Historical Fiction with Romance, Adventure, and Fantasy

Try these books if you're looking for:

• historical fiction
• romance
• adventure
• fantasy

For Darkness Shows the Stars 
By Diana Peterfreund
YA F PETERFRE For Dark #1
It's been generations since a genetic experiment gone wrong caused the Reduction, decimating humanity and giving rise to a Luddite nobility who outlawed most technology. Elliot North has always known her place in this world. Four years ago she refused to run away with her childhood sweetheart, the servant Kai, choosing familial duty over love. Now Elliot's estate is foundering, forcing her to rent land to a group of shipbuilders, including renowned explorer Captain Malakai Wentforth—an almost unrecognizable Kai. And while Elliot wonders if this could be their second chance, Kai seems determined to show Elliot exactly what she gave up.

The Shades of Milk and Honey 
By Mary Robinette Kowal
F KOWAL Shades #1
In a Jane Austen-inspired alternate universe, two sisters, one beautiful and the other skilled in the glamour arts, test the limits of their gifts on an unscrupulous suitor.

The American Heiress 
By Daisy Goodwin
F GOODWIN
Presents the story of vivacious Cora Cash, whose early twentieth-century marriage to England's most eligible duke is overshadowed by his secretive nature and the traps and betrayals of London's social scene.

Swept Off Her Feet 
by Hester Browne
F BROWNE
Enlisted by her straight-laced sister to value various objects in a friend's dilapidated Scottish castle, antiques dealer Evie Nicholson is swept up in plans for a romantic ball while uncovering scandalous secrets about an Edwardian woman and falling for her host.

The Flight of Gemma Hardy 
By Margot Livesey
F LIVESEY
After her widowed father drowns, Gemma Hardy leaves Iceland to live with family in Scotland where she encounters many difficulties as she grows up. Eventually she accepts a post as an au pair on the Orkney Islands where she finds herself attracted to her employer, Mr. Sinclair. When Gemma returns briefly to Iceland to search for her family she understands more about herself. This story is set in the 1950s and 60s.