Regencies by Subject - Ulterior Motives

Fortune Hunters

Helen Archery, Lady Adventuress.
Lady with a plan to snag a rich duke meets her match in a disinherited rake seeking a rich bride.

Caroline Arnett, Melinda.
Lady who comes from America to find a rich husband has two choices.

Mollie Ashton, The Noble Impostor.
Target of fortune hunters tries to see through a man's web of lies.

Jo Beverley, The Forutne Hunter.
Gel seeks wealthy husband, finds love.

Nancy Butler, The Bartered Heart.
Penniless rogue sets out to court an heiress but meets a beautiful waif along the way.

Nancy Butler, The Discarded Duke.
A destitute widow agrees to sell her late husband's bloodstock to the Duke of Ardsley, hoping to lure the wealthy aristocrat into marriage, but a handsome sheepherder could throw a wrench into her plans.

Marion Chesney, The Glitter and the Gold.
Two friends try to marry for money but love triumphs.

Carola Dunn, The Fortune-Hunters.
Two fortune hunters in Bath pretending to be rich fall for each other.

Diane Farr, The Fortune Hunter.
A wealthy lady who runs an orphanage is courted by an impoverished lord.

Candice Hern, A Garden Folly.
Lady at a house party is determined to find a rich husband but is drawn to the "gardener" who is really her host incognito.

Cindy Holbrook, The Missing Brides.
A lord who desperately needs to marry for money finds his plans thwarted by a matchmaking aunt and his growing attraction to his lovely neighbor.

Kate Huntington, The Captain's Courtship.
To save her family from the poorhouse, a lady sets her sights on a wealthy husband and ignores the captain who is using her for his own ends.

Lillian Lincoln, Fine Feathers.
A wealthy, naive lady is rescued from a fortune hunter by a lord's false proposal.

Dorothy Mack, The Luckless Elopement.
Lady rescues an heiress from an elopement with a fortune hunter only to fall for him herself.

Elizabeth Mansfield, The Bartered Bride.
Gentleman marries a lady for her £40,000 dowry.

Lois Menzel, Celia.
Lady has attached a suitor who makes her the envy of her older sisters, but when her fiance's brother returns from the war her dreams of wealth and a title give way to love.

Barbara Metzger, An Affair of Interest.
Managing lady tries to wed her beautiful sister to a man she thinks is a nabob.

Jenna Mindel, Blessing in Disguise.
A gentleman who gambled away his fortune enters the Marriage Mart seeking a rich bride but finds his reputation has preceded him.

Lisabet Norcross, The Lady & the Rogue.
Penniless lady who schemes to marry a title and wealth finds herself the target of a viscount's schemes.

Cynthia Pratt, Lady Roma's Romance.
After the death of her beloved fiance, a lady journeys to Bath and meets her former fiance's cousin, a delightful companion who is after her fortune.

Carol Proctor, Theodora's Dreadful Mistake.
Lady targets a wealthy husband to save her mother but his aunt interferes.

Carol Proctor, The Dangerous Dandy.
Lady tries to make herself loathsome to a rake pursuing her for her money.

Barbara Reeves, Lacy's Dilemma.
Lady who must marry for money meets a man pretending to be poor to find love.

Patricia Rice, The Genuine Article.
Lady hides her biting wit to snare a rich husband to save family but falls for her intended's friend instead.

Evelyn Richardson, Fortune's Lady.
Despite the warnings of his friends, a gentleman woos a beautiful and wealthy lady who has earned herself the sobriquet "the Ice Princess"
for her standoffish attitude toward would-be fortune hunters.

Regina Scott, The Bluestocking on His Knee.
Heiress is shocked when a man invades her home hoping to wed her and save himself from debtor's prison.

Deborah Simmons, Fortune Hunter.
A viscount who needs a wealthy wife pursues an heiress whose contempt for her suitors has earned her the nickname Lady Disdain.

