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  • Virgins of Paradise by Barbara Wood

    Virgins of Paradise by Barbara Wood

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Virgins of Paradise is a magnificent saga about the women in a rich, aristocratic Egyptian family, by the author of Green City in the Sun and The Dreaming. This is a sensuous, romantic, exciting novel of women in search of identity amid historic change, and a fascinating portrait of an ancient nation mired in superstition, magic and mythology as it emerges into the modern era...
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    harems  historical  virgin heroine
  • Love's Sacred Song by Mesu Andrews

    Love's Sacred Song by Mesu Andrews

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Standing in the shadow of his famous father, young King Solomon wavers between fear and bravado, longing for a love that is true and pure--a love that can be his cornerstone. A shepherdess in the northern city of Shunem, Arielah has known since she first laid eyes on Solomon that it was her destiny to become his bride...
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    harems  historical  christian
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  • The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan

    The Feast of Roses by Indu Sundaresan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    The love story of Emperor Jahangir and Mehrunnisa, begun in the critically praised debut novel The Twentieth Wife, continues in Indu Sundaresan's The Feast of Roses. This lush new novel tells the story behind one of the great tributes to romantic love and one of the seven wonders of the world -- the Taj Mahal...
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    harems  regency  historical  royalty  south asian
  • Abinadi by Heather B. Moore

    Abinadi by Heather B. Moore

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Raquel has a secret. As the daughter of one of King Noah's priests, she enjoys a luxurious life and the admiration of powerful men. But her heart belongs to a commoner, a man with no earthly wealth but rich heavenly gifts. When King Noah demands that Raquel join his harem, she flees the only life she has known and marries her secret love. His name is Abinadi...
    Categorized as:
    harems  historical
  • Love Slave by Bertrice Small

    Love Slave by Bertrice Small

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 14 ratings
    It is no act of love that Regan experiences the night she takes her sister's place in the marriage bed, a counterfeit bride to sate the lust of her twin's new husband. Come morning, her sister, carrying another man's child, resumes her place and Regan is spirited away to a nunnery. But a more exotic fate awaits the fiery Celtic beauty: Regan is sold to a slave trader...
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    harems  historical  open-door
  • Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther by Ginger Garrett

    Chosen: The Lost Diaries of Queen Esther by Ginger Garrett

    Rated: 4.18 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Wrenched from a simple life for her beauty, Esther finds herself at the mercy of King Xerxes. Leaving behind her only relative, her cousin Mordecai, and her first true love, Cyrus, she is thrown headlong into the unrestrained extravagance of palace living...
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    harems  historical  christian  ancient times
  • Angelique in Barbary by Anne Golon, Monroe Stearns

    Angelique in Barbary by Anne Golon, Monroe Stearns

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    This fourth book in the series, which was first published in England in 1960, sees Angélique leave the confines of France for the first time. She embarks on a series of adventures around the Mediterranean - more precisely the Barbary Coast of North Africa, which led to the American editions of the book being called Angélique in Barbary. In French the book was called Indomitable Angélique...
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    harems  historical
  • Adora by Bertrice Small, José Ferrer

    Adora by Bertrice Small, José Ferrer

    Rated: 4.04 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Adora!Her beauty was legend. 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...
  • Sheik by Connie Mason

    Sheik by Connie Mason

    Rated: 4.02 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Princess Zara had been raised a warrior, always at her father's side in battle against the Arabs who had stolen their land. So when she was taken prisoner by Sheik Jamal abd Thabit during a raid, she was determined not to succumb to his wishes...
  • Pagan Bride by Tamara Leigh

    Pagan Bride by Tamara Leigh

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    She Was His Fiery Temptation... Bound by the chains of slavery in an exotic land, Lucien de Gautier had only one chance of escape. In exchange for his freedom, he pledged to smuggle a virtuous young woman out of a harem and onto a ship bound for England...
    Categorized as:
    harems  historical  contemporary
  • The Last Concubine by Lesley Downer

