Deeanne Gist

Chicago World's Fair

0.5 - Tempest in the White City (Mar-2013)
1 - It Happened at the Fair (May-2013)
2 - Fair Play (Jun-2014)

Trouble

1 - Courting Trouble (Jun-2007)
2 - Deep in the Heart of Trouble (Jun-2008)

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  A Bride Most Begrudging
  

  • Jul-2005
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  DO YOU BELIEVE IN LOVE AT FIRST FIGHT? Any ship arriving from England means, good news for Virginia colony farmers. The "tobacco brides" would be on board--eligible women seeking a better life in America, bartered for with barrels of tobacco from ...

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  The Measure of a Lady
  

  • Jun-2006
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  FIVE RULES FOR PROPER 19th-CENTURY LADIES SPEAK POLITELY. Even when you're the only respectable woman around, protesting San Francisco's decadent surrender to gold fever. DRESS MODESTLY. Wear your sunbonnet at all times. Ensure nobody sees your...

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  Courting Trouble
  

  • Jun-2007
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  Trouble - 1
  

  Tired of Waiting for a Match-Made-in-Heaven, She'll Settle for One Made in Texas Whether it's riding bikes, catching snakes, or sliding down banisters, Essie Spreckelmeyer just can't quite make herself into the ideal woman her hometown--and her moth...

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  Deep in the Heart of Trouble
  

  • Jun-2008
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  Trouble - 2
  

  A TEXAS -- SIZED TALE OF UNEXPECTED LOVE ESSIE SPRECKELMEYER is the last woman anyone in Corsicana, Texas, expected to see with a man on her arm. Independent and outspoken, she's known more for riding bicycles in outrageous bloomers than for catch...

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  A Bride in the Bargain
  

  • Jun-2009
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  In 1860s Seattle, a man with a wife could secure himself 640 acres of timberland. But because of his wife's untimely death, Joe Denton finds himself about to lose half of his claim. Still in mourning, his best solution is to buy one of those Mercer g...

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  Maid to Match
  

  • Jun-2010
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  From the day she arrives at the Biltmore, Tillie Reese is dazzled--by the riches of the Vanderbilts and by Mack Danvers, a mountain man turned footman. When Tillie is enlisted to help tame Mack's rugged behavior by tutoring him in the ways of refined...

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  Love on the Line
  

  • Oct-2011
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  In 1903 Texas Ranger Luke Palmer arrives in Brenham, Texas, with one goal -- to capture the gang of outlaws led by Frank Corner. Undercover as a telephone repairman, he uses his days working the lines to search, not realizing there's another pair of ...

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  Tempest in the White City
  

  • Mar-2013
  • / Historical Romance
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  Chicago World's Fair - 0.5
  

  When a World’s Fair Guard and the woman doctor assigned to treat him square off in the White City, a storm is brewing… Hunter Scott is one of the elite. An 1893 Chicago World’s Fair guard specifically chosen for his height, physique, charact...

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  It Happened at the Fair
  

  • May-2013
  • / Historical Romance
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  Chicago World's Fair - 1
  

  Gambling everything -- including the family farm -- Cullen McNamara travels to the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair with his most recent invention. But the noise in the fair’s Machinery Hall makes it impossible to communicate with potential buyers. In a...

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  Fair Play
  

  • Jun-2014
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  Chicago World's Fair - 2
  

  From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair comes a historical love story about a lady doctor and a Texas Ranger who meet at the 1893 Chicago World’s Fair. Saddled with a man’s name, the captivating Billy Jack Tate makes no apologie...

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  Tiffany Girl
  

  • May-2015
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  From the bestselling author of It Happened at the Fair and Fair Play comes a compelling historical novel about a progressive “New Woman” -- the girl behind Tiffany’s chapel -- and the love that threatens it all. As preparations for the 1893 ...

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Award-Winning Books by Deeanne Gist

A Bride Most Begrudging
2006 Christy Award -- Romance
The Measure of a Lady
2007 Christy Award -- Romance
Tiffany Girl
2015 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Historical Fiction
2016 Rita Award -- Historical Romance: Long