Julia Litchfield, who has followed the drum all her life, is statuesque, independent, courageous, closer to handsome than pretty. Not at all the petite, sweet type her father’s aide-de-camp Major Nicholas Tarleton prefers. But on his deathbed in Sp...
All Vicki Kent wants is a few days of off-season isolation at her parents' windswept Cape Cod home. But instead of blissful solitude, she's greeted by a gun-toting stranger -- and a sudden, fierce attraction she can definitely do without. Tha...
Catherine Audley, the daughter of Britain's spymaster on the Iberian Peninsula, is far more sophisticated than most young women her age, which doesn't protect her from the machinations of her father, a husband of convenience, or the unrelenting deman...
When Claire Langdon's affluent, near-fairytale life in New York is shattered by scandal, she and her eight-year-old son Jamie take refuge with her grandmother in Florida. Once a bright, confident young woman, Claire has been so badly hurt that when s...
With a country cottage left to her in a mysterious will, American schoolmistress Abigail Todd leaves for England, secretly in search of adventure. What she finds is the scandalous truth of her family history -- as the grandmother she never knew plays...
A Major Mismatch For anyone to think that Lady Vanessa Rayne might consider marrying someone as far beneath her as an engineer is simply preposterous. She has never heard anything as ridiculous as the match pro-posed by her well-meaning sire. And ...
The Duke's Daughter For eight long and frequently bitter years, Lady Caroline Carlington lived in the country far from the ton her late mother so despised. But now she has returned to London to up residence with her father, the Duke of Longville. ...
A Fateful Night Miss Penelope Blayne is outraged. She considers herself perfectly capable of managing her late aunt's estate, but unfortunately, her aunt has chosen Jason Lisbourne, Earl of Rocksley -- the one man she wished never to see again...
A Practical Pairing Miss Aurelia Trevor is in mourning...not for any person, but for her beloved Pevensey Park. Her conniving uncle and his loathsome son have claimed lordship over the estate which should rightly be hers, if not for the fact that ...
Her Secret Past... After years at war, Damon Farr has finally returned to his beloved Farr Park. Haunted by battle, Damon is no longer a rakish youth, but a sober man of twenty-eight ready to retire from the both the pain and pleasures of the worl...
Harlan Dawnay, Lord Davenham, handsome and dashing heir to an earldom, offers a marriage of convenience to a suitable young lady he scarcely knows, only to discover she has no intention of being ignored in favor of his friends or his mistress.
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Blush sensuality level: This is a sweet romance (kisses only, no sexual content). After Pamela Ashburton’s dreams of a London Season meet with disaster at her very first ball, and her humiliation exaggerated by the unfeeling attitude of her moth...
AUTHOR'S WARNING: O'ROURKE'S HEIRESS contains major spoilers for THE SOMETIME BRIDE and TARLETON'S WIFE. It is strongly recommended you read both books before this one.Can the daughter of a jumped-up tradesman find happiness with a handsome and char...
Laine Halliday, troubleshooter for Fantascapes, plunges from fantasy weddings and exotic vacations into the midst of mob warfare on an international scale. Accustomed to dealing with the idiosyncrasies of the wealthy, she is only mildly surprised by ...
A personal disaster in New York City sends promising clothing designer Gwyn Halliday fleeing home to the sleepy Gulfcoast resort and retirement community of Golden Beach, Florida, where she turns her talents to designing costumes. Five years later, h...
When Michael Turco's brother is injured in a tournament at a Medieval Fair, the Florida Highway Patrol lieutenant suspects it wasn't an accident and begins his own personal investigation. Which causes him considerable anguish when he has to enlist th...
Not all surprises are good ones. In the midst of a glorious second season, Lady Christine Ashford’s life is wholly disrupted by tragedy. The death of her father, the Earl of Bainbridge, leaves herself and her younger sisters summarily exiled from t...
At age eleven, Miss Amanda Merriwether encounters a rather rude young man on the banks of the Kennet & Avon canal and embarks on a decade-long relationship which suffers enough blows to discourage the strongest will. The young man is the Marquess...
WARNING: Although the story in ROGUE'S DESTINY stands alone, it contains major spoilers for the previous books in the Regency Warrior series: THE SOMETIME BRIDE, TARLETON'S WIFE, and O'ROURKE'S HEIRESS. After suffering a broken heart and barely escap...
Miss Serena Farnsworth, spinster, is a managing female, the crutch for her extended family, for whom she functions as nurse, companion, and household organizer. In short, she lives a life of service, devoid of romance. Until she is invited to attend ...
Blush sensuality level: This is a sensual romance (may have love scenes, but not erotic in frequency or type). Cass Wilder is looking for excitement, both on the job and in her personal life -- a wish that is more than fulfilled when she saves an ...
Author's Note: Although I have changed the names of certain people and places, the setting of THE ART OF EVIL is an accurate depiction of The John and Mable Ringling Museum complex on Sarasota Bay in the last year before the bulldozers moved in for ...
