Historical Romance Books
Texas Ranger Steve Kaptain had taken Victoria one night in a Mexican bordello. Then, he had taken her heart. And next he had taken her with him, cursing him, ...
From the bestselling author of For All Time comes a breathtaking tale of adventure and reckless passion set in the untamed West. Mattie McAlister struck out ...
Paxton of Wychchester was a leader of men, a conqueror who knew more of war than love. He commanded the chatelaine Dominique DeBar's surrender, taking first ...
STAR CROSSED? She, from Ireland ~ he, from Russia From the moment of their first meeting, an extraordinary bond was forged between them. A bond that was ...
Australia was the land of the Aborigines’ Dream Time. For Amber Briscoll, exiled there as a convict, Australia was her nightmare. But she vowed to survive ...
The beautiful and pampered Lady Jane Lennox was willing to abandon the wealth and luxury of her English aristocracy for peril and poverty...all to find the ...
"The Virginia Company of London seeks 100 willing maids for marriage to bachelor planters of James Cittie Colony. Maids must be young, handsome, and honestly ...
The Frenchman was everything Jeanette St. John detested. A mercenary, a man with no morals, a renegade. But Kitt was reckless and daring, cautious and ...
Only for the reckless at heart ~ "Happy is the Gypsy girl with feet dirty from dancing and a heart reckless from romancing." Rapscallion Irish Traveller, ...
Sir Colin Donovan, British Under-secretary representative to the U.S., won't give up until Anne Maren is his. Brant Powers, rogue scout for Sam Houston's ...
In the fierce and untamed Territory of New Mexico, the most fierce and most untamed made love and history. Those lovers were Rosemary, the willful Irish lass ...
Exiled to Australia, Nan Briscoll vows to survive and seek revenge against the man who betrayed her, as her daughter, Amaris Wilmot, struggles to survive in ...
In nineteenth-century Sydney, Australia, Annie Tremayne rises to the top of her family's shipping empire, despite interference from her manipulative ...
As a child, a young girl with coltish legs and dusky skin, I spent many anxious hours prowling the low desert and the craggy foothills of southeastern ...
Eager to avenge the death of his brothers and the rape of his sister, the laird of a once-powerful Highland clan seizes the innocent bride of his hated ...
Arch foes and forces of nature align to challenge the indomitable Paladíns. When seventeen-year-old Drake “The Rake” Paladín shows up at the Barony with ...
Description
Historical romance (also historical novel) is a broad category of fiction in which the plot is set in a historical period. Walter Scott helped popularize this genre in the early 19th century with works such as Rob Roy and Ivanhoe. Literary fiction historical romances continue to be published, with a notable recent example being Wolf Hall (2009), a multi-award-winning novel by English historical novelist Hilary Mantel. It is also a genre of mass-market fiction, related to the broader romantic love genre.
The terms "romance novel" and "historical romance" are ambiguous, as the word "romance" and the related term "romantic" carry multiple meanings. On one hand, there is the mass-market genre of "fiction dealing with love," such as Harlequin romance, and on the other hand, "a romance" can also be defined as "a fictitious narrative in prose or verse, the interest of which turns upon marvelous and uncommon incidents." However, many romances, including the historical romances of Walter Scott, are also frequently called novels, and Scott describes romance as a "kindred term." Adding to the confusion, literary fiction romances, such as Emily Brontë’s Wuthering Heights, often feature a strong love story element. Other European languages do not distinguish between romance and novel: "a novel is le roman, der Roman, il romanzo."