Best Romantic Historical Fiction

On the day of the wedding, my best friend, Elena Hartman, can't bear to part with me, so she threads my wedding shoes with a string and ties them snugly around her slim waist. The groomsmen turn the whole place upside down, and we end up late for the ceremony. She eventually cracks up and tugs at her billowy bridesmaid dress, revealing the outline of the shoes at her waist. "I dare you to come take them. As long as I'm here, she's not getting married!" My fiancé, Miles Lawson, shakes his head and chuckles. "You just love tormenting us, don't you?" Miles exchanges a look with the groomsmen, and they charge at her at the same time. She squeals as she falls back onto the bed, squirming under her layers of tulle. "Don't be so rough! I'm ticklish…" The groomsmen flush bright red. Miles' ears turn scarlet as he feels around her waist. She giggles even louder. "How are you going to undo it through all these layers? Use your head!" Then, she gasped. "That tickles!" Her theatrics make my temper flare. I spring to my feet, lift her skirt, and rip the wedding shoes right off her. "If you're that ticklish, smack yourself with a slipper. Drop the act, or I'll yank out the nerves that make you ticklish!"

My best friend, Emily Summers, who had always been terrified of dogs, suddenly told me she was planning to buy a pet dog. That’s when I knew that she had been reincarnated too. In my previous life, I bought a pure white toy poodle from a pet shop. From the moment that little dog came into my home, everything in my life turned around. Morgan Hale, our manager who had always been at odds with me, suddenly offered me a promotion and a raise. Even the client I’d been struggling to win over for months personally requested to sign the deal with me. But the most unbelievable change of all? Silas Sullivan, the company’s tall, rich, and handsome CEO got down on one knee and proposed to me after a party, saying he wanted to marry me. I had said yes and even invited Emily to the wedding to witness my happiest moment. However, driven by jealousy, she stabbed me to death on the day of the wedding. "Why should someone like you get to marry a CEO while I’m stuck working three shifts a day like a damn slave?" The next time I opened my eyes, I was back at that moment, standing beside her, at the pet shop, looking at dogs…

I had cancer. And Carl—my boyfriend of seven years—ditched me at the hospital to play fake boyfriend for his so-called best friend, just so she could dodge her parents' marriage pressure. When the results came in, I broke down. Clutching the report, I sobbed as I called him. "Carl, I... I..." My voice cracked. I didn't even know how to say it. I thought he'd comfort me. Instead, his voice came sharp through the phone. "Can you not? Mia's just a friend. What's so wrong about me helping her?—do you have to be so dramatic? I already promised to marry you this month. What more do you want?"

Everyone deserves a second chance at happiness... even a killer. Serendipity Fizzlestitch wants nothing more than to be left alone. In a small cabin a stone's throw from the house where her sisters and mother breathed their last, Serendipity toils away, making the dolls her late father was working on when he disappeared beneath the ocean waves. Serendipity is content to spend the rest of her existence here, trying to atone for the mistakes of her past by creating the dolls that bring joy to so many others. When a mysterious letter arrives in her fireplace, an unusual stranger shows up at her door, and her favorite mouse friend goes missing, Serendipity is forced to face the outside world--and the ghosts from her past. Will she accept the opportunity to join the most famous toymaker of all time, or will her guilt prevent her from finding the happiness everyone deserves? The Doll Maker's Daughter at Christmas is a whimsical romantic fantasy that proves everyone deserves a second chance, no matter how horrific our past. Perfect for Christmas, or any time of year, The Doll Maker's Daughter at Christmas will bring back the magic we can only find when we truly believe.

Queen Fiore Wijaya mengalami kecelakaan yang membuatnya kehilangan gelar sebagai violinist muda terbaik. Seolah belum cukup, keluarga Wijaya ikut membuangnya. Fiore ternyata bukan anak kandung pasangan Wijaya. Posisinya sudah digantikan oleh Reina. Fiore yang tidak memiliki apa pun, mencoba bertahan. Ia melihat satu kesempatan pada Ethan, suami tantenya sendiri. “Oom tega liat aku tidur di jalanan?” Fiore mengambil alih ranjang Ethan.

On the day of my birthday, my best friend, Bella Johnson, gifted me a polaroid camera. I took that to the zoo. I took some photos of the animals in the zoo. In my past life, I took the polaroid camera she had gifted me and happily took photos for my whole family. Unexpectedly, after a week, my mother got into a car accident and passed away. My father suffered from a stroke, which left half his body paralyzed even after treatment at the hospital. The company that I was managing ran into problems and almost went bankrupt. In merely a month, my hair had gone gray. There were wrinkles and red marks on my face. I gained a lot of weight due to the stress. My boyfriend felt that I was jinxed. He claimed that it was my bad luck that had caused my family to fall apart. He broke up with me. I was ranting to Bella when I accidentally discovered that she had suddenly become a millionaire. Her parents, who were hospitalized, suddenly became healthy again. It was as if they had not been sick to begin with. I almost lost my mind when I found out about that. On my way to the hospital, I was run over by a car and died. After I died, I found out that everything had happened because of the polaroid camera that Bella had gifted me. She had already been having an affair with my boyfriend for a long time. When I opened my eyes again, I was transported back to the day Bella gifted me the polaroid camera.

