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Diana Gabaldon

This popular historical romance series follows the adventures of Claire Randall who stumbles from 1946 into 18th century Scotland when she touches some mysterious standing stones:

• Outlander (also published as Cross stitch)
• Dragonfly in amber
• Voyager
• Drums of autumn
• The Fiery Cross
  

The series is unique in its combination of time travel, historical detail and romance. You might like to try the following authors and titles:

Kage Baker Novels of the Company: In the garden of Iden, Sky coyote, Mendoza in Hollywood, The Graveyard game, The Life of the world to come

This compelling series of novels is about the Company - a 24^th century organization that turns orphans and refugees from the past into cyborgs and sends them back in time to save or hide paintings, cultural treasures, and genetic information useful to the future world. The first book in particular contains elements of romance and historical detail as Mendoza goes back in time to Elizabethan England.

Marion Zimmer Bradley: The Mists of Avalon, The Forest house, The Lady of Avalon, Priestess of Avalon

A series of novels revolving around the mythical isle of Avalon, weaving in and out of Arthurian legend and retelling the tales from the female perspective.

Rita Mae Brown Riding shotgun

Horrified when her beloved husband dies while making love to her sister, Cig Blackwood ventures into the woods and emerges in 1699, a period that she grows to love before she is harshly returned to the present.

Jude Deveraux Legend

Kady Long is bright and beautiful, with a wonderful career and fiance. Then she is whisked back to the days of the Wild West and with the cowboy discovers a destiny so strong that she has to span centuries to fill it.

Sara Donati Into the wilderness, Dawn on a distant shore

Elizabeth Bonner leaves England in 1792 to join her father and brother in a mountainous village in upstate New York, where she falls in love with a man torn between white and Native American culture. In the sequel, she must cross the frozen wilderness in the winter of 1794 in a desperate bid to save her husband from being hanged as an American spy.

Barbara Erskine On the edge of darkness

Adam is only 14 when he is placed in the harsh hands of his father. Then he meets Brid, a girl his own age, soon strange things occur. Sometimes he finds himself going back through the gateway in time to Brid's home in the 6th century.

Susanna Kearsley Mariana

When Julia moves to a small Wiltshire village, she finds herself transported back in time as Mariana, who lived there during the great plague of 1665. She experiences, as Mariana, all the terrors of that grim time, as well as falling in love with Richard de Mornay, the squire.

Linda Lael Miller Knights, Pirates

In the medieval England of Knights, Gloriana, Lady of Kenbrook, awaits her husband, Dane St. Gregory--to whom she was married as a child--only to be stunned when he returns with a betrothed. She finds herself thrust seven centuries into the future, with the strength of her and Dane's love as her only hope. In Pirates, Phoebe Turlow travels to a Caribbean island, once the home of notorious pirate Duncan Rourke, only to find herself journeying back in time and coming face to face with the dashing and tormented marauder.

Connie Willis The Doomsday Book

History student Kivrin goes back in history - from 2048 to 1348.

You may also be interested in our Historical Fiction and Time Travel pages.