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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 Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer

    The Warsaw Orphan by Kelly Rimmer

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    In the spring of 1942, young Elzbieta Rabinek is aware of the swiftly growing discord just beyond the courtyard of her comfortable Warsaw home. She has no fondness for the Germans who patrol her streets and impose their curfews, but has never given much thought to what goes on behind the walls that contain her Jewish neighbors...
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  • Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams

    Things Past Telling by Sheila Williams

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The author of The Secret Woman tells the story of a brave and enduring woman as indomitable as Ernest Gaines' legendary Miss Jane Pittman, in a breathtaking novel that combines the epic romance and adventure of Outlander, the sweeping drama of Roots, and the haunting historical power of Barracoon...
  • The Forbidden Promise by Lorna Cook

    The Forbidden Promise by Lorna Cook

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    The stunning new story of love and secrets from the Number One bestselling author of The Forgotten VillageScotland, 1940:War rages across Europe, but Invermoray House is at peace. Until the night of Constance’s twenty-first birthday, when she’s the only person to see a Spitfire crash into the loch...
  • 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...
  • Warleggan by Winston Graham

    Warleggan by Winston Graham

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Ross Poldark plunges into a speculative mining venture which threatens his financial security and his stormy marriage to Demelza. When the old attraction between Ross and Elizabeth begins to rekindle itself, Demelza retaliates by becoming dangerously involved with a Scottish cavalry officer...
  • The Thames River Murders by Ashley Gardner

    The Thames River Murders by Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders...
  • Murder at the Wedding Chapel by Catherine Coles

    Murder at the Wedding Chapel by Catherine Coles

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Tommy & Evelyn Christie have reluctantly agreed to host the wedding of Tommy's mother to Andrew Parsons, the Marquess of York, at their home Hessleham Hall.None of the happy couple's adult children support the marriage but when Andrew is found dead outside the wedding chapel on the morning of his wedding it seems one of them has taken their anger a step too far...
  • Hold Me Close: All of Me by Siobhan Davis, Kelly Hartigan (XterraWeb)

    Hold Me Close: All of Me by Siobhan Davis, Kelly Hartigan (XterraWeb)

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sons pay for the sins of their fathers…Bodhi and Easton Lancaster O’Donoghue have grown up sheltered from the truth. Until it’s time for their parents to reveal what happened and how it shaped the events that came later.Bodhi is quiet. An intelligent, introspective boy who hides his pain deep inside...
  • The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader

    The Sunshine Girls by Molly Fader

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 30 ratings
    "Two friends. A lifetime of secrets. One sparkling story. 1967 Iowa. Nursing school roommates BettyKay and Kitty don't have much in common. BettyKay has risked her family's disapproval to pursue her dreams away from her small town. Cosmopolitan Kitty has always relied on her beauty and smarts to get by and to hide a painful secret...
    Categorized as:
    new adult  historical  contemporary
  • Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid  Volume 1 by 나윤희, Na Yoonhee

    Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid Volume 1 by 나윤희, Na Yoonhee

    Rated: 4.75 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The year is 1926 in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, and Joseon (present-day Korea), is under colonial Japanese rule. Su-a Heo is a handmaiden who spends her days working and swimming in the sea. Her work is her whole life, until one day, when she discovers a wounded independence fighter named Uihyeon Kang washed up on the shore...
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    new adult  historical  length-medium
  • Murder at Rochester Park by Catherine Coles

    Murder at Rochester Park by Catherine Coles

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Tommy and Evelyn Christie are looking forward to a quiet Christmas holiday at the home of Hugh Norton-Cavendish, the 9th Earl of Clifford, who recently married Tommy's cousin, Elise.However the suspicious death of Albert Lewis, a businessman hoping to buy land from Hugh, means the Christmas festivities are quickly over. Tommy is distracted by his sister's new relationship with a man he distrusts...
  • Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse

    Leave it to Psmith by P.G. Wodehouse

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    Ronald Psmith (“the ‘p’ is silent, as in pshrimp”) is always willing to help a damsel in distress. So when he sees Eve Halliday without an umbrella during a downpour, he nobly offers her an umbrella, even though it’s one he picks out of the Drone Club’s umbrella rack...
  • Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham

    Jeremy Poldark by Winston Graham

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    Ross Poldark faces the darkest hour of his life in this third novel of the Poldark series. Reeling from the tragic death of a loved one, Captain Poldark vents his grief by inciting impoverished locals to salvage the contents of a ship run aground in a storm—an act for which British law proscribes death by hanging...
    Categorized as:
    georgian  historical  length-medium
  • The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi

