Historical Fiction

From the celebrated author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds comes Kristin Hannah's The Women—at once an intimate portrait of coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided....

Two sisters, separated by years and experience, each embark on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in WWII France.

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well....

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell....

In every life there is a turning point - a moment so tremendous, so sharp and breathtaking, that one knows one's life will never be the same. For Michael Stirling, London's most infamous rake, that moment came the first time he laid eyes on Francesca Bridgerton....

When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson Island until he can formulate a plan....

Over the twenty-four years she was enslaved on the Montgomery Plantation, Louella learned to feel one thing: hate. Hate for the man who sold her mother....

After Englishman John Blackthorne is lost at sea, he awakens in a place few Europeans know of and even fewer have seen—Nippon. Thrust into the closed society that is seventeenth-century Japan, a land where the line between life and death is razor-thin....

From the beloved, critically acclaimed New York Times bestselling author comes a spectacularly moving and intense novel of secrecy, misunderstanding, and love, the story of Eilis Lacey, the complex and enigmatic heroine of Brooklyn, Tóibín’s most popular work twenty years later....

From the legendary actor and best-selling author: a novel about the making of a star-studded, multimillion-dollar superhero action film...and the humble comic books that inspired it....

An exclusive collection featuring the four novels of Julia Quinn’s Georgian-set Bridgerton prequel series, following the close friends and neighbors of the charming, powerful Bridgerton family—the Rokesbys....

From the number-one bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Great Alone comes a powerful American epic about love and heroism and hope, set during the Great Depression....

In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin....

In 1866, tragedy strikes the exclusive Windfield School when a young student drowns in a mysterious accident. His death and its aftermath initiate a spiraling circle of treachery that will span three decades and entwine many lives....

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur exits a subway car and sees, amid the hordes of people waiting on the platform, Sadie Green. He calls her name....

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo comes a spellbinding novel set in the Spanish Golden Age....

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? Maybe Jake Epping can....

From the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier comes a sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—a daring, moving tale of memory and fate....

1950s Philadelphia: fifteen-year-old Ruby Pearsall is on track to becoming the first in her family to attend college. But a taboo love affair threatens to pull her back down into the poverty and desperation that has been passed on to her like a birthright....

Lady Tan’s Circle of Women is a captivating story of women helping other women. It is also a triumphant reimagining of the life of a woman who was remarkable in the Ming dynasty and would be considered remarkable today....

When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home....

Even through the roar and effervescence of the 1920s, everyone in New York has heard of Benjamin and Helen Rask. He is a legendary Wall Street tycoon; she is the daughter of eccentric aristocrats....

Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means....

Berlin, 1945: Ester Pasternak walked out of the gates of Auschwitz barely alive. She survived against devastating odds, but her heartbreaking journey is only just beginning. In the camp, Ester gave birth to a tiny fair-haired infant....

Real Americans begins on the precipice of Y2K in New York City, when twenty-two-year-old Lily Chen, an unpaid intern at a slick media company, meets Matthew. Matthew is everything Lily is not: easygoing and effortlessly attractive, a native East Coaster....

Rose Pepper has kept her wartime past a secret for decades. Forty years ago, she fled communist Prague and left behind the love of her life. Now in her sixties and with two daughters, Rose discovers a bundle of unopened letters sent to her by her lost love. Confronted with the possibility of facing up to her past, she decides it’s finally time to go back to where her story began and uncover the truth that has been buried for so long…

The story begins with a hand curled around another man’s throat. This is Roman justice: Emperor Tiberius first dispatches a traitor—a friend he once trusted with the city—then the man's whole family and all of his friends. It is as if he never existed. Into this fevered forum, a child is born. His mother is Agrippina, granddaughter of Emperor Augustus. But their imperial blood is neither balm nor protection. Rather, it is a liability. Blood is easily spilled or poisoned. So swiftly corrupted. As the aging Tiberius becomes blind to the ignoble end awaiting him, Agrippina sees the future.

Cash Cassidy’s life in Wales can’t compare to the thrills she experienced in El Dorado. But now, the reality of pregnancy results in that familiar restlessness and an urge to flee. Cash is tormented by dreams and visions that she can’t remember. The fallout is that she repeatedly becomes the gone girl who rushes off to find mythical treasures and leaves her life—and her husband’s heart—in shambles. While attending a book launch party, Cash wants to start a new book and jet off on a research adventure, but her agent, publisher, and husband want her to stay home and not write ...

From Amazon Bestselling author Michele Mannon comes a dark, steamy suspense about the CEO of an underworld organization and the girl who tests his limits of self-control. Hayden’s everything I fear. A ruthless cartel boss. A killer. A stranger to this town. Yet, I went to him for help anyway. They say wisdom comes with age. When you’re young, you do foolish things. Seeking him out—foolish. Allowing my headstrong brother to swear loyalty to him—foolish. Falling in love with him—reckless and foolish. Yet I can’t help wanting him. Now I’m under his protection, at the mercy of his...

A semi-retired bootlegger and a beleaguered sheriff- because no good story ever started with cookies and milk. She’s shaking off the dust of her well-worn boots, not looking back and hoping for a transformation. All she needs is a new dress, a new town, a husband, and a fresh start. Daughter of a traveling merchant, Bethel is tired of peddling her Daddy’s “Special Sauce” and being run out of town by every sheriff east of the Mississippi. So it’s time to head west. She just needs to sell a few more bottles to help fund her trip. After all, who wants to meet their new husband ...

