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Mary Kingswood
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I write traditional Regency romances, drawing room, rather than bedroom, inspired by Georgette Heyer.
In the 'Silver Linings Mysteries', the Brig Minerva sinks with the loss of almost all on board. For their heirs, the tragedy brings big changes and unexpected benefits, but the past isn't easy to leave behind. A 6-book series, starting with 'The Widow'.
In the 'Sisters of Woodside Mysteries', Mr Edmund Winterton of Woodside dies, leaving his unmarried daughters destitute, and needing to find genteel employment to survive. A 5-book series, each one a complete story with a HEA, starting with 'The Governess'.
In 'Sons of the Marquess', Lord Carrbridge discovers his finances are in a perilous state. His five brothers must find ways to support themselves. Will they choose careers, or look for rich heiresses to support their wealthy lifestyle? A 5-book series, each one a complete story with a HEA, starting with 'Lord Reginald'.
In 'The Daughters of Allamont Hall', when Mr William Allamont dies unexpectedly, his will includes generous dowries for his six daughters, but only on condition that they marry in the proper order, the eldest first. A 6-book series, each one a complete story with a HEA, starting with 'Amy', or for even better value, pick up the box set of books 1-3.
You can find out more about the books, sign up for my mailing list to receive a FREE novella and read sample chapters at my website: http://marykingswood.co.uk/
I live in the beautiful Highlands of Scotland with my husband. I like chocolate, whisky, my Kindle, massed pipe bands, long leisurely lunches, chocolate, going places in my campervan, eating pizza in Italy, summer nights that never get dark, wood fires in winter, chocolate, the view from the study window looking out over the Moray Firth and the Black Isle to the mountains beyond. And chocolate. I dislike driving on motorways, cooking, shopping, hospitals.
Full Series List in Order
Chaplain's Legacy
0.5 - The Chaplain: A Novella (Dec-2023)1 - Disinheritance (Jan-2024)
2 - Determination (May-2024)
3 - Anger (Sep-2024)
The Daughters of Allamont Hall
1 - Amy (Jun-2016)2 - Belle (Jul-2016)
3 - Connie (Sep-2016)
4 - Dulcie (Nov-2016)
4.5 - Mary (Dec-2016)
5 - Grace (Jan-2017)
6 - Hope (Mar-2017)
Mercer's House
0.5 - The Mercer (May-2022)1 - A Winter Chase (Jun-2022)
2 - A Spring Dance (Sep-2022)
3 - A Summer Game (Dec-2022)
4 - A Michaelmas Truce (Mar-2023)
5 - An Autumn Courtship (Jun-2023)
6 - A Christmas Betrothal (Sep-2023)
7 - The Gentleman Farmer (Sep-2023)
The Silver Linings Mysteries
1 - The Widow (Jun-2019)2 - The Lacemaker (Sep-2019)
3 - The Apothecary (Dec-2019)
4 - The Painter (Mar-2020)
5 - The Orphan (Jun-2020)
6 - The Duke (Sep-2020)
The Clerk (May-2019)
Sisters of Woodside Mysteries
1 - The Governess (Jul-2018)2 - The Chaperon (Sep-2018)
3 - The Companion (Nov-2018)
4 - The Seamstress (Jan-2019)
5 - Woodside (Mar-2019)
The Bethrothed (Jun-2018)
Sons of the Marquess
1 - Lord Reginald (Sep-2017)2 - Lord Humphrey (Nov-2017)
3 - Lord Augustus (Jan-2018)
4 - Lord Montague (Mar-2018)
5 - Lord Gilbert (May-2018)
The Earl of Deveron (Aug-2017)
Strangers
0.5 - Stranger At The Parsonage (Nov-2020)1 - Stranger at the Dower House (Dec-2020)
2 - Stranger at the Grove (Mar-2021)
3 - Stranger at the Villa (Jun-2021)
4 - Stranger at the Manor (Sep-2021)
5 - Stranger at the Cottage (Dec-2021)
6 - Stranger at the Hall (Mar-2022)
Book List in Order: 47 titles
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The Daughters of Allamont Hall Collection
- Jun-2017
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700 pages, and hours of reading in one collection -- books 1-3 of The Daughters of Allamont Hall, a series of traditional Regency romances, drawing room rather than bedroom.Amy is a shy, timid soul, browbeaten by her domineering father until she’...
