Included below are the authors of Historical Romance set in France, along with the novels and time period to help find those books you might enjoy.

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Last Updated: 10/10/2005

DRAGONFLY IN AMBER 9/1992 ISBN: 0385302312 A magnificent epic that once again sweeps us back in time to the drama and passion of 18th-century Scotland...For twenty years Claire Randall has kept her secrets. But now she is returning with her grown daughter to Scotland's majestic mist-shrouded hills. Here Claire plans to reveal a truth as stunning as the events that gave it birth: about the mystery of an ancient circle of standing stones ...about a love that transcends the boundaries of time ...and about James Fraser, a Scottish warrior whose gallantry once drew a young Claire from the security of her century to the dangers of his ....Now a legacy of blood and desire will test her beautiful copper-haired daughter, Brianna, as Claire's spellbinding journey of self-discovery continues in the intrigue-ridden Paris court of Charles Stuart ...in a race to thwart a doomed Highlands uprising ...and in a desperate fight to save both the child and the man she loves....

VOYAGER 1/1994 (Georgian) ISBN: 0440217563. Their passionate encounter happened long ago by whatever measurement Claire Randall took. Two decades before, she had traveled back in time and into the arms of a gallant eighteenth-century Scott named Jamie Fraser. Then she returned to her own century to bear his child, believing him dead at the tragic battle of Culloden. Yet his memory has never lessened its hold on her...and her body still cries out for him in her dreams. Then Claire discovers that Jamie survived. Torn between returning to him and staying with their daughter in her own era, Claire must choose her destiny. And as time and space come full circle, she must find the courage to face the passion and pain awaiting her...the deadly intrigues raging in a divided Scotland...and the daring voyage into the dark unknown that can reunite - or forever doom - her timeless love.

DANCE WITH A STRANGER 9/1995 ISBN:0440221005 (Victorian) Ghislaine Nisbet soared into stardom as premiere danseuse of the Paris Opera even as she snubbed royalty from every corner of Europe. She soared into stardom in the Paris Opera, but the ravishing dancer scorned the jewels that were flung at her feet, yet she melted in her kidnappers arms....Polished, unshakable British secret agent Lucien Sachs planned to use France's premiere danseuse, Ghislaine Nisbet, as a pawn in his dangerous game. But three days in his chateau with the kidnapped enchantress makes him vulnerable as no enemy ever had before.

MOONRISE 5/1996 ISBN:0786002689 (Victorian) The City of Lights was all a-glitter the night Captain Jack Devlin strode into a Parisian salon to catch a glimpse of the lovely Pascale de Ravenault. The daughter of an eccentric French artist and the grandchild of an African princess the exotic Pascale dealt art for fortune with a cool head and an iron will. As unconventional as she was beautiful, she was a treasure Devlin longed to acquire. From the moment they met, an undeniable spark of passion was kindled...and a royal battle between two independent souls was waged. For Devlin had been charged to smuggle a legendary masterpiece into Spain. But that was before the painting attracted the attention of revolutionaries...before his ship was sabotaged...forcing Pascale and Devlin to make a choice between freedom and the love that had captured both their hearts...

THE CORNISH HEIRESS 1981 ISBN:0440115159

THE ENGLISH HEIRESS 1980 ISBN:0440121418 (French Revolution) Leonie de Conyers - Beautiful, aristocratic, her life shattered by a black night of bestiality, she lived in the shadow of the guillotine, stripped of everything she held dear..Roger St. Eyre - an English nobleman, he set out to save Leonie, unaware that in a world gone mad their fates would be forever linked.. Forced to serve a Royalist plot, sworn to free the doomed Marie Antoinette, Leonie De Conyers and Roger St. Eyre would be kidnapped, denounced and brutally separated. Driven by a passion that knew no bounds, they would surmount every obstacle to escape France and to return to England.

MIDNIGHT TEMPTATION 10/1994 ISBN:0786000546 (Regency) A sheltered beauty raised in the scenic French countryside, Nicole Radouix's world shattered the day she discovered her father's shocking secret. Desperate and afraid, she fled for her immortal soul. In the seething turmoil of post-revolution Paris, Nicole found a protector in handsome aristocrat Marchand La Valois. Yet even as their passion flamed into burning love, Nicole could not escape her dark fate.