Melynda Beth Skinner, The Blue Stocking.
A runaway heiress mistakes a rake for a gentleman and asks him to pose as her fiance, while he in turn decides to marry her for her fortune.

Joan Smith, The Waltzing Widow.
Lady flees fortune hunters by disguising herself as an impoverished widow only to be mistaken for a fortune hunter herself by the uncle of a boy who develops a crush on her.

Marlene Suson, The Reluctant Heiress.
Heiress tries to elope with a Frenchman to avoid marrying a fortune hunter but when the Frenchman flees it seems she must marry the fortune hunter after all.

Linda Walker, My Lady's Deception.
A penniless lady with no prospects concocts a ruse to find a mate only to encounter a young man in similar circumstances.

Rebecca Ward, Cinderella's Stepmother.
Lady and her younger widowed stepmother try to find one of them a rich husband.

Claudette Williams, Lacey.
Fleeing a fortune hunter involved with her stepmother, a lady encounters another self-confessed fortune hunter whom she wants to love her for herself.

Bess Willingham, The Husband Hunt.
Opera singer hoping to marry for money is puzzled by the attentions of a gentleman who is actually seeking a French spy among her suitors.

Wagers

Mary Balogh, The Double Wager.
Tomboy wagers she can snag a duke.

Mary Balogh, The Incurable Matchmaker.
Gentlemen at White's wager on a libertine's seduction of a vicar's widow.

Barbara Benedict, Love and Honor.
Earl bets that a hoyden will remain unmarried at end of the Season.

Jessica Benson, Lord Stanhope's Proposal.
Earl is determined to rescue an independent-minded lady when his foppish cousin makes her the subject of a wager.

Catherine Blair, "The Black Kitten," in Magical Kittens.
A lord bets that he'll win the hand of a lady whose Egyptian antiquities he covets.

Patricia Bray, A London Season.
Country miss is shocked to discover a lord bet on her success during her Season.

Loretta Chase, Knaves' Wager.
Widow who cannot believe that a dashing rake has fallen in love with her has her suspicions confirmed when she learns he has attempted to seduce her on a wager.

Nicola Cornick, Lady Allerton's Wager.
In order to regain an island that once belonged to her family, a lady makes a wager with a lord who mistakes her for a Cyprian.

Caroline Courtney, Libertine in Love.
Libertine first kisses a lady in public to win a bet then wagers he can win her hand in marriage in six months.

Caroline Courtney, A Wager for Love.
Earl abducts a lady to fulfill a bet that he can marry a lady of good breeding in one week.

Ann Elizabeth Cree, The Duke's Mistress.
A lady who innocently played a part in a wager that ruined a duke is dismayed when he seeks revenge on her by demanding she become his mistress for the Season.

Ann Elizabeth Cree, Lord Rotham's Wager.
A lord who must marry because of his great-uncle's will wagers he can find a wife in the fan lottery at his grandmother's ball, but the fan he picks belongs to a lady who rejected him to marry another six years earlier.

Monette Cummings, Lady Sheila's Groom.
Gentleman is employed as a lady's groom after he makes a wager that he can support himself for six months.

Teresa DesJardien, A Winsome Widow.
Viscount bets he can win the hand of a widow who shuns all suitors.

Marian Devon, A Question of Class.
Lady falls for a major who is really an actor posing as a lookalike gentleman on a bet.

June Drummond, The Impostor.
Lord bets he can earn his living and becomes the tutor to the family of an admiral with a suspicious niece.

Rachelle Edwards, Lord Heathbury's Revenge.
Lord vows revenge on the lady who accepted a challenge to win his affection.

Mona Gedney, A Valentine's Day Gambit.
Man who wagers he can win a lady's heart by Valentine's Day is impeded by her chaperone, so he decides to charm his way around her.

Maria Greene, "Cupid's Arrow" in A Valentine Waltz.
A reckless wager leads a gentleman to court a recently jilted lady.

