Historical fiction
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Past Loves by shelbylw03
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Can he let go of the love who haunts his past? Peirce has not been able to leave his past behind, but when he meets a certain woman, he begins to think that all hope is not lost. Can she handle the past he comes with? Roselyn's life was simple. That was until she decided to visit her cousin. After meeting their cook, everything went downhill, but will she be able to look past the sadness this man carries and find the man underneath? Or will she let his past loves overcome them? (Cover by SilentDream)
All the Wrong Reasons by shelbylw03
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They married for the wrong reasons. He married her for the money and status, while she married him to start over again. It doesn’t really matter why exactly they married, but what happens when he starts to feel something towards his own wife. And what happens when the trouble she left behind catches up with her?
The Bride Price by QuenbyOlson
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To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry. Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss. Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.
Through It All  by madairifa
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In the small town of Lakewood in the nineteenth century, the future of Adam Lancaster and Sophia Willis has been set through an arrange marriage, but Sophia is in love with the son of the richest man in town and Adam has never considered marriage as part of his life. Will they give each other a chance or are they destined to live unhappily ever after? 7/24/2016: #5 in Historical Fiction (I am walking on air! Thank you guys so much!)
Captive Romance by conleyswifey
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**Mail order wife, Rebecca Smallwood leads a boring life on her wealthy husband's Wyoming ranch. She deals with his daily remarks and annoyance toward her inability to provide him with a child--the one reason he paid a high price for her and the one requirement of her new life. **Brantley Mitchell has never known a day without danger. Born into outlaw life, fighting for survival is all he knows--that's why being hold up with a busted arm has made him more than a little riled. Then the gang rides in with the latest money making scheme.. a hostage that's all his to watch over. **Rebecca is terrified of her captor. Not for any of the logical reasons such as his ability to cause her a great deal of pain or kill her. No, she's terrified because of the desire that flares to life within her every time she looks into those dark gray eyes. **How will Rebecca survive her captivity and how will she ever return to her husband and look him in the eye after she's had a taste of captive romance?
When Love Is Forgotten by Aleespli21
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Auburn thought she knew what love was, until the accident of course... -- With a Masters Degree in teaching, a PhD in English, and a ring on her finger, Auburn Monroe is just another typical college graduate. She never thought anything bad could happen to her. That is, until she comes to think that her fiance is hiding a deep secret from her. On her way to catch him in the act, however, she gets in a bad accident...one that sends her whole life upside down...
I was a Mistake by AbbyDi23ner
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Eden's mother considers her the ruin of a perfect family. When the only father she's ever known leaves Eden and her family behind at the age of three, Eden becomes the brunt of abuse and neglect. On her first day of school, Eden meets Noah, a little boy in her class that greets her and fast becomes her best friend. Abuse and neglect have led Eden to become mute and terrified of the world around her. It seems Noah is the only one that understands her without saying a word. After many years of friendship, Eden shows up at Noah's house: broken, bruised, and afraid. •Best Ranking: #4 in Chicklit Start Date: December 2015 Completed: January 2017 Last Edited: June 14, 2018 Stealing my story will not be tolerated!
His Undesirable Wife by meeramiller007
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**WATTYS 2018 SHORTLIST** (COMPLETED) The early 17th century England- a time when women were treated as mere commodities for their families and burdened with unreasonable expectations of beauty and mannerisms. In such a world, Lord Bradford raises his daughter, a girl of Indian descent named Saya, with all the love and care. He wishes only to see her settled with an eligible husband; one who would be able to see past the society's prejudice and love her for the kind woman that she is. Lord Zachary Hayworth, a courageous Knight and a man of high social standing, is displeased with the prospect of marriage with Lady Saya Bradford. She has nothing of what he had desired in a wife. Her swarthy complexion and plump body, is highly unbecoming of a Noble woman. The fact that she wasn't even a Noble by birth irked him to no end. But he is stuck with her by the decree of the King. When Saya finds herself married to the wonderful Lord Hayworth, she feels optimistic about the future ahead- a future that she intends to share with him. However, Lord Hayworth wastes no time in making his displeasure known. Her world is left asunder when the reality of her situation- as his undesirable wife, sinks in... *UNEDITED* [The sequel 'His Redemption, Her Legacy' has been completed]
Unwanted Mrs. Young✓ by rainaangel
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Meet Stella Young An endearing amiable lady, who dreams like all of us and in her dreams, transcends her dull, grey boring world into another one of heroism, romance and adventure. She lives in a small village of Bromley, lives a simple yet content life with an old grandfather who looks after her and loves her more than anything. She is an ordinary woman who has nothing exceptional, special or extraordinary to brag about. Nothing, but him. Her love, her faith, her religion. A man, she knows will no matter what he does, or how ruthless he acts, will always reign her heart, body and soul. Meet Albert Weill Heir of Citigroup Company, who had everything in his life whatever he wanted. From good looks to money, from crazy fans to clingy devotees, from owning your fortune to becoming the soul reason of your misery. He is the epicenter of your world and he makes it his damn job to make you get it. He had everything in his luxurious world, everything yet not her. A woman, who once was the reason of his survival and now, was just a plain pain in his ass. So what made him forget his differences and get into a relationship with the person he hated the most in this world? What actually made the big bad Albert Weill to lose his recalcitrant and accept this meaningless merger? And what led to the conversion of a plain boring Stella Young into becoming Unwanted Mrs. Young Cover by RuthXanadu
Of Beauties And Beasts by gingerbread250
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Highest Rating: #1 in Historical Fiction. Currently #1 under Historical Romance Lady Ginny Sherman is forced into an arranged marriage to Lord Stephen Knightly when her parents leave her and her sister alone and destitute after they die in a stagecoach accident. Ginny's life is completely flipped upside down. This man is vile and cold and wants nothing to do with her. And neither does his ex-fiancee. What she doesn't know is that Stephen has some dark secrets of his own. His past has torn him apart, and Ginny might be just the girl to mend his broken heart. It's a tale as old as time. Book Cover Copyright- © 2016 by Addietay