30 must-read historical books like Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1) by Cate Melville

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Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

By: Cate Melville

4.17

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman desperate to escape a lecherous cleric. A battle-hardened knight who's haunted by his…

If you liked the historical plot in Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1) by Cate Melville , here is a list of 30 books like this:

Cover of Her Baseborn Bridegroom (Vawdrey Brothers, #1) by Alice Coldbreath

1. Her Baseborn Bridegroom (Vawdrey Brothers, #1)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.05

Format: 305 pages, Kindle Edition

Lady Linnet Cadwallader has been raised a helpless invalid in her own castle. Brought up to believe… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's Her Baseborn Bridegroom (Vawdrey Brothers, #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
"Do you want to know the truth?"

-Alice Coldbreath, Her Baseborn Bridegroom (Vawdrey Brothers, #1)

" “Maurency seems to be undergoing a remarkable and somewhat undesirable transformation."

-Alice Coldbreath, Her Baseborn Bridegroom (Vawdrey Brothers, #1)

Cover of A Substitute Wife for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters, #2) by Alice Coldbreath

2. A Substitute Wife for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters, #2)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.23

Format: 344 pages, Kindle Edition

Plain, respectable Lizzie Anderson is in the devil of a fix. After catching sight of something she … read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's A Substitute Wife for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters, #2) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Saxon Warrior's Captive Bride (Medieval Brides, #2) by Emily Royal

3. The Saxon Warrior's Captive Bride (Medieval Brides, #2)

By: Emily Royal

4.23

Format: 408 pages, Kindle Edition

Revenge, captivity, betrayal… Unable to forget the enigmatic young man she glimpsed from afar si… read more

Similar categories in Emily Royal's The Saxon Warrior's Captive Bride (Medieval Brides, #2) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • medieval
Cover of The Saxon Lord's Unwanted Bride (Medieval Brides, #1) by Emily Royal

4. The Saxon Lord's Unwanted Bride (Medieval Brides, #1)

By: Emily Royal

3.98

Format: 315 pages, Kindle Edition

An embittered lord… A gentle bride… A dark secret Harald of Wildstorm is tortured by nightmares … read more

Similar categories in Emily Royal's The Saxon Lord's Unwanted Bride (Medieval Brides, #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • medieval
  • medieval romance
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5. Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

By: Cate Melville

4.17

Format: 318 pages, Kindle Edition

A young woman desperate to escape a lecherous cleric. A battle-hardened knight who's haunted by his… read more

Similar categories in Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of A Knight to Call Her Home (Peace-Weavers #1) by Margaux Thorne

6. A Knight to Call Her Home (Peace-Weavers #1)

By: Margaux Thorne

4.12

Format: 284 pages, Kindle Edition

A Norman warrior without a home… A Saxon heiress determined to keep her own… Nothing makes La… read more

Similar categories in Margaux Thorne's A Knight to Call Her Home (Peace-Weavers #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of Phoebe (The Bellamy Sisters #1) by Minerva Spencer

7. Phoebe (The Bellamy Sisters #1)

By: Minerva Spencer

4.04

Format: 263 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet the Bellamy sisters, five young women who will do anything to save their siblings and keep the… read more

Similar categories in Minerva Spencer's Phoebe (The Bellamy Sisters #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
"Everyone comes from somewhere, Twickham—even the lowest chimney sweep could trace his bloody lineage back six hundred years if he had the leisure and money to do so."

-Minerva Spencer, Phoebe (The Bellamy Sisters #1)

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8. The Good Knight (Peace-Weavers #2)

By: Margaux Thorne

4.18

Format: 274 pages, Kindle Edition

Betrayed by the man she loved, Lady Willa of Wakefield is left a young widow with a reputation in t… read more

Similar categories in Margaux Thorne's The Good Knight (Peace-Weavers #2) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • medieval romance
Cover of A Dark and Stormy Knight (Peace-Weavers #4) by Margaux Thorne

9. A Dark and Stormy Knight (Peace-Weavers #4)

By: Margaux Thorne

4.16

Format: 299 pages, Kindle Edition

A lady who knows who she is … A knight who knows who he needs … Lady Sibley of Wakefield has … read more

Similar categories in Margaux Thorne's A Dark and Stormy Knight (Peace-Weavers #4) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • medieval romance
Cover of The Favourite (Brides of Karadok #6) by Alice Coldbreath

10. The Favourite (Brides of Karadok #6)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.16

Format: 489 pages, ebook

Alisander de Balon, fifth Viscount Bardulf is a lot of things.  Ambassador.  Diplomat.  Spy.  He is… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's The Favourite (Brides of Karadok #6) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of Knight and Day (Peace-Weavers #3) by Margaux Thorne

