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Notre-Dame de Paris ![]() |
Notre-Dame de Paris
This classic love story pairs Quasimodo, a deformed bell ringer at the cathedral Notre-Dame, with Esmeralda, a kind and beautiful gypsy girl. Amidst death plots and conspiracies, each rescues the other from ruin time after time. Their bond is so strong it lasts even when time runs out. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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Agnes Grey ![]() |
Agnes Grey
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 |
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To The Last Man ![]() |
To The Last Man
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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Arachne ![]() |
Arachne
Greek mythology comes to life with this story of Arachne. In fables, she is the weaver whose web ultimately brings her metamorphosis to spider form. What will Ebers' spider draw into her web? Her threads include conspiracies uncovered, vengeance sought, love won and lovers lost. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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The Angel of Terror ![]() |
The Angel of Terror
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 |
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The Amateur Gentleman ![]() |
The Amateur Gentleman
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 |
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Darkness and Daylight ![]() |
Darkness and Daylight
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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Anna Karenina - Part 7 ![]() |
Anna Karenina - Part 7
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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Anna Karenina - Part 5 ![]() |
Anna Karenina - Part 5
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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Adrien Leroy ![]() |
Adrien Leroy
Twists and turns will keep readers guessing in this page-turner from Charles Garvice. The fashionable Adrien Leroy has many friends vying for his attentions, not the least of which is the omnipresent Jasper Vermont, whose past and purpose are suspect. Flirtations abound as well, but perhaps none so perfect as the woman he hardly notices until it may be too late. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Mistress Wilding ![]() |
Mistress Wilding
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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Three Men and a Maid ![]() |
Three Men and a Maid
Romantic entanglements ensue aboard an ocean liner carrying three men and a woman. Billie Bennet travels with her fiance the poet, her old friend Eustace, and his cousin Sam. All are smitten with the redheaded woman in their midst, with humorous and romantic results. Categories: Humor, Historical Romance |
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Portrait of a Lady Volume I ![]() |
Portrait of a Lady Volume I
Beautiful, outspoken American Isabel Archer travels to her wealthy Aunt Touchett in Europe with a plan to marry. Not lacking for gentlemanly suitors, Isabel rejects several offers before falling for the overwhelmingly charming Gilbert Osmond, a man who consumes her, body and soul. Category: Historical Romance |
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Ben Blair ![]() |
Ben Blair
As a child of only eight, Ben Blair loses his mother to tragedy, and does not know his real father. When he later falls in love, he is determined not to suffer another such loss. To win her, he will have to face deep family secrets and harsh Plains weather to follow his sweetheart to New York. Category: Western Romance |
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The Wings of the Morning ![]() |
The Wings of the Morning
Only two survive the shipwreck and find themselves alone on a desert island -- Iris and Jenks. Their tale of survival on Rainbow Island becomes one of adventure and passion as they explore the island and its wild inhabitants together. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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The Mysteries of Udolpho ![]() |
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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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The Princess of Cleves ![]() |
The Princess of Cleves
Mademoiselle de Chartres is a young lady of fifteen at the court of Henry II of France, looking for a marriage match. Her mother suggests the unremarkable Prince de Cleves, and soon the girl is wed. Only after the wedding, does she meets the charming Duc de Nemours, and the spark of love is ignited. Category: Historical Romance |
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At The Villa Rose ![]() |
At The Villa Rose
Inspector Hanaud investigates the death of a wealthy widow and the disappearance of her priceless jewels. Englishman Harry Wethermill recruits the French detective when young Celia, the object of his affection, vanishes. Is she another victim or an accomplice to the crime of murder? Category: Romantic Suspense |
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Arms and the Woman ![]() |
Arms and the Woman
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. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Smiles - A Rose of the Cumberlands ![]() |
Smiles - A Rose of the Cumberlands
This simple, yet powerful, romance book tells the story of strong, hot blooded Mark Gray and his conflict with the seriousness of the Quaker ideals. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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Miss McDonald ![]() |
Miss McDonald
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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The Man From The Bitter Roots ![]() |
The Man From The Bitter Roots
Growing up and joining the Shutin Mining Camp, Bruce Burt learns to be stubborn and powerful. But when his mother dies and his partner is murdered, he faces questions about living a life of adventure or building a civilized society. Perhaps a feminine influence is just what he needs. Category: Western Romance |
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Letters of Two Brides ![]() |
Letters of Two Brides
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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The Dark Star ![]() |
The Dark Star
German and Turkish Secret Service agents seek the lost plans of Gallipoli, and find their quest foiled by pretty Ruhannah Carew. She is called a child of the Dark Star, preordained to a life of adventure. Charming Jim Neeland helps her to outwit the agents who seek something held only by Ruhanna. Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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Anne Severn and the Fieldings ![]() |
Anne Severn and the Fieldings
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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An Ambitious Man ![]() |
An Ambitious Man
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. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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An Apache Princess ![]() |
An Apache Princess
