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Aladdin of London, or The Lodestar
Sir Max Pemberton

Rating: 1.5/5
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Aladdin of London, or The Lodestar
by Sir Max Pemberton

Social station is everything and nothing in this romantic mystery involving the son of a British parson and a Polish maid in the Whitechapel district of London. When a mysterious millionaire with political motives becomes involved, their love affair threatens to take a dark turn.

Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 3
Fanny Burney

Rating: 1.5/5
(4 votes cast)

Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 3
by Fanny Burney

An endless and relentless flow of suitors comes to woo beautiful young heiress Cecilia Beverly. Her challenge is to sort them out, which means uncovering the true story of each. She finds love gone wrong, mistaken identities, and family scandals before she locates true husband material.

Category: Historical Romance

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Greatheart
Ethel May Dell

Rating: 1.5/5
(6 votes cast)

Greatheart
by Ethel May Dell

Powerful Sir Eustace doesn't expect competition for his lady from the likes of his quiet, limping brother Stumpy. Of course the lady would choose him. But on the wedding eve, Stumpy surprises everyone with his inner strength. Which brother will be the lucky groom in the end?

Category: Historical Romance

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Black Bartlemys Treasure
Jeffery Farnol

Rating: 1.5/5
(8 votes cast)

Black Bartlemys Treasure
by Jeffery Farnol

Broken by years of slavery at sea and the death of his father, Martin Conisby returns to England seeking revenge. Once home, he is swept into adventures, from saving the beautiful Lady Jane Brandon from kidnapping to following the trail to treasure said to have been left by pirate Black Bartelmy.

Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Tyranny of the Dark
Hamlin Hannibal Garland

Rating: 1.5/5
(8 votes cast)

Tyranny of the Dark
by Hamlin Hannibal Garland

Viola is a lovely, normal girl on the outside, but inside carries incredible psychic powers. Others will exploit her abilities, unless Morton Serviss can rescue her from their selfish plans. Many paranormal episodes in this story come from real-life investigations by the author.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 2
Alexandre Dumas, pere

Rating: 1.5/5
(8 votes cast)

The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 2
by Alexandre Dumas, pere

Dumas takes us to the Mediterranean during the early 1800s in this sweeping story that has remained popular through the centuries. Exiled Edmond Dantes re-invents himself as the Count of the island of Monte Cristo, leading him on a twisting trail of fortunes found, loves lost and redemption reached.

Category: Historical Romance

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Romance Island
Zona Gale

Rating: 1.5/5
(6 votes cast)

Romance Island
by Zona Gale

On a search for her father, a beautiful woman discovers a secret, hidden island, where the inhabitants have unusual abilities. She is followed by a journalist who is equally enchanted by the amazing island and the lovely woman who leads him there.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Reckoning
Robert W. Chambers

Rating: 1.5/5
(8 votes cast)

The Reckoning
by Robert W. Chambers

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 House of Mirth
Edith Wharton

Rating: 1.5/5
(4 votes cast)

The House of Mirth
by Edith Wharton

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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The Woman in White
Wilkie Collins

Rating: 1.5/5
(8 votes cast)

The Woman in White
by Wilkie Collins

Fulfilling the wishes of her dying father, young Laura Fairlie agrees to marry Sir Percival Glyde, who brings villainy into her virtuous Victorian world. Sir Percival is not prepared for the protections of courageous sister Marian, observant teacher Walter or the mysterious Woman in White.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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The Vicomte de Bragelonne
Alexandre Dumas, pere

Rating: 1.5/5
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The Vicomte de Bragelonne
by Alexandre Dumas, pere

In the continuing adventures of the famed musketeers, we join the son of Athos, Raoul de Bragelonne, in the household of M. le Prince. Rather than seek adventure like his father, Raoul is consumed by his desire for his childhood sweetheart, Louise de la Valliere, and his quest is for her heart.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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Lonesome Land
B. M. Bower

Rating: 1.5/5
(11 votes cast)

Lonesome Land
by B. M. Bower

Valeria shuns the hard-working cowboy, Kent, when she first meets him, but doesn't stop watching him. Kent watches Val very closely as she struggles with poverty and a drunken husband. He knows Val is worthy of more than her husband can give. Is he the man to do it?

Category: Western Romance

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Dwellers in the Hills
Melville Davisson Post

Rating: 1.4/5
(9 votes cast)

Dwellers in the Hills
by Melville Davisson Post

Climb into the mountains of West Virginia in the days before settlers changed the landscape forever and discover what love of the land has in common with love of a woman. Also uncover the mystery of oft-told legends that speak of dwarfs inhabiting these hills long before men came along.