When I pushed through the main door, covered in blood, I found my amnesiac husband right on top of my best friend. His arm was wrapped around her waist with practiced ease, and she was passionately reciprocating his advances. "Ada will be devastated if she finds out…" Camilla said in a sweet voice through bated breaths. "After all, she really thinks you've lost your memories." Lucio chuckled softly and said in a mocking tone, "It's not my fault she loves me that much. Then again, it's a good thing for me since I can just let her do all the tough and dirty work." He leaned down and planted a kiss on Camilla's lips, mumbling, "Right now, you're the only one I recognize as my wife. Just wait. Once I sign the deal with the Della Veras, I'll have her kicked out and pass everything she owns to you. After all, I no longer remember a thing." Only then did it hit me. My husband's amnesia was all an act, a farce to fool me. Moreover, my best friend conspired with him to stab me in the back. Too bad they didn't know that the Della Vera family, the most feared Mafia family in Ritelle, only acknowledged one person: Me, Ada Rossi.

Tumbuh besar di lingkungan para psk, membuat Anya tahu seburuk apa profesi yang mereka punya. Hingga ia memiliki prinsip yang berbeda serta tak ingin terjerat dengan kehidupan yang senasib dengan mereka. Namun apa jadinya jika ternyata Anyelirra Calista malah mendapatkan pilihan yang tak jauh dari kepuasan serta kehormatan juga, yaitu menjadi seorang simpanan pria kaya, yang tak lain adalah suami sahabatnya. Anyellira tak bisa membayangkan bagaimana reaksi yang akan di berikan oleh sahabatnya. Jika ia mengetahui bahwa dirinya adalah simpanan suaminya, yang akan setiap saat memuaskan nafsunya. Terlebih lagi ia telah menentang semua kekukuhan di hatinya, akan buruknya pandangan orang terhadap seorang psk. Dan kini ia malah menjadi pemuas juga untuk seorang pria yang bahkan tak asing untuknya. Meskipun hanya satu pria saja yang harus ia puaskan setiap pria itu menginginkannya, tapi ini bersangkutan dengan masa lalunya dan juga perasaan sahabatnya.

Kehilangan segalanya di masa muda hingga harus terjerumus ke dalam lembah prostitusi membuat Gendhis merasa harus merelakan perasaannya pada sosok cinta pertama. Terpisah oleh keadaan di masa SMA, tak lagi bertemu bertahun lamanya, Gendhis dan Rai sang dokter muda dipertemukan oleh takdir dalam situasi yang asing tapi begitu emosional. "Kamu harus pake pengaman, Rai. Aku ini pelacur," bisik Gendhis menahan dada Rai yang sudah mulai melepas dress miliknya, menampilkan bra hitam berendanya. "Aku bukan Rai yang kamu kenal di 10 tahun yang lalu, Ndhis. Aku tau resiko dari keputusan yang kuambil." Rai yang kini menjelma menjadi seorang dokter spesialis muda nan mulia, bertekad untuk tidak lagi melepas Gendhis yang masih dicintainya. Namun, bagi Gendhis, strata sosial yang membentang di antara mereka adalah jurang pemisah tanpa dasar yang tak bisa diabaikan. Gendhis hanya tidak tahu, betapa sekali Rai berjanji, pantang baginya untuk mengingkari. Cinta mereka akan banyak diuji, akan banyak melukai. Namun kepercayaan Gendhis yang dulunya telah pudar, kini perlahan berhasil Rai buat bersemi kembali.

I had just won the Hawthorne Scientific Laureate on the international stage when my father called me back home. "Bring the betrothal gifts to the Hayes family. That childhood engagement should finally be fulfilled." Afraid of getting stuck in traffic, I took my modified motorcycle, carried the national heritage porcelain obtained through generations of the Keane family's military merits, and headed toward their house. Just as I arrived at the community gate, a Porsche suddenly cut across the lane, nearly knocking me over. A heavily made-up woman, Zoey Mercer, stepped out of the car, raised one sharp high heel, and kicked the top box off my motorcycle. "You rode this junk motorcycle yet dared block my way? If you dent my car, your whole family won't be able to afford the compensation!" My heart sank. I quickly opened the case, only to see the entire box of celadon porcelain shattered. "So you’re just some delivery guy. Think this pile of trash is worth even one of my shoes? "You even know whose neighborhood this is? It belongs to Kingshore's Hayes family! My best friend’s family developed this place! Believe it or not, I can have you thrown out right now!" Right then, my fiancee, Lauren Hayes, called me. "Where are you? My friend just messaged me saying there’s a delivery guy causing trouble at the entrance."