Historical
Stories set in the past.
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Curse of the Healer by Ashley York @ashleyyork1066 #RLFblog #historical #romance
Today’s featured book is Curse of the Healer, a historical romance by Ashley YorkAfter the death of Brian Boru in 1014, a legend arose of a healer so great she could raise a man from the dead, with a power so strong it could make any warrior the next high king of Éire…and to steal it away from her, he need only possess her.
Fated to be a healer…
Aednat has spent her entire life training to be the great healer, knowing she must remain alone. When she meets Diarmuid, the intense attraction she feels toward him shakes her resolve to believe in such a legend. If she gives in to the passion he ignites in her, can she settle for being less?
Destined to be his…
Diarmuid of Clonascra is renowned for his bravery in battle. Only one thing daunts him: the prospect of taking a wife. The safest course would be to keep his distance from Aednat, the bold, headstrong healer who’s far too tempting for his peace of mind. But his overking orders him to protect her from a group of craven warriors intent on kidnapping her to steal her power.
What starts as duty for Diarmuid quickly transforms into something more. Aednat’s power might be at risk, but so is his closed-off heart.
Curse of the Healer Genre – historical romance
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): PG-13 (steamy)
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/Curse-Healer-Descendants-High-King-ebook/dp/B06XC1J99P
Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/curse-of-the-healer-ashley-york/1126025771?ean=9780998668413
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/curse-of-the-healer
iTunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/book/id1210186885Ashley York Social Media
Aside from two years spent in the wilds of the Colorado mountains, Ashley York is a proud life-long New Englander and a hardcore romantic. She has an MA in History which brings with it, through many years of research, a love for primary documents and the smell of musty old libraries. With her author’s imagination, she likes to write about people who could have lived alongside those well-known giants from the past.
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Days of Desire by Tina Donahue @tinadonahue #RLFblog #historical
Today’s featured book is Days of Desire, Book 2 in the Pirate’s Prize series, an erotic historical by Tina Donahue.In a pirate’s lair, nothing is as it seems…
Shipwrecked! When Royce Hastings is found washed up on the shore of a verdant tropical island, he tells the natives he is a merchant headed for Mozambique. The truth, however, is far more mercenary. Noble by birth, the once favored Royce has lost his fortune and family; now he is a hired henchman on the trail of an elusive pirate. His “shipwreck” was a fake. He’ll stop at nothing to infiltrate the island and capture his prey. His mother and sisters’ lives depend on it.
The last thing Royce expects is to be captured himself. But the lovely young woman who tends to his wounds in the tropics quickly takes hold of his heart. Simone is the island’s healer, and her skilled ministrations not only awaken his soul but disturb his conscience. His path has been predetermined; his identity must remain concealed at all costs. Yet the passion he feels in Simone’s sultry, loving arms cannot be denied. With his loyalties torn, Royce must make an agonizing, unthinkable choice…
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R
Publisher: Kensington
Amazon: http://amzn.to/2lOUfVN
Barnes and Noble: http://bit.ly/2pDgzYg
Kensington: http://bit.ly/2mqaI5ETina Donahue Social Media
Tina is an Amazon and international bestselling novelist in erotic, paranormal, contemporary and historical romance for Kensington, Siren Publishing, Booktrope, Luminosity, Decadent, and indie. Booklist, Publisher’s Weekly, Romantic Times and numerous online sites have praised her work. Three of her erotic novels (Freeing the Beast, Come and Get Your Love, and Wicked Takeover) were Readers’ Choice Award winners. Another three (Adored, Lush Velvet Nights, and Deep, Dark, Delicious) were named finalists in the EPIC competition. Sensual Stranger, her erotic contemporary romance, was chosen Book of the Year at the French review site Blue Moon reviews. The Golden Nib Award at Miz Love Loves Books was created specifically for her erotic romance Lush Velvet Nights. Two of her titles (The Yearning and Deep, Dark, Delicious) received an Award of Merit in the RWA Holt Medallion competition. Take Me Away and Adored both won second place in the NEC RWA contest (different years). Tina is featured in the Novel & Short Story Writer’s Market. Before penning romances, she worked at a major Hollywood production company in Story Direction.
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Venus and Lysander by Yoshiyuki Ly @LyLikeLee #RLFblog #historical #romance
Welcome Yoshiyuki Ly author of Venus and Lysander, a new Historical Romance.Why did you write this book?
LGBT historical romances typically focus on forbidden relationships. I decided to add fantasy elements and a made-up setting to mostly distance myself from that reality. It’s a fresh take on that type of era along with some social commentary so as to not make it completely unrealistic.
What is your favorite genre to read?
Philosophy.
Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?
Noah from Consider What Becomes of the Ashes by Pixelnyx. He goes through many hardships as a refugee in a foreign city. I admire his muted tenacity as he pushes on.
What are you working on at the moment?
