American Revolution Romance

In 1760, Deborah Samson is born to Puritan parents in Plympton, Massachusetts. When her father abandons the family and her mother is unable to support them, Deborah is bound out as an indentured servant. From that moment on, she yearns for a life of liberation and adventure. Twenty years later, as the American colonies begin to buckle in their battle for independence, Deborah, impassioned by the cause, disguises herself as a soldier and enlists in the Continental Army.

The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell.

A Loyalist bride. A Redcoat husband. A rebel secret that could burn them both. British-occupied New York, 1779. When practical, sharp-tongued Catherine “Kit” Harland agrees to a marriage of convenience to save her family, she expects a polite stranger and a careful life. Instead she gets Major James Ashburne—a disarmingly charming British officer who keeps the law by day…and quietly breaks it for the right people by night. A botched public hanging, a hunted printer’s son, and a brother with too much pride drag Kit and James into a city’s undercurrent—theatres with back doors, ...

A bustling port city, Charleston, South Carolina, is the crossroads of the American Revolution, where supplies and weapons for the rebel army must be unloaded and smuggled north. From the window of the dressmaker's shop where she works, lovely Celia Garth, recently engaged to the heir to a magnificent plantation, watches all of this thrilling activity. When the unthinkable occurs and the British capture and occupy Charleston, bringing fiery retribution to the surrounding countryside, Celia sees her world destroyed.

If you liked this book check: "Heartbound of the Prairie" and "Midnight Crossing"! A forbidden love. A world at war. A choice that could cost everything. In the heart of 1780s New York—where the echoes of revolution still shake the cobblestone streets—Amina, a beautiful and fiercely intelligent Black house servant, finds herself drawn to the one man she should never even speak to. Elijah Monroe is the son of a wealthy, powerful family. He’s surrounded by privilege, watched by society, and expected to marry well. But when his eyes meet Amina’s, everything begins to unravel. Their ...

A Southern belle turned spy and a dashing blockade runner fight a hopeless battle against the British. When Anna Grace Laurens’s parents are murdered by the British and her Charles Town plantation burned, she seizes her only option for escape—a desperate leap into the Cooper River. She’ll do anything to survive…and get revenge. John Cooper Vargas is used to danger as he sails his sloop upriver through war-torn colonies, but seeing a woman plunge into the river amidst Tory gunfire is something he wouldn’t have thought possible. Until now. Rescuing her draws him into a web of ...

An exposed family secret changed her life forever and blindsided his Marine heart. From the day Hannah was abandoned as a newborn, her adoptive parents have kept the truth of her origin from her and her siblings. But when that secret is exposed, a threat arises which forces her to leave the only family she’s ever known and the adoptive brother she adores. She must start her life anew in Charleston. U.S. Marine Lieutenant Adam White, harbors a secret—more confidential than patrolling the Caribbean for French corsairs, more threatening than the fight against Barbary pirates in the ...

“A sea adventure like no other, a riveting romance!” – SHIRLEE BUSBEE, NY Times Bestselling author Paris 1782…AN INNOCENT IS TAKEN All Claire Donet knew was the world inside the convent walls in Saint-Denis. She had no idea her beloved papa was a pirate. But when he seized Simon Powell's schooner, the English privateer decided to take the thing his enemy held most dear...her. A BATTLE IS JOINED The waters between France and England roil with the clashes of Claire's father and her captor as the last year of the American Revolution rages on the sea, spies lurk in Paris and Claire’s ...

In the heart of war-torn New York, where loyalty to the Crown divides families and betrayal lurks in every shadow, one secret crossing can change everything. Nyah has known only chains and silence, but under the cover of night she becomes a guide through Midnight Crossing—a hidden path to freedom. Cedric Monroe, heir to one of the city’s most powerful Loyalist families, was never meant to see her… much less to protect her. When a forbidden kiss ignites a passion stronger than duty, Cedric and Nyah are thrust into a dangerous web of suspicion, betrayal, and desperate escape. To save ...

Can childhood sweethearts find their way back together with pirates, intrigue, and an ocean between them? Samuel Vargas has been in love with Georgia Ann Cooper since their youth. But so has his brother, who already has the means and stature in society to support her. While Samuel can’t compete with his brother’s elegance, he can do what he does best—sailing and sword-fighting. He’s determined to make his fortune as a privateer and prove he can provide a secure future for Georgia Ann…if only she’ll wait for him. Georgia Ann Cooper’s heart races when she thinks of Samuel Vargas...