Categories: Western, Western Romance

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Bardelys the Magnificent
Rafael Sabatini

Rating: 1.4/5
(9 votes cast)

Bardelys the Magnificent
by Rafael Sabatini

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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Beatrice
Henry Rider Haggard

Rating: 1.4/5
(7 votes cast)

Beatrice
by Henry Rider Haggard

Unmarried Welsh schoolteacher Beatrice Granger falls for married London barrister Geoffrey Bingham in this tangled romance. Complications abound: wife Honoria will not give up her husband, wealthy friend Owen wants to marry Beatrice, and her own sister Elizabeth has her eye on Owen.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Haunted Chamber
Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Rating: 1.4/5
(7 votes cast)

The Haunted Chamber
by Margaret Wolfe Hungerford

Sir Adrian Dynecourt returns home, accompanied by the proper Mrs. Talbot and the flirtatious Miss Delmaine. Miss Delmaine thrills to the possibility of ghosts inhabiting the centuries-old building, and while Sir Adrian discourages her thoughts as mere fancy, the castle itself has other ideas.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Maids of Paradise
Robert W. Chambers

Rating: 1.4/5
(7 votes cast)

The Maids of Paradise
by Robert W. Chambers

Under the French circus tent, the Maids of Paradise dive like mermaids into water below. The acrobatics hint at the drama awaiting American investigator Mr. Scarlett, and his love, the Countess de Vassart. While a real war rages on outside, battles of love and strength are fought in the circus ring.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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The Gospel Truth Series: Exposing the Deep Secrets Of Satan
Macdonald Chy Ekwuno

Rating: 1.4/5
(17 votes cast)

The Gospel Truth Series: Exposing the Deep Secrets Of Satan
by Macdonald Chy Ekwuno

This book explores the basic biblical truths of religion and spirituality which have been hidden for more than 1,300 years. The Devil and his evil machinery are exposed as having led Christians astray by deceiving them to accept, propagate, and practice false doctrines in the churches.

Category: Spirituality

Anna Karenina - Part 4
Leo Tolstoy

Rating: 1.4/5
(10 votes cast)

Anna Karenina - Part 4
by Leo Tolstoy

Anna Karenina is the tragic love story of a woman in love who follows her heart and bears a son with her lover, while she is married to another man. She throws herself in front of an incoming train fearing her lover had lost his love for her.

Category: Historical Romance

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Benita, An African Romance
Henry Rider Haggard

Rating: 1.4/5
(8 votes cast)

Benita, An African Romance
by Henry Rider Haggard

Haggard returns to the exotic world of Africa in this tale said to be based on true events. The adventures include a search for a missing man, a shipwreck, and the quest for hidden gold. Also called The Spirit of Bambaste, Benita is alive with mysticism, ghosts, a lost race, and spirit possession.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Mucker
Edgar Rice Burroughs

Rating: 1.4/5
(8 votes cast)

The Mucker
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

Billy Byrne is considered a low-borne brute, known as a mucker, and is not welcome in high society. As fate would have it, he falls for Barbara Harding, a lady of the upper classes. His street sense may serve them both well when head-hunters capture Barbara and Billy comes to the rescue.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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Bessies Fortune
Mary Jane Holmes

Rating: 1.3/5
(9 votes cast)

Bessies Fortune
by Mary Jane Holmes

Generations will grow from the grand wedding of Burton Jerrold and Geraldine Grey, no matter the reasons for their union. Births, deaths, weddings and funerals follow as their descendents struggle with marriages made for social and financial gain, and find that fortune in love means something else.

Category: Historical Romance

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Pearl-Maiden
Henry Rider Haggard

Rating: 1.3/5
(9 votes cast)

Pearl-Maiden
by Henry Rider Haggard

Miriam is an orphan left in the care of a servant woman. She grows up an educated sculptress, but is unprepared for the dueling passions of love and religion that await her. Daughter of a Christian woman, living with her Jewish grandfather, Miriam finds herself in love with a Roman officer.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Line of Love
James Branch Cabell

Rating: 1.3/5
(6 votes cast)

The Line of Love
by James Branch Cabell

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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The Way We Live Now
Anthony Trollope

Rating: 1.3/5
(7 votes cast)

The Way We Live Now
by Anthony Trollope

Lady Carbury, her daughter Henrietta and her son Felix are at the center of endless dramas in this Victorian novel. Passionate promises are made and broken amidst a swirl of gambling debts, fortune seeking, and social climbing. The young, innocent Henrietta has a lot to learn about the world.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Quest of the Silver Fleece
W.E.B. Du Bois

Rating: 1.3/5
(7 votes cast)

The Quest of the Silver Fleece
by W.E.B. Du Bois

Free-spirited Zora is a child of the American South, yet she is in love with Bles, a true Yankee from the North. Their relationship reflects the social and economic clashes of the late 1800s through the lens of the passionate romance of this most unlikely pair.

