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The House of the Seven Gables  |
The House of the Seven Gables
Pyncheon House, a 19th-century New England mansion, is beset with problems. Accusations of witchcraft are in the air, and a relative is soon to return from prison. But here comes the country cousin Phoebe, to raise their spirits and embark on a romance with the mysterious lodger Holgrave. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance |
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The Scarlet Letter  |
The Scarlet Letter
Hester Prynn carries with her a mark signifying adultery, a true sin in 17th century Puritan Boston. The red letter A on her clothing brings public shame, but she will not name the father of her daughter, Pearl, no matter the threat to her own reputation and her life. Categories: Romance, Other Fiction, Historical Romance |
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The Heart  |
The Heart
Master Wingfield, a tutor, is besotted with the young, feisty Mistress Mary Cavendish in this 17th century romance. He has been entranced by her charm and beauty since he was a lad of fourteen, and years later he is also taken with her courage in defending the family tobacco farm. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Indian Summer  |
Indian Summer
Theodore Colville returns to Florence, the city of his heartbreak twenty years earlier. Now a middle-aged man, he encounters former flame Lina Bowen, her daughter Effie and their friend, the young and beautiful Imogene Graham, who develops a crush on him. Which way will he turn? Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Ishmael, or In The Depths  |
Ishmael, or In The Depths
Originally a serialized novel, Ishmael follows a man born poor, presumed illegitimate, yet possessed of great inner strengths. In this 19th century rags-to-riches story, Ishmael has many adventures and romances on his rise to the top. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Daughter of the Commandant  |
The Daughter of the Commandant
Russian 17-year-old Pyotr Grinyov is sent into military service during the Pugachev Rebellion of the 1770s. His service does not go as planned, especially after he meets Masha Mironov and falls in love. The passionate Pyotr risks duels and the scorn of father Mironov to win her love in return. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Dear Enemy  |
Dear Enemy
Judy Abbott has come a long way from the orphanage where she grew up in this sequel to Daddy-Long-Legs. She reaches back through time to help childhood friend Sallie McBride improve conditions for the children living there now, but romantic entanglements may foil their plans. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Daddy Long Legs  |
Daddy Long Legs
From an orphanage to college, Jerusha, or Judy, Abbott hopes to continue her education, but has no funds. When an anonymous benefactor offers to finance her studies, Judy accepts. Her witty letters to this generous man may bring her closer to knowing his identity than she expects. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Daughter of an Empress  |
The Daughter of an Empress
Opening on a scene of execution, and involving the dramas of Empresses, Counts and Countesses, this historical romance takes us into the realms of Russian royalty. The Empress Anna is dead and her successor is unclear. Princess Elizabeth is named to the post, but many stand in her way. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Dangerous Days  |
Dangerous Days
The passionate beginnings of World War I tear apart a group of lifelong friends. In the center of the group is ambitious businessman Clayton Spenser. Clayton finds that to win the woman he loves, he must risk any chance of security and safety. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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A Daughter of Fife  |
A Daughter of Fife
Maggie, a simple Scottish fisher-girl, finds herself pursued by a passionate young artist in this romantic story. While Maggie breaks with the family fishing tradition with Allen, her brother David also leaves the nets behind for a very different career. The next generation will be different. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Count Hannibal  |
Count Hannibal
The ruthless Count Hannibal falls in love with a beautiful noblewoman, Clotilde de Vrillac, in this adventure-packed historical romance. Dueling lovers and escaped prisoners mark the way to the Huguenot lady, in Paris at the Court of Charles IX. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Crittenden |
Crittenden
War is coming to the bluegrass country of Kentucky in this romantic novel of the South. As the war pits neighbor against neighbor, it also sets apart would-be lovers Crittenden and Judith. Judith cannot admit her love and Crittenden is called away to war before they can acknowledge their passion. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Daisy In The Field  |
Daisy In The Field
