Best of
Historical-Romance

1980

Skye O'Malley


Bertrice Small - 1980
    She is the courageous seafaring captain of her own mighty fleet, and intelligent enough to win a battle of wits with Queen Elizabeth herself. Follow along as Skye O'Malley is swept up in a journey filled with romance and passion that takes her from glittering Ireland, to lush Algeria, to the heart of London in pursuit of a unique and eternal love.....

Adora


Bertrice Small - 1980
    And in the dying days of the great Byzantine Empire - that last vestige of what had once been Imperial Rome - her value as the emperor's daughter was priceless.Three men claimed her as wife. Orkhan, the powerful Ottoman sultan; the dashing pirate Alexander, lord of Mesembria; and Prince Murad, to whom Adora's heart truly belonged. In a grand epic that sweeps the reader from the golden palaces of fourteenth-century Byzantium to the blazing sensuality of the sultan's harem, Adora was a woman who firmly controlled her own destiny because she and Murad were meant only for each other. And together their passions would forge an empire.Adora! Her name was the secret of all love.Publisher Note: This story was previously published elsewhere, 1980-1995.

Love and Cherish


Dorothy Garlock - 1980
    She meets a man named Sloan Carroll, who proposes to her, but he finds that it will take a little more to win her heart.

Moss Rose


Day Taylor - 1980
    Now it would endure a perilous test in the bitter aftermath of the Civil War.Many would sell their souls to survive. But Adam and Dulcie were bound to each other and the ravaged land. The pillars of the South would stand proud against the sky once more. Their love would burst into bloom anew. Fired by the finest dreams, emboldened by the vision of a glorious destiny, they would reclaim their cherished heritage....Moss Rose

The Black Lyon


Jude Deveraux - 1980
    He had no match among enemies, or women ... until he met Lyonene, the green-eyed beauty whose fiery spirit matched his own. Through a whirlwind romance and stormy marriage, she endured every peril to be by his side... until jealousy and vicious lies drove her across the Irish Sea and into grave danger. One man could save her -- only the fierce Black Lyon had the courage to destroy the ruthless plot that had driven them apart and threatened the bond of love they had vowed could never be broken.

Lady of Fire


Valerie Vayle - 1980
    Martinique and the convent school were behind her. And so was the enchanted island where two shipwrecked lovers had clung together for life--and discovered love.Now there was only a dream and a mission: to uncover the true cause of her father's death. From London society to the decadent French court, from a Turkish harem to escape and rebellion on the high seas, Garlanda's course was charted for dangerous adventure.A passionate pirate of the heart, no man could resist or forget her. But it was Roque, the bold buccaneer who possessed her soul, whose fate was eternally bound to the LADY OF FIRE .

Fires of Winter


Johanna Lindsey - 1980
    NEVER A VIKING'S CAPTIVELovely and dauntless, abducted by invaders from across an icy sea, Lady Brenna vowed vengeance -- swearing no Viking brute would be her master...no barbarian would enslave her noble Celtic heart.FOREVER A VIKING'S LOVEYet Garrick Haardrad, the proud and powerful son of a ruthless Viking chieftan, claims her with a primitive abandon that leaves her breathless, igniting fires of passion that blaze through the cold Nordic nights and forge the unbreakable bonds of a fiery, eternal love.

Mistress of the Morning Star


Elizabeth Lane - 1980
    Daughter of an Indian chieftain, sold as a slave by her mother, she saw her first child sacrificed to bloodthirsty gods. Converted by the Spanish, she became the woman of the Conqueror, and his fragile link to a Golden Empire...CORTES. The fierce-eyed warrior toppling pagan idols, scheming for Montezuma's throne. Fearless, cunning and arrogant, he claimed Mexico for his King - and Marina for his bed...JUAN. The gentle soldier with the sun-streaked hair and the healing powers, he bore a burden of forbidden love for the beauty possessed by Cortes.

This Fever In My Blood


Mary Louise Manning - 1980
    She would rise from bitter poverty to wealth and power before destiny played its last trick, before she could know the love she was meant for, a rapture of the heart that defied death and time itself.

A Banner Red and Gold


Annelise Kamada - 1980
    Queen Isabella loved him too -- enough to defy all England. Even Gillian Kilburn, bound to her Jamie by a love so bold, could not resist de Mortimer's fiery caress.But Roger took women recklessly and abandoned them, impelled by a stronger passion -- love of power. And if a green-eyed witch haunted his heart and if the son he wrenched from her at birth troubled his dreams, that was the price a man must pay to realize his destiny. A destiny constantly imperiled by James Kilburn, the Earl of Glairn, from whose battlements flew A BANNER RED AND GOLD.