Duty isn't all that drives him…David, Marquis of Blackwood, needs an heir, but his requirements in a wife are precise. Lady Nicola Wyndham appears to fit the bill—she's older, likes country living, has managed her father's household for some time and nothing detrimental is known about her.But when he coolly proposes, Nicola's brief look of hurt prompts him to a sudden show of warmth. It gives Nicola hope that they might have a good marriage and she accepts. But she has a secret—which he is bound to find out—and which goes against every idea David has of his future wife….

Dekker traces the American historical novel from its origins in the early 1800s to the beginning of World War II, examining the genre's connections with Enlightenment and Romantic theories of history, the rise of literary regionalism, the ambitions of Romantic writers to revive the epic and romance, changing gender roles, and individual authors' troubled responses to the modern era's great revolutionary and imperialistic conflicts. Though concerned with the historical romance's development, Dekker devotes most of this book to new readings of major texts by James Fenimore Cooper, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Allen Tate, Edith Wharton, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner, as well as to the Briton whose name is synonymous with the genre, Sir Walter Scott.

Maggie vowed to never marry a man who can't laugh or dance, but when she and the dull new doctor in town, Everett Dulanis, wind up spending the night together in an abandoned dugout house, all that changes. Her father is the best man and his shotgun is the bridesmaid at the wedding where a union has been made, but there's certainly no unity. Everett was engaged to Carolina Prescott, a southern lady in Atlanta, Georgia. But that, too, comes to an end when he awakes with nothing but a blanket around him and the cold barrel of a shotgun pressed against his forehead. Maggie, simple-minded and fun-loving, is as far removed from what he wants and needs in a wife as a hog straight from the wallow. Even though he keeps protesting that nothing happened in that dugout shack, he has no choice but... Less

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Ridgeway an Historical Romance of the Fenian Invasion of Canada by Scian Dubh Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New The book has no illustrations or index. Purchasers are entitled to a free trial membership in the General Books Club where they can select from more than a million books without charge. Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Historical; Publisher Description The book has no illustrations or index. Pur

The Great War rages in the European theater, and although the United States first seeks neutrality, the freedom fight becomes an American battle cry as well. After graduating from Bible College, Chandler Bennett becomes a chaplain in the U.S. Army, while Landon Spears receives his commission as a naval officer. Charlotte Bennett is blessed with love, becoming a war bride and bidding farewell to her beloved and talented Eric. Rachel Whittle, only child of Albert and Celia, reenters the vignettes as a Red Cross troop train nurse. Will war divide the family, or will the Lord bring them through this fiery trial to come forth as gold? Read A Time of War and grow with the Bennetts and their loved ones as they face the extreme trials of life and death during “The War to End All Wars”—World War I.

Latin Alive! Book 2 continues the relevant, rigorous, and incremental Latin instruction begun in Latin Alive! Book 1. The series is designed to make Latin come alive for middle and high school students, showing the relevance and power of Latin in history, ancient and contemporary culture, the Romance languages, English derivatives, and the grammatical structure of English. It also features original Latin writings, giving students access to the works of great Latin authors in their original tongue. As the second text in a three-year series, Latin Alive! Book 2 is an entry point to advanced grammatical studies, and also includes considerable review. Latin Alive! Book 2 features: Thirty-three weekly chapters including twenty-seven new content chapters and six reading-review chapters ... Less

Ti Alkire and Carol Rosen trace the changes that led from colloquial Latin to five major Romance languages, those which ultimately became national or transnational languages: Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. Trends in spoken Latin altered or dismantled older categories in phonology and morphology, while the regional varieties of speech, evolving under diverse influences, formed new grammatical patterns, each creating its own internal regularities. Documentary sources for spoken Latin show the beginnings of this process, which comes to full fruition in the medieval emergence of written Romance languages. This book newly distills the facts into an appealing program of study, including exercises, and makes the difficult issues clear, taking well motivated and sometimes... Less

