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

THE HIDDEN JEWEL 8/1997 ISBN:0843942916 (Regency) Dominique Chantal was already in mortal danger. She had been entrusted with the delivery of a precious medallion to a group planning to overthrow Napoleon. But her plight is ambushed, the medallion taken, and the lonely beauty captured by the emperors henchmen. To her dismay, she soon discovers that her sentence will be a sham marriage to Andre Montville, Napoleon's best spy.

BEAST 4/1997 ISBN: 0380786443. (Regency) An exquisite American heiress, Louise Vandermeer is beautiful, brilliant...and bored - which is why she has agreed to a daring adventure: to travel across the ocean to marry an aristocrat abroad. Rumor has it her intended is hideous - a grim prospect that propels her into a passionate, reckless relationship with a compelling stranger she never sees in the light of day. Though scarred by a childhood illness, Charles d'Harcourt has successfully wooed Europe's most sophisticated beauties. For a lark, he contrived to travel incognito on his own fiancée's ship - and seduce the young chit in utter darkness. But the rake's prank backfired. It was he who was smitten - while the hot-tempered Lulu, now his wife, loves only her shipboard lover, unaware it was d'Harcourt all the time! And Charles will never have her heart - unless he can open her eyes to the prince who hides within.

PETRONELLA'S WATERLOO 1977 ISBN:1853892440 (Regency) Impetuous Petronella Fanshawe took the job as governess to Madame de Courcy's children only to escape the domination of her formidable guardian, Mrs. Deeping. But when the de Courcys moved to Paris, Petra traded her governess garb for the dark ...

THE BELOVED SCOUNDREL 2/1994 (Regency) ISBN: 055329945X She was a hostage torn between passion and loyalty...Marianna Sanders realized she could not trust this dark and savagely seductive stranger who had come to spirit her away across the sea. She possessed a secret that could topple an empire, a secret that Jordan Draken, the duke of Cambaron, was determined to wrest from her. In the eyes of the world the arrogant duke was her guardian, but they both knew she was to be a prisoner in his sinister plot--and a slave to his exquisite pleasure. He was the fabulous rake they called the Duke of Diamonds...For years, brilliant, deadly Jordan Draken had schemed to destroy the emperor who threatened everything he valued most in the world. Now that he held this defiant woman who was the key to his final triumph, he felt a fierce sense of satisfaction...and the first stirring of desire. She was only supposed to be a pawn in his plans, but once alone with his captive, Jordan realized she was a prize he could never surrender.

STORM WINDS 6/1991 ISBN: 0553290320 (French Revolution) Eighteenth-century France, where cunning intellects and glittering gowns concealed treacherous hearts...where madness swept a nation, and the last sound many noblemen heard was the terrible song of the guillotine's blade...Brilliant and reputedly ruthless in business Jean Marc Andreas is haunted by the exquisite stature of the Wind Dancer, the heritage of his family. He will defy any force of man or nature to get it back. Juliette de Clement is a force of nature - a beautiful woman who will discover the firestorms of passion denied her by a cruel world. Both want the Wind Dancer...both are determined to wrest it from the hands of unyielding royalty. Together they will risk everything to get it, their quest taking them from stormy Paris to the tranquil gardens of southern France to the perilous mountains of Spain. And their passion for each other will grow to consume them as they are now consumed by their obsession for The Wind Dancer.

MAIDEN OF FIRE 8/2004 ISBN: 0821774786 (Medieval) Her Secrets Would Change Her Life...Raised in a convent, Claire of Foix has been secretly trained in spellbinding by a renegade Templar knight on the run from the heretical Cathers. It is she who has been chosen to stir up a revolt against the new lord of the French fortress, Aimery dei Conti di Segni. Claire believes it will be a simple task to entice him into her spell. Yet she is an innocent in the ways of love, and unprepared for the power of his seduction or the magic of his kiss...His Passion Would Alter His Destiny...A descendant of the Roman pope who began the Crusade against the Cathers, Aimery is drawn to the beautiful young novice, and he quickly moves her into the castle, prepared for an easy conquest. Instead, it is he who is captured by her purity, her strength and her intelligence. But when Claire’s true identity is discovered as fiery rebellion grips the French fortress, Aimery faces a harrowing choice: his sworn duty or his heart’s desire, his legacy—or a love that is destiny...

FORBIDDEN 9/1991 ISBN: 0553291254 (Victorian) From the majestic plains of Montana to the glittering ballrooms and bedchambers of 1890s Paris comes a sensual story of smoldering passion , and a love destined to break every rule...He was raised in the gilded lap of luxury: Etienne Martel, the magnificently virile Duc de Vec, notorious rake, expert sportsman- and the most celebrated lover in all of Paris. But from the moment he saw the incomparable Daisy Black, he knew he would never desire another. She was born half a world away: Daisy Black, a proud Montana Beauty, exotic and untamed-and determined to fight for the rights of women in a land ruled by men. Yet the instant she felt the heat of deVec's jungle-green gaze, she knew she was lost. Like some haunting promise of paradise he drew her in, fanning the flames of her desire until all she could think of was lying in his arms. Now, caught up in a dance as old as time, Etienne an daisy have eyes only for each other. But soon, they'll find their happiness threatened...by a society rocked by their scandalous love...by the woman Etienne calls wife.

TABOO 12/1997 ISBN: 0553572156 (Georgian) Married against her will to the brutal Russian general who conquered her people, Countess Teo Korsakova has never known what it means to want a man...until now. Trapped behind enemy lines, held captive by her husband's most formidable foe, she should fear for her life. But all Teo feels in General Andre Duras's shattering presence is breathless passion. France's most victorious commander, Andre knows that he should do the honorable thing, knows too that on the eve of battle he cannot afford so luscious a distraction. Yet something about Teo lures him to do the unthinkable: to seduce his enemy's wife, and to let himself love a woman who can never be his.

A TOUCH OF SIN 4/1999 ISBN: 0553578650 (Regency) Beatrix Grosvenor couldn't have been caught in a more compromising position: locked in a Parisian apartment with the body of a murdered man. She could only hope that the charismatic stranger who found her would believe her story of abduction and assassination, and free her to return to her young son in England. But Pasha Duras was not about to let her escape so easily. The renowned libertine didn't believe Trixi's fanciful tale, but there was no denying the temptation of her beauty. He would accompany her home, on a sensual journey that would begin with the most tantalizing of seductions--and end with a dangerous discovery. Trixi's enemies were real. Her child was at their mercy... and Pasha's newly awakened heart may prove to be his undoing.

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