Historical Romance : top book in the genre

I believed love was a choice. Until I learned that some bonds are written long before we are born. France enters a new century with the unhealed wounds of revolution, while the name of Napoleon echoes as both a sentence and a promise. I leave my northern home, choosing a path beside the man I love. He is an officer, a devoted follower of Bonaparte’s cause. We barely have time to settle into our new home when war calls him away once more, leaving me alone among unfamiliar walls and unspoken fears. His return brings a stranger with him — and from that moment, everything I believed to be solid begins to crumble. I do not yet know that the most dangerous battles are never fought on the battlefield, and that love can become a curse, binding two souls more tightly than death itself.

Alena Severina had never searched for another life, but she had spent years trying to understand the old one. At forty, she was left completely alone with a quiet, empty house. She knew everything about people — how the mind breaks, how cleanliness can save a person, how those whom nobody hears manage to survive. When she found herself on the cold shores of Scandinavia, trapped in the body of a widow with two small children, no home, no money, and no protection, she had to learn all over again: how to keep others warm, how to heal, how to negotiate, how to live. Here, people did not believe in words. They believed in what worked. Clean water. Warm walls. Fish preserved for winter. Calmness in a human voice. And most of all — love that comes not as salvation, but as the choice of two grown

The sun slowly faded behind the dust of battle. The Macedonians stood in tight ranks, gripping their spears, while the Scythian archers vanished and reappeared within the haze of the степpe. The cries of men blended with the whistle of arrows and the thunder of horse hooves. No one knew who would survive the coming night, yet everyone felt that this battle would remain in the memory of the steppes for generations.

She was used to keeping everything under control — her work, her life, herself. But one day, her heart simply gave out. Now she is a stranger in a stranger’s body. A young wife in a house where smiles cut deeper than knives, where her mother-in-law controls everything, and her husband lives as if his wife is nothing more than a convenient piece of furniture. She tried to be proper. Quiet. Convenient. Useful. It didn’t work. Now she has a different plan: to play by their rules… and win. Even if the price is giving up everything they forced upon her. Even if she must go where only the stubborn survive. And even if one day she has to choose: to remain herself — or become convenient again.

After a scandal at a construction site and a mysterious death, forty-five-year-old Zhanna wakes up not in a hospital, but in an overturned carriage on a Burgundian road in the nineteenth century. Ahead lies a convent, where an obedient and overly devout young woman was being taken to quietly “live out” the rest of her life. Behind her — a broken wheel, a terrified horse, and two trunks filled with a pitiful dowry. But Zhanna has no intention of going to a convent. What she does have is her mother’s old house, a neglected yard, a half-empty kitchen, a stubborn streak, and the hands of a woman who spent her whole life working construction sites instead of sniffing perfume in salons. She knows how to survive, bargain, whitewash walls, make cheese, smoke meat, and stare at people in such a way

After a failed hostage negotiation with a terrorist, crisis psychologist and negotiator Anna was certain nothing worse could possibly happen to her that day. She was wrong. Because she woke up in sixteenth-century England — in the body of young Anne Vavasour, former lady-in-waiting to Queen Elizabeth I, cast out of court after a scandalous affair, a secret pregnancy, and the birth of an illegitimate child. Instead of palace luxury, she finds herself trapped in a half-ruined estate. Instead of admirers — mud, debts, a horrified widowed companion… and a vicious rooster that apparently must be caught immediately. And then there is the dangerously observant neighbor with the cold eyes — a man connected to the Crown’s secret intelligence network. He trusts no one. She reads people far too well.

A historical novel about the Great Prince of Kyiv, Volodymyr the Great, his life, struggles, and the foundation of his powerful state.

Aileen always thought her grandmother’s “priceless survival skills” were completely useless. Seriously — who in the twenty-first century needs to know how to start a fire with wet moss, smoke fish, or tell healing herbs from the kind that will leave you miserable in the bushes for three days? Then she wakes up in the freezing forests of fifth-century Scotland. No phone. No hot water. No proper food. And a strange little “puppy” that howls at the moon far too often to be normal. Now Aileen must survive among endless mist, smoke-darkened huts, wild woods, and people who look at her as if she is either mad… or about to curse them all. All she really wants is: not to freeze to death, teach these people to wash their hands, and understand why this new life feels less like a dream and more like

Céline, London’s most famous courtesan, is a woman of enigmatic beauty and fierce ambition. Her first meeting with Anthony, the arrogant Duke of Nottingham, sparks an instant, undeniable attraction that unleashes a storm of passion. Though they belong to opposite worlds, their initial prejudices vanish in the face of an irresistible pull. In a society that judges and scorns them, they must fight for their love and find a path together.