Three years ago, Kieran Mullen was a carefree, confident beauty. One fateful night, everything changed, and she became solitary and aloof, reluctant to leave her London home even when her brother, Rogan, insists she accompany him on holiday to Venice. There, amid the wild revelries of Carnivale, Kieran is attacked by a masked villain and rescued by a charismatic stranger who offers her the one thing that might free her from her haunting past: revenge...Matteo de Gama is a study in contradiction - a gambler and a philosopher, a reckless libertine and a most unlikely saviour. When he pulls Kieran from a canal's watery depths and learns her secrets, he resolves to help her exact justice. But soon he has another mission in mind - to release the unmistakable fire buried beneath her icy beauty,... Less

He Claimed Her Body...Though an Easterner born and bred, Trista Sinclair fell in love with the rugged Texas terrain the moment she arrived to join her fiance. But the warnings she has heard around the ranch come to life when she is captured by a blue-eyed Comanche warrior...a man whose sensual touch is far more dangerous than his brute strength.But Wanted Her Heart And Soul...Lance Barrett has never been tempted to take a captive until he sees a beautiful woman with hair like spun gold taming a magnificent stallion. Trista is his half brother's fiancee, and the perfect means of revenge against the white father who rejected him. Yet what Lance wants most is the one thing Trista swears never to give - her willing surrender. Torn between the life each has known and a desire neither can... Less

Winner! 2011 Gold Award in Historical Fiction from eLit Book AwardsNominated for best in Historical Fiction:  2012 Global eBook AwardsIn the greatest, foulest city in the world, love, mayhem and betrayal find the slave, Alexandros. Given as a gift to the richest man in Rome, he soon discovers that intrigue and murder stalk the house of his master. Yet, if he solves the crime, the worst punishment may prove to be his own."Readers of Steven Saylor or John Maddox Roberts, accustomed to paying $25 for their latest in hardover, can download The Bow of Heaven (complete with its bizarrely hideous cover), as good as anything either one ever wrote, for $3 in about ten seconds. Enthusiastically recommended." - Historical Novel SocietyAlexander is astute, well-educated and brimming with caustic... Less

Robert Levine examines the American romance in a new historical context. His book offers a fresh reading of the genre, establishing its importance to American culture between the founding of the Republic and the Civil War. With convincing historical and literary detail, Levine shows that anxieties about foreign elements--French revolutionaries, secret societies, Catholic immigrants, African slaves--are central to the fictional worlds of Brockden Brown, Cooper, Hawthorne and Melville. Ormond, The Bravo, The Blithedale Romance, and Benito Cereno are persuasively explicated by Levine to demonstrate that the romance dramatized the same conflicts and ideals that gave rise to the American Republic. Americans conceived "America" as a historical romance, and their romances dramatize the... Less

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Constable of the Tower V2: An Historical Romance by William Harrison Ainsworth Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New In Three Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author A Daughter of Mexico: A Historical Romance Founded on Documentary Evidence (1916) by A.E. Breen Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Details ISBN 0548596336 ISBN-13 9780548596333 Title A Daughter of Mexico: A Historical Romance Founded on Documentary Evidence (1916) Author A.E. Breen Format Paperback Year 2007 Pages 352 Publisher Kessinger Publishing Dimensions 6 in. x 0.8 in. x 9 in. About Us Grand Eagle Retail is

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Last Earl of Desmond: A Historical Romance of 1599-1603 V1 (1854) by Charles Bernard Gibson Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such

"Ye cannot kill the devil", whispered the throng at the hanging of the notorious Diablo. Moments later the pirate had escaped the noose and abducted Lady Devon, whisking her aboard his ship. Infuriated, Devon swears she will have nothing to do with her captor. But long days at sea and even longer nights beneath the stars bring Devon ever closer to surrender. .

