Marion Chesney

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Marion Chesney
  • Bibliography:
    85 Books (11 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1980
  • Latest Book:
    April 2006
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About the Author

Marion Chesney was born on 1936 in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, and died on December 31, 2019 (aged 83) . She started her first job as a bookseller in charge of the fiction department in John Smith & Sons Ltd. While bookselling, by chance, she got an offer from the Scottish Daily Mail to review variety shows and quickly rose to be their theatre critic. She left Smith’s to join Scottish Field magazine as a secretary in the advertising department, without any shorthand or typing, but quickly got the job of fashion editor instead. She then moved to the Scottish Daily Express where she reported mostly on crime. This was followed by a move to Fleet Street to the Daily Express where she became chief woman reporter. After marrying Harry Scott Gibbons and having a son, Charles, Marion went to the United States where Harry had been offered the job of editor of the Oyster Bay Guardian. When that didn’t work out, they went to Virginia and Marion worked as a waitress in a greasy spoon on the Jefferson Davies in Alexandria while Harry washed the dishes. Both then got jobs on Rupert Murdoch’s new tabloid, The Star, and moved to New York.

Anxious to spend more time at home with her small son, Marion, urged by her husband, started to write historical romances in 1977. After she had written over 100 of them under her maiden name, Marion Chesney, and under the pseudonyms: Ann Fairfax, Jennie Tremaine, Helen Crampton, Charlotte Ward, and Sarah Chester, she getting fed up with 1714 to 1910, she began to write detectives stories in 1985 under the pseudonym of M. C. Beaton. On a trip from the States to Sutherland on holiday, a course at a fishing school inspired the first Constable Hamish Macbeth story. They returned to Britain and bought a croft house and croft in Sutherland where Harry reared a flock of black sheep. But Charles was at school, in London so when he finished and both tired of the long commute to the north of Scotland, they moved to the Cotswolds where Agatha Raisin was created.

Full Series List in Order

Bad Husbands

1 - The Scandalous Lady Wright (Aug-1990)
2 - His Lordship's Pleasure (May-1991)
3 - Her Grace's Passion (Aug-1991)

Daughters of Mannerling

1 - The Banishment (Apr-1995)
2 - The Intrigue (Oct-1995)
3 - The Deception (Apr-1996)
4 - The Folly (Sep-1996)
5 - The Romance (Mar-1997)
6 - The Homecoming (Dec-1997)

Edwardian Murder Mysteries

1 - Snobbery with Violence (Jul-2003)
2 - Hasty Death (Jul-2004)
3 - Sick of Shadows (Apr-2005)
4 - Our Lady of Pain (Apr-2006)

A House for the Season

1 - The Miser of Mayfair (Apr-1986)
2 - Plain Jane (Oct-1986)
3 - The Wicked Godmother (Feb-1987)
4 - Rake's Progress (Jun-1987)
5 - The Adventuress (Nov-1987)
6 - Rainbird's Revenge (May-1988)

The Poor Relation

1 - Lady Fortescue Steps Out (Jul-1993)
2 - Miss Tonks Takes a Risk // Miss Tonks Turns to Crime (Apr-1993)
3 - Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace (Aug-1993)
4 - Sir Philip's Folly (Nov-1993)
5 - Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue (Apr-1994)
6 - Back in Society (Aug-1994)

Regency Season

1 - The Original Miss Honeyford (May-1985)
2 - At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple (Jan-1987)
3 - The Education of Miss Patterson (Dec-1985)
4 - Sweet Masquerade (Sep-1984)
5 - Quadrille (Apr-1981)
6 - Miss Davenport's Christmas (Nov-1993)
7 - The Perfect Gentleman (Jun-1988)
8 - The Constant Companion (Dec-1980)

The School for Manners

1 - Refining Felicity (Oct-1988)
2 - Perfecting Fiona (Jan-1989)
3 - Enlightening Delilah (May-1989)
4 - Finessing Clarissa (Oct-1989)
5 - Animating Maria (Feb-1990)
6 - Marrying Harriet (Jul-1990)

The Six Sisters

1 - Minerva (Mar-1983)
2 - The Taming of Annabelle (Nov-1983)
3 - Deirdre and Desire (Jun-1984)
4 - Daphne (Nov-1984)
5 - Diana the Huntress (Jun-1985)
6 - Frederica in Fashion (Oct-1985)

