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Definition of "Historical Romance Genre": This is a very popular subgenre in the massive Romance category. As with other subgenres of the Romance category, these books typically include the common elements of a romance ebook. So, the love and relationship between two people is central to the story, they have to overcome sometimes seemingly insurmountable obstacles to fall in love, but they do end up in love at the end of the stories. Authors in the historical romance subgenre have another task in their writing, however, in that they need to set their stories not in contemporary times, but in times that typically are over a century in the past. Thus, if you appreciate history and the details specific to other times in our world as well as a love story this is a fantastic subgenre for you.
Some examples of bestselling ebooks in the Historical Romance genre are Diana Gabaldon (Outlander), Petra Durst-Benning (The Glassblower), Tracy Brogan (Highland Surrender), and Danielle Steele (Pegasus).
Gretchen Matthews is a woman on a mission.
Haunted by the disappearance of her friend, Gretchen is determined to discover the truth. So when a strange old woman gives her a cryptic clue to her friend’s whereabouts, Gretchen packs her bags and heads to Scotland.
But things aren’t as simple as she’d hoped. When she steps through a stone archway on a wind-swept hillside she realizes that to find her friend she must travel not only thousands of miles but hundreds of years into the past – and avert a clan war in the process.
Lost in a world of passion and peril, Gretchen is rescued by Ewan Murray, a brave Scottish warrior. He just might hold the key to everything: finding her friend, averting a war – and unlocking Gretchen’s heart.
But Ewan Murray has demons of his own. Returning to his clan after years of exile, he is eager to build a new life for himself. But with enemies all around, Ewan isn’t sure who to trust – including Gretchen. Does the dark-haired beauty hold the key to his future? Or the destruction of his clan?
And can they figure it out in time to avert a war that will destroy all they hold dear?
Miss Edith Elliott wants Mr. Nelson James.
Mr. Nelson James wants Miss Edith Elliott.
But the rule of attraction have little say in London Society.
Page Count: around 330 pages
Edith learns quickly that as the daughter of one of London's wealthiest bankers, she has to live by a certain set of rules.
Yes... rules - something she hates but needs to live with.
She is not allowed to eat to her heart's content.
She is not allowed to shy away from conversation.
But most importantly, Edith is only allowed to marry a man with a title.
So, denying her heart, she's turned her back on herself and looked toward destiny.
... Too bad the man who happens to catch her eye does not play by the rules.
Nelson James is mathematician, wealthy landed gentry, and the inventor of a new creation that is bound to change the course of the world forever.
But... what Nelson doesn't have is a title.
Still, to have Edith in his arms, he's willing to give away everything he owns for simply one week in her presence.
And it's one week that neither will they ever forget.
But at week's end, will destiny and rules win the day or will Nelson and Edith find a way to gain their happily-ever-after?
Page Count: around 330 pages
A MAN WITHOUT AN IDENTITY
When his sister flees from an angry mob boss who wants to stop her from testifying, Davin Doyle realizes that he’s the one Boss O’Malley will come for next. Caught between the police and the Irish mob, Davin hops on a train to Wyoming, where he thinks he’ll find his sister.
With O’Malley’s lieutenant on his trail, Davin is forced to jump from the still-moving train. He survives the fall, but when he wakes up, he can’t remember who he was or where he was going.
His only piece of luck—he’s been found by a pair of traveling missionaries and their beautiful niece.
A WOMAN ABANDONED BY HER BETROTHED
After her lawman suitor stops writing, Amelia doesn’t know if he’s lost interest or lost his life. She travels west with her aunt and uncle, who are on their way to Wyoming to take over the operation of an orphanage.
Amelia soon finds that the frontier is a dreary place…until they rescue a handsome but mysterious man who can’t remember where he’s from or why he jumped from a speeding train.
But when she arrives in Cheyenne, Amelia learns that her would-be suitor is in jail on charges of corruption—she’s left stranded in Wyoming without prospects.
CHILDREN WITHOUT A CHAMPION
Davin wants more than anything to court Amelia. But his new boss at the saloon forces him to choose between keeping Amelia safe and standing up to a nefarious gang of criminals who are preying on children from a nearby orphanage.