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The Earl of Deveron
- Aug-2017
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A traditional Regency story, drawing room rather than bedroom. The Earl of Deveron is shocked when his father dies unexpectedly. Left alone to struggle with his new responsibilities, he is delighted when a childhood friend returns to his life to b...
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Lord Reginald
- Sep-2017
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom, by the author of The Daughters of Allamont Hall and the Sisters of Woodside Mysteries.Lord Reginald Marford needs a wealthy heiress to support his indulgent lifestyle. Spirited Miss Rob...
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Lord Humphrey
- Nov-2017
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom.Lord Humphrey Marford has a way with cards, dice and gambling of all forms. He’d love to start his own gaming house, but that takes a lot of money, far more than he or his brothers can...
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Lord Augustus
- Jan-2018
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Lord Augustus Marford has only one interest in life - horses. It’s an expensive hobby. When his brother, the Marquess of Carrbridge, finds himself in financial trouble after his agent...
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Lord Montague
- Mar-2018
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Lord Montague Marford is looking forward to a quiet life as clergyman of a rural parish where he can hope to do some good. But sometimes his compassionate nature gets him into troub...
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Lord Gilbert
- May-2018
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The dramatic conclusion to the series! A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Lord Gilbert Marford is in disgrace. He joined the Hussars to stay out of trouble. Instead, he quarrelled with half his fellow officers, seduc...
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The Bethrothed
- Jun-2018
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Rosamund Winterton is ready to settle down. At two and twenty, she determines to bring a previous suitor to the point. When he proposes and she accepts, her future seems assured. But the death of her betrothed just days before the wedding leaves Rosa...
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The Governess
- Jul-2018
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When Mr. Edmund Winterton of Woodside dies, his daughters find themselves penniless and homeless. What can they do? Unless they wish to live on charity, they will have to find genteel employment for themselves. Annabelle becomes governess to the d...
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The Chaperon
- Sep-2018
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Poor and widowed, Lucy finds a post as chaperon to two young ladies while their mother is awaiting the birth of her child. It sounds like easy work, well suited to her sociable natu...
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The Companion
- Nov-2018
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Margaret is the quiet one of the Winterton family, happy only in her own home with her sisters protectively gathered around her. But her father’s death and mountain of debts tear ...
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The Seamstress
- Jan-2019
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Miss Fanny Winterton has only one wish in her romantic heart -- to surrender to overwhelming love. She will accept nothing less than to be struck by the thunderbolt of everlasting...
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The Lacemaker
- Sep-2019
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A traditional Regency romance, drawing room rather than bedroom. Caroline Milburn and her younger sisters live in two cramped rooms, struggling to survive by their skills in lace making and weaving. When their previously unknown grandfather drown...
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The Apothecary
- Dec-2019
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The sinking of the Brig Minerva results in many deaths, while for others, the future is suddenly brighter. But it’s not always easy to leave the past behind… Annie Dresden is twenty-six years old, with no fortune, and nothing but a quick, prac...
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The Painter
- Mar-2020
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The sinking of the Brig Minerva results in many deaths, while for others, the future is suddenly brighter. But it’s not always easy to leave the past behind… Felicia Oakes is the illegitimate daughter of… well, someone or other. A pirate, pe...
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The Orphan
- Jun-2020
- / Historical Romance
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The sinking of the Brig Minerva results in many deaths, while for others, the future is suddenly brighter. But it’s not always easy to leave the past behind… Evie Parfitt is almost thirty, penniless and with no prospect of ever marrying. She h...
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Stranger At The Parsonage
- Nov-2020
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A new parson sets hearts a-flutter when he arrives in the small Shropshire village of Great Maeswood. Cass Saxby’s heart flutters too, but at twenty-six, with no fortune and a limp from a childhood illness, she has no chance of attracting the at...
