Historical romance Books

A spinster lady in waiting...After four broken betrothals, Elizabeth Fraser believes her father's political ambitions will keep her from ever finding a husband. Content to be considered on the shelf, Elizabeth would rather be left in peace as one of the...

The only way to save her is to kidnap her.Chloe Cates has spent the last year of her life falling deeper in love every day with a man she knows perished with the Charlotte when it sank off the coast of the Carolinas.That man has been back in England for...

Reader Views Reviewer's Choice Awards, Historical Fiction - Gold AwardTyler R Tichelaar Award for Best Historical Fiction WinnerThe Wishing Shelf Book Awards - Finalist for Adult FictionOutstanding Creator Awards - Best Book Cover, 1st Place Romance, 1st...

Experience the power and tension of the early church in this compelling tale of faith and conflict.As Tabitha and Stephanos, still reveling in wedded bliss, navigate an explosive new message of the gospel that is dividing Jerusalem's inhabitants-and...

In the dark of a new moon, a shadowy figure passes a cryptic note beneath my door, ‘They’re coming for you.” But why? Engraved with the Agnusdei family crest and initials C.A., the note points to the estranged family of my mother, and...

Antuniet Chazillen lost everything the night her brother was executed. In exile, she swore that treason would not be the final chapter of the Chazillen legacy in Alpennia's history. A long- hidden book of alchemical secrets provides the first hope of...

Margerit Sovitre did not expect to inherit the Baron Saveze's fortunes--and even less his bodyguard. The formidable Barbara, of unknown parentage and tied to the barony for secretive reasons, is a feared duelist, capable of defending her charges with...

Aline Solini--a beautiful Russian adventuress who has abandoned her Russian husband and is now in search of greater conquests in Europe--arrives in Marisi, in the decadent days on the eve of World War I. She has been rescued by Richard Stetton, the...

The year is 1862. Desdemona is an unconventional young lady who wants to aid the Union cause. Despite ineligibility due to her age and her family’s disapproval, she volunteers as a nurse at Armory Square Hospital. On her first day, she finds her...

When D.H. Lawrence wrote The Rainbow and Women in Love he had intended for it to be a single novel. One of the names he was considering was The Wedding Ring. The publisher, however, chose to break the work into two novels. Here are the two novels once...

Michèle is a model with a provocative reputation living in Paris during WWI. While posing for preeminent artists in the city, she meets and weds Juan Castro and moves to his enstancia in Argentina. She is soon deeply entangled in a web of romance...

In the autumn of 1850 the man called Mose, a fixture on the Horton plantation in North Carolina, is sold to a wily slave trader to settle a debt. Traveling southward, he sinks into cruel bondage while a woman sold by Horton at the same time runs...

In 1839, Lydie Fougnies, 20 years old, is attractive, refined, and educated. Her father is a well-to-do businessman. She meets Felippe Van Hendryk, single child of wealthy aristocrats. They fall in love and a two-year chaste affair leads to talk of...

In 79 A.D., in the beautiful resort town of Pompeii, Glaucus the Athenian meets Ione, and quickly falls in love with her--and she with him. But the Egyptian mage, Arbaces, wants the girl for himself, and will do anything to attain his goal, including...

Julia's Dream is a historical romance which is set in Glasscock County, Texas during the late 1800's. At the age of sixteen, Julia Van Horn survives a rape attempt. To do so, she must use her attacker's own gun to shoot him. He lives, but he tells a...

When Abiye Omojola appeared in his office to ask for his help, all Leke Abiodun could see was his ruined childhood. He had no intentions of helping her or her mom, and as everything around seems to conspire to make him lose his mind, he began to wonder...

A.D. 66Mira Bat-Chet's peaceful existence is suddenly shattered when her family is killed, her home is destroyed, and she is forced into slavery in Rome. With only her Christian faith to sustain her, Mira prays for deliverance, and in one event after...

One night, at a seaside jazz café called The Summer Club, Jackie Sherman catches the amber eyes of a familiar stranger. Startled by the pull she feels toward him, she follows him out to the edge of the ocean, where he relays that in another life, she...

Just after the Civil War, 1865.Friendship. Deception. Passion. Obsession. Love. What else can one summer hold?Julia Wescott, a head-strong and independent widow, is happily married to her work as a healer throughout the Outer Banks of North Carolina...

Times were tough for unemployed men in Scotland in 1895. William Fraser travels to Dundee to find work and, he hopes, love. Independent working women dominate Dundee's factories, and jute spinner Mary Coyle is one of them. The attraction is immediate and...

