Looking for the perfect historical? Here's a list of great bargain priced historical romances, all $3 or less. Subgenres are indicated where I know them. Descriptions are taken from the linked eBook pages.
Word and Deed by Rachel Rossano (Historical fantasy)
Amazon eBook $0.99 (4.5/5 stars)
(a short story loosely set in the medieval era)Death or an arranged marriage, Verity refuses to accept the choices.
Verity Favian's father dies unexpectedly. Her half-brother, Verdon, lays claim to all their father left behind: title, castle, and her. Verdon cannot touch the land set aside for her dowry so he offers her hand for sale to the highest bidder. Lord Silvanticus, a man renowned for his military power and close ties to the king, makes the winning bid. Despite the rumors of Silvanticus' madness and cruelty, Verdon accepts.
Verdon locks her away in a tower. She is not sure if he seeks to prevent her from fleeing the marriage or spreading the truth only she seems willing to speak: Verdon killed their father. Either way, her time is running out.
The Governess and the Master (The Montmoors #1) by Lisa Greer (Gothic romance)
Amazon eBook $1.99 (5/5 stars - one review)
When penniless Catherine Roth answers a letter for a governess position in the isolated castle of Lord Andrew Montmoor, she has no idea that madness, obsession, and secrets await her.
Andrew Montmoor is ugly and isolated, but Catherine finds herself drawn to him even as she seeks to help with sickly nephew, Cullen. His Gothic horror of an estate and the secrets that call to her make her time there nearly unbearable. What happened to Andrew's sister, and will the family mausoleum or her diary reveal it? Just as Catherine is falling for Andrew, a new danger reveals itself, and Catherine's heart is swept up in the tumult.
The Bastard Returns (The Montmoors #2) by Lisa Greer (Gothic romance)
Amazon eBook $1.99 (5/5 stars - one review)
The mysteries of Montmoor Hall deepen with each passing day...and night. A ghost haunts governess Catherine Roth while the master, Andrew Montmoor, is away.
To make matters worse, Catherine is falling in love with the troubled master of Montmoor Hall even though she knows Andrew is lying to her...but about what? And what will happen when the bastard brother, handsome Benjamin Smitt, returns to claim what is his?
Buried With the Dead (The Montmoors #3) by Lisa Greer (Gothic romance)
Amazon eBook $0.99 (5/5 stars - two reviews)
Someone wants her buried...for good.
While Lord Montmoor falls into further madness and opium usage, governess Catherine Roth struggles to help him and to uncover the secrets of Montmoor Hall. Her acquaintance with Benjamin Smitt grows more intimate, even as she questions whom she can trust.
After a find in her chifferobe that opens doors to the past, Catherine is racked with questions. Did Andrew's sister Alice Montmoor really run away, or was her end more sinister? Catherine believes the family mausoleum holds the answers.
But someone is watching Catherine and will stop at nothing to have his secrets die with her.
Heartless by Jaimey Grant (Regency romance)
Amazon eBook $2.99—FREE December 19, 2012 (3.8/5 stars)
A dark stranger....
Finding herself abandoned after the death of her father, Leandra Harcourt takes the greatest risk of her life. She accepts the marriage proposal of a complete stranger, the Duke of Derringer—a man the world calls Lord Heartless.
A heartless proposal....
A desperate girl with no prospects seems the perfect solution to Derringer's most recent problem: marry before his 30th birthday to gain his rightful inheritance, though marriage is the last thing he needs. The need to find his missing cousin takes priority over any silly marriage and he quickly abandons his new bride in the wreck of his family estate.
A perfect love....
Two people were never more suited for each other than the duke and his wife, but will they discover it before it's too late? With an assassin dogging his heels and a suitor wooing his wife, love will not have the luxury of time.