Category: Historical Romance

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Lady Into Fox
David Garnett

Rating: 1.3/5
(11 votes cast)

Lady Into Fox
by David Garnett

Richard Tebrick understandably panics when his wife, Sylvia, suddenly turns into a fox during a woodland walk. He tries to keep her new form a secret, but her vixen nature is too strong to stay hidden. Richard must decide whether to keep his beloved wife at home or let her claim her wildness.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Room in the Dragon Volant
Joseph Le Fanu

Rating: 1.2/5
(9 votes cast)

The Room in the Dragon Volant
by Joseph Le Fanu

A carefree young Englishman travels to Paris, looking for adventure. He is waylaid, however, by a mysterious woman traveling the same road. Enchanted, he takes a room at the same inn. Little does he know he has moved into a dangerous new world, full of romance yes, but also a deadly charm.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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Audrey
Mary Johnston

Rating: 1.2/5
(91 votes cast)

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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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The Phantom Lover
Vernon Lee

Rating: 1.2/5
(10 votes cast)

The Phantom Lover
by Vernon Lee

Fantasies abound in the mind of Mrs. Oke, who has in her house a shrine to the spirit of Christopher Lovelock, the long dead lover of an ancestor. But are they all fantasies? The sights, sounds, and even smells that manifest in the Okes home beg the question.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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Alice, or, The Mysteries
Edward Bulwer Lytton

Rating: 1.2/5
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Alice, or, The Mysteries
by Edward Bulwer Lytton

A young woman, escaped from her criminally-minded father, finds kindness in Ernest Maltravers. During their brief time together, Alice and Ernest fall in love, only to be separated by a kidnapping. The mysteries include how how the two will find each other and the strange role of the supernatural.

Categories: Romantic Suspense, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Lilac Sunbonnet
Samuel Rutherford Crockett

Rating: 1.2/5
(6 votes cast)

The Lilac Sunbonnet
by Samuel Rutherford Crockett

The story of Ralph Paden and Winsome Charteris is a sweet love story, tempered with a good dose of Scottish humor. Even as churchmen and politicians clash in age-old feuds, the young lovers pursue their passion singlemindedly, making the politics of the day seem trivial compared to their union.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Magnificent Montez
Horace Wyndham

Rating: 1.2/5
(6 votes cast)

The Magnificent Montez
by Horace Wyndham

A story based on the infamous Lola Montez -- dancer, singer, and courtesan in the mid-1840s -- always features her flirtations and indiscretions. But unlike other fictional accounts of her life, The Magnificent Montez suggests that she might have turned to the straight and narrow in the end.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Fighting Shepherdess
Caroline Lockhart

Rating: 1.2/5
(6 votes cast)

The Fighting Shepherdess
by Caroline Lockhart

17-year-old Katie Prentice fears she is trapped in a small sheep farming town and must always put up with the disrespectful men who come through. Her fears begin to wane, however, when she meets Hughie Disston. Each will face many challenges on the adventure-filled road to the other.

Category: Western Romance

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The Shadow of the East
Edith Maude Hull

Rating: 1.2/5
(6 votes cast)

The Shadow of the East
by Edith Maude Hull

Englishman Barry Craven is in India when he falls in love with Indian girl and marries her. But when an old sweetheart arrives on the scene, Craven is torn between the two. The choice he must make will have dire consequences for one of the women and put Craven himself in danger.

Category: Historical Romance

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Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
Mary Ellen Chase

Rating: 1.2/5
(6 votes cast)

Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
by Mary Ellen Chase

Virginia is a bright-eyed Wyoming girl of seventeen when friends arrive from New England for adventures in the Western woods. Amidst trail-riding, barn-warming, and bear-chasing, Virginia brings together hometown friends and Eastern visitors, thus connecting her childhood to her impending womanhood.

Category: Western Romance

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No Thoroughfare
Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

Rating: 1.2/5
(6 votes cast)

No Thoroughfare
by Charles Dickens and Wilkie Collins

Walter Wilding visits the foundlings home where as an infant he was left by his desperate mother, who later reclaimed him. But Walter learns that he is not truly the son of the woman he has called mother. His quest to discover his true identity leads him to uncover many secrets and surprises.

