At HerStory Books, we specialize in books about England and Ireland, so our paranormal romances mainly feature druids. But all of our romances try to capture the magic of falling in love…
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The Americana section contains historical romances set in America, or mainly in America, or feature mainly American characters on their travels and romantic adventures.
Many of our authors are talented cooks, so we are also happy to share their special recipes with our busy readers.
Historical romance is set in a time earlier than our own, from prehistoric times (think Clan of the Cave Bear) to the 1990s. Popular historical genres include Medieval romance, Tudor romance and Regency romance.
Within each historical romance genre there can be certain ‘rules’ or expectations, such as in Regency romances, which were often comedies of manners reminiscent of Jane Austen’s novels. Traditional Regency romances penned by authors like Georgette Heyer did not tend to have any explicit love scenes in them.
However, in recent years Regency romance has begun to include love scenes and even ranged into the field of romantic erotica, women’s erotica. From sweet to sensual to romantic erotica, HerStory Books publishes historical romance in all historical time periods.
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The Napoleonic Period spans little more than two decades, yet the mark it has left upon Western civilization cannot be underestimated.
Napoleon Bonaparte was a Corsican who hated France, but went to live there in order to further his personal ambitions. From a humble artillery sergeant, he emerged from the turmoil of the French Revolution to become the ruler of half of the known world.
The Napoleonic Period spans roughly 1797 to 1815, with his final defeat at Waterloo. The hostilities between France and various other nations was intermittent, but one thing was clear: England was the only country to consistently remain at war with France throughout this period.
While Napoleon was able to win stunning victories against all of the other European nations, the English not only held, their own, their heroic efforts in “The Peninsular War,” from 1808 until 1814, to take back Portugal and Spain and eventually invade the South of France, was a monumental achievement that could only have been engineered by one man: Sir Arthur Wellesley, later known as The Duke of Wellington.
All of the Napoleonic War novels here at HerStory Books are based upon the eyewitness accounts of the time. Gripping, suspenseful, and sexy, they embody what makes an historical romance great.
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You might also be interested in: Regency Romances.
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