The petals of cherry blossoms fall from the sky one by one by naming the new season by the birth of a future sovereign. Who would possess the 20 blessings and become the Great Mother. In search of freedom, that is one of his desires, but he will have to fight against what fate dictates to him. A marriage to the most powerful of Soik, an immortal who even surpasses the consort of the Great Mother in power. There is a desire for duality in Great Mothers or Great Fathers and those are having only one child, and that feeling of wanting to fight battles. In the golden blood there is always that persistent duality to any sovereign. If all you are looking for is freedom and the crown subjects you to accept a deal. What would be the best way to escape by being an immortal?

He did not intend to marry. She did not want to be a prize. Alana is the eldest daughter of a Laird, raised as an heiress. She dreamed of a marriage for love, but her father decided otherwise: he announced a competition where the winner would receive her hand — and the clan. Iain is the Laird’s younger brother, used to being in the shadows. He never sought power, but fate offers a chance he cannot escape: his brother signs the consent in his place. Four warriors. One girl. And a heart that has not yet made its choice. Will they have the strength to defy duty, intrigue, and their own fear?

The army is defeated. The king—her father—is missing. And the enemy stands at the gates of the capital. This is the grim reality Agatha wakes up to on the second day of her reign. Her only available weapon? Cunning. And with it, the young queen is forced to offer herself into voluntary servitude to the southern upstart, the bastard and barbarian, Sherl. The clash between their wills will be fiercer than any battle between armies—especially when feelings start to interfere. But in the heat of this war of hearts and minds, will they notice the true enemy approaching? (A mature fairytale set in a fictional kingdom. Any resemblance to real events or history is purely coincidental.)

After the ultimate betrayal by her sister and the man she was to marry, Cécile seeks refuge within the walls of a convent. However, Venice has other plans for her when she crosses paths with Stefano Mozzi. A magnetic entrepreneur known for his wicked ways, Stefano finds himself completely captivated by her. Is a man haunted by a dark history capable of winning a novice's heart? Between family secrets and a forbidden passion, Stefano must prove that his feelings are more than just a fleeting desire.

The action of the novel Perun's Horse mainly takes place in 1241, during the attack of the Mongols led by Batu Khan on Rus and, in particular, on Halych. But this is not a retelling of well-known events: the work is not limited to historical figures, but brings fantastic characters to the stage — werewolves, a house spirit, a witch, and the Ancient Gods. The undead and evil spirits have lived alongside humans since ancient times, helping or harming them. And the gods, as befits them, compete for control of the world and human souls. They stop at nothing. The plot of the novel also echoes Ivan Franko's story "Zakhary Berkut," because one of the characters is none other than Zakhary. As a young man, he went to a monastery to study, but on the way he met the goddess Morena and... became her

One last time can change everything, a life, a destiny. The last time Enith saw Adley, he left her with a beautiful memory of that not-so-innocent love. The last time Enith saw her beloved Amirov, she could not have foreseen everything it would bring into her life. And as if that were not enough, her little one’s illness will turn her world upside down. How do you survive a past you spent so long hiding from? Enith never believed something like this would happen to her, least of all at a moment when she wasn’t strong enough to bear it. But she was strong… and she had to fix this, as she always did. Only Adley was not willing to let it go, and just like that night they were together, he asked her to try, one last time. But would this truly be the last time… or the beginning of a new love?

Lady Esther had always been a quiet shadow in the corridors of the court, promised out of duty to the Duke of Talbot—one of the most powerful men in the realm, and a man who had always despised her. Desperate to escape an engagement to a woman he considered foolish and beneath him, the duke placed his fate in the hands of the kingdom’s darkest entity: a faceless creature born from the abyss. In exchange for his freedom, he offered a sacrifice. The price for binding the duke to a marriage he did not want came due on the day of their betrothal. Clad in black, with harsh features carved into the likeness of a skull and a cloak steeped in shadows, Death arrived to fulfill the barga

Sialmera never aspired to live in obedience and submission to a man. Her goal was complete independence. Even when the handsome and alluring Neilus appeared in her life, she did not change her mind. She wanted to have everything at once. But will she truly manage to overcome the hardships of an independent life, not lose the self she has only just found again, and admit that she has truly fallen in love?

Lorenzo Mozzi is forced by his father to marry Sabina, a young woman whose family is on the brink of bankruptcy. What begins as a pact to have a child in exchange for settling debts soon turns into an explosive passion. Although he tries to resist with contempt, the strong attraction and jealousy force him to admit that he has fallen in love with his wife. However, their happiness is in danger because of Adrienna, Lorenzo's scorned ex-lover, who uses manipulations and traps to tear them apart...

What will the fearsome gentleman do when he learns that he was deceived and was not given the woman he was promised in the first place?

Donatella Ferrini is invited to spend some time in London with her nephews. What she never imagined was that she would find passion and true love there. Patrick, the young Viscount Badminton, is a nobleman who dreams of love, never imagining that at the start of a new season he would find his muse. Will they be able to unite their lives? Will the age difference be an obstacle? Will the old-fashioned English aristocracy accept that a promising young viscount would formalize his relationship with a widow a few years his senior?