In this classic romance novel, Florence Morse Kingsley weaves a tale of love and sacrifice that transcends time. Set in the majestic landscapes of the American West, this story will transport you to a world of adventure and romance that will capture your...

This book is a retelling of Victor Hugo's classic play Ruy Blas, which tells the story of a commoner who falls in love with a queen and becomes embroiled in court intrigue. John Davidson's version of the play was first published in 1899 and is notable...

This classic novel follows the adventures of Captain John Doe, a dashing hero who fights against tyranny and oppression in 18th century Ireland. With its vivid characters, thrilling plot, and rich historical detail, Peep O'Day is a must-read for lovers...

This is a classic romance novel set in the English countryside in the late 19th century. The story follows the adventures of Diana Barrington, a young woman of noble birth who defies convention by falling in love with a lowly estate manager. Their...

Mistress Wilding is a historical romance novel set in the late seventeenth century. The novel tells the story of Lord Henry Saxonby, a British nobleman who falls in love with Mistress Judith Wilding, a beautiful and feisty woman who is not of his social...

Ce livre raconte l'histoire de Corisande, une jeune femme qui tombe amoureuse d'Henri IV, roi de France. Le livre explore les relations entre les classes sociales et les barrières qui peuvent empêcher une relation amoureuse de se développer, ainsi que...

Proper Pride is a romantic novel by Bithia Mary Croker. The book tells the story of Lucy Fitzgerald, an orphan who must navigate the strict social hierarchy of Victorian England. When she falls in love with the dashing Lieutenant-Colonel Lestrange, she...

First published in 1811, Self Control is a novel by Mary Brunton that explores the themes of love, marriage, and the struggle for independence in a patriarchal society. The story follows the fortunes of two sisters, one of whom is forced into a loveless...

Un roman d'amour tragique qui se déroule en Italie, Antoniella raconte l'histoire de deux amants séparés par la guerre et la trahison. Lamartine nous emporte dans un tourbillon de passion et de désespoir, avec une plume poétique et bouleversante.This...

Ce récit émouvant est une histoire d'amour tragique, qui suit les aventures amoureuses de Jocelyn, un jeune musicien, dans une Italie romantique du XIXe siècle. Lamartine maîtrise à la perfection le langage poétique et romantique, qui imprègne chacune...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Becoming a mail-order bride can be a dangerous thing for a woman to do.Isabella, newly arrived in America from Sweden, first loses her parents after they arrive at Ellis Island and then loses her job at the factory in Massachusetts after it burns down...

"Emma Woodhouse, handsome, clever, and rich..."Thus began Jane Austen's classic, a light and lively tale set in an English village two hundred years ago. Yet every era has its share of Emmas: young women trying to find themselves in their own corners of...

Baltimore, 1849. During a scandalous crisis, the young Irish Brianna Baird flees her home at Fells Point. With little cash and only a seamstress's trade, she braves the hypnotic streets of New Orleans. The tantalizing Madam DeSalle lures her to her...

The secrets of the past are treacherous…and irresistible.A Renaissance-era female artist and an American scholar. Linked by a centuries-old mystery…2016: Scholar Zari seizes the chance to return to Europe as a consultant for an art...

Isabel has never met her husband...Her marriage has been arranged, but when she learns who her intended is, Isabel also discovers he is on the wrong side of The Wars of the Roses. Isabel's father is a knight with honour. Surely he would not betray their...

Stone of Heaven and Earth is an epic tale of love and loss, extravagant expatriate lifestyles, intense danger, heroic acts, and the hideous effects of a cruel and barbaric civil war. Based on the best selling romance author’s true family history,...

It is the 1890s and Violet Frogg is on the run.First from her stifling family home in a village near London, then from a marriage in a swanky house in Bloomsbury and a brief dally with suffragists, lastly from a fulfilling position working for Herbert...

Annie Pepper is now in her mid forties and her daughter Lexie has just turned 17. Annie's late sister Mary, also had a daughter who is called Nancy and who is 19 years old.  This book is their story of growing up in Dundee in the 1930's and,...

Annie Melville thinks she finally has everything she wants: a loving husband with whom romance and babies is a real possibility, a good home, and the dangerous Billy Dawson out of her life for good. But, in an unforgiving age where women alone rely on...

Set in the Jute Mills of old Dundee at the turn of the 20th Century, Annie Pepper and her sister Mary try to find some happiness, as they realise that it is the men in their lives who ultimately decide their fate. Having both fallen for the same man, who...