Robert Hale
Windstorm
It is wartime Cairo in 1916. Lea Attwood, an intrepid war correspondent, is in Egypt seeking news of her husband,…
The Wild Card
London 1810. Kitty Towers has been sent to London to stay with an elderly aunt with the aim of mixing…
The Clerkenwell Conspiracy
The Clerkenwell Conspiracy is a romantic adventure set in London during the Napoleonic Era. Here the reader finds the potent…
The Penny Bangle
It is 1942 and a nineteen-year-old munitions worker, Cassie Taylor leaves Birmingham to become a land girl in Dorset. When…
A Rational Romance
Rosamund Beauvais is left homeless when her grandfather loses everything in a card game with Elliot Malvern. As a man…
Edmund Bertram’s Diary
Edmund Bertram is fond of his gentle cousin, Fanny Price, who has been taken in by his wealthy parents as…
Yorkshire Rose
Presumably this will go on the romance shelves in libraries, but it is more a woman’s coming-of-age story than a…
Lady of Lincoln
Lady of Lincoln revolves around life in the close of Lincoln Cathedral, and although I could find no specific date…
Lord Thurston’s Challenge
When Charlotte Carstairs is orphaned, along with her young brother and sister, she takes them to live with her maternal…
Captain Wentworth’s Diary
Editors' choice
In 1806 the young Frederick Wentworth visits Somerset and meets the young Anne Elliot. It is a meeting of minds…
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