The Law and the Lady
by Wilkie Collins

New bride Valeria soon suspects her husband Eustace Woodville of having a secret past and a false identity. When she discovers he has been tried for poisoning his first wife, she is shocked, but convinced he is innocent. Valeria turns detective to uncover the truth and clear his name.

Category: Romantic Suspense

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The Mysteries of Udolpho
by Ann Ward Radcliffe

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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Pamela, Or Virtue Rewarded
by Samuel Richardson

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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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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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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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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 6
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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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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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Return of the Native
by Thomas Hardy

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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At Love's 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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 5
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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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The Drums of Jeopardy
by Harold MacGrath

A young dancer with the Royal Ballet dies an untimely death after parting from her lover, the Prince. On her body is the legendary Drums of Jeopardy necklace. Seeking revenge, her mad scientist father sends the drum charms from the necklace to members of the royal family as omens of impending doom.

Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense

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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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Baby Mine
by Margaret Mayo

In a comedy of misunderstandings, Zoie Hardy tries proving her love for her husband Alfred by becoming a mother. Unfortunately, Zoie's idea of motherhood involves bringing home several other women's babies. Can Alfred see through his wife's zany antics to the true love that lies underneath?

Category: Romance

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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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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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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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Catfish Charlie
by Luther Butler

This is the compelling story of a man who spilled his blood in war and came home to a war that raged in his mind. There is a great rivalry in Texas between the University of Texas and Texas A. and M. Returned Korean War hero, Jim Crawford thought enough of Texas A. and M. that he gave his life so his son could attend the school that would make him a man.

Category: Other Fiction

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Inez, A Tale of the Alamo
by Augusta J. Evans

Inez de Garcia is sixteen-year-old Mexican heiress with wealth in lands and beauty. She is also a stubborn girl. Although promised to marry her cousin Manuel Nevarro on her seventeenth birthday, she begs her father to break the engagement. When he won't, Inez takes matters into her own hands.

Category: Western Romance

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Jane Cable
by George Barr McCutcheon

A railroad man and his wife feel their marriage is beyond salvation when an orphan unexpectedly enters their lives. Caring for their new daughter gives them renewed hope and motivation, until Jane grows up. Then, Jane's hidden history comes back to haunt her, her fiance and her adoptive parents.

Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

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The Amateur Gentleman
by Jeffery Farnol

Fortune has found young English innkeeper Barnabas. As he works his way into London high society, he also embarks on a romance with a Lady. Adventures keep Barnabas busy, with thrills like high stakes horse-racing in this Regency romance.

Categories: Romance, Regency Romance

Love Eternal
by Henry Rider Haggard

Timeless passion takes on new dimensions in this romance between two souls bound together regardless of the eras or bodies they inhabit. The physical world limits their union, but changes are at hand to bring them together forever in the spirit realm.

Categories: Historical Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Incomplete Amorist
by Edith Nesbit

Young Betty is an aspiring artist yet to experience her first love. But when she meets a charming, unpredictable painter, her profession and passion come together for the first time. In the romantic streets of Paris at the turn-of-the-century, the couple searches for a way to stay together.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Ink-Stain
by Rene Bazin

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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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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance

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The Monk
by M. G. Lewis

Raised in a monastery, Ambrosio becomes a charismatic monk who seems above all scandal. The devil will tempt him, though, in the form of Matilda, a wanton woman who enters his flock disguised as a boy.

Categories: Historical Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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Undine
by Friedrich Fouque

A water spirit, Undine, seeks to gain a soul in the only way open to her; she must marry a mortal. She marries a knight named Huldbrand and despite their deep love, discovers why such a union has been warned against for all time. The price for a human soul is a high one.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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Anna Karenina - Part 2
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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Ivanhoe
by Sir Walter Scott

Wilfred of Ivanhoe, one of the last Saxon English noblemen, is determined to court Lady Rowena in spite of opposition from his father, Cedric. The path to wedded bliss is strewn with chivalric adventures, castle stormings, jousting tournaments, kidnappings and mistaken identities.

