Category: Historical Romance

The Imperial Orchid

When Frances Wakefield, a gifted illustrator, is handpicked by Lord Holloway to travel to Ceylon as a member of the expedition team, she is thrilled. When she arrives in Egypt to meet the other members of the team, she comes face-to-face with Miles St. Clair, Lord Holloway’s son and heir. He is the arrogant, handsome, insufferable man she encountered at several soirees in London and the team’s leader. As the team scours Ceylon searching for an elusive orchid, someone has been watchi... [Read More...]

The Battle of Baltimore

As the War of 1812 rages on between England and America, another war is waged in the streets of Baltimore. Caleb Smith is thrilled to learn that his longtime friend and love interest, Libby Anderson, returned from England. However, Caleb learns that Libby is betrothed to British aristocrat Harold Edgerton III through an arranged marriage by her parents. In spite of Caleb’s and Libby’s desire to be together, foul play, old-world traditions, and war all conspire to keep them apart. Both the f... [Read More...]

All Things That Deserve to Perish: A Novel of Wilhelmine Germany

The year is 1896, and Elisabeth (‘Lisi’) von Schwabacher, the gifted daughter of a Jewish banker, returns home to Berlin from piano study in Vienna. Though her thoughts are far from matrimony, she is pursued by two noblemen impressed as much by her stunning wealth as by her prodigious intellect and musical talent. Awakened to sudden improvements in the opportunities open to women, Lisi balks at her mother’s expectation that she will contract a suitable bourgeois marriage, and ... [Read More...]

The Lady in the Veil

What secrets hide beneath the veil? When her mother departs for a tour of the continent, Georgina is sent from the rural backwaters to stay with her cousin, George Talbot, in London. The 1835 season is at its height, but Georgina is determined to attend neither balls nor plays, and to eschew Society. She hides her face beneath an impenetrable veil. Her extraordinary appearance only sets off gossip and speculation as to her identity. Who is the mysterious lady beneath the veil? The Lady in the ... [Read More...]

Free: Jalopy

New Jersey, 1928. All her life, Etta Wozniak has toiled on her family’s small farm. Life has fallen into a rut of drudgery and predictability. That is, until the day she discovers something in an unlikely place; an old car. Art Adams, a recent college man, is to marry a woman he has never met before. Though reluctant to confront the matter, if he decides to do nothing, he will lose who and what he has come to love. ... [Read More...]

Free: Immigrant Bride

Can an unconventional marriage lead to love? In the early 1900’s, destitute, Sophia’s parents had no choice but to force their beloved sixteen-year-old daughter, Sophia, to marry a stranger. She must leave her sheltered life in Italy and become an immigrant bride in New York City. Can she overcome her fears and learn to love? ... [Read More...]

Rose Cottage: Shimla, 1802

A fictional historical romance, recounting the tale of a young woman from London named Emerald Dawson who journeys to India for the first time. After a brief stay in Bombay, she relocates to the titular cottage in Shimla. She then quickly settles into a routine and makes numerous friends and acquaintances. However, things are soon rendered far more complicated once she meets the Maharaja, with whom she quickly falls in love. She thus unexpectedly finds herself navigating an entirely different w... [Read More...]