Elizabeth Caldwell, a passionate governess, has a secret double life. She never intended to fall for her handsome target, Duke George Fitzroy. When she's assigned to infiltrate the household of the Duke of Somerset under the guise of caring for his children, she believes it is for the good of the country. Yet she finds herself entranced by the charismatic widower, who upends all her expectations of nobility. As they bond over his children's lessons and stolen moments together, an undeniable passion ignites between them. But surrendering her heart to the Duke could endanger everything she ...

Opposites attract, forbidden passions ignite, and hearts unite when the Duke meets the seamstress. Edward Spencer, a Duke with a hidden longing for genuine connection, finds his world forever altered when he crosses paths with Juliet Ashford, a vivacious beauty with a heart of gold. As their lives intertwine amidst the lush gardens and lavish ballrooms, their irresistible chemistry ignites a journey of forbidden love, tested loyalties, and unbreakable bonds. From their first fateful meeting to stolen moments beneath starry skies, their love defies societal norms, weathering whispers, doubts...

A rakish Duke meets a witty commoner, his sister’s best friend, at a ball in his honor, only to treat her abominably despite his attraction to her. Daniel Fitzwilliam, a man with a scandalous past, returns home after eight years abroad to become the Duke of Ashford. After making significant mistakes in matters of the heart involving two women, Daniel was disinherited and exiled by his father. His sister is determined to find him a wife, and she thinks the perfect match is her best friend, Marcia. Marcia Hughes is a talented seamstress whose dowry was squandered by her uncle, leaving her ...

You'll love this exciting Time Travel romance, and the introduction of an unforgettable and powerful goddess. He wanted a woman who saw through the fame and money - and wanted him anyway. Men don't just travel through time to find their soulmate. Such a thing should be impossible. Except that it happens to Doug Coleman just when he'd given up on ever finding love. Falling in love wasn't part of her plan, she wasn't giving another man control of her life. The year is 1868 and Elizabeth refuses to believe that her future is already mapped out the way her father envisions. Then her world is ...

Residing next door to the insufferable Marquess of Batchwood, I’m prompted to ponder the cosmic forces that led me to such proximity. Me, in love with him? Hardly, or…am I? His infuriating charm is matched only by his striking handsomeness, and our ceaseless banter has become the talk of the Ton, providing fodder for their insatiable appetite for gossip. Our rendezvous, inevitably set against the brick wall between our properties, serves as a stage for our verbal sparring, where the discovery of cryptic letters unveil a shared threat. Unbeknownst to us, adversaries with intimate ...

I am so attracted to the handsome Marquess of Waverly… but I should’ve known he is a rake. In my first masquerade I danced with him and looking into his eyes I felt a spark ignite deep within me. I know now why he is being chased by every single lady of the Ton. New to wealth and power, my brother Sebastian was about to be destroyed by the rumor mill of the Ton. His best friend, the Marquess of Waverly, proposed a fake engagement as a means to divert the rumors surrounding my brother and the Marquess’s reputation as an old womanizer who will never marry. His incredible charm bewitches...

Duke Thomas Cavendish of Chatsworth, the off-limits rake next door, may be rich and powerful, but Lady Eleanor brands him an enemy from the start. Lady Eleanor La Croix is the epitome of sauciness and pretends not to be a damsel in distress. After her father’s death, her family emigrated from France to London with one goal: To find the perfect rich husband for her eldest sister, who could also care for her family. Thomas Cavendish is a bored duke with a secret. He sees no purpose in life until his eyes land on a feisty young woman in one of his underground wrestling matches. He’s ...

The ancient Maya city of Lakam Ha has a new, young ruler, K'inich Janaab Pakal. His mother and prior ruler, Sak K’uk, has selected his wife, the next queen. Lalak is a shy and homely young woman from a nearby city who relates better to animals than people. She is chosen as Pakal’s wife because of her pristine lineage to B’aakal dynasty founders ̶ but also because she is no beauty. Arriving at Lakam Ha, she is overwhelmed by its sophisticated, complex society and expectations of the royal court. Her mother-in-law, Sak K’uk, is critical and hostile, resenting any intrusion between ...

In the ancient Maya world of towering stone cities surrounded by dense tropical jungles, a strong-willed young woman struggles to preserve her family dynasty. Sak K'uk, daughter of the first woman Mayan ruler, is more fit to accede than her artistic brother and she chafes at his lack-luster leadership. In visions she sees that her son K'inich Janaab Pakal is destined to become the greatest ruler of Lakam Ha (Palenque), but how it will happen is uncertain. A sudden attack on Lakam Ha led archenemy Kan and plotted by the vengeful Ek Chuuah, exiled from their city by Sak K'uk's grandfather, ...

She was born to serve the Goddess Ix Chel. But K'inuuw Mat is destined to continue the Palenque (Lakam Ha) dynasty by marriage to Tiwol, fourth son of famous ruler Pakal. Trained in prophetic arts, she uses scrying to foresee the face of the man with whom she will bear the dynastic heir—but it is not her husband's image. She is shocked upon arriving at Palenque to recognize that face as her husband's older brother, Kan Bahlam. They are immediately attracted, sharing deep interest in astronomy. Though she resists, the magnetic force of their attraction propels them into forbidden embraces,...