Listed below are the some of the best loved romances of all times set in England, compiled from various lists throughout the internet where readers voted for their all time favorite romances.
Karen Robards
LOVING JULIA 12/1986 ISBN: 0446300578 Victorian. "You'll have to learn to speak, to dress, to conduct yourself as a lady." Those orders were intoned by Sebastian, the cold haughty Earl of Moorland to Jewel Combs, the cockney commoner defiantly facing him in his luxurious drawing room. Despite his icy demeanor, Jewel couldn't help but notice that the Earl was a breathtakingly handsome man. Still, the only thing that checked her saucy reply was the realization that the Earl's outlandish plans would give her a home, and she would never be hungry, shivering, or frightened in dark dockside alleys ever again. Fate had brought Jewel to the mansion on Grosvenor Square; now she was going to grab the gold ring of chance and become "Julia Stratham," a genuine upper-crust, silk-and-lace aristocrat. She didn't know why blue-blooded Sebastian had accepted the challenge to transform her from a diamond in the rough into a glittering gem. She did know she had a surprise in store of her own: She would teach this titled nobleman that although she wasn't a lady, she was all woman...and the one with whom he was going to madly, unwisely, and passionately fall in love.
Veronica Sattler
ONCE A PRINCESS 9/2001 ISBN: 0821769219 Lord Randall Darnley, Marquis of Hawksrest, has only one aim in the tiny principality of Mirandeau—to protect the late regent's heirs from danger. But while one of the orphaned “children” he's sworn to safeguard is nearly a woman grown, it's clear that shy Princess Leonie is also terrified by some nameless threat. Posing as Hawk Randall, a palace guard, Rand is concerned only with her safety—until he is unexpectedly moved by her beauty. With her uncle Roderick insisting that she is less than useless, nineteen-year-old Leonie is tempted to escape into her beloved books and avoid court circles altogether. Yet when she unearths a plot to kill her nine-year-old brother, the heir to the crown, she calls forth the courage to enlist the help of “Hawk” in their escape to England. She never imagines that he is not who he claims to be…or that his love is the one thing she will risk everything to win.
Robin Schone
GABRIEL'S WOMAN 9/2001 ISBN: 1575666987 Victorian. Destitute and terrorized by a nameless pursuer, thirty-four-year-old Victoria Childers has only one thing of value left—her innocence. Its price will buy her safety. But Gabriel, the dangerously beautiful man who purchases her, doesn't want her virginity—he wants the man who stalks her. Trapped together in a house where every desire can be fulfilled, Victoria and Gabriel are plunged into a deadly game of passion and pursuit, where the greatest threat is carnal hunger and the only rule is survival.
THE LADY'S TUTOR 8/1999. ISBN: 0821762885. Victorian. Married young to a man hand-picked by her father, Elizabeth Petre is an ideal Victorian lady. She has borne two sons and endured sixteen years of selfless duty in a passionless marriage. Craving a man's loving touch yet loyal to her wedding vows, Elizabeth is determined to seduce her coldly indifferent husband. She knows of only one man who can teach her the erotic secrets of love. The bastard son of an English countess and an Arab sheik, Ramiel Devington was reared to embrace both Western culture and Eastern pleasure. Scorned by society and challenged by prim Elizabeth's request, he undertakes her instruction in the art of sensual delight. But when the lessons become a temptation neither can resist, Elizabeth is forced to choose between obligation and a bold, forbidden passion...
THE LOVER 4/2000 ISBN: 1575665700 Thirty-six year old Anne Aimes is a spinster whose only attraction is her wealth. But her plain looks mask a passionate woman who yearns to know a man's intimate caresses. Michael "des Anges" is renowned for his ability to bring women pleasure, while masking his own aching needs. All this carnal ecstasy will cost is ten thousand pounds and life itself.
Valerie Sherwood
THIS LOVING TORMENT 8/1977 ISBN: 083982873X Renaissance and Colonial. Perhaps she was too beautiful! Perhaps the brawling colonies would have been safer for a plainer girl, one more demure and less accomplished in language and manner. But Charity Woodstock was gloriously beautiful with pale gold hair and topaz eyes--and she was headed for trouble. She was accused of witchcraft by the man who had attacked her. She was whisked from the stake by a highwayman in whose arms she found joy but no sanctuary. Fate flung her from the manor of a Dutch patroon to the simple hut of a Quaker, from pirate ship to plantation. Beauty might have been her downfall, but Charity Woodstock had a reckless passion to live and a fine determination to give herself only for love. She would challenge this new world--and win.
Christina Skye
BRIDGE OF DREAMS 5/1995 ISBN: 0380773864 Georgian.
