A Black Adonis by Albert Ross

Linn Boyd Porter (1851-1916), who wrote under the pseudonym Albert Ross, was a popular American author. His works include: Caring for No Man (1875), Thou Shalt Not (1889), His Private Character (1889), Speaking of Ellen (1890), In Stella's Shadow (1890), Moulding a Maiden (1891), Her Husband's Friend (1891), The Garston Bigamy (1892), Why I'm Single (1892), Thy Neighbor's Wife (1892), An Original Sinner (1893), Young Miss Giddy (1893), Love at Seventy (1894), A Black Adonis (1895), Young Fawcett's Mabel (1895), His Foster Sister (1896), Their Marriage Bond (1897), A New Sensation (1898), That Gay Deceiver! (1899), The Naked Truth (1899), Stranger Than Fiction (1900), A Sugar Princess (1900) and Riverfall (1903).

1492 by Mary Johnston

A classic romance and historical tale.

Mary Johnston (November 21, 1870 - May 9, 1936) was an American novelist and women's rights advocate from Virginia. She was one of America's best selling authors during her writing career and had three silent films adapted from her novels.

Anna of the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett

Anna, a woman of reserve and integrity, lives with her tyrannical and selfish father. Courted for her money by the handsome and successful Henry Mynors, Anna defies her father’s wrath–with tragic results. Set in the Potteries against a background of dour Wesleyan Methodism, Anna of the Five Towns is a brilliantly perceptive novel of provincial life in Victorian England.
The plot centres on Anna Tellwright, daughter of a wealthy but miserly and dictatorial father, living in the Potteries area of Staffordshire, England. Her activities are strictly controlled by the Methodist church. The novel tells of Anna’s struggle for freedom and independence against her father’s restraints, and her inward battle between wanting to please her father and wanting to help Willie Price whose father, Titus Price, commits suicide after falling into bankruptcy and debt. During the novel, Anna is courted by the town’s most eligible bachelor Henry Mynors, and agrees to be his wife, much to her young sister Agnes’ pleasure. She discovers in the end, however, that she loves Willie Price, but does not follow her heart, as he is leaving for Australia, and she is already promised to Mynors.

Ralph Sinclair's Atonement by Antony Sargent

The story of a romance gone awry, and back to normal again.  Maybe it was back to normal.  Maybe not.  Well worth the read, this is a romance that is difficult to put down.