Historical Fiction Romance Religious

Penelope Hartson is tired of London life. The gentlemen are a nuisance, the parties are boring, and she is tired of getting her feet trampled on. All she really wants to do is read her romance novels and be left alone. When she meets Harrison Gimbly, a scholar from the Royal Society, she realizes that perhaps she has suffered to have that one singular moment with someone who understands. James Barstow, Duke of Embry, has everything. He's wealthy, powerful, and there is no shortage of women that vie for his attention. Men want to be him and women want to be with him.

After a mysterious accident leads to their father’s death, the future for the Bennet girls seems bleak. Elizabeth Bennet finds work in Ramsgate, and one blustery morning, chance brings her together with Georgiana Darcy, a young, wealthy, orphaned girl. When Elizabeth saves her new friend from ruin, she sets off a course of events that alters not only her own life, but the lives of those she cherishes. 

Lainie Gardner once dreamed of becoming a nurse. Of serving her country. Of doing something important in the war. But rheumatic fever changed all that, and instead of running home to her parents’ coddling, Lainie is determined to find a war job at Fort Robinson in Nebraska's sandhills, where she meets a soldier with his own broken dreams.

Robert Saville had been told that the king will soon be after him to wed. He is at the age when he should be siring an heir. He meets the perfect mate, Beatrice, at her brother’s wedding. His offer of marriage changes her future. He opens possibilities she hasn’t considered in eight years. But the promise of a future that could bring love and security is accompanied by expectations; expectations she can never meet. Beatrice has worried about this from the moment Sir Robert articulated them.   

Maria Holloway is a captive. Abducted by Lakota, and forced to live with the people who killed her husband, the pioneering woman refuses to give up hope that one day she’ll be saved. Far from civilization, and everyone she knows and loves, she’s given in marriage to a Lakota warrior. Full of bitterness and despair, she turns to God for help, wondering if even He has abandoned her. She tries to escape, but is returned her enemy over and over again.

Maizie Appleton dreams of a wedding to a man equal to the heroes in the books she reads and the stories she writes. She dreams of a wedding under her family's apple orchard when the blossoms are fragrant. When Cole Newton, a man from Washington, is hired by Maizie's father to help in the orchards, Maizie feels replaced in the family. Then, disaster threatens, and Cole saves the family from ruin, proving to Maizie that a living man is worth 10 of those found in her books. Still, her desire to be needed by those she loves keeps her from truly giving her emotions to Cole.

At the height of WWII, big city news reporter Bryce Richard is tapped to promote the concocted romance of a wounded soldier and Wyoming rodeo queen Lucy Daniels, all in order to sell war bonds. But when Bryce falls in love with Lucy, he must stop her impending fake - but very legal - Christmas wedding by devising his own rugged, western-style proposal.

With depression blanketing the nation in 1937, Fern Dempsey employs her creative sewing ability to sustain her family. An opportunity as an air hostess promises to fulfill her personal obligations and satisfy her own hope for a flying career - but at a price. Will Fern’s devotion to her brothers and sisters allow her to follow her personal wishes or confine her to a life of spinsterhood? Gene Lamar’s assignment of breaking rocks for an amphitheater project in a CCC camp fuels his determination to obtain a life of wealth and privilege.  

In a world where everyone has something to say, Malchus Hemmings is silent. His alcoholic father has no patience for his mute son and throws Malchus out. The lad adapts to life on the streets of 19th-century Philadelphia - and survives by scrounging and begging...and neither seeks nor welcomes companionship. That is...until he stumbles into the crude living quarters of two orphan boys during a storm.

Strong-minded widow Amber Bradford knows exactly what her three grown sons need - wives - and she determines to have her boys married by Christmas. When she announces an impending trip to seek brides for them, the Bradford men know they must derail their mother’s scheme or polish their boots for their weddings. Doc Latham, Amber’s oldest friend, answers the Bradford men’s entreaty to try and dissuade their mother from her idea of December nuptials for them. 