The Traveling Matchmaker

1 - Emily Goes to Exeter (Nov-1990)
2 - Belinda Goes to Bath (Feb-1991)
3 - Penelope Goes to Portsmouth (Jul-1991)
4 - Beatrice Goes to Brighton (Oct-1991)
5 - Deborah Goes to Dover (Mar-1992)
6 - Yvonne Goes to York (Jun-1992)

The Waverley Women

1 - The First Rebellion (Aug-1989)
2 - Silken Bonds (Oct-1989)
3 - The Love Match (Feb-1990)

Westerby

1 - The Westerby Inheritance (Jun-1982)
2 - The Westerby Sisters (Jul-1983)

Book List in Order: 85 titles

  • Regency Gold

    Coventry - 15

    AN UNEXPECTED LEGACY With little to live on, spirited Jean Lindsay lived a rather dismal life with her nasty, drunken uncle. She was always the object of ridicule, that is, until news of her unexpected inheritance spread. Suddenly her worn dresses...

  • Lady Margery's Intrigue

    Coventry - 49

    The petite Lady Margery Quennell at age twenty-three has graced the rows of wallflowers for many a Season. Except for Charles, the Marquess of Edgecombe, the only man who ever danced with her, Lady Margery has nothing to do with men; what's more,...

  • The Constant Companion

    Regency Season - 8
    Coventry - 83

    "I am Miss Lamberton. Miss Constance Lamberton. I hoped that you would employ me as your companion." And so the quiet Constance Lamberton, an orphan, came to the household of the haughty and beautiful Lady Amelia Godolphin. She would serv...

  • Quadrille

    Regency Season - 5
    Coventry - 106

    HE WAS A ROGUE AND A HERO AND HE HAD MARRIED HER FOR HER MONEY Everyone in bon ton knew that Lord Hubert Challenge had married country mouse Mary Tyre for her dowry, but no one had yet guessed that Mary had actually fallen in love with her husband...

  • My Lords, Ladies and Marjorie

    Coventry - 145

    Miss Marjorie Montmorency James was very lovely, very young, and very impressionable. Which is why she fell in love with Lord Philip's picture in the newspaper. Until then, she had only fantasized about a mysterious, shadowy lover whose features ...

  • The Ghost and Lady Alice

    Coventry - 163

    CAN A SCULLERY MAID BECOME A LADY? CAN A DEVILISH GHOST BECOME A LOVER? When Alice Lovesey ran from the kitchen and sought sanctuary in the library of the great house, she found herself face to face with a portrait come to life. The dashing eig...

  • The Westerby Inheritance

    Westerby - 1

    Lady Jane Lovelace has conceived the idea of approaching the notorious rakehell, Lord Charles Welbourne with a most unique proposition. But when he counters her offer with a condition that he thinks will halt her impudence, much to the surprise of...

  • Love and Lady Lovelace

    THEY MARRIED EACH OTHER FOR MONEY -- AND THEN FOUND THEY HAD NOTHING BUT LOVE... When young widow Lady Lovelace realized she had been swindled by her curmudgeon cousin, who nearly bankrupted her, she decided she would have to marry again for money...

  • Duke's Diamonds

    "MY FORTUNE IN DIAMONDS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE MANLEY DIAMOND COLLAR WHICH GOES TO MISS EMILY WINTERS, I LEAVE TO MY DOG DUKE." Old Sir Peregrine's will shocked everyone. Especially his lovely illegitimate daughter, Emily, to whom he also left...



  • Minerva

    The Six Sisters - 1

    When the Reverend Charles Armitage, an impecunious country vicar in Regency England, announces that raven-haired Minerva, the eldest of his six daughters, is to have her coming-out in London, the news is not well received by the rest of the family. ...

  • The Westerby Sisters

    Westerby - 2

    ROYAL OBSESSION She cared nothing for his rank and consequence. She cared nothing for his haughty demeanor and his immaculate attire. She was an impudent baggage to be sure. But the Duke of Collingham had the sinking feeling that Lady Bet...

  • The Taming of Annabelle

    The Six Sisters - 2

    THE MISSISH MINERVA WIN THE HANDSOMEST MAN IN THE TON? HER SISTER WOULD SEE ABOUT THAT! From the moment honey-tressed young Miss Annabelle Armitage meets her sister Minerva's intended, Lord Sylvester Comfrey, she develops a secret passion for ...

