Historical Romance

A dashing Regency romance from the legendary Georgette Heyer, founder of the genre....

The Brothers Karamazov is Dostoevsky's crowning life work and stands among the best novels in world literature....

England, 1904. Two years ago, Captain Archie Curtis lost his friends, fingers, and future to a terrible military accident....

Noah and Allie fell in love as teenagers, with the purest sort of love, only to be kept apart by Allie's mother. Their feelings survived in spite of everything....

Exiled for 20 years, Lucien never planned to return to England. But with the mysterious deaths of his father and brother, he has inherited an earldom - and enemies. He needs magical assistance, fast....

A lost child: On the eve of the first world war, a little girl is found abandoned on a ship to Australia. A mysterious woman called the Authoress had promised to look after her – but the Authoress has disappeared without a trace....

When Daisy, a paintress at the local pottery, looks out across Poole Harbour, waiting for the ‘little ships’ to bring the retreating soldiers home from Dunkirk, she prays her husband will be among them.

One of the greatest love stories ever written....

Rosalind Newbury is counting down the days until her wedding to the Duke of Marlow, a man she has only met twice....

When Sophy is sent to stay with her London relatives, she finds her cousins in quite the tangle....

When Tess Durbeyfield is driven by family poverty to claim kinship with the wealthy D'Urbervilles and seek a portion of their family fortune, meeting her 'cousin' Alec proves to be her downfall.... 

By edict of the king, the mighty Scottish laird Alec Kincaid must take an English bride....

Arabella, the daughter of an impoverished country parson, dreams of a new life in London....

The story of class differences (the relationship between a middle-class woman and a miner) in the tough world of coal mining brought a refreshing realism to literature....

Heartsick and desperate to leave her sorrows on England's shores, innocent Georgina Anderson seeks passage on the "gentleman's ship"....

Renowned gamester and the first to admit that he is entirely void of a romantic disposition, Max Ravenscar regards all eligible females with indifference and unconcern....

Abandoned by his father, Gareth Inglis grew up lonely, prickly, and used to disappointment. Still, he longs for a connection. When he meets a charming stranger, he falls head over heels—until everything goes wrong and he's left alone again....

In the heyday of the British Raj, 11-year-old Anahita, from a noble but impoverished family, forms a lifelong friendship with the headstrong Princess Indira, the privileged daughter of rich Indian royalty....

Hero Wantage is desperate to change her fate. When the dashing Lord Sherry proposes out of the blue, Hero is overjoyed—she'll escape a life as a governess and, once they wed, he can finally claim his inheritance....

While Lady Angeline Dudley’s pedigree dictates that she must land a titled gentleman, the irrepressible beauty secretly longs for a simple, ordinary suitor....

Society believes the worst of Justin Alastair, the notorious Duke of Avon. When he encounters a young boy, Léon, who is running from his abusive brother, Avon employs the boy as his page, parading him around parties and other society events in full view of his bitter rival....

As the daughter of a famed author, Isolde Ophelia Goodnight grew up on tales of brave knights and fair maidens....

Endowed with rank, wealth and elegance, Sylvester, Duke of Salford, posts into Wiltshire to discover if the Honorable Phoebe Marlow will meet his exacting requirements for a bride....

When Elizabeth Bennet first meets eligible bachelor Fitzwilliam Darcy, she thinks him arrogant and conceited; he is indifferent to her good looks and lively mind....

Scottish beauty Roslynn Chadwick needs the safety of marriage to protect her from an unscrupulous cousin....

Agosto 1939. Grace Bennett ha sempre sognato di trasferirsi a Londra. E ora le mille luci della città, i negozi eleganti, la frenetica vita mondana, che nella piccola cittadina del Norfolk poteva solo immaginare, stanno per diventare realtà. Quando il treno ferma a Farringdon Station, Grace si rende conto che il momento non è davvero dei migliori: gli abitanti stanno costruendo bunker e le porte sono sbarrate. La Germania di Hitler è alle porte e sicuramente la prima città presa di mira dai nazisti sarà Londra.

¡Una intensa aventura apasionada para todos los amantes de Forastera! Luego de que la incriminaran en el asesinato de su exnovio, la oficial del ejército estadounidense Amber Ryan huye a Escocia y se esconde en las ruinas del castillo de Inverlochy. Allí, un hada de las Tierras Altas la envía al año 1308: directo al medio de una refriega, al lado de un atractivo guerrero. El highlander Owen Cambel queda anonadado al ver a una hermosa mujer que se enfrenta a unos hombres con coraje en el castillo.

When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey's packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer. Detained in Dover for an inquest that is being led by a prejudiced magistrate, she is joined by trusted friends and family—and the newly minted viscount, Hugh Marsden—to prove her innocence. But when it's discovered the murdered man was a private inquiry agent, hired to follow the duchess while she traveled the Continent, they enter a race to find out who hired him and why.

For twenty years, Seth Kincaid has kept his visits to his home town brief. He's not avoiding January Howe, exactly—he's giving his high school girlfriend space. But that distance evaporates when she takes over her family's marina for the summer. Which means every time he flies his floatplane into the harbor, she's there, and the temptation to fall into her sunny smile and forget about the past is stronger than ever. He can't resist lending a hand, though. Not when she needs the help.

Greydon, the Viscount Rushcliffe, is content with his life as a Bow Street Runner, but it all comes to a jarring end when his older brother is murdered. He is now an heir to an earldom—a position he never wanted. As he is trying to come to grips with the newfound shackle on his life, Lady Enid—the only woman that he is inexplicably drawn to—comes to him for help to let his brother's murderer go free.