11. Knight and Day (Peace-Weavers #3)

By: Margaux Thorne

4.23

Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition

A lady searching for excitement … A knight stuck in his past … Lady Alice of Wakefield has ne… read more

Similar categories in Margaux Thorne's Knight and Day (Peace-Weavers #3) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • medieval
  • medieval romance
Cover of Her Ruthless Duke (Rogue's Guild #1) by Scarlett Scott

12. Her Ruthless Duke (Rogue's Guild #1)

By: Scarlett Scott

4.22

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

From USA Today and Amazon Top 100 bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes a new, deliciously wicked… read more

Similar categories in Scarlett Scott's Her Ruthless Duke (Rogue's Guild #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of A Bride for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters, #1) by Alice Coldbreath

13. A Bride for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters, #1)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.02

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Mina’s well-ordered life is thrown into disarray when her father drops a bombshell on his deathbed:… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's A Bride for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters, #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Unlovely Bride (Brides of Karadok, #2) by Alice Coldbreath

14. The Unlovely Bride (Brides of Karadok, #2)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.22

Format: 514 pages, Kindle Edition

Lenora Montmayne leads a charmed life as the most beautiful woman at King Wymer’s court, surrounded… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's The Unlovely Bride (Brides of Karadok, #2) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
"Lenora Montmayne was brave as fuck or foolhardy as hell. He wasn't sure yet which it was."

-Alice Coldbreath, The Unlovely Bride (Brides of Karadok, #2)

"I will change, she vowed. While I will never have a really decent character, true love or even much by way of brains, I can still seek out some semblance of happiness."

-Alice Coldbreath, The Unlovely Bride (Brides of Karadok, #2)

"A roll in the sheets with me at present would likely snap you in half," he added. Lenora blinked. "are you so rough then, that I need to be more robust?" she asked with some acerbity."

-Alice Coldbreath, The Unlovely Bride (Brides of Karadok, #2)

Cover of An Inconvenient Vow (Brides of Karadok, #5) by Alice Coldbreath

15. An Inconvenient Vow (Brides of Karadok, #5)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.21

Format: 502 pages, Kindle Edition

Never did Sabina Burrell imagine that foiling a plot against her sister would lead to her having to… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's An Inconvenient Vow (Brides of Karadok, #5) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of His Forsaken Bride (Vawdrey Brothers, #2) by Alice Coldbreath

16. His Forsaken Bride (Vawdrey Brothers, #2)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.13

Format: 617 pages, Kindle Edition

Fenella Thane is a desperate woman. Her absentee husband of eight years has served her with divorce… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's His Forsaken Bride (Vawdrey Brothers, #2) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of Wed by Proxy (Brides of Karadok, #1) by Alice Coldbreath

17. Wed by Proxy (Brides of Karadok, #1)

By: Alice Coldbreath

3.87

Format: 411 pages, Kindle Edition

Thrice wedded, but never bedded, Mathilde Martindale has long lived in the shadow of her indomitabl… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's Wed by Proxy (Brides of Karadok, #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of A Hellion for the Wicked Highlander (Highland Hellions Book Club #1) by Lydia Kendall

18. A Hellion for the Wicked Highlander (Highland Hellions Book Club #1)

By: Lydia Kendall

4.41

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

“Ye will either marry her or die!” When Leona’s father finds a love letter presumably from their… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kendall's A Hellion for the Wicked Highlander (Highland Hellions Book Club #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
Cover of Wedded to the Cruel Highlander (Highland Hellions Book Club #3) by Lydia Kendall

19. Wedded to the Cruel Highlander (Highland Hellions Book Club #3)

By: Lydia Kendall

4.35

Format: 409 pages, Kindle Edition

“Ye should leave, Isobel. I cannae promise to be a gentleman with ye.”After months of captivity, La… read more

Similar categories in Lydia Kendall's Wedded to the Cruel Highlander (Highland Hellions Book Club #3) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
Cover of Taken by the Cruel Highlander by Maddie MacKenna

20. Taken by the Cruel Highlander

By: Maddie MacKenna

4.49

Format: 437 pages, Kindle Edition

“Who dared to touch ye, Molly? Tell me now, I’ll kill them.”Desperate to escape her cruel life as a… read more

Similar categories in Maddie MacKenna's Taken by the Cruel Highlander book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
Cover of An Ill-Made Match (Vawdrey Brothers, #3) by Alice Coldbreath

