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  • My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie

    My Dear Hamilton by Stephanie Dray, Laura Kamoie

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    From the New York Times bestselling authors of America’s First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton—a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy...
  • The Angry Tide by Winston Graham

    The Angry Tide by Winston Graham

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    The Angry Tide is the seventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, the major TV series from Masterpiece on PBS.Cornwall, towards the end of the 18th century. Ross Poldark sits for the borough of Truro as Member of Parliament - his time divided between London and Cornwall, his heart divided about his wife, Demelza...
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  • Petteril's Folly by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Folly by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Time to confront reality – and a worrying mystery.Lord Petteril and his new viscountess return to England to face the consequences of their unequal marriage, only to discover that Petteril’s valet, the enigmatic Stewart, has been arrested for theft...
  • Under a Greek Moon by Carol Kirkwood

    Under a Greek Moon by Carol Kirkwood

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The escapist Sunday Times bestselling debut from the nation’s best loved TV presenter, Carol Kirkwood.‘Loved it! It sizzles with secrets and passion...
  • The Secret Heart by Mary Lancaster

    The Secret Heart by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Betrayal, temptation and an impossible love.The final book in the Unmarriageable series...Some suspect that Lily Villin is the true heart of the Hart Inn, a lucky house where love always seems to blossom, whatever the obstacles. But Lily has another secret. She is in love with an enigmatic nobleman, and no luck in the world can make such a marriage possible...
  • The Twisted Sword by Winston Graham

    The Twisted Sword by Winston Graham

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    The eleventh novel in Winston Graham's classic Poldark saga, now a major TV series from Masterpiece PBS. Cornwall 1815 Demelza sees a horseman riding down the valley and senses disruption to the domestic contentment she has fought so hard to achieve. For Ross has little option but to accept the summons – and travel to Paris with his family, as an 'observer' of the French armed forces...
  • Petteril's Wife by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Wife by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Incognito in Portugal…Lord Petteril’s cousin, the newly commissioned Major Bertie Withan, has gone missing somewhere between landing in Lisbon and joining his regiment on the front line of the Peninsular War...
  • On a Turning Tide by Ellie Dean

    On a Turning Tide by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.88 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Cliffehaven, October 1944 As the Allied troops draw closer to victory, life at Beach View Boarding House is still full of uncertainty. Rosie’s plans for her wedding to Ron Reilly are plagued with misunderstandings. And when Ron takes on a secret assignment just days before they are due to say their vows, it seems their plans for a future together may be doomed...
  • Sealed With a Loving Kiss by Ellie Dean

    Sealed With a Loving Kiss by Ellie Dean

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The gripping new Second World War novel from Sunday Times Top Ten bestselling author of While We're Apart.After the death of her parents in a bombing raid, Mary Jones discovers a secret in the pages of father’s diaries. Her search for the truth brings her to Cliffehaven on the south coast...
  • My Kind of Scoundrel by Adele Clee

    My Kind of Scoundrel by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    By day, Miss Eleanor Darrow is one of London’s finest modistes. By night, she is a trusted confidante and the keeper of the ton’s scandalous secrets. But what began as an innocent way to supplement her income has her fearing for her life. Her box of secrets is missing. Fortunately, she knows the identity of the handsome scoundrel who stole it...
  • Petteril's Christmas by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Christmas by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A merry Christmas for the Petterils?Piers wants to make their first Christmas together special, and so it proves to be - just not quite in the way he planned.His eccentric Great Aunt Prudence summons him to London with the news that she is dying and that one of her servants is stealing from her. Only one of these claims turns out to be true, though both require investigating...
  • The Dreadful Duke by Grace Burrowes

    The Dreadful Duke by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 13 ratings
    He’d rather carry hod in hell…Finn Cathcart, a successful sculptor, is having a fine time on the Continent cavorting with alabaster nymphs and marble goddesses (so to speak), when he’s informed that a ducal title awaits him back in England. The same family who disowned Finn’s father now needs an heir to prevent all their wealth from falling into the Crown’s greedy hands....She’d rather he did too...
  • Petteril's Corpse by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Corpse by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A murdered stranger in his home wood…The discovery of a naked corpse upsets the new Viscount Petteril’s return to his ancestral acres. The local magistrate, Robert Lindon, has no idea how to proceed with so heinous a crime...
  • Petteril's Thief by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Thief by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A missing family heirloom – and one of the family stole it.In the spring of 1812, Piers Withan is dragged from his beloved Oxford to be the new Viscount Petteril. Burdened by responsibilities he doesn’t want and the remnants of a family who don’t want him, he is saved from an irredeemable mistake by Ape, the small thief burgling his house...
  • Petteril's Ladybird by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Ladybird by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An earl’s son, shot in the home of his mistress…Lord Petteril, with his redoubtable assistant April, is called back to London to help prove the innocence of his friend, Percy Austen, who is suspected of murder.Percy was once the lover of the victim’s mistress, and his pistol was found at the scene of the crime...
  • The Earl's Iron Warrant by Kate Archer

