Joyce Dipastena

Hearts in Autumn

1 - Loving Lucianna (Oct-2014)
2 - Courting Cassandry (Feb-2016)

Poitevin Hearts

1 - Loyalty's Web (Feb-2014)
2 - Illuminations of the Heart (Mar-2014)
3 - Dangerous Favor (Feb-2012)

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  An Epiphany Gift for Robin
  

  • Nov-2011
  • / General Fiction
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  THIS IS AN UPDATED VERSION OF THE ORIGINAL 2011 SHORT STORY. IT CONTAINS AN EXTENDED ENDING AND INCLUDES THE FIRST CHAPTER OF "THE LADY AND THE MINSTREL."Arthur and Mariot are among the poorest of the poor serfs in 12th Century England. Some call the...

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  Dangerous Favor
  

  • Feb-2012
  • / Historical Romance
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  Poitevin Hearts - 3
  

  Her father has been accused of stealing from the king, an allegation that has reduced her family to poverty. She has one chance to find and marry a man who can help her prove her father's innocence. Lord Therri, heir to a rich barony, has the wealth ...

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  A Candlelight Courting
  

  • Oct-2012
  • / General Fiction
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  When Burthred comes courting on Christmas Eve, Meg rejects his advances. She has her heart set on becoming a nun and insists that he call her Christina, the spiritual name she has chosen for herself. She tries to make him swear on her box of holy rel...

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  A Timeless Romance Anthology: Winter Collection
  

  • Oct-2012
  • / Historical Romance
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  “Top Pick!” “This anthology is what holiday romance is all about. I can't remember the last book I found so delightful and enjoyable.” �"NIGHT OWL REVIEWS“These six romantic shorts are deliciously crafted… Each short takes the reader on ...

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  Loyalty's Web
  

  • Feb-2014
  • / Historical Romance
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  Poitevin Hearts - 1
  

  The blood of the barons of Poitou runs hot against the English crown. Can any of them be trusted?

  Heléne de Laurant has not forgotten how the English Earl of Gunthar destroyed her father’s castle during King Henry II’s war with his sons...

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  Illuminations of the Heart
  

  • Mar-2014
  • / Romance
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  Poitevin Hearts - 2
  

  Siri de Calendri was trained in the art of illumination in her brother’s workshop in 12th century Venice, but when her brother dies his will sends her far from home. Siri travels to the faraway county of Poitou in France, where she enters the guard...

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  Loving Lucianna
  

  • Oct-2014
  • / Historical Romance
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  Hearts in Autumn - 1
  

  Sir Balduin de Soler gave up long ago on love. He never had the means to support a wife until an unexpected advancement in his fifties allows him to reassess his future just as the lovely Lucianna enters his life. Lucianna Fabio harbors a secret, pai...

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  The Lady and the Minstrel
  

  • Feb-2015
  • / Historical
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  A forbidden love and a past they can’t leave behind . . . In King John's England, Robert Marcel chafes against the law that holds him bound as a villein on his lord’s manor. He tries to make a daring escape and is nearly caught by his cruel maste...

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  Courting Cassandry
  

  • Feb-2016
  • / Historical Romance
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  Hearts in Autumn - 2
  

  Is it too late for second chances when the girl you loved in your youth comes back into your life?Gerolt de Warenne became guardian to a child-heiress named Cassandry when he was only nineteen-years old. As he watched her grow into a lovely young wom...

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  The Girl by the River
  

  • Nov-2017
  • / Historical
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  The Girl by the River is a 3300 word short story.Seven years before Robert and Marguerite fell in love in The Lady and the Minstrel, they had a brief, fateful encounter at a river’s edge. Now you can read exactly how that scene unfolded in The Girl...

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