Hidden Passion Films

Romance Novels are a billion dollar industry in the U.S., according to Publisher’s Weekly and Romance Writers of America. Readers buy as many as three novels a week and represents over 50% of paperback sales.

Hidden Passion Films will be full length films (approximately 90 minutes long each) for the direct to video market. Each film will have all of the elements that make the historical romance novel such a thrilling experience on a budget of $500,000 USD. HPF will have the beautiful people that populate these novels. Our talent comes from Soap Opera Favorites, stars from genre TV with their own fan followings and wonderful up and coming actors. The films will have lush and scenic places as backdrops. All of the best loved locales for historical romance readers will be on screen: the wild frontier for Westerns; a castle for Gothic Romance; the English manor house for tales of intrigue amongst the social classes. And best of all, the storylines are inspired by the elements of Historical Romance novels that have made them so wildly popular: beautiful, courageous, besieged heroines; handsome, compelling, intrepid heroes; true and passionate love; incredible danger and intrigue; amazing adventure; and the happiest of endings.

Hidden Passion Films Titles

The Highwayman is the first in the series. It is set in the English countryside at a time when the wealthy and poor alike had to live in fear of being robbed by ruthless highway bandits. Among them is Colin Deverell. He’s more charming than ruthless and often gives away more money than he takes. One fateful night, he strikes the mother lode of luck. After an unsually difficult encounter with a very wealthy Duke, Colin acquires new clothes and a new mount. Colin’s luck is short-lived as he is waylaid a short while later and knocked senseless. He awakens in the lavish home of an eccentric inventor, Sebastian Chambers. His nurse is the inventor’s incredibly beautiful daughter Victoria. The Masons believe him to be the count who was to come courting Amelia. Though tempted by the possibilities Victoria presents, Colin must makes good his escape. But he changes his mind when he discovers a murder plot against the inventor and his daughter by their shiftless family. Can he outwit the killers, keep up the ruse and stay ahead of the law? And can he keep resisting Victoria?

The Gunslinger is the story of Shadow Smith – a wanted man who has been wrongfully accused of murder. He has had no end of confrontations over his ill-deserved reputation. While in New Mexico, he rides into a range war to confront a gunfighter who has been using his name. He can’t allow anymore killings associated with that name than he already has. Instead, of a would-be gunslinger, he discovers K.D. Delaney, a beautiful young woman posing as Shadow to fend off two factions that want her land. The real Shadow stays because he can neither resist the fight nor the woman. K.D. is strong despite being wracked with grief over her father’s recent death. And she gives him the first home he has known for a long time. If they survive the superior numbers and weapons against them, will they be able to prevent the law from hanging Shadow?

Bonds of Honor begins with the relationship of two Viking brothers. The eldest and heir to his father’s power is Wulfgar. He is bold, brave and impetuous – a man who lives life to the fullest. The younger son Garrick knows that the days of unhindered Viking raids will soon end. He is bent on finding a way for his people to survive that reality despite his training as a warrior. Wulfgar is mortally wounded on his last raid and returns home to die in his brother’s arms. Garrick vows revenge and finds it when he kidnaps the lovely and spirited daughter of the nobleman responsible for Wulgar’s death. Lady Leanna, who wanted no husband – not from the gentry and certainly not a barbarian – finds her match in Garrick. What began as revenge ignites a passionate love. Will wedding her force an alliance with England that Garrick hopes will benefit his people and satisfy his need to keep the enigmatic beauty that has fallen in his grasp?

The Gift of Surrender is the story of Princess Sarianna and a fateful decision. The Princess must marry before enemies find out that her father is severely infirmed and does not rule his rich and powerful kingdom. Despite her dire circumstances, Sarianna is loathed to choose from the bullies who have crossed her path proposing to take her body and her throne. And then one night a beautiful and mysterious man saves her from an assassin's arrow. She loses her heart immediately. Prince Nikulainen or Niku is the youngest son of a powerful and ambitious King. He is also of the bloodline of the legendary Forest Realm. He loves Sarianna at first glance. But can he get her to trust him? Can he avoid the wrath of his older brothers in claiming her? Can he save her from assassins? His surrender to her would thwart his father's ambitions, but it could save them all. Is Niku strong enough to surrender?