Between Friends
by Robert W. Chambers

What secrets are held between friends? Drene, a dramatic, moody sculptor, shares many secrets with his childhood friend, Graylock. Women wed and wooed, death courted and shunned, sanity doubted and restored, these are all part of the dramas between the lifelong friends and sometimes enemies. And to think it all starts when a woman comes between friends.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

Buy Now

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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

Buy Now

Agnes Grey
by Anne Bronte

When her family hits hard times, young Agnes Grey takes a job as a governess in a wealthy Victorian home. As the daughter of a minister, Agnes is dismayed to witness the corruption that wealth and status can bring to a family. Her mission is find a husband who will love her for herself.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

A Princess of Mars
by Edgar Rice Burroughs

All is fair in love and war, even on Mars. In this romantic adventure, Burroughs takes us to his fantastical world on Mars, where American John Carter must battle the 15-foot tall Green Men of Mars in order to win the heart of a beautiful woman.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Buy Now

The Great Impersonation
by E Phillips Oppenheim

Englishman Sir Everard Dominey and German Baron von Ragastein switch places in Africa and Germany during the years leading to World War I. Their secret seems safe until the mentally ill wife of Dominey questions the identity of the man who claims to be her husband. Who will believe her?

Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

St. Elmo
by Augusta J. Evans

Although an orphan, Edna Earl grows up morally certain and spiritually confident. Her beliefs are challenged, however, when she meets St. Elmo Murray, who seems to be a sinner of no small substance. Edna will put all of her intelligence and persistence into helping this man turn his life around.

Category: Inspirational Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

Heart of the Blue Ridge
by Waldron Baily

Mountain moonshine is part of life for Zeke Higgins. But when he betrays the moonshiners to the revenue agents, he angers many. Leaving the mountains is his only prayer, but in his absence, his sweetheart Plutina is kidnapped. Her rescue will require Zeke to return to the hills of home.

Category: Historical Romance

Pages
by S.J. Johnson

Pages is a collection of four very different novellas, all with heart-grabbing similarities of family challenges and insights. Each page turn gets the reader closer to understanding the heart of the characters and the situations encountered.

Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Other Fiction, Inspirational Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

The Angel of Terror
by Edgar Wallace

Jean Briggerland is the most lovely and charming of women. Her beauty blinds those around her to her devious deeds. Jean uses her criminal connection to climb to the heights of wealth and power, but lawyer Jack Glover may be the first to catch her in the act.

Category: Romantic Suspense

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

The Master of Silence
by Addison Irving Bacheller

In seclusion and silence, an eccentric old man has raised his son to be a mind-reader. When his father dies, Rayel goes to live with cousin Kendric, and practices his ESP on his cousin. So strong are his skills that he appears to make real the image of a true love that Kendric carries in his mind.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

Evelina, or the History of a Young Lady
by Fanny Burney

Evelina comes from humble beginnings, but has her eye on a distinguished nobleman. To reach him, she must navigate the maze of manners that is 18th century society. Her letters tell the tale of her evolution from an innocent, rural seventeen-year-old into a self-assured society woman.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

In Secret
by Robert W. Chambers

Miss Evelyn Erith has many resources, including a mansion, a chauffeur and a butler. But her most impressive asset is her mind, as she has a talent for cryptography. As a secret agent, she also falls into a secret romance in the forests of Switzerland at the beginning of World War I.

Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

Buy Now

The Age of Innocence
by Edith Wharton

Settled comfortably in the highest social circles of New York City in the 1870s, Newland Archer prepares to marry his social equal, May Welland, when he meets her beautiful, exotic cousin. Countess Ellen Olenska, back from Europe, has Newland reconsidering the rules he has lived by for so long.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

The Maid of Maiden Lane
by Amelia E. Barr

New York City, 1791. It's a time of new beginnings, when all things seem possible. This is especially true for young Cornelia Moran, who is falling in love with Lieutenant George Hyde. In spite of her father's misgivings and a jealous rival's scheming, the two are determined to be married.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

The Fighting Chance
by Robert W. Chambers

The battle of the bottle has nearly undone the high-society world of Stephen Siward. When young Sylvia Landis enters his life, he thinks he may yet have a chance redeem himself. Sylvia herself, however, is not without challenges, including her unwelcome engagement to the wealthy Howard Quarrier.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

The Desired Woman
by William Nathaniel Harben

Atlanta, Georgia banker Dick Mostyn seems to be suffering an emotional breakdown after a life of dubious business deals and even more suspect romantic engagements. It may take more than his new love, Dolly, to help him through the tragedies that follow in his wake.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

Master of the Vineyard
by Myrtle Reed

Her love of books leads Rosemary to the love of her country school teacher. He may be master of the vineyard, but will Rosemary be master of his heart when another woman comes along? Drama and comedy together tell the tale of the trials Rosemary must overcome in her quest for happiness.

