Historical Romance

All author Lanie Barrett wanted when she purchased one left shoe from an antique dealer was to get an idea for a story that would sell. Instead, she got a trip to Antebellum South Carolina where a madman in a carriage nearly runs her down in the street. What's a girl to do when faced with a true Southern gentleman in the pre Civil War South? Tease him, of course. Daniel Hastings had no idea the woman he nearly killed was from over a hundred years in the future. However, he did know that she was the most beautiful woman he'd ever seen. When danger stalks his new houseguest in his own home, he does everything he can to protect her. He might even be able to think straight if she would only stop getting out of bed half-dressed!

Seven dreams; seven lovers. Which ones will come true? Pearl Frost, a beautiful young woman with appetites she has not explored, is the cook and housekeeper for a boarding house where seven lusty miners live, each of them with his – or her – own desire. See what happens when aphrodisiac magic promises to turn fantasy into sensuous reality, as Pearl indulges in forbidden pleasures and learns the limitless lessons of desire. Set in the era of the great mining empires of Colorado, and rich with myth and imagery, The Passions of Pearl is no fairytale, but here, dreams do come true, gloriously and quite explicitly...

In 1920’s Ireland, Shannon understands all too well that the love and hunger he feels for his best friend, Ciaran, is forbidden. He’s already shunned by his town and emotionally damaged from enduring painful confessions after a male teacher’s molestation at age fourteen. But when he finds Ciaran grieving over the sudden death of his mother in a barn, a hasty and desperate embrace shatters an unspoken boundary between them. Shannon and Ciaran are sent on a journey to Dublin to bring a family heirloom to Ciaran’s aunt. Along the way, a drunken evening leads to an illicit act in a hotel room, confusing Ciaran and forcing them both down a treacherous path of deceit and desire. Can love overcome the obstacles of Irish society, the Catholic Church, and political unrest?

Molly is a brash robber with a taste for the family jewels. He's a handsome lord with just what she's looking for.

Gloria Morrison marries rich, kills her husband, runs from a brutal bounty hunter and escapes into the arms of the man she can’t allow herself to love.

Trapped in an abandoned house during a storm, Toney meets Justus, a handsome cowboy. A kept woman, Toney depends on her friend, Jon, for everything so he controls her. When Justus offers to pay her to have her picture painted for over his hearth, Jon wants her to so he can work a con. Toney and Jon have a falling out and she leaves with Justus. The fact that she has fallen for the handsome cowboy is beside the point. And it seems Justus feels the same about her. The downside is Jon will come for her and she must warn Justus about the planned con, but will he believe that she never planned to help Jon cheat him?

Sasha Bolasko has lived a wild and fulfilling life. A Gypsy traveling the world, he has joined an acting troupe called The Friendly Crusaders as one of their star performers. The troupe has crisscrossed the world and are finally returning home to the small French town of Trevinogn. There, Sasha will encounter intrigue, confront rivalry and a woman that could change the way he looks at contentment and settling down forever. Will his destiny allow him a shred of happiness or will the forthcoming performance be his last? Welcome to Passion Play!

Jamaica, 1660. A tropical paradise seething with unrest. Untroubled by slave uprisings, Anne Falkirk is the proud mistress of a vast plantation. Secretly starved for love, Anne appears to be a cold, untouchable white goddess. But one night a shipwrecked sailor unlocks her passions, using his magnificent body to stir her senses to the utmost. Is Jeremy Bent the answer to Anne’s prayers? Or is he sweeping her to peak after peak of ecstasy for some darker purpose of his own? Jeremy Bent has turned his back on English civilization. Part Robinson Crusoe and part Robin Hood, Jeremy rules a group of runaways, proud Africans who have escaped the horrors of Spanish slavery high in the mountains of Jamaica. Seducing Anne is a way to win freedom for his friends -- but when Anne’s beautiful body inflames his own desires, how can the rugged castaway choose between freedom and slavery?

Lovely Alina finds the rugged sea captain arrogant and unyielding and despises him. He seems to dislike her too, so why are his hands…and sexy mouth suddenly all over her? To her dismay, Alina enjoys the stolen kisses too much and is determined to protect her virtue and find a way to escape. Spain, 1655. Captain Ramon’s desire for revenge forces his enemy’s daughter, Alina into his home. Their lives become as tumultuous as the sea on a stormy night and their unexpected desire for each other is just as precarious.

Caitlyn has a mission – rescue her childhood companion Berne from the King’s dungeon – after all, it was to save her honor that he was captured. But this street thief finds more than she bargained for in Henry, the King’s jailor. Henry has resigned himself to the loneliness of his dark dungeon, but when Caitlyn brings a spark of life into his dreary world, he will do anything to keep that spark glowing. Who will rescue whom?