HIGHLAND WHISPERS 1989 ISBN:0843927836 (Victorian) From the sweet-scented moors of the Highlands to the elegant salons of Paris on the eve of the French Revolution, beautiful Sheridan Sinclair was pursued by a madman. Obsessed by Sheridan's uncanny resemblance to her mother, he had vowed to possess her soft body, whether she was willing or not. Only one man could save her from a fate worse than death--Jeremy Mackenzie, the brash American who had taught her the meaning of love. In his strong arms she had discovered the soul-stirring bliss of fulfillment, but imprisoned by her fiendish seducer, she wondered if she would ever know the ecstasy of Jeremy's embrace again.

ANGÉLIQUE 1958 (Renaissance)

ANGÉLIQUE AND THE KING 1960 ISBN: 0553125311 (Renaissance) The dazzling mistress of rogues and royalty gambles her beauty for the favors of the most elegant libertine in all France...Louis XIV himself!

THE VALIANT HEART 8/1991 ISBN: 0515106429 (Medieval) By birthright she was Baronne de Valseme, but the black-haired maiden was robbed of her legacy by plundering Norsemen. Now she returns to her former home, to be offered against her will as a bride to the enemy... The powerful blond warrior of the North's passions were inflamed by her bold spirit and sensual beauty...But his aching desire to bed her will imperil both of their lives..

SHADOWS OF THE HEART 11/1996 ISBN 0440221611 (Regency) Like an avenging angel, he overwhelmed her attackers, leaving one dead and another running for his life. She awoke to darkness and terror, alone in a barn with a stranger named Paul, bloodied yet bandaged with her own tattered petticoats. She remembered nothing, not her own name, not that she was pregnant--only the smoldering brown eyes of Paul, who had killed to save her and was now a wanted man. Suddenly he was her universe, a stranger who would lie for her, die for her, share the same bed, the same passions as they plummeted into the dangerous secrets of her past.... She had no name but the name he gave her. She knew nothing about him save what he chose to tell her--and Paul Lescaut couldn't afford to tell her the truth. It was as if he were born to protect her, to hold her, as if this strange beauty were his fate. But only when he learns her true identity does he realizes the true dangers of their adventure. For he fears that when she remembers who she is--when she realizes who he is--she will no longer see him as a protector. She will see him as the enemy.

SHORES OF DESIRE 11/1997 ISBN 0440221684 (Regency) Emma Blair could not suspect the truth behind the English soldier who introduced himself as Robert Melton, Napoleon's enemy, Wellington's man. She couldn't know his secret mission, or the role she would unwittingly play. She knew only that he was irresistible--and dangerous--an officer who, like her own late husband, would put the call of the drum above all else. All he had was his wife's family ring and the memory of her brutal murder as he struck out to find the killer and uncover her shrouded past. Robert's obsession led him to Scotland, to the Blairs, to Emma, who stunned him with her resemblance to his dead wife, a woman she had never known. Here, in the midst of blood feuds and unspeakable family secrets, he would find his answers--even as he abandoned all caution for a love whose very enemy was truth....

THE CRESCENT MOON 7/1979 ISBN:0373300212 (Renaissance). Her heart soared as the king spoke At last, at long last, Perpetua was to have her heart's desire. Gaston, the man she loved, had just been granted permission to marry her. How wonderful the future looked now, Perpetua thought. Surely nothing could mar it! Yet barely had Henri II, King of France, bestowed his blessing when Diane de Poitiers, the King's beloved mistress, cried out in pain and slumped forward in her seat. Oh, no, oh, no! Perpetua cried inwardly. For Madame Diane had been poisoned, and it was Gaston who had handed her the goblet of wine...

THE GOLDEN RAINTREE 8/1990 ISBN:0373163533 (Edwardian and World War I). Innocence cloaked the sleepy Indiana town where Christine Brick enjoyed girlhood. The Quaker farm girl knew sun-dappled afternoons sitting under the Golden Raintree. Her heart follows James Warren to battle to the muddy trenches of France's western front.

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