Edith Layton

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  • Bibliography:
    65 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    February 1983
  • Latest Book:
    October 2022
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About the Author

After graduating from Hunter College in New York City with a degree in creative writing and theater, Edith Layton became one of the leading lights in Historical Romance, winning awards and publishing more than thirty novels and numerous novellas.

Edith and her husband raised three children, later becoming devoted grandparents. Edith was an active volunteer and advocate for pet rescue and adoption. Her last novel was published in 2009, a few months after she passed away.

Full Series List in Order

'C' Series

1 - The Cad (Sep-1998)
2 - The Choice (Aug-1999)
3 - The Challenge (Apr-2000)
4 - The Chance (Oct-2000)
5 - The Conquest (Aug-2001)
6 - To Wed a Stranger (Feb-2003)
7 - To Tempt a Bride (Nov-2003)

Bessacarr

1 - The Duke's Wager (Feb-1983)
2 - The Disdainful Marquis (Aug-1983)

Botany Bay

1 - The Return of the Earl (Sep-2004)
2 - Alas, My Love (Apr-2005)
3 - Gypsy Lover (Oct-2005)
4 - How to Seduce a Bride (Jun-2006)

Gilded Age

1 - The Gilded Cage (Aug-1991)
2 - The Silvery Moon (Jan-1992)

Love

1 - Love in Disguise (Aug-1987)
2 - The Game of Love (Jul-1988)
3 - Surrender to Love (Mar-1989)

Book List in Order: 65 titles

  • The Duke's Wager

    Bessacarr - 1
    Signet Regency Romance

    BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA Lovely Regina Berryman was pursued by two men -- the two most attractive and infamous bachelors in London. One was Jason Thomas, Duke of Torquay, whose skill and success in seduction had made him a legend...

  • The Disdainful Marquis

    Bessacarr - 2
    Signet Regency Romance

    A most proper young lady longs to give her love to a dashing nobleman who wants only to buy it NO PLACE FOR A LADY Miss Catherine Robins took a position as companion to the Dowager Duchess of Crewe little suspecting what kind of strait she woul...

  • The Mysterious Heir

    Signet Regency Romance

    A lovely young imposter plans to conquer an elegant lord -- not surrender to him THE EXQUISITE PRETENDER In dress, manner, and speech, Miss Elizabeth DeLisle seemed every inch a leisured lady. No one could guess she had been forced to take a p...

  • Red Jack's Daughter

    Signet Regency Romance

    An unsophisticated young miss dazzles three eligible bachelors with her beauty -- and her fortune HER HEART WAS DIVIDED IN THREE Jessica Eastwood’s country sweetheart, Tom Preston, wanted her to be the free and independent spirit that her ga...

  • Lord of Dishonor

    Signet Regency Romance

    A most virtuous young lady finds herself in an unthinkable alliance with England's most libertine lord ODDS AGAINST HONOR Lovely Amanda Amberly was a young lady of unsullied virtue--against all odds. For her bewitching mother, the Countess...

  • The Abandoned Bride

    Signet Regency Romance

    JILTED BEAUTY! Strikingly beautiful young Julia Hastings had been an inexperienced innocent when handsome, high-born Robin Marlowe induced her to elope with him--only to abandon her without a word of explanation on their wedding night. Julia w...

  • False Angel

    Signet Regency Romance

    A prudent young beauty vows never to let England's most notorious rake cast his spell over her THE LIBERTINE LORD...AND THE LADY Lord Joscelin Kidd, Marquess of Severne, was the handsomest and most charming nobleman in London--and the most noto...

  • Lady of Spirit

    • / Traditional Regency
    • Buy Buy
    Signet Regency Romance

    INTO THE LION'S DEN Miss Victoria Dawkins was in a most perilous position. Cast out of respectable society by a scurrilous slur on her good name, alone and penniless in the London lower depths, this proud but all too vulnerable young lady coul...

  • The Indian Maiden

    Signet Regency Romance

    A freedom-loving beauty flees from amorous involvement -- with two dashing lords in hot pursuit DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE Miss Faith Hamilton was sent from America to England to find a proper husband among the cream of the upper-class crop. B...



  • Love in Disguise

    Love - 1
    Signet Regency Romance

    She was torn between two passionate men -- and driven toward one burning dream... TWO FACES OF LOVE Miss Susannah Logan felt very fortunate to have not one man but two gentlemen shepherding her through her first London season. One was the c...

  • The Game of Love

    Love - 2
    Signet Regency Romance

    PASSION'S TEMPTING ODDS Francesca Wyndham knew the folly of gambling. She had seen her father, Lord Wyndham, lose the family fortune, forcing her to become a plain chaperone to an empty-headed young Miss. But now Francesca was taking a gamble e...