    The Secret Keeper of Jaipur by Alka Joshi

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    In New York Times bestselling author Alka Joshi’s intriguing new novel, henna artist Lakshmi arranges for her protégé, Malik, to intern at the Jaipur Palace in this tale rich in character, atmosphere, and lavish storytelling.It’s the spring of 1969, and Lakshmi, now married to Dr. Jay Kumar, directs the Healing Garden in Shimla. Malik has finished his private school education...
  • Mr. Silver: An Enemies to Lovers Fake Dating Standalone by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Mr. Silver: An Enemies to Lovers Fake Dating Standalone by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 28 ratings
    Sterling Golden—Cocky football star. Rich Playboy with a secret. Guy I’d most like to throat-punch. The cherry on top? I’m stuck pretending to be this d-bag’s girl for the next few months.When I spotted him sneaking out the Dean’s window—a woman whose reputation precedes her—I could’ve minded my business...
  • Deadly Kin by Lucinda Brant, Matthew Lloyd Davies

    Deadly Kin by Lucinda Brant, Matthew Lloyd Davies

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Alec is back! Summer 1764. Alec and Selina anxiously await the birth of their first child at their estate in Kent. It should be a time of family celebration, but the death of a young poacher has Alec investigating murder. And when renovations to his sprawling manor unearth a secret burial chamber, a shocking family secret comes to light...
    Categorized as:
    georgian  mystery  historical  suspense
  • The Lies We Leave Behind by Noelle Salazar

    The Lies We Leave Behind by Noelle Salazar

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    For readers of Kate Quinn and Beatriz Williams, this sweeping story follows a fearless nurse who must leave love behind when duty calls her back to the front. Somewhere in the Pacific, 1943. Kate Campbell is a nurse who bravely flies back and forth from the front to rescue wounded soldiers, amid long days, harsh conditions and often dangerous weather...
  • Murder in Grosvenor Square by Ashley Gardner

    Murder in Grosvenor Square by Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, Book 9. This is a full-length novel of 86,000 words (32 chapters). Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has grown close to...
  • The Long Road Back To You by Buck Turner

    The Long Road Back To You by Buck Turner

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    They say it only takes a moment to fall in love with someone, but a lifetime to forget them!From the author of Evergreen comes a stirring story that proves it is never too late for loveEighteen-year-old Charlie Ross, a shy, backward teen from Tennessee, does the one thing you should never do before going off to war - he falls in love...
  • A Provincial Peer by Sian Ann Bessey

    A Provincial Peer by Sian Ann Bessey

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lord Benning is no ordinary nobleman. The heir to an earldom, he feels more at home working on the farm at his country estate than socializing in the ballrooms of London. So when a mysterious, veiled woman mistakes him for a farmhand, he takes the assumption in stride. And though he is not offended, he is intrigued...
    Categorized as:
    georgian  historical  regency  length-medium
  • The Wayward One by Danelle Harmon

    The Wayward One by Danelle Harmon

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    The bluest of blood; the boldest of hearts; the de Montfortes will take your breath away." Irish Captain Ruaidri O' Devir has no love for the English. Taken from his family and pressed into the Royal Navy at a young age, he is now a commander for the fledgling American Continental Navy, hand-picked by John Adams himself to steal a potent new explosive from the British...
    Categorized as:
    georgian  historical  length-long
  • A Daughter's Sorrow by Cathy Sharp

    A Daughter's Sorrow by Cathy Sharp

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Heartache and hardship in London’s East End, from the bestselling author of The Orphans of Halfpenny StreetBridget has always been the one to take on the responsibility for looking after her family...
  • Inseparable: Hardcover by Siobhan Davis, Kelly Hartigan (XterraWeb)

    Inseparable: Hardcover by Siobhan Davis, Kelly Hartigan (XterraWeb)

    Rated: 4.16 of 5 stars
    · 34 ratings
    A gritty, angsty, friends-to-lovers standalone romance from USA Today & Wall Street Journal bestselling author Siobhan Davis.A childhood promise. An unbreakable bond. One tragic event that shatters everything.It all started with the boys next door…Devin and Ayden were my best friends. We were practically joined at the hip since age two...
  • The Girl from Ballymor by Kathleen McGurl

    The Girl from Ballymor by Kathleen McGurl

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    What would you sacrifice for your children?Ballymor, Ireland, 1847As famine grips the country Kitty McCarthy is left widowed and alone. Fighting to keep her two remaining children alive against all odds, Kitty must decide how far she will go to save her family...
  • The Mistletoe Seller by Dilly Court

