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Three Men and a Maid  |
Three Men and a Maid
Romantic entanglements ensue aboard an ocean liner carrying three men and a woman. Billie Bennet travels with her fiance the poet, her old friend Eustace, and his cousin Sam. All are smitten with the redheaded woman in their midst, with humorous and romantic results. Categories: Humor, Historical Romance |
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To Have and To Hold  |
To Have and To Hold
The most popular novel by Mary Johnston, this classic takes us back to Virginia in the early days of Jamestown, John Smith and Pocahontas. A train full of imported brides has just arrived at Jamestown and one lady will find many adventures await her on the way to the altar. Category: Historical Romance |
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Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor  |
Lorna Doone, A Romance of Exmoor
A 17th century English farmer, John Ridd struggles to forget a family tragedy and the notorious Doone clan that was responsible. But when he meets Lorna Doone, he falls in love despite family history. He must stop Lorna from marrying the heir of the Doone Valley, and learn the truth of her identity. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Knights of the Cross  |
The Knights of the Cross
Home from war against the Knights of the Cross, poor nobleman Zbyszko falls in love with the beautiful princess Danusia. Can Danusia save Zbyszko from the gallows, and can he rescue her from kidnapping? The lovers face many dangers in wartime in 15th century Poland. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Well-Beloved  |
The Well-Beloved
Sculptor Jocelyn Pierston has searched for the ideal woman for decades. He has courted mothers, daughters and granddaughters through the years, but none pass for perfect. Not until he is an older man does he reconsider his quest and rekindle an old flame who may just be worthy of his love. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Reckoning  |
The Reckoning
Return to a time when the streets of New York were traveled on horseback during the Revolutionary War. The 4th novel in a series, The Reckoning follows the passions of Lady Elsin Grey and Carus Renault amidst the battles of frontiersmen, Continental troops, and Iroquois. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Queen of Hearts  |
The Queen of Hearts
Griffith and his older brothers live a quiet life in an old country house, until Jessie, nearly 21, comes to stay. When Griffith gets word that his son will return from sea to declare his love for Jessie, the brothers spin tales to keep the heiress entertained until the sailor arrives. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Line of Love  |
The Line of Love
The Line of Love is a romance that takes a humorous look at romances themselves. Through the eyes of lovers Florian de Puysange and Adelaide de la Forêt, it celebrates and skewers the coincidences that lead lovers to one another, and the consequences of these unions through the ages. Category: Historical Romance |
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A Knight of the Nets  |
A Knight of the Nets
Young Sophy longs to leave the tiny fishing village of Pittendurie, so isolated from the world, with its small cottages hidden amidst the rocks. She must leave behind her childhood sweetheart, Andrew. Heartbroken, he turns to Christina for comfort, not knowing where this path will ultimately lead. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Desired Woman  |
The Desired Woman
Atlanta, Georgia banker Dick Mostyn seems to be suffering an emotional breakdown after a life of dubious business deals and even more suspect romantic engagements. It may take more than his new love, Dolly, to help him through the tragedies that follow in his wake. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Baronet's Bride  |
The Baronet's Bride
A romance that truly takes you away from the everyday world and into the realm of gypsies, horoscopes, family feuds and a mysterious murder. Add long-hidden secrets, proud ladies and arrogant baronets and you have a tale of romantic betrayals and vengeance sought across the generations. Category: Historical Romance |
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Heart of the Blue Ridge  |
Heart of the Blue Ridge
Mountain moonshine is part of life for Zeke Higgins. But when he betrays the moonshiners to the revenue agents, he angers many. Leaving the mountains is his only prayer, but in his absence, his sweetheart Plutina is kidnapped. Her rescue will require Zeke to return to the hills of home. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Promise  |
The Promise
