Historical Romance Families

1940: As the Germans advance upon Paris, young seamstress Estella Bissette is forced to flee everything she's ever known. She's bound for New York City with her signature gold dress, a few francs, and a dream: to make her mark on the world of fashion. Present day: Fabienne Bissette journeys to the Met's annual gala for an exhibit featuring the work of her grandmother - a legend of women's fashion design. But as Fabienne begins to learn more about her beloved grandmother's past, she uncovers a story of tragedy, heartbreak, and family secrets that will dramatically change her own life.

For five pounds sterling, the convict was hers. Though Cassie hated the slave trade, her Virginia plantation demanded the labor, and she knew this fevered man would surely die if she left him. But as his wounds healed, and as his muscled chest bronzed from the sun, Cassie realized Cole Braden was far more dangerous than his papers had indicated - for he could steal her breath with a glance or lay siege to her senses with a touch.

Crippled by lupus at 25, celebrated author Flannery O'Connor was forced to leave New York City and return home to Andalusia, her family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. Years later, as Flannery is finishing a novel and tending to her menagerie of peacocks, her mother drags her to the wedding of a family friend....

Infamous for his wild, sensual needs, Lazarus Huntington, Lord Caire, is searching for a savage killer in St. Giles, London's most notorious slum. Widowed Temperance Dews knows St. Giles like the back of her hand-she's spent a lifetime caring for its inhabitants at the foundling home her family established. Now that home is at risk.....

Book Three of The Heart Series Lady Camilla Veltre has always lived a life of privilege. Wealthy, beautiful, and accustomed to getting exactly what she wants, she has never faced a challenge she couldn’t overcome—or buy her way out of. But when her brother Jaylon marries and leaves her to her own devices, Camilla is struck by an unshakable sense of loneliness. For the first time, she begins to question the purpose of her extravagant, carefully curated life. That is, until the day everything changes. Abducted by two mysterious men, Dominic and Hester, acting under orders from Prince ...

A Heartfelt Regency Romance Brimming with Christmas Cheer, Family Bonds, and a Love Worth Fighting For! When honor meets love, sparks ignite… just in time for Christmas. Colonel Nicholas Montgomery never expected to survive the bloody battlefields of Spain, let alone find himself back in England with a solemn vow to fulfill. After a fateful encounter with a courageous lieutenant, Nick is bound to protect the fallen soldier’s family—a promise that leads him straight to the fiery and captivating Catherine Somerville. Catherine Somerville has spent her life keeping her family afloat, ...

A courageous woman on the run. A sheriff determined to protect. Can love thaw the ice of danger and grief in Stone Mountain, Texas? When Kendra Murdoch’s brother-in-law murders her sister, she takes charge of her nephew and two nieces, fleeing to Radford Crossing to escape the same fate. Determined to build a safe, self-sufficient life, Kendra opens a café and shuns all romantic advances—including those from the town’s handsome sheriff—even as danger still casts its shadow. Sheriff Butch Parrish is drawn to Kendra’s strength and independence. Battling a snowstorm and a ruthless ...

Every so often a love story so captures our hearts that it becomes more than a story - it becomes an experience to remember forever. The Notebook is such a book. It is a celebration of how passion can be ageless and timeless, a tale that moves us to laughter and tears and makes us believe in true love all over again.... At 31, Noah Calhoun, back in coastal North Carolina after World War II, is haunted by images of the girl he lost more than a decade earlier.

Widowed Lady Sylvia Elton is out to save young ladies from the terrible fate of love and marriage. Her former husband has retained his reputation as an honorable and loving man in death, but Sylvia has privately mourned his lies and infidelity. Joined by two equally scorned and cast-off friends, Sylvia establishes the Mismatch Society. With each new liberated member, the scandalous circle wreaks havoc on the romantic prospects of London’s frustrated male peerage. But nothing prepares Sylvia for the Viscount St. John, a familiar face and her most formidable challenger.

Find romance and mystery in the heart of New Orleans, on a cruise up the Mississippi River, and in a small mid-western town with a long-forgotten mystery of its own. Enjoy the first two books from the Secrets of the River Series Box Set including After Night Falls and Midnight in Darkness. AFTER NIGHT FALLS Tragedy, secrets, and heartache. It’s been the story of her life for years. Abigail knew that she should be afraid of him…but she wasn’t. Not even when he told her who he was…and why he was there. She’d taken a job on the cruise ship years ago with the thought that if she was ...

