Historical romance Books

During the savage winter of 1779-1780, General George Washington chose Jockey Hollow, near Morristown, New Jersey, to winter down the troops. When they arrived in December, snow already covered the landscape. The men were forced to build log-hut shelters...

Newly widowed with her second child due in a few months, Lily Johnson has nowhere to go until Toby Grimes, her late husband's boss, asks her to stay on as housekeeper at his ranch. Remaining in the house Mr. Grimes built for her and her husband is an...

Living a life of faith isn't going the way Logan and Karen hoped until some special visitors arrive and offer them their future back.Karen Millerson dreamed of teaching high school but now finds herself boarding with a farm family and teaching country...

~ She thought she'd lost everything ~ Instead she found what she needed most. ~Illinois ~ 1854Becky Hollister wants nothing more than to live out her days on the prairie, building a life for herself alongside her future husband. But when a tornado rips...

After a tragic mistake during The Great Depression, Dr. Pete Walters becomes penniless, forced to ride the rails along with thousands of other unemployed men and women, surviving by trading labor for food, or asking for handouts. Will he find the trust...

Hannah Murphy is determined to make the summer of 1916, the best it can be before she heads off to law school in the fall. Like her mother and grandmother before her, she is inclined to "break the mold" when it comes to societal expectations of a young...

Adventure girl, Maureen Quinn, isn't yet sure of her life's direction, but she knows she isn't cut out to be a bookkeeper for the town's undertaker. Wearing her stylish new bloomers, she suffers a bicycle accident in the middle of downtown and her...

She had her life planned out ~ until he rode in Illinois prairie ~ 1859After four long years away, Esther Stanton returns to the prairie to care for her sister Charlotte's family following the birth of her second child. The month-long stay seems much too...

In 1605, Robbie Elliot-a Reiver and musician from the Scottish borders-nearly went to the gallows. The Witch of the Hermitage saved him with a ruse, but weeks later, she cursed him to an ethereal existence in the sea. He has seven chances to come alive,...

Cuba, 1952.Twenty-year-old Ernesto Ruiz is determined to save his family's cigar business by exporting directly to the American market, but he'll need to learn about American customs and lifestyles first. That's why he takes a part-time job at an...

CHERYL HOLT delivers the third and final novel in her thrilling and delightful Lost Girls trilogy...Joanna James had a brief moment of notoriety at age four when she survived a shipwreck in the Caribbean. She was returned to England and raised...

"Reclining lazily in an armchair not two yards away sat a gold-and-ivory little beauty with dark eyes and a moving, childish smile that was like all the lost youth in the world."-F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Third Casket (1924)The Third Casket (1924) is one...

"But the question of love in the night was the thing nearest his heart...there was a lovely unknown girl concerned in it, and that it ought to take place beneath the Riviera moon." -F. Scott Fitzgerald, Love in the Night (1925) Love in the Night (1925)...

"...selfishness in women has an irresistible appeal to many men. Luella's selfishness existed side by side with a childish beauty, and, in consequence, Charles Hemple had begun to take the blame upon himself for situations which she had obviously brought...

Once upon a time, a dazzling, clever woman, Cynthia Parkton, shares a naughty incestuous lifelong relationship with her first cousin, Harden Alden. She also maintains a love affair with her childhood lover, Reginald Haley, throughout her life, including...

A CDC scientist about to retire. An estranged mother of fifty years. Lives renewed despite environmental degradation.The story begins in 2024 when daughter and mother reunite at a sub rosa laboratory that promises to prolong life. The daughter, on her...

Here's the fifth tale of the Old West in the spicy, fast-paced Big Rock Romance series. Buck lost his wife to pneumonia and his father to murder, within a few short months of each other. When he decides to crawl out of his mourning, he stops by...

All Willa needs is her rifle. All Shamus needs is Willa. After her older brother dies, Willa Freeman finds herself alone on the Colorado frontier, trying to make a homestead from her grief. The townsmen are interested in the beautiful woman even...

Clark and Elizabeth Kaines' aspiration to become rich and famous collides with the reality of raising their fourteen children on a harsh cattle ranch in Kansas. Their teenage children manifest their rebellion in wild ways at alarming rates during the...

Most times estranged, fate lures two brothers to center stage on opposing sides of northern and southern courtrooms. Siblings are transformed into jaded sparring partners as they battle in the ring of the criminal justice system. Rivalry on steroids,...

Sister Gilda and Lord Justin are charged to resolve a conflict: Count Cedric wants to annul his marriage to Lady Mariel so he can marry Lady Emma; Mariel believes Cedric's half-brother Phillip, not Cedric, is the man she married at her wedding; and...

Summer, adopted by Samuel and his wife as a child, grew up with Hawk and Little Bird for a part of each year. She had the best of both worlds, Indian and white, and learned about the different customs and cultures.She grew up and fell in love, as most...

Commanded to marry.Wolf, a powerful laird, and Amanda, the king’s goddaughter are ordered by the king to marry, to ensure peace between the Crown and some of the strongest clans in Ireland.Amanda is a gifted healer. Wolf has his hands full...