21. An Ill-Made Match (Vawdrey Brothers, #3)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.14

Format: 424 pages, Kindle Edition

Roland Vawdrey is used to the best. As the King’s champion he sets all the maiden’s hearts a-flutte… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's An Ill-Made Match (Vawdrey Brothers, #3) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of Her Bridegroom, Bought and Paid For (Brides of Karadok, #4) by Alice Coldbreath

22. Her Bridegroom, Bought and Paid For (Brides of Karadok, #4)

By: Alice Coldbreath

3.93

Format: 324 pages, Kindle Edition

Aimee Ankatel, oldest daughter to the richest merchant in all Karadok only has eyes for the heavily… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's Her Bridegroom, Bought and Paid For (Brides of Karadok, #4) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters #3) by Alice Coldbreath

23. A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters #3)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.21

Format: 517 pages, Kindle Edition

Theodora knows in her heart that she has star quality but sadly, no-one else in her theatrical fami… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's A Contracted Spouse for the Prizefighter (Victorian Prizefighters #3) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Consolation Prize (Brides of Karadok, #3) by Alice Coldbreath

24. The Consolation Prize (Brides of Karadok, #3)

By: Alice Coldbreath

4.08

Format: 331 pages, Kindle Edition

Princess Una harbors no illusions about her claims to Karadok’s throne. The last of her ill-fated l… read more

Similar categories in Alice Coldbreath's The Consolation Prize (Brides of Karadok, #3) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of Hyacinth (The Bellamy Sisters, #2) by Minerva Spencer

25. Hyacinth (The Bellamy Sisters, #2)

By: Minerva Spencer

4.16

Format: 422 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet the Bellamy sisters, five young women who will do anything to save their siblings and keep the… read more

Similar categories in Minerva Spencer's Hyacinth (The Bellamy Sisters, #2) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Maiden Bride by Rexanne Becnel

26. The Maiden Bride

By: Rexanne Becnel

3.85

Format: 337 pages, Kindle Edition

All her life, Linnea de Valcourt has been reviled as the cursed daughter of Maidenstone Castle. The… read more

Similar categories in Rexanne Becnel's The Maiden Bride book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of The Moonstone Duke (The Moonstone Landing #1) by Meara Platt

27. The Moonstone Duke (The Moonstone Landing #1)

By: Meara Platt

4.30

Format: 265 pages, Kindle Edition

What happens when a steamy duke who has never lost in battle meets the innocent young lady determin… read more

Similar categories in Meara Platt's The Moonstone Duke (The Moonstone Landing #1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of Highlander Defied (Courageous Highland Hearts, #1) by Jayne Castel

28. Highlander Defied (Courageous Highland Hearts, #1)

By: Jayne Castel

4.35

Format: 302 pages, Kindle Edition

Not all battles draw blood. A revenge-fueled clan-chief, his rebellious bride—and the marriage that… read more

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  • historical
  • medieval romance
  • historical romance
  • historical fiction
  • medieval
Cover of No Life for a Lady (Ladies of the Order #5) by Adele Clee

29. No Life for a Lady (Ladies of the Order #5)

By: Adele Clee

4.58

Format: 266 pages, Kindle Edition

After almost a year spent playing chaperone to Mr Daventry’s female enquiry agents, Miss Trimble kn… read more

Similar categories in Adele Clee's No Life for a Lady (Ladies of the Order #5) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical
Cover of Murder at Traitors' Gate (A Tate and Bell Mystery, #2) by Irina Shapiro

30. Murder at Traitors' Gate (A Tate and Bell Mystery, #2)

By: Irina Shapiro

4.45

Format: 320 pages, Kindle Edition

The chill of winter has descended on London. But for Sebastian Bell and Gemma Tate, there will be l… read more

Similar categories in Irina Shapiro's Murder at Traitors' Gate (A Tate and Bell Mystery, #2) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical
  • historical fiction
Cover of The Sins of the Sire (Dark Highland Passions Book 1) by Emily Royal

31. The Sins of the Sire (Dark Highland Passions Book 1)

By: Emily Royal

3.92

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

"A vengeful man must also dig a grave for himself" It was a meeting of souls... Two years ago… read more

Similar categories in Emily Royal's The Sins of the Sire (Dark Highland Passions Book 1) book and Cate Melville's Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

  • historical romance
  • historical

21 best-selling historical fiction books like Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1) by Cate Melville

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Alice Coldbreath

4.05

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Alice Coldbreath

4.23

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Born in Deception (Brides of Northumbria, #1)

Cate Melville

4.17

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Margaux Thorne

4.12

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Rebecca Ruger

4.56

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Heart of Fire (Heart of a Highlander #3)

Rebecca Ruger

4.51

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Hildie McQueen

4.43

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