Historical category: 104939 books

GuernicaFrom Dave BolingSummary and AnalysisBy Summary StationHistorical fiction is one of the most interesting genres of fiction that you can get into, especially if you are interested in history. Many authors who are working on historical fiction novels put a lot of time and research...

Strap on for an emotional journey. Kitchen Canary is a page-turner.Kitchen Canary is a historical novel following two young Irish immigrant women. Katie O'Neil and Moira Murphy leave their impoverished homeland in mid-nineteenth century to work as domestics in Boston, Massachusetts. The...

New York City, 1914. Suzanne and Jada. Entwined as sisters. Talented and resourceful. Black and white. Wealthy employer and devoted maid. Together, they realize Suzanne’s dream to see her name in lights on Broadway as she becomes the dazzling Ziegfeld Follies’ rising new star. But Jada’s superb...

Rachel may be beautiful, but she lives a lower-class life in Northampton. As she experiences life as a servant and has to turn down rich but shady suitors, Rachel looks back on and regrets having burned bridges with her lost love, Michael, and yearns for the day when they may meet again. WARNING:...

Mayhem in Mayfair Quartet: The Complete Series For the first time, these four bestselling hot regency romances are included in one box set! Book 1: Her Husband’s Harlot How far will a wallflower go to win her husband's love? When her disguise as a courtesan backfires, Lady Helena...

The Roxtons are back! Romance. Drama. Intrigue. Family secrets. There’s never a dull moment for the 18th Century’s first family… Roxton Family Saga Book 4: Mary and Christopher’s Happily Ever After 1770s Gloustershire and Hampshire. Widowed and destitute, Lady Mary Cavendish...

This is a collection of four short stories by USA Today bestselling author, M. Louisa Locke, set in the gas-lit world of Victorian San Francisco. Madam Sibyl’s First Client was written specifically for this collection and it finds Annie Fuller, the young widowed boardinghouse keeper, just starting...

Miss Miranda Price detests her neighbor Edward Havens, the rakish Earl of Edgerton – but when he catches her breaking into his library at midnight, secrets are revealed that will change the course of their lives… forever. Sensuality level: SWEETLY WARM – kisses only. This regency-set...

"Rich wit, delicious characters, and heartwarming romance...a must read!"–Laurin Wittig, Bestselling author *From USA Today bestselling author Glynnis Campbell...*A French knight betrothed to a Highland heiress falls in love with his spirited bride, then realizes he's been tricked...

THERE’S A GHOST IN HER BATHTUB AND A WEREWOLF IN HER GARDEN! When lovely Viveca Stanhope fled a scandalous past in Old San Francisco to make a new life for herself in Savannah, little did she know she’d just purchased the most “haunted” house in the entire South! From the ghostly specters...

“Katharine Ashe writes with eloquence and power.” —New York Times bestselling author Lisa Kleypas Readers of Lisa Kleypas and Eloisa James who have not yet experienced the exceptional historical romance of Katharine Ashe are missing out on something truly special. Named one of the “New...

New from bestselling historical romance author and Whitney Award Winner, Michele Paige Holmes, comes the newest Hearthfire Romance, YESTERDAY’S PROMISE, book 1 in the Scottish Historical Romance series. In the Scottish Highlands, 1761: Nineteen-year-old artist Katherine Mercer dreams...

Praise for Ysabeau S. Wilce's previous books: "This fresh and funky setting is rich with glorious costumes, innovative language, and tantalizing glimpses of history."-Kirkus Reviews, starred review These inter-connected stories are set in an opulent quasi-historical world of...

Incredible tale of fantasy, witchcraft, humor and magic. Being a combination of supernatural folk tale, historical novel and also a satire this book displays a fundamental tensity between romance and anti-romance apparent in a number of Hogg's works. The story concerns two women and the contests they...