Victorian

Father Cade Frederic is a holy man. Brought up in the streets of Paris, he has dedicated his life to the church. But there's a monster that lingers just beneath the surface. A sickness. One that bleeds darkness and feeds on the damned....

Lady Madeline Matthews would rather shame herself than sacrifice her freedom. To avoid marrying an aging, lecherous lord, she seeks out the company of Logan Scott, for a torrid affair with the notorious womanizer would surely condemn her in the eyes of good society....

Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She's also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means....

I’d played kiss chase when I’d been younger, but never with the devil himself…

January 1889. As the newest member of the Curiosity Club - an elite society of brilliant, intrepid women - Veronica Speedwell is excited to put her many skills to good use....

A wallflower and a rake join together to solve a mystery in this charming grumpy/sunshine historical rom-com—the first book in a new series from the bestselling author of A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Mayhem!

While investigating a man claiming to be the long-lost heir to a noble family, Veronica Speedwell gets the surprise of her life....

Veronica’s natural-historian beau, Stoker, has been away in Bavaria for months and their relationship is at an impasse. But when Veronica shows up before him with his brother, Tiberius, Lord Templeton-Vane, he is lured back home by an intriguing job offer....

No one betrays the Academy. But now Euphemia must decide: break the rules for her enemy, or let the rules break her heart.

In the summer of 1862, a group of young artists led by the passionate and talented Edward Radcliffe descends upon Birchwood Manor in rural Oxfordshire. Their plan: to spend a secluded summer month in a haze of inspiration and creativity....

New York Times best-selling author Lorraine Heath continues her Once upon a Dukedom series with this lush love story of a duke who discovers what he desires in a wife may not be what he needs....

Charlotte Holmes is accustomed to solving crimes, not being accused of them, but she finds herself in a dreadfully precarious position as the bestselling Lady Sherlock series continues....

After breaking my heart and publicly humiliating me, I vow to forget his existence. He has other plans, though, and vows to make certain I don’t. The only one I can turn to for help is a man I thought to be my enemy....

Savage ambition has brought common-born Rhys Winterborne vast wealth and success. In business and beyond, Rhys gets exactly what he wants....

At eighteen, Emmeline Ballentine’s father splashed out on one London season to introduce his daughter to polite society. Sadly, for Emmeline, polite society was not terribly receptive to a city trader’s daughter.

After six unsuccessful seasons, Miss Minerva Dodger chooses spinsterhood over fortune-hungry suitors....

England, 1879. Annabelle Archer, the brilliant but destitute daughter of a country vicar, has earned herself a place among the first cohort of female students at the renowned University of Oxford. In return for her scholarship, she must support the rising women's suffrage movement....

Growing up with four unruly brothers has made Freyja Bedwyn far bolder than most society ladies. From feisty manner to long, tumbling hair, Lady Freyja is pure fire....

Lady Merritt Sterling, a strong-willed young widow who’s running her late husband’s shipping company, knows London society is dying to catch her in a scandal. So far, she’s been too smart to provide them with one. But then she meets Keir MacRae....

Phoebe has never met West Ravenel, but she knows one thing for certain: He’s a mean, rotten bully. Back in boarding school, he made her late husband’s life a misery. But when Phoebe attends a family wedding, she encounters a dashing and impossibly charming stranger: West Ravenel....

Amelia Willoughby has been engaged to the Duke of Wyndham for as long as she can remember. Literally. A mere six months old when the contracts were signed, she has spent the rest of her life waiting. And waiting. And waiting....

Devon Ravenel, London's most wickedly charming rake, has just inherited an earldom. But his powerful new rank in society comes with unwanted responsibilities....

Miss Amelia Hathaway, a beautiful and strong-willed spinster, has looked after her unruly younger siblings ever since the death of her parents. But when reckless brother inherits a title, the Hathaways are flung into the unfamiliar world of the English peerage....

An intrepid female reporter matches wits with a serious, sexy detective in an award-winning author's fun and flirty historical rom-com, perfect for fans of Evie Dunmore, Julia Quinn, and Tessa Dare....

Charlotte Holmes’s brilliant mind and deductive skills are pulled into a dangerous investigation at sea in the new mystery in the bestselling Lady Sherlock series....

