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The King & His Queen: Volume 3 by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA King. A Queen. An unforgettable love. Talon is King of the Picts, forefathers of the Highlanders, a fierce warrior, and he needs to find a queen. He need not care for this woman and it would be preferable if he didn’t. She need only bear him an heir thereby securing his reign. With his enemies mounting, war looming, and unrest among his people, he needs no distractions... -
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Silversword by Kathryn Le Veque
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 8 ratings1266 A.D. – Chadwick “Chad” de Lohr, son of Daniel de Lohr (SHADOWMOOR) is a hero at the Battle of Evesham. Saving the hostage Henry III from Simon de Montfort, he is riding high on a wave of royal praise at the conclusion of the battle. But that favor with the king his short-lived...Categorized as:
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Highlander The Dark Dragon by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHeather Macinnes is finally safe at home, her two sisters there to offer comfort. She escaped the notorious ghost warriors and thankfully never laid eyes on their leader the Dark Dragon. Her ordeal is done. However, she learns only too soon that her ordeal is far from done...it is just beginning... -
![All the Sweet Tomorrows by Bertrice Small]()
All the Sweet Tomorrows by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 16 ratingsBestselling author Bertrice Small continues the blazing adventures of raven-haired, emerald-eyed Skye O'Malley. This time, she is a pawn in the bitter war between England's Queen Elizabeth, and Mary, Queen of Scots. Once again, unprotected and alone, she must fight for her children. At the command of Queen Elizabeth, Skye marries the cruel Duc de Beaumont de Jaspre...Categorized as:
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![Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters by Wendy J. Dunn]()
Falling Pomegranate Seeds: The Duty of Daughters by Wendy J. Dunn
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsDońa Beatriz Galindo. Respected scholar. Tutor to royalty. Friend and advisor to Queen Isabel of Castile. Beatriz is an uneasy witness to the Holy War of Queen Isabel and her husband, Ferdinand, King of Aragon. A Holy War seeing the Moors pushed out of territories ruled by them for centuries. The road for women is a hard one...Categorized as:
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![The Highlander’s Twisted Games: A Medieval Historical Romance Novel by Eloise Madigan]()
The Highlander’s Twisted Games: A Medieval Historical Romance Novel by Eloise Madigan
Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“Let me show ye what I mean when I say ye are mine.”Green-fingered Emma loves being a healer. Her only problem is the rakish Laird she works handsome, but dangerous. So when he asks her to be his fake betrothed for a day, she has no choice but to agree.Laird Thomas needs a wife; but he doesn’t want to get married. So he picks a certain hellion to help him delay the inevitable... -
![How to Heal a Highland Heart by Julie Johnstone]()
How to Heal a Highland Heart by Julie Johnstone
Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsFate bound them together, but love will set them free. With no chance of escape… When Patience Kincaide learns she’s being forced to wed for a third time, she’s desperate to compel her husband-to-be to stay away from her. Both her previous husbands were shockingly cruel, and she holds no hope this time will be different, especially since the man is known as the Savage Slayer...Categorized as:
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![A Marriage of Lions by Elizabeth Chadwick]()
A Marriage of Lions by Elizabeth Chadwick
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsEngland, 1238Raised at the court of King Henry III as a chamber lady to the queen, young Joanna of Swanscombe's life changes forever when she comes into an inheritance far above all expectations, including her own... -
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Hell Hath No Fury by Annabelle Anders
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 15 ratingsWhen a merchant's daughter meets London's Ton, sparks fly. Forever a Wallflower.... Miss Cecily Findlay practices proper etiquette, dances the waltz flawlessly, wears clothes of the latest fashion, and is a beauty in her own right. Even so, she'd never be received by the ton if not for her enormous dowry...which has attracted Flavion Nottingham, a spoiled and entitled earl...Categorized as:
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![Elizabeth Chadwick Bundle: The Greatest Knight, The Scarlet Lion, and For the King's Favor by Elizabeth Chadwick]()
