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The Lord John Series by Diana Gabaldon
Diana Gabaldon, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Outlander series, delivers captivating tales of history, intrigue, and suspense that feature one of her most popular characters: Lord John Grey. This thrilling eBook collection—featuring three novels and one collection of novellas—follows Lord John as he defends his country, ferrets out spies, and unravels a haunting family mystery... -
Shattered Moments: An utterly emotional and gripping historical page-turner by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsShe never planned to return…To save her husband’s life, Valerie Whitfield makes the momentous decision to travel to the twenty-first century. But disaster follows when a time-traveling accident leaves her and Alec stranded there, far from their beloved family and home in seventeenth-century Virginia... -
The Villainess Turns the Hourglass by Ant Studio
Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars · 25 ratingsAfter her lowly mother married a count, Aria enjoyed a life full of luxury while harassing her gentle stepsister Mielle. Several years later, Aria is about to be executed when Mielle reveals that she wickedly tricked Aria into building the bad reputation that ultimately brought her to the scaffold... -
A Game of Shadows: A totally unforgettable historical time-travel novel by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsCan she keep her family safe?Devoted wife and mother Valerie Whitfield is torn between two centuries. Born in twentieth-century America, Valerie once believed her adventuring days were over when she settled down with her husband, Alec, in colonial Virginia. But when her grown-up children become embroiled in dangerous affairs, Valerie faces unimaginable challenges... -
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No. 23 Burlington Square by Jenni Keer
Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars · 35 ratingsLondon, 1927: One house. Three lives. A decision that will change everything. A powerful, unique timeslip story, perfect for fans of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, The Miniaturist, and Lucinda Riley... -
A Time Traveler’s Masquerade (A McQuivey's Costume Shop Romance) by Sian Ann Bessey
Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRomance blossoms when Isla Crawford steps into McQuivey’s Costume Shop in London and is swept back in time to 1605, where she and Lord Bancroft attempt to thwart Guy Fawkes’s Gunpowder Plot...Categorized as:
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The Rose Garden by Susanna Kearsley
When Eva's film star sister Katrina dies, she leaves California and returns to Cornwall, where they spent their childhood summers, to scatter Katrina's ashes and in doing so return her to the place where she belongs. But Eva must also confront the ghosts from her own past, as well as those from a time long before her own... -
The Three Brooches by Katherine Lowry Logan
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsWhen Kit MacKlenna returned to her soul mate in the 19th century, Elliott Fraser thought he would never see his beloved goddaughter again. But when a message from Kit is discovered in a 135-year-old painting, Elliot must either ignore Kit's request for help or test the Legend of the Three Brooches... -
Sleeper's Castle by Barbara Erskine
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 27 ratingsTwo women, centuries apart. One endless nightmare tearing Wales apart – and only they can stop it.Sunday Times bestselling author Barbara Erskine returns to Hay in the year that marks the 30th anniversary of her sensational debut bestseller, Lady of Hay.Hay-On-Wye, 1400 – War is brewing in the Welsh borders, Catrin is on the brink of womanhood and falling in love for the first time... -
Mariana by Susanna Kearsley
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 46 ratingsFrom the winner of the Catherine Cookson Fiction Prize, this mesmerizing, suspenseful, and richly atmospheric tale of time travel draws us into the heart of a heroine we won't soon forget... The first time Julia Beckett saw Greywethers she was only five, but she knew that it was her house. And now that she’s at last become its owner, she suspects that she was drawn there for a reason... -
One Enchanted Evening by Lynn Kurland
Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars · 24 ratingsTime-travel romances have made Lynn Kurland a bestseller in the here-and-now. A duty-bound knight has taken on the task of rebuilding the most dilapidated castle in all of England. A costume designer gets her chance to shine by showcasing her fairy- tale designs at an upscale party in an authentic medieval castle...Categorized as:
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The Thief by L.L. Muir
Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsForbes has been carrying a secret—on his person—for 270 years. But a wee earthquake is about to give him away. If he doesn't move quickly to derail a female French archeologist, his heroic history will be rewritten, and he'll be ostracized by his clan... -
The Lost by Irina Shapiro
