Historical romance Books

Virginia Woolf was a leading member of the 'Bloomsbury Group' of avant-garde writers. In March 1941, aged 59 and at the height of her fame, she drowned herself in the River Ouse. She left behind a new work, 'Between the Acts', which was...

Scotland, 1722: on a remote and windswept Scottish island an enigmatic poetess foretells tragedy for the proud Macdonalds of Clanranald and the birth of an extraordinary child. That child is the passionate and free-spirited Flora, daughter of Marion...

When Naomi Mitchison, queen of the historical novel, undertook Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, already symbol of a great love story, something remarkable was bound to ensue. But Mitchison did not choose to follow her great predecessors Plutarch and...

To Kate, a new town represented independence. Brexton, New Mexico, was a place where she could finally escape her mother's control and establish her own seamstress shop. However, the two-faced Mr. Dixon seems intent on threatening her new-found freedom...

What kind of man chooses to trade all the comforts of a civilized East for the chaos of the Wild West? What forces a man on an unstoppable trajectory toward passion, love and loss? And how does one decide to be a doctor at a time when the entire...

How can you be in love with one man and violently attracted to another?When Jessie Cranfield and Michael D'Larghi take the stage to sing together at a local fundraiser in their hometown, the last thing Jessie expects is the electricity between them. Not...

From Ann Bennett, bestselling author of The Orphan House, comes The Lake Palace, an enchanting historical novel set in British India during the Burma Campaign in WWII.Perfect for fans of Dinah Jeffries, Victoria Hislop and The Kashmir Shawl by Rosie...

From Ann Bennett, bestselling author of The Orphan House, comes The Lake Pavilion, a sweeping historical novel; the story of two women connected by devastating secrets from wartime England and British India of the 1930s.Perfect for fans of...

What if Mr. Bennet died in a duel with Wickham after Lydia eloped, just as Mrs. Bennet feared? Would Elizabeth and Darcy still find their happily-ever-after if the Bennet women lost their reputation and their home? If you like Austenesque retellings,...

He wants to know why. She wants to belong.Gabe was born into privilege - money, a loving family, and encouragement to follow wherever his curiosity leads. Assigned to help investigate a failed magical portal in the Scottish Highlands in 1922, he's more...

THE WEIGHT OF SALTA Gripping Story of Love and Courage.Florida, 1906 - In the northeast section of Tampa, called Ybor City and known as The Cigar Capital of the World, comes an intimate part of American history that is seldom found in books and...

Emmalee Gray has begun to mend a broken heart and shattered dreams by immersing herself in her painting. The one thing she can control, her brush, to canvas, where all else disappears.

When Lena Neubauer is sent from Germany to America to help her immigrant brother on his farm and with his young children, she never expects what awaits her in antebellum America. With family honor and devotion propelling her across to an unknown world,...

A good man is hard to find. Cilla Swanner has been jilted by her lover, and she is struggling with a jewelry business that's far from sparkling. She needs a getaway someplace quiet and remote. Someplace like Dunroamin Castle in Scotland, where her aunt...

IN APRIL OF 1906, THE GROUND IN SAN FRANCISCO SHOOK BUILDINGS AND LIVES FROM THEIR COMFORTABLE FOUNDATIONS.From the ashes of destruction, two women and a man whose fortunes came from his gambling skills find themselves pitted against each other in a...

A disgraced former lady-in-waiting searching for redemption...Lady Madeline MacLeod left Robert the Bruce's royal court five years ago because of her vanity and spitefulness. Prepared to take her final vows now, a royal summons to return to the Highland...

A lady-in-waiting left behind...Over the past two years, Blair Sutherland has watched her sister and friends marry and leave King Robert the Bruce's royal court. Her parents have promised her a love match, but none of the courtiers who hang on the king's...

Miranda Wilton seemingly has everything, birth, breeding and beauty, yet she finds herself on the threshold of spinsterhood. Because she carries the heritage of the Merlin, her family demands she marry among those who share his supernatural blood, but no...

From renowned New York Times Bestselling Author Jill Barnett comes the remarkable love story that rocked the romance genre with its ingenous, unique, and heartwarming characters. Forced by circumstance into a marriage of convenience with one of England's...

Can a past love be rekindled while dark secrets lurk in the shadows?Lady Lillith Bonnel is distraught after losing her brother and now her father too. However, the ongoing feud between her family and the family of her childhood sweetheart, Lord Blaze...

Always a bridesmaid, never a bride...For more than a decade, Laurel Ross has been a lady-in-waiting at Robert the Bruce's royal court, a place where money is power. Laurel is the fourth out of five daughters, and the only one unwed. While Laurel isn't...

When the perfect lady-in-waiting isn't so perfect...Arabella Johnstone has been held to an impossible standard her entire life. While her beauty surpasses any of the other ladies-in-waiting at King Robert the Bruce's royal court, the pressure to always...