    The Earl's Iron Warrant by Kate Archer

    Rated: 4.66 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    An Icy Lady and an Implacable Lord... Charles Battersea, Earl of Dalton and heir to the Duke of Glastonburg, is the last holdout among the six young heirs who have been pressured to marry by way of the Dukes’ Pact. This surprises precisely nobody, especially not himself. He has unaccountably lost his friend, Grayson, to Miss Dell, but if he is forced to tow the bachelorhood line alone, so be it...
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    victorian  regency  historical  length-short  m-f
  • Miss Determined by Grace Burrowes

    Miss Determined by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Trevor, Marquess of Tavistock, has finally decided to stop larking around on the Continent, come home, and take a bride. His solicitors applaud his decision to settle down, provided he chooses a wealthy young lady to be his marchioness. Those years Trevor spent seeing the world were bad years for the lordly coffers...
  • Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den by Chasity Bowlin

    Fall of the Lyon: The Lyon's Den by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Enter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made... unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves...
  • The Poet’s Stern Critic: A Regency Historical Romance by Mary Lancaster

    The Poet’s Stern Critic: A Regency Historical Romance by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    An elusive poet clashes with an opinionated young lady… Cornelius Vale, hard-working steward of his brother’s land, has another secret identity as acclaimed poet Simon Sacheverill. No one has ever met the mysterious poet – except the woman who once accosted him in a London bookshop and tore his works to shreds.When he encounters That Girl again at a Blackhaven ball, he is appalled...
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    regency  victorian  historical  length-medium
  • Sleepless in Southampton by Chasity Bowlin

    Sleepless in Southampton by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 11 ratings
    Every touch brings with it a world of temptation. Eventually, there is a point of no return. Miss Sophia Upchurch is not having a good day. Her employer is dead, she’s been robbed, she’s now stranded in a strange city, and the handsome man she’d met on the stage, the man she’d flirted with, is no longer simply Mr. Henry Meredith, a possible suitor...
  • Entranced by the Earl by Jillian Eaton

    Entranced by the Earl by Jillian Eaton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes love is hiding in the unlikeliest of earls . . . Evelyn Thorncroft wants to marry a duke, but she'll settle for an earl. The Earl of Hawkridge, to be precise. The only problem? Weston cannot stand the sight of her. At least, that's what he says. Their passionate kisses, however, tell a very different story . .
  • Courage of the Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell

    Courage of the Shipyard Girls by Nancy Revell

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Sunderland, 1942: Polly's heart and her future are hanging in the balance… Polly’s sweetheart Tommy has been declared missing while serving overseas, and although there is no certainty that he is dead, there is no guarantee that he will return home. Now Polly needs her friends more than ever, and the other women welders are ready to rally around her while she waits for news...
  • The Fallen Viscount by Wendy Vella

    The Fallen Viscount by Wendy Vella

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Ruined in the eyes of society, and removed from the only world they’d ever known, the Nightingale siblings vow never to be victims again. They will build their new life on what they’d once ignored. Being a clairvoyant is an excellent survival skill.Could she be the one to save him?Leopold Nightingale was a man who could find things no one else could...
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    regency  victorian  historical  length-medium  m-f
  • A Village Scandal by Dilly Court

    A Village Scandal by Dilly Court

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    The second book in the dramatic new Village Secrets trilogy from the Sunday Times bestselling author. It was her wedding day… the roses and bluebells were blooming and their sweet-scent was filling the air, so why did Daisy feel the cold fingers of fear run down her spine?  Spring in the village, April 1869 It’s spring in Little Creek and wedding bells are ringing...
  • Lyon's Prey: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Anna St. Claire

    Lyon's Prey: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Anna St. Claire

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Enter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made... unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves.Haunted by his wife’s death, he vowed to never marry again..
  • Derriford: Confirmed Bachelors Book 5 by Jenny Hambly

    Derriford: Confirmed Bachelors Book 5 by Jenny Hambly

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Viscount Derriford likes to keep a low profile. He avoids ton parties and the ladies who frequent them whenever possible, preferring to spend time with his fellow bachelors. A predictable, undemanding existence suits him perfectly. Marriage has never been part of his plans; he is convinced he could never make any woman happy...
  • Seven Nights with the Duke by Alyssa Clarke

