VICTORIAN VIRTUOUSNESS To status-conscious Victorian England, a person's class was more important than money, manners, and morals -- and gossip was a favorite and dangerous pastime. Susanna Hayter, daughter of a humble apothecary, had been spared...
England: 1879: A "black sheep" reappears, to throw a staid family and a vigorously independent woman into lively confusion. A VICTORIAN DILEMMA Kitty Courtenay was preparing for marriage to a man she disliked, for the sake of her family... ...
England, 1908: tender romance and glittering society in a sparkling "golden age" AN EDWARDIAN ADVENTURE A passion for presenting historical pageants seemed to sweep King Edward VII's England in 1908, and the little town of Gressington was caug...
England, 1872: A choice between a luxurious life or a struggling one with the man she loved VICTORIAN PASSION Vincent Fancourt was the handsomest man Deborah Drummond had ever seen in her eighteen years. But he was an actor, constantly on the...
England, 1906: When a girl's future--and the man she married--depended on her ancestry! AN EDWARDIAN MYSTERY Shy Kitty Ralston--the "Sugar Mouse" because she was so serious and quiet--fully expected to grow up and marry her dearest friend, Syd...
England, 1835: Was she heiress or pauper, aristocrat or foundling--or just the talk of the town...? A REGENCY PUZZLE A child was deserted, a little red-haired girl with a country accent, an air of breeding, and a strange story to tell. And sh...
Susanna Farebrother is eagerly awaiting her gala coming-out ball and the arrival of her Admiral father, who is due back from the sea. The headstrong lovely eighteen-year-old has also fallen in love with a dashing army captain. But it is her neighbo...
"What I am suggesting to you, Miss Floyd, is purely a business arrangement. If you go through a marriage ceremony with me to quiet the gossips, that is all that will be required of you." Charles Pitborough needed a housekeeper and he thought Cecil...
Tabitha Sackroyd, adopted daughter of a wealthy English family, had agreed to marry stuffy and arrogant Arnold Jarrett. Everyone assumed she should be very grateful. She was, after all, illegitimate. The secret of her past lay buried in shadows. Then...
Orphaned as a young girl, Martha was taken into the care by her grandfather -- and soon more than earned his name for her: the "tempestuous petticoat". From their first meeting it was clear that life with her crotchety relative was not go...
"Edward Will Not Do For Me. It's The Heir Or Nothing." Lucinda had grown up at last. And young Edward Chevening was looking at her with new eyes. She was no longer a schoolgirl to be teased. She was a woman to be cherished and admired....
Spirited young Harriet Tycherley never dreamed she would one day come into an inheritance. When she did, she was determined to make the most of it. It was only a parcel of land -- a small estate nearly ruined from neglect -- but Harriet wanted t...
Had her father not been so irresponsible, Allegra Lakesby would never have had to leave her ancestral home to become a governess at Fetherstone. But not even the drab servant's dress could hide the glow of Allegra's beauty and glistening g...
SHE WAS FORCED TO SUFFER THE SHAME OF HER FATHER'S CRIMES! Poor Vicky Lingford. Her feckless, handsome father had scandalously ruined the family name by swindling most of London's finest and fleeing to the continent Disgraced beyond repair, snu...
A SUDDEN TWIST OF FATE left Catherine Wittingham penniless and alone. Disregarding the advice of others and her own premonitions, she took the position of governess in the foreboding Ravensbourne mansion. But the chilling memory of Mary Ravensbou...
At seventeen, Sally Lofthouse was just past the schoolgirl stage, deeply infatuated with her neighbor, Edward Martin, and busily attending parties. But her friend, Emma Fitzjames, led a totally different life. Emma's destiny was controlled by an ...
A SUDDEN TWIST OF FATE left Catherine Wittingham penniless and alone. Disregarding the advice of others and her own premonitions, she took the position of governess in the foreboding Ravensbourne mansion. But the chilling memory of Mary Ravensbou...
Romance Was In The Air Lady Tamporley had almost forgotten what romance had been like. At age 26, she was a pretty and gentle matron with five children. Sarah was quite content and expected her future to be much the same as her past. Then the h...
1870, England. One of Giles Mordaunt's first actions as a country doctor was to rescue little Anna Denby and her brother from the horrors of the poorhouse. And his kind-hearted gesture toward the two children only made his cousin Marian love h...