  • Surrender to Love

    Love - 3
    Signet Regency Romance

    A bold beauty gambles on rousing a handsome lord's passion -- in order to win his heart FAINT HEART NEVER WON FAIR LORD Miss Eliza Merriman knew how difficult it would be to capture Julian Dyland. For Julian was the handsomest lord in England, ...

  • The Fire Flower

    The kiss was as nothing she'd ever known ... the warmth and sweetness of his mouth was so new to her ... as her eagerness was new to him.... Beautiful young Mary Monk was trembling when she surrendered her innocence to dashing Cavalier nobleman Gi...

  • The Duke's Progress

    in A Regency Christmas 1989

    Here are five all-new stories of Christmas by the highly acclaimed authors you love to read all year 'round. These heartwarming holiday tales touch on all the great themes of the season -- joyful homecomings, bittersweet reunions, renewals of the spi...

  • The Crimson Crown

    A King’s Throne at Stake, a Woman’s Heart at Risk Handsome adventurer Lucas Lovat was an instrument of the King’s will. And the King was Henry VII of England, who would do anything and destroy anyone to keep his hold on the sceptre of power....

  • The Gilded Cage

    Gilded Age - 1

    A DAZZLING BEAUTY IN A. CITY OF SPLENDOR AND SIN Post-Civil War New York was a golden city where wealth waited for the bold and everything had its price. It was here that well-born but impoverished Lucy Markham sought fame and fortune on the stage...

  • The Dark Man

    in A Regency Christmas III

    Bringing together five all-new Christmas stories by some of the most highly acclaimed Regency authors, this rich collection celebrates the joys and traditions of the holiday season. These are stories that capture the essence of Christmas - the genero...

  • The Silvery Moon

    Gilded Age - 2

    The Actor's Daughter Beautiful Hannah Darling had the theater in her blood -- as daughter of Blayne Darling, the American West's most beloved matinee idol. In her blood was passion as well, waiting to be ignited. Yet in the late nineteenth centur...

  • The Legacy

    in A Regency Valentine II

    Spirited ladies...dashing gentlemen ... notorious rakes...scandalous lovers ... all the romance and intrigue of St. Valentine's Day in an exquisitely beautiful collection of stories by five of the most beloved and highly acclaimed Regency authors. He...



  • Autumn Leaves

    in A Love For All Seasons

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...

  • A Love for All Seasons

    in A Love For All Seasons

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...

  • Snow Broth

    in A Love For All Seasons

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...

  • Spring's Promise

    in A Love For All Seasons

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...

  • Summer's Fruit

    in A Love For All Seasons

    A Captivating Quintet Felicia, a beautiful innocent faced with the passion of an irresistible rake. Adela, unable to forgive her husband for what he has done to her. Bronwen, forced to choose between a proper marriage and an impossible desire. Mar...

  • Bird of Paradise

    in A Victorian Christmas

    Five holiday stories played out in Victorian England or America, reflect the old-fashioned romantic charm of a popular era. Delightfully enchanting and heartwarming, this exquisite collection can be enjoyed all year round....

  • It's a Wonderful Christmas

    in A Dreamspun Christmas

    It's a Wonderful Christmas by Edith Layton When a beautiful viscountess wishes at a magical well that she'd never been born, an angel comes to her rescue and shows her the true meaning of Christmas. Ghosts of Christmas Past by Marilyn Cam...

  • The Wedding

    STRANGERS FROM DIFFERENT WORLDS, THEY WOULD SHARE A DESTINY THEY COULD NEVER HAVE IMAGINED.... Her father's ill-fated ventures land Dulcie Dawn Blessing in London's notorious debtor's prison. In a desperate scheme to win her freedom, she consents ...

  • Buried Treasure

    in Dashing and Dangerous

    WHEN THEY'RE BAD ...THEY RE BETTER They're shameless, seductive, and steal your heart with a smile. Now these irresistible rogues and rakes, rebels and renegades, are captured in five all new, deliciously sexy stories by America's favorite authors...

  • A True Lady

    SHE WAS A PIRATE PRINCESS, WILD AND UNTAMABLE AS THE SEA... With her sunset hair and flashing mocha eyes, Cristabel Stew is a rare jewel for any man. But for Old Captain Whiskey, the most notorious sea clog of the Caribbean, his daughter is more p...



  • The Rake's Christmas

    in A Regency Christmas 1995

    Make your Christmas merry with these delightful stories from some of the most wonderfully talented Regency authors. Mary Balogh tells of three orphans who bring together their estranged aunt and uncle for the holidays. Jo Beverley spins an intriguing...

  • Something Blue

    in A Wedding Bouquet

    A 'blue' groom is torn between the woman to whom he is betrothed and a woman from his past....