In 1746 eight-year-old Colleen Stuart was more than the playmate of ten-year-old Jonathan Rodes -- she was his best friend. She could do anything a boy could do and best of all, she could play jokes on the adults without getting caught. Jonathan assumed they would always be together, but no sooner had his father told him the secret of the jewels, than his world collapsed. The King's men executed his father, his ailing mother died and he found himself painfully separated from Colleen. For years he remembered his promise to find her, but it seemed a hopeless task until one day an odd letter arrived. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Portrait of a Lady Volume II  |
Portrait of a Lady Volume II
Beautiful, outspoken American Isabel Archer travels to her wealthy Aunt Touchett in Europe with a plan to marry. Not lacking for gentlemanly suitors, Isabel rejects several offers before falling for the overwhelmingly charming Gilbert Osmond, a man who consumes her, body and soul. Category: Historical Romance |
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Portrait of a Lady Volume I |
Portrait of a Lady Volume I
Beautiful, outspoken American Isabel Archer travels to her wealthy Aunt Touchett in Europe with a plan to marry. Not lacking for gentlemanly suitors, Isabel rejects several offers before falling for the overwhelmingly charming Gilbert Osmond, a man who consumes her, body and soul. Category: Historical Romance |
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Return of the Native  |
Return of the Native
Clym Yeobright is a rising star in Egdon Heath, idealistic, intellectual and ambitious. Until, that is, he encounters Eustacia Vye, a wild and free-spirited woman he cannot resist. Eustacia has a complicated romantic past that haunts the pair in their struggle to be together. Category: Historical Romance |
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O Pioneers!  |
O Pioneers!
The Bergson family struggles to hang on to the family farms in Nebraska at the turn of the 20th century. Especially Alexandra, a strong-willed young woman who makes the farms prosper. Now, childhood friend Carl Linstrum showers her with unexpected attention. Does he want her love or her land? Categories: Historical Romance, Western Romance |
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The House of Mirth  |
The House of Mirth
At 29, Lily Bart is looking for the perfect husband. Not lacking for suitors, Lily entertains a series of wealthy, passionate men, from gamblers to yachtsmen. Yet she finds none offer the connection she feels with lawyer Lawrence Selden, who lacks wealth, but offers love. Category: Historical Romance |
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Ann Veronica |
Ann Veronica
The passionate and headstrong Ann Veronica Stanley refuses to let her father's restrictions curtail her choices in life. Escaping the London suburbs and making her own way amidst intellectuals and academics, she finds freedom is complicated when she falls in love with a married man. Category: Historical Romance |
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Bardelys the Magnificent  |
Bardelys the Magnificent
Gambling his estate, Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, Marquis de Bardelys, wagers he can win the heart of a beautiful heiress in Languedoc. His pursuit is challenged by the politics of France during the reign of Louis XIII, and he must survive battles and charges of treason while wooing the girl. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Ink Stain  |
The Ink Stain
Fabien Jean Jacques Mouillard, barrister, is well schooled in the academic subjects, with law and arts degrees. But what will this scholarly man make of affairs of the heart? When he meets Mademoiselle Jeanne, he realizes there is more to learn in the world than in the library. Category: Historical Romance |
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A Room With A View  |
A Room With A View
On tour in Italy, young Lucy is overwhelmed by her feelings for a stranger staying at her hotel. Lucy is supposed to marry her proper suitor, Cecil, but she is overcome with attraction to the witty George Emerson, who opens to her an unconventional and freethinking world. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Age of Innocence  |
The Age of Innocence
Settled comfortably in the highest social circles of New York City in the 1870s, Newland Archer prepares to marry his social equal, May Welland, when he meets her beautiful, exotic cousin. Countess Ellen Olenska, back from Europe, has Newland reconsidering the rules he has lived by for so long. Category: Historical Romance |
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Uarda |
Uarda
The historical romances of Georg Ebers made ancient Egypt into a popular romantic setting. In this volume, Uarda is a young girl presumed to be of low birth. She is visiting the city of the dead when she is injured by a daughter of Rameses, setting in motion the adventures that will reveal her true Category: Historical Romance |
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Love Among The Chickens  |
Love Among The Chickens
