Lady Julia Cavendish has always been a most sensible and practical young woman. So when her parents declare that she must marry, or spend the rest of her days acting as a companion to her dreadful Aunt Mildred, she agrees. Love, she believes, is not real, and an advantageous marriage is far preferable to the life of a servant. But then she meets Lord Montague... The only son of the house her family has been quarrelling with for centuries, he is the last person a sensible and practical girl would think to fall in love. But try as she might, Julia cannot resist the rake's charm and smiles, ...

In this Pride & Prejudice variation, the story begins in 1808 when Mr. Darcy does not arrive at Ramsgate until two days after Georgiana’s elopement with George Wickham. The servants sell their story to the newspapers, the couple vanish, and when the gossip columns run rampant with the news, Darcy’s relatives demand that Darcy disown his sister. When Wickham learns he cannot gain his wife’s dowry until she is thirty years, he deserts Georgiana and Darcy takes her back into their London home. With society turned against them, Darcy takes his sister to Pemberley but she dies during the ...

Lady Wesley is engaged to the younger brother of the Marquess of Lidgate, but she has been close friends with Clive since childhood. Unfortunately, Clive is widely known as the biggest libertine in the kingdom, having seduced countless women. As a result, Lady Wesley is eager to distance herself from him, as she feels no interest in marrying him. However, her plans are complicated by the arrival of Clive's older brother in England. He views the broken engagement between Lady Wesley and his younger brother as a potential scandal in London's high society, and decides to intervene.

What happens in Bath, stays in Bath! Clemence Hurst is an unusual young lady, with a burning desire for the freedom that the combined assets of singleness and wealth can bring her. But she never bargained on meeting the one person who would throw all her dearly held notions of happiness into disarray! Finding herself Bath, and falling for a known rakehell, she also must drive off an unwanted suitor, and rescue her sister-in-law from a scrape which brings disgrace to the family name! Frederick Wolverton’ rakish past is no secret, and young ladies are warned about him wherever he goes. When...

A Beauty with a limp, a Beast with a scarred face, an unwanted proposal, a matchmaking aunt, a carriage journey in a snowstorm, a duel for a maiden’s honour, and the perfect happiness of a love returned! At twenty-three, Georgiana Hall has received no offers of marriage, not is she likely to, for despite being a great beauty, she harbours and inconvenient secret which deters suitors. Captain Asher Brandt, a man haunted by the past that left his face hideously scarred and beast-like, is a man on a mission. To retain guardianship over his young niece, the last living memory of his brother, ...

A Season of Shakespeare Continues... Miss Violet Havisham is in a bind. Having agreed to help her twin brother disappear from London for a spell, she now finds that his presence is needed by Whitehall, to help them catch a spy. Not only that, but the man who has summoned him, is none other than the formidable Duke of Orsino. Afraid of letting Sebastian down, Violet foolishly decides to try and impersonate her brother, but quickly finds that this involves sharing very close quarters with a devilishly handsome duke. To further add to her woes, Orsino decides that he has taken a shine to the ...

The beautiful and enigmatic Duke of Darrylshire has always reveled in a life of indulgence, dismissing love as a fleeting illusion. But when a mysterious Italian Contessa enters his world, she stirs desires he never expected and forces him to confront the haunting secrets of his past. As she weaves her way into his life, the Duke is torn between a growing passion and the fear of giving his heart. Could this be his chance to seek the absolution he never believed he could have? A spellbinding tale of love, scandal, and the heavy price of forgiveness.

Lord Benedict Saint Pierre Rushford, Marquess of Ravensworth, has squandered his life in excess and indulgence—until a fateful accident leaves him at the mercy of a mysterious woman. The woman who nurses him back to health is nothing like the ladies of his world. Independent, elusive, and utterly unimpressed by his charm, she challenges him in ways he never expected. As desire turns into something far more dangerous, Benedict realizes that winning her heart will take more than seduction—it will require a reckoning with his own past. But will she be his salvation… or his ruin? A tale ...

All of his efforts to forget her had failed, and he had accepted that some part of her would always be with him. In the winter of 1812, a fatal accident on a stormy night plunges the Bennet family into mourning and scandal. Shunned and isolated from nearly everyone they have ever known and loved each of the Bennet sisters hurries to marry, to provide themselves the respectability of married women. Miss Elizabeth Bennet settles into marriage of prudence with a man she respects but could never completely love.

Penelope is wary and scared of her debut ball and begs her brother to let her be and just choose whoever he wants as a husband for her but John is adamant that she enjoy the full experience of a season and then choose a husband from all the gentlemen that offer for her. Resigned, Penelope decides to be a wallflower and somehow get done with the season as she knows that no such offers for her hand would be forthcoming. While most of her estimations ring true, she does end up attracting some of the least gentlemanly attention because of her lush figure. Hiding and leaving early become her ...