Glenn Williams has lost at love. He brought a woman from back East to marry only to lose her to his brother. Glenn wants a wife, but there aren’t any prospects. Until he see’s one of the mail-order brides being accosted by her intended in the street. Imagine his surprise to find his heart falling for the broken yet beautiful Virginia. When he learns of her plight, he knows he needs to protect her. He surprises himself, saying the words “I’ll marry you”. 

Dara's life is full of farm work and worries, especially now that her older brother is a priest in a far off city. Yet she still has time to dream of the life she hopes will someday be. She dreams of marrying her dear friend and the worries of her family ending. Now, the selfishness of one person threatens her very way of life. Dresden's initial excitement about living a life devoted to the service of God quickly is dashed on the rocks of reality. The life of a priest is nothing like what he imagined.

Orphaned at a young age, Hetty is convinced her circumstances make her unworthy of having a family of her own. When a job opportunity as a housekeeper presents itself, Hetty accepts believing that working for Isaac Wheeler and his family is a welcome, if not temporary, surrogate for her own family dreams. As she’s faced with learning to trust, she discovers that wanting a family and building a family are two very different things. Will she learn to see herself as worthy of God’s gifts? Or will she return to the solitary existence that defined so much of her life? 

After being jilted at the altar, Scarlett Settler can't show her face in town. She becomes a mail-order bride to a blacksmith in Silver Falls, Oregon. She only skimmed the letters that she and her intended exchanged and was very disappointed to find he was a blacksmith always covered in soot. Dillon Stahl built a huge house and now he wants to fill it with a wife and children. When his friend Smitty Settler writes to him about his daughter, Scarlett, he's intrigued and proposes. He expected a sweet biddable wife that he can build a life with. Instead he ends up with an opinionated woman who does not know the word compromise.

Bronwen Macleod is a modern American who needs no one, especially a man. Longing to connect with the land her grandparents called home and desperate to find the castle in her dreams, she is hurled into the past and straight into the arms of a 15th-century Scottish Highlander. In a race against time to save a young man's life and her own, Bronwen's faith in God is put to the test. But God is faithful, and soon she learns she can rely on her heavenly Father for everything including a love that transcends time itself.

Missouri mules were the best. Alda grew to love the creatures working side by side with her pa on their farm along the banks of the Missouri River. He would be hopping mad when he realized his wife and daughter colluded behind his back to sell a pack string. It wouldn't matter that they were trying to save the farm. Alda struck out on her own to drive the team over 1,500 miles. By day three, her lead mule Bessie refused to take one more step. It was a good thing the handsome cowboy Cord stopped by to lend a hand or Alda might still be sitting in the dust.

Two hundred years later, on the anniversary of the Battle of Saratoga, thousands arrive from Europe and the US to celebrate the event, including descendants from the war. One young American, Abby, meets the offspring of a British soldier. When she is threatened, Abby turns to the only person she knows at the event: her British ally. Can she trust him with her life? Or will he betray her in the same way Loyalist spies betrayed her ancestors?

Since her father’s death, Miss Hestia B. Stockbow has been living a lie. Working as a companion, under an assumed name, all she wants to do is keep her head down and forget about the scandalous tragedy that haunts her past. There’s only one problem… After two delicious, stolen kisses, the usually aloof Alexander Delaney, Marquess of Falconbridge, finds himself entranced by Belinda Bowstock, a lowly paid companion. When he discovers that she is, in fact, his missing ward, Alex realizes there's only one thing he can do: Marry the chit and help her solve the mystery of her father's death.

Saving her can land him in a hangman's noose at low tide in Charles Town Harbor. Repaying her debt to him will consign her to a life worse than death.  

Beautiful Margaret Hufton is the daughter of the parish's good and caring doctor. She dearly loves to help her father on his rounds, especially if there is a baby to hold. Margaret and her mother always have good gossip to share. A change in financial circumstance leads to a mission to reveal the secret that an inconvenient man has threatened to release. If the secret is revealed, Margaret's hopes of marriage will dissolve. Will the secret be revealed, and if it is, will the threat of gossip and ridicule be too much for her and her family to bear?