Her first London Season has arrived, but Clare Compton is far from enthusiastic. In fact, she finds the experience positively nauseating, and when her first ball ends in disaster, the consequences threaten to upend her entire Season. She wants nothing more than to retreat to her country home away from Society’s judgmental stares. Instead, respite comes from a most unexpected source. Patrick Milton, Clare’s childhood enemy, offers a cunning solution: he will serve as her escort for the final five weeks of festivities to help repair Clare’s reputation.

Tally has always known she will one day become the Mistress of Dara Island in her mother Nerissa's stead. A belief founded on her mother's promise. But as she matures, her determination and wilfulness bring her into conflict with her ruthless father, 'Bullshark' Richard Ramsey, a powerful figure feared by everyone, including his wife. Ultimately, Tally must face the heartbreaking realisation that her promised future is slipping from her grasp. After a sudden disappearance from the island, Tally embarks on a desperate search that leads her deep into Dara's treacherous wilderness.

A surprise phone call from her late fiancé's family sends Vivien Lowry off on her next adventure. Struggling as a playwright, she moves to Italy both to reckon with her past and create a new future as a scriptwriter at the Cinecittà Studios in Rome. Here she encounters the greatest male bastion of them all, the Vatican. Vivien ends up entangled between the church and the censors, while romantically caught between two men: an enigmatic American film financier who is not who he says he is, and a socialist Italian prince and independent filmmaker who ends up under house arrest.

Die gesamte Elbstrand-Saga von Bestsellerautorin Charlotte Jacobi jetzt als Hörbuch-Sammelband. 1912: Die Bauerstochter Sofie Brix rettet die Reederei-Erbin Anna Nieland aus einem brennenden Strandhotel. Zwei Jahre später erhält sie das Angebot, bei Annas wohlhabender Hamburger Familie eine Stellung als Gesellschafterin anzutreten. Für Sofie, die sich schon immer nach der weiten Welt gesehnt hat, geht ein Traum in Erfüllung – auch wenn ihr anfangs die Ablehnung mancher Mitglieder der Familie und des Personals entgegenschlägt. Aber dann bricht der Erste Weltkrieg aus: Die Männer werden eingezogen.

Grecia, 1830. La guerra per l’indipendenza dall’Impero Ottomano, che ha attirato giovani romantici da tutta Europa, si è appena conclusa. Fra i molti che sono scomparsi in questo incantevole angolo di mondo, ce n’è uno il cui destino preme molto a Irene Maughan: si tratta di James, erede di lord Hasting. L’intraprendente fanciulla si imbarca così in un viaggio burrascoso per trovarlo, in cui non potrà fare a meno di imbattersi in Alexandros Spatis, un greco che nasconde dei segreti.

Jude Coulter is far more comfortable in his family’s sapphire mine tucked in the Montana mountains than on the bustling streets of New York City, where he’s been sent to deliver a shipment of gems. His relief at boarding the train for the first leg of his journey home is short-lived when an accident renders him unconscious.

Anya hat Böses getan. Ihr schändlicher Racheakt gegen ein Mitglied ihres Clans ist gescheitert und hat dazu geführt, dass sie selbst schwer verletzt wurde. Von Narben entstellt und verkrüppelt, wie sie jetzt ist, findet sie nichts Reizvolles mehr an sich und erwartet das auch von keinem anderen mehr. Als sie jedoch durch ein Zauberkästchen in eine andere Dimension transportiert wird, gilt sie dort plötzlich als eine unvergleichliche Kostbarkeit. Bei der Jagd auf ein seltenes geflecktes Wildschwein hört Riggs, ein Pelzjäger aus dem westlichen Wald von Marann, einen sonderbaren Schrei.

Kent, 1817. Eleanor Lyndon sta passeggiando persa nei suoi pensieri quando Charles Wycombe, conte di Billington, letteralmente piomba nella sua vita, precipitando da una grande quercia, in stato di evidente ubriachezza. Charles è uno dei partiti più appetibili della contea ed Ellie, figlia del locale vicario, non si può certo annoverare tra le fanciulle da marito più ambite, eppure, proprio mentre lo riaccompagna al suo calesse, Charles le chiede di sposarlo! Un matrimonio d'interesse, certamente, perché alla vigilia dei trent'anni, rimanendo scapolo, il conte rischia di perdere una cospicua eredità.

Tannau, Ende des Ersten Weltkriegs. Dorflehrerin Antonie Weber ist hoch geachteter und geschätzter Mittelpunkt des kleinen Bergdorfes. Einzig der neue Pfarrer macht ihr das Leben schwer. Wie erleichtert ist Antonie, als Sebastian, ihre große, unerfüllte Liebe, unversehrt aus dem Krieg heimkehrt. Das beschauliche Leben in Tannau ändert sich schlagartig, als 1918 in München die Novemberrevolution ausbricht und die Dorfbevölkerung in Monarchietreue und Revoluzzer spaltet. In den Zeiten des politischen Umbruchs brechen auch Antonies innere Widerstände.

Even an earl needs his ride-or-dies, and Archibald Fielding-Burton, the Earl of Harcourt, counts himself lucky to have two. The annual trip that Archie takes with his BFFs Simon and Effie holds a sacred spot in their calendars. This year, Archie is especially eager to get away, until an urgent letter arrives from an old family friend, begging him to help prevent a ruinous scandal. Suddenly, the trip has become earls-plus-girls, as Archie's childhood pals, Clementine and Olive Morgan, are rescued en route to Gretna Green.