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Joan Aiken, The Five-Minute Marriage.
A lady who agreed to a fake marriage in exchange for money discovers the marriage is legally binding.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife …

Madeleine Brent, Moonraker’s Bride.
An English girl caring for orphans in China meets two mysterious strangers and hears a riddle that holds the key to family secrets and hidden treasure.

Anne Bronte, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall.
A woman flees a miserable marriage to a dissolute man and lives in hiding at Wildfell Hall, where she falls in love with another man who doesn’t know her secret.

Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre.
Jane Eyre leaves the hard life of the orphanage to work as a governess in the home of the mysterious Mr. Rochester.

Emily Bronte, Wuthering Heights.
The brooding Heathcliff leaves the Yorkshire moors when his beloved Cathy marries another, but he can never forget her.

Diana Brown, The Sandalwood Fan.
A war hero who is the Season's most sought-after bachelor falls in love with a quiet, nature-loving widow who is sponsoring her younger sister.

Sandra Brown, Texas Trilogy.
Lucky and Chase Tyler struggle to save their family business and find love in the process, while their sister Sage must choose between city life and the love of a rough-edged cowboy.

Fanny Burney, Evelina.
A young lady raised in the country by a parson comes to London and meets a variety of suitors.

Loretta Chase, Lord of Scoundrels.
A lady heads to Paris to save her brother from the corrupting influence of a notorious Marquess, only to find herself compromised and married to the rake.

Catherine Cookson, Kate Hannigan.
A married doctor falls in love with a working-class girl when he helps deliver her illegitimate child.

Janet Dailey, This Calder Sky.
Lovers from rival ranching families in Montana are separated by tragic circumstances but are reunited years later.

Clare Darcy, Allegra.
An impoverished lady surprises the ton by turning down an offer from her highly eligible cousin and by going to Brussels on the eve of Waterloo.

Jude Deveraux, A Knight in Shining Armor.
A 20th century woman abandoned by her lover encounters a knight from the 16th century and embarks on a romance that transcends time.

Daphne Du Maurier, Rebecca.
A new bride feels oppressed by the memory of her husband’s first wife that still lingers at Manderley.

Rosemary Edghill, The Ill-Bred Bride.
A lord with an ancient lineage and numerous debts marries a wealthy Cit's daughter.

Diana Gabaldon, Outlander.
World War II nurse Claire Randall enters a ring of standing stones and is sent back in time, where she encounters Jamie Fraser, a young Scotsman fighting for his country’s freedom. First in a series.

Julie Garwood, The Bride.
By edict of the King, a Scottish laird must take an English bride, but she vows never to submit to a Highland barbarian.

Roberta Gellis, Roselynde.
During the time of Richard the Lionhearted, a wealthy heiress rejects being matched with a controlling husband and instead falls in love with the warden of her estate.

Georgette Heyer, Devil’s Cub.
A respectable lady takes the place of her sister whom a rake on the run is abducting to Paris with the object of making her his mistress.

Victoria Holt, Mistress of Mellyn.
A governess discovers family secrets and hidden danger at the home a man whose wife died in tragic circumstances.

Linda Howard, Mackenzie’s Mountain.
Part-Native American Wolf Mackenzie has lived apart from the townspeople since he was suspected in a series of rapes, but allows himself to be drawn out of isolation by his son's teacher just as the attacks begin again.

Dara Joy, Knight of a Trillion Stars.
A knight from another dimension is summoned to Earth by an out-of-luck woman and turns her world upside down.

M. M. Kaye, The Far Pavilions.
In 19th century India, an Englishman raised by an Indian nurse is uncertain of where he belongs, until he meets an Indian princess whose Russian blood causes her to feel unaccepted by her people.

Laura Kinsale, Flowers from the Storm.
When a stroke leaves a mathematical genius unable to communicate, greedy relatives commit him to an asylum, but tenacity and love allow him to regain what's rightfully his.

Jayne Ann Krentz, Gift of Gold.
A Colorado chef hires as a dishwasher a drifter who abandoned a prestigious career as a Renaissance scholar to roam the world.

Johanna Lindsey, Gentle Rogue.
Desperate to return home, a lady boards a ship disguised as a cabin boy and finds herself serving the ship’s captain, who sees through her disguise.

Colleen McCullough, The Thorn Birds.
In the Australian Outback, a woman and a Catholic priest share a forbidden love that endures through a lifetime of joys and sorrows.

Robin McKinley, Beauty.
To save her family from ruin, a girl consents to live in the castle of a mysterious and reclusive man in this retelling of Beauty and the Beast.

Judith McNaught, A Kingdom of Dreams.
A fierce warrior whose name strikes fear in the hearts of his enemies wants is a peaceful life with a woman who loves him, not his legend.

Barbara Michaels, Ammie Come Home.
At a séance in a Georgetown home, a girl is possessed by a ghost from the Revolutionary War era, and her aunt and professor must find out what the spirit wants.

Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind.
Feisty Southern belle Scarlett O’Hara is thwarted in her desire to marry Ashley Wilkes and is swept into a passionate but ill-fated romance with the dashing Rhett Butler.

Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago.
A Russian intellectual finds his life disrupted by war and by his love for Lara, the wife of a revolutionary.

Mary Jo Putney, The Rake.
An heiress who found refuge from heartbreak as the steward of a remote estate finds her position in peril with the arrival of the dissolute new owner.

Ann Radcliffe, The Mysteries of Udolpho.
An orphaned lady is imprisoned by her evil guardian in a gloomy castle in the mountains.

Samuel Richardson, Pamela.
A servant repels her master’s advances, and her virtue is rewarded by marriage.

Nora Roberts, Born in Fire.
A glass artist who lives in the Irish countryside falls in love with a sophisticated Dublin gallery owner. First in a trilogy.

Erich Segal, Love Story.
A rich Harvard jock and a wisecracking Radcliffe music major have nothing in common but love and everything to share but time.

Bertrice Small, Skye O’Malley.
Irish beauty Skye O’Malley is swept on an adventure from the harems of the East to the court of Queen Elizabeth and into the lives—and beds—of a variety of men.

Lavyrle Spencer, Morning Glory.
On the eve of World War II, an ex-con answers the advertisement of a pregnant widow with two children who is looking for a husband.

Mary Stewart, Nine Coaches Waiting.
When the child she is caring for is nearly killed in a suspicious accident, an English governess can trust no one—not even the man she loves.

Phyllis Whitney, The Turquoise Mask.
A woman goes to New Mexico to learn about the death of her mother, but someone doesn’t want her to find out what happened.

Katherine Winsor, Forever Amber.
Abandoned penniless and pregnant on the streets of London, a woman rises in society to become the mistress of Charles II but remains true in her heart to the man she loves and can never have.

Katherine Woodiwiss, Shanna.
A lady who must marry weds a convict due to be hanged, but he survives and pursues her to the Caribbean.