Romance
Seduced by a Spy
It’s 1812, and England is at war with Napoleon. Mrs. Merlin’s Academy for Select Young Ladies, disguised as a finishing…
A Lady of High Regard
Mia Stanley considers herself a matchmaker. She’s also a writer for Godey’s Lady’s Book. For a young woman in Philadelphia…
The Scent of Jasmine
Melody Craven is a poor relation, orphaned by a cholera epidemic in India and given refuge by her Uncle Frederick…
A Christmas Beginning
Superintendent Runcorn of the Metropolitan Police has come to Anglesey to escape the loneliness of the Christmas season and his…
Cotillion
This story, by the woman credited with establishing the Regency romance subgenre, was originally published in 1953. Young Kitty Charing…
An Infamous Army: A Novel of Wellington, Waterloo, Love and War
This is a well-documented account of the Battle of Waterloo from the British army’s point of view. The social events…
A Week from Sunday
Set in the 1930s American heartland, young and sheltered Adrianna Moore receives a double shock when her father dies and…
The Pilfered Plume
The Pilfered Plume is a Regency romance set in London. Linnet Carlisle returns to the capital after spending a year…
The Blue Door
Eddie Cero is an unlikely private investigator. He has been making a living as a welterweight boxer, but his career…
The Rules of Gentility
The heroine is Philomena Wellesley-Clegg. Not those Wellesleys, as Philly always adds to her introductions. Her entrance into the ton…
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