Once the most charming rake in London, John Aubin lost everything when he overheard a powerful earl’s fraudulent dealings. Branded a liar and cast out of society, he now lives under an assumed name, working in the very orphanage the earl owns. But Aubin’s purpose isn’t charity—it’s revenge. Sober and focused for the first time in his life, he plans to expose the earl’s corruption and reclaim his good name. Nothing will stand in his way—until he meets her.

Elfreda Marsden has finally made a major discovery—an ancient amulet proving the Viking army camped on her family’s estate. Too bad her nemesis is back from London, freshly exiled after a scandal and ready to wreak havoc on her life. Georgie Redmayne is everything Elfreda isn’t—charming, popular, carefree, distractingly attractive, and bored to death by the countryside. When the two collide (literally), the amulet is lost, and with it, Elfreda’s big chance to lead a proper excavation.

The queen bee of the fictional village of Riseholme, Mrs. Emmeline ‘Lucia’ Lucas is a snobbish yet oddly charming woman who prides herself on being the cultural and intellectual leader of her community. She dabbles in art, plants Shakespeare-themed flower arrangements in her garden and uses fake Italian phrases to maintain her social standing. Trouble brews when some new arrivals to town – including the glamorous opera singer Olga Bracely and the eccentric spiritualist Daisy Quantock – begin to challenge Lucia’s hold over Riseholme.

Eine lebenslustige Erbin trifft auf einen verführerischen Duke. Eine mitreißende Regency-Romance von Stacy Reid – voller Leidenschaft, Gefühl und einer Prise Humor. Die amerikanische Erbin Miss Elizabeth Armstrong hat genug von Glücksrittern, die mehr an ihrem Vermögen interessiert sind als an ihrem Herzen. Enttäuscht von den falschen Absichten der Männer in der Londoner High Society, hat sie die Hoffnung auf eine Heirat längst aufgegeben.

Henrietta Redford wishes she were a boy—after all, boys are masters of their own fate. Casting her dolls aside, she climbs trees, plays at swordfighting, and indulges in practical jokes. Once she's had her come-out, Henrietta has promised her father that she'll settle down and marry. Any eligible man might do, but it certainly won't be Giles Thorpe—the older boy from the estate next door, whose arrogant disdain of her tomboyish ways only increased as he grew into a man.

Verity Lockwood despises life at Far View House, where her father and mill owner, Jebediah Lockwood, drowns his fortune—and his wits—in drink. With debts mounting, whispers spread—how much longer can Lockwood’s Mill survive? The dark and dirty mills of Yorkshire are no place for a gently bred young woman, but when Verity learns that her father’s ruin threatens not only her home but the livelihoods of the workers who depend on it, she refuses to stand idly by.

Two alphas. One awakening. A queen born of blood. Lady Octavia Blackwood was meant for silk gowns, not silver claws. Raised as a proper Victorian heiress, she expected courtly dances and a strategic marriage—not wild instincts, sharpened senses, and a legacy buried deep in her blood. When her dormant werewolf nature awakens under the full moon, Octavia is thrust into a hidden world of power, desire, and danger. At her side stand two alphas: —Lord James Ashworth, her childhood friend turned calculating politician, whose charm conceals a possessive hunger. —Commander Marcus Ravencroft, ...

Lady Frances Rowley is no ordinary debutante—feisty, intelligent, and determined to forge her own destiny, she faces an unwanted marriage that threatens to bind her to a life she dreads. With her options dwindling, Frances turns to the one person she swore never to ask for help: her scandalous childhood friend, the Duke of Hargate, Johnathan Seton.

The Dressmaker and the Duke A sweeping Edwardian romance of secrets, scandal, and stitches of the heart. With nothing left but a silver thimble and a borrowed name, Evelyn Bright boards a midnight train to Windmere Hall, summoned to craft a mourning wardrobe for the reclusive Lady Helen Greystowe. What she finds is a house draped in shadows—and a family bound by silence. Julian Ashborne, the Duke of Windmere, returned from war bearing scars no uniform could conceal. Haunted by the death of his brother and rumours whispered in drawing rooms, he rules Windmere with precision and ice. But ...

