Inheriting a small fortune and refusing to marry Lysander, the indebted Marquess of Storrington, Miss Clemency Hastings flees to the countryside and through a series of mishaps finds herself in the employ of the Marquess's sister. A first novel....
Love can be unpredictable… And family secrets can be dangerous.At thirty-two-years old and only passably attractive, Robina Drummond, is hardly a contender in the marriage stakes. Her cousins, the Penicuiks, invite her to their home in the Scot...
Love … Danger … BlackmailMay 1836: Miss Decima Wells sneaks out to see the astonishing sight of four giraffes walking from London Docks to the new Zoological Gardens, but her innocent expedition will have dangerous and far-reaching conseq...
When Cassandra Hampden, fleeing from her violent husband, returns to her family home of Juniper Park, her dying great-uncle reluctantly offers her the derelict Belvedere Tower. While Cassandra struggles with rotten floorboards and smoking chimneys, t...
There is a fortune at stake. The cabochon emerald, heirloom of the de Cardonnels, has disappeared in the chaos of the French Revolution. The young Anna de Cardonnel, fleeing from the terror, finds herself in London, living with her English relations....
When sixteen-year-old Emilia Daniels elopes with charming ne'er-do-well Stephen Kirkwall, she is unaware that he is in debt to the sinister Balquidder, a man deeply involved in slave trading. Balquidder has an eye on the fortune which Emilia will inh...
When Julian Hartfield leaves his entire estate to overbearing Rowland Sandiford on the condition that he marry his grandaughter within six months of his death, Merab Eliza Hartfield decides that she won't submit to her grandfather's bullying tactics...
A well-balanced mix of nonfiction, general fiction, mystery and romance in the lightweight softcover format preferred by many readers. These are current titles by international authors, selected for the broadest appeal; there are also some carefully ...