A distant follow-up to Venus and Lysander that wraps up the plot I’ve built up in this world. It’s a romance with fantasy elements, but set in a more contemporary time period.
What books will we see from you in coming months?
Hopefully the one I mentioned above.
Please tell us about your latest book.
Genre: Historical romance/fantasy.
Book heat level (based on movie ratings): R.
Living as a nobleman and as a woman, Valerie of Lysander is sick of waiting for the world to change. The discrimination she suffers as an outcast builds into resentment. Once Val takes matters into her own hands, the whole Empire of Tynan feels her brand of justice. The Emperor’s adviser, Lucrezia of Azrith, wants more of Val’s ruthlessness—for revenge against the unjust, and for her own desires. Venus and Lysander is an intricate romance set in the fictional Victorian city of Eden, 250 years after the events in The Scorpion’s Empress.
Lucrezia is Lady Chancellor for the Emperor and a sorceress-in-hiding. She is forced to conceal her identity from the religious public for fear of death. As she learns to trust in Val’s chivalry and affections for her, they both fall for the softer sides behind their similar bulletproof personas. Lucrezia receives a mysterious warning about a sadistic enemy threatening the Azrith and Lysander families. Once they discover their nemesis’ true motive, Val and Lucrezia’s tyrannous devotion for one another is all they can count on to survive.
Solstice Publishing http://mybook.to/venusandlysander
Yoshiyuki Ly Social Media
Yoshiyuki Ly was born in San Diego, CA. She lived there until moving away to college. In high school, she began writing fanfiction as a serious hobby. Her pen name represents her multiracial heritage and a unique, diverse outlook that reflects in her work. She is a writer and a gamer.
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Amazon Author Page https://www.amazon.com/Yoshiyuki-Ly/e/B01G5GL09C/You May Also Like
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Discover Alina K Field’s new Regency Romance @AlinaKField #RLFblog #historical
Welcome Alina K Field, author of The Bastard’s Iberian Bride, a new Regency Romance.Why did you write this book?I had a secondary character in one of my earlier books who stuck with me and demanded his own romantic adventure. As it turned out, Bink Gibson was an illegitimate son of an earl who served as a spy lord for England
during the Napoleonic wars. While I like all the titled gentlemen who populate the Regency world, I had a great deal of fun writing a character who doesn’t quite fit in with his aristocratic father and siblings. The Bastard’s Iberian Bride is the first book in a series I’m calling Sons of the Spy Lord.What is your favorite genre to read?I love historical romances, the more adventurous, the better.Who is your favorite character from fiction (not including your own)?If I may have two: William Doyle, who appears in several of Joanna Bourne’s books, and is the hero of her book The Forbidden Rose, and Loretta Chase’s Rupert Carsington, the hero of her book Mr. Impossible.What are you working on at the moment?I’m cleaning up Book 2 in the Sons of the Spy Lord series, doing final revisions.What books will we see from you in coming months?I’ll be releasing the second book in this series in late summer 2017, and the third book around the end of 2017.Please tell us about your latest book.Genre: Historical Romance, Book heat level (based on movie ratings): RDaughter of spiesFor a chance at true freedom, Paulette Heardwyn needs the fortune left her by her inscrutable father. But she doesn’t know what it is,
where it is, or how to find it, and the only man with answers, the Earl of Shaldon, takes his secrets to the grave. Worse, the dead earl tries to force her marriage to his bastard son—and leaves her prey to a traitor seeking the same treasure she’s after.Soldier, Steward, Bastard Bink Gibson is ready to throw off his quiet life as steward to his old commander and head for India and the chance of prosperity. But before he can leave he’s summoned to the deathbed of the Earl of Shaldon, a meddling spymaster, a complete stranger…and his father.And the Earl has set a trap Bink will never be able to resist.Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B071D52388
Kobo https://www.kobo.com/us/en/ebook/the-bastard-s-iberian-bride
iTunes https://itun.es/i6759FF
Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/the-bastards-iberian-bride-alina-k-field/1126282774?ean=2940157193805Alina K Field Social Media
Award winning author Alina K. Field earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in English and German literature, but her true passion is the much
happier world of romance fiction. Though her roots are in the Midwestern U.S., after six very, very, very cold years in Chicago, she moved to Southern California and hasn’t looked back. She shares a midcentury home with her husband, her spunky, blonde, rescued terrier, and the blue-eyed cat who conned his way in for dinner one day and decided the food was too good to leave.She is the author of several Regency romances, including the 2014 Book Buyer’s Best winner, Rosalyn’s Ring. She is hard at work on her next series of Regency romances, but loves to hear from readers.