    The Mistletoe Seller by Dilly Court

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    It’s Christmas Eve. Flurries of snow fall on the cobbled streets of Whitechapel and an abandoned baby, swaddled in a blanket, is found on a doorstep in Angel Lane . . .Named after the street on which she was found, Angel Winter was blessed to be taken from the harsh streets into a loving home...
  • The Golden Boys: Dark High School Bully Romance by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    The Golden Boys: Dark High School Bully Romance by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · 35 ratings
    West Golden—so easy to hate, yet so hard to resist.Don’t let that pretty face of his fool you. He isn’t the boy next door, or the kind you trust with your heart. He’s the devil in designer jeans, with all the charm of a bona fide psycho.Trust me.He swears I did something to cross him before I even stepped foot inside Cypress Prep, but it’s a lie...
  • A Daughter's Disgrace by Kitty Neale

    A Daughter's Disgrace by Kitty Neale

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A heartrending story of family shame from Sunday Times bestseller, Kitty Neale. A gritty London tale, perfect for fans of Katie Flynn, Nadine Dorries and Maureen Lee.1950s Battersea is no place for a shamed woman…FracturedAlison is the ugly duckling of her family and has always been treated with disdain by her mother...
  • Never His Girl: Dark High School Bully romance by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Never His Girl: Dark High School Bully romance by Rachel Jonas, Nikki Thorne

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    West Golden—Football star. Playboy. Dead to me. Nothing puts the final bullet in a girl’s rep like a leaked sex tape. Especially one starring her and the cocky quarterback who’s had it out for her since day one. Yep, you guessed it. That girl is me. At Cypress Prep, West is king, but all I see when I look at him is the wicked prick who gets off on trying to break me. His plaything. Go ahead...
  • The Berlin Girl by Mandy Robotham

    The Berlin Girl by Mandy Robotham

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    From the bestselling author of The German Midwife comes the heart-wrenching story of a country on the brink of war, a woman who puts herself in the line of fire, and a world about to be forever changed.Berlin, 1938: It’s the height of summer, and Germany is on the brink of war...
  • The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz

    The Rose and the Thistle by Laura Frantz

    Rated: 4.19 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    In 1715, Lady Blythe Hedley's father is declared an enemy of the British crown because of his Jacobite sympathies, forcing her to flee her home in northern England. Secreted to the tower of Wedderburn Castle in Scotland, Lady Blythe awaits who will ultimately be crowned king. But in a house with seven sons and numerous servants, her presence soon becomes known...
  • Deadly Peril by Lucinda Brant

    Deadly Peril by Lucinda Brant

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Winter 1763. Alec, Lord Halsey is sent on a diplomatic mission to Midanich, imperial outpost of the Holy Roman Empire, to bargain for the freedom of imprisoned friends. Midanich is a place of great danger and dark secrets; a country at civil war; ruled by a family with madness in its veins. For Alec it is a place of unspeakable memories from which he barely escaped and vowed never to return...
  • The Dressmaker’s Secret by Lorna Cook

    The Dressmaker’s Secret by Lorna Cook

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Paris, 1941: As Coco Chanel’s assistant, Adèle lives side by side with German officers in the splendor of The Ritz hotel. But Adèle has a secret. She is working for the resistance, right under the German’s noses...
  • An Affair for Aumont by J.A. Rock, Lisa Henry

    An Affair for Aumont by J.A. Rock, Lisa Henry

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    All he wants is the love he lost.Four years ago, Louis-Charles Aumont, the Marquis de Montespan, chose duty over the man he loved. And then the man he loved chose death in service to England. Now, after finally cutting ties with his king, Aumont is living in a slum in Seven Dials–and intending to die there too...
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    georgian  historical  m-m  regency  queer  length-short
  • A Stormy Season by Melanie Dickerson

    A Stormy Season by Melanie Dickerson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nothing but the deepest love will induce Jane Gilchrist to marry, even when asked by the young and handsome widower with whom every other girl is in love.Luke Watley lost his wife to a tragic accident. But when he discovers it was no accident at all, he must solve the mystery behind her murder, or he—and anyone close to him—is in danger of becoming their next victim...
  • Operation Tulip by Deborah Swift

    Operation Tulip by Deborah Swift

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Holland, 1944: Undercover British agent Nancy Callaghan has been given her toughest case yet. A key member of the Dutch resistance has been captured, and Nancy must play the role of a wealthy Nazi to win over a notorious SS officer, Detlef Keller, and gain crucial information...
  • Snapdragons by Sarah M. Eden

    Snapdragons by Sarah M. Eden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    YORKSHIRE, 1787The fateful day has arrived. Niles Greenberry has always known his family would eventually arrange a marriage for him, but he is certain that marrying Miss Penelope Seymour will cost him every dream he has. He’ll do anything to avoid the match altogether—even if it means disappearing. But the lovely Miss Seymour will not be so easily brushed aside...
    Categorized as:
    georgian  historical  length-medium
  • Snapdragons by Sarah M. Eden