Marie-Louise Hall, Rake's Reform.
A rake wagers on the seduction of an innocent miss.

Elizabeth Jackson, Galatea's Revenge.
A gentleman wagers he can turn an unknown chit into the toast of the ton.

April Kihlstrom, An Honorable Rogue.
Lady accepts a bet to pose as barmaid & is seduced a notorious libertine.

April Kihlstrom, The Reckless Wager.
Earl wagers he can conquer a country miss whom he considers easy prey.

Valerie King, Bewitching Hearts.
When a lord demands a kiss in exchange for a lady's using his ancient castle to help a star-crossed spirit, she agrees not knowing he has wagered he can seduce her.

Valerie King, A Daring Wager.
Lady wagers her cousin that she can get snuffboxes from three of society's most dashing peers in one month.

Valerie King, A Rogue's Wager.
When a lady's friends wager that she must charm the man who broke her heart out of his three most prized possessions or marry him, she sets out to win the bet, but the lord wagers he can win her heart.

Alice Chetwynd Ley, The Toast of the Town.
Much-admired lady determines to attract the attention of the one man who ignores her.

Isobel Linton, "The Winter Wager," in Winter Kiss.
A notorious rake takes a gamble on love.

Prudence Martin, Wager on Love.
Rogue chooses his bride by wager then falls for her sister.

Lois Menzel, A Reckless Wager.
Lord loses a wager and must become betrothed to a lady of his godmother's choosing, but though he manages to extract himself from the engagement he can't forget the lady's younger sister.

Kasey Michaels, The Playful Lady Penelope.
Lady with a penchant for pranks and a disdain for marriage accepts a wager from her father that she need not wed if she can behave on a country visit, but then she meets a mischievous gentleman.

Anita Mills, Devil's Match.
In order to win a wager and gain the fortune promised when he produces an heir, a rake proposes to a proper young lady.

Lucy Muir, The Imprudent Wager.
Lord bets a lady £2,000 against her virtue that her ward can't marry a peer.

Mary Nichols, A Lady of Consequence.
A lord falls in love with an actress whom he started wooing on a bet.

Patricia Oliver, An Inconvenient Wife.
Lord forced to marry a lady vows to keep her shut away at one of his minor estates.

Joan Overfield, The Viscount's Vixen.
Bluestocking interested in politics tries to help a friend win a viscount's love but he has wagered that he can win the bluestocking's heart.

Andrea Pickens, Code of Honor.
Lord is tricked into betting he can make an innocent lady his mistress.

Martha Jean Powers, The Gray Fox Wagers.
Drunken gentleman forces a destitute lady to marry him but later regrets his actions and wagers with his new wife as to whether he'll acknowledge her.

Deborah Simmons, "The Notorious Duke" in The Love Match.
A gentleman who is bored by Brighton accepts a wager to try to charm a seemingly impervious lady.

Hayley Ann Solomon, By Way of a Wager.
Lady who finds herself in an improper situation with a duke makes a wager with him.

Margaret Summerville, The Wicked Wager.
Toast wagers she can add an unfashionable country gentleman to her list of conquests.

Sylvia Thorpe, The Scapegrace.
Lord bets he can make a penniless American lady a social success.

Revenge & Blame

Therese Alderton, Second Season.
When the man she holds responsible for her brother's death turns up on her doorstep badly wounded, a lady cannot refuse to help him but never expects to fall in love with him.

Rebecca Ashley, Feuds and Fantasies.
A lady tries to keep her sister away from the brother of the man she blames for shooting her brother in a duel.

Sara Blayne, An Easter Courtship.
Reclusive lady encounters the man she holds responsible for her fiance's death.

Leonora Blythe, Carolina.
Lady whose father died in disgrace meets the lord who drove him to his final desperate act.

Mary Brendan, Beloved Avenger.
Lady is drawn to a man seeking revenge on her family.

