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.
Last Updated: 10/10/2005
Julie TetelTHE COMTE AND THE COURTESAN 7/1996 ISBN:0263797538 (Georgian) After ten years in Paris under the protection of the elderly Marquis Philippe de Maupilier, Madeleine Vaubonne was well aware that she was mistakenly thought to be his mistress. Even so, it was a nasty surprise when Lucian de Valori, the Comte de Regnay, offered to replace Philippe in her bed! She forcefully refused his proposition, but when Philippe died Lucian was the only one to offer help. Reluctantly she agreed to his escort to her home in Brittany, the start of a journey neither had expected to make....
Shelly ThackerTANGLED DREAMS 2/1989 ISBN: 0445206403 (Georgian and French Revolution) Marianna Lowth had no idea her marriage of convenience to Lord Maddox would end in uncompromised passion. Marianna wanted the benefits of a well-endowed marriage without surrendering her independence. But on their wedding night, her handsome husband came to her bed, driven by passion...to a wife who would not be compromised. And so began a slow seduction in which a cold blooded arrangement was set aflame by a hot blooded man, a man whose dangerous secrets were entangled with her own...
Elizabeth ThorntonFALCON ON THE WIND 1/1991 ISBN:0380762927. (Medieval) Betrayed by a treacherous French "ally," Sir Connor of Glenshiel boldly kidnaps the knave's betrothed, Lady Laurien d'Amboise, from the steps of Chartres Cathedral on her wedding day. She is a flawless gem to be bartered for the freedom of Connor's beloved Scotland--but in the Highlands they discover dangerous secrets, and a love to last for all time.
FOREVER HIS 12/1993 ISBN: 0380770350 (Medieval) She is Celine Fontaine, the American darling of the venerable Fontaine family, celebrating the New Year at the family's ancestral French chateau. As the clock strikes midnight, Celine is alone in her bedroom, barely aware of a lunar eclipse, until she is blinded in a sudden light and loses consciousness. She awakens to total darkness -- in bed with a naked stranger -- and a world that is not her own. The man who shares Celine's bed is Sir Gaston de Varennes and the year is 1300. Gaston believes that the beautiful redhead is Christiane de la Fontaine, whom the King has decreed he marry in order to end a generation of bitter feuding. Yet despite his resolve to shun her, Gaston finds Celine irresistible. Overwhelmed by passion, they dare to steal the magic moments that may be all too brief -- to surrender to desires that promise forever... and a love that spans the centuries.
HIS FORBIDDEN TOUCH 5/1997 ISBN: 0380781204 (Medieval) The dark swordsman swore to protect a princess - not to fall in love with her. Hidden away during years of war, the beautiful princess Ciara knew little of the world outside until a conqueror came and the castle was lost. Now, in the cause of peace, she must wed the brute who destroyed her home and happiness. And the man charged with delivering her safely to the shameful ceremony is a heartless mercenary! Recalled from exile, Royce Saint-Michel can now win back his confiscated title and lands IF he transports the proud, defiant princess to her powerful fiancé. But the road is long and dangerous, prowled by assassins who wish the marriage thwarted and the lady dead. And the greatest threat to the impending union is Royce's own yearning heart, enflamed by Ciara's courage, her fire, her innocence, her beauty - and by the promise of a passion for which Royce would gladly forfeit all he stands to gain including, if necessary, his life.
THE BRIDE'S BODYGUARD 4/1997 ISBN: 0553574256. (Regency) Tessa Lorimer thinks she is the luckiest girl in the world. After a bitter, harrowing childhood, she had escaped her guardian's clutches and fled to her wealthy, doting grandfather. For the first time in her life, Tessa is spoiled -- yet one thing blights her happiness. Her grandfather's new secretary, the mysterious and magnetic Ross Trevenan, has too much influence with the aging financier. And in Trevenan's eyes, Tessa can do nothing right. But she suspects there is more to the cool, gray-eyed American's plans than replacing her in an old man's affections. And when a tragedy from the past returns to stalk the present, Tessa's time may have run out . . .
