Regency
A Necessary Deception
England, 1812: Young widow Lydia Gale helps parole an imprisoned Frenchman and starts a chain of events that takes her…
Catching the Eagle
Catching the Eagle is based on a true story of the theft of £1157 from Kirkley Hall in Northumberland in…
A Country Gentleman
Lavinia Muir and her friend, the flirtatious Isobel Macclesfield, visit Lavinia’s godmother and her son, Lord Thurlby. He can only…
By the King’s Design
Annabelle Stirling (Belle) and her flighty, journal-writing brother Wesley own a draper’s shop in Yorkshire until a Luddite mob, unhappy…
The Unexpected Miss Bennet
Among the plethora of Jane Austen continuation novels, this story is distinct in that its central character is the least…
The Cocoa Conspiracy
This is a story for chocolate lovers. Chocolate appears on nearly every page, whether the characters are eating it, drinking…
Jane Austen: Blood Persuasion
Fact: Vampires have haunted bookstore shelves for some time now. In recent years, they’ve poked their fangs into many a…
In Pursuit of Eliza Cynster
In this Regency romance, Eliza Cynster is awfully close to being on the shelf. Her rapidly advancing age makes her…
In the Arms of a Marquess
In 1812, sixteen-year-old Octavia arrives in Madras to reside with her aunt and sister, whose husbands are East India Company…
Death Comes to Pemberley
Following the current fashion for new fictions derived from the works of Jane Austen, P.D. James has combined her love…
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