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  • Fire by Night by Lynn Austin

    Fire by Night by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    One deceived by a life of wealth and ease, the other desperate to flee her true identity. In a land shattered by war, unlikely heroes test the limits of their strength and discover that love has a meaning far beyond their imagination...
  • Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin

    Candle in the Darkness by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The daughter of a wealthy slave-holding family from Richmond, Virginia, Caroline Fletcher is raised in a culture that believes slavery is God-ordained and biblically acceptable. But upon awakening to the cruelty and injustice it encompasses, Caroline's eyes are opened for the first time to the men and women who have cared tirelessly for her...
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  • Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse

    Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    "Never Look Back" is the latest from bestselling author Lesley Pearse. One good deed takes her into another world...Sixteen-year-old Matilda is a poor Covent Garden flower girl until the day she saves the life of Tabitha, a minister's daughter. Welcomed into Tabitha's family, Matilda is offered the chance of a lifetime. She leaves behind London's slums and enters the darkest corners of New York...
  • Storm Clouds Rolling In by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye

    Storm Clouds Rolling In by Virginia Gaffney, Ginny Dye

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Carrie Cromwell comes of age as the dark clouds of the Civil War swallow the country. Born with a fiery spirit and a strong mind, she finds herself struggling between the common wisdom of the South and the truth she has discovered. The activities of the Underground Railroad and her close friendships with the Cromwell Plantation slaves create difficult choices...
  • A Wager too Wicked by Alyssa Clarke

    A Wager too Wicked by Alyssa Clarke

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Love becomes the ultimate gamble when a wager turns into a passionate affair.Lady Victoria Knightly is determined to prevent her cousin from being trapped in a loveless marriage. To achieve this, she decides to spy on Ethan Darlington, the formidable Earl of Townsend, hoping to uncover secrets to thwart his courtship intentions...
  • The Moonstone Marquess by Meara Platt

    The Moonstone Marquess by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    What happens when a battle-scarred hero bent on destroying himself meets an irresistible force by the name of Phoebe?Lady Phoebe Killigrew is appalled by the scandalous country parties their new neighbor, a war hero marquess, is holding at his estate in Moonstone Landing. She has every intention of keeping well away from him, until a governess arrives at her door with his two nieces...
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  • Scandalous by Minerva Spencer

    Scandalous by Minerva Spencer

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    "Have you no decency?" Straight-laced missionary Sarah Fisher has never met a man like Captain Martin Bouchard. He is the most beautiful person—male or female—she's ever seen. Overwhelmingly masculine, elegantly attired despite months at sea, he is in complete command of everyone and everything around him: everyone, that is, except Sarah...
  • The Beast's Bargain by Eva Devon, Maire Claremont

    The Beast's Bargain by Eva Devon, Maire Claremont

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USATODAY Bestselling author Eva Devon, writing as Maire Claremont, comes a brand new series that will sweep you away to the drama and angst of Regency England. Glittering ballrooms, wild moors, and brooding lords waiting to be tamed by bluestockings await. . .Sometimes the only way a beast can find love is with a bargain. .
  • The Art of Stealing a Duke's Heart by Ellie St. Clair

    The Art of Stealing a Duke's Heart by Ellie St. Clair

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It was only supposed to be one night.Calliope Murphy was determined to prove to her family that she was as capable as the rest of them. That she could master a priceless painting to steal from a duke who is far too arrogant and pompous for his own good...
  • Embrace The Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner

    Embrace The Wild Land by Rosanne Bittner

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Abigail Trent was very young when she left the world she knew to forge her destiny with a half-breed Cheyenne brave, Lone Eagle. But now, as Civil War raged across the land, their love was put to the harshest test of all. For even in the peaceful New Mexico territory, they couldn't escape the violence of a country in upheaval...
  • America's Wife by Celeste De Blasis

    America's Wife by Celeste De Blasis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    1776. Addie’s world has changed beyond recognition. From her privileged position amongst Boston’s elite, she has embraced a dangerous new life with the American Revolutionary Army. While childhood sweetheart Silas risks all on the front lines, Addie waits anxiously for news. And when Silas does not return from the Battle of Monmouth, her worst fears come true...
  • Moonstone Angel by Meara Platt

    Moonstone Angel by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    He thought she was a thief, but the only thing she ever stole was his heart...
  • To Experiment with Desire by Emma V. Leech

    To Experiment with Desire by Emma V. Leech

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Girls who dare – Inside every wallflower is the beating heart of a lioness, a passionate individual willing to risk all for their dream, if only they can find the courage to begin. When these overlooked girls make a pact to change their lives, anything can happen. Ten girls – Ten dares in a hat. Who will dare to risk it all? To Experiment with Desire...
  • Highlander Unchained: 1 by Donna Fletcher