    Snapdragons by Sarah M. Eden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 8 ratings
    The fateful day has arrived. Niles Greenberry has always known his family would eventually arrange a marriage for him, but he is certain that marrying Miss Penelope Seymour will cost him every dream he has. He’ll do anything to avoid the match altogether—even if it means disappearing. But the lovely Miss Seymour will not be so easily brushed aside...
  • The Trials of Ophelia by Nicole Platania

    The Trials of Ophelia by Nicole Platania

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    The Angels are calling, and so her hunt begins. After the devastation on Daminius, Ophelia threw herself into restoration to cope with her losses. Two months later, answers to an ancient curse still evade her, a queen threatens her life, and war rages in the southern mountains. Despite her scars and the loved ones lost, Ophelia knows she must move forward for her people...
  • The Alexandria Affair by Ashley Gardner

    The Alexandria Affair by Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however--James Denis has tasked him with finding an "object" in Alexandria and procuring it, whatever the cost.The task does not turn out to be so simple...
  • The Button Box by Dilly Court

    The Button Box by Dilly Court

    Rated: 4.30 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The new heartwarming novel from Sunday Times bestselling author, Dilly Court. Clara held onto the precious button, glimmering like a jewel in the dark alleyways of London’s notorious Seven Dials. She needed to save her family… but who was going to save her?There was a time when the Carter sisters’ father was their hero...
  • The Wicked One by Danelle Harmon

    The Wicked One by Danelle Harmon

    Rated: 4.15 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 26 ratings
    The bluest of blood; the boldest of hearts; the de Montforte brothers will take your breath away. Meet Lucien de Montforte ... The head of his noble family, the dark and dangerous Duke of Blackheath spends his time manipulating other lives without giving a thought to finding a wife of his own. Yet Lucien must admit he finds exquisite Eva de la Mouriére most intriguing...
  • A Summer to Remember by Sue Moorcroft

    A Summer to Remember by Sue Moorcroft

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    COME AND SPEND SUMMER BY THE SEA!WANTED! A caretaker for Roundhouse Row holiday cottages.WHERE? Nelson’s Bar is the perfect little village...
  • The Secrets of Saffron Hall: An absolutely gripping Tudor historical fiction novel by Clare Marchant

    The Secrets of Saffron Hall: An absolutely gripping Tudor historical fiction novel by Clare Marchant

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Two women. Five centuries apart.One life-changing secret about to be unearthed…1538New bride Eleanor impresses her husband by growing saffron, a spice more valuable than gold...
  • The Hidden Palace by Dinah Jefferies

    The Hidden Palace by Dinah Jefferies

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    The second book in the sweeping new historical series from the number one Sunday Times best-selling author.An island of secrets. A runaway. And a promise....A rebellious daughter1923. Among the ancient honey-coloured walls of the tiny island of Malta, strangers slip into the shadows and anyone can buy a new name...
  • Loved and Found by Christi Caldwell

    Loved and Found by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the latest installment in the Scandalous Affairs Series, it's never too late for a second-chance at love...Lieutenant Thaddeus Phippen has lived a lifetime away from the only love he ever knew, Lady Edith, a powerful duke's daughter. Thaddeus has now returned from fighting Boney's forces, ready to put aside tragic battlefield remembrances and the memory of past heartbreak of love lost...
  • Dedicated Villain by Patricia Veryan

    Dedicated Villain by Patricia Veryan

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Roland Farleigh Mathieson, the notorious rake who appeared in earlier volumes of The Golden Chronicles, returns in a new role as the hero of this final volume in Patricia Veryan's highly acclaimed series of romantic adventures set in Georgian England...
    Categorized as:
    georgian  historical  length-long
  • Crown of Dreams by Kimberly Cates

    Crown of Dreams by Kimberly Cates

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The award-winning author of Only Forever takes readers on a passionate and irresistible adventure set in 18th-century Scotland. Only weeks before she's to wed, lovely Devlin Chastain falls under the spell of a hotheaded Scottish rebel, who's willing to die for Bonnie Prince Charlie, Young Pretender to the British throne...
  • The War Girls: a heartwarming World War Two saga perfect for fans of Nancy Revell by Rosie James

    The War Girls: a heartwarming World War Two saga perfect for fans of Nancy Revell by Rosie James

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can their friendship survive the darkest days of war?When Abigail arrives for a new start in Bristol in the late 1930s, she knows life won’t be easy – particularly as she is the unmarried mother of three-year-old Emily Grace...
  • Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies

    Daughters of War by Dinah Jefferies

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    France, 1944.Deep in the river valley of the Dordogne, in an old stone cottage on the edge of a beautiful village, three sisters long for the end of the war.Hélène, the eldest, is trying her hardest to steer her family to safety, even as the Nazi occupation becomes more threatening.Elise, the rebel, is determined to help the Resistance, whatever the cost...
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