  • Bound By Love

    HE SAILED TO ENGLAND FOR REVENGE...SHE JOURNEYED THERE FOR LOVE Five-year-old Della Kensington first saw the proud, half-starved bond boy who dared call himself a dispossessed earl on the docks of Virginia Colony. The moment she laid eyes on him s...

  • The Gingerbread Man

    in A Regency Christmas Feast

    For your holiday pleasure, five star storytellers serve up their most delicious recipes for romance. MARY BALOGH tells of lost love found when a betrayed beauty and a jealous lord learn how hard it is to resist each other. SANDRA HEATH stirs up ember...

  • The Earl's Nightingale

    in A Regency Christmas Carol

    Hark, the herald angels sing as five of Signet's favorite Regency authors bring you a melodious collection of stories to make the season even brighter. Lush with the magic of the holiday, the stories in this Christmas Regency collection capture the t...

  • The Cad

    'C' Series - 1

    INTIMATE STRANGERS Bridget Cooke possesses the gifts London society prizes: genteel manners, intelligence, an exquisite figure. She lacks, however, a fortune. A companion to icy relatives, Bridget resigns herself to a life of solitude, especially ...

  • The Hounds of Heaven

    in A Regency Christmas

    Make the season bright with these original stories of Christmas love, written by five award-winning Regency authors. Heartwarming, celebratory, and romantic, each delightful story captures the essence of the Yuletide spirit - its loving good will and...

  • The Choice

    'C' Series - 2

    THREE MEN WANT HER HAND. BUT WHICH ONE WILL WIN HER HEART? A lovely young woman whose ethereal beauty has enchanted the London ton, Miss Gillian Giles can combat a suitor's unwanted embrace with deadly efficiency. But her talent for self-protecti...

  • The Last Gift

    in A Regency Christmas Present

    The gifts of Christmas are priceless -- good cheer, warm hearts, and happy times with friends. And now five bestselling Regency authors have made a special present to you--five brand-new stories. High-spirited and humorous, heartwarming and romantic ...

  • The Challenge

    'C' Series - 3

    Which was right -- her head or her heart? Wealthy, handsome, and devastatingly charming, the expatriate Viscount Hathaway Wycoff could easily win most women's affections. But the lovely Lucy Stone isn't most women. Though the self-respecting beaut...



  • The Chance

    'C' Series - 4

    ALL’S FAIR... A brave nobleman who’d successfully fought Napoleon’s toughest soldiers, Raphael Dalton was no stranger to treachery and warfare. Yet nothing this modest hero has experienced can prepare him for the famous beauty Annabelle, the...

  • The Christmas Thief

    in A Regency Christmas Eve

    Celebrate the most joyous of seasons with these original stories of holiday romance from five of today's most beloved award-winning Regency authors. Each tale is set on Christmas Eve, capturing the season's true spirit of charity and goodwill, provin...

  • The Conquest

    'C' Series - 5

    A heart must be won...and cherished A BODY BROKEN Many times Alexandria Gascoyne has been called upon to nurse forest animals back to health-but never before have her brothers brought her a wounded man! Though pale and grievously injured, the unc...

  • High Spirits

    in Regency Christmas Spirits

    Give the gift of love this holiday season with this special collection of Christmas stories from five beloved and bestselling Regency authors. Each tale touches on the "spirit" of the season and conjures a little mistletoe magic to bring lovers toget...

  • The Devil's Bargain

    WOULD HE CHOOSE LOVE ... OR REVENGE? Katherine Corbet abhors injustice -- and is happy to assist the disturbingly attractive Sir Alasdair St. Erth quash the brazen schemes of a marriage-minded opportunist. But appearing on the arm of the dark, das...

  • The Amiable Miser

    in A Regency Christmas 2002

    Have Yourself a Regency Christmas Spend the holidays in Regency England this Christmas, courtesy of five beloved and bestselling authors who deliver heartwarming tales that will make you feel as if you've just been kissed beneath the mistletoe. ...

  • To Wed a Stranger

    'C' Series - 6

    An arranged marriage for London’s most desired lady? Is it possible? The breathtaking Lady Annabelle has actually agreed to marry, sight unseen, a gentleman of her father’s choosing -- the self-proclaimed “exceptionally average” Miles Crof...

  • Best Wishes

    in Regency Christmas Wishes

    In Edith Layton's "Best Wishes", a pair of newlyweds discover--during their first quarrel over Christmas plans-- that making up is indeed the best part....

  • To Tempt a Bride

    'C' Series - 7

    From the moment she first saw tall, dashing Eric Ford, Camille's heart was lost. In her most cherished fantasy she is standing by his side, exchanging sacred wedding vows with her beloved. But Eric seems content to be no more than her unofficial ...

  • A Marriage of True Minds

    in Wedding Belles

    In Edith Layton's "A Marriage of True Minds," the bride's sister and the groom's brother, alike in temper, lock horns -- all the while missing what their relatives can so plainly see....