He still doesn’t remember the man he used to be—but Davin must now choose what kind of man he will become.
Will he find a way to protect these victimized children without losing the woman he loves?
Just a Girl: Amelia’s Frontier Adventure is a clean, inspirational mail order bride romance. While this book is part of a series, it can definitely be read as a standalone book.
A WOMAN RUNNING FROM THE IRISH MOB
After Siobhan’s older sister marries a rancher in Wyoming, Siobhan is forced to rely on her quick fingers and her wits to put food on the table.
But when the police demand that Siobhan testify against mob boss O’Malley or go to jail for picking pockets, she flees disguised as a young boy, hoping to escape both the authorities and the mobster who owns her.
A MAN UNDERCOVER WITH TRAIN ROBBERS
Investigative reporter Ned Harte has been chasing big stories all his life. This time he’s cooperating with a federal marshal to infiltrate the Mitchell gang—in the hopes of getting the scoop on the gang’s capture.
But when the train job spirals out of control, Ned must make a choice: stay with the gang and let innocent people die, or blow his cover to save Siobhan and the others.
A FROZEN WASTELAND BETWEEN HERE AND HOME
Siobhan has never ridden a horse, and Ned is in danger of bleeding to death. They’ve got miles to go before they can rest—if they stop, the harsh Wyoming winter will kill them.
With the Mitchell gang searching for them, will Siobhan be able to keep Ned alive until they reach safe haven?
Thief of Hearts: Siobhan’s Winter Flight is a clean, inspirational mail order bride romance. While this book is part of a series, it can definitely be read as a standalone book.
THREE LOST SHEEP. TWO BROKEN FAMILIES. ONE BLIZZARD.
After Chase Williams' first wife died of pneumonia while he was out-of-town, his young daughter stopped speaking. Three years later, he's still not ready to marry, but little Pearl desperately needs a mother. He doubts that any woman can heal his broken heart, but he's willing to propose to a woman who'll be kind to Pearl.
As the oldest of six children, Bridget Doyle became responsible for the cooking and cleaning when her mother died of a post-partum fever. Marrying's not an option for her--if she leaves her two youngest siblings alone, who will stop their drunken father from taking the belt to them?
Bridget discovers that her youngest brother, Tom, has been playing matchmaker: he's been writing letters on her behalf to a rancher in Wyoming. Not only has Chase proposed, he's agree to let her bring Tom and Mary with her. The catch--she's also got to find a way to communicate with his mute daughter Pearl, while playing second fiddle to the ghost of Chase's first wife.
Will Bridget find a way to heal Chase's broken heart and bring two fragmented families together?
A MAN STRUGGLING TO SURVIVE
The last thing blacksmith Walter Jonas wants is to follow in his father’s footsteps. Master of a dying art, he’s struggling to find his place in a world dominated by factory-produced goods brought to Texas by train.
If he can’t find a way to compete with the big companies back East, he’ll lose everything: his home, his forge, and his marriage.
A WOMAN IN SEARCH OF A FAMILY
Ida Cleary grew up in an orphanage, but that didn’t stop her from making a life for herself: she’s been supporting herself by working in a garment factory since she was sixteen.
But at twenty-five, she feels like she’s sewing her way into spinsterhood. Her only chance at marrying is to become a mail-order bride.
A CHRISTMAS IN NEED OF A MIRACLE
When Ida arrives in Salvation to marry Walter, she learns that his situation is more serious than he let on. She vows she won’t raise her own children in poverty, or worse, allow them to be raised in an orphanage like she was.
As Christmas approaches, will Walter’s skills and Ida’s tenacity be enough to keep them from being tossed out into the cold?
Winning the Blacksmith’s Heart is a sweet inspirational mail order bride romance. While this book is part of a series, it can definitely be read as a standalone book.
In Faith Parson’s heartwarming clean romance stories, courageous men and their mail-order brides join together to make a new life on the Western frontier.
