Historical romance Books

Prince Alexander has just turned twenty, instigating crucial events in his life and the Kingdom of Aylon. Under instructions from his father, King Xavion, Alexander's first order of business is to choose a young lady with the birthright of Aylon and...

Lovely and dedicated Arleen Anderson, a visiting nurse in the slum section of Saltboro, Michigan knew that she would need both her courage and love of nursing to face the daily visits to her poverty-stricken patients. But Arleen also had the admiration...

A riveting historical novel about John Doyle of Wicklow County, Ireland and his journey from a life of destitution to love and freedom in Canada. Many people are familiar with The Great Potato Famine that took place in Ireland during the mid-1800's, but...

It is the winter of 1941 in Fargo, North Dakota, when twenty-five-year-old Elinor kisses dreamy Darrow for the first time and believes she has just met her match. But there is one problem: she is already engaged to not one, but two, other men.Elinor,...

Margaret is not a conventional woman of the early-nineteenth century. She's not interested in pretty dresses and tea parties, but instead longs for adventure in the great outdoors. Margaret convinces her father, William, to seek opportunity in the fur...

Amber had grown up as the oldest of seven children in a very poor family in St. Louis, Missouri. So, when a wealthy Texas rancher had ask her to marry him she had jumped at the chance for a better life.She did not know until they arrived at the ranch...

The predictions from the oracle at Delphi were known to be the most accurate in the ancient world. When King Croesus of Lydia sought the best oracular reading, he tested eight oracle sites and found the oracle at Delphi, the Pythia—goddess and...

Fifteen-year-old Braden Brad Cleary comes from a family that has always faulted others for their own misfortunes in life. To put it bluntly-the Clearys hate people of color. Thirteen-year-old Beth Ann Armstrong is biracial child whose father harbors...

Follow the romantic and tragic story of Roccabella, a young woman who falls in love with a man of lower social standing. Set against the backdrop of Victorian England and the Italian countryside, this novel offers a vivid portrait of class dynamics,...

In this charming novel, a young woman goes to live with her aunt in the country and finds herself swept up in a world of romance and adventure. With its vivid descriptions of nature and its unforgettable characters, 'Willow Brook' is a heartwarming story...

A romantic novel about a young lady named Peggy who visits New York City and finds love in unexpected places.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...

Dunallan is a gripping novel that follows the lives of two sisters, Dunallan and Esmè. When Esmè falls in love with the same man as her sister, their relationship is put to the test. Grace Kennedy weaves a tale of love, betrayal, and forgiveness that...

A novel set in the romantic Rhineland, The Country House on the Rhine is a timeless love story that captures the beauty of the region and the passions of its people. Written by one of nineteenth century Germany's most beloved authors, this novel is a...

In this domestic romance, Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr explores the nature of forgiveness and the lengths to which we will go for love. Her characters are complex and believable, and readers will find themselves fully invested in their fates.This work...

This beautiful and lyrical romance tells the story of Ferbe, a young woman living in ancient Ireland, and her quest for love. Against the backdrop of a land torn apart by war and strife, Ferbe must navigate a treacherous world of politics and power as...

Gottlieb Stephanie ist bekannt für seine romantischen Dramen des 18. Jahrhunderts. In 'Der Deserteur aus Kindesliebe' beschreibt er ein tragisches Liebesdrama zwischen einem Soldaten und seiner Geliebten. Obwohl sie sich gegenseitig lieben, wird ihr...

Ellen Luscombe's 'Myrtles and Aloes' is a beautifully written novel set against the backdrop of the English countryside. With captivating characters and rich, evocative prose, Luscombe's story explores themes of love, loss, and the enduring bonds of...

Rescue her daughter, destroy her dragons, defeat his demons, go back to his lonely life. How hard can it be?When Susan Cunningham’s daughter disappears from school, her pleasant life as a fashionable, dashing, and respectable widow is shattered...

She wants to negotiate a comfortable marriage; he wants her in his bedNaval captain Jules Redepenning has spent his adult life away from England, and at war. He rarely thinks of the bride he married for her own protection, and if he does, he remembers...

A maiden dying for adventure. A hero on a perilous quest. Monsters that must be slain.Once upon a time...After losing a battle with a dragon, George is desperate to salvage his reputation. Only he can't do it alone - he needs an assistant.Royal...

