Showing results for "Fate" in Historical Romance

Malachy Bane is running out of time—and chances. Demons stalk the shadows. The Mage Tribunal wants his head. And Cora, the woman who once held his heart, is slipping through his fingers. Now the Realmwalker has returned from death, dragging long-buried secrets and a reckoning soaked in blood and betrayal.

Nettlecombe Manor, nestled in the rolling hills of Devon, is home to the Lord Farringdon and his second wife, Lady Charlotte. As if running the vast estate wasn’t enough, Lord Farringdon has five daughters to keep him busy. Lady Charlotte is determined that the betrothal of the eldest, Louisa, should be celebrated with a ball that is the envy of Devon society and summons a corsetière from Exeter to measure them up for new corsets.

Eleanor Stevenson's life is empty. Having sacrificed everything to become a doctor, she throws herself into her work, leaving no room for anything else. But haunted by a tragic mistake from her past, she finds that not even medicine brings the solace she yearns for. So when she's offered a job in a remote village in the Scottish Highlands with the chance to start over, she takes it. But when she steps through a living archway on a wind-swept hillside, Eleanor finds herself tossed into the Highlands of the sixteenth century.

Keijo ist ein junger, von Schicksalsschlägen geprägter Künstler. Auf der Flucht vor seiner Vergangenheit zieht er durch eine malerische, mittelalterliche Welt, stets auf der Suche nach einem Ort, den er Heimat nennen kann. Als er in der idyllischen Stadt Koamare auf die wunderschöne Kajsa trifft, ändert sich alles für ihn. Wird er dort endlich das Glück finden, nach dem er sich sein Leben lang gesehnt hat?

No one knows the woods as well as Lady Bluebell Gardner—they are hers after all—and she likes to keep them to herself. When she meets a skeptical, handsome gentleman in her sanctuary, she attempts to usher him out only to find herself in a bigger entanglement than even her fanciful imagination could procure…which is saying something.

They've teased each other mercilessly since childhood, but Whittaker Cole, Earl of Thurston, and Miss Mirabelle Browning are about to discover that trading kisses is much more enjoyable than trading barbs.

Lady Chloe Ashford detests going to balls, loathes social pretense, and finds the very idea of hunting for a husband obscene. But she has an even more scandalous secret: she once helped an American - the enemy - escape from Dartmoor Prison. Now it's three years later, and Ross Trenerry is back - and in trouble again. So is her traitorous heart. He doesn't know she's the one responsible for sending him to a second prison, and she has no intention of telling him.

Eliza Rose is the perfect lady—accomplished in pianoforte, riding, and multiple languages—until a scandal disrupts her privileged world. The fallen Rose family has struggled to regain their standing until a fortuitous connection helps Eliza re-secure her family’s place in Society, giving her everything she believed she wanted.

Farm laborer Charles Jackson doesn't expect much from life. For the price of a few pints of ale and enough food on the table, he's happy to take work where he can get it. Until he finds himself at Chadwick's farm. Falling in love with the farmer's daughter wasn't part of his plans. But when they're found in an intimate embrace, his troubles are only just beginning . . .

When the high priestess Vyvian du Lac dies, Morgen le Fay—acolyte to the priestess, midwife to queens, apprentice to Merlin—is left mysteriously bereft of magic. She finds herself transported to the wild, ancient forest of Brocéliande, which she must cross—and survive—to save Carelon from disaster. And death itself, it seems, is close on her heels.

Tanga, 1906: Nachdem Elsa nun schon mehrere Jahre in der Kolonie Deutsch-Ostafrika lebt, folgt ihr schließlich ihre Schwester Isolde nach. Deren Mission ist es, die bahnbrechenden Forschungen von Robert Koch zur Schlafkrankheit fotografisch zu dokumentieren.

Frankreich, 1688: Lianne Cartier träumt von einem Leben an der Seite ihres geliebten Luc in den prächtigen Straßen von Paris. Bevor sie jedoch ihr Studium der Malerei beginnt, möchte sie in die Karibik reisen, um endgültig ihr ehemaliges Dasein als Dienstmagd hinter sich zu lassen und ihre langersehnte Freiheit zu genießen. Doch ihr Abenteuer nimmt eine abrupte Wendung, als Piraten das Schiff überfallen und es anschließend zum Kentern bringen.

At the side of the most famous warlord of history, Matilda worked, not as a quiet, modest wife, but as a leader...as a ruler just as ruthless as her husband. Under her soft mask of beauty and modesty there lay the heart of a woman powered by ambition. A woman who was strong, courageous, and devious.... Through the eyes of one of the most extraordinary women of history unfold the events leading to the invasion of England and the battle that would decide its fate....

In 18th century London, Gwynne Owens dutifully agrees to marry the dangerous laird of a Scottish clan, Duncan Macrae. Unlocking her hidden supernatural powers as a Guardian is the key to averting disaster for both England and Scotland. But, will Gwynne be forced to betray her husband?