2013 RWA® Golden Heart® Award Nominee, Historical Romance
In a town ruled by sin, will he earn her love or her lies? (Dodge City, Kansas – 1877)
Sadie Sullivan lost everything when a herd of longhorn cattle bound for Dodge City trampled and destroyed her farm. Now she works in Dodge—one of the most wicked and lawless towns in the West—at the Northern Star saloon. But her survival in this new world of sin and violence depends on maintaining a lie so deadly it could end her life before the town of Dodge can.
The one man capable of unraveling all of Sadie's secrets is Noah Ballantyne, the Texan rancher whose herd destroyed her home. Back in town and taking up the role of deputy alongside legendary lawman Bat Masterson, Noah vows he won't leave until he's made things right. But with the saloon’s madam unwilling to release Sadie and a rich cattle baron wanting her as well, the odds aren’t in favor of finding love…or leaving town alive.
Will a terrible secret ruin the true love that blooms between best friends?
Can forbidden love blossom amid the constraints of war?
The moment the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor, life shifted for Miko Nishimura. Desperate to reach the Portland Assembly Center for Japanese Americans, she’s kicked off the bus miles from town. Every tick of the clock pushes her closer to becoming a fugitive in the land of her birth. Exhausted, she stumbles to her grandparents’ abandoned farm only to find a dying soldier sprawled across the step. Unable to leave him, she forsakes all else to keep him alive.
After crashing his plane in the Battle of the Atlantic, the doctors condemn Captain Rock Laroux to die. Determined to meet his maker beneath a blue sky at his family home, he sneaks out of the hospital. Weary and half out of his mind, he makes it as far as a produce stand he remembers from his youth. Rather than surrender to death, Rock fights a battle of the heart as he falls in love with the beautiful Japanese woman who saves his life.
A poignant, sweet romance, Garden of Her Heart proves love can bloom in unlikely places even under the most challenging circumstances.
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Pregnant Millie Callaghan didn’t ask to be married to an Irish mob boss. But she didn’t realize how dangerous a man her husband was until she caught him beating an innocent man to death.
Fearing for her child’s safety, she files for divorce and flees west, seeking help from a small-town Arizona sheriff who proposed to Millie’s cousin…and doesn’t know that he’s about to be turned down.
Millie’s only hope is to disappear until her ex-husband gives up the chase.
Sheriff Aaron Coburn isn’t expecting a pregnant woman to waltz into his office and tell him that his marriage proposal to her cousin has been rejected. Or that she’s on the run from the mob and needs his help.
But he’s a man of conscience. A man who could never walk away from a woman in distress.
When he tries to help Millie and her child escape the wrath of infamous Eddie the Snake, he doesn’t count on the mobster taking his own mother hostage.
Aaron has no choice but to let Millie risk her own life—and that of her child’s—to help him take down the Snake.
Can Aaron and Millie outwit the vicious mobster and bring everyone home in time for Christmas?
Veronica is grieving for her husband. He wasn't supposed to be killed while trying to support his wife. But that's exactly what happened. Now he's gone and she's alone.
She gets an idea from her friends in Bible study that she doesn't really want to try. She feels that she doesn't have any other options, so she writes a letter to a man looking for a mail order bride. She's nervous and afraid, but proud for taking control of her future.
Mitchell Sartain seems like the perfect rancher man and he needs a wife. As he and Veronica write letters, they learn more about each other and both realize they're a good match. He invites her to Kansas City and she accepts. It's almost Christmas and a Christmas wedding celebration would be the perfect gift for his parents.
The letter she sends before she leaves, doesn't arrive before she does. The secret she's kept from him may be their undoing. In fact, she's making other plans almost from the moment she arrives.
Will this secret be too much for him to handle? Or will the good man he is take over and make sense of an impossible situation?
A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom.
Amy is a shy, timid soul, browbeaten by her domineering father until she’s terrified to do or say anything without his approval. When he dies suddenly, his will leaves large dowries for his six daughters, but only if they marry in the proper order, the eldest first. Amy must now find herself a husband, and soon, so her younger sisters can marry in their turn. There are several possible suitors, but will any of them come up to scratch? And how will Amy choose without her father to guide her?