Elizabeth Chadwick Bundle: The Greatest Knight, The Scarlet Lion, and For the King's Favor by Elizabeth Chadwick
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsHailed by the Times of London as "an author who makes historical fiction come gloriously alive," Elizabeth Chadwick is a gifted storyteller who captures the passion, deceit, honor, and heartbreak of Medieval England like none other. Now, get three books from historical fiction powerhouse Elizabeth Chadwick at one low price... -
![A Flame Put Out by Erin S. Riley]()
A Flame Put Out by Erin S. Riley
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSelia’s saga continues in Book Two of the SONS OF ODIN series . . . As Selia struggles with the harsh reality of existence as the wife of a Viking berserker, a devastating loss pulls Alrik deeper into madness, while a secret Selia desperately wants to keep hidden comes to light, threatening everything she holds dear...Categorized as:
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![Her Beautiful Bastard by Victoria Vale]()
Her Beautiful Bastard by Victoria Vale
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsA kiss neither will ever forget … a forbidden attraction that can’t be denied … After a disastrous first Season, Lydia Darling abandons all hope of love and marriage. A simple country girl, she does not belong amongst the debutantes of the ton...Categorized as:
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![Desire's Ransom by Glynnis Campbell]()
Desire's Ransom by Glynnis Campbell
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsLady Robin Hood steals a knight's heart! Heiress to her Irish clan, spirited Temair O'Keeffe forsakes her destiny to join a band of woodland outlaws who rob from the rich and give to the poor-those impoverished by her greedy father... -
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![Highlander's Runaway Bride by Maddie MacKenna]()
Highlander's Runaway Bride by Maddie MacKenna
Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars · 6 ratings“I need to marry a laird by the end of the week.”After running away from her own wedding, Delilah, daughter of Laird McGunn, can’t outrun fate anymore. But finding a husband again is impossible. Until she gets an irresistible deal from the most dangerous her father’s enemy…Evan O’Reid is determined to achieve what no Laird before him peace with the McGunns... -
![Alinor by Roberta Gellis]()
Alinor by Roberta Gellis
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsShe could barely meet his eyes . . . so how was she to marry him? Widowed and a mother of two, Lady Alinor no longer feels the same joy being the mistress of Roselynde. Her husband's passing has left emptiness, both at the keep and in her heart. Somehow, Alinor manages to remain spirited, even as King John's rule means she must fight to keep her land and her family safe... -
![Deception of a Highlander by Madeline Martin]()
Deception of a Highlander by Madeline Martin
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"A promising debut."—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY Scottish Romance doesn't get much steamier—or more dangerous—than a spy hunting her quarry, and losing her heart to him instead. To pay a seemingly impossible debt, Mariel Brandon has become a spy for Aaron, one of England's deadliest minds... -
![The Following Sea by Marsha Canham]()
The Following Sea by Marsha Canham
Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars · 8 ratings3rd in Canham's Pirate Wolf trilogy. This time the story focuses on Gabriel Dante, taking up where The Iron Rose left off as he sails away from battle with horrendous wounds and half a crew on board a captured ship. On his way home to the safety of Pigeon Cay, Dante crosses paths with a strange ship sailing in circles, showing no signs of life on her deserted decks... -
![The King's Executioner by Donna Fletcher]()
The King's Executioner by Donna Fletcher
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe King of the Pict has entered into an agreement with Cathbad, Overlord of the Western Region to wed his daughter Anin. Blyth, Anin’s mother, has given her husband four fine sons and King Talon hopes Anin will do the same for him. Unfortunately, Anin’s mother wants no part of the agreement. She intends for her daughter to pick a husband of her own choosing as the women of her tribe do...Categorized as:
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![Angel's Fall by Kimberly Cates]()
Angel's Fall by Kimberly Cates
Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe Prince of Sin…Legendary swordsman Adam Slade is finished with noble crusades. Scarred by his time at Cullodion Moor, and his illegitimate birth, he hides behind a cynical façade and the name of Sabrehawk, selling his sword to the highest bidder... -
![Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 1 by Philippa Gregory]()
Philippa Gregory 3-Book Tudor Collection 1 by Philippa Gregory
Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsFrom the bestselling author of THE WHITE QUEEN, now a hit BBC TV production - the first three novels of her Tudor Court series: THE CONSTANT PRINCESS, THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL, THE BOLEYN INHERITANCETHE CONSTANT PRINCESS tells the story of Henry VIII’s first wife, Katherine of Aragon, the Spanish princess raised to be Queen of England and first brought to England to marry Henry’s older brother,... -
![Warrior by Violette Dubrinsky]()
Warrior by Violette Dubrinsky
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsOutspoken, loyal, and skilled with the sword, Princess Jaisyn St. Ives of Lytheria is no princess of fairytales. After the unexpected death of her father, Jaisyn takes control of the kingdom, expecting to be called upon to defend her claim to a throne previously held by men... -
![The Sun in Splendour by Juliet Dymoke]()
The Sun in Splendour by Juliet Dymoke
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsThe Wars of the Roses are at a decisive stage. On the battlefield, the tide appears to have turned against Edward IV and his Plantagenet dynasty is under threat. At court, his new wife and her ambitious family are undermining his power and advancing their own positions. For those wearing the white rose of York, the future looks bleak... -
![Highland Madness: Scottish Medieval Boxed Set by Elizabeth Rose]()
Highland Madness: Scottish Medieval Boxed Set by Elizabeth Rose
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings(The complete MadMan MacKeefe Trilogy. Books also sold separately.) (Special introductory price will be changing soon.) This boxed set contains: Onyx - Book 1 Onyx MacKeefe takes an Englishwoman, Lady Lovelle, captive when his mother's life is threatened. And with Lovelle at his side, he searches the Highlands for the stolen Book of Hours that could possibly set his mother free... -
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![Lady in Waiting by Melody Tyden]()
Lady in Waiting by Melody Tyden
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsAs princess of a small, wealthy, medieval kingdom, Cordelia always knew her marriage would be a political matter. She doesn't expect love. All she wants is a husband who will let her continue to pursue her own interests rather than trapping her in an endless cycle of domesticity, but even these small hopes seem dashed when she meets the prince she's expected to marry...Categorized as:
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![The Stolen Crown: The brilliant historical novel of an Empress fighting for her destiny by Carol McGrath]()
The Stolen Crown: The brilliant historical novel of an Empress fighting for her destiny by Carol McGrath
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratings' A superb book , illuminating a fascinating and turbulent era . It is the figure of Matilda who rightly commanded the stage in all her power and complexity ' Nicola CornickWhen Empress Matilda is eighteen years old, tragedy strikes the royal family, and she becomes the only child of the king of England - the de facto heir to the throne... -
![My Something Wonderful by Jill Barnett]()
My Something Wonderful by Jill Barnett
Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars · 6 ratingsSISTERS OF SCOTLAND SERIESby Jill BarnettAt a time when kings fought for the right to rule, some won, some lost, and the women who loved them paid the price….MY SOMETHING WONDERFULBook One When a stranger, a golden knight who is one of the king's barons, comes to Glenna Gordon's isolated island farm, she learns her whole life has been a lie... -
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Catherine by Juliette Benzoni
Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars · 8 ratings"...she will be beautiful enough to make a man die of love..." Violet eyed Catherine born to the violence, terror and sensuality of the Hundred Years War, knew well the madness of the masses. She had seen them sack the Dauphin's palace, destroy her own home and kill her father, a Parisian goldsmith...Categorized as:
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![Lady of Valor by Tina St. John, Lara Adrian]()
Lady of Valor by Tina St. John, Lara Adrian
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsLeft a widow by her cruel husband's death, Lady Emmalyn of Fallonmour is determined to control her own destiny, until her hard-won vows of independence are threatened by the mysterious warrior sent to protect her castle on order of the king. Emmalyn is now at the mercy of Sir Cabal, a feared knight known as Blackheart...Categorized as:
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Vixens by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSurrounded by mystery and scandal, the widowed Fancy Devers arrives in England only to catch the roving eye of King Charles II. But when their fiery romance settles into a comfortable friendship, the king is determined to find his glamorous mistress a husband...The lovely Lady Diana Leslie has been nicknamed "Siren" by the gentlemen of the court... -
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The Royal Conquest by Stacy Reid
Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsHis dark seduction will be her undoing… After being cruelly jilted by a lord who claimed to adore her, Miss Payton Peppiwell swore her future husband would be as ordinary as she. Now if only her family would listen to her. Then she meets Mikhail Konstantinovich, an untitled horse breeder, in a highly improper and scandalous encounter... -
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The Tudor Bride by Joanna Hickson
Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsThe thrilling story of the French princess who became an English queen from the author of critically acclaimed Agincourt Bride...Categorized as:
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The Dragon and the Jewel by Virginia Henley
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsWith her sapphire eyes and silken dark hair, Princess Eleanor was a bewitching beauty made for a man's pleasure. Once a child bride, but widowed at a tender age, she swore never to marry again and took a vow of eternal chastity...until Simon de Montfort marched into England and set his smoldering dark gaze upon her, King Henry's youngest sister, the royal family's most precious jewel... -
![Adora by Bertrice Small, José Ferrer]()
Adora by Bertrice Small, José Ferrer
Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAdora!Her beauty was legend. And in the dying days of the great Byzantine Empire - that last vestige of what had once been Imperial Rome - her value as the emperor's daughter was priceless. Three men claimed her as wife. Orkhan, the powerful Ottoman sultan; the dashing pirate Alexander, lord of Mesembria; and Prince Murad, to whom Adora's heart truly belonged...Categorized as:
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Courtesan by Diane Haeger
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsAmid the disapproving gossip of the Court, a royal romance defies all obstacles. The Court of François I is full of lust, intrigue, and bawdy bon tempsâ��a different world from the quiet country life Diane de Poitiers led with her elderly husband... -
![Viking's Claim by Madison Faye]()
Viking's Claim by Madison Faye
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 14 ratingsNever kiss the devil. Not even if he’s sinfully gorgeous. Or impossible to resist.And certainly not when he’s got you tied and bound, and completely at his mercy.…Uh oh.I thought I had it bad when I was on my way to be married off to some weasley little lord to appease my family. But that’s before I’m taken by the most fearsome, vicious, alpha Viking to sail the seas... -
![The Love Knot by Elizabeth Chadwick]()
The Love Knot by Elizabeth Chadwick
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsIn the summer of 1140, Oliver Pascal returns home from a long pilgrimage to discover England ravaged by civil war and his family lands forfeit to the conflict between Henry I's daughter Mathilda, and her cousin Stephen of Blois, who has seized the crown at her expense... -
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Touch The Sun by Cynthia Wright, Tim Campbell
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsMeagan Sayers, rebellious Southern beauty, was a runaway. The newly-orphaned daughter of Virginian aristocracy, connected to Madison, Jefferson and General Washington himself, arrived in bustling Philadelphia disguised as a lady's maid.Irresistibly drawn to dazzling young Lion Hampshire, pride demanded she keep her secret as he arranged a loveless marriage to advance his political career... -
![The Spitfire by Bertrice Small]()
The Spitfire by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratings"Realistic, appealing characters and an entertaining tale." PUBLISHERS WEEKLY The year is 1483. Just as beautiful Lady Arabella Grey, the young cousin of England's King Richard III, speaks her wedding vows to Sir Jasper Keane, the Scotsman Tavis Stewart, Earl of Dunmore, abducts Arabella as payment for Jasper's murder of his fiancee... -
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Confessions of Marie Antoinette by Juliet Grey
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 12 ratingsConfessions of Marie Antoinette, the riveting and sweeping final novel in Juliet Grey’s trilogy on the life of the legendary French queen, blends rich historical detail with searing drama, bringing to life the early years of the French Revolution and the doomed royal family’s final days. Versailles, 1789... -
![How to Train Your Knight by Stella Marie Alden]()
How to Train Your Knight by Stella Marie Alden
