Historical romance Books

Two linked Regency romances published together for the very first time! This delightfully heartwarming duo from USA Today bestselling author Emily Larkin features one London beauty, one scarred major, one dashing lieutenant, one intrepid young lady ...

Near the Land of the Dead: Iset is juggling a gang of tomb robbers, a younger brother, a sick mother, and a multitude of secrets that could ruin the lives of her close-knit family. Just as she learns her life is in danger, she runs straight into the most...

What? Leave India? Move to the colonies and make a new life there? Melisande, appalled, gazed at her brother and fiancée. She loved her life in India. She'd been cossetted, loved and happy there. Of course the plague meant a radical change, but they...

A choice between duty and desire...After a night of passion at Victorian England's most notorious masquerade, Arthur Harwell knows he's met the woman of his dreams. A wealthy viscountess with deep political connections, Lavinia is surely the...

It's 1570, and the Reformation burns through Europe and into the kingdom of Troixden. The new Queen Annelore, full of love and hope for her unexpected role, finds that even the heir growing inside her will not quiet the looming discontent, and her own...

Elizabeth Bennet decides not to travel with her relations to Derbyshire, the home of her rejected suitor. Instead, she accepts an invitation to go to Brighton, home of the famous sea baths and circulating libraries.Though Elizabeth expects a relaxing...

Today women have a glass ceiling. In the 1930s that ceiling was made of wood, so following your dream only took you so far-especially if you went against societal norms and what your friends and family told you you should or should not do. This is the...

Walter Crofter was born into Elizabethan England.In a country and a time where favor and politics were both deadly, can an honest boy stay true to himself? Especially given his family background?I, Walter is the first in a series of books in a saga which...

Wu Chen immigrated to California from China as the secretary for Kong MaK's tong in the 1850's. A tong was an embassy in a strange land, a kind of fraternal society for Chinese who arrived in San Francisco. It was from this tong that a lone...

FCRW Beacon Award--Historical Romance!"Lucky" Jack Burrell's quest for revenge against Sophia Deford will have to wait until he discharges a debt. He has to team up with the little thief to find the fabled pirate treasure...

SPAIN, AD 693Lælia is no stranger to the games of war. But none of them have prepared her for the hardest game of all: that of love.Lælia risked everything to survive the rebellion until Theo came back to her. Now it seems that Illiberis is the price she...

As the Indian summer of 1977 continues unabated, laid-back Wimmera farm worker, Chris Randle, is enjoying the last days of his wasted teens.At an unruly party before the Labour Day break, an error of judgement and an unexpected attraction throws this...

Two captive hearts ransomed for liberty. This is a story about an unexpected real love between two souls, unconditional to their origins. A humble young servant girl Eleanora is trapped under the authority of her wicked aunt and spoiled cousin...

England 1908: Under the clock, on a sleepy station platform nestled in rural Lincolnshire, an unexpected romance blossoms.  Maisie: Every Friday, at precisely five to six, a handsome young man arrives at the station. I know the time because I can...

A SECRET TREATY AND A SECRET LIFEREGENCY LONDON: Giselle Barrington is living a double life, juggling the duties of chef with those of spy-catcher. She must identify her father's savage killer before the shadowy man finds her and uncovers the explosive...

Her man carries terrifying secrets. But if she escapes, will the world treat her with any more kindness? 1857. Amelia Lawrence refuses to let her husband hurt her ever again. Attempting to flee India in the dead of night, her frantic exodus falters...

Recently widowed, Amelia Ingram - Countess of Gresham, decides to shake off the fetters from her arranged and loveless marriage. Exploiting her new-found independence, Amelia indulges her yearning to explore - incognito. Her ploy works so well, she...

After witnessing his mother's grief at the loss of his father, Nick Drummond resolved never to cause someone he loved such distress. Even the happiness of his siblings would not sway him - until he met Rose.Rose Archer was almost content, assisting her...

She can redecorate a room to make it the envy of the ton, but can she makeover an earl?Charis Raleigh's ability to turn bland rooms into scrumptious confections is a talent she plans to use to save her family from genteel poverty.So when she's invited to...

As we all know love has a habit of striking at the most inopportune moments and that sometimes fairy tales happen when we least expect them.   Giles Trevallier, 5th Earl of Winchester - tired, cold and very wet - was lamenting his decision...

The Civil War has left behind a path of sorrow. Kate Austin has blossomed into a true beauty like a new rose in spring, but the war has created loss in every corner of her small world. The smile that those around her were once accustomed to has vanished,...

Young Hertha is left orphaned and must find her way through the pressures of her new existence and the attentions of both her childhood friend, Heinrich, and the young noble, Fritz Hohensee.—"It was so ridiculous, what her sister feared from...

Four men contend for superiority in a small, coastal town, and a young lady is caught in their midst  ... or are they caught by her?—Thus two people parted, between whom a single, open word of truth and a discussion would have sufficed to...

The young Baron Holstein, son of a dissolute bankrupt, strives to restore his family's honour. But will he be able to avoid the distractions of his enemy's daughter and his young stepmother?The helmsman nodded with his head. "Well, it seems...

