Historical Romance Books
Painted faces and dignified wigs hide deadly secrets. Can a woman fighting for hope overcome a tangled web of politics and insurrection? Wonderful ...
THE THIRD INSTALMENT IN THE GRIPPING SERIES THAT FOLLOWS THE EXCITING LIVES OF BETH AND ALEX MACGREGOR, THEIR FAMILY AND FRIENDS. The year is 1744, and ...
Confessing to a murder and a high risk invitation. It has been an interesting day. When a member of a notorious smuggling gang attempts to blackmail him, ...
The Rita Award-winning author of Lord Stanhope's Proposal delights with this devilishly witty and wicked story of lust and longing, and punch-drunk ...
"Spellbinding! Tombstone - the time, the place, the people - come alive in these pages. I couldn't put the book down." - Jane Candia Coleman, Author of ...
> Romantic Times Award Nominee for Best First Historical Romance "Delicious romance, inspired setting, and righteous characters make a divine excuse for ...
A thrilling debut novel starring one of history's most famous and beloved courtesans. From London's slums to its bawdy playhouses, The Darling Strumpet ...
In Outer Banks, North Carolina, during the 1800's, Hannah Ballinger is a mail order bride who comes to find love and acceptance in a desolate lifesaving ...
ATTRACTEDEveryone in her North Carolina town knew MacRorah Douglas as a rebelliousyoung girl who was always getting herself into scrapes. Unlike her ...
Forced by circumstance to accept a teaching position in an isolated community on North Carolina's Outer Banks, a young woman meets a handsome lighthouse ...
Confirmed Bachelor Matthew Powers Was In Need Of A Nursemaid! His aunt Bessassured him that she could find a suitable woman, one who would tend theorphaned ...
St. Bride needed a wife, but the latest candidate was much too pretty tolive amid a bunch of sailors on his desolate island. Ever since he'd firstset eyes on ...
Half-Breed Loner. Jonah Longshadow had never walked an easy road. Now thehands of destiny had yanked him from a white man's prison and set him downon a ...
These four exquisite tales shimmer with emotion and prove that home is wherethe heart is.Fern Michaels tells the heartwarming tale of Hunter Kingsley in ...
Miss Montrachet Requests by Maura Seger: Miss Cornelia Montrachet requests the pleasure of your company at a Victorian Christmas in 1892 New York, wherein ...
An unforgettable story of passion, greed and revenge from the author of Slow Surrender. A lovely young woman fleeing her stepbrother's plans for stealing her ...
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."