Mary Brendan, Wedding Night Revenge.
A lady's father loses the family home to a man seeking revenge on her for jilting him.

Caroline Brooks, An Old Scandal.
A lady is unable to resist falling in love with the man who killed her husband in a duel.

Miranda Cameron, Lord Cleary's Revenge.
A betrothed lady finds herself courted by a man whose brother was killed by her fiance.

Jeanne Carmichael, Quest for Vengeance.
Lord who believes his father was driven to death vows revenge on the person he holds responsible.

Jeanne Carmichael, Lady Scoundrel.
Lady who seeks revenge on those who ruined her father by breaking into their homes and stealing from them meets a man who reclaims his stolen money by offering his heart instead.

Elizabeth Chater, Lady Dearborn's Deubt.
Lady seeking a suitor for her 6-foot niece picks a man who's more suited to herself; another man seeking revenge on the aunt's late husband mistakes the niece for her aunt.

Alanna Clayton, The Mistress Thief.
A lady devoted to the cause of rescuing women from a life of prostitution embarks on a mission of vengeance against the man who broke her sister's heart by reforming his mistresses.

Catherine Coulter, Lord Harry's Folly.
Lady disguises herself as a man to get revenge against an arrogant aristocrat.

Caroline Courtney, Love's Masquerade.
Lady vows revenge on the man who caused her friend to die of a broken heart -- and make the man she herself loves jealous at the same time.

Ann Elizabeth Cree, My Lady's Prisoner.
A lady suspects a man wearing her husband's ring of murdering him and takes him captive to learn the truth.

Dinah Dean, The Eagle's Fate.
As Napoleon's troops approach, a lady fleeing Moscow is rescued by a gentleman who scorns her because of a wrong done to him by her brother.

Marjorie DeBoer, The Unwelcome Suitor.
Lady is wooed by the lord whom she blames for her husband's death.

Georgina Devon, The Rogue's Seduction.
A widow who was forced to leave the man she loved at the altar to marry a richer man finds herself the target of the scorned gentleman's revenge.

Sarah Eagle, Lady Vengeance.
American lady seeking her brother who went missing in action during the War of 1812 goes to England to confront the man responsible for sending him to war.

Rachelle Edwards, Lord Heathbury's Revenge.
Lord vows revenge on the lady who mocked him.

Rachelle Edwards, Lucifer's Lady.
Lady detests the man who ruined her gamester father even though he paid her way through school and gave her a Season.

Rachelle Edwards, The Devilish Earl.
Toast of the London theatre plans to use her new-found fame to seek revenge on the lord who ruined her father.

Sarah Fairchilde, Dance of Desire.
Lady plots revenge on the lord who nearly ran her down then kissed her.

Olivia Fontayne, The Rogue's Revenge.
New earl seeks revenge on the family he thinks ruined his grandmother.

Sandra Heath, Rakehell's Widow.
Widow warns sister away from the man she blames for her husband's death.

Sandra Heath, Counterfeit Kisses.
Gentleman tries to win the trust of a lady who blames him for the loss of her family's fortune.

Elizabeth Inman, The Rake's Quarry.
Man seeking revenge on a lady shows up at her wedding and claims his medieval ancestors' right to prima nocta.

Valerie King, A Poet's Touch.
Lord whose father died under mysterious circumstances courts the daughter of one of the men he believes responsible.

Valerie King, My Lady Valiant.
A lady is determined to seek revenge on the rogue who broke her cousin's heart, but loses her own heart instead.

Emma Lange, A Heart in Peril.
Lady must choose between the man she loves and a man who could not break her heart.

Lydia Lee, The Impetuous Pandora.
Lady confronts a viscount whom she blames for leading her brother astray and is puzzled when he offers to help find her missing pendant.

Dawn Lindsey, Rebel Lady.
Scottish lady is taken hostage by an arrogant lord who wants to hurt her brother.

Deborah Lynne, A Gentleman's Agreement.
Lady vows revenge on the man she blames for her brother's death.