Website http://alinakfield.com/
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The Bride Tournament by Ruth Kaufman @ruthkaufman #RLFblog #historical
Today’s featured book is The Bride Tourmanent by Ruth Kaufman.Genre historical romanceBook heat level (based on movie ratings): RLady Eleanor de la Tour’s life turns upside down on her wedding day. Instead of her betrothed, she must wed the new earl, to whom the king has given his title and lands. Though Richard Courtenay is handsome and intriguing, she wants the man she loves and chose. And Richard pursues alchemy, anathema to her because the obsession to turn base metals into gold is destroying her father.Richard needs and wants to stay wed to Eleanor to uncover her father’s alchemy secrets. He vows to win her even as she arranges a bride tournament to find him a better and willing wife. Can they attain what they most desire?Publisher Ruth J. Kaufman
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B016YZEW0I/
CreateSpace http://amzn.com/0990846962Ruth Kaufman Social Media
Ruth Kaufman is a Chicago Amazon bestselling author, on-camera and voiceover talent, freelance editor and speaker with a J.D. who enjoys chocolate peanut butter milkshakes and singing in a symphony chorus.The Bride Tournament, the third standalone book in her Wars of the Roses Brides series, joins At His Command and Follow Your Heart. Writing accolades include Romance Writers of America® Golden Heart® winner and runner up in RT Book Reviews’ national American Title II contest.She’s had roles in indie features, web series and national TV commercials, and has voiced hundreds of explainer videos, e-learning
courses, commercials and assorted characters.
Website www.ruthkaufman.com
Blog www.rjkaufman.blogspot.com
Twitter https://twitter.com/RuthKaufman
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Words and Dreams by Laura Strickland #RLFblog #historicalromance
Welcome Laura Strickland author of Words and Dreams, a new Historical
Romance.Why did you write
this book?This book is part of a series that began with The Wild Rose
Press’s “Lobster Cove” project. I wrote the first book, “The
White Gull” and the second, “Forged By Love” as parts of that
fun series. “Forged By Love” won the International Digital Award for
short historical romance, and readers fell in love with a secondary character,
Dorothea Sinclair. This book, “Words and Dreams” tells Dorothea’s
story.What is your favorite
genre to read?Must I choose one? I love humorous fantasy, which includes
Steampunk Romance.Who is your favorite
character from fiction (not including your own)?Granny Weatherwax from Sir Terry Pratchett’s Discworld
series.What are you working
on at the moment?Right now I’m working on writing book six of my Buffalo
Steampunk Adventure series, which will be called “Tough Prospect: A
Buffalo Steampunk Adventure” (and I’m loving it!)What books will we see
from you in coming months?My next book, which will be released on June 16, 2017, is
book five of my Steampunk series, and is called “Steel Kisses: A Buffalo
Steampunk Adventure”.Please tell us about
your latest book.Genre Historical RomanceBook heat level (based on movie ratings):PGDorothea Sinclair has left her small home town in Maine and
come to Boston to begin a career as a newspaper reporter. But so far her job on
the Guardian has proved disappointing. More skivvy than reporter, she’s even
been subjected to a humiliating proposition from the chief editor’s son. She
needs a break but never expects it might come from a chance meeting with an
Irish ruffian.There’s a great deal of injustice in Boston, and O’Hare,
embroiled in his fight for equality on behalf of Boston’s Irish, is well aware
of it. When he rescues Dorothea’s hat on the waterfront, he’s surprised to
learn she’s a reporter. And when she offers him the opportunity to state his
case in the Guardian, what can he do but accept? It’s the perfect chance to put
his dreams into his own words—and the only sure way to see her again.Buy Words and Dreams
Publisher http://catalog.thewildrosepress.com/all-titles/4954-words-and-dreams.html
Amazon https://www.amazon.com/dp/B06XMXFY9X/
Barnes and Noble http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/words-and-dreams-laura-strickland/1125836546?ean=2940157241704Laura Strickland Social Media
Born and raised in Western New York, Laura Strickland has
pursued lifelong interests in lore, legend, magic and music, all reflected in
her writing. She has made pilgrimages to both Newfoundland and Scotland in the
company of her daughter, but is usually happiest at home not far from Lake
Ontario, with her husband and her “fur” child, a rescue dog. Author
of Scottish romances Devil Black, His Wicked Highland Ways, Honor Bound: A
Highland Adventure and The Hiring Fair as well as The Guardians of Sherwood
Trilogy consisting of Daughter of Sherwood, Champion of Sherwood and Lord of
Sherwood, she has also published three Steampunk romances, Dead Handsome: a
Buffalo Steampunk Adventure, Off Kilter: a Buffalo Steampunk Adventure and Sheer
Madness: a Buffalo Steampunk Adventure as well as two Christmas novellas: The
Tenth Suitor and Mrs. Claus and the Viking Ship, a Valentine’s novella: Ask me and
a ghost story, Awake on Garland Street. Her Lobster Cove Historical Romances
include The White Gull and the novella, Forged By Love. Words and Dreams is her
seventeenth book with The Wild Rose press.
Website http://www.laurastricklandbooks.com
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