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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

Bressant
by Julian Hawthorne

Incredibly intelligent, yet inexperienced in life and love, Professor Valeyon's new student, Bressant, poses a challenge to the teacher and his instantly smitten daughters. Sophie and Cornelia vow to never fight over the young man, but it seems some promises are made to be broken as this love triangle develops.

Category: Romance

Brandon of the Engineers
by Harold Bindloss

Building bridges is a specialty for civil engineer Lieutenant Richard Brandon, and he is confident of his path. Aiming for the rank of Captain and eventual marriage to his socially-appropriate match, Helen Massie, Brandon seems to be well on his way. He has not planned, however, on the arrival of wanderer Clare Kenwardine and all she will mean to the changing course of his life. Army intrigue and stolen secrets set the stage for the tumultuous relationship between Brandon and Clare.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Brand Blotters
by William MacLeod Raine

Accused of murder, a young man is pursued across the Arizona deserts, but finds refuge at the Bar Double G ranch at the invitation of the owner's daughter, Melissy. Melissy knows his secrets but vows to keep them in this romantic adventure of the Old West.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense, Western 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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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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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

Bob Hampton of Placer
by Randall Parrish

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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Blow the Man Down - A Romance of the Coast
by Holman Day

Torn between duty and desire, Captain Boyd Mayo is new at the helm of a yacht and new to the game of love. Wanting to please yacht-owner Julius Marston, Captain Mayo is desperate to hide his wild attraction to master Marston's young daughter, Alma. Ever the flirt, Alma tantalizes the young man beyond his ability to resist in this romance on the stormy seas.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Beyond the Rocks
by Elinor Glyn

Is three times the charm? A young woman forced into an arranged marriage meets her true match before her wedding, again in the Alps on her honeymoon, and still later in Paris before her husband discovers the passionate pair. The melodramatic action hinges on the choice the husband must make, to confront the lovers or sacrifice himself for the sake of their love.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Beverly of Graustark
by George Barr McCutcheon

The exotic East European mountain country of Graustark hosts a young American traveller, Beverly, who is visiting her friend the princess at court. Royal intrigue, mistaken identities, and a surprise romance make Beverly's trip a life-changing one.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Beulah
by Augusta J. Evans

A crisis of faith drives Beulah to seek spiritual alternatives to her Christianity. A fiery young woman, Beulah takes her spiritual search to great lengths, looking for the ultimate truth. This truth, for Beulah, cannot be found without also accepting the ultimate emotion, love.

Categories: Romance, Inspirational Romance

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A Bicycle of Cathay
by Frank R. Stockton

A restful bicycling vacation in the country takes a young professor down more adventurous paths than he had planned. Staying with various families along the way, he meets beautiful women, receives marriage proposals, survives a bear chase and more. An amusing, romantic story.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Way Down East - A Romance of New England Life
by Joseph R. Grismer

The Bartletts New England farm seems the perfect place for Anna Moore to hide from her tragic past. And it is, until her secrets are discovered. Turned out into a violent snowstorm, Anna tries to find her way, but must depend on rescue in the form of David Bartlett, who has come to love her during her time on the farm.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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The Ayrshire Legatees
by John Galt

Scottish minister Dr. Zachariah Pringle and his family travel to London, and they have plenty to write home about. Innocent of urban ways, the Pringles observations reveal the social realities of London life in eye-opening letters to their relatives back home.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Regency Romance

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The Avalanche
by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton

All seems perfect when a ship-board romance leads to a quick marriage for a wealthy San Francisco businessman and 19-year old beauty, Helene. Suspicions about Helene's past soon arise, however, and her new groom decides to investigate. Questions of possible infidelity, illegitimacy, and prostitution follow.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Bandit Love
by Juanita Savage

Savage's signature sultry style brings us a red-headed Irish horsewoman, her English gentleman lover, and a passionate, lawless Spaniard. Their adventures take many a twist and turn on the way to a surprise ending in this stirring romantic adventure story.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Beyond the City
by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The girl next door is much more than ordinary in this surprising domestic romance by Arthur Conan Doyle. A remarkable departure from his famous detective stories, Beyond the City explores the relationships between the residents of three adjoining homes. The cast of characters includes a widowed doctor with two daughters, a retired admiral with a wife and son, and a feminist living with her nephew.

Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense

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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

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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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Blind Love
by Wilkie Collins

Bright, bold Englishwoman Iris Henley is not known to take the conventional paths in life. Even she may be over her head, though, when she falls in love with Lord Harry Norland, an active member of a squad of assassins. The last novel written by mystery writer Wilkie Collins, Blind Love was left unfinished. At the author's deathbed request, the novel was completed by historian and novelist Walter Besant.

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Bad Hugh
by Mary Jane Holmes

Swept in by a snowstorm, found nearly frozen, a young lady and her child have travelled far to land on Hugh's doorstep. Hugh's mother and family are wary. What is this woman to them? What is Hugh to her? And what to make of her child and the wedding band shining so boldly from her finger? These questions are only the tip of the iceberg in this intergenerational family drama.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Flight of the Monarch
by Aurora Michaels

Nineteenth century, Hayley Lawrence, lives with her father on Canada's Amhearst Island. His over-protectiveness and interference by others, threaten to keep her from the man she loves. As she attempts to surrender her desire for Austin Sommers, a long-kept secret is revealed.