  • The Return of the Earl

    Botany Bay - 1

    Passion Comes Home After fifteen years in cruel exile, Christian has finally returned to England to claim his rightful title. The new Earl of Egremont was a mere child when he was banished. Lovely and charming Julianne Lowell, who knew him then, m...

  • The Two Dancing Daughters

    in Regency Christmas Magic

    A father hires a former soldier to keep his Two Dancing Daughters from creeping out to holiday festivities. But when the handsome hero meets his charges, he'll have to keep up his guard, lest he fall for the darker, more demure beauty.......

  • Alas, My Love

    Botany Bay - 2

    Passion rarely plays by society's rules ... He was a penniless street urchin who, through sheer will and courage, became a man of means. Yet wealth, charm and good looks will not gain Amyas St. Ives entry into the ton's inner circle. For t...

  • Gypsy Lover

    Botany Bay - 3

    A reputation in ruins . . . Lovely Meg Shaw is a respectable governess in a wealthy household -- and it is her duty to bring her charge safely home when the headstrong heiress runs away. But the perils for a young woman alone on dark English count...

  • The Dogstar

    in Regency Christmas Courtships

    An imperious viscount and a humble governess are at odds over who will take their friend's seven-year-old son for the holidays. To bring them together by Christmas, it will take a beguiling puppy and a wish upon The Dogstar.......

  • How to Seduce a Bride

    Botany Bay - 4

    How does one seduce a bride? Step One: Lay bare her mysteries... Daisy Tanner has taken the ton by storm and Leland Grant, Viscount Haye, wants to know everything about this ravishing, secretive woman who is tempting his friend into marriage....

  • For the Love of a Pirate

    He's searching for a proper bride . . . Constantine, Lord Wylde, is a gentleman beyond reproach. Now it's time for him to find a suitable gentlewoman to wed--a well-bred, well-behaved lady, as proper as . . . well, Constantine himself. Bu...

  • Bride Enchanted

    Too good to be true... Though Eve Faraday was beautiful and intelligent, she never expected to be wooed by the devastatingly handsome and utterly charming Aubrey Ashford, the most eligible bachelor in all of London. Skeptical of the sudden attenti...

  • His Dark and Dangerous Ways

    A MAN OF MYSTERY Simon Atwood, Lord Granger, once gave all for his country--and paid the price. Now, his handsome face haunted by a secret sorrow, Simon has undertaken a mission far closer to home, but no less dangerous. And though he hesitates to...

  • A Bride for His Convenience

    A BRIDE TO SAVE HIS NAME... Unless he finds a wealthy wife--and soon--Lord Ian Sutcombe will lose everything. Left deeply in debt by his foolish father and greedy stepmother, his only hope is to marry for money. Stung by a suitor's cruel betra...

  • To Love a Wicked Lord

    A LADY IN WAITING Phillipa Carstairs is absolutely lovely--so everyone has said since the hour she entered the world. Any gentleman would thrill to make her his bride, yet Pippa is all alone, waiting for a fiance who disappeared many months ago. She...

  • Peaches and the Queen

    Presenting a never-before-published, holiday short story from Regency author Edith Layton!Christmas is coming to Victorian London. A poor boy living with his milliner sister in a marginal part of town discovers his cat is missing. His old dog can’t...

  • Frost Fair

    A brand-new, never-released novel from the USA TODAY bestselling Regency author!

    When a gentleman is found dead on a fishmonger's doorstep in Regency London, a rugged Bow Street Runner has to pair with the man's elegant noble nephew to solve...

  • The Legacy and Other Stories

    Previously published individually, these four great novellas are collected in one book for the first time! “The Legacy” -- Valerian Blackwood is summoned to his aged uncle’s country estate to help the old man settle a problem with his heir. ...

  • An Enchanting Regency Christmas

    The long-awaited second anthology of Edith Layton's Regency romance Christmas stories includes four heart-warming tales. Originally published in separate anthologies, and out-of-print for many years, these holiday novellas by legendary Regency ro...

  • A Magical Regency Christmas

    The long-awaited third anthology of Edith Layton’s Regency romance Christmas stories includes four enchanting holiday tales. Originally published in separate anthologies, and out-of-print for many years, these holiday novellas by legendary Regency ...

Award-Winning Books by Edith Layton

The Conquest
2001 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Regency Historical Romance
The Fire Flower
1989 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Restoration Romance
To Wed a Stranger
2003 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best All-Around Romance
2003 Romance Readers Anonymous Award -- Best Historical Single Title Romance


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Edith Layton has published 65 books.

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The first book by Edith Layton, The Duke's Wager, was published in February 1983.

Yes. Edith Layton has 5 series.
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