Elizabeth Mansfield, My Lord Murderer.
Widow thinks a suitor murdered her husband.

Elizabeth Mansfield, The Grand Passion.
Lady seeks revenge on the lord whom she believes killed her fiance in a coaching accident.

Paula Marshall, Cyprian's Sister.
Lord takes revenge on the sister of a blackmailing Cyprian.

Nadine Miller, The Gypsy Duchess.
Widow must ask for the help of an earl who blames her for his brother's death.

Nancy Richards-Akers, The Mayfair Season.
Irish lady is asked to spend a Season with the family of the earl who blames her brother for his sister's ruin.

Paula Roland, Faro's Lady.
A lady plans to trap a lord into marriage in revenge for his mistaking her for a jade.

Deborah Simmons, Tempting Kate.
A lady is determined to wreak revenge upon the man said to have compromised her sister, but when she waylays him at gunpoint, both the lady and the nobleman end up with more than they bargained for.

Seduction & Slips on the Shoulder

Rebecca Ashley, A Suitable Arrangement.
Man whom a widow rejected to marry a rake asks her to be his mistress.

Mary Balogh, The Trysting Place.
Widow asks an old friend to help her marry a man who wants her for his mistress.

Mary Balogh, The Notorious Rake.
Widow who fears thunder leaps into the arms of a notorious rake when caught in a storm at Vauxhall.

Mary Balogh, A Precious Jewel.
Destitute lady becomes the mistress of a gentleman whose stepmother made sexual advances to him when he was a youth.

Mary Balogh, The Ungrateful Governess.
Earl tries to convince a governess to be his mistress after she loses her position because of him, then asks his granmother to find her a poisiton when she refuses.

Mary Balogh, The Secret Pearl.
Lady cast out on the streets sells herself to a duke betrayed by love and wounded in war.

Mary Balogh, Tempting Harriet.
Widow agrees to become the mistress of a man whose carte blanche she turned down before her marriage.

Mary Brendan, Mr. Trelawney's Proposal.
After the death of the lord who gave a lady refuge in her time of need, his new heir mistakes her for a mistress and offers her a carte blanche.

Mary Brendan, A Kind and Decent Man.
An impoverished widow offers a marriage of convenience to the gentleman who once abandoned her, but he offers her a carte blanche instead.

Diana Brown, A Debt of Honour.
Lord mistakes a lady for an adventuress and offers her money for her favors; she later tries to take him up on the offer when her brother gambles away their estate.

Gayle Buck, Lord Rathbone's Flirt.
Lord thinks an impoverished lady is fair game for an unseemly flirtation.

Diana Campbell, The Reluctant Cyprian.
Impoverished miss goes along with a gentleman's mistaken assumption that she's a Cyprian.

Susan Carroll, Mistress Mischief.
Gentleman refuses to take an indebted widow as his mistress.

Marion Chesney, His Lordship's Pleasure.
Impoverished widow of a rake who may have been a traitor offers herself as mistress to a lord.

Georgina Devon, The Rebel.
An earl tries to make his mother's companion his mistress, while she in turn tries to hide the fact that she was hired under false pretenses.

Carola Dunn, The Improper Governess.
Lord asks a lady disguised as an actress to be first his mistress, then a governess, then his wife.

Gail Eastwood, The Rake's Mistake.
A lord returned from family exile in the West Indies pursues a widow hoping to make her his mistress.

Diane Farr, Fair Game.
Courtesan offers her gently reared daughter to a gentleman as payment of a debt.

Jacquelyn Gillis, Lady Cecelia's Charade.
Lady turns actress to help her playwright cousin and is pursued by a duke who wants her as his mistress.

Maggie Gladstone, The Reluctant Protegee.
Ballerina is offered a slip on the shoulder by a lord.

Marie-Louise Hall, The Major's Muslin.
A desperate, penniless lady accepts a slip on the shoulder from the man she once hoped to marry.