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings2018. When a skeleton is found entangled in the roots of an ancient tree on Rhys Morgan’s country estate, Quinn is persuaded to come out of retirement to film one more episode of the Echoes from the Past series. But the nameless skeleton proves to be the least of her problems when secrets from the past suddenly come to light and a new threat looms over her family.1777... -
The Book of Carraig by Andrea Matthews
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAlmost a year after waking to find himself in twentieth-century New York, fifth-century Celt Ciarán Donnelly has finally returned to his childhood home, but Ireland is nothing like he remembers it. The realization is overwhelming and taking a toll on his relationship with archaeologist Caitlin O’Connell as well. Keeping his secret from her has been no easy task... -
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Wait for Me by Jody Hedlund
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsWhen the darkness closes all around,Beauty is still there just waiting to be found.Dawson Huxham blames himself for his sister’s death . . . until he briefly crosses time and discovers she’s alive in the Middle Ages. Hoping to reconnect with her, he searches for the holy water that will help him visit the past for a longer duration... -
Timeless Moments by Michele Kidd
Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsKindle Scout Winner - Jack Vines has the Victorian home of his dreams--or so it seems until he discovers an intriguing beauty lurking in the shadows. Stunned, he finds they share the house but live a century apart. The realization leads him to questions so disturbing it changes both their lives forever. She is a prisoner of the past, shrouded in a world of dark mysteries...Categorized as:
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Tryst by Elswyth Thane
Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars · 13 ratingsHilary Shenstone is dead, yet he haunts his old home. Only animals and a young girl Sabrina can sense his presence. The old housekeeper is aware of this, and helps Sabrina to contact the spirit... -
A Time to Weep by Tracy L. Higley
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSometimes the only way forward is back.Sahara Aldridge, a young Egyptologist in 1922, is chasing down the trail of her parents through the unknown corridors of time.But when all clues point to Ancient Rome as the next place to search, Sahara retreats into the safety of her archaeological work, cataloguing treasures from the newly-discovered tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun... -
Up and Down by Robert Thier
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsThe tables are turned: having magically stopped aging in the 19th century, Lilly Linton is no longer the secretary for cold, stone faced business-magnate Rikkard Ambrose. Now, in the 21st century, the roles are reversed... -
Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
Forgetting to Remember by M.J. Rose
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDiscover a spellbinding love story in this dazzling time-travel adventure from the NYT bestselling author of The Last Tiara, M.J. Rose... -
The Christmas Village: JULIA by Frankie Robertson
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLove transcends time as a woman from the present and a man from the past challenge fate.Julia feels compelled to renovate the 200-year-old Scottish mansion where she encounters Peter, a ghost haunted by his past. As their connection deepens, Julia is transported to the year 1845, where she becomes entangled in Peter's life and the Christmas preparations in the charming village of Oak Hill... -
シノビライフ 10 by Shoko Conami
Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsMany, many years ago, a ninja named Kagetora devoted his life to protecting Princess Beni (”Beni-Hime”). Unfortunately, they were attacked and Kagetora was flung into a lake, and sank to the bottom… And is somehow warped to the future where he sees the princess Beni being kidnapped.Little does Kagetora know that Beni is not the real princess, but rather her descendant... -
Valley of the Moon by Melanie Gideon
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsIn this captivating novel from the author of Wife 22, a woman who feels lost in her own time stumbles across a California community that has, impossibly, been marooned in the early twentieth century perfect for readers of The Time Traveler's Wife, Time and Again, and Sarah Addison Allen.Lux is a single mom struggling to make her way when she discovers an idyllic community in the Sonoma Valley... -
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The Last Daughter of York by Nicola Cornick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn the winter of 1483, Francis Lovell is Richard III’s Lord Chamberlain and confidante, but the threat of Henry Tudor’s rebels has the king entrusting to Francis and his wife, Anne, his most crucial mission: protecting the young Richard of York, his brother’s surviving son and a threat to Henry’s claims to the throne... -
Watch For Me By Moonlight: A gripping and unforgettable historical timeslip romance by Kirsty Ferry
