Romantic Historical Fiction

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Arabella
By Georgette Heyer
LP F HEYER
Country-bred parson's daughter Arabella is sent to her godmother in London, as her worldly mother hopes for a good marriage. En route, she accidentally meets the catch of the fashionable world, Beaumaris, who decides it would be amusing to make Arabella the most sought-after woman in London.

Airs Above the Ground
By Mary Stewart
MYSTERY STEWART
Vanessa, a young married English veterinarian, goes to Austria with her seventeen year old cousin Tim, who is running away from his fluffy smother-mother. She is running after her husband Lewis, who was last seen in a newsreel clip with a beautiful blonde at an Austrian circus fire when he should have been in Sweden. Vaessan and Tim find and join the burned up circus, where her professional skills are in demand.

A Bride Most Begrudging
By Deeanne Gist
ROMANCE GIST
Lady Constance Morrow, daughter of an earl, goes to see her uncle, who is on a ship ready to sail for Virginia, where he will serve seven years as an indentured servant. However, the ship’s captain keeps her on board to sell her as a colonist’s bride upon arrival in Virginia. Drew O’Connor then wins her while gambling; not seeking a wife, he agrees to a marriage of convenience until her father came come for her.

Keturah and Lord Death
By Martine Leavitt
YA F LEAVITT
Lost and hungry after following a stately hart through the forest, Keturah, a talented storyteller in her village, encounters Lord Death, who is ready to take her. Keturah spins a story that she leaves unfinished and extracts from Lord Death a promise that if she finds her true love in a day, she can go free. But Lord Death is falling in love with her, and as the villagers begin to sense her alliance with this horrifying figure, her life twists and turns on itself.