    The Last Concubine by Lesley Downer

    Rated: 3.82 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    How do you fall in love when your society has no word for it? "The Last Concubine" is an epic love story closely based on historical events, chronicling 19th century Japan's extraordinary change from a medieval to a modern country...
  • The Consorts by Melissa Addey

    The Consorts by Melissa Addey

    Rated: 3.77 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    China, 1700s. The Consorts is a novella, written as a prequel to The Fragrant Concubine. Set a few years earlier, it tells the story of Lady Qing, who has spent the past seven years languishing inside the high red walls of the Forbidden City. Classed as an Honoured Lady, a lowly-ranked concubine, Qing is neglected by the Emperor, passed over for more ambitious women...
  • The Captive by Victoria Holt

    The Captive by Victoria Holt

    Rated: 3.71 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Rosetta knew little of life beyond the schoolroom...until she found herself shipwrecked off the African coast. Saved from the raging seas by the ship's handsome, mysterious deckhand, she soon discovered her hero was fellow-Londoner Simon Perrivale, an infamous fugitive accused of murder. Her hopes of rescue were dashed when they were abducted by pirates..
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    harems  historical  suspense  pirates  mystery  abduction
  • The Pleasure of Your Kiss by Teresa Medeiros

    The Pleasure of Your Kiss by Teresa Medeiros

    Rated: 3.69 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Ashton Burke is a legendary adventurer who has spent the past ten years roaming the globe to forget the girl he left behind. His devil-may-care life is interrupted when he's hired to rescue his brother's kidnapped fiancée from a sultan's harem. Too late, he discovers she is none other than Clarinda Cardew, the very same girl who made off with his jaded heart a decade ago...
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    harems  historical  suspense  regency
  • Harem by Colin Falconer

    Harem by Colin Falconer

    Rated: 3.70 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He had everything a man might dream of; wealth, power and the choice of hundreds of the most beautiful women in his Empire. Why then did he forsake his harem for the love of just one woman, and marry her in defiance of the centuries-old code of the Osmanlis? This is the astonishing story of Suleiman, the one they called the Magnificent, and the woman he loved...
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    harems  medieval  historical  royalty
  • Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander

    Tears of Pearl by Tasha Alexander

    Rated: 3.67 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Set amid the beauty and decadence of the Ottoman Empire, Lady Emily’s latest adventure is full of intrigue, treachery, and romance. Looking forward to the joys of connubial bliss, newlyweds Lady Emily and Colin Hargreaves, diplomats of the British Empire, set out toward Turkey for an exotic honeymoon...
  • The Surrender of a Lady by Tiffany Clare

    The Surrender of a Lady by Tiffany Clare

    Rated: 3.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In the first of a stunning new series, a young English lady is thrust into the decadent life of a harem—and into the arms of the man she has never been able to forget… The Price Of Passion… Sold. With one word, Lady Elena Ravenscliffe’s destiny changes forever...
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    harems  historical  victorian
  • Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 11 by Mizuho Kusanagi

    Yona of the Dawn, Vol. 11 by Mizuho Kusanagi

    Rated: 4.64 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Yona and her friends have taken to calling themselves bandits and have been protecting Fire Tribe villages from cruel government officials. Meanwhile, Kang Tae-jun, the Fire Tribe chief’s second son, goes to Katan Village with orders to eliminate the bandits there...
  • Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Volume 6 by Miya Kazuki

    Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Volume 6 by Miya Kazuki

    Rated: 4.73 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    With the advancement ceremony and fellowship gatherings complete, Rozemyne’s new year at the Royal Academy can properly begin. She goes on another library-inspired rampage and pushes the other Ehrenfest second-years to finish their classes on the first day, all while hunting for new allies to recruit into her Library Committee...
  • The Robber Knight by Robert Thier

    The Robber Knight by Robert Thier

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    When you are fighting for the freedom of your people, falling in love with your enemy is not a great idea. Sir Reuben, the dreaded robber knight, has long been Ayla’s deadliest enemy. She swore he would hang for his crimes. Now they are both trapped in her castle as the army of a far greater enemy approaches, and they have only one chance: stand together, or fall...
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    high fantasy  fantasy  humor  historical  medieval
  • Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Volume 5 by Miya Kazuki

