the chance to set up a practice in the small all Black community of Grayson Grove, Michigan she leaves her California home and heads east. The very determined Viveca is one of the few nineteenth century Black women to graduate from the prestigious Woman's Medical College of Pennsylvania, so she knows all about fighting for her...
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Women who dare ; 3
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English
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"When the Declaration of Independence is stolen by a former Confederate official, fearless grifter Raven Moreaux, forced by the government to get it back, finds both her life and heart on the line when she falls for her partner who is posing as her husband."--
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Center Point Large Print
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2023
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English
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When the Declaration of Independence is stolen by a former Confederate official, fearless grifter Raven Moreaux, forced by the government to get it back, finds both her life and heart on the line when she falls for her partner who is posing as her husband. - source not specified.
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Avon Books
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2002.
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English
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Sixteen-year-old escaped slave Belle Palmer finally finds freedom with the Best family in Michigan, and as she settles into her new life, she attracts the attention of the Best's promising son Daniel, who is engaged to another.
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Avon Books
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[2003]
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English
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Josephine is a young woman with a sassy look and sharp tongue, especially where flirtatious Adam Morgan is concerned, but when Adam returns home wounded from the War Between the States, Jojo can't deny her growing feelings for him.
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Harlequin
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2012.
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English
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This trio of holiday romances, revealing who has been naughty and nice, includes Beverly Jenkins's "Overtime Love," in which Drew Davis finds his plans of buying a semipro football team thwarted by the owner's beautiful granddaughter, Tasha Bloom.
