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Finally, it is possible to distinguish a third group of romances that feature Quaker protagonists but cannot be considered, properly speaking, inspirational fiction, since they are not published by companies with an obvious religious goal. The group of secular romances includes ten works. Among them one may find novels like Suzanne Simmons Guntrum’s The Golden Raintree (Harlequin, 1990), Miranda Jarrett’s Spindrift (Harlequin Historicals, 1993); Carla Kelly’s Miss Whittier Makes a List (Camel Press, 1994); Eileen Charbonneau’s The Randolph Legacy (Forge, 1997); Catherine Archibald’s Loving Charity (Leisure Books, 2000); Sarah McCarty’s Tucker’s Claim (Spice Books, 2009); Joanne Sundell’s The Quaker and the Confederate books, which comprise two novels: Hearts Divided (Gale Cengage Learning, 2010a) and Hearts Persuaded (Gale Cengage Learning, 2010b); Ann Turnbull’s Seeking Eden (Walker Books, 2012c), and Donna Thorland’s The Turncoat (Penguin, 2013). Strictly speaking, the novels in this group fail to follow basic tenets of inspirational fiction, but I have nonetheless decided to include them in my analysis for comparative reasons and because, in some cases, the line that separates them from inspirational romances is not clear-cut.