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Aladdin of London, or The Lodestar ![]() |
Aladdin of London, or The Lodestar
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 ![]() |
Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 3
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 ![]() |
Greatheart
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 ![]() |
Black Bartlemys Treasure
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 ![]() |
Tyranny of the Dark
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 ![]() |
The Count of Monte Cristo Volume 2
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 ![]() |
Romance Island
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 ![]() |
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 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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The Woman in White ![]() |
The Woman in White
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 ![]() |
The Vicomte de Bragelonne
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 ![]() |
Lonesome Land
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 ![]() |
Dwellers in the Hills
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 ![]() |
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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Beatrice ![]() |
Beatrice
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 ![]() |
The Haunted Chamber
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 ![]() |
The Maids of Paradise
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 ![]() |
The Gospel Truth Series: Exposing the Deep Secrets Of Satan
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 |
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Anna Karenina - Part 4 ![]() |
Anna Karenina - Part 4
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 ![]() |
Benita, An African Romance
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 ![]() |
The Mucker
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 ![]() |
Bessies Fortune
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 ![]() |
Pearl-Maiden
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 ![]() |
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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The Way We Live Now ![]() |
The Way We Live Now
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 ![]() |
The Quest of the Silver Fleece
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 ![]() |
Lady Into Fox
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 ![]() |
The Room in the Dragon Volant
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 ![]() |
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 Phantom Lover ![]() |
The Phantom Lover
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 ![]() |
Alice, or, The Mysteries
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 ![]() |
The Lilac Sunbonnet
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 ![]() |
The Magnificent Montez
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 ![]() |
The Fighting Shepherdess
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 ![]() |
The Shadow of the East
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 ![]() |
Virginia of Elk Creek Valley
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 ![]() |
No Thoroughfare
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 ![]() |
Rainbows End
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 ![]() |
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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Spring Torrents ![]() |
Spring Torrents
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 ![]() |
The Enchanted April
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 ![]() |
Amours of Zeokinizul
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 ![]() |
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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The Darrow Enigma ![]() |
The Darrow Enigma
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 ![]() |
Charred Wood
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 ![]() |
The Flaming Jewel
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 ![]() |
The Last Woman
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 |
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Graham of Claverhouse ![]() |
Graham of Claverhouse
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 ![]() |
An Eye for an Eye
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 ![]() |
The Glimpses of the Moon
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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