Emily Hendrickson, Lord Ware's Widow.
Lord who is determined to seduce a widow whose husband's death is the subject of gossip follows her from a country house
party to Sidmouth.

Lynn Kerstan, Celia's Grand Passion.
Lord whose wife played him false and claimed he was not her son's father is incensed when he discovers that a young widow willing be his lover is a virgin.

Janis Laden, A Noble Mistress.
Lady agrees to become a lord's mistress to regain the family estate that her father lost at cards.

Edith Layton, The Duke's Wager.
Two men wager they can a seduce lady who was thrown out by her family when she mistakenly attended Cyprian's night at the Opera.

Edith Layton, Lord of Dishonor.
Lady whose mother is known for her amorous escapades tries to retain her virtue but finds herself tested when her mother throws her into the arms of a rake.

Edith Layton, Lady of Spirit.
Lady turns down an offer to become an earl's mistress but agrees to become a governess, only to find a ghost on his estate means her harm.

Dawn Lindsey, The Talisman.
Lady tends a stranger's mysterious gunshot wound then offers to become his mistress.

Laura London, The Bad Baron's Daughter.
Daughter of an indebted lord loves a man who wants her as his mistress.

Melinda McRae, A Highly Respectable Widow.
Lord hopes to make a war widow his mistress.

Barbara Metzger, Minor Indiscretions.
Lord accuses a lady's mother, who takes in the ton's byblows, of blackmailing his sister, then offers to make the lady his mistress.

Barbara Metzger, Snowdrops and Scandalbroth.
Virgin tries to prove he's a rake by hiring a poor lady to play his mistress.

Kasey Michaels, The Mischievous Miss Murphy.
Lord is disappointed when the Irish lass whose uncle he rescued from jail won't share his bed.

Patricia Oliver, Lord Gresham's Lady.
Widow who is being forced into marriage with a repulsive man is tempted by a lord who wants her only as his mistress.

Phyllis Taylor Pianka, The Lark's Nest.
Chanteuse with a secret refuses a lord's carte blanche.

Margaret Evans Porter, Toast of the Town.
Actress is tempted when an earl asks her to be his mistress.

Joy Reed, The Seduction of Lady Carroll.
Widow decides to have an affair and attempts to seduce a gentleman but he suggests an engagement instead.

Eva Rutland, The Willful Lady.
Duke hopes to make an artist's daughter his mistress.

Irene Saunders, The Willful Widow.
Widow caught between a father who wants to marry her off again and a lord who wants her as a mistress decides to fight them both.

Donna Simpson, The Duke and Mrs. Douglas.
A duke betrayed by love asks his aunt�€™s widowed companion to be his mistress.

Joan Smith, Perdita.
Lady fleeing an unwanted marriage becomes an actress and is targeted by a rake who wants her as his mistress but who then falls in love with her companion.

Lois Stewart, The Duke's Mistress.
Duke who cannot wed because of a shameful secret determines to make the lady running his tenants' school his mistress.

Elizabeth Thornton, A Virtuous Lady.
Quaker lady from America is infuriated when a lord mistakes her for a poor relation and offers her a slip on the shoulder.

Helen Tucker, A Mistress to the Regent.
When her noble Italian fiance's Uncle Aldo stops their marriage, a lady's guardians decide she should become Prinny's mistress.

Maureen Wakefield, Accessory to Love.
Lady who is a love child is assumed to be of easy virtue as well.

Elizabeth Neff Walker, The Loving Seasons.
Lady without family or fortune is besieged by two gentlemen who seem intent on her virtue not her hand.

Sheila Walsh, The Rose Domino.
A gentleman hopes to rescue a friend from the snares of a singer by trying to seduce her.

Margaret Westhaven, Miss Dalrymple's Virtue.
Lady agrees to become a lord's mistress if he publishes her book.