    Seven Nights with the Duke by Alyssa Clarke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Miss Elizabeth ‘Lizzy’ Fairbanks cannot forget a few abandoned moments with Rannulf Headley, the Duke of Ravenswood. Their romance had begun by accident until it ended when she discovered they were worlds apart.Now that her brother is the new Earl of Celdon, the very bad Fairbanks have been trying to behave themselves and fit into London society...
  • The Courage of a Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World (The Lyon's Den Connected World) by Linda Rae Sande

    The Courage of a Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World (The Lyon's Den Connected World) by Linda Rae Sande

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Enter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made... unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves.Their earldom is at stake...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  regency  historical  length-short
  • Falling for the Marquess by Alexa Aston

    Falling for the Marquess by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A war hero who returns to a title. A lady making her debut into Polite Society. Two people drawn together, yet others think them better apart . . . Second son August Holt is serving as a captain in the Peninsular Wars when he is gravely injured. August loses an eye and also bears a hideous scar running from his brow to his cheek from a saber wound...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  length-medium
  • Valued by the Viscount by Alexa Aston

    Valued by the Viscount by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A reformed rogue who yearns for a love match. A widow who’s been tossed from her home. A house party meant to bring lovers together . . .Reed Davenport is a womanizer enjoying a carefree life until his beloved father dies. Now Viscount Boxling, Reed takes his responsibilities seriously, including providing an heir...
  • The Viscount and the Hellion by Alyssa Clarke

    The Viscount and the Hellion by Alyssa Clarke

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Anything can happen in a battle for love …even a kidnapping.Miss Fanny Fairbanks lost her love in the war, and currently goes through life carefully, lest the ton discovers their love child. The last thing she expected was to encounter a gentleman that looked exactly like her lost love, Simon Gracely, at a ball! She is certain that it is he. Worse this gentleman acts as if he does not know her...
  • The Duke's Virgin Sister by Caroline Lee

    The Duke's Virgin Sister by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    They haven’t quite managed to tame her wild streak. It is to be The Match of the Season. At least, that’s what Lady Carlotta Merritt, sister to the cool and aloof Duke of Cashingham, has been told repeatedly by her mother. The Dowager is beyond thrilled about her daughter’s engagement to Society’s most eligible bachelor, Lord What’s-His-Face...
  • To Tame a Rogue by Alexa Aston

    To Tame a Rogue by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A spy with a guilty conscience. A war widow who works for the government. Both united to bring down a ring of traitors...To prevent her father from marrying her off to an elderly suitor, Lady Gemma Barton begs her childhood friend to marry her, devising a way for them to be found in a compromising position...
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    regency  victorian  historical  length-short
  • Polishing the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Polishing the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A haberdashery owner who suddenly discovers he’s a duke . . .A woman of the ton stained by scandal . . .A deathbed request which brings this pair together . . . Haberdasher Pierce Selkirk always knew he was the son of an earl. Much to his surprise, he learns he is not illegitimate as he had been led to believe...
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    victorian  regency  historical  length-medium  m-f
  • Lyon in the Rough by Meara Platt

    Lyon in the Rough by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.47 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Proud Scottish brothers, Cheyne, Matthew, and Lucas are known as the Lyons of Mar. Cheyne and Matthew have fallen in love and married their brides, will Lucas be next?Lucas Lyon thought he could escape the matchmaking schemes of his distant relation, Bessie Dove-Lyon, by waiting for the morning of his departure from London to visit her...
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    regency  victorian  historical  length-short
  • In the Dark with the Duke by Christi Caldwell

    In the Dark with the Duke by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 32 ratings
    A lady of reserve and a fierce street fighter find common ground in the second Lost Lords of London novel by USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell.Eight years ago, Lady Lila March retreated to the safe shadows of her family’s estate after a devastating tragedy. Weary of being a whisper of her former self, she is determined to brave the dangers of the outside world again...
  • Ormsley by Jenny Hambly

    Ormsley by Jenny Hambly

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    He wants a respectable bride who will not ask for more than he can give – love. She has no need or desire to marry, and love is the only thing that might change her mind.Hugh Brandforth, the seventh Earl of Ormsley, returns to his estate after wasting several weeks searching for a bride. He is looking forward to some much-needed rest and recreation...
  • Delighting the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Delighting the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An army major whose soul is stained by war. A lonely bluestocking who failed miserably during her first Season. Two strangers who bond over an injured kitten . . .Aaron Hartfield is forced to leave the army and return to England to claim a title he never wanted when his brother is killed in a scandalous duel...
  • Dubious about the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Dubious about the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    An affable army colonel who abruptly becomes a duke. A shy beauty who missed her come-out. And two mischievous boys who bring this pair together . . . A confident Colonel Winston Cutler finds himself a sudden duke when the brother he loathed perishes in a fire. Win returns to London, only to find he has two by-blow nephews to care for—and their specialty is running off their latest governess...
  • The Soldier’s Impossible Love by Mary Lancaster

