The Marquess of Her Hidden Heart
Eleanor Ashworth steps down from the rain-lashed post-chaise and into the only future her orphaned sister Margaret can afford: a governess's post in the wilds of Yorkshire. Her new
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Historical Romance books
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- 9 authors write them, led by Edda Oakhurst, Elara Wren and Eleanor Victoria. Every one opens its first chapters free.
Historical Romance on the shelf
A Bargain with the Earl
When a solicitor's letter arrives bearing a cracked black seal, Clementine Ashcombe's quiet life as a overlooked spinster shatters. With her future hanging by a thread and her sche
The Salt and the Silence
When Ava Castellan inherits a crumbling house on the salt-scoured cliffs of Marrow Cove, she expects grief, damp walls, and perhaps a quick sale. Instead she finds a village that g
The Cartographer's Garden
Charlotte Ashworth has spent her life avoiding the kind of questions that led her mother to an early grave, so when an inheritance summons her to the crumbling Thornbury Hall, she
The Cartographer of Lost Causes
Eleanor Marbury arrives at the sagging gates of Whitmore Hall expecting nothing more than a solicitor's reading of a will and a long train ride home. Instead, she inherits a crumbl
The Lacemaker's Vow
Eleanora Hartwell arrives at the rain-lashed gates of Whitmore Hall seeking only the quiet refuge of a lady's companion, escaping a past that left her sister Margaret destitute and
The Crown We Forgot
Coraline Ashworth crosses the grey Channel in her dead brother's regimentals, carrying nothing but a bundle of letters from a queen she never knew and the desperate hope of learnin
A Throne of Thorns
Cordelia Ashworth is one candlelit hand away from losing everything her grandmother spent a lifetime building, and the smiling devil across the card table, Lord Marcus Sterling, kn
A Twist of Fate
At Danbury Park, Cordelia Ashworth discovers a long-hidden ledger in her father's library, a document containing secrets that could destroy her family's reputation. As she delves d