Historical           Romance

Philippa Carr  
Midsummer’s Eve
Set in 19th century Cornwall and Australia, Annora must overcome her well-founded fear and distrust of men to regain her true love.

Barbara Cartland
Love & the Loathsome Leopard
Lord Cheritan, a captain in Wellington’s army, falls in love with the orphan girl living at his manor.

Marion Chesney
A Marriage of Inconvenience
A lady who pretends to be cold and unfeeling to avoid marriage proposals somehow becomes engaged to a lord pretending to be a dandy.

Lori Copeland
Men of the Saddle series
Independent women clash with handsome cowboys and soldiers in a romantic comedy/ western series.

Quinn Evans
Merlin’s Legacy series
The sons and daughters of Merlin, the wizard of King Arthur’s Camelot, fight evil with their magical powers and fall in love.

Georgette Heyer
Lady of Quality
When spirited Annis offers lodging to runaway heiress Lucilla, she sees a good deal of Lucilla’s uncivil and high-handed guardian, Mr. Carleton.

Judith McNaught
Whitney, My Love
Whitney’s father sends her to Paris because of a teenage crush.  She grows into a darling of society.  An English duke is determined to marry her, but she can’t forget her first love.

Pamela Morsi
Marrying Stone
In 1902, Harvard-educated Roe is in the Ozarks recording folk songs.  He becomes part of the Best household, a family of loveable oddballs.

Anya Seton
Avalon
Set in England in the 10th century during Viking invasions, this is the story of star-crossed lovers Merewyn and Rumon.

Patricia Veryan
Riddles series
A series featuring romantic adventures and intrigues in England during the reign of King George in the late 18th century.

June Masters Bacher
Love is a Gentle Stranger series
Set in pioneer Oregon, this is the saga of two independent young women who went West to escape the past.
 

    Gentle or Racy

Mary Balogh
Slightly series
In early 19th century (Regency) England, each sibling in the aristocratic Bedwyn family searches for love.

Catherine Coulter
Star series
Romances set in mid-19th century San Francisco, featuring fortune hunters, scoundrels, gamblers, slave auctions, virgins, heiresses, and killers. 

Diana Gabaldon
Outlander series
In this time travel romance, Claire is torn between love for her 20th century husband and desire for her 18th century Scottish lover.

Patricia Gaffney
Outlaw in Paradise
Cady is a saloon owner in Paradise, Oregon.  When dangerous gunslinger Gault comes into town, she’s determined to find out why he’s there.

Dorothy Garlock
High on a Hill
Set in 1920s Missouri, Annabel and her bootlegger father move to a town with gangsters who are unfriendly to her family.   She falls for Corbin, an ex-lawman working undercover. 

Heather Graham
One series
The 3 siblings of Cameron clan of Virginia, all Confederates during the Civil War, manage to fall in love with Union-supporting Northerners.

Jill Marie Landis
Until Tomorrow
After fighting for the Union in the Civil War, Dake returns to his plantation with a woman he hired to care for his adopted orphan baby.

Stephanie Laurens
Promise in a Kiss
A rakish duke who thought he would never marry tries to win the hand of a reluctant French comtesse.

Johanna Lindsey
Malory series
The Malorys are a family of rogues, adventurers, and women of beauty and spirit.  Set in Regency England.

Maggie Osborne
I Do, I Do, I Do
Three women in the 1800s find themselves  married to the same man.  Wanting revenge, they cross Alaska and Canada to find him and meet ideal mates along the way.

Amanda Quick
I Thee Wed
In the early 1800s in England, Emma, a paid lady’s companion, meets a financier at a house party in the country.  Emma becomes Stokes’ assistant, but keeping her out of danger is a full-time job for him.

LaVyrle Spencer
Hummingbird
A bandit and a gentleman vie for Abigail’s heart in late 19th-century Colorado.

Kathleen Woodiwiss
Ashes in the Wind
Disguised as a boy, Alaina flees the South during the Civil War and finds refuge in the arms of the enemy (Cole, a Yankee surgeon).