THE RUBY 8/1992 ISBN: 0440208645 Victorian. Teal-eyed enchantress Barrett Winslow fled through the gaslit London streets, staked by a ruthless enemy in search of a secret she can never reveal. And when fate tosses her into the arms of an exotic stranger, she finds herself swept away to a brazen, steamy paradise that hides deadly secrets and forbidden passions. Fierce protector or dark betrayer? To London's rich and powerful he is Deveril Pagan, Viscount St. Cyr, envied by all men and desired by all women. But in the mist-covered emerald hills of Ceylon, he is called the Tiger Sahib, and for him the priceless, fabled ruby is only a curse, its blood red facets pulsing with savage power that drive men to unquenchable greed and women to unspeakable desire. Lovers bound by dark destiny. From the glittering corridors of London's elite to the wind-swept shores of colonial Ceylon, they tried to flee their fierce fate, which throbbed in the crimson heart of the legendary jewel . . . driving the lovers to stolen passion and unthinkable evil in the sultry, tropical night. For there, only one man stands between Barrett and the darkness . . . and he might just be the greatest threat of all . . . .
Bertrice Small
ALL THE SWEET TOMORROWS 4/1984 ISBN: 0345334736 Renaissance. The adventures continue with the raven-haired, emerald-eyed Skye O'Malley. This time, she is a pawn in the bitter war between England's Queen Elizabeth, and Mary, Queen of Scots. Once again, unprotected and alone, she must fight for her children. At the command of Queen Elizabeth, Skye marries the cruel Duc de Beaumont de Jaspre. Although her new life is horrid at first, Skye transforms it with her hot-blooded desires--only to be shaken with the news that her beloved former husband may be alive in Algiers. Her daring flight into eroticism and danger leads her ultimately to her heart's true destiny--as bold and sensual as Skye herself. She is a woman born to be loved by men, yet too proud and incomparable to answer to anything but the call of her own passionate soul.
DARLING JASMINE 9/1997 ISBN: 0821759191 Renaissance. Jasmine had been forced into marriage twice. Rebelling at King James' decree that she wed Jemmie Leslie, fifth earl of Glenkirk, she fled to France with her children. But her youngest, the illegitimate offspring of Jasmine's hot-blooded lover, Prince Henry Stuart, is the king's only grandson. Now time is running out on Jasmine's idyll of freedom; coming for her and her little boy is the man she both fears and desires... His anger white-hot, Jemmie Leslie has come to France to possess Jasmine, by force if necessary. Once, they shared a night of unforgettable passion, but her rejection of their betrothal stunned and maddened him. Yet once he sees her gain, Jemmie vows to win the elusive Jasmine back-to take her beyond ecstasy...
SKYE O'MALLEY 10/1980 ISBN: 0727840606 Renaissance. There has never been a woman like luscious, raven-haired, hot-tempered Skye O'Malley. She is the courageous seafaring captain of her own mighty fleet, and intelligent enough to win a battle of wits with Queen Elizabeth herself. Follow along as Skye O'Malley is swept up in a journey filled with romance and passion that takes her from glittering Ireland, to lush Algeria, to the heart of London in pursuit of a unique and eternal love.
THIS HEART OF MINE 1985 ISBN: 034535673X Renaissance. Velvet de Marisco is the daughter of one of fiction's most beloved heroines, the hot-blooded adventuress, Skye O'Malley....When Alexander Gordon arrives from the Scottish Highlands to claim Velvet as his bride, he must woo her body and soul before he can win her heart. When the Grande Mughal of India receives the beautiful Velvet as a gift, he must win her heart with his patience before he can teach her every erotic trick at his command. And when Velvet finds herself the pawn in a political scheme, she must use all her wiles to reunite herself with the man she loves.
UNCONQUERED 1/1982 ISBN: 0345314018 Regency Period. and War of 1812. Miranda. Strong-willed. Impetuous, Brilliant. Beautiful. Unconquered when she's forced to marry a stranger to keep her home - even though it's clear he's the only man for her... Unconquered when a savage Crimean slave breeder sees her golden beauty as the perfect match for his prize stud... Unconquered even by a terrifying capture and grueling trek to a tender reawakening of her bruised and battered body and soul... Unconquered because the woman in her wants only one man...
WILD JASMINE 8/1992 ISBN: 0345401344 Renaissance. From the palaces of pashas in seventeenth-century India to the scandalous court of James Stuart of England, one woman struggles against fate to find true love.... Princess Yasaman had been blessed with rapturous beauty, fierce intelligence, and an innocent sensuality that captivates two formidable men--her scheming half brother, Salim, and her loving husband, Prince Jamal. But her days of bliss and nights of steamy passion are shattered when Jamal is murdered and Yasaman flees to England and the court of James I. Calling herself Jasmine, she is reunited with her beautiful mother, Velvet, and her grandmother, the legendary Skye O'Malley de Marisco. Before long, Jasmine is caught up in the tangled intrigues of the court of the Stuart king, James I, where she is admired by the most powerful men in England: Rowan Lindley, Marquess of Westleigh, her good-natured second husband; the Earl of Glenkirk, who tempts her with forbidden passion; and hot-blooded Henry Stuart, prince of England. It is here that she truly becomes Wild Jasmine, a woman who lives and loves with fierce abandon and who surrenders to the deepest pleasures of love.