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Stranger at the Dower House
- Dec-2020
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A widow moves into the long disused Dower House and makes a horrible discovery in the wine cellar. Thirty-year-old widow Louisa Middlehope is determined to escape from her late husband’s family and live life for herself for the first time. The t...
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Stranger at the Grove
- Mar-2021
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An estranged brother is forced to return to his home and face up to his past. Malcolm Gage walked out of his brother’s life sixteen years ago when they both wanted to marry the same woman. Malcolm lost that battle, and he’s never forgiven his ...
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The Captain and The Country Cousin
- May-2021
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The dashing soldier, the earl’s niece and the secret admirer… Lucinda Willerton-Forbes is quite content to be the useful unmarried niece, so busy organising everyone else that she gives no thought to herself. As for marriage, she isn’t much ...
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Stranger at the Villa
- Jun-2021
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A new physician arrives in the village, but is he all he seems? Susannah Winslade is twenty-six, and drifting into perpetual spinsterhood as she tries to care for her sick stepmother, look after her young brothers and sisters, and keep her father ...
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Stranger at the Manor
- Sep-2021
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A destitute man comes looking for help from his cousin, and uncovers some mysteries. Phyllida Beasley is forty years old, a mousy spinster who devotes her life to caring for her brother, and doing good works in the parish. She’s in a rut, but to...
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Stranger at the Cottage
- Dec-2021
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An out-of-work governess tries to start a school in the village. Deborah Hollingsworth, grand-daughter of a baron, has come down in the world, reduced to acting as unpaid governess for her relations. When even that option closes, what is she to do...
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Stranger at the Hall
- Mar-2022
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The newly discovered heir to the barony arrives to claim his inheritance. Cameron Saxby is contented in his life as a bank clerk in Edinburgh, knowing that if he works hard, he has a good career in front of him. But fate has a different plan for h...
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The Mercer
- May-2022
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A family grown rich in the wool trade. The landed gentry they’ve displaced. And the gentle daughter whose beauty will open the door to an even greater prize - the nobility. Harry Fletcher is almost 50 years old, a widower with a large family and...
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A Winter Chase
- Jun-2022
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A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle. Julia Fletcher is the unimportant daughter of the Fletcher family, with neither beauty nor wit nor accomp...
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A Spring Dance
- Sep-2022
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A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle. Will Fletcher is the eldest son and heir to the family fortune, and although his father is reluctant to r...
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A Summer Game
- Dec-2022
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A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle. Angie Fletcher is the lively, mischievous daughter of the family. All she wants in her life is music and ...
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A Michaelmas Truce
- Mar-2023
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A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle. Madge Paton has been the mainstay of the Fletcher household for a quarter of a century, and even though h...
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An Autumn Courtship
- Jun-2023
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A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle. Johnny Fletcher is exactly where he wants to be - a Fellow at Cambridge, with a lifetime of scholarly pur...
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A Christmas Betrothal
- Sep-2023
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A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle. Michael Plummer has never forgotten the woman he fell passionately in love with a few years ago. He was c...
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The Gentleman Farmer
- Sep-2023
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A family in trade moving up in the world. A family of landed gentry stepping aside for them. And the sons and daughters caught in the middle. This is a complete story, a sequel to the Mercer’s House series. Please read book 6, A Christmas Betrot...
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The Chaplain: A Novella
- Dec-2023
- / Historical Romance
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One man with a secret. A family torn apart by the consequences. Arthur Nicholson is the scapegrace youngest son of a baron, scampering from one near-disaster to another but perpetually optimistic that all will be well - tomorrow. Something will tu...
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Disinheritance
- Jan-2024
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One man with a secret. A family torn apart by the consequences. Walter Atherton, Viscount Birtwell, has drifted through his charmed life without a care in the world. As the eldest son and heir to an earl, he has never had to make his way in the wo...
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Determination
- May-2024
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One man with a secret. A family torn apart by the consequences. Mr Bertram Atherton has one foot in the Ancient World, emerging from his library only to eat and sleep. But when the chaplain of his uncle, the Earl of Rennington, is brutally murdere...