Choc Lit: 171 books

An art historian returns to her hometown in Ireland to reconcile with the past in an emotional love story of secrets, revenge, and forgiveness. Rachel Ford has changed a lot since she left her Irish village of Kilbrook. But the vow she made to herself hasn’t: that one day she’d return unsuspected,...

There’s a mother lode of romance and adventure as two fiery souls find something more valuable than gold in the paradise of New Zealand.   It’s 1866, and the West Coast Gold Rush is bringing a flood of fortune hunters to New Zealand. But Lady Guinevere Stanhope has come not for gold but for fauna,...

A marriage of necessity grows into a love worth fighting for in a historical romance offering a “vivid portrayal of 1880s mid-west America” (Daily Mail). In 1887 Wyoming, widower Connor Maguire advertises for a wife to raise his young daughter, work the homestead, and—he hopes—bear...

This rousing Georgian-era romance of love and larceny is “anything but predictable”—from the award-winning author of Up Close (Historical Novel Society). Jack Blythe, heir to the Earl of Lampton, is a man who loves a good bet. So when a masked woman brandishing a pistol holds up his carriage...

From an award-winning author—three fabulous Regency romance novellas that will enchant readers with every passion-drenched page.   Included in this Regency collection from a winner of multiple awards for her historical romance are:   MARRY IN HASTE   When James, Viscount Demarr, seeks a convenient...

The award-winning author of Marry in Haste pens a Regency romance of a scheming sister and an unrequited love . . . Delilah cannot bear to watch as her twin sister Deborah marries Hamish Baillie, fourth earl of Blackwood. Not only because she knows that her conniving sister has manipulated...

In Regency England, a pretty young widow loses her estate—to the man who blames her for his broken heart . . . Maude Bellamy is devastated when the intervention of her strict father prevents her from eloping with her true love, Luke Hexham. But it is not long before she is married off...

Fall in love with “an ideal romantic hero” on an epic quest “involving the opium trade, a gold rush, lost heirs, murder and other bits of skullduggery” (Historical Novel Society).   Georgiana da Silva is catapulted out of the Victorian drawing rooms and into a world of danger, when she escapes...

Love is more than a fantasy when an English countrywoman meets a famous author who wants to be her real-life happily-ever-after. For as long as Eloise Blake has lived in the quaint English village of Hookfield, she’s been fascinated by Prospect House—the shadowy Gothic home across from...

A bad-boy Englishman living carefree on a houseboat finds a love worth building a real home for in this “adorable, sweet [and] sassy” romance (Whispering Stories).   Living on a gently rocking houseboat, sexy Adam Hamilton-Shaw is a magnet to the women of Worcestershire. No commitments, just...

Star-crossed lovers tempt fate in a compelling romance from the author of All That Mullarkey: “I love all of Sue Moorcroft’s books!” (Katie Fforde, #1 bestselling author of A Country Escape).   When Diane Jenner’s husband is hurt in a helicopter crash, she discovers a secret that changes...

In this “original and exciting romantic adventure,” a woman enters an alternate reality only to find love and danger in a dystopian England (The Bookbag). When a paragliding stunt goes wrong, singer-turned-reality-show-star Eve Carpenter lands in the River Thames. And when she’s pulled...

“A deeper, more mature love story . . . written with the deft characterization and emotional richness which are already a hallmark of Ms. Baxter’s books” (Home on Deranged). Sally Cummings has had it tougher than most but, if nothing else, it’s taught her to grab opportunity with both...

A wish to turn back time comes true for two archaeologists in the Yorkshire moors in this time-slip romance by the award-winning author of Hubble Bubble. The loss of the love of her life is just one reason that history teacher Grace Nicholls would love to turn back the clock. It’s just that...