The fortress Claymoor teems with lusty knights and wenches but the knight with the boldest sexual appetite is Jase, the lord and master, and when virginal Myla, the daughter of a prominent Duke becomes his hostage in a deadly game of revenge, she is subjected to bouts of heated sex play that awakens her wildly passionate senses. But the bold knight soon finds he has deeper feelings for Myla then those of revenge toward his enemy. Her body beckons to him, luring his male senses into a sensual realm of tenderness and sexual bliss that soon culminate into a torrid love affair.

The biggest, baddest slavemaster of all is back. Ten years after the world learned to loathe him in Uncle Tom's Cabin, the tables are turned with a vengeance on Simon Legree. The Civil War is raging, he is now a Confederate prisoner and his former favorite slave girl Cassy is a Union army nurse. She always held the key to his heart, but now she also has the key to his cell. And they are--literally---rubbing up against a whole new cast of original characters.

A villain in victory…a hero in defeat...and an irresistible lover either way. Now "Rebel Rogue" and "Prince Charlie's Witch" are yours together…showing two alternative fates for Bonnie Prince Charlie's most loyal supporter, Captain O'Neill. In defeat, he wins the heart of a British officer's sister…in victory, he meets his match in a London lady who is even more ruthless than he. Released in honor of the 260th anniversary of their doomed Highland uprising, the dual volume will show you both what happened and how it might have been, if a time traveler had changed history, for this Irish rebel "Hard Man."

“Ravished by Ragnar”—“Enslaved by Eric”—Karl Gustavsen is tired of seeing erotic romance writers turn his ancestors into these steamy sex fantasies. So he starts the Viking Anti-Defamation League to sue the author, Rose Jacobson, along with her publisher, Orgazm Books. But his favorite Viking relic might prove that everything she says is true. Every time he touches it, she is pretty sure to wind up getting—well—carried away.

She is Moses’ sister Miriam, helping to lead their fellow slaves from Egyptian bondage to their Promised Land. Miriam meets King Menelaus as he is going to war to reclaim his runaway wife, Helen of Troy. When the Spartan ruler sees the Hebrew prophetess dancing in the desert, they will soon be torn between their duty to their people and their own forbidden desires.

A charming, ruthless Irish rebel, Captain Francis O’Neill is a prisoner in Ediburgh Castle after Bonnie Prince Charlie’s revolt. When his English captors send Lady Mary Buchanan to spy on him, he sets out to win her heart but winds up losing his own. Soon both of their lives are in danger, as he is sentenced to death and she makes a desperate attempt to save him by joining a rebel outlaw band. Presented for St. Patrick’s Day and the 260th anniversary of Bonnie Prince Charlie’s 1745 Revolt, Rebel Rogue will bring this unforgettable era to exciting life.

She knew she should hate him. But once the great warrior Achilles takes his beautiful captive Briseis in his magnificent arms, she lives only for his embraces. Soon, though, his jealous commander will tear them apart, forcing to serve his own lust. War will cost her the man she loves, but peace will bring new perils when she earns the murderous jealousy of Helen of Troy. And at last, Briseis will stand alone to fight for her life against the deadliest foe of all—the cruel and cunning Odysseus—before he sends her on her own desperate journey, to find her beloved captor again. Too hot for the screen to hold, this story goes on where Hollywood leaves off—to the passionate reunion of this unforgettable pair.

Charles Daughtry goes to a society party to do business on behalf of his father when he is bewitched by the lovely and married mistress of the house, Claire Davies. The two engage in a lascivious episode in an upstairs room during the party. Charles narrowly escapes discovery, but vows to rekindle the flames of passion, regardless of the cost. After some unfortunate events leave Charles shaken, he confesses his sins to a Bishop. Charles hopes for absolution. Will he find forgiveness from the spiritual leader or crucifixion at the end of a hangman's noose? This story is not classified as a Romance.

When her father dies, Charlotte Pelham faces poverty—then her former lover, Robert Beckwith, walks back into her life, seeking to make amends. Together they set out to discover Charlotte’s legacy, following a trail that will lead them on a dangerous journey from England to the New World—and a rekindling of their love. Can their love and faith in each other survive the dangers of war and the deadly enmity of a powerful man?

Atalanta (fastest woman east or west of the Rockies) is the upstairs neighbor of the long-suffering Mel. Atalanta wants a casual relationship and someone to water her orchid when she’s training. Mel wants Atalanta, preferably naked and horizontal. Mel’s efforts in this direction involve some very virtual reality. Through Mel’s machinations, Atalanta finds herself in a training camp in ancient Greece, where she is must marry the athlete who can beat her in a race. The lusty lads are all super-speedy, so Atalanta sets about her own Elysian Games. She’s sure she can prevail if only she can discover each man’s sexual Achilles heel. While Atalanta engages with Greeks, Mel is beavering in the background to make his dreams of unlimited amorous games come true.