Author's Note: THE MISTS OF MOORHEAD MANOR is a Gothic novel in the tradition of Victoria Holt, Mary Stewart, Phyllis Whitney, and Blair Bancroft's previous Regency-set Gothic, BRIDES OF FALCONFELL. Penelope Ruth Ballantyne has lived at the tail of t...
When the widowed Miranda Tyrell escapes a dire situation in Kent by accepting a position as governess in Lincolnshire, taking her young son with her, she never dreams she is jumping out of the frying pan into the fire. Instead of peace and safety, Mi...
Although it seems likely she is being married for the magnificence of her dowry, Jocelyn Hawley accepts an offer of marriage from a Welshman. And quickly discovers she is as unprepared for marriage as she is for her new family -- a mother-in-law who ...
Miss Lucinda Neville has more than a few problems. She has felled her importunate brother-in-law, become a surrogate mother to a foreigner's baby, a keeper of dangerous secrets, and staunch defender of a child someone seems to want gone from this ear...
Princess M'lani of the pacifist planet Psyclid, where almost everyone but M'lani is gifted with some kind of psychic ability, has agreed to marry Jason Mondragon, the Sorcerer Prime. Jagan fled their planet when it was invaded by the Regulon Empire, ...
Lady Amelie Sherbrooke is not wanted. In fact, her future mama-in-law has refused to share a house with her. But Amelie, thoroughly enjoying her long-time role as hostess for her father, the Duke of Wentworth, has already rejected a score of suito...
What to do with K'kadi Amund, the youngest of four royal children—the one who doesn't talk? The young man of almost twenty-one who can still lose himself in moments of beauty, or moments of disaster. Unreliable and weird are some of the kinder ...
After the death of her father, young Serafina Blackthorne of New Haven, Connecticut, becomes a reverse immigrant, traveling from the New World to the Old. To her grandfather, who lives on Dartmoor, a place where eerie legends abound and where she dis...
Destroyed crops in Florida and Spain. Acts of terror? Corporate warfare? Or simply businesses held to ransom? Whatever the motive, Ashley van Dyne, president of an organic foods business, needs the tough Hispanic entrepreneur, Rafe Guererro, to help ...
In this final book of the Blue Moon Rising series, the rebels have taken a three-year time-out before the final battle against the Empire—planning, preparing, and producing a new generation. Even their one-time enemy, the Emperor's nephew Rand ...
The Princess Royal of a pacifist planet, whose people have spent a thousand years developing their powers of the mind, stages a personal rebellion, joining the space academy of a planet that has spent a millennium developing its military might. This ...
Author's Note: This novella was first published in a Christmas anthology as THE LAST SURPRISE, but I always felt more scope was needed to tell the tale of three girls who are orphaned while the eldest is in the midst of a glorious London Season. The...
A Regency ghost tale inspired by the classic saying: "Marry in haste, repent at leisure."The widowed Lady Marian Talbot is keeping a low profile as her exquisitely lovely sister, Vanessa, makes her come-out. Yet somehow it is Marian who attracts the ...
Major Courtland Randolph, after losing a leg at Waterloo, abandons the world of his birth for a hops farm in Kent. He is not pleased when his former commanding officer maneuvers him into returning to society as protector of a lady who once termed him...
Independent and capable Prudence Wedderburn, daughter of a vicar, is a woman before her time. She not only manages the parish duties usually performed by a vicar's wife, she has learned the art of healing, and during her father's final illness, she a...
Author's Note. Welcome to a Regency series with a twist! Although the Matthew Wolfe books feature the adventures of a supposed nobody off the mean streets of London, they are designed for Covid relief—light, warm-hearted, even whimsical. Hopefu...
At the risk of being taken up by Bow Street, Matthew Wolfe returns to London, hoping to discover some clue to his heritage, which just might be royal. But, of course, nothing goes as he hoped. Not even the role he had eagerly anticipated as one of Ha...
Matthew Wolfe's life has been one problem after another, most of them dramatic, many dangerous, and some heart-breaking. Despite all the friends he has made and all he has learned along the way, he knows only a tantalizing hint of his father's family...
When bullies threaten Aurelia Lacey and her five-year-old daughter Nell, they are rescued by an old friend, Jason Durand, younger brother of an earl. Jason, once a daring spy, has fallen into depression and drunkenness since the war, but he rallies l...
In this spin-off of the Blue Moon Rising series, the Crucible Kingdom, an obscure planet far, far away, is suffering from an ancient curse—periodic bouts of violent storms, earthquakes, floods, tsunamis, and wildfire. To break the curse, a wido...
Violet Larrabee, a merchant's daughter, born in India, achieves her greatest dream, marrying the man she has loved since childhood (great-grandson of a Bengali rajah), only to have her world plunge into a succession of nightmares. Abandoned by an all...
Miss Madeline Lacey—world traveler and spinster—is a far cry from the other young ladies making their debut in London society. But instead of wilting into an aging wallflower, she surprises everyone by attracting the attention of a wealth...
At eighteen, Adria Lovett can think only of making her come-out and finding the love of her life. Until, scant weeks before leaving for London, her world crumbles around her, pitching her into a situation shockingly contrary to anything she has ever ...