In this third installment of the Wetherell series featuring Daisy Cardigan, the young heroine is troubled by a passion for the forbidden. She knows her family will not approve of her loving a Northern army officer who is also a farmer's son. Yet she cannot seem to help herself. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Clementina  |
Clementina
The year is 1719. The scene is a desolate section of road between Florence and Bologna. When Mr. Charles Wogan finds his horse has gone lame, it seems that Fate has put him here for a purpose. Little does he know that purpose will involve protecting the life of Princess Clementina. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Cashel Byron's Profession  |
Cashel Byron's Profession
An English schoolboy rebels, running to Australia to become a prizefighter. He returns to England a young man who catches the eye of heiress Lydia Carew. Lydia can't stay away from Cashel despite the difference in their social positions; she marries him, and discovers in his past countless secrets. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Confession  |
Confession
Edward Clifford has a passionate love for his wife, Julia, yet he suspects her of entertaining the affections of a visitor, William Edgarton. Edgarton is indeed pressing himself upon Julia, but Edward's suspicions are, for Julia's part, more in his mind than in reality. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The City of Delight  |
The City of Delight
The dramas of a nation form the backdrop for the drama of love in The City of Delight. The colorful crowds of Jerusalem bring Jews, Persians and Romans together to confront their differences. The tension in the air only adds to the desperate passion of young love. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Contrary Mary  |
Contrary Mary
Mary, Constance and Barry Ballard are siblings living together in an old Washington, D.C. home. Marriage will soon take Constance away, leaving her sister and brother to decide: close up the old house or take in a boarder? Mary boldly chooses to rent a suite of rooms to a gentleman stranger. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Call of the Cumberlands  |
The Call of the Cumberlands
A rough, fighting mountaineer, Samson South leaves his family, his sweetheart and the majestic hills of his Kentucky homeland to follow his dream of becoming a painter in the city. His adventures shape him into an educated urban artist, yet he cannot resist the call to return to the Cumberlands. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Cardinal's Snuff Box |
The Cardinal's Snuff Box
English novelist Peter Marchdale settles in to do some writing in a quiet villa in the Italian countryside. His earnest plans are thwarted, however, when he discovers that his landlady is the beautiful young Duchessa di Santangiolo, with whom he has been secretly in love for years. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Chaplet of Pearls  |
The Chaplet of Pearls
Imagine a world of weddings arranged for very young children to join their families for political purposes. In 16th-century France, we join a tale of just such a baby-marriage. King Henri II presides over the union of two very young children, among the religious feuds of the times. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Clara Hopgood  |
Clara Hopgood
Sisters Clara and Madge, independent young women, venture out from their Fenmarket home to London. Not only are they two single women on their own, there is a newborn baby girl to account for, but no husband. The unconventional story was considered scandalous when it appeared in 1896. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Burned Bridges |
Burned Bridges
Unreachable except by canoe or dogsled, young Sophie Carr's cabin is tucked away in the wilds of Canada. Somehow, though, Mr. Wesley Thompson reaches Sophie's village, prepared to preach and pray the way to salvation of the native people. Mr. Thompson is unprepared, however, for the raw challenges of native life, both physically and spiritually. When he meets Sophie, his plans may come completely undone. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Buccaneer - A Tale  |
The Buccaneer - A Tale
The pure-hearted Barbara tries her best to maintain a high moral code, but she is surrounded by rough seamen, fancy ladies, and even possible murderers in this historical romance. Mrs. S.C. Hall's first novel, The Buccaneer takes us back in time to the 17th century and England at the time of the Protectorate. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Broad Highway  |
The Broad Highway
This is Romance with a capital R. The Broad Highway has romantic language, passionate characters, and swashbuckling adventures on the open road. Classic characters include the hero and his lady, the Tinker, the Ancient, and Black George, the smith. Farnol's first novel was an instant success. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Bow of Orange Ribbon  |
The Bow of Orange Ribbon