Un amor prohibido que desafía al destino En el opulento mundo de la nobleza, donde la jerarquía social lo es todo, un joven sirviente no se atreve a soñar con amar a la hija de un duque. Sin embargo, el corazón de Arthur late por Rose. Al regresar de la escuela, Rose se enfrenta al deseo de sus padres de encontrar esposo. Pero su corazón pertenece a la única persona que no puede tener: Arthur. Mientras navegan por el traicionero panorama de su amor prohibido, un rayo de esperanza surge en el prestigioso concurso de flores de la Royal Society. ¿Será suficiente el audaz plan de Arthur...

En medio de una concurrida fiesta de la alta sociedad, lord Julian Taverham tiene una cita clandestina en la biblioteca con una experimentada viuda a la que lleva cuatro largos meses tratando de seducir. Ansioso por el devenir de su tête à tête se presenta en el lugar acordado a la hora indicada, hasta ahí todo correcto. No obstante, la muchacha que le ruega con desesperación que la bese, no es ni de lejos la mujer con la que él pensaba reunirse. Lady Anastasia Doger, la hija del duque de Grafton, no podía creerse su buena fortuna. ¡Estaba entre los poderosos brazos del pecaminoso ...

Unidos por el Deber y el Deseo En medio del escándalo y las deudas, el destino de los Ackley pende de un hilo. El imprudente pasado de Lord Ackley ha condenado a su hija Aislinn a un matrimonio de conveniencia con el despiadado Duque de Manchester, una unión que salvará el patrimonio familiar, pero frustrará los sueños de Aislinn. Sin embargo, en medio de la intriga, surgen dos amores inesperados: la atracción prohibida de Aislinn por el honorable hermano del duque, y la pasión desbordante de Lord Ackley por la cautivadora Vizcondesa Olivia, quien ha acogido a Aislinn bajo su ...

Her secret will save a legacy. But it could also break her heart when faced with a duke caught between two identities. The daughter of a famed architect, Rebecca Lambert has been raised among the nobility yet understands the circumstances of her birth. Becoming an architect is a dream, not an option, until she must assume an identity to protect her father’s name. No one was pleased when Valentine St. Vincent was shockingly named the Duke of Wyndham -- least of all Valentine himself. He has always led with his fists, but now he must become the man his brother was supposed to be.

THE CHILD SHE NEVER SPOKE OF Book One in The Bowers Hill Saga Some secrets are buried so deep, only love can dig them up. Fourteen-year-old Caroline Calder's world crumbles the night her beloved father dies in a winter storm. When her grief-stricken mother remarries with shocking haste, Caroline suspects the charming Quentin Rawle is not the savior he appears to be. Her instincts prove devastatingly correct. Torn from everything she's ever known, Caroline finds herself fighting for survival in the harsh industrial mills of Leeds, desperate to protect her younger sisters at any cost. In this...

A ruined reputation. A harbour steeped in secrets. A love that defies every rule. Lady Celeste Hargrave was the darling of the London Season—until scandal exiled her to the windswept coast of Whitcombe Bay. Tasked with salvaging her uncle’s crumbling estate, Celeste finds more than ruined ledgers and storm-battered walls: she finds Elias Fletcher, the gruff harbourmaster with a past as shadowy as the cliffs below. Elias wants nothing to do with a titled lady—especially not one asking questions that could unravel the fragile peace in their smuggling-riddled village. But when danger ...

Es una de las mujeres apodadas «Las Vergüenzas de Londres» por las columnas de sociedad de los periódicos. La culpa la tiene su esposo… Las circunstancias la obligaron a casarse. Llegó al altar deseando un cambio en su vida y sabía que tendría que luchar para lograr la felicidad. También era consciente de que unirse a un hombre poderoso al que se le conocía por ser aburrido y muy formal no le traería demasiada alegría, aunque sí estabilidad. ¡Qué equivocada estaba! Prudence Charlotte Hamilton, duquesa de Rutland, se da cuenta que no es una dama que se conforme con poco, y ...