    Ascendance of a Bookworm: Part 4 Volume 5 by Miya Kazuki

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After turning the lower city into a true sight to behold, Rozemyne aims to continue her development plan and secure a greater influence over the country’s other duchies. As she needs the assistance of commoners to achieve this, she gets to work dismantling the wall that exists between them and the nobles...
  • The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan

    The Rose and the Thorn by Michael J. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 27 ratings
    TWO THIEVES WANT ANSWERS. RIYRIA IS BORN.For more than a year Royce Melborn has tried to forget Gwen DeLancy, the woman who saved him and his partner Hadrian Blackwater from certain death. Unable to get her out of his mind, the two thieves return to Medford but receive a very different reception --- Gwen refuses to see them...
  • Lord of Shadows by Tanya Anne Crosby

    Lord of Shadows by Tanya Anne Crosby

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    The epic finale of the Daughters of Avalon! Medieval romance with a sprinkling of fantasy.Rhiannon's destiny is fated from the moment of her birth. She and her dewine sisters must defeat an ancient evil, or Britain itself will go the way of Avalon...
    Categorized as:
    high fantasy  medieval  historical  fantasy
  • The Shades of Magic Series by V.E. Schwab

    The Shades of Magic Series by V.E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    This discounted ebundle includes: A Darker Shade of Magic, A Gathering of Shadows, A Conjuring of LightWitness the fate of beloved heroes and notorious foes in V.E. Schwab’s New York Times bestselling Shades of Magic series.Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black...
  • Shades of Magic Boxed Set by V.E. Schwab

    Shades of Magic Boxed Set by V.E. Schwab

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    Kell is one of the last Antari—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once, Black. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see. It's a defiant hobby with dangerous consequences...
  • Hereafter by Jody Hedlund

    Hereafter by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The third lost princess. The final key to the treasure. And a battle for the throne. Growing up deep in the forest as a poor charcoal burner’s daughter, Emmeline has always known her identity as a princess of Mercia, and she lives in fear of being caught and killed...
  • The Robber Knight's Love by Robert Thier

    The Robber Knight's Love by Robert Thier

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Ayla has uncovered a terrible secret: the man she loves is in fact her worst enemy. As a mighty army gathers to destroy her and her people, she must ask herself: will he join them to destroy her? Must she cut him out of her heart to survive? Or is there another way—a way to forgiveness and... love? Special Edition with secret chapters revealed and insights into Sir Reuben’s mysterious past...
    Categorized as:
    high fantasy  historical  medieval  fantasy
  • Age of War by Michael J. Sullivan

    Age of War by Michael J. Sullivan

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    Rich in magic and adventure, Michael J. Sullivan’s soaring fantasy novels are masterworks of heroism, love, and sacrifice. Now, in Age of War, the epic battle between humankind and the cruel godlike beings who once ruled them finally ignites in all its fury.The alliance of humans and renegade Fhrey is fragile—and about to be tested as never before...
    Categorized as:
    high fantasy  fantasy  magic  war  historical  paranormal
  • Beguiled by Jody Hedlund

    Beguiled by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a land where being the fairest maiden is a curse . . .A princess rejected and hunted by her mother, and a prince who lives as a shunned outcast.Princess Pearl flees for her life after her mother, Queen Margery, tries to have her killed during a hunting expedition. Pearl finds refuge on the Isle of Outcasts among criminals and misfits, disguising her face with a veil so no one recognizes her...
  • Besotted by Jody Hedlund

    Besotted by Jody Hedlund

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    In a land where being the fairest maiden is a curse . . .A young queen trying to stay alive until she comes of age to rule, and a prince turned into a pauper.Queen Aurora of Mercia has spent her entire life deep in Inglewood Forest, hiding from Warwick’s Queen Margery, who seeks her demise. As the time draws near for Aurora to take the throne, she happens upon a handsome woodcutter...
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