Forbidden romance between young Katherine van Heemskirk of New York and a dashing English captain leads to duels and disgrace in this historical romance that takes us back to the 1760s. The scene shifts between England and America on the cusp of the American Revolution, with political conflicts reflected in the struggle of the would-be lovers. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)  |
Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)
This famous story of a courtesan and her love affair is partly autobiographical, reflecting the author's own relationship with real-life paramour Marie Duplessis. Countless versions of The Lady of the Camellias, or Camille, have been performed in theatres worldwide since its stage debut in Paris in 1852. The story created such a sensation that it also inspired Verdi's celebrated opera La Traviata. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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By Berwen Banks  |
By Berwen Banks
Twins raised apart, Gwladys and Valmai are mirror images of one another, and fiercely protective of each other. Life seems simple in the quiet Welsh town of Caer Madoc until the girls come together as young women. Then, suitors Cardo and Gwynne suffer the confusion of mistaken identities when one twin poses as the other in an attempt to defend her sister's virtue. Can the would-be lovers sort themselves out so that true love prevails? Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Brandon of the Engineers |
Brandon of the Engineers
Building bridges is a specialty for civil engineer Lieutenant Richard Brandon, and he is confident of his path. Aiming for the rank of Captain and eventual marriage to his socially-appropriate match, Helen Massie, Brandon seems to be well on his way. He has not planned, however, on the arrival of wanderer Clare Kenwardine and all she will mean to the changing course of his life. Army intrigue and stolen secrets set the stage for the tumultuous relationship between Brandon and Clare. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Englishwoman's Love Letters  |
Englishwoman's Love Letters
Absence may truly make the heart grow fonder. Presented as love letters from an anonymous Englishwoman to her far-away lover, this is the story of a passionate courtship and its tragic end. The formality of the letters only serves to underline the raw passion that hides between the lines. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Big Game - A Story for Girls  |
Big Game - A Story for Girls
A passionate poet is pressured to join the family business. He depends on his sister, whose womanly wiles may help pursuade a certain magazine editor to look at his work. Brother and sister are off to a remote hotel in the Scottish highlands to meet up with the mysterious editor who is not exactly what he seems, in this romantic novel. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Blithedale Romance |
The Blithedale Romance
When the exotic Zenobia and gentle Priscilla both fall in love with social reformer Hollingsworth, personal philosophies and passions are explored, discarded, and re-examined. Based on his own experience in communal living at Brook Farm, Hawthorne has poet Miles Coverdale tell the story. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Blow the Man Down - A Romance of the Coast |
Blow the Man Down - A Romance of the Coast
Torn between duty and desire, Captain Boyd Mayo is new at the helm of a yacht and new to the game of love. Wanting to please yacht-owner Julius Marston, Captain Mayo is desperate to hide his wild attraction to master Marston's young daughter, Alma. Ever the flirt, Alma tantalizes the young man beyond his ability to resist in this romance on the stormy seas. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Beyond the Rocks  |
Beyond the Rocks
Is three times the charm? A young woman forced into an arranged marriage meets her true match before her wedding, again in the Alps on her honeymoon, and still later in Paris before her husband discovers the passionate pair. The melodramatic action hinges on the choice the husband must make, to confront the lovers or sacrifice himself for the sake of their love. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Beverly of Graustark |
Beverly of Graustark
The exotic East European mountain country of Graustark hosts a young American traveller, Beverly, who is visiting her friend the princess at court. Royal intrigue, mistaken identities, and a surprise romance make Beverly's trip a life-changing one. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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A Bicycle of Cathay |
A Bicycle of Cathay
A restful bicycling vacation in the country takes a young professor down more adventurous paths than he had planned. Staying with various families along the way, he meets beautiful women, receives marriage proposals, survives a bear chase and more. An amusing, romantic story. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Ayrshire Legatees  |
The Ayrshire Legatees
Scottish minister Dr. Zachariah Pringle and his family travel to London, and they have plenty to write home about. Innocent of urban ways, the Pringles observations reveal the social realities of London life in eye-opening letters to their relatives back home. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Regency Romance |