My Lady Coward: An Episodic Regency Romance by Jaimey Grant
Amazon eBook $0.99 (4.0/5 stars - one review)
"My Lady Coward" debuted as a serial romance, each installment posted somewhere online as it was written. "My Lady Coward: An Episodic Regency Romance" is a compilation of those ten installments. They have not been changed from the original postings, merely formatted into one file for those who desire to have the whole story in one convenient place.
Word count: 14,000
A lady knows her place, no matter what...
With Maria's vows came a title and security. At her wedding she gained a position amongst Society's elite. With her marriage Maria acquired everything a young woman could possibly desire.
Except love.
Going about her day-to-day activities, all Maria wants is Richard's love, the attentions he lavishes upon his mistress. But can she set aside her ladylike training long enough to tell him?
Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind by Heidi Ashworth (Regency romance)
Amazon eBook $2.99 (4.1/5 stars)
When the dowager duchess of Marcross insists he accompany her niece, Ginny, into the country for the day to execute a special task, Sir Anthony is appalled, to say the least. Ginny, who thinks little of the fashionable Sir Anthony, is as eager to be done with the chore as he, but before they arrive at their destination they are stranded by highwaymen and launched into adventure. Forced into each other's company, Ginny begins to sense the passionate nature beneath Sir Anthony's mask of ennui, while his exasperation with the forthright Ginny turns into admiration of her wit and charm. Then beautiful Lucinda Barrington and Lord Avery, a poet, come onto the scene, sparking Ginny's imagination and revealing a way to unmask the true man behind Sir Anthony's frivolous facade. Meanwhile, the dowager duchess has plans of her own for this pair, and her special task turns into a battle of words, wills, and wit.
Miss Delacourt Has Her Day by Heidi Ashworth (Regency romance)
Amazon eBook $2.99 (3.6/5 stars)
Ginny Delacourt felt the course of true love could not have run smoother. After all, it required only a fortnight, a pair of highwaymen, a pox quarantine, a sham betrothal, and a masquerade ball to bring Sir Anthony up to snuff. When her beloved suddenly becomes the heir to his uncle, the Duke of Marcross, protocol dictates that he drop the 'Sir' from his name. It's his uncle who insists Ginny, daughter of a lowly vicar, is not the proper bride for a future duke.
Lucinda and Lord Avery arrive on the scene to stir up trouble, and Ginny's normally manipulative Grandaunt Regina seems helpless to arrange anything, least of all a frowned-upon wedding. It's up to Anthony, with help from his fussy valet, to see to it that Ginny has her day. The road to true love just got a little bumpier.
Lady Crenshaw's Christmas by Heidi Ashworth (Regency romance short story)
Amazon eBook $0.99 (4.5/5 stars - two reviews)
Ginny and her beloved Anthony, Lord Crenshaw, are finally married and have spent the bulk of their first blissful six months of marriage in the country. However, Ginny must now hostess a Christmas ball at Dunsmere, the estate of the dowager Duchess of Marcross. How is a mere vicar's daughter to carry off such an event with no experience and little exposure to the ways of the ton? And how is she to meet the expectations of her Grandaunt Regina, earn the good graces of Anthony's uncle the Duke of Marcross, endure the spite of the duke's new wife, manage the hysterical escapades of Lucinda, Lady Avery, and find the perfect gift for her husband, all while expecting a babe? All these questions and more are answered in Lady Crenshaw's Christmas, a short story follow-up to two full length novels, Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind and Miss Delacourt Has Her Day available via Montlake Romance.
A Candlelight Courting by Joyce DiPastena (Medieval romance short story)
Amazon eBook $1.99 (4.8/5 stars)
When Burthred comes courting on Christmas Eve, Meg rejects his advances. She has her heart set on becoming a nun and insists that he call her Christina, the spiritual name she has chosen for herself. She tries to make him swear on her box of holy relics that he will not pursue her, but he carefully words his oath to allow him to stay in her candlelit chamber and try to change her mind.
What Meg does not confess is that her reliquary box holds a secret.