Longing for love, can she escape the shadows that follow her to Dark Island?1910, Thousand Islands, New York. Others may consider The Towers castle on Dark Island an enchanting summer retreat, but to Devyn McKenna, it’s a prison. Yet as she...

Geoffrey Rathburn, Earl of Tallis, will soon overcome his father's gambling debts. However, to pay his sister's dowry before her London wedding, he must marry an heiress.But the dowagers and daughters parading through his house are only after his...

Lady Sophia has seen enough death and loss in the military hospital to last her a lifetime. So, when the wildly handsome Major Anthony Wyclyff, whom she's been caring for these past months, is given no hope of survival, she grants him his fondest...

If a lady is to become a Countess, there are rules...#1: A lady does not attempt to come out in London society disguised as her deceased half-sister.#2: A lady does not become enamored of her guardian; even when his masterful kisses and whispered words...

His family slaughtered in far-off China, young Jacob Cato finds sanctuary in a Xi Lin temple. There he heals and learns to be strong.Now, Jacob wishes to join his care-takers as a full member of the temple and is told he must first return to his homeland...

Lynette is a penniless relation, thanks to the sudden death of her father.Refusing to burden her extended family, Lynette resigns to the inevitable: selling herself into marriage.But to whom?Viscount Marlock-a carnal, unrepentant, dark-devil of a man-has...

The London rookeries are slums, rife with criminals, and shunned by the upper crust.But someone there intends to murder one of England's greatest leaders, and Marcus Kane, Lord Chadwick, will follow every clue, even into the bowels of London's...

Nelda Gentry Barrington believes her husband, Major Spencer Barrington, has a mistress. She decides to run to her home town and divorce him in spite of the fact that divorce is frowned on in 1879. On a special mission for the government, and knowing her...

English was one of the greatest figures in 20th-century English literature. This collection features three of his short stories.A Short Story Collection includes:The Prussian OfficerWintry Peacock"Tickets Please!"D. H. Lawrence was an English novelist,...

“Enhances her already remarkable reputation for creating rare and riveting romances with this stunning un-put-downable read!”— RT Book ReviewsJoshua Hawk made her a widow. Now, can he make her his bride?Gunfighter Joshua Hawk expects to...

When an enigmatic French prisoner of war escapes a prison hulk in Portsmouth harbor in 1804, Able Six and the Gunwharf Rats must make certain disaster doesn’t strike too close to home, and all they hold dear. Whatever the cost, the unlikely master...

Sailing Master Able Six, Royal Navy, is a man like no other. To call him a mere polymath is to sell him short. Someone with his extraordinary gifts should rise to the top, unless it is the 1800s, where pedigree and money govern Regency society, as sure...

Juliette de Flounoy refuses to be imprisoned by her past-the French Revolution that robbed her family of their heritage, and the rape that left her homeless-comforting herself with her dreams of becoming London's premier modiste and by her friends, the...

"Lord Clarenceux had met her then," said Sir Cyril, speaking of Rosetta Rosa, the opera's soprano with the golden throat. I was drawn to the woman, and listened eagerly. "She merely said she would think it over. She wouldn't sign a contract. After a...

True love, like a rose in amber, lasts forever...Sunny Eagle is sent to Brighton, England to live with her great aunt.  After growing up on a reservation with her White mother and Apache father, Sunny must adhere to Britain's protocol and rules...

Penny Jordan doesn't want a husband- she needs one. It's the only way she can save her ranch. Her pickings are slim, so she asks her friend from back east to find one and send him to the Black Hills of the Dakota Territory, ASAP. Penny soon discovers...

The story recounts the tragic love of Lucy Ashton, and Edgar, Master of Ravenswood. Edgar's father was stripped of the title for supporting the deposed King James VII. Lucy's ambitious father, Sir William Ashton, then bought the Ravenswood estate. Edgar...

Sarah Orne Jewett was an acclaimed novelist and short story author, who drew inspiration from her birthplace for the characters and surroundings of her "domestic fiction."From the author's preface: "This book is not wholly new, several of the chapters...

Equal in station and age, it was foreseeable that neighbors Clara Battersley and Serena Coleridge would become fast friends. More surprising is that they would become lovers-a secret they tell no one.Giddy with love and the prospect of their London...

Growing up in the early years of the twentieth century, Joe Dooley allows his love for music and his passionate friendships with other young men to blind him to the tides of revolution rising around him in British-dominated Ireland. When he realizes he...

Asphodel Quick fights her wicked great-uncle for possession of her grandmother's legacy--the Black Hart Hotel on the remote North York moors. Her uncle demands she marry him or be tossed into the dread Harrowlick Lunatic Asylum. Then a dashing highwayman...