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Blue-Bird Weather |
Blue-Bird Weather
City man meets country woman and sparks fly in this romance novella set on Chesapeake Bay during blue-bird weather, that delightful reprieve from endless winter, also known as the January thaw. Urban gentleman John Marche goes to New England expecting to go duck-hunting, but finds himself hunted by love as well. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Aylwin |
Aylwin
Henry Aylwin, heir of Raxton Hall, falls in love with the unpredictable Winifred Wynne, his friend from childhood, but not a match of which his family approves. When the lovers are separated by tragedy, Henry sets out on an extroardinary quest through the Welsh landscape, seeking reunion. Gypsy lore and tradition help him meet the challenges along the way. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Audrey |
Audrey
Into an idyllic scene of a daydreaming child in a sunlit Virginia valley comes a warning. Strangers are approaching the isolated hollow on horseback, bringing war and love, life and death to the once peaceful glen. Mary Johnston's Audrey was a bestselling novel in 1902 and was applauded by critics in the New York Times. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Amazing Interlude  |
The Amazing Interlude
Drawing on her own experience as a World War I correspondent, Rinehart brings us into the world of American Sara Lee Kennedy, who is nursing wounded soldiers in Belgium. There, Sara Lee meets a passionate man who sweeps her into an otherworldly romance and a mystery that begs to be solved. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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The Amulet |
The Amulet
Ships overflowing with the riches of the world fill the ports of 16th century Antwerp, and provide endless temptation. The action includes an assassination gone wrong, crimes hidden and discovered, and the wooing of a beautiful young woman. Evildoers beware; the righteous have the upper hand in this historical romance novel. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Awakening of Helena Richie |
The Awakening of Helena Richie
First published in serial form, The Awakening of Helena Richie features Deland's fictional 19th century village of Old Chester, Pennsylvania. Helena must fight for love amidst a tangle of marriage, divorce, and family secrets. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Annette - The Metis Spy  |
Annette - The Metis Spy
As an innocent young girl in the prairies of the North-West Territories, Annette is rescued from near-drowning by a stranger who is a hero to her, but an enemy to her people. Annette's loyalties are sorely tested by her attraction to her savior Captain Stephens amidst the intense battles between the French and the native Metis people. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Atma - A Romance |
Atma - A Romance
Soaring poetry and exotic Indian locations create a dramatic setting for this story of the Sikhs struggles in the 1840s. Atma Singh must try to regain the sapphire of fate and the honor of his people in this historical novel touched with adventure and romance. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Annie Kilburn |
Annie Kilburn
Returning from Italy to Massachusetts in the late 1800s, Annie Kilburn takes on the social causes of her time in this American Realist novel. As she works on the behalf of sick children, she ultimately becomes emotionally attached to her charges, as well as the Unitarian minister who advises her. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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Anne Severn and the Fieldings |
Anne Severn and the Fieldings
Secret romances, mixed messages, and ever-changing relationships abound in this Victorian romance. Anne Severn has lost her mother and is left in the care of the Fieldings. Through her grief, she cannot accept motherly love from her adoptive mother, but in her youth, she may seek more than fraternal love from her new brothers. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Anna the Adventuress |
Anna the Adventuress
It's a case of mistaken identity when Annabel Pellissier leads Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister Anna. Annabel takes on the flirtatious personality of her sister, a deception that becomes very complicated when the sisters both come to live in London. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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An Outback Marriage |
An Outback Marriage
Welcome to Australian bush in the late 1800s. It's not an easy place for man or woman alone. It's a place where survival and partnership can make a marriage as much as ceremonies and certificates. This romantic novel puts the reader right into the language, culture, and wildness of the Australian outback. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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