Mr Ambleside has been waiting for Amy for years, his suit rejected by her father. Now he has his opportunity, and he’s determined to win her. But first he has to see off his rivals, and if he manages that, he has to overcome her reluctance to defy her father’s wishes. But he’s a very tenacious man…
Two stand-alone classics by a legend of the genre in a single, value-priced bundle!
THE STORM AND THE SPLENDOR
Julia, involved in a dangerous international plot, becomes a sea captain’s reluctant bride. When a violent storm flings them into the decadent splendor of a Turkish court, will they trust to love…or die in each other’s arms?
LOVE’S WILD DESIRE
Catherine, tricked into attending an infamous quadroon ball, masks her identity until it’s too late. Forced to wed the handsome planter who compromises her, she seeks a place in his life. But the madman stalking her will not rest until she pays the price for…Love’s Wild Desire.
Please note: This novel takes place in a harsh era when spoils were often treated as commodities. While the violence toward women and children is period-appropriate, it is never gratuitous. The story focuses on adaptation, survival and, ultimately, love in the Dark Ages before Arthur was made king.
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Elsbeth of Olmsbury desires nothing beyond helping her father run his dukedom - until the duke's forces are overwhelmed, his castle torched and Elsbeth seized for the invading king's personal spoil. Expecting the same abuse as the other surviving women of her house, Elsbeth instead finds the king, Leodegrance, treating her with a civility that belies his flagrant desire for her. A desire that will have her his consort in Cameliard once he can convince her rank and duty alone forced his hand against her father.
But Elsbeth is not so easily won. There is the matter of Leodegrance gifting his steward with an unwilling young handmaid from Elsbeth's household. Of his marriage of convenience to his Byzantine queen. And of his plans to subjugate more of Britain's citadels and unite the wild isle under Roman rule.
If Elsbeth can't find her tangled way to forgiveness with the king - or escape the dark designs and perverse desires of Uther Pendragon, enemy to them both - then a legend of Camelot may never be conceived, never be born, and never change history forever ...
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Previously published under the title SPOIL OF WAR.
Vaughn wants revenge. Elisa wants her son back. Neither expected to want each other.…
Elisa’s determined to have her son back at any cost, even if it means marry a vicious stoat of a man like Rufus Wardell, but her plans and her life are turned upside down by the sudden reappearance of Rufus’ grown and estranged son, Vaughn.
Lured by the contrast of Elisa’s sweet beauty with the wicked rumors of her wanton past, Vaughn embarks on a seduction as scorching as it is daring. What he finds is not at all what he sought: Elisa is an innocent, but with a sensuality so raw he cannot resist her...
...even though their passion is forbidden.
WARNING: This book contains frequent sex scenes and sexual language.
Forbidden is part of the Scandalous Siren Series
(and more to come!)
This is a story that will linger on long after you turn the last page. Fallen Angels Reviews
The wonderful end deserves cheers. Sensual Romance
Readers will be swept up into this stunning historical story. eCataRomance Reviews
Forbidden is probably one of the better historical romances this reviewer has read in a long time. Love Romances
Pros: You root for the hero and heroine to get together. Cons: none. About Romance Fiction
Secrets, lies, lust, hate and love. An exceptional story. Coffeetime Romance
I was swept away by this wonderful read and so will you! Cupid's Library Reviews
Tracy Cooper-Posey is an Amazon #1 Best Selling Author. She writes erotic vampire romances, hot romantic suspense, paranormal and urban fantasy romances. She has published over 70 novels since 1999, been nominated for 5 CAPAs including Favourite Author, and won the Emma Darcy Award. Her website can be found at http://TracyCooperPosey.com
Julia Templeton writes historical, time travel, vampire and contemporary romances, enjoys collecting and reading research books, traveling, haunting bookstores and libraries, riding motorcycles, and spending time with friends and family. Her website can be found at http://JuliaTempleton.com
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Page Count: around 290 pages
Luke Granger is about to get more than he bargained for
A sweet holiday romance from USA Today Bestselling Author Shanna Hatfield
As owner and manager of the Hardman bank, Luke Granger is a man of responsibility and integrity in the small 1890s Eastern Oregon town. Calling in a long overdue loan, Luke finds himself reluctantly accepting a bargain in lieu of payment from the shiftless farmer who barters his daughter to settle his debt.