Burthred needs a wife, and no one will satisfy him except Meg. He swore on his father’s deathbed that he would marry her. But Burthred has a secret, too. When they come together before the Yule fire, their shared revelations will either join their hearts together or tear them apart.
Fair Maiden by Cheri Schmidt (Victorian paranormal romance)
Amazon eBook $2.99 (4.5/5 stars)
It's the Victorian era in England, but Tessa is from the medieval past. She awakens within a castle she has never seen before. Knowledge of her name also evades her. However, even worse than not knowing who or where she is, she cannot recall how she died or why she is dressed as a bride.
Along with Christian, the earl of the castle she haunts, Tessa tries to discover who she is and break the spell holding her in a prison of death. They never imagined the curse keeping them apart is the only thing protecting her, until it's too late.
There Your Heart Will Be Also (The Renaissance Heart Series) by Felicia Rogers
Amazon eBook $2.99 (4.5/5 stars)
Only daughter of an English lord, Sarra of Greenbriar, is used to getting her way. So when her father passes and the King begins sending suitors, she feels justified in taking matters into her own hands. Through a series of harmless pranks, Sarra works to keep the potential husbands at bay.
Cedric MacNeil is a Scotsman that has lost it all. Death claimed his parents and jealousy claimed his entitled position as Laird of his clan. Since his mother was a familiar of the English court, he leaves his native land and heads to England to fight on behalf of the English King. Tournaments are won, earning honor and glory for the crown. Cedric’s reward is the opportunity to gain what he wants most in this life, land.
But as he gets to know Sarra, he realizes he might get more than he bargained for.
By God's Grace (The Renaissance Heart Series) by Felicia Rogers
Amazon eBook $2.99 (4.3/5 stars)
Destiny has placed them together, yet “the wolf” threatens to rip them apart…
Duncan Sinclair lives in peace and harmony at Greenbriar until word reaches him of his broth-er’s untimely demise. Answering a summons from the Sinclair elders, he returns home only to be informed of his duties, mainly the duty of producing an heir.
Arbella Kincade has been shuffled between two different families since birth. All alone and running a farm, she is retrieved by her uncle for a special purpose. She is to represent the Kincade clan in a tournament. This event will determine the new wife of the Sinclair laird.
Duncan and Arbella are destined for one another but Lyall has different ideas. Will they discover the plot before it’s too late or will the wolf win her greatest desire?
I will post more $3 or less clean historical romance deals as I find them. Happy reading!!
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Amazon eBook $1.99 (5/5 stars - one review)
When penniless Catherine Roth answers a letter for a governess position in the isolated castle of Lord Andrew Montmoor, she has no idea that madness, obsession, and secrets await her.Andrew Montmoor is ugly and isolated, but Catherine finds herself drawn to him even as she seeks to help with sickly nephew, Cullen. His Gothic horror of an estate and the secrets that call to her make her time there nearly unbearable. What happened to Andrew's sister, and will the family mausoleum or her diary reveal it? Just as Catherine is falling for Andrew, a new danger reveals itself, and Catherine's heart is swept up in the tumult.
The Bastard Returns (The Montmoors #2) by Lisa Greer (Gothic romance)
Amazon eBook $1.99 (5/5 stars - one review)
The mysteries of Montmoor Hall deepen with each passing day...and night. A ghost haunts governess Catherine Roth while the master, Andrew Montmoor, is away.To make matters worse, Catherine is falling in love with the troubled master of Montmoor Hall even though she knows Andrew is lying to her...but about what? And what will happen when the bastard brother, handsome Benjamin Smitt, returns to claim what is his?
Buried With the Dead (The Montmoors #3) by Lisa Greer (Gothic romance)
Amazon eBook $0.99 (5/5 stars - two reviews)
Someone wants her buried...for good.While Lord Montmoor falls into further madness and opium usage, governess Catherine Roth struggles to help him and to uncover the secrets of Montmoor Hall. Her acquaintance with Benjamin Smitt grows more intimate, even as she questions whom she can trust.