Category: Historical Romance

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Rainbows End
Rex Ellingwood Beach

Rating: 1.2/5
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Rainbows End
by Rex Ellingwood Beach

Plantation owner Esteban is rumored to harbor a great fortune, secret caches of gold, silver, and jewels. When his wife dies giving birth to twins, and Esteban remarries the money-hungry Isabel, the future of the fortune becomes more uncertain than ever. Only one other man knows the truth.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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The Knights of the Cross
Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz

Rating: 1.2/5
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The Knights of the Cross
by Henryk Adam Aleksander Pius Sienkiewicz

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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Spring Torrents
Ivan Turgenev

Rating: 1.1/5
(7 votes cast)

Spring Torrents
by Ivan Turgenev

Young Russian landowner Dimitry Sanin falls so in love with a German girl that he gives up his Russian estate to come and work in her family pastry shop. They seem destined to marry until Dimitry is ensnared by a sophisticated older woman who has other plans for him.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Enchanted April
Elizabeth von Arnim

Rating: 1.1/5
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The Enchanted April
by Elizabeth von Arnim

Four very different women embark on a getaway to a remote Italian castle, thinking they want to get away from the husbands, lovers, and other men in their lives. The last thing on their minds in this hidden paradise is love, but it has a way of finding them nonetheless.

Category: Historical Romance

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Amours of Zeokinizul
Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

Rating: 1.1/5
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Amours of Zeokinizul
by Claude Prosper Jolyot de Crebillon

Almost everything about this story is a mystery. It was of apparently exotic origins -- translated from the Arabic of the famous Traveller Krinelbol. Is there another explanation for the kingdom of the Zeokinizul? Clues about the King's true loves, adventures and identity are hidden throughout.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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Ann Veronica
H.G. Wells

Rating: 1.1/5
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Ann Veronica
by H.G. Wells

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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The Darrow Enigma
Melvin L. Severy

Rating: 1.1/5
(8 votes cast)

The Darrow Enigma
by Melvin L. Severy

Lawyer George Maitland has fallen for Gwen Darrow and finally manages an introduction through a doctor friend. During his first visit with Gwen, her father falls dead, crying murder before he goes. Maitland must solve this mystery, and many others, before Gwen can give him her love.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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Charred Wood
Myles Muredach

Rating: 1.1/5
(9 votes cast)

Charred Wood
by Myles Muredach

Lazing in the tall grass, Mark Griffin sees a young woman appear beside an old tree and set off for a walk. The unmarried Mark watches when the woman meets a priest. Then he overhears two men who appear to be looking for this very woman. The puzzle she presents is too much for Mark to resist.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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The Flaming Jewel
Robert W. Chambers

Rating: 1.1/5
(9 votes cast)

The Flaming Jewel
by Robert W. Chambers

Former army man Jim Darragh is up against international jewel thieves and American rum-runners in the quest for the famous jewels that were once the property of the Grand Duchess of Estonia, Theodorica. If he can restore them to her, he may win romantic rewards as well.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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The Last Woman
Ross Beeckman

Rating: 1.0/5
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The Last Woman
by Ross Beeckman

Is twenty million dollars too high a price for love, or too low? Patricia Langdon ponders this when her father makes the outrageous proposal that she marry rich Roderick Duncan and thus solve her family's financial woes. To get Patricia, Roderick is not above bribery, or even murder if necessary.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Graham of Claverhouse
Ian Maclaren

Rating: 1.0/5
(3 votes cast)

Graham of Claverhouse
by Ian Maclaren

Princess Mary, daughter of the Duke of York, is to marry William of Orange. Graham of Claverhouse finds himself in service to a conflicted court with an ambitious agenda. Court intrigue is not purely political, and Graham must also oversee the private wars of passion that lurk beneath the politics.

Category: Historical Romance

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An Eye for an Eye
Anthony Trollope

Rating: 1.0/5
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An Eye for an Eye
by Anthony Trollope

When Fred Neville becomes heir to the Earl of Scroope, he is sworn to marry a woman deemed suitable for carrying on the family name. But when he meets Irish beauty Kate, who has a dark family history, he is torn between the call of love and the bonds of duty.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Glimpses of the Moon
Edith Wharton

Rating: 1.0/5
(6 votes cast)

The Glimpses of the Moon
by Edith Wharton

Having no money, Nick and Susy join in marriage with a plan to live luxuriously off the riches of their wealthy friends. Money matters settled, they also agree to pursue romance outside the marriage. What they have not planned for, however, is the real romance that blossoms between them.

Category: Historical Romance

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