  • The Viscount's Revenge

    Signet Regency Romance

    A MOST WANTED YOUNG LADY The handsome, arrogant Lord Charles Hawksborough desperately wanted to catch the infernally insolent thief who had held him up at pistol point on the King's highway and ridden off with his family's fabled jewels. Hawksb...

  • Lady Lucy's Lover

    "Why don't you take a lover, my dear? It would serve that feckless husband of yours right." "But I don't want a lover. I am in love with my husband." Poor deluded Lucy. She had married a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunk...

  • The Poor Relation

    Signet Regency Romance

    SHE COULD NOT AFFORD TO FALL IN LOVE... Once Miss Amaryllis Duvane had been the reigning beauty of the London season, about to marry the man of her dreams and live and love happily ever after. Then her father died. Suddenly Amaryllis was pennil...

  • The French Affair

    She must have been mad. She was on her way to marry a man she had never set eyes on! It was true. The lovely young widow, Lady Charteris (Delphine to her friends), had agreed to abide by her parents' wishes and marry the Comte Saint Pierre. De...

  • Deirdre and Desire

    The Six Sisters - 3

    MISS DEIRDRE ARMITAGE WAS LIVELY AND BRIGHT. SO, NATURALLY, SHE SHRANK FROM DESIRE. What clever woman would want a man like Lord Harry Desire? Why, he was clearly a lummox -- languid, vain, and bland. Not even his beautiful face could redeem him. ...

  • Sweet Masquerade

    Regency Season - 4

    "YOU HAVE SOME EXPLAINING TO DO, MASTER FREDERICK," SAID THE EARL. "OR SHOULD I SAY...MISS FREDERICA." The tenth earl of Berham did not know what to do. An attractive 32-year-old bachelor, he was appointed guardian of one Freddie A...

  • Daphne

    The Six Sisters - 4

    THREE SISTERS ALREADY BRILLIANTLY MARRIED? EVEN DAPHNE COULD NOT LIVE UP TO THAT. Black-haired, exquisite Daphne Armitage embarked on her first Season with secret dread. For though she had long since learned the power of her flawless beauty, she s...



  • The Original Miss Honeyford

    Regency Season - 1
    Signet Regency Romance

    MISS HONEYFORD WAS SOUR ON ROMANCE Miss Honaria Honeyford was sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting a wealthy husband -- and being a loving if not entirely dutiful daughter, she obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surr...

  • Diana the Huntress

    The Six Sisters - 5

    THE FIFTH OF THE FAMOUS ARMITAGE GIRLS WISHED SHE WAS NO GIRL AT ALL! Poor Diana Armitage! All she cared for was the hunt, and she loves to hunt while dressed as a man! With her lustrous black hair and enormous dark eyes, Diana is shy of men yet d...

  • The Flirt

    "IF I COULD HAVE FORESEEN THE FUTURE, I WOULD HAVE MARRIED THE FIRST MAN WHO ASKED ME!" Tongues were set wagging when Elizabeth Markham's glamorous young parents were killed, sinking their only child to the unspeakable class of poor re...

  • Frederica in Fashion

    The Six Sisters - 6

    "SINCE THERE IS NO HOPE OF MY SECURING AN ELIGIBLE PARTI, DUE TO A SAD LACK OF LOOKS, I AM RUNNING AWAY...." So wrote the sixth of the famous Armitage sisters. For how could colorless Frederica Armitage withstand a Season's scrutiny af...

  • The Education of Miss Patterson

    Regency Season - 3
    Signet Regency Romance

    THE GRIM GUARDIAN For lovely young Miss Patricia Patterson, life seemed a delightful dream -- until the spectre of her guardian, Lord Charles Gaunt, cast a shadow over her carefree days of idleness and enchanting evenings of dazzling balls and del...

  • Those Endearing Young Charms

    "I HAVE MY PRIDE. I HAVE SWORN TO MARRY THE GIRL, AND MARRY HER I WILL." After ten long years, the Earl of Devenham had returned to wed Mary Anstey, only to find that their feelings for each other had cooled off considerably. Nevertheless,...

  • The Miser of Mayfair

    A House for the Season - 1

    With Each London Season, and Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at Number 67 Clarges Street. And there below the Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE...

  • To Dream of Love

    MUST ONE SISTER SUFFER IN POVERTY WHILE THE OTHERS LIVE IN THE LAP OF LUXURY? Must one indeed, thought Harriet Clifton. Inviting herself to her widowed sister Cordelia's posh London townhouse for the Season was surely the only way to meet a ma...