After a find in her chifferobe that opens doors to the past, Catherine is racked with questions. Did Andrew's sister Alice Montmoor really run away, or was her end more sinister? Catherine believes the family mausoleum holds the answers.
But someone is watching Catherine and will stop at nothing to have his secrets die with her.
Heartless by Jaimey Grant (Regency romance)
Amazon eBook $2.99—FREE December 19, 2012 (3.8/5 stars)
A dark stranger....Finding herself abandoned after the death of her father, Leandra Harcourt takes the greatest risk of her life. She accepts the marriage proposal of a complete stranger, the Duke of Derringer—a man the world calls Lord Heartless.
A heartless proposal....
A desperate girl with no prospects seems the perfect solution to Derringer's most recent problem: marry before his 30th birthday to gain his rightful inheritance, though marriage is the last thing he needs. The need to find his missing cousin takes priority over any silly marriage and he quickly abandons his new bride in the wreck of his family estate.
A perfect love....
Two people were never more suited for each other than the duke and his wife, but will they discover it before it's too late? With an assassin dogging his heels and a suitor wooing his wife, love will not have the luxury of time.
My Lady Coward: An Episodic Regency Romance by Jaimey Grant
Amazon eBook $0.99 (4.0/5 stars - one review)
"My Lady Coward" debuted as a serial romance, each installment posted somewhere online as it was written. "My Lady Coward: An Episodic Regency Romance" is a compilation of those ten installments. They have not been changed from the original postings, merely formatted into one file for those who desire to have the whole story in one convenient place.Word count: 14,000
A lady knows her place, no matter what...
With Maria's vows came a title and security. At her wedding she gained a position amongst Society's elite. With her marriage Maria acquired everything a young woman could possibly desire.
Except love.
Going about her day-to-day activities, all Maria wants is Richard's love, the attentions he lavishes upon his mistress. But can she set aside her ladylike training long enough to tell him?
Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind by Heidi Ashworth (Regency romance)
Amazon eBook $2.99 (4.1/5 stars)
When the dowager duchess of Marcross insists he accompany her niece, Ginny, into the country for the day to execute a special task, Sir Anthony is appalled, to say the least. Ginny, who thinks little of the fashionable Sir Anthony, is as eager to be done with the chore as he, but before they arrive at their destination they are stranded by highwaymen and launched into adventure. Forced into each other's company, Ginny begins to sense the passionate nature beneath Sir Anthony's mask of ennui, while his exasperation with the forthright Ginny turns into admiration of her wit and charm. Then beautiful Lucinda Barrington and Lord Avery, a poet, come onto the scene, sparking Ginny's imagination and revealing a way to unmask the true man behind Sir Anthony's frivolous facade. Meanwhile, the dowager duchess has plans of her own for this pair, and her special task turns into a battle of words, wills, and wit.Miss Delacourt Has Her Day by Heidi Ashworth (Regency romance)
Amazon eBook $2.99 (3.6/5 stars)
Ginny Delacourt felt the course of true love could not have run smoother. After all, it required only a fortnight, a pair of highwaymen, a pox quarantine, a sham betrothal, and a masquerade ball to bring Sir Anthony up to snuff. When her beloved suddenly becomes the heir to his uncle, the Duke of Marcross, protocol dictates that he drop the 'Sir' from his name. It's his uncle who insists Ginny, daughter of a lowly vicar, is not the proper bride for a future duke.Lucinda and Lord Avery arrive on the scene to stir up trouble, and Ginny's normally manipulative Grandaunt Regina seems helpless to arrange anything, least of all a frowned-upon wedding. It's up to Anthony, with help from his fussy valet, to see to it that Ginny has her day. The road to true love just got a little bumpier.