    Highlander Unchained: 1 by Donna Fletcher

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The infamous warrior Cree is paraded before the village Dowell and though shackled and wounded he walks with arrogant pride, meeting all the curious and fearful stares of the villagers with a fierceness that has them quickly turning their heads away, all but one woman. Dawn cannot keep her eyes off the captured warrior, though tales of his exploits suggests he’s more devil than man...
  • Dare To Be Scandalous by Tamara Gill

    Dare To Be Scandalous by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After inheriting a small fortune, Willow Perry has everything she’s ever wanted. Except a husband, that is. But not just any husband will do. She’s looking for a grand love—someone who will challenge and excite her. It’s just her folly that the one man who interests her is a notorious rake. He’s as wild and passionate as Willow is sheltered and staid...
  • Song of Love by Meara Platt

    Song of Love by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Welcome to more Regency fun and frolic in the romantic, bestselling Book of Love series. Now Violet Farthingale must put The Book of Love to the test to capture Romulus Brayden’s heart.What makes a man fall in love? Violet Farthingale is desperate to know, because she has just been caught in Captain Romulus Brayden’s home with her gown unlaced and his hands too far up her legs to explain away...
  • The Chance of Love by Meara Platt

    The Chance of Love by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    How could someone so buttoned up shoot fire through his blood the way she did? Holly Farthingale is a young widow who hardly knew her husband before he went off to war and met his untimely end. She does not want to go through the pain of that loss again and intends never to marry...
  • A Duke to Seal the Deal: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Tiffany Baton

    A Duke to Seal the Deal: A Historical Regency Romance Novel by Tiffany Baton

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “I’ve never met a woman like you before.”After being a pariah to the ton and her family’s eyes, wallflower Charlotte has no other choice but to trust the promise of a proposal her suitor has written in his letters. But even her last hope crumbles down when he announces his engagement to another…A confident Duke like Luke never expects to be so intrigued by an untamed lady...
  • The Boys of Summer by Chasity Bowlin

    The Boys of Summer by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    For the first time in her life, she understood how a woman might be led astray. Playmates during one magical summer on the coast, Clarissa and Gus made a vow to one another: when they were older, when they were both free of the shadows of their neglectful and abusive fathers, they would marry...
  • My Duke's Seduction by Tammy Andresen

    My Duke's Seduction by Tammy Andresen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Can her gentle tenacity unlock a duke’s heart? Lady Tricia Riley is the sweet daughter of a duke until her family's ailments force her to breech societies’ dictates and go where no lady should… the docklands. When a tall, strong and handsome stranger helps to keep her safe, she agrees to keep their meeting, secret. She’s no interest in marrying a tall and darkly handsome stranger...
  • Lady Constantine and the Sins of Lord Kilgore by Julie Johnstone

    Lady Constantine and the Sins of Lord Kilgore by Julie Johnstone

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In the game of love, even a rogue can come undone by his own wicked wager. Callum, the Marquess of Kilgore, long ago accepted that he was no saint. So when he’s offered a shameful bet—to seduce the lady some have dubbed the “Ice Queen” and recover the land he foolishly gambled away—he agrees...
  • Tempting the Broken Duke by Sally Vixen

    Tempting the Broken Duke by Sally Vixen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    “I will keep to my vow…Not matter how tempting she is.”Rachel is fully aware she will, by all likelihood, remain a spinster. But deep inside, she yearns for her deepest to become a mother…Daniel, the Duke of Elbridge, returned from war a broken man...
  • America's Promise by Celeste De Blasis

    America's Promise by Celeste De Blasis

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    1780. Addie looks around at the soldiers celebrating their latest victory. American independence is within reach, but her heart feels heavy with grief. With her husband gone, she must leave the army camp, and the people she has come to love, and choose a respectable path to guard the secret she now carries alone...
  • A Rake's Redemption by Maggie Dallen

    A Rake's Redemption by Maggie Dallen

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Only the wildest woman can ruin a devilish lord... Claire is the dutiful, proper Cleveland sister, and the only one who's not embroiled in a scandal. Until now. With her sister's marriage to an earl, the weight of responsibility to save her family has been lifted from her shoulders, and for the first time in her life Claire is free...
  • More Than a Duke by Christi Caldwell