Category: Regency Romance

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A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 3
by Charles Dickens

This is an exciting tale of London and revolutionary Paris in the 18th century. Three men are obsessed over one woman, Lucie Manette. The twists and turns in the plot capture the harshness of the French Revolution, honorable sacrifice and loves lost and gained.

Category: Other Fiction

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To The Last Man
by Zane Grey

Son of a cattleman, Jean Isabel tests family loyalty by falling in love with the daughter of a sheepherder, Ellen Jorth. The rivalry of generations is reawakened and the lovers are caught in the crossfire in a story that takes a chapter from the real family feuds of the early American West.

Category: Western Romance

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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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Mistress Wilding
by Rafael Sabatini

The charming Anthony Wilding pursues a young lady who is suspicious of his reputation as a rogue. This same rogue spirit leads him to help the Duke of Monmouth rise up against King James. While foes oppose his every move, the chivalrous Wilding may yet succeed in politics and passion.

Category: Historical Romance

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The Yoke
by Elizabeth Miller

Fair of skin and hair, Rachel is an unusual beauty among Israelites. Special in many ways, Rachel must face an arduous journey and many losses before being united with Kenkenes, a great Egyptian artist whose most valuable work is his quest for the hand of Rachel in marriage.

Category: Historical Romance

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Letters of Two Brides
by Honore de Balzac

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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God's Good Man
by Marie Corelli

Maryllia, a wealthy heiress, escapes the confines of London and flees to the country, to the small town of the Reverend John Walden, who does not approve of much that Maryllia does. He may change his mind, however, when Maryllia is injured and he is called to help her recover.

Category: Inspirational Romance

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A Laodicean
by Thomas Hardy

Architect George Somerset is unsettled, and finds himself wandering until he comes upon the scene of headstrong young heiress Paula Power, refusing to be baptized. Somerset is soon put to work restoring the castle Paula will live in. Can he restore her faith in love as well?

Category: Historical 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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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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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Miss McDonald
by Mary Jane Holmes

A sister keeps a diary when her thirty year old brother guy brings home a sixteen year old bride - Miss Daisy McDonald. Life changes when expenses increase to meet the expenses of Miss McDonald. Had they both made a mistake? Or, could and should the situation be saved?

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Jude the Obsure
by Thomas Hardy

This romance novel was the last of Thomas Hardy's novels, published in 1895. Jude Fawley, a village stonemason, dreams of becoming a scholar but finds himself struggling through several romances. He finds love but faces social ostracization, a wayward child, murdered children, and religious guilt.

Category: Romance

The Well at World's End
by William Morris

The story of a magic well with the power to grant immortality has set Ralph of Upmeads on a quest to find the real thing. Mysterious women he meets on his journey school him in the consequences of drinking from the well, but they cannot stop him.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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Bride of Lammermoor
by Sir Walter Scott

Truly star-crossed lovers, Edgar and Lucy are desperate to be together, even though their families are sworn enemies. Their misfortune starts in Ravenswood, where Edgar is Master and Lucy's father William Ashton is the sworn enemy of the realm. The villainous Lady Ashton schemes to keep the lovers apart, even as they fight for a wedding to celebrate their love. The story is said to be based on the true tale of the tragic Dalrymple family.

Category: Romance

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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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The Woman Who Did
by Grant Allen

This controversial love story was written in 1895 as part of a series about feminist subjects. It is the story of a very independent woman who is a teacher in London. She falls in love with a lawyer and convinces him that they should live together. She becomes pregnant but her lawyer lover dies.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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A Tale of Two Cities - Volume 2
by Charles Dickens

This is an exciting tale of London and revolutionary Paris in the 18th century. Three men are obsessed over one woman, Lucie Manette. The twists and turns in the plot capture the harshness of the French Revolution, honorable sacrifice and loves lost and gained.

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The Wanderer's Necklace
by Henry Rider Haggard

Olaf, taunted by his bride-to-be, enters the Wanderer's Tomb despite rumors of hauntings. Inside he is enchanted by a beautiful necklace, and dreams of its owner. Knowing her remains a dream until his fiance elopes with another and Olaf is left to find love through the reincarnated necklace wearer.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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