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

ENDLESS SURRENDER 9/1992 ISBN: 0821739182 (Regency) Paris was a dangerous place for a British lady in the winter of 1815. So when a wounded stranger begged for help at her door, Genna hesitated before letting him in. Though the handsome Britisher would not reveal his secret mission nor the identity of his attackers, Genna sensed that he was not her enemy. Despite her wariness, she felt a jolt of passion at his touch and knew she must find a way to follow him wherever he might go. Across war-torn Europe and over the seas to the lush Creole world of New Orleans, Genna would keep her love alive...until she could finally lie in Jason's arms, savor his deep caresses, and surrender to endless ecstasy in the embrace of her truly beloved.

THE PROUD MR. PEVERILL 1/2003 ISBN:0709070969 (Regency) Miss Anne Starkie of Ponderfields, Bath, was wondering whether she loved her neighbour, Mr Christopher Boyd, enough to marry him. But then she meets the mysterious Mr Philippe Peverill, whose proud and haughty demeanor tantalizes her curiosity. He has moved to nearby Hatherley Park, but why does he travel so frequently to Somerset? The village gossips speculate that he has a mistress there, but it is Anne who discovers the truth. This is an intriguing romance set in Somersetshire, Bath and France at the time of the Peninsular War.

PHANTOM 5/1991 ISBN: 0440211697 (Victorian) A child is born... His mothers only gift is a mask. Precocious and gifted, he will live friendless and alone. taunted and abused, he will flee, only to find himself caged again-as a freak in a Gypsy carnival. A brilliant outcast... the world is his home. Filled with bitter rage, he will kill to escape, becoming a stonemasons apprentice in Rome... a dark magician at the treacherous Persian court... and finally, the genius behind the construction of the Paris Opera House and the labyrinthine world below. Lacking one thing only: A woman's love. Cloaked in secrets, his power complete, he will see the exquisite Christine and for the first time know what it means to love. Obsessed, he will bring her into his eerie subterranean world, driven to posses her heart and soul.

La BELLE AMERICAINE 1990 ISBN:0061000949 (Victorian) Sheltered Bostonian heiress Sarah Taylor arrives in the city of love to pursue her dream.

THE SENTIMENTAL SOLDIER 1/2000 ISBN:0451198980 (Regency) It is a dangerous assignment, but to assist Wellington, Colonel Harry Lang-ford agrees to disguise himself as a priest and journey to France on a fact-finding mission. All goes well until his travels bring him to a remote beach just when a body falls overboard from a passing ship. Instinctively, the gallant soldier swims to the rescue. He discovers that he now shares the company of Miss Prudence Marland, a pacifist dedicated to finding a peaceful way to settle international disputes. Of course, it is not exactly clear why she is disguised as a Moroccan prince...His duty is clear. He must gather the information Wellington so desperately needs, but he is also honor-bound to escort her to safety. Little does he know that Prudence will prove to be the key to solving an old family mystery.

ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT 6/2001. ISBN:0786232870 (WWII) In August, 1939, Europe is poised on the brink of war and Elizabeth Vail on the brink of life. Ward of an immensely rich man, she has just graduated from college and is working as a social secretary. In a single morning, her life is irrevocably changed. Journeying to Paris, Elizabeth is about to be enmeshed in the worst horrors of World War II. She falls in love with Jean-Luc Cabanasse, a left-wing Catalan journalist, who is setting up a network to resist the Nazis should Germany invade and occupy France. When America enters the war and the Germans are occupying all of France, Elizabeth holds Jean-Luc to his pledge to escape, but on their way to Spain, Jean-Luc is captured . . .

A NEW WORLD WON 6/1999 ISBN: 078621886X (Georgian and American Revolution) Can the grand passion of wealthy French widow Sophie Chardin and American agent Morgan Carter survive the roles each will play in the American Revolution?

NO BRIGHTER DREAM 10/1994 ISBN: 0451405129 (Victorian) Andre de Saint-Simon has no use for Ali, the mysterious young woman whose life he has saved while on his travels. When he discovers that she is the long-lost daughter of his mentor, he promptly returns her to England-and tries to forget about her. Ali knows that Andre is her destiny and so she arranges his marriage-to herself. As Andre and Ali engage in a dance of desire and a battle of wits, they surrender to a passion they never knew existed-and risk their hearts and souls for a love they never thought they would find.

NO SWEETER HEAVEN 8/1993 ISBN: 045140366 (Victorian) He was a legend among the French-handsome and mysterious, loved by all but a man whose heart was known to none. She was a legend among the British-a wild willful heiress-and it was said neither her heart nor her hand would ever be claimed. Pascal LaMartine and Elizabeth Bowes had nothing in common until the day she accidentally landed at his feet and looked up into the face of a fallen angel. Destiny brought them together in a shattering conflict of fury and desire-and destiny now threatened to tear them apart in the wake of betrayal and of a legacy they could not share. Drawn into a dangerous battle of intrigue and wits, each discovered how strong passion was. . .and how perilous it can be. . .

WHERE PASSION LEADS 1987 ISBN:0451400496 (Regency) Beautiful young Rosalie Belleau was swept up into an aristocratic world of luxury, license and intricate intrigue when the most notorious and handsome rake in London, Lord Randall Berkeley, abducted her in the belief that she was any man's for the taking. Before he realized his mistake, he had branded her with his desire -- and lost his heart to this girl so unlike any he had ever known. Both Rosalie, waking to womanhood, and Sir Randall, learning the power of love, were in the dark about each other -- until the flames of passion lit their way through a labyrinth of danger...to the dazzling heights of ecstasy...

TWICE PROMISED 1989 ISBN:0312914644 (Victorian) A feisty beauty in charge of her family's shipping business, Darcie Gaynor is dismayed when she learns she must return to her native Paris and marry the son of her father's bitterest enemy. But Darcie cannot help but surrender to Zachary's virile charm and learns the secret of a love Twice Promised.

THE PRINCESS AND THE BARBARIAN 8/1993 ISBN:0380767724 (Medieval) Lovely, tempestuous and devoted to her subjects, Princess Thera must marry before she can be crowned Queen of Mercia. But her reluctant search for a husband has plunged her into gravest peril - and into the arms of a handsome barbarian. Powerful, hot-blooded, as cunning as he is untamed, Saxxe Rouen rescues Thera from a band of savage mercenaries - only to demand as his reward three nights of pleasure in the royal beauty's bed. Even as all Mercia falls victim to Saxxe's raw, beguiling charm, the proud princess vows to resist the scoundrel who has breached the battlements of her sheltered world. But a passionate, irresistible yearning entreats Thera to surrender her heart and kingdom to this sun-bronzed warrior who would vanquished her enemies to win her steadfast love.

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