Historical Fiction category: 74504 books

“For scorching sensuality and raw passion, Brenda Joyce is unrivaled.” —Romantic Times Brenda Joyce has a well-deserved reputation as one of the most sensuous voices in historical romance fiction. Anyone who doesn’t know it yet certainly will, once they are privy to Joyce’s...

This is a historical fiction that takes place against the backdrop of the famous sea battle of Trafalgar, where British ships under the command of Admiral Horatio Nelson defeated Napoleon’s navy and ensured the French would not be able to invade England. 

One English village. Two thousand years of stories. People have always come to make wishes at the Silver Well: in Pagan times and Christian, during revolution and war. When Rosie arrives in the tiny village of Cerne Abbas with a broken heart, she becomes connected across the centuries with...

With the gods as your allies, your life, your world, and your sanity have never been in more danger. Soon after returning to Athenos to celebrate his father's recent marriage, Theseus learns his homeland must submit to the cruel demands of an unexpected enemy. Goaded by his father’s new wife,...

Only when fear is at its most intense can true heroism come into the light. The legions of Emperor Augustus have returned victorious from putting down a massive revolt among the Germanic tribes of the Danube frontier. While Rome basks in its success, a new foe is gathering in the darkness of...

Lucifer, Michael and I is the most thought-provoking book I have ever read. We really don’t understand our past. We’ve got the atheists operating in a vacuum, the religious pointing to the Bible and many of the undecided leaning on legends about the Greek gods. Who would have thought...

BRIGHTON BEAUTY is a Regency romance set near the walled city of Chester, England. Chelsea hadn't planned to be a deceiver. She had been the prettiest—and most penniless—young lady at Miss Farringdon's Academy in Brighton. Befriending spoiled heiress Alayna Marchmont and telling her about a family...

In the tradition of Jane Austen and Georgette Heyer, THE WRONG MISS FAIRFAX is a clean, sweet, traditional romance set in Regency London. Both blonde and blue-eyed Miss Emma Fairfax, and her cousin Jemima Fairfax, bear a striking resemblance to one another, although in personality they are as different...

1940s Hiroshima. Suzu, a young bride, leaves her home to join her new husband, a member of the Japanese navy, at a military base in the port city of Kure. Confronted with the challenges of a new life, Suzu must also come to grips with a world at war and her beautiful home collapsing around her. Unwilling to give up hope, Suzu holds on to happiness to persevere through the trials of war.

The past is prologue . . . Kit Marlowe. Guy Fawkes. Ada Lovelace. Kings and sailors and sainted nuns populate these seven stories of historical fantasy by award-winning author Marie Brennan. They span the ages from the second century B.C.E. to the nineteenth century C.E., from ancient Persia...

Join Augie and June again, who are now twelve, on another fantastic historical adventure! This time they are spun back on the magic carousel to 1209 AD. There they help a special group of scholars to get to Cambridge and on the way meet many dangers which they have to overcome using a mixture of ingenuity...

The Italian Renaissance was a cultural explosion of art, architecture and learning, but it had a darker side. Two powerful families, the tyrannical Medici and their biggest rivals, the Pazzi, are tangled in a bloody struggle for ultimate power. Caught in the whirlwind is Flora, the last daughter of...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Library of Light and Shadow crafts “an enchanting glimpse of Jazz Age New York” (Christina Baker Kline, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Orphan Train) about a young painter whose traumatic past threatens to derail her career at a prestigious...

He was the dreamy pop star at the top of the charts. She was the most renowned female journalist of her time. They had fame, power, and money. The last thing they needed was love. Based on the real life love affair of 1950s singer Jonnie Ray and columnist Dorothy Kilgallen, TIL MORNING is...