A young Lieutenant is a wanted man. A passionate Apache Princess seeks his admiration, an older maiden lady suspects him of lax morals, and a Scottish girl falls totally in love. Relationships grow complicated amidst Indian scouts, rescue parties, and a French maid with devious motives. Category: Western Romance |
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A Study in Scarlet ![]() |
A Study in Scarlet
Sherlock Holmes makes his debut in the mystery of a corpse found in a run-down, abandoned house. He encounters a strange clue, the word RACHE written in blood on the wall near the body. Only the astute mind of Mr. Holmes can make sense of such a cryptic clue. Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romantic Suspense |
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Love Eternal ![]() |
Love Eternal
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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Swallow ![]() |
Swallow
An elderly Boer woman tells a story of The Great Trek in this African love story. It is the tale of her daughter, Suzanne, or Swallow, kidnapped on her wedding day and whisked into the world of witch doctors and warpaths. Husband Ralph Kenzie is on the trail to rescue his beloved. Categories: Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense |
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The Well-Beloved ![]() |
The Well-Beloved
Sculptor Jocelyn Pierston has searched for the ideal woman for decades. He has courted mothers, daughters and granddaughters through the years, but none pass for perfect. Not until he is an older man does he reconsider his quest and rekindle an old flame who may just be worthy of his love. Category: Historical Romance |
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The Desired Woman ![]() |
The Desired Woman
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 |
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Undine ![]() |
Undine
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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Bob Hampton of Placer ![]() |
Bob Hampton of Placer
An epic of the Old West, Bob Hampton is the story of the redemption of an army officer unjustly accused of a crime. Cornered by hostile Sioux Indians, Hampton and his army comrades must not only fight the Indians, but also defend a girl traveling with them. Bob Hampton may start as the outcast of the group, but if he can rescue the girl, he may save himself as well. Categories: Romance, Western Romance |
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Lady Susan ![]() |
Lady Susan
Recently widowed Lady Susan Vernon flirts, lies and pretends to be humble in a series of letter exchanges designed to help her find a financially suitable husband in London high society for herself and her shy teenaged daughter Frederica. Categories: Romance, Regency Romance |
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An Outback Marriage ![]() |
An Outback Marriage
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. Categories: Romance, Historical Romance |
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She ![]() |
She
Ayesha is She, as in She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed, ancient ruler of a fabled lost city in a mysterious African maze. It is to this city that the young Leo must travel, in search of a magical fire that brings everlasting life. When he meets Ayesha, however, the nature of his quest changes dramatically. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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Edmond Dantes, The Sequel to The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexander Dumas ![]() |
Edmond Dantes, The Sequel to The Count of Monte-Cristo by Alexander Dumas
The exploits of Edmond Dantes, the Count of Monte-Cristo, continue as he and his beloved Haydee are shipwrecked in the Mediterranean during the French Revolution of 1848. Familiar characters surround Dantes, including his beautiful daughter Zuleika and her suitor Giovanni Massetti. Category: Historical Romance |
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Anna Karenina - Part 6 ![]() |
Anna Karenina - Part 6
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 Baronets Bride ![]() |
The Baronets Bride
A romance that truly takes you away from the everyday world and into the realm of gypsies, horoscopes, family feuds and a mysterious murder. Add long-hidden secrets, proud ladies and arrogant baronets and you have a tale of romantic betrayals and vengeance sought across the generations. Category: Historical Romance |
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Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 2 ![]() |
Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 2
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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Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 1 ![]() |
Cecilia, Or Memoirs of an Heiress Volume 1
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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The Firm of Girdlestone ![]() |
The Firm of Girdlestone
When the queen of diamonds has failed businessmen John and Ezra Girldestone, they turn to the queen of hearts for redemption, or at least renumeration. Wooing lovely heiress Kate Horston turns out to be harder than they expected, though, leaving them with one sinister option: murder. Category: Romantic Suspense |
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A Knight of the Nineteenth Century ![]() |
A Knight of the Nineteenth Century
Sometimes the most challenging, and important, quest a knight can embark on is the quest to settle his own soul. Meeting the graceful Laura Romeyn is one of the challenges facing Egbert Haldane. Will he be distracted by her serene beauty, or inspired by her life of refinement and faith? Categories: Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance |
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A Laodicean ![]() |
A Laodicean
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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Beltane the Smith ![]() |
Beltane the Smith
Growing up isolated among hermits, young Beltane has a lot to learn about the world. His education begins when a stranger comes to the woods offering sword and horse lessons to the young man. Still, will he be ready when Lady Helen of Mortain rides through and catches his eye? Categories: Historical Romance, Regency Romance |
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The Yoke ![]() |
The Yoke
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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Ardath ![]() |
Ardath
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. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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The Parasite ![]() |
The Parasite
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 |
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The Secret Power ![]() |
The Secret Power
The otherworldly realm of the brilliant and beautiful Morgana Royal is the setting for this reincarnation romance. Her spiritual and emotional quests come together in the Egyptian desert where Morgana encounters immortals living in a hidden city. Category: Fantasy & Paranormal Romance |
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