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, ...

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...

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 ...

When three women’s lives come together in a mad Regency tale of flight and pursuit, things go rather awry as expectations are disappointed, suitors spurned, and happy endings seem further off than ever before. Will Camilla, Alice and Louisa find their destinies, or will true love be thwarted as they throw caution to the winds? Married by Michaelmas is the fast-paced tale of three women, all bound on a path away from matrimony for various reasons…but fate always has a tendency to have its own way, and for Camilla, Louisa and Alice, there are enough mix-ups, intrigues and angst-ridden ...

When Catherine Morland married Henry Tilney, she was sure the seemingly cosy Woodston parsonage could not harbour any secrets such as she had imagined to lurk at Northanger Abbey. It is not long, however, before Catherine finds that there may be more skeletons in Woodston's closets than she could ever wish for to occupy her imagination. Meanwhile, determined to become a perfect wife, Catherine gets herself into one scrape after another, and it is not long before she gives up hope of ever gaining Henry's respect. When temptation visits Woodston in the form of a charismatic drawing instructor...

A disguised runaway falls into the hands of an unsuspecting rake. Driven to flight to escape the machinations of her relatives, Clementina is appalled to find herself in worse trouble. Who is this devilishly attractive man? What will he do with her? Intrigued by the beautiful girl he has captured, Jake takes pains to protect her reputation. But Clementina proves a handful. When her Nemesis turns up, she escapes Jake, only to end up in the enemy’s hands. Will Jake’s dramatic rescue settle it all? Or will his drastic solution prove worse than the problem?

A Lord on the brink of ruin… An aspiring artist, with a dark secret… A sham marriage to solve all their problems. He is in want of money. In dire need of funds, Henry Thornton struggles to provide for his five sisters after the untimely demise of their parents. Facing the debtor’s prison, Henry becomes a reluctant fortune hunter. Little does he anticipate that Rosalind, the daughter of a wealthy duke, would hand him the lifeline they both desperately seek. She is in want of a husband. Facing the life of a solitary spinster, Rosalind Dearling must be wedded by the end of the Season or ...

‘Elizabeth’s Covenant’ is more than just a new edition of one of Florence Gold’s early novels; it is a revised version that, while grounded in the same idea of a covenant undertaken by Elizabeth, it also reveals an entirely different underlying mystery. Elspeth Awbrey, formerly Bennet, is the sister of Mr Bennet and the guardian of traditions inherited from their Scottish ancestor, Elspeth MacLellan. Married to Oliver Bennet, the man who imposed the infamous entail on Longbourn, Elspeth MacLellan insisted that all their descendants, whether male or female, must fulfil a covenant to ...

A misunderstanding, an accident, and a mistaken fortune – three paths to the same heart. A trio of captivating novellas that reimagine Jane Austen's beloved classic from fresh perspectives. A Governess at Pemberley Financial misfortune forces Elizabeth Bennet to become governess to Georgiana Darcy. As she brings warmth to Pemberley and confidence to its shy young mistress, Fitzwilliam Darcy finds himself increasingly drawn to the unconventional governess. But in Regency England, the social divide between a wealthy gentleman and his employee seems insurmountable. Chance and Circumstance ...

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 ...

Lady Rachel, the sister of the very wealthy and highly esteemed Duke of Creighton, has entered her first Season with great anticipation. She loves wearing beautiful gowns. She loves talking to her friends. She loves going to balls and meeting gentlemen. This is going to be the most wonderful time of her life. When she starts receiving missives from a secret admirer, it turns out the Season is even better than she imagined. What lady, after all, can resist the appeal of a mysterious stranger expressing his deep and abiding love in her? She sets out to enlist the help of an unlikely ally to ...

Her taste of forbidden love should have been sweet. From bestselling, award-winning author Eliana Piers comes a steamy series that introduces the world of The Good Dukes in London. A group of friends, one house party, a meddling duchess, and a whole lot of love and scandal... Lady Mary finds London society and its rules crushing. She wants to be her own woman, as one of the ton’s first female playwrights. Yet it’s more than a little tricky to be that person when she gets stuck in a closet, pressed against a hot, brooding duke who just so happens to be her best friend’s brother. ...

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.

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, ...

Will a wealthy widow rediscover love with the father of her unborn child? When Thorn Greenwood and Felicity Lyte try to prevent his irrepressible younger sister from eloping with her bookish nephew, sparks soon fly, reigniting their passionate romance. But the beautiful Lady Lyte is keeping a secret that could threaten their newfound happiness.