Winter Historical

Eliza Fairchild never expected a winter wedding to place her at the center of unwanted attention. Nevertheless, trapped at Briarwood Hall by a fierce snowstorm, she finds herself surrounded by gossip and scrutiny she cannot escape. Outspoken and honest, she has long accepted that she is unlikely to make a suitable match. Yet, when an innocent misunderstanding begins to twist everything around her, one man’s attention becomes harder to ignore… Sebastian Hale, Duke of Northmere, has spent years rebuilding his family’s standing and now lives by strict control to protect it. He avoids ...

“I won't let anyone hurt you.” Ruth blinks. “I thought you didn't want me here.” All Ruth Bennett has ever wanted is a place to call home. Raised in a Dodge City brothel and left alone after her mother's death, Ruth is desperate to protect the only family she has left—her six-year-old sister. So when she discovers an advertisement from a Kansas rancher seeking a wife, she takes a leap of faith and travels west, hoping for a fresh start. Instead, she finds Henry Collins. The brooding horse rancher never expected his mail-order bride to arrive with a child in tow. Worse, she makes ...

Caius d'Avignon, the knight known as The Britannia Viper, finds himself on the opposite side of William Marshal...and the Executioner Knights are caught in the middle...Welcome to another Executioner Knights' tale! When Caius d’Avignon is sent north at the request of a cousin of William Marshal to help in a dispute between neighbors, Caius couldn’t have imagined how his life would change. When Caius goes to speak to the neighbors to demand their unconditional surrender, the first thing he sees is a woman of astounding beauty. Emelisse de Thorington is that woman.

"You don't have to keep carrying the world alone." Seth looks away. "It's the only way I know." Caroline Whitaker has spent years being judged for a broken engagement she couldn't prevent. Branded a spinster and with no future left in her hometown, she answers a mail-order bride advertisement and travels West, determined to start over. Instead, she finds Seth Donovan. The rugged horse rancher isn't looking for love. Since his brother's mysterious death, Seth has devoted himself to raising three frightened children and keeping his struggling ranch afloat. A wife is simply another ...

They call him the Great Defender. As Richard the Lionheart's most powerful general, Sir Juston de Royans is as moody as he is skilled. Reminiscent of the ancient warrior Achilles, Juston fights when it is necessary, instead choosing to command the powerful men beneath him. Never wrong in action or command, he has never lost a battle, and when he finds himself in the midst of a terrible siege at Bowes Castle, he predictably emerges the victor, with the lady of the keep as his prize.

From your Favorite #1 Amazon Best Selling Author Faith Johnson comes this captivating Mail Order Bride Story Set in the Wonderful Season of Winter. A deputy. A baby. And a winter that won’t wait. When Deputy Elias Hawke answers trouble at the depot, he expects a fight. He doesn’t expect a newborn. Left behind in the aftermath, the tiny child becomes his responsibility overnight. With the Colorado winter closing in and no time to find answers, Elias is forced to take the baby home… whether he’s ready or not. Days later, Nicolette Burton arrives—his mail-order bride, with nowhere ...

NINE OVER-THE-TOP INSANE INSTALOVE STANDALONES IN ONE WILD BUNDLE! THIS IS INSTA-LOVE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN . . . ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE! THIS BOX SET CONTAINS: GIVEN TO THE GROOM (100 pages) TRADED TO THE TRUCKER (126 pages) PUNISHED BY THE PRINCIPAL (121 pages) STRANDED WITH THE PSYCHO (123 pages) WIFED BY THE WARLORD (111 pages) LATE FOR THE LANDLORD (113 pages) VANQUISHING THE VIKING (115 pages) DISCIPLINING THE DUKE (111 pages) SAVING THE SINNER (109 pages) AND EACH BOOK CONTAINS: OVER-THE-TOP STEAM! (Yes, we're going there . . . ;)) OVER-THE-TOP PLOTS (Wait, what's a plot?) OVER-THE...

I signed my maiden name first before memorializing my new name. Elizabeth Madeline Darcy. Elizabeth Bennet lay dead on the altar of matrimony. HAVING SIGNED THE REGISTER as Elizabeth Darcy, the former Miss Elizabeth Bennet must somehow survive a crushing scandal as a stranger to herself. Her unwilling husband is so outraged to find himself tied to a person he thinks no better than a fortune hunter that she is forbidden to speak of the circumstances behind their union. Indeed, Mr. Darcy seems to loathe even the sound of her voice, and often Elizabeth's only recourse is to be silent.