Elizabeth Stuart
BRIDE OF THE LION 8/1995 ISBN: 0312956029 Medieval. In the age of chivalry tainted by bloodshed and betrayal, two unlikely lovers are swept up by a passion strong as steel, sensual as velvet, and eternal as the stars. Jocelyn Montagne -- reckless, exotic daughter of a Celtic noblewoman and a Norman knight, left to guard her father's fortress, she fought brutish takeovers with a dagger. But nothing could defend her from the brooding magnificence of the invader who quickened her wild Welsh blood and stole her tender soul. Robert De Langley -- full of arrogance and outlaw vigor, the fabled Lion of Normandy would hold his enemy's daughter hostage for his plundered lands -- until he decreed that he must keep them both. Tossed between vengeance and lingering desire, war made them enemies, and passion possessed them.
Katherine Sutcliffe
SHADOW PLAY 3/1991 ISBN: Victorian. A god to the Indians of the Amazon, a lusty adventurer whose courage was renowned, Morgan Kane was in truth a rogue and a charlatan - a handsome deceiver whose legend was mere illusion. Leaving the glitter of London behind, Sarah St. James sought justice in a lush and savage wilderness - surrendering her destiny to Kane - a virile opportunist who secretly planned to use and then abandon her. Bound by ties of vengeance, together they braved the merciless heart of darkness - only to be swept up in a raging tide of danger...and a passionate ecstasy beyond dreams!
Elizabeth Thornton
Jennifer Wilde
ONCE MORE MIRANDA 5/1983 ISBN: 0345306945 Georgian. There has never been a heroine as feisty and bright as Miranda James... Never a hero as sexy and masculine as Cameron Gordon. Meet Miranda James. As a ragged pickpocket, she stole the Londoners’ money. As a celebrated novelist, she stole their hearts. But only one man could capture Miranda’s love..
Joan Wolf
HIS LORDSHIP'S MISTRESS 4/1982 ISBN: 0451114590 Regency. Jessica O'Neill was the toast of London society - a stunning actress who had appeared from nowhere to take the stage by storm. But not even her most ardent admirers suspected how brilliant and actress she was. Nothing that Jessica said or did betrayed her true identity as a high - born young lady risking her good name in a desperate gamble to save her family from total ruin. And when the dashing, handsome, immensely wealthy Earl of Linton made Jessica an offer that was simply impossible to reject, there was no way she could turn back on her dangerous path. Jessica O'Neill had to play the part of a wealth-hunting wanton to the hilt - but one thing was not in her script. Falling in love...
Kathleen E. Woodiwiss
A ROSE IN WINTER 12/1982 ISBN: 0380844001 Georgian. The fairest flower in Mawbry is Erienne Fleming, the enchanting, raven-haired daughter of the village mayor. Charming, spirited and exquisitely lovely, she is beset on all sides by suitors, any one of whom would pay a king's fortune for a place in her heart. But Erienne has eyes for only one: the dashing and witty young Yankee, Christopher Seton. But marriage for love is not to be, for her irresponsible and unscrupulous father, crippled by gambling debts, is intent on auctioning off his beautiful daughter to the highest bidder. And in the end, Erienne is devastated to find it is the strange and secretive Lord Saxton who has purchased her--a mysterious, tragic figure who wears a mask and a cloak at all times to hide disfiguring scars gained in a terrible fire some years back. But in the passing days, Saxton's true nature is revealed to her. A gentle and adoring soul, he treats his new bride with warmth and abiding tenderness, yet appears to her only by daylight. She, in turn, vows to be a good and loyal wife to him. And then Christopher Seton reenters Erienne's world. Conflicted by emotions she cannot suppress, Erienne valiantly attempts to remain honorable to her elusive, enigmatic husband but feels herself irresistibly drawn to Seton's passion, his fire, and his secrets. Entangled in intrigues she doesn't yet understand, Erienne Fleming will soon have to make a devastating choice: between love and honor...between her duty and her heart.
SHANNA 1977 ISBN: 0380385880 Georgian. and Colonial. Behind the foreboding walls of Newgate Prison, a pact is sealed in secret--as a dashing and doomed criminal consents to wed a beautiful heiress. . .in return for one night of unparalleled pleasure. In the fading echoes of hollow wedding vows, a promise is broken - as a sensuous free-spirit flees to a lush Caribbean paradise, abandoning the handsome stranger she married to the gallows. But Ruark Beauchamp's destiny is now eternally intertwined with his exquisite, tempestuous Shanna's. And no iron ever forged can imprison his magnificent passion. . .and no hangman's noose will deny him the ecstasy that is rightfully his.
THE WOLF AND THE DOVE 3/1974. ISBN: 0380007789. Medieval. Like a swift and bitter wind, Wulfgar, "the Iron Wolf of Normandy," sweeps down from the North at the head of an invincible army to claim the land and people of Darkenwald in the name of William, the Conqueror King. But proud and beautiful Aislinn will never grovel before the fearsome invader. A princess of Saxon blood, Aislinn burns with hatred for the mighty Norman knight who has destroyed her home. And she plots her revenge - even as she submits to her enemy's passionate will. But Aislinn is unprepared for the fire her daring foe awakens within her. And, ultimately, it is the powerful Wolf himself who is vanquished - undone by a heart that aches for his courageous and sensuous captive. For now, only love can set them both free - a tender devotion forged in the flames of war and hatred that threatens their separate loyalties...and their lives.
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