All it takes is one careless encounter. She's lonely, he's reckless-it's a fatal combination. Passion and duty collide in Medieval Scotland. Maggie Munro is widowed, barren, and a burden on her resentful uncle. Still grieving the man she loved and...

Their summer affair is sweet...but will they survive when it takes a dangerous turn?Widowed seamstress Poppy Daniels is finally free of a life of caretaking, and she returns to Dogwood for a fresh start. With help from the mysterious shut-in friend who...

The elderly Anna Kapalevitch jams her foot into the closing door of a crowded Israeli bus on a bustling Friday afternoon in the summer of 1976. The driver refuses to let her board as she defiantly stands her ground in the doorway. Following a short...

This is a story about parallel love affairs separated by nearly a half century. The first is between Larry Martin and his former high school girlfriend, Deirdre Montgomery, now married with children. The second is between a conflicted American priest,...

Free spirited and independent debutante Fiona runs away from home to avoid an inconvenient marriage and on the way has an accident and is forced to take shelter at the home of the infamous Phillip Merton. Shunned by the ton for his dark past, Phillip...

Their marriage of convenience was about to be tested.Paul left his drinking and gambling life behind him when he married Kaya. Or thought he had. Four months traveling with his beautiful, resourceful wife, gives him a glimpse of peace and happiness he...

A help wanted ad brought them together.A wanted poster will tear them apart. SIERRAOrphan. Victim. Survivor.As a saloon girl, Sierra expects the worst from people...especially men. Life as a working girl is all she's ever known, but when she gets a...

From the publisher of the USA TODAY bestselling Timeless Romance Anthology series, comes our new Victorian Romance collection: THE ORIENT EXPRESS. Three Victorian Romance novellas by Elizabeth Johns, Annette Lyon, and Nancy Campbell Allen. TO BREAK A...

BREAKFAST AT SOMMERPOOL'S by Nancy Campbell Allen:As Tessa Baker competes for the supervisor promotion at Sommerpool Department and Mercantile, she's faced with a ridiculous list of tasks to complete in order to "win" the job. Tessa would love to be the...

Can a single note change a life, start a romance, or drive two people apart?Waiting for the Post by Esther HatchNow that Harrison Chase has finally made his fortune as a working man, he will risk it all to save his factory workers from starvation. In the...

One season. Three couples. Final chance for a match.Enjoy these lovely Regency Romance novellas:POOR RELATIONS by Elizabeth JohnsAs a 'poor relation,' Emma Standrich has already pre-empted her dismal Season by applying for a governess post. Her aunt and...

"When any two young people take it into their minds to marry, they are pretty sure by perseverance to carry their point..." Captain Wentworth and Anne Elliot's wedding was once prevented by the interference of friends and family. Now fate has afforded...

All five books in the Season of Misunderstanding series collected into one volume. A Sister's FaultJane Bennet has been gifted an opportunity and she is not afraid to use it, feigning illness in order that she might remain a little longer under the...

Both Books in the Fate and Fortune Series ~ A Persuasion Variation Too Fond of StarsWhen Anne Elliot removes directly to Bath with her family to satisfy Sir Walter's need to retrench but desire for society, she does so reluctantly. She intends to make...

When Anne Elliot removes directly to Bath with her family to satisfy Sir Walter's need to retrench but desire for society, she does so reluctantly. She intends to make the best of her situation, finding friends and occupations enough in the town to keep...

Kitty Bennet has broken free of Longbourn and her sisters, and is enjoying all that Bath has to offer in the company of a sparkling new friend. Catching the eye of a handsome captain she feels certain that this might be her chance at a future away from...

All three books in the Strangers and Second Chances series - a Pride and Prejudice variation. An Unlikely AcquaintancePoised to take control of the Meryton Barracks, Colonel Richard Fitzwilliam anticipates exchanging a lonely Christmas for an even...

After the events of Pride and Prejudice that brought Elizabeth Bennet and Fitzwilliam Darcy together, can three other sisters find their Happily-Ever-Afters? Mary Bennet is resigned to her life as the stay-at-home spinster daughter to her increasingly...

The Chaplet of Pearls: Or, The White and Black Ribaumont by Charlotte M. Yonge: The book is set in France during the 16th century, and tells the story of two young people, Gaspard de Ribaumont and Marguerite de Valois. Gaspard is a Huguenot, while...

Aibak Khan, the brilliant son of a king's servant, who plays the flute in the village, falls in love with Maharaja's beautiful daughter, Chandra Mukhi, who was born of noble lineage.The love story of Aibak Khan and Chandramukhi, also known as 'Mahrukh',...

Old sins cast long shadows when hearts are at stake.It's been fourteen years since Lavinia de Grande was evicted from her childhood home after her father lost his fortune.On entering her first Season courtesy of a cousin's charity, Lavinia vows to wreak...

'Tis the season for love-no matter how much mistletoe it takes!It's Christmas time and Ulysses "Yule" Quartermain is unenthusiastically looking for a bride when Penelope St. Clare, the little sister of his boyhood friend, makes an appearance at a...

Love does not advertise.Love extracts no price.When a young widow wishes to marry again, will the man she grows to love ask more than she can give?Mrs. Tynley Wallingford yearns for a quiet, comforting marriage to a man whom she can respect. She'll go to...