Colonial New York, 18th century. As the fires of revolution smolder and empires redraw their borders, one man steps off the map—vanishing into a winter no army dares follow. Set in the snow-covered frontier between a fading British colony and sovereign Haudenosaunee lands, The Last Winter tells the story of a solitary figure seeking shelter from a world he no longer understands. His coat is frayed, the red beneath it fading. His past is filled with orders, regrets, and names he cannot speak aloud. But in the silence of snow and the warmth of distant fires, something else begins to stir—...

Winter, AD 101. The Danube freezes. Across the ice comes an army. When Rome's legions march into Dacia, King Decebalus does not wait to be conquered. He gathers a great confederation of tribes, crosses the frozen river where no army should be able to pass, and pours down into the empire's own provinces — burning farms, sacking towns, and driving Rome's people north in chains. The legions turn to meet him. Among them marches the Thirteenth — the Lions — and two men who have survived long enough to be trusted with more than their own lives. Marcus Ulpius Varro, a young tribune who must ...

She threw up her hands. "You act like caring about people is a weakness!" His expression darkened. "No. I act like caring about people gets them killed." Leona will do anything to start over with her three-year-old son, even if it means begging for a place on a dangerous wagon trail. "I can pull my own weight," she insists, but the wagon master refuses to let a single mother join. Just as hope slips away, a rugged man steps in. "She rides with us," Marshall says, his tone leaving no room for argument. Marshall has spent years outrunning his past, taking on the grueling work of leading ...

""I'm Sebastian, Lord St. Vincent. I can't be celibate. Everyone knows that."" Desperate to escape her scheming relatives, Evangeline Jenner has sought the help of the most infamous scoundrel in London. A marriage of convenience is the only solution. No one would have ever paired the shy...

“You don’t believe this can work,” she said. He shook his head. “Not for a man with my past.” “Then perhaps you’ve never been given a reason to try.” Once a promising rancher with big dreams, Dallas Marlow now lives closed off from the world, his days consumed by hard work, responsibility, and three children left in his care after his brother’s death. Loss has taught him to rely on no one and to expect nothing in return. Until the woman who answers his advertisement arrives. Madilyn Handley, a quiet schoolteacher with a wounded past of her own, comes to Sagebrush Hollow ...

“You don’t trust easily,” she tells him. “Trust gets people killed,” Remy answers. “Or saved,” she shoots back. Celia Riker is running for her life—or at least the life she refuses to accept. Promised to a corrupt businessman obsessed with her late grandmother’s rumored treasure, Celia makes a desperate gamble: a mail-order marriage to a rancher she’s never met. When she arrives in Dillon, she expects safety and stability—not a rancher who mistakes obedience for marriage. Remy McCall has no room for softness. Not after losing his twin brother and the woman he planned ...

It’s the winter season of 1746, and the Highlands are snowy. In the village of Calvine, north of Tay Forest along a road that leads straight into Inverness, the only tavern in town is packed to the rafters with travelers. Eight months after the disastrous defeat at Culloden, the people haven’t recovered, nor has the land, and it’s a bad winter. When James de Lohr, Earl of Worcester, shows up looking for clues to his brother’s fate on the Culloden Moor, he gets more than he bargained for.

“You run this ranch alone?” Jacob asks. “I have so far.” His gaze sweeps the land. “Not anymore.” Naomi Lockwood has spent years proving she can run a ranch as well as any man. But when a tragic accident leaves her the sole guardian of her younger sister—and debts threaten to swallow the family land—Naomi is forced to make a desperate choice. She advertises for a mail-order husband. Not for love. For protection. Once a proud rancher, Jacob Carver lost everything that mattered to him. Naomi’s offer of a practical marriage and honest work might be his last chance to rebuild ...

It takes a remarkable writer to make an old story as fresh and compelling as the first time we heard it. With The Winter King, the first volume of his magnificent Warlord Chronicles, Bernard Cornwell finally turns to the story he was born to write: the mythic saga of King Arthur. The tale begins...

AD 1380. The great-grandson of the legendary William de Wolfe is not as his family had hoped; although a man of legendary skill and strength like his great-grandfather, Gates de Wolfe is something of a legendary rake as well. A man with an eye for women, he has left a string of broken hearts all across England and rumors of at least two bastards, possibly more. But Gates is also a man of humor, charm, and great charisma, making it difficult for women to resist him and making it even more difficult for men to despise him, because he is such a likable character.

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2025 Winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction Winner of the Winston Graham Historical Prize 2025 December 1962, the West Country. Local doctor Eric Parry, mulling secrets, sets out on his rounds, while his pregnant wife sleeps on in the warmth of...

Picking up where Fall of Giants, the first novel in the extraordinary Century Trilogy, left off, Winter of the World follows its five interrelated families—American, German, Russian, English, and Welsh—through a time of enormous social, political, and economic turmoil, beginning with the...