THE MARRIAGE TRAP 7/2005 ISBN: 0553587536 (Regency)
SCARLET ANGEL 8/1990 ISBN: 1558173927 (Regency) As the granddaughter of a highly placed French diplomat, Gabrielle de Brienne was a valuable political pawn. She was also the same Gabrielle who as a child had inadvertently taken from Cam Colbourne, Duke of Dyson, the two people he loved best in the world. The handsome nobleman had vowed to make her pay for his suffering, and now the perfect opportunity presented itself. He would abduct this eighteen-year-old hoyden - with the looks of an angel and the manners of a ragamuffin - and hold her prisoner in his Cornwall castle in order to manipulate her traitorous grandfather. For years he had dreamed of having her at his mercy, and now nothing less than her complete surrender would satisfy him.
TENDER THE STORM 6/1991 ISBN: 1558175164 (French Revolution) She was an engaging young lady of the French aristocracy... He was a daring English nobleman turned secret agent... Together, Zoe Deveraux and the man she knew only as 'Rolphe' fled across a war torn France to the safety of England. Finding it impossible to abandon the innocent girl to London's streets. Rolphe Brockford, the Marquess of Rivard, scandalized society by making Zoe his wife, though in name only. But as Zoe blossomed from waif-like child to passionate and desirable beauty, the rules of the game changed. And nothing would ever - could ever - be the same again...
VELVET IS THE NIGHT 4/1992 ISBN:1558175989 (Georgian) She swore she'd never love him. He was cold, ruthless, evil...and as the newly appointed commissioner, Phillipe Dubet had the power of life and death over the local aristocracy. In return for her family's safe passage out of the country, the breathtakingly lovely Claire Devereux agreed to be his mistress. She was to live in his luxurious quarters, to be seen with him about town, and to accommodate his desires whenever he wished... Claire surrendered her body to Dubet, but swore he'd never break her spirit. What she didn't know was that the real Dubet had been abducted, and his American twin brother Adam Dillon installed in his place as a spy. And she was devastated to find that her body was not at all immune to the pleasures of 'Dubet's' caress, nor her heart to his intoxicating company.
WHISPER HIS NAME 4/1999 ISBN: 0553574272. (Regency) Independent and stubbornly unmarried, Abbie Vayle has always been a little too smart for her own good. But she may have gone too far when she starts her own rare-book business - and acquires an antique book in Paris with a mysterious code scribbled in the margins...Someone wants the book back - and is willing to kill to get it. The only trouble is, Abbie no longer has the book. It's locked away in the customs house in Dover. Now it's a race against time as Abbie stays one step ahead of her pursuers. The last person she wants to confide in is her friend Hugh Templar, a formidable scholar. But as Hugh keeps turning up where she least expects him, a few things begin to dawn on her...Not only is Hugh surprisingly - in act, incredibly - handsome without his glasses on, but he's strangely "professional" in how he handles her enemies. Hugh is clearly not what he seems. And soon Abbie realizes that neither is she...as she discovers what it means to love with all her heart and soul.
THE WORLDLY WIDOW 1/1990 ISBN: 0821728784 (Regency) Annabelle Jocelyn preferred to keep men at a distance. Indeed, the young widow's heart belonged to her business. As owner and editor of Bailey's Press, her current project was to secure a certain scandalous diary with which she hoped to cause a publishing sensation. But Annabelle's plans went decidedly awry when she crossed paths with the rakish Earl of Dalmar, a man (hardly a gentleman!) who seemed to have a singular talent for getting her back up. He had an interest, no doubt a personal one, for suppressing the diary. But she was not about to be intimidated by his anger, nor tempted by the gleam in his eye . . .
Meriol Trevor
THE ENEMY AT HOME 1974 Love would have to wait, it was marriage she longed for... ...marriage to Dominique d'Erlen, traitor and usurper of his brother's estates. But this was the time of the French Revolution, disaster and armies on the march. The loveless union was Seraphine's only hope of seeing Paris and the glittering world of her dreams. And then she met the handsome English soldier who, left by the French to die in a forgotten dungeon, so completely won her heart that love left her no choice -- No choice, but instead an agonizing decision........
THE MARKED MAN 11/1979 isbn: 0-263-72713-0 Everyone -- even her doting father -- thinks of Claudine de Trevires as a meek schoolgirl, too innocent to realize what it means to live in French-occupied Luxembourg in 1789. but at a time when another revolution is trying to sweep away the little duchy, Claudine is brave enough to give shelter and help to the rebel leader, the Marked Man, whom the French are determined to capture. At first it seems vaguely romantic for a young girl to give help to a rebel, but Claudine swiftly learns that the attractive fugitive is also the wicked Comte de Villerange, of whom she has heard such dreadful stories. All too soon, she too is in danger -- the danger of falling in love with him....
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