Lady Crenshaw's Christmas by Heidi Ashworth (Regency romance short story)
Amazon eBook $0.99 (4.5/5 stars - two reviews)
Ginny and her beloved Anthony, Lord Crenshaw, are finally married and have spent the bulk of their first blissful six months of marriage in the country. However, Ginny must now hostess a Christmas ball at Dunsmere, the estate of the dowager Duchess of Marcross. How is a mere vicar's daughter to carry off such an event with no experience and little exposure to the ways of the ton? And how is she to meet the expectations of her Grandaunt Regina, earn the good graces of Anthony's uncle the Duke of Marcross, endure the spite of the duke's new wife, manage the hysterical escapades of Lucinda, Lady Avery, and find the perfect gift for her husband, all while expecting a babe? All these questions and more are answered in Lady Crenshaw's Christmas, a short story follow-up to two full length novels, Miss Delacourt Speaks Her Mind and Miss Delacourt Has Her Day available via Montlake Romance.A Candlelight Courting by Joyce DiPastena (Medieval romance short story)
Amazon eBook $1.99 (4.8/5 stars)
When Burthred comes courting on Christmas Eve, Meg rejects his advances. She has her heart set on becoming a nun and insists that he call her Christina, the spiritual name she has chosen for herself. She tries to make him swear on her box of holy relics that he will not pursue her, but he carefully words his oath to allow him to stay in her candlelit chamber and try to change her mind.What Meg does not confess is that her reliquary box holds a secret.
Burthred needs a wife, and no one will satisfy him except Meg. He swore on his father’s deathbed that he would marry her. But Burthred has a secret, too. When they come together before the Yule fire, their shared revelations will either join their hearts together or tear them apart.
Fair Maiden by Cheri Schmidt (Victorian paranormal romance)
Amazon eBook $2.99 (4.5/5 stars)
It's the Victorian era in England, but Tessa is from the medieval past. She awakens within a castle she has never seen before. Knowledge of her name also evades her. However, even worse than not knowing who or where she is, she cannot recall how she died or why she is dressed as a bride.Along with Christian, the earl of the castle she haunts, Tessa tries to discover who she is and break the spell holding her in a prison of death. They never imagined the curse keeping them apart is the only thing protecting her, until it's too late.
There Your Heart Will Be Also (The Renaissance Heart Series) by Felicia Rogers
Amazon eBook $2.99 (4.5/5 stars)
Only daughter of an English lord, Sarra of Greenbriar, is used to getting her way. So when her father passes and the King begins sending suitors, she feels justified in taking matters into her own hands. Through a series of harmless pranks, Sarra works to keep the potential husbands at bay.Cedric MacNeil is a Scotsman that has lost it all. Death claimed his parents and jealousy claimed his entitled position as Laird of his clan. Since his mother was a familiar of the English court, he leaves his native land and heads to England to fight on behalf of the English King. Tournaments are won, earning honor and glory for the crown. Cedric’s reward is the opportunity to gain what he wants most in this life, land.
But as he gets to know Sarra, he realizes he might get more than he bargained for.
By God's Grace (The Renaissance Heart Series) by Felicia Rogers
Amazon eBook $2.99 (4.3/5 stars)
Destiny has placed them together, yet “the wolf” threatens to rip them apart…Duncan Sinclair lives in peace and harmony at Greenbriar until word reaches him of his broth-er’s untimely demise. Answering a summons from the Sinclair elders, he returns home only to be informed of his duties, mainly the duty of producing an heir.
Arbella Kincade has been shuffled between two different families since birth. All alone and running a farm, she is retrieved by her uncle for a special purpose. She is to represent the Kincade clan in a tournament. This event will determine the new wife of the Sinclair laird.
Duncan and Arbella are destined for one another but Lyall has different ideas. Will they discover the plot before it’s too late or will the wolf win her greatest desire?
I will post more $3 or less clean historical romance deals as I find them. Happy reading!!
*Most links contain my affiliate ID, meaning any sales made through these links will result in me earning a tiny commission. If you'd rather not buy a book through my affiliate link, feel free to strip my ID from the link, refresh the page, and make your purchase. Thank you! ♥
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