Jeremy Garnet, author, takes his friend Stanley Featherstonehaugh Ukridge up on his offer of a holiday. He is astonished to find his vacation taking place on a chicken farm, and even more astonished to find himself falling in love with a girl living there. Categories: Humor, Historical Romance |
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Little Dorrit |
Little Dorrit
Money changes everything. It is an age-old story told with great passion in the case of Amy, or Little Dorrit. The girl starts life in a debtors prison, but falls in love with the wealthy Arthur. Fortunes are lost, discovered, hidden, and found again before Amy and Arthur can reunite. Category: Historical Romance |
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Letters of Two Brides  |
Letters of Two Brides
When two young women escape from their convent school to be wed, their lives change tremendously. Louise and Renee become Madames Gaston and lEstorade, and exchange letters describing the changes. Over the next seventeen years, they share the passions and betrayals of married life. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Mysteries of Udolpho |
The Mysteries of Udolpho
Often considered the first Gothic romance novel, The Mysteries of Udolpho follows Emily St. Aubert as she recovers from the death of her father, faces supernatural forces in a ghostly castle, and confronts the plotting of an Italian brigand. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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A Sicilian Romance  |
A Sicilian Romance
The northern shores of Sicily, all ruins and castles, is the setting for the story of the fallen house of Mazzini. Mixing the possibility of the supernatural with the psychological, the story follows the extraordinary struggles of heroes and heroines fighting mysterious villains. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Princess of Cleves |
The Princess of Cleves
Mademoiselle de Chartres is a young lady of fifteen at the court of Henry II of France, looking for a marriage match. Her mother suggests the unremarkable Prince de Cleves, and soon the girl is wed. Only after the wedding, does she meets the charming Duc de Nemours, and the spark of love is ignited. Category: Historical Romance |
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Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded |
Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded
Pamela Andrews is a pious young girl, a waiting-maid in Bedfordshire. When the master of the house makes advances on her, Pamela resists, and writes to her parents for moral advice. Her letters show her persistence in protecting her virtue, for which she is richly rewarded in the end. Categories: Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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Tess of the dUrbervilles  |
Tess of the dUrbervilles
Tess, beautiful but poor, finds she is related to the dUrbervilles of Norman aristocracy. This news brings her to the relentless attentions of Alec dUrberville, and the righteous affections of Angel Clare. She loves Angel, but fears their union cannot survive the secrets she has kept. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Rainbow  |
The Rainbow
The prequel to Women in Love, The Rainbow follows three generations of one family, the Brangwens, and the sexual dynamics and relationships of the family members. Though considered tame today, The Rainbow was banned in Britain for its frank look at sensual desires. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Eternal City  |
The Eternal City
The heroic love Roma has for her husband, Rossi, knows no bounds in this dramatic romance set in the politically charged city of Rome at the turn to the 20th century. While she will do anything for Rossi, can Rosa also help her city end the tyranny of the unscrupulous Baron? Category: Historical Romance |
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Madame Bovary  |
Madame Bovary
Emma expects all the passion, wealth, and beautiful things that come with high society when she marries Charles Bovary. When her romantic view of the world clashes with her new country life, she seeks excitement outside her marriage, living in the ecstasy of extremes. Category: Historical Romance |
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Fair Margaret  |
Fair Margaret
Margaret Donne is young, full of life, and on her way to a spectacular singing career. Her would-be suitor, Edmund Lushington, on the other hand, is a quiet, serious man. Margaret dismisses his attentions until she enters the dramatic world of the stage and realizes she desperately needs his help. Category: Historical Romance |
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His Hour |
His Hour
Beautiful young English widow Tamara Loraine is on an Egyptian tour when she meets Russian Prince Gritzko Milaslavski. She finds him fascinating and is eager to see him again in Moscow. The charismatic Prince returns her feelings, but his passion is tinged with a danger Tamara has not foreseen. Category: Historical Romance |