Categories: Romance, Contemporary Romance

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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

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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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At the Time Appointed
by A. Maynard Barbour

How does a man construct his identity when he has lost his memory? In this romance novel, a mining accident erases a young engineer's memory and gives him the chance to create his character afresh, leading to a new life of struggle and adventure.

Categories: Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Atlantida
by Pierre Benoit

To ascend to her throne, Queen Antinea, descended from Atlantis, must fill her Saharan cave with lovers. Willing to inspire kidnapping and murder to collect her human treasures, Antinea also invites scrutiny. Will her investigators stop her, or fall prey to her otherworldly charms?

Categories: Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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Adrien Leroy
by Charles Garvice

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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The Womans Way
by Charles Garvice

Celia's new neighbors are a mysterious lot. The elderly violin virtuoso downstairs appears to have a hidden history and the suicidal young man next door seems to have no past at all. Who is he? Celia engages both men with her self-confident charm, which leads her to uncover the secrets and passions of these two and more.

Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Romantic Suspense

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The Amazing Interlude
by Mary Roberts Rinehart

Drawing on her own experience as a World War I correspondent, Rinehart brings us into the world of American Sara Lee Kennedy, who is nursing wounded soldiers in Belgium. There, Sara Lee meets a passionate man who sweeps her into an otherworldly romance and a mystery that begs to be solved.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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The Ghost of Guir House
by Charles Willing Beale

A mysterious missive from young Dorothy Guir draws Mr. Henley from his New York City home to remote regions of Virginia. 1890s spiritualism infuses this weird, ghostly tale of a spirit romance and a mysterious crime that Mr. Henley's must attempt to solve.

Categories: Mystery & Suspense, Romance, Fantasy & Paranormal Romance

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The Amulet
by Hendrik Conscience

Ships overflowing with the riches of the world fill the ports of 16th century Antwerp, and provide endless temptation. The action includes an assassination gone wrong, crimes hidden and discovered, and the wooing of a beautiful young woman. Evildoers beware; the righteous have the upper hand in this historical romance novel.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

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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?

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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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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

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.

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At Last
by Marion Harland

All of her matches turn out well in the long run, claims lifelong matchmaker, Mrs. Rachel Sutton. Unfortunately, the path to happily-ever-after is full of twists and turns that she cannot predict. Featuring the mercurial, mystical Rosa, the road to wedded bliss is a challenge for more than one couple in this romantic novel.

Categories: Romance, Inspirational Romance

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Atma - A Romance
by Caroline Augusta Frazer

Soaring poetry and exotic Indian locations create a dramatic setting for this story of the Sikhs struggles in the 1840s. Atma Singh must try to regain the sapphire of fate and the honor of his people in this historical novel touched with adventure and romance.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

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Athalie
by Robert W Chambers

Many children have imaginary friends, but Athalie is different. Her invisible childhood playmates are not necessarily imaginary. Athalie sees things others do not see. This gift takes her to places others have never imagined in this fantasy novel.

Categories: Romance, Other Non-fiction, Fantasy & Paranormal 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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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.

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Anna the Adventuress
by E Phillips Oppenheim

It's a case of mistaken identity when Annabel Pellissier leads Sir John Ferringhall to believe that she is her sister Anna. Annabel takes on the flirtatious personality of her sister, a deception that becomes very complicated when the sisters both come to live in London.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Romantic Suspense

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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

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An Outback Marriage
by Andrew Barton Paterson

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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Andrew the Glad
by Maria Thompson Davies

Friends David and Andrew fight for the affections of one Phoebe Donelson in this post-Civil War southern romance. Further complicating these entangled affairs of the heart is the young Caroline's sudden appearance in their lives.

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An Ambitious Man
by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

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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At Loves 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.

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Nell of Shorne Mills
by Charles Garvice

The small, rural town of Shorne Mills is not used to strangers. The sudden appearance of an unknown man on horseback changes things in town, and in the life of Nell, who first encounters the man. This romantic novel's alternate title, One Heart's Burden, intimates that strong emotions surely follow the newcomer into town.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance

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Amarilly of Clothes-line Alley
by Belle Kanaris Maniates

Amarilly comes from modest means, but has big ambitions. Life for Amarilly means living in a large working-class family and dating her bartender boyfriend. But when she meets a wealthy artist, she questions her past and her future. With the talented sculptor Gordon, she seeks new possibilities.

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Amanda
by Anna Balmer Myers

Love can complicate even the simplest of lifestyles. A one-room schoolhouse in early 20th century Amish country seems like a quiet setting for the young schoolteacher, Amanda. But when a friendship turns to romance, Amanda and Martin face the emotional depths that lie beneath the simple life.

Categories: Romance, Historical Romance, Inspirational Romance

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