Samuel Fox is shocked to find two small girls alone on the trail. After discovering that the wagon train abandoned them and their parents had died in their wagon, he takes them home to his childless wife.Together, they decide to adopt and raise the two...

When tragedy strikes, will love survive?Autumn has a mischievous way about her which often lands her in hot water with her husband, the doctor.They long for a child, but when all seems perfect in their world, tragedy strikes, leaving her loved ones to...

A town gripped by fear. A woman accused of witchcraft. Who can save Pale Harbor from itself? Maine, 1846. Gabriel Stone is desperate to escape the ghosts that haunt him in Massachusetts after his wife's death, so he moves to Maine, taking a position as a...

In the midst of the shadowy world of government corruption and the sex trade in the late-twentieth-century USSR, Mitch Galichin risks his life and puts his family in jeopardy in order to expose a human trafficking ring that reaches into the highest...

Lady Hazel Fletcher's father, fiercely opposed to Scottish independence, means to use her as a weapon in his scheme to instigate trouble between England and Scotland. She is pregnant by her lover, a neighboring nobleman, but her father blames a Scotsman...

Josie Donovan left her home in Kansas under a cloud. Now settled into her work as a nurse in Hollywood, California, she finds the producer of her favorite television program is in her hospital ward and offering her an audition. Actor Robert Coolidge...

Gunslinger turned playwright Opal Calahan is handy with a pistol and even handier with a pen. She arrives in town dreaming of creating the new Wylder Playhouse. Rugged prospector Heath Rawdon tantalizes as her perfect leading man-but why does he hate...

Two men desire vivacious, wild-haired Cora Patton, a midwife in a colonial town. Cora has no time for frivolity since her father, Maryville's only doctor, died during a tornado, but it's high time she found a husband. Cora's standards are high. He must...

Bagpipe-playing bluestocking Ruari MacDonald must protect the standing stone circles and ancient Picti-carved pillars around Callanish Castle-but the laird plans to lease his croft lands and force her to marry a sinister English earl. After years abroad...

Tall, beautiful and slender, she dressed like a boy and fought like a warrior and won Laird Macgregor's interest in a single moment. Jillian was fighting to protect her father and save her heritage - could she trust a Highlander to help her?

Lady Olivia Worthington has had some ill-fated ideas in the past. This, however, might well take the prize for the worst. Olivia and her friend, Elspeth, set out late at night to catch a rumored demon in their net and send it home. Instead, they catch a...

New Banker in Town    Paul Weaver felt Sweetwater, Kansas, was going to be one of those towns along the railroad that would grow quickly. Everything Paul looked for before building a large bank was present – and much...

Ten years ago, Bess Mowatt promised to guard her newborn cousin from his father, Aleck Maxwell. Called the Reiver Wolf, Maxwell is the scourge of the Scottish marches, and no fit guardian for a child. But when the keep where Bess and the boy live...

Practical Caroline Saxon must travel to London for the season, when all she really wants is to stay in Ireland and breed horses. But a carriage accident leaves her unchaperoned at a posting inn. Dashing Christopher Hawking just wants a bed for the night...

"As England's very first queen regnant, I must remember to keep my feminine emotions hidden from my people, and from the world, for nothing said weakness like the tearful blubbering of a woman."As a girl, Mary had been a disappointment from the moment...

One stolen kissWhen Vivian Stratford ruins her reputation by challenging a suitor to a duel, she is packed of to her great uncle's estate until the scandal blows over. On the way, her carriage is stopped by a rakish highwayman. Vivian unsheathes her...

Adrian Strathmore is a reclusive genius by day. However, by night, he is a masked avenger named Prometheus, rescuing unfortunate children from lives of prostitution. Horribly burned as a child, he loves the anonymity of his mask. Vanessa Bourke, the...

First published in 1927 and winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1928, "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" is the moving story of a tragic accident and its aftermath by American author Thornton Wilder. The novel tells the fictional story of the victims of a horrific...

""Een Roman Uit Twee Werelden"" is een roman geschreven door Marie Corelli en gepubliceerd in 1890. Het verhaal speelt zich af in de 19e eeuw en gaat over de jonge aristocraat Geoffrey Tempest en zijn zoektocht naar de waarheid over zijn afkomst en zijn...

Die Nilbraut V2: Roman (1887) ist ein historischer Roman von Georg Ebers. Die Geschichte spielt im alten �����gypten und erz�����hlt von der Liebe zwischen einem �����gyptischen Prinzen namens Rameri und einer Sklavin namens Mutter Setchem. Rameri und...

Die Lehnsjungfer V3: Roman (1887) ist ein historischer Roman von Emile Erhard. Es ist der dritte Band einer Trilogie und spielt im 16. Jahrhundert in Frankreich. Die Hauptfigur des Romans ist eine junge Frau namens Jeanne, die als Lehnsjungfer arbeitet...

De Foix: A Romance Of Beanu Of The Fourteenth Century is a novel written by Anna Eliza Kempe Stothard Bray and published in 1884. The story is set in the fourteenth century and follows the life of the protagonist, De Foix, a brave and chivalrous knight...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...