    More Than a Duke by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Polite Society doesn’t take Lady Anne Adamson seriously. However, Anne isn’t just another pretty young miss. When she discovers her father betrayed her mother’s love and her family descended into poverty, Anne comes up with a plan to marry a respectable, powerful, and honorable gentleman— a man nothing like her philandering father...
  • All Things New by Lynn Austin

    All Things New by Lynn Austin

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In the aftermath of the Civil War, Josephine Weatherly and her mother, Eugenia, struggle to pick up the pieces of their lives when they return to their Virginia plantation...
  • An Uncommon Earl by Sian Ann Bessey

    An Uncommon Earl by Sian Ann Bessey

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Alexander Allerton, the Earl of Bloxley’s, greatest desire is to alleviate the suffering of the poor and less fortunate of England. So when his hackney carriage is involved in an accident that results in the death of one of those he is determined to help, he is devastated...
  • Angels Watching Over Me by Michael R. Phillips

    Angels Watching Over Me by Michael R. Phillips

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Book 1 of SHENANDOAH SISTERS. Two young Southern girls, one the daughter of a plantation owner and one the daughter of a slave, barely survive the onset of the Civil War and the loss of both their families. When these tragic circumstances bring them together, they join forces to discover if they can make a life for themselves...
  • The Wicked Heir by Merry Farmer

    The Wicked Heir by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Every guest invited to the house party at Nedworth Hall has a secret.Lady Patience Wycombe has been sent to Nedworth Hall for the summer under protest...
  • Earl of Morrey by Lauren Smith

    Earl of Morrey by Lauren Smith

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Letty Fordyce knows three things about her future husband: Lord Morrey is a dangerous man.He frightens her.She desires him. Adam Beaumont, the Earl of Morrey, is full of dark secrets. His brooding and mysterious allure draws women to him like moths to a flame. But he fears he can never marry, not when his secret life is full of constant dangers...
  • To Catch a Viscount by Christi Caldwell

    To Catch a Viscount by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Miss Marcia Collins's cameo-perfect life is destroyed when scandal leaves her standing alone at the altar on her wedding day. Her heart shattered, she decides to embrace her ruined reputation and explore every forbidden pleasure. All she needs is a little help from her long-time friend—and society’s most wicked rogue—Andrew Barrett, Viscount Waters...
  • Shadows of Scandal  (Guardians of the Bones) by K.J. Jackson

    Shadows of Scandal (Guardians of the Bones) by K.J. Jackson

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    She needs a champion willing to scandalize her. He doesn’t need anyone. Scandal turns into seduction when a not-quite-perfect heiress tangles with a lost son of society...
  • Arucard by Barbara Devlin

    Arucard by Barbara Devlin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    WANTED: DEAD OR ALIVE. It is the year of Our Lord 1307, and by papal decree, Templar Knight Arucard of Villiers is a hunted man. One of a handful of mariners to escape the Inquisition and Philip the Fair’s treachery, Arucard sets sail for England, where good King Edward II has outlawed torture...
  • Save a Horse, Ride a Viscount by Valerie Bowman

    Save a Horse, Ride a Viscount by Valerie Bowman

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    His best laid plans…Ewan Fairchild, Viscount Clayton, has been busy ticking off the boxes for a bright future. Become a rising star in Parliament? Check. Find a lady he intends to marry? Check. Make his stables the envy of every man in London? Check, thanks to the prize Arabian thoroughbred he’s just won at auction...
  • Wedded to War by Jocelyn Green

    Wedded to War by Jocelyn Green

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Tending to the army's sick and wounded meant leading a life her mother does not understand and giving up a handsome and approved suitor. Yet Charlotte chooses a life of service over privilege, just as her childhood friend had done when he became a military doctor. She soon discovers that she's combatting more than just the rebellion by becoming a nurse...
  • Taming the Rake by Monica McCarty

    Taming the Rake by Monica McCarty

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    They are known as the Rake Slayers… Tired of the different standards applied to the men who flout society’s rules, three young ladies seek a little primitive justice and hatch a plan to bring a few of London’s most notorious rakes up to snuff before refusing them. But they soon learn exactly what it is that makes rakes so dangerous...
  • The Virgin Queen's Daughter by Ella March Chase

    The Virgin Queen's Daughter by Ella March Chase

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · 32 ratings
    As captivating now as it was more than four centuries ago, the reign of Elizabeth I—with its scandal, intrigue, and resilience—has sparked the imaginations of generations. In her sweeping historical debut, Ella March Chase explores a thrilling possibility: that the Tudor bloodline did not end with the Virgin Queen...
  • For Now, Forever by Nora Roberts