Categories: Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance

Buy Now

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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

Tess of the dUrbervilles
by Thomas Hardy

Tess, beautiful but poor, finds she is related to the dUrbervilles of Norman aristocracy. This news brings her to the relentless attentions of Alec dUrberville, and the righteous affections of Angel Clare. She loves Angel, but fears their union cannot survive the secrets she has kept.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

The Ashiel Mystery
by Mrs. Charles Bryce

Sir Arthur Byrne returns to London from the Black Sea, suffering an illness that has sapped his energy and appetite. When he meets the widow Meredith, his passions are reignited. Satisfying them means entering a world of disguises, secret passages, and hidden identities.

Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

Buy Now

A Sicilian Romance
by Ann Ward Radcliffe

The northern shores of Sicily, all ruins and castles, is the setting for the story of the fallen house of Mazzini. Mixing the possibility of the supernatural with the psychological, the story follows the extraordinary struggles of heroes and heroines fighting mysterious villains.

Category: Historical Romance

Fair Margaret
by Francis Marion Crawford

Margaret Donne is young, full of life, and on her way to a spectacular singing career. Her would-be suitor, Edmund Lushington, on the other hand, is a quiet, serious man. Margaret dismisses his attentions until she enters the dramatic world of the stage and realizes she desperately needs his help.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

Whispering Smith
by Frank Hamilton Spearman

The man nicknamed Whispering Smith is a steel-hard railroad detective in the old West. When a friend is fired from the railroad and turns to train-wrecking, he must go after him. The chase gets complicated when Smith meets, and falls for, the wife of his quarry.

Category: Western Romance

Buy Now

Ardath
by Marie Corelli

In love with a supernatural angel, Alwyn feels unworthy of her affections and looks for a way to change himself. His transformation takes him back in time thousands of years, to the fantastic world of Ardath and a series of adventures that prepare him for his metamorphosis.

Categories: Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Buy Now

Love and Life
by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Aurelia plays Psyche, Lady Belamour is Venus and Sir Amyas Belamour is Cupid in an 18th century retelling of the classic myth of love and soul. Sir Amyas falls in love with Aurelia before she even knows him, and her generosity leads the recluse out of his darkened rooms into the light of love.

Categories: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance, Inspirational Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

Domnei
by James Branch Cabell

Falsely accused of killing the king, Perion disguises himself as a count and falls in love with Lady Melicent, the true count's sister. She may be the only one who can save him when his ship is captured by the warlord Demetrios. Melicent even offers herself in exchange for her lover's freedom.

Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

Buy Now

Prisoners of Chance
by Randall Parrish

Louisiana Province in the 1760s carries contradictions political and personal for Geoffrey Benteen. As an adventurer in a new land, he encounters mysterious natives and battles his own countrymen. As a man, he must choose between pursuing the woman he loves and saving her husband's life.

Category: Historical Romance

Buy Now

The Man Between
by Amelia E. Barr

The bonds of matrimony come in many forms for Ethel Rawdon and her friends. Ethel sees the future in a band of gold, hoping to be united with her beloved Tyrrel. But for Dora, the marriage ties become suffocating, a trap. Her escape takes her through tragedies and heartbreak and back home again.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

Buy Now

The Parasite
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Miss Penclosa has a crippled leg and a supernaturally strong mind. Young physiologist Austin Gilroy is drawn by his professor to test her psychic powers, but the medium enchants his fiancee and falls in love with Gilroy herself. Science may not be enough to save Gilroy from her grim charms.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

The Pirate Woman
by Aylward Edward Dingle

Daughter of the deceased Red Jabez, Sultan of the pirates, the passionate Dolores is left to rule a Jamaican pirate island. Although more than equal to the job of managing the ruffians, Dolores dreams of the day when she can be off the island and on her own, taking her jewels and fortune with her.

Categories: Romantic Suspense, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

Burning Daylight
by Jack London

An Alaskan adventurer has come to a sorry state, having been cheated out of his gold bounty by the rush of new prospectors and swindlers. Demoralized, he turns to drinking and goes steadily downhill until he falls in love. The lady loves him, but she has high expectations. Can he meet them?

Category: Western Romance

Buy Now

The Necromancers
by Robert Hugh Benson

Young barrister Laurie Baxter is devastated when his beloved Amy dies before the two can wed. Becoming obsessed after her death, Baxter seeks the help of spiritualists to try to bring his love back from the grave, with dire consequences.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Buy Now

Wood Beyond the World
by William Morris

A family feud seems inevitable when the wife of Golden Walter takes up with another man. Walter escapes the coming bloodshed by embarking on a trading voyage that takes him farther from home than he ever imagined. A captive maiden, primitive giants, and a royal city await him on his journey.

Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Buy Now

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.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

Buy Now

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

Buy Now

Angel Island
by Inez Haynes Gillmore

Shipwrecked on the shores of Angel Island, five men find they are not alone in this feminist fantasy adventure. Winged women are watching them, and they must come to terms with the language and culture of this extraordinary race of female creatures and the future they may bring.

Categories: Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

Buy Now