  • Plain Jane

    A House for the Season - 2

    With Each London Season, and Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at Number 67 Clarges Street. And there below the Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE...

  • At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple

    Regency Season - 2

    "I DO NOT THINK I WANT TO BE MARRIED AT ALL. I WANT TO BE RICH. VERY RICH..." Miss Henrietta Bascombe's bosom chums gasped to hear a well-bred lady talk of going into trade. For Henrietta was hell-bent on turning her pittance of an inheritance int...



  • The Wicked Godmother

    A House for the Season - 3

    With Each London Season, an Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at number 67 Clarges Street. And There Below Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE FOR ...

  • Milady in Love

    JUST WHEN HE'D FOBBED OFF THE LAST BRAT, ANOTHER APPEARED TO TAKE HER PLACE! Poor Lord Anselm! The dashing bachelor was forever plagued with dying relatives leaving their female children to his care. Indeed, he had squired so many a silly miss...

  • Rake's Progress

    A House for the Season - 4

    Lord Guy Carlton, late of His Majesty's regiment and weary from the war in France, has only wine, women and song in mind when he rents Number 67 for the Season. He certainly has no desire for a serious attachment -- and marriage, never! Then his ...

  • Miss Fiona's Fancy

    Signet Regency Romance

    THE WILD WAGER It was a challenge that Miss Fiona Grant could not resist. The Misses Penelope Yarwood, Euphemia Perkins, and Letitia Helmsdale all smugly informed her that the Marquess of Cleveden was at once the most eligible and the most elusive...

  • The Adventuress

    A House for the Season - 5

    With Each London Season, an enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Townhouse at Number 67 Clarges Street. And There Below Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE FOR T...

  • Lessons in Love

    Lady Lucinda Esmond’s swine of a father was forever fleecing young bucks in London’s gaming halls -- until he met Captain Mark Chamfrey who, having been once cheated, would not be made a fool of again and promptly kidnapped ten-year-old Lucinda f...

  • The Paper Princess

    "YOU ARE NOT GOING TO MARRY ME OFF TO ANYONE, LEAST OF ALL TO AN ANCIENT GENTLEMAN WHO HAS BEEN MARRIED TWICE BEFORE!" Not long after this heated exchange, London was aflutter to have in their midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasn...

  • The Savage Marquess

    Signet Regency Romance

    A MOST CURIOUS CHEMISTRY Certainly the two should never have met. The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious rake in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for his intemperate ways. And Miss Lucinda Wester...

  • Rainbird's Revenge

    A House for the Season - 6

    With Each London Season, and Enchanting Romance Moves into the Fashionable Town House at Number 67 Clarges Street. And there below the Stairs the Staff Has a Special Mission -- to Arrange a Match...to Hatch a Scheme...to Bring Love Home to A HOUSE...

  • The Perfect Gentleman

    Regency Season - 7

    WALKING INTO A LION'S DEN AND CLIMBING UP A DRAINPIPE HALF-NAKED WAS NO WAY FOR A LADY TO BEHAVE! From the top of his faultlessly groomed head to the tip of his fashionable shoes, Lord Andrew Childe was every inch the perfect gentleman. Ala...



  • Pretty Polly

    WHAT A PRETTY PICKLE SHE'D GOT INTO -- AND IT TASTED MORE SOUR BY THE MOMENT! Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with the lesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband, namely the dashing Duke of ...

  • Refining Felicity

    The School for Manners - 1

    The School for Manners Amy and Effy Tribble had an impressive address, impeccable breeding, and a talent for matchmaking. But the funds for their School for Manners were frightfully meager when they advertised to "Bring Out a Wild, Unruly or U...

  • Perfecting Fiona

    The School for Manners - 2

    Amy and Tribble can only ponder why Miss Fiona Macleod was placed in their charge at their School for Manners. For there seems to be nothing about the young heiress that needs perfecting. She is demure, refined -- and turned many a handsome head at h...

  • Enlightening Delilah

    The School for Manners - 3

    The School for Manners If only Sir Charles Digby hadn't kissed her, perhaps Delilah Wraxall would not be in the spiteful habit of declining so many marriage proposals. In that one impassioned kiss, she had learned the enchantment of true love ...