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA timeless historical romance for the ages. 1795 . When her coach comes to an abrupt halt, Lady Georgiana Kerridge and her brother come face-to-face with an infamous highwayman.Leading them from the safety of their coach, he promises not to harm Georgiana . . . does that mean her heart will be safe? Now... -
Betrayal in Time by Julie McElwain
Kendra Donovan’s adventures in nineteenth-century England continue when she is called upon to investigate the murder of a spymaster, the first in a set of bizarre killings carried out by a madman. February 1816: A race through the icy, twisting cobblestone streets of London ends inside an abandoned church—and a horrific discovery... -
The Frozen People by Elly Griffiths
Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars · 23 ratingsCold cases are a lot easier to solve when you can travel back in time to find new evidence—unless, that is, you get stuck in the nineteenth century.Ali Dawson and her cold case team investigate crimes so old they’re frozen—or so their inside joke goes... -
Shadows Stir at Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsSeven Sisters, an antebellum restoration in downtown Mobile, has come to life recently...and not in ways historian Carrie Jo Jardine had expected. After battling and surviving a dangerous encounter with a visitor from the past, Carrie Jo and Seven Sisters’ handsome owner Ashland Stuart have one last mystery to uncover... -
House of Shadows by Pamela Hartshorne
Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsWhen Kate Vavasour wakes in hospital, she can remember nothing about the family gathered around her bed, or of her life before the accident. The doctors diagnose post-traumatic amnesia and say the memories should start returning. Which they do . . . but these memories are not her own. They belong to Isabel Vavasour, who lived and died at Askerby Hall over four hundred years earlier . . -
The Presence by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars · 26 ratingsRevisit the misty hills of Scotland, where there might be ghosts and there’s certainly a killer, in this thrilling tale of romantic suspense from New York Times bestselling author Heather Graham.It seemed like the ultimate moneymaking plan—buy an ancient, run-down Scottish castle and turn it into a tourist destination... -
Green Darkness by Anya Seton
"The theme of this book is reincarnation, an attempt to show the interplay—the law of cause and effect, good and evil, among certain individual souls in two periods of English history." Green Darkness is the story of a great love, in which mysticism, suspense, and mystery form a web of good and evil forces that stretches from Tudor England to the England of the twentieth century... -
Of Magic and Rum by Carly Spade
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsWhen Atlantis throttles Rhode into another place and time, she’s forced to keep her sea nymph identity a secret from unsuspecting mortals. Now fathoms from her realm and threatened by a vicious sea monster, she’ll require a ship to get back home.The plan is Find a crew. Stow away disguised as a cabin boy. And kill the captain once they reach the Mediterranean Sea. That was the plan...Categorized as:
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冷血公爵の心変わり 1 by Bandalbanji, 에디
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 25 ratings백작가의 사생아였던 에르인.반역자가 되어 도망친 가족을 대신해 희생 되기 직전그녀는 목숨을 거두러 온 ‘사신’을 마주 하게 되는데!‘제발 살려주세요! 저는 이런 거, 저런 거 다 해보고 싶어요!’꽃다운 나이에 예쁜 드레스 한 번 못 입어봤다.구애도 받아보고 사랑 받으며 사는 것이 유일한 소원이었던그녀에게, 기적처럼 그녀를 위한 마법진이 발동되고“레이디, 저의 무례를 용서해 주십시오.”“전하!!”“나와 결혼해 주십시오, 내 영혼의 주군이시여... -
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Moonlight Falls on Seven Sisters by M.L. Bullock
Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars · 17 ratingsWhen a young, wealthy heiress, Calpurnia Cottonwood, disappears from Seven Sisters in 1850, rumors swirl. But no trace of the girl had ever been found--until now. Historian Carrie Jo Jardine and her handsome employer, Ashland Stuart, find clues to the heiress' whereabouts and even more mysteries are revealed. With Carrie Jo's ability to dream about the past, she watches a sinister plot unfold... -
A Twist in Time by Julie McElwain
Former FBI agent Kendra Donovan’s attempts to return to the twenty-first century have failed, leaving her stuck at Aldridge Castle in 1815... -
The Secret Kiss of Darkness by Christina Courtenay
Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHe has waited an eternity for her.When Kayla Sinclair arrives at Sotheby's auction room in Mayfair, she is mesmerised by a life-size eighteenth-century portrait of a tall, dark man with piercing blue eyes.She finds her life irrevocably changed by a powerful obsession with the portrait, and Kayla’s desire to discover the identity of the man leads her to the mysterious Marcombe Hall... -
Shadows on the Aegean by Suzanne Frank
Rated: 3.98 of 5 stars · 11 ratingsSuzanne Frank, writing in the bestselling tradition of Diana Gabaldon and Mary Renault, stunned the literary world with her provocative protrayal of Egypt at the time of the Exodus in Reflections in the Nile . The Detroit Free Press called the sweeping, evocative story "an adventure you won't want to put down... -
