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New Traditional Regencies (Post-2006)
Elizabeth
Inman
The Rake's Quarry. Zebra, November 1994.
Characters: Mr. Burton Horne & Elaine Bayworth, Countess
of Wicksteed
Summary: Man seeking revenge on a lady shows up at her wedding
and claims his medieval ancestors' right to prima nocta.
Eileen
Jackson
Lord Rivington's Lady. Walker, 1976; reissued in paperback
by Signet, August 1977; reissued by Signet, November 1985.
Characters: Alexander, Earl of Rivington & Georgina Harvard
Summary: Lady despises the lord who assaults her, publicly mocks
her views, beats her brother, admits an affair with a servant, financially
ensnares her family, and arrogantly demands her hand in marriage.
Comments: I'm dying to know his good points!
Dance for a Lady. Coventry #131, August 1981; reissued by Mills & Boon, November 1982.
The Secret Bluestocking. Signet, November 1985.
Characters: Robert, Viscount Kinver & Miss Emma Waring
Summary: Lady tries to hide her intelligence in order to find
a husband.
A Servant of Quality. Mills & Boon, July 1990; reissued
by Signet, July 1988.
Characters: Lord Hugo Ramsey & Lady Sophia
Summary: Lady disguised as a servant finds herself at the mercy
of "the handsomest rake in society."
The Wicked Corinthian. Mills & Boon, September 1989;
reissued by Signet, June 1990.
Characters: Earl of Somerville & Emma Kendrick
Summary: Lady tries to stop her sister from being wed to a cynical
libertine.
Elizabeth
Jackson
A Brilliant Alliance. Signet, March 1993.
Characters: Mr. Robert Neville & Miss Caroline Wentworth
Summary: Lady tries to teach an arrogant man a lesson.
Galatea's Revenge. Signet, August 1993.
Characters: Sir Oliver Townsend & Miss Georgiana Oversham
Summary: A gentleman wagers he can turn an unknown chit into
the toast of the ton.
Rating: good
Rogue's Delight. Signet, July 1995.
Characters: Desmond, Viscount Everly & Miss Susan Winston
Summary: Once-jilted lord thinks his new love is being courted
by Byron.
Rating: fair Comments: Byron a bit overboard.
Sally
James
Heir to Rowanlea. Hale, 1980; reissued as Coventry
#107, 1981.
Characters: Harry Norville & Miss Charlotte Weare
Summary: A scheming lady tells a suitor she will accept him
if he is the heir to Rowanlea, but when the true heir returns she switches
her affections and he realizes the worth of another lady who only wants
his happiness.
Petronella's Waterloo. Hale, 1980; reissued as Coventry
#86, December 1980.
Characters: Lucian, Lord Claverton & Miss Petronella Fanshawe
Summary: English governess in Paris who learns information vital
to Wellington's campaign is helped by a dashing lord.
Rating: excellent Comments: Paris setting and rising
tensions well portrayed.
Lord Fordington's Offer. Hale,1982.
Characters: Justin Bembridge, Lord Fordington & Miss Isabella
Clinton
Summary: A lady's companion believes that a lord who visits
frequently is courting her charge.
Josephine
Janes
London Frolic. 2nd Chance at Love, April 1988.
Characters: Aubrey, Lord Brampton & Diana Fletcher
Summary: Lady trying to save her family estate agrees to become
a companion to a lord's mother.
Julia
Jeffries
The Chadwick Ring. Signet, 1982; reissued by Signet,
March 1996.
Heroine: Ginvera
Summary: Lady who is being forced to marry an elderly marquess
is relieved when her fiance's son determines to stop the marriage.
The Clergyman's Daughter. Signet, January 1983; reissued
by Signet, September 1996.
Characters: Graham Foxe, Earl of Raeburn & Mrs. Jessica
Foxe
Summary: Parson's daughter elopes with a dashing aristocrat,
enraging his older brother; but when her husband dies the brother still
wants to control her.
Award: Romance Writers of America Golden Medallion, Best Category
Historical 1984
Emma
Jensen
Choice Deceptions. Fawcett, 1996.
Characters: Jason Granville, Viscount Tarrant & Miss Aurelie
Carrollan
Summary: Lady is hired to play a lord's fiancee.
Rating: very good
Vivid Notions. Fawcett, 1996.
Characters: Noel Windram, Earl of St. Heiler & Miss Vivian
Redmond
Summary: The ton suspects an American heiress of being the subject
of poem attributed to Byron.
Series: Includes characters from Choice Deceptions.
Rating: very good
Coup de Grace. Fawcett, 1996.
Characters: Rafael Marlowe, Duke of Avemar & Lady Grace
Granville
Summary: Lady compromised by her childhood love doesn't want
him to be forced to marry her.
Series: Includes characters from Vivid Notions and Choice
Deceptions.
Rating: very good
What Chloe Wants. Fawcett, 1996.
Characters: Liam MacRaith, Lord Mountrath (Irish earl, English
baron) & Lady Chloe Somersham
Summary: Willful lady is determined to marry an Irish lord.
Best Laid Schemes. Fawcett, 1998.
Characters: Tarquin Rome, Earl of Hythe & Miss Sibyl Cameron
Summary: Prim earl carefully arranges a house party to choose
a bride but his plans are ruined by a clumsy girl who has plagued him since
childhood.
Rating: excellent
Award: Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award, Best Regency
1998
His Grace Endures. Fawcett, 1998.
Characters: Lucas Gower, Duke of Conovar & Mrs. Deirdre
Macvail
Summary: Widow who accompanies her sister-in-law for the Season
meets the man she jilted seven years ago and finds him to be more charming
and agreeable than she remembered.
