19 must-read historical books like The Hope of Azure Springs by Rachel Fordham

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The Hope of Azure Springs

By: Rachel Fordham

4.34

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Seven years ago, orphaned and alone, Em finally arrived at a new home in Iowa after riding the orph…

"Fighting a battle with the earth seems like a plenty noble calling to me. Putting food on your table and on the plates of others - it's a quieter way. But it's a good way."

-Rachel Fordham, The Hope of Azure Springs

"Fighting a battle with the earth seems like a plenty noble calling to me. Putting food on your table and on the plates of others - it's a quieter way. But it's a good way."

-Rachel Fordham, The Hope of Azure Springs

"Fighting a battle with the earth seems like a plenty noble calling to me. Putting food on your table and on the plates of others - it's a quieter way. But it's a good way."

-Rachel Fordham, The Hope of Azure Springs

"Yes, Em, your freckles are perfect. Looks are a funny thing, very peculiar. Never waste any time disliking the ones you have. The right person will think they are the very definition of beautiful."

-Rachel Fordham, The Hope of Azure Springs

If you liked the historical plot in The Hope of Azure Springs by Rachel Fordham , here is a list of 19 books like this:

Cover of An Elegant Façade (Hawthorne House, #2) by Kristi Ann Hunter

1. An Elegant Façade (Hawthorne House, #2)

By: Kristi Ann Hunter

4.11

Format: 362 pages, Paperback

Lady Georgina Hawthorne has worked tirelessly to seal her place as the Incomparable for her debut s… read more

Similar categories in Kristi Ann Hunter's An Elegant Façade (Hawthorne House, #2) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Trust God to give you what you need when you need it. If you get it too early, you might misplace it."

-Kristi Ann Hunter, An Elegant Façade (Hawthorne House, #2)

"Often, significant moments in life are only identifiable in hindsight, but every now and then something happens that announces its significance with trumpeted preamble and terrifying implications."

-Kristi Ann Hunter, An Elegant Façade (Hawthorne House, #2)

2. Full Steam Ahead (Full Steam Ahead, #1)

By: Karen Witemeyer

3.44

Format: 406 pages, Paperback

Nicole Renard returns home to Galveston, Texas, to find her father deathly ill. Though she loves hi… read more

Similar categories in Karen Witemeyer's Full Steam Ahead (Full Steam Ahead, #1) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

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3. Forged in Love (Wyoming Sunrise, #1)

By: Mary Connealy

4.06

Format: 304 pages, Paperback

In 1870, Mariah Stover is left for dead and with no memory when the Deadeye Gang robs the stagecoac… read more

Similar categories in Mary Connealy's Forged in Love (Wyoming Sunrise, #1) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • westerns
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of After the Shadows (Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing, #1) by Amanda Cabot

4. After the Shadows (Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing, #1)

By: Amanda Cabot

4.06

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Emily Leland sheds no tears when her abusive husband is killed in a bar fight, but what awaits her … read more

Similar categories in Amanda Cabot's After the Shadows (Secrets of Sweetwater Crossing, #1) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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5. All My Secrets

By: Lynn Austin

4.45

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Bestselling author Lynn Austin returns with a luminous work of historical fiction set amid the opul… read more

Similar categories in Lynn Austin's All My Secrets book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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6. For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3)

By: Gabrielle Meyer

4.55

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Grace and Hope are identical twin sisters born with the ability to time-cross together between 1692… read more

Similar categories in Gabrielle Meyer's For a Lifetime (Timeless, #3) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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7. Fairest of Heart (Texas Ever After, #1)

By: Karen Witemeyer

4.29

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Beauty has been nothing but a curse to Penelope Snow. When she becomes a personal maid for a famous… read more

Similar categories in Karen Witemeyer's Fairest of Heart (Texas Ever After, #1) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • westerns
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
"You don't have to earn your place here, Penelope," he'd said. "This is your home now. You're one of us, and we take care of our own."

-Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart (Texas Ever After, #1)

"She cold dance with butterflies all she liked. That wouldn't stop him from clipping her wings if that's what it took to see justice done."

-Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart (Texas Ever After, #1)

"She could dance with butterflies all she liked. That wouldn't stop him from clipping her wings if that's what it took to see justice done."

-Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart (Texas Ever After, #1)

"In all the daydreams she'd woven about her and Titus sharing intimate conversations, never once did they entail discussing corset burglary."

-Karen Witemeyer, Fairest of Heart (Texas Ever After, #1)

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8. Loyally, Luke

By: Pepper Basham

4.07

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Sometimes love means embracing the good, the bad . . . and even the impossible. Dear Reader, … read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's Loyally, Luke book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of In the Shelter of Hollythorne House (The Houses of Yorkshire #2) by Sarah E. Ladd

9. In the Shelter of Hollythorne House (The Houses of Yorkshire #2)

By: Sarah E. Ladd

4.00

Format: 338 pages, Paperback

A young widow faces an uncertain future . . . until an unexpected encounter with her first love giv… read more

Similar categories in Sarah E. Ladd's In the Shelter of Hollythorne House (The Houses of Yorkshire #2) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of If the Boot Fits (Texas Ever After, #2) by Karen Witemeyer

10. If the Boot Fits (Texas Ever After, #2)

By: Karen Witemeyer

4.40

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

Determined to prove that cattle king Eli Dearing has no justification for evicting his stepmother a… read more

Similar categories in Karen Witemeyer's If the Boot Fits (Texas Ever After, #2) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • westerns
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
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11. Embers in the London Sky

By: Sarah Sundin

4.22

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

As the German army invades the Netherlands in 1940, Aleida van der Zee Martens escapes to London to… read more