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsYear of our Lord, 1276. In the hours just before dawn, blasphemous curses echo throughout the stone manor. A knife clatters to the floor, and a feisty young widow is bound, blindfolded, and led to the marriage altar... -
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A Woman of Passion by Virginia Henley
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsSweeping us into glittering, intrigue-riddled Elizabethan England, bringing to vivid life an actual heroine in the queen's court, New York Times bestselling author Virginia Henley blends rich historical detail with sumptuous romance in her latest novel--a dazzling feast of romantic fiction...Categorized as:
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![To Love Again by Bertrice Small]()
To Love Again by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsBERTRICE SMALL Legendary for her exotic novels of faraway places teeming with adventure and intrigue, New York Times bestselling author Bertrice Small once again pens an extraordinary tale of passion and history, sweeping readers back to fifth-century Britain and Constantinople, where battles of love and war are fought with equal skill and voracity--and victory is savored with sweetest pleasure...Categorized as:
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![A Memory of Love by Bertrice Small]()
A Memory of Love by Bertrice Small
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsA tale of stunning passion, reckless danger, and the fierce will of a remarkable woman who can wield a sword as powerfully as any man–and who dares to fight for her most uninhibited desires. . . . Spirited, iron-willed Rhonwyn is the bastard child of the Prince of Wales, raised more boy than girl, able to ride and fight with the best...Categorized as:
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![Queen Jezebel by Jean Plaidy]()
Queen Jezebel by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsThe ageing Catherine de' Medici has arranged the marriage of her beautiful Catholic daughter Margot to the uncouth Huguenot King Henry of Navarre. Margot, still desperately in love with Henry de Guise, refuses to utter her vows. But even Catherine is unable to anticipate the carnage that this unholy union is to bring about.. -
![Knight Triumphant by Heather Graham]()
Knight Triumphant by Heather Graham
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratings"An incredible storyteller." -- Los Angeles Daily News Knight Takes Pawn After her husband Afton, Lord of Langley, falls prey to a deadly plague, Englishwoman Igrainia finds herself a captive in her own castle. . .held hostage by Scottish warrior Eric Graham. To Graham, Igrainia is merely a political pawn, a pretty prize to dangle in front of the English king... -
![MY FAIR LADY: A Story of Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's Lost Queen by J.P. Reedman]()
MY FAIR LADY: A Story of Eleanor of Provence, Henry III's Lost Queen by J.P. Reedman
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsEleanor of Provence, bright, beautiful, intelligent--married as a young girl to the much older Henry III, King of England. A marriage surprisingly happy, with the king pouring wealth upon his young wife's relatives...incurring the wrath of the Barons. Eleanor, devoted mother, who fought the will of the monks to stay in a monastery and nurse her sick son, the future Edward I... -
![The Sun in Splendour by Jean Plaidy]()
The Sun in Splendour by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 10 ratingsReckoned by those about him to be the most handsome man in the country, Edward the fourth has risen to the throne with the help of Warwick, the kingmaker. But even Warwick's trusted advice cannot convince the King to ignore his passion for the beautiful widow, Elizabeth Woodville - and when she refuses to become his mistress the two are married... -
![The Star of Lancaster by Jean Plaidy]()
The Star of Lancaster by Jean Plaidy
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsRichard the Second was losing his hold on the crown and ambitious eyes were turning toward it. Henry of Bolingbroke, son of John of Gaunt, had married the heiress Mary de Bohun and by her had six children, the eldest of whom was Harry of Monmouth.Bolingbroke was exiled by the King but returned to England when Richard confiscated John of Gaunt's estates... -
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Bond of Blood by Roberta Gellis
Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars · 8 ratingsHer radiance, her beauty, cascading golden hair had tempted many a heart...But at fifteen she had yet to taste both life and love. Only marriage to the rugged Lord of Radnor awakened her tender passion, and transformed her from reluctant bride to willing lover...
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