Rating: very good
Award: Romance Writers of America RITA, Best Regency 1999
The Irish Rogue. Signet, November 1999.
Characters: Christor Moore, Earl of Clane & Miss Ailis O'Neill
Summary: Irish lady who must mix with the political set to help
her brother has disdain for a particular Anglo-Irish lord not realizing
he is the legendary highwayman who helped the Irish poor.
A Grand Design. Signet, November 2000.
Characters: Marquess of Tregaron & Miss Catherine Buchanan
Summary: Lady assisting her architect uncle in renovating a
lord's London home tries to keep her role in the family business secret.
Rating: excellent
Awards: RITA Award for Best Regency 2001; All About Romance
Reader Award for Best Regency 2000.
"The Wexford Carol" in Regency Christmas Spirits. Signet,
October 2001.
Characters: Captain Lord Rhys Edward-Jones & Elizabeth Fitzhollis
Summary: A lady's home is purchased by a duke who sends a captain
to inspect it.
Janice
Johnson
The Imperiled Heiress. Harlequin, September 1986.
Jenna
Jones
A Merry Escapade. Zebra, September 1995.
Characters: Marcus Forester, Earl of Clairmont & Lady Merrily
Mirthton (yuk!)
Summary: Earl helps a lady trying to find a list left by her
late French-spy father.
Comments: She should be Lady Merrily not Lady Mirthton.
"Duke of Diamonds," in Lords and Ladies. Zebra, May 1996.
A Delicate Deception. Zebra, July 1996.
Characters: Justin Mayhew, Earl of Stonegate & Lady Melanie
Baxter
Summary: Earl is rescued by a cabbie who is really the lady
he was betrothed to as a child.
Tia's Valentine. Zebra, February 1997.
Characters: Robert, Viscount Bainbridge & Lady Horatia Hilton
Summary: Man tries to convince his childhood chum to look on
him romantically.
Rating: fair Comments: Charming elements marred by awkward
writing; also, she met the Enforcer too late in the story.
"Underneath the Lemon Tree," in
A Bride's Bouquet.
Zebra, May 1997.
Characters: Stephen Bradford, Earl of Ardmore & Juliana
Dalton, Dowager Countess of Granville
Summary: In trying to stop her impetuous sister's attempts to
trap an earl, a lady becomes entangled with him herself.
"The Rose and Shadow," in
Christmas Kittens. Zebra,
December 1997.
Characters: Captain Derrick Palmer, R.N. & Claire, Dowager
Viscountess Berkeley
Summary: Lady who was forced into marriage with a lord has a
second chance with the man she always loved.
Saving Serenity. Zebra, February 1998.
Characters: Randall Torrent, Marquess of Chilton & Miss
Serenity Hoffenduffle
Summary: Lord thinks his fiancee is part of a thievery ring;
she thinks he's a cad.
Rating: fair Comments: Too much childish innuendo; contrived
situations of them pressed against each other were ridiculous!
Melissa
Lynn Jones
An Uncommon Miss. Zebra, February 1993.
Characters: Marcus Kinsworth, Marquis of Tynsdale & Miss
Rachel Doune
Summary: Scottish lass must marry an English nobleman or lose
her inheritance.
An Alluring Deceit. Zebra, December 1993.
Characters: Earl of Staffield & Mattie Serinier
Summary: A lady with financial troubles masquerades as an errand
boy and is taken under the wing of an earl.
Out of the Common Way. Fawcett, 1993.
Characters: Major Trelwyn & Cecilia Linscombe
Summary: Tall redhead tries to avoid marriage by becoming a
duchess's companion but meets her employer's grandson who once mistook
her for a lightskirt.
"The Butterfly Net," in
A Mother's Love. Zebra,
April 1993.
Characters: Avril Heneley, Baron Ranstow & Miss Selina Springer
Summary: Lord selects a lady collecting money for an orphanage
as the perfect mother for his child.
Janeane
Jordan
The Scheme of Things. Harlequin #66, January 1992.
Characters: Lord Michael Alton & Antonia Marley
Summary: Man who once broke a lady's heart proposes to her for
reasons of his own.
Kenton's Countess. Harlequin #76, July 1992.
Characters: Nicholas Shea, Earl of Kenton & Claire Dempsey
Summary: Earl who thinks he's going to die marries a lady who
loves another in order to get an heir.
Kathryn
June
Affectionately Yours. Zebra, February 2000.
Characters: Valentine Monroe, Earl of Alverston & Miss Anna
Tremain
Summary: Lord poses as his sister in a correspondence with her
closest childhood friend.
The Marrying Man. Zebra, February 2001.
Characters: Sir St. John Pennyworth & Miss Alethea Pierce
Summary: A gentleman is stunned when the lady he has decided
to marry rejects him.
Series: Sequel to Affectionately Yours.
New Traditional Regencies
Elizabeth
Johns
Surrender the Past. 2014.
Summary: After years in America, young Elinor can barely stand life among the English aristocracy — let alone face the man who assaulted her as a teenager. Can the love of a wounded nobleman help her overcome the burdens of her past?
Seasons of Change. 2014.
Summary: Lady Beatrice finds herself reduced from a duke’s daughter to a life of service. Her former betrothed, Lord Vernon, decides to move on with an unemotional marriage of convenience. Will the two find their way back together again?
Seeking Redemption. 2015.
Summary: Lord Fairmont has dedicated himself to redeeming his past sins on the battlefield. Lady Lydia was heartbroken when Lord Fairmont left her for the Army, and she decides to risk it all and take a chance on him helping her.
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