A Lady Out of Time by Caroline Hanson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsSent back in time to Victorian England to stop the invention of a deadly weapon, Helen Foster knows the job looks too easy: All she has to do is go to an auction, buy the weapon plans, destroy them, and she’ll save millions of people back in her own time... -
The Edge of Dark by Pamela Hartshorne
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsJane believes in keeping her promises, but a deathbed vow sets her on a twisting path of deceit and joy that takes her from the dark secrets of Holmwood House in York to the sign of the golden lily in London's Mincing Lane. Getting what you want, Jane discovers, comes at a price... -
Shifting Sands by Kathi Oram Peterson
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Gloryanna Griffin needs is a full-ride scholarship to finish her master’s degree in marine biology in order to pursue her dream of saving the ocean. However, to be a serious contender for the money, she needs to publish in a prestigious magazine. A research dive off the Olympic Peninsula is a dangerous proposition but one that just might give her article the impact it needs... -
Echoes of Time by Calia Read
For Etienne and me, our love has always left a trace. It reigns over kingdoms, and rules over time. With Etienne now in the present day, the echoes of time grow louder. We must face the answers we seek to set things right. However, we must be incredibly careful. One false move and everything we love will be destroyed. And this time, could be the end of our surviving trace... -
Together Forever Across Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 7 ratingsTogether Forever Across Time, Book Two of the Train Through Time Series by Bess McBride Stephen Sadler reluctantly attends the Seattle wedding of Robert Chamberlain to Ellie Standish, the woman who had captured his interest. There he says goodbye to the woman he thought he had fallen for... -
A Smile in Time by Bess McBride
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 5 ratingsA Smile in Time (Book Three of the Train Through Time series) Annie St. John and her sister, Marie, decide that the three-day train ride from Chicago to Seattle to catch their Alaskan cruise was a bit too much, and they swear that next time, they’ll fly. But “a bit too much” doesn’t begin to describe what they find when they wake up from a short doze on their sleek modern train... -
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When the Walls Fell by Monique Martin
Rated: 3.93 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsProfessor Simon Cross and his assistant Elizabeth West have returned from their accidental journey into the past and are adjusting to their new life together as a couple. But an unwanted visit from the Council for Temporal Studies could change everything. A murder in the past is changing the future, and if the killing isn't stopped, Simon Cross might never be born...Categorized as:
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Dancing with Paris by Juliette Sobanet
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsIn Paris, a past life promises a second chance at love. Straitlaced marriage therapist Claudia Davis had a plan—and it definitely did not involve getting pregnant from a one-night stand or falling for a gorgeous French actor. She thinks her life can’t possibly get more complicated...Categorized as:
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The Egyptian Years by Elizabeth Harris
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratings‘Unusual romance with a dramatic twist.’ — Woman In 1892, the newly married and vivacious Genevieve Montsorrel disappeared into the Egyptian desert. Only her parasol was ever found — the circumstances surrounding her disappearance, and assumed death, were never explained. A century later, Willa Jamieson comes into the possession of a trunk of Genevieve’s possessions... -
Echoes of the Past: A completely gripping and captivating historical timeslip romance by Kirsty Ferry
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsPlease note this book was previously published as A Secret Rose by Kirsty FerryA love that never dies . . . 1886. Alys Trelawney arrives at Pencradoc in Cornwall where she meets the alluring Jago Pencradoc.Little does she know that their encounter will have repercussions that will ripple through the generations . . .Present day... -
Transmigrator Meets Reincarnator by 雪山岚
Rated: 3.88 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsAll Chu Lian had done was to read a book where the female lead had cheated on her wonderful husband. While wondering why, before she knew it, she was waking up in the body of that very same female lead!Wait, did that mean the handsome husband from the book was hers now? Chu Lian decided to welcome him with open arms!However, what she got wasn’t the kind husband she had been expecting...Categorized as:
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The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Rated: 3.90 of 5 stars · 105 ratingsEvelyn Hardcastle will be murdered at 11:00 p.m.There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.Understood? Then let's begin . . .Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest...
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