While all dressed up for a Raggedy Ann look-alike contest, high-school teacher Anne Pidgin witnesses a hit-and-run murder. After rushing to the victim’s aid, Anne hears the whispered enigmatic words “It’s hidden in the well…” Anne reluctant...
Miss Sommes Under Siege Lovely Miss Columbine Sommes, better known as Colly, mocked the thought of marriage. Her season in the London marriage mart had convinced her that a single state was the best of all possible worlds. But now Lord Ethan Raym...
A Sister for Sale Miss Madeline Wycliff had two sisters as different as night and day. There was Arabella, bold and brazen, who stole Madeline's chance for a London season, and wed a rake whose debts now threatened the family estate. And there was...
Love by the Book Miss Emaline Harrison was as innocent and ignorant of the ways of the world as only a vicar's daughter could be. But now she found herself in a position that no vicar's daughter should ever have to face. She was the widow of a lic...
STOLEN HONOR Not only did Miss Honoria Danforth prefer to be called Honor by friends, she also thought of herself as the most honorable of young ladies. What then was she doing stealing money from a perfect stranger? Still more shocking, what was ...
THE LADY SAID SHE'D NEVER MARRY...HIM! Judith Preston simply could not allow her dear younger sister Lilia to be coerced into marriage. Yet their tyrannical grandfather had invited the Gillmore heir to be a houseguest in order to make a match. Jud...
To have a tendre for them can ruin a reputation, but ladies simply can't resist Regency England's most dashing, daring rakes. They steal kisses and hearts with equal abandon--and thrill us with romantic escapades that often lead to love... In Alan...
Rivalry between two families takes a spin when Emma visits her family's biggest enemy, Sam Watson--and finds love where she least expects it. Emma Lawrence will do anything to save her family's pecan grove, even ask Sam Watson, the son of the ma...
A Dangerous Deception Miss Janine Morgan did not look her best, especially after slipping on the muddy road. Who would have known from her ragamuffm appearance that she was the sister of Sir Burton Morgan? And even worse, she had just lost her pos...
Falling in Love is as Easy as One, Two, Three... Constance Mitchell had the beauty, her younger sister Felicity possessed the brains, and their cousin Regina Farrington, formerly a lady's companion, had the only money among them... five hundred po...
Celebrate the blossoming of a mother's love for her children and a man's devotion to the woman who cares for his family in these exquisite tales by three highly acclaimed Regency author... Hoping to make a good marriage for her beautiful s...
A Scandalous Predicament With her renowned father ill, Miss Sarah Sterling traveled to Donmore Hall by herself to clean and restore the priceless paintings left to the new heir, Matthew Donaldson. It was simply scandalous for a young lady to be un...
A DARLING SPINSTER... Gemma Westin appeared a most level-healed and practical spinster. No one knew she dreamed of adventure and a handsome stranger to whisk her away from the cottage she shared with her widowed mother and twelve-year-old brother. ...
Southern Strength The sweet spring air of her plantation home held no joy for Letty Banks. For this lovely lady was tied to the land by a cruel and spiteful father, who threatened harm to Letty's sweet little half-sister--unless Letty stayed on th...
A DARING MISS Weary of domestic confinement, Rosalind Hinton resolved to visit Lieutenant Ashford, newly released from a French prisoner-of--war camp. But instead of the soulful youth of her childhood dreams, she found him a bold charmer whose tanta...
A Shocking Wager Eugenia Bailey was a prim, ladylike schoolteacher with a very un-ladylike talent for cards. When her young cousin lost his fortune to the dastardly Lord Cedric Durham, she devised a plan to win it back. All Eugenia needed were fli...
Mischievous kittens meddle in the romantic lives of three couples in an enchanting collection of historical romances that includes Valerie King's "Trial by Kittens," in which a young lady rescues two starving kittens, and in turn, they save her from ...
A KINDLY PRETENSE Robert Montford was troubled for his widowed godmother, whose spirits were in a perilous decline. The only restorative would be news of her long-lost daughter, for whom he had instigated a search. Then one night at the theater he s...
P.S. I LOVE YOU Miss Lorna Maitland is in love at the advanced age of twenty-five -- in love with a sensitive and heroic army officer who's written her the most wonderful letters. Better yet, she's betrothed to the very same man -- and can't wait...
AN UNCHAPERONED LADY When a total stranger bequeaths her a dilapidated manor house in the village of Chemford, Miss Marianne McCord plans to live in it alone. Despite the ill wishes of the townsfolk, who believe her to be nothing more than a light...
Rascal's Return Miss Eloise Kendall had long known that Gregory Ward was a rascal in the first degree. So when he returned from London to visit Threwsbury Park--and raise money for his burgeoning political career--she assumed his warm demeanor bel...
AN UNEXPECTED BETROTHAL... Unable to decide which of the ravishing Swann twins to marry, Lord Evan Trent lets a flip of the coin determine his fate, resulting in an offer of marriage to the eldest daughter. His dismay is understandable when he arriv...
A Forgotten Love Phoebe Lowell adored Lieutenant Bennett Holden and would have consented to be his wife--had not her uncle warned her about Holden's rakish reputation. When Bennett didn't deny the accusation, Phoebe rejected his proposal. ...
The Expedition When Charlotte Pelham reads of an opening for a guide on a walking tour across Northern England, she is delighted, for she needs the money and no one knows the route better than she. But since no one would hire a lady for such a tas...
Devil May Care A rouge, reprobate, and scoundrel, Randolph, Lord Dunford, has spent most of his adult life on intimate terms with the devil. But late one night, fresh from the arms of his latest mistress, Rand is attacked by vicious footpads. And ...
Love's Magic While at school, Cordelia Barrington befriended a young Gypsy named Maria. Now, years later, Maria has died in childbirth, and Delia has devoted herself to the baby, vowing to keep him safe at all costs until she can get him to his re...
One Glance A catch of the breath. A beat of the heart. And Miss Olivia Mallory is gone. Over the moon at the ripe age of five and twenty. The man who has captured her attention: the roguish-- and dangerous--Lord David Crighton. A former British sp...
An Impossible Love Returning home from war on the Peninsula, Major Alexander Portman has no penchant for a frivolous life among the ton. Nor does he wish to impersonate his twin on a trip to his grandfather's cottage at Portman Park, but a twist o...
The good-hearted citizens of Mossy Creek, Georgia are in a mood to count their blessings. Maybe it's the influence of the new minister in town, who keeps his sense of humor while battling a stern church treasurer. Maybe it's the afterglow of Josie Mc...