Margaret Westhaven, The Duke's Design.
Lady turned actress tries to refuse the proposition of the duke she loves.

Margaret Westhaven, The Outrageous Dowager.
Widow determined to enjoy London is rescued by a lord who wants her for his mistress.

Gail Whitiker, A Most Improper Proposal.
A schoolteacher who is fired after being falsely accused of impropriety accepts a slip on the shoulder from a lord as a means of getting to London, intending to jilt him on arrival.

Joan Wolf, His Lordship's Mistress.
Lady posing as an actress to save her family from ruin accepts a slip on the shoulder from an earl.

Matchmaking

Meg Alexander, The Matchmaker's Marriage.
A lady tries to matchmake for her friend and then realizes she has feelings for the gentleman herself.

Sheila Rosalynd Allen, The Meddlesome Ghost.
Ghost matchmakes for the Abbey's new owner.

Beth Andrews, One Night Enjoyed.
Widow visits her sister and finds her sibling has also invited a prospective husband and a man who knows a secret from her past that could mean social ruin.

Caroline Arnett, Claudia.
Lord and lady who hate each other are forced to find mates for each other.

Rebecca Baldwin, The Matchmakers.
Lady's older stepson falls for a French artist acting as her chaperone.

Mary Balogh, The Incurable Matchmaker.
Gentlemen at White's wager on a libertine's seduction of a vicar's widow.

Donna Bell, The First Waltz.
Daughter of a widow asks a gentleman to help find a mate for her mother, but he finds himself judging the candidates harshly.

Janice Bennett, The Matchmaking Ghost.
Captain who seems to have given up on life keeps his promise to marry a fellow officer's sister.

Janice Bennett, The Candlelight Wish.
Fairy godmother unites a schoolteacher with the father of one of her pupils.

Julie Caille, A Valentine's Day Fancy.
Lady's cousin tries to match her with the man whom the lady holds responsible for a broken engagement.

Marion Chesney:
Emily Goes to Exeter.
Housekeeper receives a bequest and decides to travel: En route to Exeter she matchmakes for a girl dressed as a boy to avoid her betrothed, who happens to be on same coach.
Series: Travelling Matchmaker #1
Belinda Goes to Bath.
Matchmaker sets up a banished heiress with an austere lord who rescues their foundered coach.
Setting: On the road to Bath
Series: Travelling Matchmaker #2
Penelope Goes to Portsmouth.
Matchmaker tries to match a practical lady with a dashing gentleman and to save a footman falsely accused of theft from being hanged.
Setting: On the road to Portsmouth
Series: Travelling Matchmaker #3
Beatrice Goes to Brighton.
Matchmaker discovers that a lady who snubs her is a frightened widow fleeing a second mercenary match arranged by her parents.
Setting: On the road to Brighton
Series: Travelling Matchmaker #4
Deborah Goes to Dover.
Matchmaker meets a lady disguised as a tomboy at a prize fight.
Setting: On the road to Dover
Series: Travelling Matchmaker #5
Yvonne Goes to York.
Matchmaker matches a French carpenter's daughter with a marquess and marries her own beau.
Setting: On the road to York
Series: Travelling Matchmaker #6

Judy Christenberry, Sweet Remembrance.
At Christmastime, a matchmaking lady meets her match when her brother brings home a friend who came to avoid marriage.

Lynn Collum, The Christmas Charm.
A lady tricks her bookish grandson into escorting her goddaughter, who is recently arrived from Italy, to her home for Christmas in hopes that he'll fall for her.

Nicola Cornick, The Chaperon Bride.
A chaperon who makes matches for others has no intention of marrying herself until a scandalous encounter with a lord in a spa bath.

Teresa DesJardien, The Skeptical Heart.
Matchmaker agrees to try again with a man whose first marriage was disaster.

Marian Devon, Deck the Halls.
Mismatched couples gather at home for the holidays.

Marian Devon, Sir Sham.
Lady matches her sister with a nabob and is intrigued by his mysterious friend.