    The Soldier’s Impossible Love by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A damaged hero battles love at first sight…Even experienced soldiers have their limits of endurance. For Major Roderick Vale it was Waterloo. Sent on enforced leave of absence after attacking his fellow officers, he returns with his siblings to the family home near Blackhaven in search of peace and healing and a little passionate distraction...
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    regency  victorian  historical  length-medium
  • Wild, Wild, Duke by Tamara Gill

    Wild, Wild, Duke by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She’s at the mercy of a wild, wild duke. Trouble is, she’s not sure how wild he truly is…There was a time when Wolfe Huges, sixth Duke of Montague, pined for Lady Kate Brassel. But that was years ago. Now, she’s nothing to him but the widow of an old friend who owed him an obscene amount of money...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  length-short
  • A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford

    A Woman of Substance by Barbara Taylor Bradford

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 43 ratings
    In celebration of its thirtieth anniversary, here is the novel that started it all: New York Times bestselling author Barbara Taylor Bradford’s dazzling saga of a woman who dared to dream—and to triumph against all odds. . . .  On the brooding moors above a humble Yorkshire village stood Fairley Hall. There, Emma Harte, its oppressed but resourceful servant girl, acquired a shrewd determination...
  • A Rogue to Ruin by Darcy Burke

    A Rogue to Ruin by Darcy Burke

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Darcy Burke, your next Regency obsession: The Pretenders! Set in Burke’s popular world of The Untouchables, indulge in the saga of a trio of siblings who excel at being something they’re not...
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    victorian  regency  historical  length-medium  m-f
  • Beguiled by a Baron by Christi Caldwell

    Beguiled by a Baron by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A Lady with a Secret… Partially deaf, with a birthmark marring her face, Bridget Hamilton is content with her life, even if she’s been cast out of her family. But her peaceful existence—expanding her mind with her study of rare books—is threatened with an ultimatum from her evil brother—steal a valuable book or give up her son. Bridget has no choice; her son is her world...
  • Petteril's Portrait by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Portrait by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A defaced portrait and the death of an artist – but is anything quite what it seems?To the furious disapproval of his assistant, April, Lord Petteril insists on calling in on Lady Haggard’s country house party – only to discover his hostess and her guests in uproar over a portrait of the late Sir Weston Haggard which has been deliberately damaged...
  • To Trust a Duke by Alexa Aston

    To Trust a Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Book 3 in the exciting new Soldiers and Soulmates series has arrived. A soldier returning from war. A war widow who’s created a new life for herself. An attraction that brings them together... Forced to marry a stranger after one chaste kiss, Lady Ashlyn Dunwood spends a single night with her new husband before his regiment ships off to war...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  length-short
  • The Dance of Love by Meara Platt

    The Dance of Love by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.53 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    She was ballrooms and glitter. He was grit and brawn. They should have been wrong for each other, but they weren’t. This blazing hot Brayden cousin has no idea what the beautiful, obviously refined young woman is doing in his office, but he has no intention of ever letting her go...
  • Duke of Honor by Alexa Aston

    Duke of Honor by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A woman who falls in love with a man she’s never seen . . .A duke harboring a secret he can never reveal . . .Sebastian Cooper, Marquess of Marbury, chooses to leave England and fight in the Napoleonic Wars for a decade. He comes home to find his father has died and assumes his role as the new Duke of Hardwick...
  • Lyon Eyes by Lynne Connolly

    Lyon Eyes by Lynne Connolly

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Enter the world of the most notorious gambling den in London, where matches are made... unusually. Welcome to the world of THE LYON'S DEN: The Black Widow of Whitehall Connected World, where the underground of Regency London thrives... and loves.Heiress to a fortune, Jenny Hambling needs a husband, before she is made to marry a man she despises...
  • The Captain and the Duchess by Alexa Aston

    The Captain and the Duchess by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A widowed duchess yearning to find love. An orphan who became a sea captain. A powerful, forbidden love which ignites between the pair . . . Dinah Strong, the Dowager Duchess of Seaton, was forced to wed a man much older than herself. Much to his dismay, she gifts him with four daughters, who, along with the two nieces she raises, became the lights in an otherwise dismal life...
    Categorized as:
    regency  victorian  historical  length-short
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