  • The First Rebellion

    The Waverley Women - 1

    HIS KISS LEFT HER FLUSHED AND DISCONCERTED -- PERHAPS MEN WERE BEST AVOIDED AFTER ALL! The Earl of Tredair had his fill of balls, routs, and silly misses, and despaired of finding anyone out of the ordinary... Until he met Miss Fanny Waverley. ...

  • Finessing Clarissa

    The School for Manners - 4

    THE SCHOOL FOR MANNERS Amy and Effy Tribble are matchmakers extraordinaire, but when Clarissa Vevian is sent to their School For Manners, the redoubtable Tribbles fear they have met their match. How can they possibly polish this potentially lovely...

  • Silken Bonds

    The Waverley Women - 2

    MODERN NOTIONS WERE ALL WELL AND GOOD, BUT WHERE DID ONE FIND A MAN TO SHARE THEM? Though Frederica chafed at the restricted life she lived as the adopted daughter of the infamous bluestocking Mrs. Waverley, she did agree with her philosophy. Unti...

  • Animating Maria

    The School for Manners - 5

    THE SCHOOL FOR MANNERS If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daughter, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst. Amy and Effy Tribble plac...

  • The Love Match

    The Waverley Women - 3

    BY DAY SHE CHAMPIONED WOMEN'S RIGHTS, BUT BY NIGHT SHE DREAMED OF ROMANCE No young lady was more devoted to the teachings of that infamous bluestocking Mrs. Waverley than her adopted daughter Felicity. However, unlike her mentor, she vowed to ...

  • Marrying Harriet

    The School for Manners - 6

    'If you have a Wild, Unruly, or Undisciplined Daugher, two Ladies of Genteel Birth offer to Bring Out said Daughter and Refine what may have seemed Unrefinable. We can make the Best of the Worst' When Amy and Effie Tribble, two charming bu...



  • The Scandalous Lady Wright

    Bad Husbands - 1

    Marriage to a loathsome brute was vile enough -- now she was accused of his murder! The ton regarded Sir Benjamine Wright with utmost honor and respect. Yet Lady Emma knew her husband was, in fact, a drunken, jealous brute who delighted in humili...

  • Emily Goes to Exeter

    The Traveling Matchmaker - 1

    An unexpected inheritance lets the delightful Miss Hannah Pym take to the roads of England. With her kind heart and irresistible charm, she could change the course of young love forever. A dead employer's legacy of five thousand pounds allows ...

  • Belinda Goes to Bath

    The Traveling Matchmaker - 2

    The delightful Miss Hannah Pym returns to the English countryside in search of adventure and romance in distress. With her infallible wisdom and charming demeanor she can steer even the most misguided of hearts back on course! No sooner does Mi...

  • His Lordship's Pleasure

    Bad Husbands - 2

    SHE HAD BUT ONE THING OF VALUE LEFT TO OFFER...HERSELF! Annabelle Carruthers could only dream of being kissed by such a dashing man as Lord Darkwood. For she herself was locked in misery -- married to a rake who drank and gambled their lives in...

  • Penelope Goes to Portsmouth

    The Traveling Matchmaker - 3

    Kind-hearted Miss Hannah Pym is off to Portsmouth in the company of the beautiful but practical Miss Penelope Wilkins, the daughter of a rich merchant. Miss Pym quickly realises that Penelope needs someone to enliven her sheltered life, someone perha...

  • Her Grace's Passion

    Bad Husbands - 3

    SHE WAS BY ALL RIGHTS A MERRY WIDOW, YET SHE FEARED HAPPINESS WOULD NEVER BE HERS... Matilda, Duchess of Hadshire, was a virtual prisoner of a cruel husband who romanced his mistress under her nose. Her only joy was dreaming of the handsome Earl o...

  • Beatrice Goes to Brighton

    The Traveling Matchmaker - 4

    The unsinkable Miss Pym returns to the English stagecoach in search of adventure and troubled hearts... With her delightful schemes and discerning eye, she never fails to strike a match by journey's end. Lady Beatrice Marsham is in quite a coi...

  • The Scandalous Marriage

    AS FAR AS MATRIMONIAL PROSPECTS WERE CONCERNED, LUCY BLISS WAS TOLD SHE'D MAKE AN EXCELLENT CLERGYMAN'S WIFE. Her mother, however, had loftier aspirations for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke. More specifically...

  • Deborah Goes to Dover

    The Traveling Matchmaker - 5

    The engaging Miss Hannah Pym delights all as she resumes her matchmaking adventures aboard the English stage... When lonely hearts chance across her intrepid path they're sure to find themselves en route for romance! Destined for Dover, Mis...