On Sarah Whitfield's 75 birthday, memories take her back to New York in the 1930s. To a marriage that ends after a year, leaving Sarah shattered. A trip to Europe with her parents does little to raise her spirits, until she meets William, Duke of Whitfield. In time, despite her qualms, William insists on giving up his distant right to the British throne to make Sarah his duchess and his wife. On their honeymoon, the newlyweds buy an old French château, but not long after, the war begins. William joins the allied forces, leaving Sarah; their first child, an infant; and their second child on the way, in France.

1887. Debutante Julia Crawford endures a lifetime of subtle ridicule as the plump, silly daughter of a premiere Boston family. Julia strikes out on her own to gain independence, traveling to the Midwest to marry an aging shopkeeper and care for his mother. Julia finds her new home rough and uncivilized after the sophistication of a big city, while closely held secrets threaten to ruin Julia's one chance at love.

When the world is brought to a standstill in the early days of a pandemic, Etta Wilmont finds herself suddenly stranded in Kansas City. Desperate to secure a roof over her head, Etta crosses paths with Henry Logan, a lonely older man in need of a caretaker. His invitation for Etta to stay with him seems to be the solution to both their problems—and maybe the spontaneous adventure Etta’s life has been missing. As they settle in together, Etta indulges in Henry’s library. The compelling historical accounts of life in the Midwest soon inspire vivid dreams of 1870s Kansas City.

As Christmas nears, pregnant Daisy knows she will soon be homeless, a dangerous situation for her and her unborn child. Miles offers her a practical arrangement, and she doesn't hesitate to move to Montana. Miles is doing this only for his daughter. While his heart still aches at the passing of his wife, his daughter longs for a mother for Christmas. While Miles keeps his distance, the heartache that Daisy has gone through all her life stirs something inside of him. But even though he vows to never love again, can the magical Christmas season give Daisy the family and love that she has ...

Caleb Chapman has never recovered from his brother’s death. He blames himself and vows to spend his remaining days protecting his family. The chance for adventure calls when he leads a cattle drive from Texas to Nebraska. What he doesn’t expect is to find a beautiful woman with no memory of who she is or how she got there.

Fall in love again - with the second novel in the Bride saga. Sophia has successfully controlled every man in her orbit until she meets Ryder Sherbrooke, a man she senses is different from the others - a man she sees as one of hell’s own sons.

New cover, same beloved story. A woman on the run. A promise that changes everything. A love worth fighting for. Mara O’Sullivan has spent her life overcoming judgment and hardship, growing up in a brothel but never losing her kindness or hope. After bravely testifying against ruthless bank robbers, Mara’s life is in danger and she must flee all she’s ever known. One fateful train ride introduces her to a half-sister and a niece she never knew existed—just as tragedy strikes. Determined to honor her promise to her dying sister, Mara vows to raise her niece and take her sister’s ...

Can this mail-order bride convince her husband he needs a ready-made family? With the help of the Westward Home and Hearts Matrimonial Agency, Piper Paulson finds herself on a train to meet and marry her future husband, a kind-hearted teacher in Montgomery, Colorado. Together, they make the perfect pair until, suddenly, Piper finds herself at odds with her husband. She doesn’t know how to get what she wants and save their marriage at the same time. August Harrison falls in love with his mail-order bride right from the start. He believes he and the quiet woman who grew up in an orphanage ...

THE CHILD SHE NEVER SPOKE OF Book One in The Bowers Hill Saga Some secrets are buried so deep, only love can dig them up. Fourteen-year-old Caroline Calder's world crumbles the night her beloved father dies in a winter storm. When her grief-stricken mother remarries with shocking haste, Caroline suspects the charming Quentin Rawle is not the savior he appears to be. Her instincts prove devastatingly correct. Torn from everything she's ever known, Caroline finds herself fighting for survival in the harsh industrial mills of Leeds, desperate to protect her younger sisters at any cost. In this...

New cover for the beloved story. A young widow with nowhere to turn. A Montana rancher in need of a partner. Can two strangers build a home—and a future—on the wild frontier? Gormlaith McGowan’s hopes for a new beginning are dashed when she arrives in Montana to learn her groom-to-be has died. Alone, nearly penniless, and a stranger in a harsh land, she faces not only an uncertain future but also the threat of her late husband’s family, who wrongly blame her for his death. With no job prospects and nowhere to go, Gormlaith’s resilience is put to the test. Garrett McDonald never ...