Best Historical Fiction Romance Novels - April 2024

The Hideaway

Now a USA TODAY and Amazon Charts Bestseller!“A story both powerful and enchanting: a don’t-miss novel in the greatest southern traditions of storytelling.” —Patti Callahan Henry, New York Times bestselling authorWhen her grandmother’s will wrenches Sara back home to Sweet Bay, Alabama, she learns more about Margaret Van Buren in the wake of her death than she ever knew in life.After her last remaining family member dies, Sara Jenkins goes home to The Hideaway, her grandmother Mags’s ramshackle B&B in Sweet Bay. She intends to quickly tie up loose ends then return to her busy life ... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0718084225
• ASIN: 0718084225
• ISBN: 0718084225
• Brand: HarperCollins Christian Pub.
• Manufacturer: Thomas Nelson

The Tenth Gift: A Novel

• ASIN: B0018SJO9G
• ASIN: B0018SJO9G
• Manufacturer: Crown

The Secret Wife: A captivating story of romance, passion and mystery

** The USA Today Bestseller****The number one Kindle bestseller**‘A cleverly crafted novel and an enthralling story… A triumph.’ DINAH JEFFERIESA Russian grand duchess and an English journalist. Linked by one of the world’s greatest mysteries . . .Love. Guilt. Heartbreak.1914Russia is on the brink of collapse, and the Romanov family faces a terrifyingly uncertain future. Grand Duchess Tatiana has fallen in love with cavalry officer Dmitri, but events take a catastrophic turn, placing their romance – and their lives – in danger . . .2016Kitty Fisher escapes to her great-grandfather�... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01D4O804G
• ASIN: B01D4O804G
• Manufacturer: Avon

Sea of Memories

When Kendra first visits her ailing grandmother, Ella has only one request: that Kendra write her story down, before she forgets…In 1937, seventeen-year-old Ella’s life changes forever when she is sent to spend the summer on the beautiful Île de Ré and meets the charismatic, creative Christophe. They spend the summer together, exploring the island’s sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters, and, for the first time in her life, Ella feels truly free.But the outbreak of war casts everything in a new light. Ella is forced to return to Scotland, where she volunteers for the war effort alongs... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06Y5PSTB5
• ASIN: B06Y5PSTB5
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Whispers from the Cove (Smoky Mountain Secrets Saga Book 1)

Lily Larsen has never been afraid of anything, yet the effects of the war are wearing her down.Her beautiful home in Cades Cove, Tennessee, lies deep in the Smoky Mountains. For decades, her family has farmed and lived peacefully, until the soldiers came and made every day a struggle to survive.Whether they wear gray or blue, the men in uniform arrive unexpectedly and take whatever they want. Not only do they steal food and livestock, but some believe they can help themselves to anything they desire. Lily now has something to fear.Caleb Henry is running from his own battles, bleeding and broke... [Read More]

• ASIN: B06ZYYY5WK
• ASIN: B06ZYYY5WK

First Lessons: A Strong Woman in the Middle Ages (A Medieval Tale Book 1)

Enjoy the complete historical romance and time travel series by a bestselling Amazon author right now!Aliya is a medical school graduate gifted with both smarts and an athletic body. Her life seems perfect…until she finds herself in a fatal car accident. Instead of dying, however, she wakes up in a completely different body in the middle of a half-ruined castle during alternate medieval times. Confused and dismayed, Aliya realizes she was given a second chance in life — so she rolls up her sleeves and gets to work on restoring the castle and her new life.Aliya’s situation is confusing an... [Read More]

• ASIN: B079318YMX
• ASIN: B079318YMX
• Manufacturer: LitHunters Ltd.

The Watchmaker's Daughter (Glass and Steele Book 1)

USA Today bestselling series.India Steele is desperate. Her father is dead, her fiancé took her inheritance, and no one will employ her, despite years working for her watchmaker father. Indeed, the other London watchmakers seem frightened of her. Alone, poor, and at the end of her tether, India takes employment with the only person who'll accept her - an enigmatic and mysterious man from America. A man who possesses a strange watch that rejuvenates him when he's ill.Matthew Glass must find a particular watchmaker, but he won't tell India why any old one won't do. Nor will he tell her what he ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B01DK93WKW
• ASIN: B01DK93WKW
• Manufacturer: C.J. Archer

A Dangerous Fortune: A Novel

• ASIN: B003V4BPJW
• ASIN: B003V4BPJW
• Manufacturer: Dell

What the Wind Knows

An Amazon Charts, Wall Street Journal, and Washington Post bestseller.In an unforgettable love story, a woman’s impossible journey through the ages could change everything…Anne Gallagher grew up enchanted by her grandfather’s stories of Ireland. Heartbroken at his death, she travels to his childhood home to spread his ashes. There, overcome with memories of the man she adored and consumed by a history she never knew, she is pulled into another time.The Ireland of 1921, teetering on the edge of war, is a dangerous place in which to awaken. But there Anne finds herself, hurt, disoriented, ... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07DHMNY7H
• ASIN: B07DHMNY7H
• Manufacturer: Lake Union Publishing

Queen Hereafter: A Novel of Margaret of Scotland

Refugee. Queen. Saint. Based on the lives of Saint Margaret of Scotland and her husband, King Malcolm III, in eleventh-century Scotland, a young woman strives to fulfill her destiny despite the risks... Shipwrecked on the Scottish coast, a young Saxon princess and her family—including the outlawed Edgar of England—ask sanctuary of the warrior-king Malcolm Canmore, who shrewdly sees the political advantage. He promises to aid Edgar and the Saxon cause in return for the hand of Edgar’s sister, Margaret, in marriage.A foreign queen in a strange land, Margaret adapts to life among the barba... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0307452808
• ASIN: 0307452808
• ISBN: 0307452808
• Manufacturer: Broadway Books

It All Comes Back to You: A Book Club Recommendation!