  • A Marriage of Inconvenience

    THE ONLY SAVING GRACE OF THIS FORCED BETROTHAL WAS THAT LORD HARRY WAS A COMPLETE FOP. He stated quite bluntly -- and much to Isabella's relief -- that theirs would be a marriage in name only. But neither Harry nor Isabella was aware of the...

  • Yvonne Goes to York

    The Traveling Matchmaker - 6

    Once again Miss Pym travels the English countryside in search of adventure and hearts in distress. With her ingenious wit and delightful charm, she can turn star-crossed lovers into a heavenly match! The shy Miss Yvonne Grenier, a beautiful fugit...

  • The Summer of Discontent

    in Summertime Splendor

    In this Regency romance novella, a proper young English lady spends her summer getting into mischief by masquerading as a servant girl.Cassandra, or Cassie to her friends, sticks out like a redheaded weed amidst her family of tidy blooms. At Bramfiel...

  • A Governess of Distinction

    HE REQUIRED A DRAGON WHO COULD BRING HIS CHARGES UP TO THE SOCIAL MARK! Having inherited a Gothic horror of an estate and a pair of fifteen-year-old brats to marry off, Lord Percy Hunterdon despaired. Even he realized that, short of a miracle, fin...

  • The Desirable Duchess

    ALTHOUGH SHE MARRIED WITHOUT LOVE, ALICE MAY YET DISCOVER SOMETHING ABOUT ROMANCE... Lovely Alice Lacey was a true Incomparable, and her marriage to the Duke of Ferrant was the event of the Season. Few realized, however, that she was secretly in l...

  • Miss Tonks Takes a Risk // Miss Tonks Turns to Crime

    The Poor Relation - 2

    The fashionable Poor Relation hotel has rescued its six owners from genteel poverty, but they need ready cash for its upkeep. Once more, one of them must discreetly rob a rich relative. The faded spinster Miss Letitia Tonks is dispatched to disgui...

  • Lady Fortescue Steps Out

    The Poor Relation - 1

    Elderly widow Lady Fortescue and her friends hatch up a scheme to escape from genteel poverty. If each of them can relieve a rich relative of an expensive trifle, they can gain funds to turn her townhouse into a hotel for the ton! Lady Fortescue'...

  • The Glitter and the Gold

    THEY'D BEEN MARRIED UNDER FALSE PRETENSES. NOW IT WAS TIME TO SET MATTERS TO RIGHT. Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Both sets of impoverished parents had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their offspring to the pro...

  • Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace

    The Poor Relation - 3

    The Poor Relation Hotel is the rage of London, but its French chef's extravagance and Society guests' unpaid bills have reduced its owners once again to genteel thievery. Cut off by her own relations, pretty, dainty widow Eliza Budley must...

  • Miss Davenport's Christmas

    Regency Season - 6

    WHEN A PURITAN MISS DISCOVERS THE JOYS OF CHRISTMAS, LOVE'S AS NEAR AS THE MISTLETOE. The Davenport sisters were alone, without even a dour-faced maid to supervise their strict puritanical devotions. Then the elder, flame-haired Gillian, boldl...

  • Sir Philip's Folly

    The Poor Relation - 4

    Everything appears to be running smoothly in the Poor Relation Hotel -- renowned for elegance and eccentricity -- until two unwelcome guests challenge its gentle owners' amatory expertise. Now commotion reigns at the Poor Relation Hotel. When...

  • Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue

    The Poor Relation - 5

    The aristocratic owners of the Poor Relation Hotel, favorite haunt of the London ton, juggle financial embarrassment and star-crossed romance... Peaceable Colonel Sandhurst must confront Sir Randolph Gray, who owes the hotel a vast sum. But when C...

  • The Sins of Lady Dacey

    WHAT ARE A VICAR'S WIFE AND A YOUNG INNOCENT DOING WITH SUCH AS LADY DACEY? The ton could only speculate how a pair of turtledoves would cope as the guests of the scandalous Lady Dacey. Surely she would attempt to corrupt them an act that both Pa...

  • Back in Society

    The Poor Relation - 6

    The Poor Relation hotel is the toast of London, its guests are paying hard cash, and its owners are preparing to sell up and return to a life of quality. But one last romantic adventure awaits them. Lady Fortescue and her friends, newly attired in...