In the fading light of the American frontier, where justice rides on horseback and the wind carries secrets across golden plains, a forbidden bond begins to bloom. Samuel Carter, a brooding blacksmith and former cavalryman, carries scars the West cannot heal. Haunted by his past and longing for peace, he’s sworn to live a quiet life in the rough-edged town of Rose Creek. But everything changes when he finds Ayana, a wounded Sioux woman fleeing from ruthless slavers. She's fierce, intelligent—and the daughter of a tribal chief. As Samuel hides Ayana from those who would harm her, an ...

Amanda, Colin, and Ben. All they ever wanted was to be in the Colonies, to escape the tyranny of the English aristocracy, to worship freely, to build a life together. Colin Michael Browning dreams of a new life in the American colonies. He works in the family business as a blacksmith. Amanda Andrews is Colin's soul mate who embroiders in her father's tailoring shoppe. Benjamin Andrews, Amanda's twin brother and Colin's best friend, is a theology student who rejects the Anglican Church during a time of persecution of Protestants in England. Ben yearns for the religious freedom available in ...

Paris like you’ve never seen it — one arrondissement at a time. From the royal courts of the Louvre to the bohemian cafés of Montmartre, from revolutionary barricades in the Bastille to immigrant markets along the Canal Saint-Martin, Paris in Twenty Circles takes you on a spellbinding journey through the neighborhoods that built — and continue to reinvent — the City of Light. Blending history, storytelling, and cultural insight, this book reveals: • The palaces, revolutions, and scandals of Paris’s historic heart • The cafés, philosophers, and jazz rhythms that shaped modern...

When a rookie Time Enforcement agent threatens to change the course of the American Revolution, Harlow goes back to try to keep events on track. There she meets a young widow who is running a girl's school. The town doctor has loved her from afar for years. Can Harlow nudge these two toward each other? Can she complete her primary mission amid the intrigues of the colonial Trenton? This book is has science fiction elements but is primarily a romance. The time travel is not paranormal. It is part of a series but each book is set in different time periods and involves different characters so ...

With so many women, what was a bachelor to do?More was going on in the Revolutionary War / War of Independence than just the battles recorded in history books. Life between the white settlers, Cherokee, and soldiers got very complicated, especially when Hessian mercenaries with their own selfish agendas, came into the action. Two beautiful white women, living with their Cherokee husbands and children, are caught in the middle of lies, greed, and gunfire. Will the handsome and clever trapper known as Little Bear save the day? Get ready to escape to 18th century North Carolina, but bring your...

“CHILLING HISTORICAL HORROR” “Wildly imaginative” A delicious mix of history, horror, and love. Three early American gothic tales, including America’s last witch trial in 1730, the birth of the Jersey Devil in 1735, and the true origin of the Headless Horseman in 1776. In 1730 Ben Franklin published a story about a witch trial in Mount Holly, in The Pennsylvania Gazette. But did he tell the complete story, or was it a coverup of more sinister and frightening events? Emmet, an aspiring reporter, takes his first assignment for Franklin’s Pennsylvania Gazette and travels to New ...

When Ian Blackheath and Lucy have an altercation in Emily d'Autrecourt's millinery shop, the lovely Englishwoman is horrified at Blackheath's insensitivity toward his ward. Then Lucy steals a doll from Emily's shop-secreted inside the plaything is evidence of Emily's role as a spy. Accepting Ian's offer that she be Lucy's governess is dangerous, but how else can Emily search for the doll without arousing suspicion?

Jonathan Mayford wants to join the Patriot Cause because he wants to prove that he’s a man. Despite his parents’ misgivings, they allow him to join his father’s privateer, the American Elizabeth. Jonathan befriends an old sea cook, Finis Henderson who teaches him about the sea. Later, he also becomes friend with a young African American boy. Jonathan’s young friend, James Forten, though born a freedman, does not realize what freedom means until he experiences it as a privateer. He, also, did not realize the treachery of slavery until sees individuals of his own color in chains on ...

ENGLISH BOUNTY FOR AMERICAN SCALPS It was 1777, in a country torn by revolution. Promised gold for every American scalp, the Indians ran amok in an orgy of rape and murder. Nowhere was the carnage more terrible than in Kentucky. A handful of American frontiersmen challenged the combined forces of redcoats and red men, and first in their ranks was Alan Brant. He swore to kill with his own hands the renegade who had sold a settlement to the Indians and abused the woman Alan called his own. But the vengeance path did not run straight for the young woodsman. Death in the form of a murder charge...

Sparks fly when Meg McCracken enters Alexander Ogilvie's blacksmith shop. Attracted to the beautiful young woman from the start, he understands that her station in society is far above his, even though he has dreams of moving beyond the city and becoming a man of property. He is handsome and endearing, but he's also a lowly blacksmith. That isn't the worst of it, however. How can Meg be attracted to a man whose position on a revolution is neutral and still face her Patriot father and brothers? This novella was originally published in The Blacksmith Brides novella collection.