British Historical Romance

The Angelotti family reels when the lost son, given up for adoption in the war, traces his birth family and returns to the fold, with devastating consequences. As poverty-stricken newlyweds, Laura and Giovanni Angelotti were forced to put their first child - a boy - up for adoption. They have had other children since, and their first little Italian cafe has become a restaurant empire, but Laura is still haunted by thoughts of the baby she lost.

Lisa blends the world of southern belles with English aristocracy, Welshmen, and Scottish villagers in her own unique style with the story of Victoria, Volume 3 in the Brides of Grace Hill series. Victoria has grown up on the Kentucky meadows and fields of Grace Hill and Sarah Rose Hall, surviving what Lincoln called the Great War. But her family emerges from the war unscathed, only to turn around and face severe hardship. She’s beautiful, vivacious, and swarmed by one beau after another. However, none have held her heart captive quite like Lieutenant Langford does for her sister, Rose. ...

London, 1833. Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission. But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall Trees – a dark and foreboding house in Fitzrovia. If Hester can cure the ailing health of its owner, Gervaise Cherville, she will receive payment that will bring her everything she could dream of. But on arriving at Tall Trees, Hester quickly discovers that an even bigger task awaits her.

From sun-drenched Spain to the icy halls of an English Earl... Catalina Esperanza Navarro had been shielded in comfort in Barcelona which had been bracing itself against the turmoil of Napoleonic conquest. As the cherished daughter of a shrewd Spanish merchant, her life had been one of privilege. But when the shadow of war had fallen across Spain, her father, desperate to secure her future, had orchestrated a transaction that sent her across the seas. Hugh Wentworth, the Earl of Strathmore, a man known for his icy control, desperately needed a wealthy bride to save his crumbling estate. ...

James Fenimore Cooper was America's first successful popular novelist. Son of the prominent federalist William Cooper, founder of the Cooperstown settlement, James was educated at Yale in preparation for a genteel life as a federalist gentleman. After his father's death in an 1809 duel, Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He turned to writing but his first book, Precaution (1820), was a failure.