While rebel colonists in New England dump tea into Boston Harbor, a rebellious, red-haired, convent orphan a continent away in Mexico City plots to escape the stifling treadmill to which she is bound. In her post as the indentured companion of a nobleman's spoiled daughter, fiery Gabriella Salagado is befriended by the devoted Elias Martinez and becomes his wife only to find herself drawn to the aristocratic Martin de Neve. Dreams of a new beginning lead Elias and Gabriella to follow Colonel Juan Bautista de Anza in a thousand-mile trek from Nueva Espana's northern frontier to the California coast. Despite her youth, Gabriella is a skilled nurse and proves useful to her fellow pioneers. The expedition faces danger and hardship. Feisty Gabriella is accused of witchcraft, challenged by... Less

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Castle Sombras: A Historical Romance (1895) by Herbert Greenhough Smith Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Hardcover Condition Brand New Details ISBN 1104103001 ISBN-13 9781104103002 Title Castle Sombras: A Historical Romance (1895) Author Herbert Greenhough Smith Format Hardcover Year 2009 Pages 212 Publisher Kessinger Publishing Dimensions 6 in. x 0.6 in. x 9 in. About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your reading and entert

A disastrous marriage that ended in tragedy made attorney Marshall Westlake swear never to care for a woman again. Yet he wanted to protect Renee. Unable to deny the pleasure of desire, he bent her to his will. In a stormy night of ecstasy, his hatred is turned to hunger as her fear is turned to fortune.

"Few authors portray the Scottish highlands as lovingly or colorfully as Hannah Howell."--Publishe rs WeeklyNew York Times Bestselling Author Hannah HowellA villainous rogue abducts Contessa Tess from her uncle's castle in the Scottish highlands, and when he reveals her uncle's terrifying plans, she follows him into a whirlwind of adventure and realizes that there is a hero beneath his criminal facade.

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Romance of Diplomacy V2: Historical Memoir of Queen Carolina Matilda of Denmark, Sister to King George the Third by Mrs Gillespie Smyth Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New In Two Volumes. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Valentino: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century in Italy by William Waldorf Astor Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Details ISBN 0548489548 ISBN-13 9780548489543 Title Valentino: An Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century in Italy Author William Waldorf Astor Format Paperback Year 2007 Pages 336 Publisher Kessinger Publishing Dimensions 6 in. x 0.7 in. x 9 in. About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ide

An impressive work of erudition and collaborative scholarship. There is much to admire here. Roberta Kreuger, Hamilton College Christine de Pizan, one of the earliest known women authors, wrote the Livre de Paix (Book of Peace) between 1412 and 1414, a period of severe corruption and civil unrest in her native France. The book offered Pizan a platform from which to expound her views on contemporary politics and to put forth a strict moral code to which she believed all governments should aspire. The third of three books, the text s intended recipient was the dauphin, Louis of Guyenne, who she felt had the political and social influence to fill a void left by years of incompetent leadership. Drawing in equal parts from the Bible and from classical ethical theory, the book was revolutionary... Less

Publisher: D. Appleton And Company Publication date: 1880 Notes: This is an OCR reprint. There may be numerous typos or missing text. There are no illustrations or indexes. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. You can also preview the book there.

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Margam Abbey: An Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century (1837) by Anonymous Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Details ISBN 1437118704 ISBN-13 9781437118704 Title Margam Abbey: An Historical Romance of the Fourteenth Century (1837) Author Anonymous Format Paperback Year 2008 Pages 332 Publisher Kessinger Publishing Dimensions 6 in. x 0.7 in. x 9 in. About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all you

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Stormy Petrel: An Historical Romance (1892) by John Bowles Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Details ISBN 054865851X ISBN-13 9780548658512 Title The Stormy Petrel: An Historical Romance (1892) Author John Bowles Format Paperback Year 2007 Pages 360 Publisher Kessinger Publishing Dimensions 6 in. x 0.8 in. x 9 in. About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your reading and entertainment needs! Wit

Writing in the early years of the twentieth century, novelist Eva Emery Dye captured the imagination of American readers with her epic accounts of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, the Oregon Trail, and the conquest of the American West. Brimming with adventure, drama, and romance, her books helped to shape an entire generation’s understanding of American history and Manifest Destiny. In this first biography of Dye, Sheri Bartlett Browne chronicles the life of one of Oregon’s most successful early writers. Drawing on previously unknown letters and diaries, Browne examines Dye’s determination to write historical fiction, the history of her involvement in the suffrage movement, and her lifelong promotion of education through the Chautauqua movement. Dye is best remembered for The... Less