Diane Farr, Once upon a Christmas.
After a tragic loss, a lady accepts an unexpected holiday invitation that turns out to be an attempt at matchmaking.

Mona Gedney, "Marrying off Mama," in A Match for Mother.
Brother and sister embarrassed by their mother's behavior hope to marry her off to a colonel but she falls for a gambler instead.

Valerie King, Love Match.
Lord tries to stop a matchmaking miss from inveigling his younger brother into an unsuitable alliance.

Kathryn Kirkwood, "Lady Radcliffe's Ruse," in A Match for Mother.
To avoid her daughter's matchmaking schemes, a widow pretends to be engaged to a rake.

Allison Lane, Too Many Matchmakers.
Lady meets the man she once loved at a house party filled with romantic intrigue.

Michelle Martin, The Queen of Hearts.
Lord is infuriated yet intrigued by a meddling matchmaker.

Dixie Lee McKeone, Daughters Four.
Sisters make a mess of matchmaking for one another.

Kasey Michaels, The Haunted Miss Hampshire.
Lady's aunt wills her a country estate provided she lives in it for three months with an earl, and the aunt's ghost lingers to make sure her matchmaking goes as planned.

Nadine Miller, Kissing Cousins.
A gentleman agrees to help a lady find a husband, never dreaming he would fall for her himself.

Barbara Neil, Lessons for a Lady.
When her father is forced to flee the country in disgrace, a lady's childhood friend tries to find her a suitable match, but she loves only him.

Irene Northan, The Marriage Brokers.
Gentleman agrees to use his connections to find a husband for a childhood friend who must marry to cover her brother's debts.

Joan Overfield, A Matchmaking Miss.
Lady is determined to find a mate for a former East India Company officer turned lord.

Joan Overfield, The Traitor's Daughter.
Daughter of a man accused of being England's most notorious traitor hides herself as a dowdy companion in Bath, but the illegitimate son of an earl admires her and is determined to find her a husband.

Julia Parks, A Gift for a Rogue.
A professional matchmaker is hired by legendary scoundrel to tame his wicked ways and help him find a wife, but she loses her heart to the dashing rogue.

Nina Porter, A Matchmaker's Match.
Lady pretending to be bluestocking to avoid marriage attracts an educated man.

Carol Quinto, Sister of the Bride.
Sisters try to matchmake for each other.

*Arabella Sheraton, Lord Blackwood's Valentine Ball.
A spinster tries to play matchmaker only to find herself unhappy with the situation. Novella.

Donna Simpson, Lord Pierson Reforms.
A lady is hired to find a husband for a spoiled beauty who despises men but realizes she wants her charge's suitor for herself.

Donna Simpson, A Matchmaker's Christmas.
Merry mayhem ensues when a lady bent on holiday matchmaking introduces her companion to her handsome godson, but unbeknownst to the matchmaker, the unlikely couple have met before and it will take some holiday magic to rekindle their love.

Joan Smith, Cousin Cecilia.
Matchmaking lady confronts the rake who has led astray all the neighborhood's eligible bachelors with his behavior.

Joan Smith, An Infamous Proposal.
Lord turns down the proposal of his friend's widow then tries to help her find a husband.

Joan Smith, The Merry Month of May.
Lord tries to match up his widower brother with the woman his brother jilted years ago, but she seems to prefer himself.

Judith Stafford, Cupid and the Vicar.
A vicar tries to match up his headstrong sister with an earl who is his good friend.

Sarah Starr, Lady-Lessons.
Very proper earl who is determined to avoid a love match because of his father's tragic marriage is set up by his grandmother with a spirited young lady.

Marcy Stewart, A Bride for Lord Beaumont.
Engaged lady tries to find a bride for an old flame whom she still loves.

Fortune Hunters	Revenge & Blame	Wagers
Seduction & Slips on the Shoulder	Matchmaking