Romance, Adventure, and Fairy Tales?

Try these books if you're looking for:

• romance
• adventure
• historical fiction, particularly in the Regency era

The Fire Rose 
By Mercedes Lackey
SCI-FI LACKEY
Slightly disturbed that the only contact with her new employer is through a speaking tube, Rosalind soon finds joy in her assignment: to read wonderful literature to him.

Once Upon a Winter’s Night 
By Dennis L. McKiernan
SCI-FI MCKIERNA
Camille, the last daughter of a destitute farmer, gets the chance of a lifetime when Alain, prince of Summerwood (in the land of faery), asks her family for her hand in marriage.

Water Song
By Suzanne Weyn
YA F WEYN
Stranded in war-torn Belgium, Emma Pennington finds a wounded American soldier carrying vital information for the Allies and protects him from the Germans occupying her family estate.

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel 
By Louise Murphy
F MURPHY
Set in Nazi-occupied Poland, two Jewish children seek refuge in a dense forest and wander the woods until being taken in by an eccentric old woman.

Spindle’s End 

By Robin McKinley
YA F MICKINLEY
The infant princess Briar Rose is cursed on her name day by Pernicia, an evil fairy, and then whisked away by a young fairy to be raised in a remote part of a magical country, unaware of her real identity and hidden from Pernicia's vengeful powers.