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Vanity Fair  |
Vanity Fair
Quick-witted but poor Becky Sharp, and simple-minded but rich Amelia Sedley leave the shelter of school and find themselves embroiled in mismatched marriages, secret loves, and relentless social climbing in 19th-century England. Becky in particular will stop at nothing to secure her future. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders  |
The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders
The exploits of the character Moll Flanders are pure legend. Here Daniel Defoe describes the English woman in America, following her many marriages, her prostitution, and her thievery. Her raunchy romps lead to repentance and the possibility of reuniting with her soul mate. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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French and Oriental Love in a Harem |
French and Oriental Love in a Harem
Exploring the secrets of passion in a Turkish harem is endlessly exciting, but can it also be the path to true love? This romantic, erotic story makes the impossible seem both exotic and inevitable in a setting of incredible Oriental splendor. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Great Expectations  |
Great Expectations
Romance, mystery, and morality play equal parts in this classic. Young Pip overcomes hardships with the help of a mysterious benefactor, but nobody can save him from the torment of loving the beautiful Estella. Reared by the bitter Miss Havisham, Estella learns not to trust love, even true love. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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North and South  |
North and South
Margaret Hale, a southern socialite, clashes with mill owner John Thornton when she moves to industrial northern England. In spite of her sympathy for the workers, Thornton is smitten with Margaret, who rejects his marriage proposal. Only when he withdraws his affections does Margaret reconsider. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Princess Zara  |
Princess Zara
Czarist Russia is a grim place for Princess Zara de Echeveria. She has little hope in her heart until she finds herself falling for a professional spy. Dan Derrington and the Princess Zara must travel the stormy seas between New York to St. Petersburg to meet as fate intends. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Jewel Weed |
Jewel Weed
Described as shimmering, iridescent and ethereal, Lena Quincy is a beautiful young woman with romantic dreams of becoming a writer. She looks to an older man, Richard Percival, to help her achieve her dreams, but real life marriage parts ways with her childish fantasies. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Sanine  |
Sanine
A smart, powerful, attractive man, Sanine indulges his every lust and longing, regardless of the consequences. The young Russian man is not concerned with morality, but with enjoying every pleasure available during the last years of the oppressive Romanov regime. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Kenilworth  |
Kenilworth
The secret marriage of the Earl of Leicester has tragic consequences in this historical romance. The ambitious Earl loves his wife Amy, but hides his marriage from Queen Elizabeth I in hopes of gaining political power. When the truth is revealed, it may be too late for the young couple. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Hearts and Masks  |
Hearts and Masks
Twenty-year-old Alice takes on a new identity to fight her boredom while living at the country estate of her uncle. Along comes a famous author, also hiding his true identity. When the two meet at a masquerade ball, who will be the first to raise the mask and reveal the truth? Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Man and Maid |
Man and Maid
Written with the intimacy of a journal, Man and Maid follows the passionate, tragic, and often amusing love affair of secretary Alathea and her boss, Sir Nicholas Thormonde. Each denies attraction to the other until another woman enters the picture, forcing them to play their cards. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson) |
The Tysons (Mr. and Mrs. Nevill Tyson)
The humble Nevill Tyson inherits the position of country gentleman and doesn't quite know how to fill the role. His marriage to Mollie Wilcox only complicates matters, especially when a friend of Nevill falls in love with the new Mrs. Tyson. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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When a Man Marries  |
When a Man Marries
Newly divorced from his wife of just a year, Jim is expecting a visit from his wealthy aunt, who knows nothing of his failed marriage. He goes to great, often comic, lengths to hide any hints of scandal from his aunt, who might withdraw the financial support on which the young artist depends. Categories: Humor, Romance, Historical Romance |
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