Heartbeats of History: Steamy Historical Romance Shorts

I choose nothing in my life. I want to choose this. And if you will, I choose you.

Lillian has always been terribly good. She has always tried to live up to her family name and avoid scandal to help improve the marriage prospects for herself and her siblings. When she learns that a wealthy but uncaring man is planning to seek her hand, she is...

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A heartbroken photographer. An overlooked widow. One photographic plate.

Clarke Metcalfe is down on his luck. Heartbroken and penniless, Clarke has one last chance to clear the debt he was saddled with when his beloved Emmaline left town to pursue the bright lights of Broadway. It’s an opportunity that will...

“Welcome home, Mrs Fitzherbert.”

Maria has remarried, and unlike her unreformed rake of a first husband, her dear second husband Frederick is sweet, kind and incredibly proper. He is not the sort of man to take liberties with a lady who is not his wife.

Except now, after a quiet service in the village chapel, Maria is his wife. The boundaries have...

Lord Julian Ashford, Baron Moncrief, detests London. Detests society. Since his wife died over a decade ago, he has had little thought for anything other than his own grief. Filling his life with work and duty, he exists as a shell of his former self. And while he can think of nothing worse than entertaining a hoard of freeloading guests, the...