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.

The Creoles Series tells the stories of four young women who attend the Ursuline Convent School in New Orleans during the early nineteenth century. Each book is a romantic adventure that focuses on one woman as she faces the trials of life and faith. In this striking conclusion to The Creoles Series, Gilbert Morris delivers his award-winning storytelling, told against a cultural background unique to this series alone. This digital bundle includes: The Exile, The Immortelles, The Alchemy, and The Tapestry.

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.

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

America's long romance with the train has been the subject of many books, but none has used contemporary maps to comprehensively illustrate the story. Until now. Here the latest of Derek Hayes's historical atlases delves into the history of the railroad in North America, from its origins in Britain in the 1820s and short lines connecting Eastern Seaboard rivers in the 1830s to Amtrak and the modern intermodal freights driving today's railroad revival. Colorful and informative, the book covers a vast range of topics and offers an impressive array of types of railroad map, from the purely utilitarian to the gorgeously promotional. Nearly 400 old railroad maps, most in full color, plus many historical photos, brochures, and posters, combine to provide a new perspective on the North American... Less

War had scarred the Earl of Ashby's face...and perhaps his soul. Before being wounded in the Napoleonic war and shunning society, the dashing lord had been a notorious rake. Now, Isabel Aubrey, a proper lady, dares to approach the masked, reclusive nobleman for a large donation to a worthy charity - and decides she must save him from his self-loathing. She begins to flirt. He responds. She invites him to a masquerade ball. He accepts and dazzles her with a kiss.But Isabel already has a fiance and despite her attraction to the earl she knows she must reject him. Yet no force on earth is greater than the passion that leads her into his bed; nothing she has ever experienced is more exciting and erotic. Now he asks her to stay with him although it will mean her ruin. Isabel must not say yes -... Less

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Lord Montagu's Page V3: A Historical Romance (1858) by George Payne Rainsford James Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Details ISBN 1437132413 ISBN-13 9781437132410 Title Lord Montagu's Page V3: A Historical Romance (1858) Author George Payne Rainsford James Format Paperback Year 2008 Pages 380 Publisher Kessinger Publishing Dimensions 6 in. x 0.8 in. x 9 in. About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all

Expanding western borders, taming the land, and finding a place in which to live and love defines the pioneer heart. Within this unique collection are nine complete stories of romance on the American Great Plains penned by nine different multi-published authors. Readers will enjoy history during the 1800's as relived through the pioneers' adventures, heartaches, challenges, victories and romances.

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

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author The Last Days of a King: An Historical Romance by Maurice Hartmann Estimated delivery 3-12 business days Format Paperback Condition Brand New Details ISBN 055456517X ISBN-13 9780554565170 Title The Last Days of a King: An Historical Romance Author Maurice Hartmann Format Paperback Year 2008 Pages 204 Publisher BiblioLife Dimensions 8 in. x 0.4 in. x 5 in. About Us Grand Eagle Retail is the ideal place for all your reading and entertainment needs! With

A proposal she had no choice but to accept . . . Though Eli Grayson is one of the most handsome, charming, and intelligent men in Grayson Grove, no one will take a chance on a confirmed bachelor. Unwilling to give up his dreams, Eli convinces his friend Jewel to pose as his wife. Their masquerade is to last just one night . . . but when word gets out, Eli and Jewel must tie the knot to save his career—and her reputation. Became a love she never expected . . . Angry at being forced to turn her life upside down, Jewel never imagined that a white-hot passion would consume her once she and Eli became husband and wife. Sharing a bed has turned their prim friendship into a sensuous love affair . . . but when a woman from Eli's past returns to stir up trouble, he and Jewel will learn just... 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

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

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

General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1884 Original Publisher: Chapman and Hall Subjects: Great Britain Fiction Tavistock Fiction / Classics Fiction / Literary Fiction / Mystery

Store Search search Title, ISBN and Author Agnes Sorel V1: An Historical Romance by George Payne Rainsford James 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 and blurred

"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