Similar categories in Sarah Sundin's Embers in the London Sky book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
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12. The Love Note

By: Joanna Davidson Politano

4.35

Format: 400 pages, Paperback

Focused on a career in medicine and not on romance, Willa Duvall is thrown slightly off course duri… read more

Similar categories in Joanna Davidson Politano's The Love Note book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Do not be afraid to marry a man who's firmly planted to earth, for he is the flagpole to your flag - not restricting, but anchoring, so that you may be free to fly. In return, you shall decorate the …"

-Joanna Davidson Politano, The Love Note

Cover of The Hope of Azure Springs by Rachel Fordham

13. The Hope of Azure Springs

By: Rachel Fordham

4.34

Format: 334 pages, Paperback

Seven years ago, orphaned and alone, Em finally arrived at a new home in Iowa after riding the orph… read more

Similar categories in Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • westerns
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Fighting a battle with the earth seems like a plenty noble calling to me. Putting food on your table and on the plates of others - it's a quieter way. But it's a good way."

-Rachel Fordham, The Hope of Azure Springs

"Yes, Em, your freckles are perfect. Looks are a funny thing, very peculiar. Never waste any time disliking the ones you have. The right person will think they are the very definition of beautiful."

-Rachel Fordham, The Hope of Azure Springs

"Does she bring you happiness, make you laugh?" Gideon had asked. When Caleb confessed that she did, his father then asked, "Do you like who you are when you are with her?" Again Caleb answered in the…"

-Rachel Fordham, The Hope of Azure Springs

Cover of The Heart of the Mountains by Pepper Basham

14. The Heart of the Mountains

By: Pepper Basham

4.54

Format: 256 pages, Kindle Edition

To escape a forced marriage, Cora Taylor travels from England to the Blue Ridge Mountains in search… read more

Similar categories in Pepper Basham's The Heart of the Mountains book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Love’s worth being brave, ain’t it? Brave again and again and again."

-Pepper Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

"Mama’s always said that God uses prayin’ to change us more than us changin’ anything else."

-Pepper Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

"But I reckon God wouldn’t have given tears to us if He didn’t mean for us to use them now and again."

-Pepper Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

"She looked at him in a way that made him feel like he hadn’t lost half of himself in the trenches of Europe."

-Pepper Basham, The Heart of the Mountains

Cover of A River Between Us by Jocelyn Green

15. A River Between Us

By: Jocelyn Green

4.44

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Cora Mae Stewart’s world collapses when Sherman destroys the Georgia cotton mill where she works an… read more

Similar categories in Jocelyn Green's A River Between Us book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The British Booksellers by Kristy Cambron

16. The British Booksellers

By: Kristy Cambron

4.13

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Inspired by real accounts of the Forgotten Blitz bombings, The British Booksellers highlights the c… read more

Similar categories in Kristy Cambron's The British Booksellers book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Perhaps days like this are exactly why we have books in the world. To remember that not all is lost, even if we find ourselves in the unknown. I like to think we provide a haven for the wanderer. And…"

-Kristy Cambron, The British Booksellers

Cover of The Lost Lieutenant (Serendipity & Secrets, #1) by Erica Vetsch

17. The Lost Lieutenant (Serendipity & Secrets, #1)

By: Erica Vetsch

4.25

Format: 277 pages, Paperback

Evan Eldridge never meant to be a war hero—he only wanted to fight Napoleon for the future of his c… read more

Similar categories in Erica Vetsch's The Lost Lieutenant (Serendipity & Secrets, #1) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • clean romance
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Along a Storied Trail by Ann H. Gabhart

18. Along a Storied Trail

By: Ann H. Gabhart

4.20

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Kentucky packhorse librarian Tansy Calhoun doesn't mind the rough trails and long hours as she serv… read more

Similar categories in Ann H. Gabhart's Along a Storied Trail book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
Cover of The Song of Sourwood Mountain by Ann H. Gabhart

19. The Song of Sourwood Mountain

By: Ann H. Gabhart

4.41

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

While the century began with such promise, it is 1910 when Mira Dean's hopes of being a wife and mo… read more

Similar categories in Ann H. Gabhart's The Song of Sourwood Mountain book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Hudson Collection (On Central Park, #2) by Jocelyn Green

20. The Hudson Collection (On Central Park, #2)

By: Jocelyn Green

4.39

Format: 368 pages, Paperback

Elsa Reisner's lifelong dream of working as an ornithologist at the American Museum of Natural Hist… read more

Similar categories in Jocelyn Green's The Hudson Collection (On Central Park, #2) book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • romance
  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
Cover of Born of Gilded Mountains by Amanda Dykes

21. Born of Gilded Mountains

By: Amanda Dykes

4.42

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

When newcomer Mercy Windsor arrives in Mercy Peak in 1948 after a scandal shatters her gilded world… read more

Similar categories in Amanda Dykes's Born of Gilded Mountains book and Rachel Fordham's The Hope of Azure Springs

  • christian fiction
  • christian
  • historical
  • historical romance
  • fiction
  • historical fiction
  • audiobook
"Spatts is strong. - Rusty"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"I sometimes think, when our dreams seem impossible to us, perhaps we just haven't seen yet how God will chase after our hearts with those very dreams, in the unlikeliest ways."

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"Sunsets here were more an experience than a sight. They marked the soul. Pierced it, rearranged things with all that shifting color and light, and sealed it up again, a little more whole than it was …"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

"On a stage of earth, beneath a canopy of stars, with a score of scattered laughter, Mercy watched a story unfold more enchanting than any the Dream Factory of Hollywood could have produced. Even the …"

-Amanda Dykes, Born of Gilded Mountains

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