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Count Hannibal
by Stanley John Weyman

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.

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Crittenden
by John Fox Jr.

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.

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Daisy In The Field
by Elizabeth Wetherell

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.

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Clementina
by Alfred E.W. Mason

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.

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Cashel Byrons Profession
by George Bernard Shaw

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.

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Confession
by William Gilmore Simms

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.

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The City of Delight
by Elizabeth Miller

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.

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Contrary Mary
by Irene Temple Bailey

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.

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The Call of the Cumberlands
by Charles Neville Buck

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.

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The Cardinals Snuff-box
by Henry Harland

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.

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The Chaplet of Pearls
by Charlotte Mary Yonge

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.

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Clara Hopgood
by Mark Rutherford

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.

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Burned Bridges
by Bertrand W. Sinclair

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.

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The Buccaneer - A Tale
by Mrs. S. C. Hall

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.

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The Broad Highway
by Jeffery Farnol

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.

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The Bow of Orange Ribbon
by Amelia E. Barr

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.

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Camille (La Dame aux Camilias)
by Alexandre Dumas

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.

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By Berwen Banks
by Allen Raine

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?

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Brandon of the Engineers
by Harold Bindloss

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.

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Englishwomans Love-Letters
by Anonymous

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.

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Big Game - A Story for Girls
by Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey

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.

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The Blithedale Romance
by Nathaniel Hawthorne

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.

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Blow the Man Down - A Romance of the Coast
by Holman Day

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.

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Beyond the Rocks
by Elinor Glyn

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.

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Beverly of Graustark
by George Barr McCutcheon

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.

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A Bicycle of Cathay
by Frank R. Stockton

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.

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The Ayrshire Legatees
by John Galt

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.

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Blue-Bird Weather
by Robert W Chambers

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.

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Aylwin
by Theodore Watts-Dunton

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.

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Audrey
by Mary Johnston

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.

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The Amazing Interlude
by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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.

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The Amulet
by Hendrik Conscience

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.

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The Awakening of Helena Richie
by Margaret Deland

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.

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Annette - The Metis Spy
by Joseph Edmund Collins

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.

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Atma - A Romance
by Caroline Augusta Frazer

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.

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Annie Kilburn
by William Dean Howells

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.

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Anne Severn and the Fieldings
by May Sinclair

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.

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Anna the Adventuress
by E Phillips Oppenheim

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.

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An Outback Marriage
by Andrew Barton Paterson

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.

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Andrew the Glad
by Maria Thompson Davies

Friends David and Andrew fight for the affections of one Phoebe Donelson in this post-Civil War southern romance. Further complicating these entangled affairs of the heart is the young Caroline's sudden appearance in their lives.

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An Ambitious Man
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Should a man marry for love and passion, or ambition and appearances? And what happens when he makes the wrong choice? Generations of would-be lovers ponder these questions and the secrets beneath them through the eyes of self-made man Preston Cheney, in this story of love and desire.

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At Loves Cost
by Charles Garvice

It takes ages to build up a house and a family, but one man can knock it down. Sons and daughters fight for love amidst family pressures from all sides. Would-be couples must make heart-wrenching decisions about family reputations and expectations in this sentimental story.

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Nell of Shorne Mills
by Charles Garvice

The small, rural town of Shorne Mills is not used to strangers. The sudden appearance of an unknown man on horseback changes things in town, and in the life of Nell, who first encounters the man. This romantic novel's alternate title, One Heart's Burden, intimates that strong emotions surely follow the newcomer into town.

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Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley
by Belle Kanaris Maniates

Amarilly comes from modest means, but has big ambitions. Life for Amarilly means living in a large working-class family and dating her bartender boyfriend. But when she meets a wealthy artist, she questions her past and her future. With the talented sculptor Gordon, she seeks new possibilities.

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Amanda
by Anna Balmer Myers

Love can complicate even the simplest of lifestyles. A one-room schoolhouse in early 20th century Amish country seems like a quiet setting for the young schoolteacher, Amanda. But when a friendship turns to romance, Amanda and Martin face the emotional depths that lie beneath the simple life.

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Arms and the Woman
by Harold MacGrath

Young newspaper reporter John Winthrop's luck needs to change. He suffers a double loss of love and money that shocks him, but not as much as the reversals of fortune to come. Romance and riches may find him yet in this 19th century romance.

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Darkness and Daylight
by Mary Jane Holmes

This remarkable story tells of the challenges for several strong women as they look past the ghosts of the past, to restructure their lives and prepare themselves for the future.

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Cousin Maude
by Mary Jane Holmes

This is a captivating tale of love, passion, emotions and family values. The story is set in the beautiful northern hills.

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The New Magdalen
by Wilkie Collins

Two very different women are forced to survive during the war between France and Germany. One is hit by a loose shell and the other decides to take the opportunity to leave behind her life as a fallen woman by assuming the other woman's identity and travels to England.

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The Trespasser
by D. H. Lawrence

This is the story of a tragic love affair between a female friend of the author and her violin teacher. It is based on the diary of the author's female friend.

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