Philamena Booth is both mortified and relieved when her father sends her off with the banker as payment of his debt. Held captive on the farm by her father since the death of her mother more than a decade earlier, Philamena is grateful to leave. If only it had been someone other than the handsome and charismatic Luke Granger riding in to rescue her. Ready to uphold her end of the bargain as Luke’s cook and housekeeper, Philamena is prepared for the hard work ahead. What she isn’t prepared for is being forced to marry Luke as part of this crazy Christmas bargain.
An Old West Cinderella story, The Christmas Bargain is a sweet Victorian holiday romance, sure to warm hearts.
A WARRIOR TOO ELUSIVE TO CAPTURE
He is a Scottish Laird who lives in a world of Druid magic and ancient customs, hand fasted to the sister of his rival clan, MacDougall. Alasdair thought he was doing the right thing trying to bring peace to the region. But he is murdered on the eve of his wedding. Not willing to accept his death, his mother, a Druid priestess, performs a geas to keep him alive. But something went awry because, as the last word of the geas was spoken, Alasdair is trapped in time where he wanders the earth for centuries. The only one who can bring him back home is his betrothed. He has given up on ever finding her until she walks into his office in twentieth century Manhattan.
A WOMAN TOO STRONG WILLED TO TAME
Coira Ainsley is a happy-go-lucky young woman living in twenty-first century Manhattan. Her job as a travel agent takes her all over. She loves the work she does and is excellent at it. That is until she follows her client into his office, and finds herself in the fourteenth century at Inveraray Keep, in the Highlands of Scotland. At first, Coira thinks a prank is being played on her until she sees the giant, wearing nothing but a kilt and a studded leather strap across his massive chest approach her. Not one given to swooning, Coira finds herself welcoming the darkness that come over her as she loses consciousness, without learning that the naked giant is her betrothed from another time... another place. Will she give in and accept what has been pre-destined or will she fight to get back to the life she knows and loves?
Betrayed by those she trusted, penniless and alone, Darcie Finch is forced to accept a position that no one else dares, as assistant to dangerously attractive Dr. Damien Cole. Ignoring the whispered warnings and rumours that he's a man to fear, she takes her position at his eerie estate where she quickly discovers that nothing is at it seems, least of all her handsome and brooding employer. As Darcie struggles with her fierce attraction to Damien, she must also deal with the blood, the disappearances … and the murders
With her options dwindling and time running out, Darcie must rely on her instincts as she confronts the man she is falling in love with. Is he an innocent and misunderstood man … or a remorseless killer who prowls the East End streets?
Read all Eve's Historical Romantic Suspense with a Gothic Twist! Each book is a stand-alone and the series can be read in any order.
DARK DESIRES
HIS DARK KISS
DARK PRINCE
HIS WICKED SINS
SEDUCED BY A STRANGER
She’s just turned twenty, but her family expects her to marry. Will she?
Her childhood friend is available, but a handsome stranger makes her doubt her choice.
One of society’s most beautiful eligible women, Miss Emma Roberts knows that her father is dying and she must choose a husband. She has always known Viscount Francis Turner, and he seems the solid choice in her desperate situation. However, another opportunity has arisen. He may be the better choice for pretty Emma.
Handsome Viscount Francis Turner loves his childhood best friend, but he’s also in a desperate situation and must marry quickly in order to save his inheritance. Then the dashing Captain Jonathan Green captures her attention, and he doubts whether she is the right choice for him. He must make a choice to pursue her heart or watch her be claimed by another man, but he must also choose a bride for himself before time runs out.
Emma and Francis must find a balance between romance and friendship—and decide whether a solid friendship is the right foundation for a lasting marriage. Theirs could be a marriage for love, but Emma must choose between security and the desire of her heart.
Can she overcome her reservations and discover which man is her true love?
Will Francis find a way to save his family home and win the heart of the woman he has loved since childhood?
This is a clean historical regency romance novel.