Once the cherished daughter of a respected and affluent family, Emma Haverleigh is left penniless and grieving after her father’s sudden downfall and death. Armed only with her sharp mind, thorough education, and biting wit, she is forced to seek employment as a governess—an unthinkable descent for a woman raised to attend salons, not serve in them. Her post takes her to the stately home of the Duke of Westmoreland, a brooding widower whose young daughter is as unruly as she is clever. Though Emma intends only to survive her new station with dignity, her quick tongue and fearless ...

Lady Seraphina Bell has been in love with one man for what has seemed like her entire life. Unfortunately for her, that man also appears determined to be the bane of her existence. Their acerbic sparring matches are notorious, and inescapable. If only he would set aside what he believes her to be, and really see her—then they might have something she only has in her dreams—a perfect love.

The Duke's Secret Garden: Where Scandal Blooms Amongst the Roses is a captivating historical romance novel that intertwines mystery, betrayal, and the transformative power of love. Set in the opulent yet rigid world of Victorian England, the story follows Adrian, the newly minted Duke of Wycliffe, and Evelyn Hart, a brilliant and enigmatic botanist, as they uncover the dark secrets buried within the walls of Wycliffe Manor. When Adrian inherits his family’s estate, he is confronted with a decaying mansion and an overgrown, neglected garden that holds more than just weeds and thorns.

XIX-wieczny Paryż: jedni szukają bogactwa, inni – pozycji w towarzystwie, wszyscy pragną miłości. Charlotte de Foy dziedziczy po dziadku najstarszą paryską agencję matrymonialną – „Bławatek". Za elegancką fasadą biura kryją się nie tylko historie samotnych serc, ale także tajemnica, która może zniszczyć reputację firmy budowaną przez pokolenia. Charlotte postanawia tchnąć nowe życie w rodzinny interes, nie zdając sobie sprawy, że konkurencja wie o niej wszystko i jest tuż tuż. Bardzo blisko... Czy uda się jej ocalić rodzinne dziedzictwo?

Dans les paisibles recoins de son existence, Lady Jane Roseington s’est résignée à un avenir sans éclat, promise à une vie de vieille fille discrète, toujours en retrait, toujours oubliée. Pourtant, au creux de son cœur, une lueur d’espoir persiste—insensée, fragile, mais tenace. Cet espoir vacille le jour où un lord au charme aussi brut qu’un orage vient bouleverser sa sérénité… et précipiter sa chute dans le scandale.

It is 1845, and in a Westmoreland village, trouble brews when a local entrepreneur wants to extend the railway through farmland. A tale of love and conflict.

He was meant to serve her. She was born to burn for him Lady Catriona Carmichael lives in a golden cage — wealthy, wed, and utterly alone. Her marriage is cold, her estate is a prison, and her only solace lies in the overgrown garden tended by a rugged Highlander with shadows in his eyes. Torran Kincaid was meant to disappear quietly into servitude. But beneath the dirt on his hands lies a dangerous past — and the fire between them is far too fierce to ignore. When their passion erupts, so does the danger. Catriona and Torran must flee everything they’ve ever known. But freedom has a ...

Würde man Prudence Finch nach der Anzahl ihrer London Seasons fragen, würde sie nur kühl die Augenbraue heben. Als älteste Tochter einer wohlhabenden Familie hat sie längst beschlossen, sich mit Würde aus dem absurden Heiratskarussell zu verabschieden – unverheiratet, aber einflussreich. Was sie ganz sicher nicht will: einen Ehemann, der entweder doppelt so alt, halb so klug oder so reizlos ist, dass man selbst im Schutz völliger Dunkelheit kaum seine Nähe ertrüge.

Lord Henderson huyo de Londres, preso de la culpa por todas las vidas que no pudo salvar aquella noche. Margot creía haber desterrado de su corazón, a aquel caballero, que no dudo en dejarla atrás a merced de su hermano. Ahora él había regresado y ella estaba en un aprieto. Sería capaz de aceptar su ayuda sin arriesgar su corazón, sabiendo que se marcharía rompiéndolo en mil pedazos. Anthony no tenía tiempo que perder, debía volver con los fondos o las riadas se repetirían de nuevo, pero no fue capaz de alejarse de ella, sabiendo que su vida estaba en juego. Aunque, tarde o ...