  • The Dreadful Debutante

    WHAT DID SUCH A SOPHISTICATED MARQUESS SEE IN SUCH A DREADFUL DEBUTANTE AS MISS MIRA MARKHAM? Arranging a season for an unruly miss who descended to drawing rooms by sliding down banisters was a challenge at best -- especially since the hoydenish ...

  • The Banishment

    Daughters of Mannerling - 1

    COULD SHE EVER LOVE A GENTLEMAN AS MUCH AS SHE LOVED HER MAGNIFICENT HOME? Isabella Beverley is blessed with unparalleled beauty but, unfortunately, has been raised in the most snobbish and haughtiest of families. And when her father gambles away ...

  • The Chocolate Debutante

    HE WAS ATTRACTIVE ENOUGH TO TEMPT EVEN A VERY DEDICATED BLUESTOCKING! A woman of independent means with a healthy dose of cynicism about the male population, Harriet Tremayne is content with her circle of spinster friends and their devotion to lit...

  • The Intrigue

    Daughters of Mannerling - 2

    NOTHING COULD STOP HER QUEST -- EXCEPT, PERHAPS, LOVE... Mannerling, the splendid family estate gambled away by Sir Beverly, remained the passionate desire of his daughters. Beverly himself had died; the eldest daughter, Isabella -- having failed ...

  • The Deception

    Daughters of Mannerling - 3

    IT WAS UNFAIR --TO BE FORCED TO CHOOSE BETWEEN HER HOME AND HER HEART... When one of her sisters is attacked by Harry Devers, the lecherous son of Mannerling's present owner, Abigail Beverley puts her obsession with reclaiming the mansion on h...

  • The Folly

    Daughters of Mannerling - 4

    HER MISSION WAS TO MA LOVE OR FOR DUTY The pampered world of the six Beverley sisters came crashing down when their father gambled away the family's exquisite estate, Mannerling. Each sister secretly dreamed of marrying some new owner of their...

  • The Loves of Lord Granton

    'TWAS A MOST ODD AND UNSUITABLE FRIENDSHIP...AND VERY PRECIOUS INDEED! As the youngest of four unmarried vicar's daughters, Frederica feared her destiny was to die of tedium in the sleepy village of Barton Sub Edge. Her looks deemed "u...

  • The Romance

    Daughters of Mannerling - 5

    SHE WAS DETERMINED TO RECLAIM HER CHERISHED HOME -- AT ANY COST... As one of the two remaining unmarried Beverley sisters, Belinda considered herself the last hope for Mannerling, the beloved estate gambled away by their father. Each of her four e...

  • The Homecoming

    Daughters of Mannerling - 6

    WILL THE LAST BEVERLEY DAUGHTER MARRY FOR MANNERLING? Lizzie is the sixth and youngest daughter of the late Sir Beverley, the patriarch who gambled away their beloved estate, Mannerling. Each of Lizzie's sisters had been entrusted by their ambitio...

  • Snobbery with Violence

    Edwardian Murder Mysteries - 1

    THE FASHION IN SHROUDS Beautiful but rebellious Lady Rose Summer's debut into high society is a complete disaster. When a marriage proposal appears imminent for Lady Rose, her father wants to know if her suitor's intentions are honorable. He calls...

  • Hasty Death

    Edwardian Murder Mysteries - 2

    SECRETS TO DIE FOR Lady Rose Summer refuses to abide by her parents' insistence that she marry. Even more distressing, she wants to become self-supporting by moving out with her maid Daisy and going to work in trade. On advice from Captain Har...

  • Sick of Shadows

    Edwardian Murder Mysteries - 3

    A DEADLY FIRST SEASON Captain Harry Cathcart and Lady Rose Summer have entered into an engagement of convenience -- convenient for Rose, who wants to avoid being sent to India with all the other failed debutantes. Despite her considerable good loo...

  • Our Lady of Pain

    Edwardian Murder Mysteries - 4

    THIS DEBUTANTE IS TO DIE FOR Lady Rose Summer, the wayward Edwardian debutante who keeps getting mixed up in disreputable adventures, would swear she is not a jealous woman. After all, she knows her engagement to private detective Captain Harry Ca...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Marion Chesney has published 85 books.

Marion Chesney does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Our Lady of Pain, was published in April 2006.

The first book by Marion Chesney, Regency Gold, was published in January 1980.

Yes. Marion Chesney has 11 series.
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