    For Now, Forever by Nora Roberts

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 33 ratings
    Anna -- Daniel's wife of forty years -- relives her remarkable courtship, when meddlesome matchmaking patriarch and self-made millionaire Daniel MacGregor faced his biggest challenge: to convince the love of his life to marry him! Here at last is the story of how Daniel wooed and won the fiercely independent Anna Whitfield and launched his formidable dynasty...
  • My Old True Love by Sheila Kay Adams

    My Old True Love by Sheila Kay Adams

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sheila Kay Adams brings us a novel inspired by the ballads of the English, Scottish, and Irish. These long, sad stories of heartbreak and betrayal, violence and love, have been sung for generations by the descendents of those who settled the Appalachian mountains in the 1700s...
  • A Virgin to Seduce the Duke by Violet Hamers

    A Virgin to Seduce the Duke by Violet Hamers

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    “No need to act so prim and proper now, my lady. I will not tell a soul about our little rendezvous.”Miss Ashton cannot afford an unsuccessful Season. And despite her feisty cousin’s constant nagging to act a little wicked once in a while, Sophia would not be able to live with herself if she disappointed her guardians...
  • Virgin Bride by Tamara Leigh

    Virgin Bride by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    SHE WOULD GIVE ANYTHING TO AVOID BEING SENT TO A CONVENT-- EVEN HER VIRTUE Lady Graeye Charwyck was desperate to escape the fate her father had planned for her--to spend the rest of her life in a convent. She could envision only one way out: to lie with the first man she met...
  • The Elusive Lord Everhart by Vivienne Lorret

    The Elusive Lord Everhart by Vivienne Lorret

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Vivienne Lorret, the USA Today bestselling author of Winning Miss Wakefield, returns with a new series featuring the three roguish bachelors of Fallow Hall. Gabriel Ludlow, Viscount Everhart, will never marry, and thus is sure to win the bachelors' wager amongst his friends...
  • When Ash Falls by Rachel Van Dyken

    When Ash Falls by Rachel Van Dyken

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Rachel Van Dyken returns to regency romance with the last and final installment in The London Fairy Tales series...A regency retelling of Snow White and The Seven Dwarves. Ashton Wolfsbane, Earl of Gyles, has taken a vow of celibacy after blaming himself for his sister in laws death...
  • Wickedly Yours by Kathleen Ayers

    Wickedly Yours by Kathleen Ayers

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    Some wild things want to be tamed… Lady Arabella Tremaine is in need of rescue. Angry and bitter at her banishment to Wales, she’s agreed to marry for all the wrong reasons; the most important being she loathes her future husband. Unfortunately, the man whose proposal she accepted won’t take no for an answer...
  • Captivating the Prince by Patricia Grasso

    Captivating the Prince by Patricia Grasso

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Best-selling and award-winning author Patricia Grasso presents, CAPTIVATING THE PRINCE, Book 5 in the Lords of London Regency Romance Series. Originally released as Seducing the Prince.She longs to soar…Regina Bradford, the Countess of Langley, did not get her “happily ever after...
  • A Scandal By Any Other Name by Kimberly Bell

    A Scandal By Any Other Name by Kimberly Bell

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Jasper De Vere doesn't do sad. Ever since the death of his parents, he’s devoted himself to life’s many pleasures—while making sure to avoid attachments. It’s difficult to avoid your own grandfather though, especially when you’re the heir to his Dukedom. Unable to sit by and watch one of the few people he cares about wither away, Jasper flees to his friend Nicholas’s country estate...
  • A Debt of Dishonor by Lillian Marek

    A Debt of Dishonor by Lillian Marek

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Kate Russell is furious. It was bad enough that her father had let her grow up in virtual poverty, but now, her dissolute brother wants to use her as payment for his debts. She runs away, determined to make her way so that she will never again be at the mercy of powerful men. Then she encounters the Duke of Ashleigh...
  • The Sentinels of Andersonville by Tracy Groot

    The Sentinels of Andersonville by Tracy Groot

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Near the end of the Civil War, inhumane conditions at Andersonville Prison caused the deaths of 13,000 Union soldiers in only one year. In this gripping and affecting novel, three young Confederates and an entire town come face-to-face with the prison’s atrocities and will learn the cost of compassion, when withheld and when given...
  • The Perfect Arrangement by Annabelle Anders

    The Perfect Arrangement by Annabelle Anders

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    His father died before turning forty. His older brother, the original heir, turned up his toes at the age of two and thirty. And this year, his last remaining brother—and the spare—was suddenly killed in a duel. Circumstances aren't looking good for this second spare turned heir. The new duke of Warwick needs a son..
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