"It All Comes Back to You is one of those stories you need to savor. You want to put the book down so as to have more to read tomorrow, but you can't. It becomes attached to you, a part of you."Dan Brown, Author of ReunionIt's 1947.War's over, cherry-print dresses, parking above the city lights, swing dancing.Beautiful, seventeen-year-old Violet lives in a perfect world.Everybody loves her.In 2012, she's still beautiful, charming, and surrounded by admirers.Veronica "Ronni" Johnson, licensed practical nurse and aspiring writer, meets the captivating Violet in the assisted living facility where... [Read More]

• ASIN: B07GVN38FX
• ASIN: B07GVN38FX
• Manufacturer: The Art of Dixie

Flight of the Sparrow: A Novel of Early America

“A compelling, emotionally gripping”* novel of historical fiction—perfect for readers of America’s First Daughter.Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1676. Even before Mary Rowlandson was captured by Indians on a winter day of violence and terror, she sometimes found herself in conflict with her rigid Puritan community. Now, her home destroyed, her children lost to her, she has been sold into the service of a powerful woman tribal leader, made a pawn in the ongoing bloody struggle between English settlers and native people. Battling cold, hunger, and exhaustion, Mary witnesses harrowing brutalit... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0451466691
• ASIN: 0451466691
• ISBN: 0451466691
• Brand: Brown Amy Belding
• Manufacturer: Berkley

The House of Closed Doors

Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced. Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth"Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted.Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out.Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her o... [Read More]

• ASIN: B008EWNCC4
• ASIN: B008EWNCC4
• Manufacturer: Aspidistra Press

We Were the Lucky Ones: A Novel

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II, determined to survive—and to reunite—We Were the Lucky Ones is a tribute to the triumph of hope and love against all odds.    “Love in the face of global adversity? It couldn't be more timely.” —Glamour   It is the spring of 1939 and three generations of the Kurc family are doing their best to live normal lives, even as the shadow of war grows closer. The talk around the family Seder table is of new babies and budding romance, not of the increasing hardships... [Read More]

• ASIN: 0399563091
• ASIN: 0399563091
• ISBN: 0399563091
• Manufacturer: Penguin Books

Flowers in the Snow (The Edenville Series Book 1)

In the 1960s, Edenville, North Carolina is full of rules. Sagging under the weight of racism and segregation the small community finds itself at a dangerous tipping point. Eleven-year-old Betty Grafton believes the world is fair. She knows there are worse places to live than Edenville. Unaware of the wars waging around her, she spends her days patting horses in the field and running errands for her mother. The world she doesn’t see, full of turmoil and unrest, is hiding just below the surface. One day, she has no choice but to see what’s been right in front of her all along. Alma knows wh... [Read More]

• ASIN: B00SN3EZKW
• ASIN: B00SN3EZKW
• Manufacturer: Danielle Stewart

Hard-Hearted Highlander: A Sexy Scottish Historical Romance

An indomitable governess

• UPC: 55497114
• Rating: 3.6

The Demon Duke: A Regency Historical Romance - eBook

A USA Today Bestseller and RITA® Finalist, The Demon Duke is the first in Margaret Locke's new Put Up Your Dukes Regency historical romance series.______________________________________________________________________ "Locke has outdone herself with this sensitive, splendid Regency and her

• UPC: 475484730

Emma by Jane Austen, Fiction, Classics, Romance, Historical, Literary

Emma Woodhouse has just attended the wedding of Miss Taylor, her friend and former governess, to Mr Weston. Having introduced them, Emma takes credit for their marriage and decides that she likes

• UPC: 25936973
• Rating: 4.038

The Lover: A Rouge Historical Romance (Rouge Regency Romance) (Paperback)

Books : The Lover: A Rouge Historical Romance (Rouge Regency Romance)

• UPC: 832428290
• Rating: 3.0

Avonimpulse Historical Romance: The Short and Fascinating Tale of Angelina Whitcombe (Paperback)

9780062230720

• UPC: 21279517
• Rating: 4.0

FAR FROM THE MADDING CROWD (Historical Romance Novel) - eBook

Far from the Madding Crowd tells the story of the farmer Bathsheba Everdene, her life and relationships - especially with her lonely neighbor William Boldwood, the faithful shepherd Gabriel Oak, and the thriftless soldier Sergeant

• UPC: 553303179
• Rating: 4.068

Southern Seasons: Magnolia Summer: A Southern Historical Romance (Paperback)

From New York Times Bestselling author Melanie Dickerson comes a story of love, heroism, and secrets so dangerous they could change this sleepy Southern town forever. Truett Beverly's hometown needed a doctor, so after finishing

• UPC: 912520329

Tales from Skeenah Creek : A Civil War Historical Fiction Novel

Alfred Shope was just a boy from Skeenah Creek, in rural Western North Carolina, when the American Civil War began. With duty, he became an intuitive soldier seeing a lifetime of adventure and narrow escapes

• UPC: 932936686

Caught : A Historical Romance

1772. London. Scandal. Suspense. Sex. With her perfect breeding, flawless beauty, and proper manners, Alison Brooke never expected to be smeared by the cruel brush of scandal. Robert Anderson, Viscount Charmaine, is focused on his

• UPC: 304354150
• Rating: 5.0

The Secret Sense of Wildflower - Southern Historical Fiction, Best Book of 2012

The story of Louisa May "Wildflower" McAllister whose life has been shaped around the recent death of her beloved father in a sawmill accident. While her mother hardens in her grief, Wildflower and her three

• UPC: 53392142
• Rating: 4.25