Romantic Journeys Through History

This collection features historical romances that transport readers to different eras, exploring love's complexities against rich backdrops of societal change and personal growth. Each story intertwines romance with historical events, offering a unique glimpse into the past while highlighting the timeless nature of love.

The Rainbow Trail

par Zane Grey Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.6
The Rainbow Trail is a sequel to The Riders of the Purple Sage. Both novels are notable for their protagonists' mild opposition to Mormon po…

The Call Of The Canyon

par Zane Grey Lu par Richard Kilmer (1942-2022) 4.5
Glenn Kilbourne returns from the war and travels to Arizona to regain his health. There he is nursed back to health by an Arizona girl, Flo …

The Keeper of the Bees

par Gene Stratton-Porter Lu par LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
Threatened with isolation in a sanitorium for tuberculosis, a young soldier escapes and finds himself healing in a paradisal bee-garden by t…

North and South

par Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell Lu par MaryAnn 4.8
North and South is set in the fictional industrial town of Milton in the North of England. Forced to leave her home in the tranquil rural so…

The Silent Barrier

par Louis Tracy Lu par Mary Herndon Bell 4.5
Charles K. Spencer is a well-to-do young American mining engineer. Drinking his water in a hotel in London one day, he overhears a conversat…

The Dust Flower

par Basil King Lu par Simon Evers 4.7
Rashleigh Allerton, a wealthy New Yorker, quarrels with his well-to-do fiancée Barbara and impetuously says that he will marry instea…

Dawn of the Morning

par Grace Livingston Hill Lu par LibriVox Volunteers 4.5
Fresh from school, mistreated and neglected by her father and stepmother, sixteen-year-old Dawn consents to marry a friend of her father's w…

The Man of the Desert

par Grace Livingston Hill Lu par LikeManyWaters 4.8
Fleeing from an aggressive suitor, Hazel Radcliffe becomes hopelessly lost in the Arizona desert. Exhausted, she falls unconscious from her …

Sir Nigel

par Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Lu par Clive Catterall 4.8
By 1348 the House of Loring has fallen on hard times. Together, the Black Death and the greedy monks of Waverley have bled away all of the L…

Anne of the Island

par Lucy Maud Montgomery Lu par LibriVox Volunteers 4.8
In Anne of the Island, the third installment of Lucy Maud Montgomery's beloved series, Anne Shirley embarks on a new chapter of her life as …

The Benefactress

par Elizabeth Von Arnim Lu par Helen Taylor 4.4
Anna Estcourt, twenty-five and beautiful, is the penniless ward of her distant brother and his exasperating wife. Turning down all offers of…

Marie

par H. Rider Haggard Lu par Peter John Keeble 4.8
This is a superb sweeping romantic adventure story of how Alan Quatermain, hero of fourteen of Rider H Haggard's books, met, fell in love wi…

The Rain-Girl

par Herbert George Jenkins Lu par Anna Simon 4.5
Richard Beresford has recently returned from the WW-I trenches. He feels he can't go back to his old life in the Foreign Office. Instead, he…

Anna Karenina

par Leo Tolstoy Lu par LibriVox Volunteers 4.4
Anna Karenina tells of the doomed love affair between the sensuous and rebellious Anna and the dashing officer, Count Vronsky. Tragedy unfol…

He Fell in Love with His Wife

par Edward P. Roe Lu par LibriVox Volunteers 4.7
James desperately needs someone to help him keep his farm going, but has failure after colossal failure finding a good housekeeper. Alida ma…

The Blue Castle

par Lucy Maud Montgomery Lu par Bryn Roberts 5
"The Blue Castle" by L. M. Montgomery tells the story of Valancy Stirling, a repressed and timid woman living under the control of…