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Daughter of the Forest
By Juliet Marillier
SCIFI MARILLIER
To reclaim the lives of her bewitched brothers, Sorcha leaves the only safe place she has known and starts on a journey of pain, loss, and terror. She drifts into the hands of a Briton who, undeterred by her magically imposed silence, takes her under his protection. The course of true love has rarely run less smoothly, but Sorcha's daring and perseverance pay off in the end for herself, her brothers, and her Briton love.

Into the Wilderness
By Sarah Donati
F DONATI
When Elizabeth Middleton arrives in upstate Paradise, N.Y., after a sheltered life in England, she means to teach school. Her father, however, wants her to marry Dr. Richard Todd and fulfill both men's ambitions for property. Then Elizabeth meets Nathaniel Bonner, a Scotsman raised by Mohawks and Lizzie rejects her father's plans.

Green Darkness
By Anya Seton
F SETON
This unforgettable story of undying love combines mysticism, suspense, mystery, and romance into a web of good and evil. Richard Marsdon marries a young American woman named Celia, brings her to live at his English estate, and all seems to be going well. Then Richard becomes withdrawn, and Celia is constantly haunted by a vague dread. When she suffers a breakdown and wavers between life and death, a wise doctor realizes that only by forcing Celia to relive her past can he enable her to escape her illness. Celia travels back 400 years in time to her past life as a beautiful but doomed servant.

Forest House
By Marion Zimmer Bradley
SCIFI BRADLEY
Eilan, a Druid girl raised in the cult of the Goddess, has fallen in love with a young Roman named Gaius. He is a half-Briton whose mother was of the Druid tribes and whose father is a powerful officer in the Roman legions. Their forbidden love mirrors the clash of cultures in Roman Britain.