A princess who refuses to be a prize. A prince's promise. Perhaps dragons aren't so bad after all.Once upon a time...Promised as a prize to any hero who can slay the dragon, Princess Sativa flees the palace in search of the prince she was...

Brighit MacNaughton is an obedient daughter following her father's death bed decree that she take her vows and become the virginal bride of Christ. The hired men seeing her to the Priory at Tanshelf are more interested in the building resentment...

“A sweeping historical love story that hits all the marks.” –Publisher’s Weekly starred reviewYour feet will bring you to where your heart is.Ireland 1846. With Ireland ravaged by famine and England unsympathetic to its plight,...

Enter the emotional, suspenseful Regency world of USA Today bestselling author Jacki Delecki's Code Breakers spy series. Undaunted by danger or scandal, these intrepid lords and ladies discover true love as they risk it all to save England from...

Joy Ogilvie, the beautiful young daughter of a Kentucky colonel, plays a joke with her friends, pretending to be "Lady Athlyne", after hearing a story about the dashing Irish nobleman Lord Athlyne. Little does she know that half a world away, the real...

Before he became a father of the Christian Church, Augustine of Hippo loved a woman whose name has been lost to history. This is her story.

Trapping the Butterfly is book one in Debra Parmley's Butterflies Fly Free series about flappers and gangsters in the 1920's. Each book focuses on a different flapper. Hot Springs Arkansas in the 1920's is where the wealthy go to "take...

England is burning.And the cause...men are too afraid to utter in nothing but a whisper.The Northmen. My father is King Eanred. And me? I am Princess Emeline. My father wants to protect our kingdom against the ruthless Vikings who continue to raid...

Miriam Gray resides in Finnegan, Kansas but when she is jilted by her fiancé in favour of her best friend, it’s the last place she wants to remain.A chance meeting with an acquaintance, leads to her impulsively becoming a mail order bride...

When a young gentleman is murdered by a shape shifter, Charlie and Lincoln interrogate their contacts and uncover a plot with links to the royal family—and links to more than one member of the ministry's committee. At the heart of the mystery...

In 1900, Franca Raimondi lived a privileged life in Sicily. Franca puts aside her intellectual ambition and marries Edoardo Privitera, an American exporter. They marry and are blessed with a daughter, Giulia. In 1908, an earthquake buries their beloved...

Prince Lysander, a great swordsman of Dalria, vowed love would not touch him again. He'd rather be a roué. But Lysander didn't count on meeting Princess Gaia, the headstrong daughter of Zeis, the powerful King of Macedae. Zeis, however, plans for Gaia to...

Chantal, an alluring Parisienne, falls in love with Alexander. Her life is turned upside down when Alexander is framed for murder. Guy, an officer of the French Legion, persuades her to provide services in Algiers in return for his help. She soon...

Forty-five year old Gus Gravesen is a successful San Francisco event producer. Mid-career and midlife, he is still in love with his wife and enjoys his job. But one odd and engaging trip to the Black Hills of South Dakota changes his life. Gus becomes...

Now and Forever More is the story of young love thwarted by superstitions and old wives tales. Jimmy and Dee first become aware of each other when they are 12 and 14. At first each is infatuated with the other. Infatuation grows into teenage love, and...

Owen Woulfe, a recent widower and Reilly Stewart Madison, a recent widow meet head on through Owen s son, Rory. An agreement of marriage for the sake of Rory, leads the two souls to realize they were destined to be together. They discover they were both...

You are transported back to a time and place that is recognizable, l970, West Germany, an American GI, a Jewish-German girl with an illness are about to meet. It is a romance story that will be read and reread continuesously. The author says,

The only life which sixteen-year-old herbalist Jane Dare has ever known suddenly and traumatically vanishes, when a group of renegade knights destroys the convent in which she has grown up and slays everyone who lives there except herself, the convent...

Nefer had been plucked from her happy and carefree existence and from her childhood sweetheart, Prince Khaleb, to enter into an arranged marriage with the Mighty Warrior Amosis. Her life took on a new dimension

From the seedy brothels and teeming riverfronts of 18th Century New Orleans to the primitive swamplands and bayous of pre-colonized southwestern Louisiana, this is the story of three men and the growth and discovery they experience during the turbulent...

On the eve of her wedding to Clay Carpenter, MaryAnn Poole's world collapses when she is told, "That boy you're fixin' t'marry could be your half-brother." Fearing she might be pregnant, she leaves her parents' mansion to seek anonymity in Sacramento's...