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 The county system in Great Britain was revised in 1974. Several smaller counties were absorbed into larger ones while new counties were created. This map shows the pre-1974 county boundaries in England. For more info, including lists of towns by county, visit the Genuki genealogy page. |
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& the Scots |
& the Welsh |
(Domestic) |
See also Foreign Locales & Characters
Jane Ashford, The Three Graces.
Three sisters--a governess, a schoolmistress & a companion--find
love.
Setting: Hampshire, Bath & London
Anne Ashley, Betrayed and Betrothed.
A lady breaks off her engagement when she finds her fiance in a compromising
position and then meets him again six years later in Bath.
Setting: Bath
Anne Ashley, Lady Jane's Physician.
Lady meets a physician with little patience for social etiquette.
Setting: Hampshire & Bath
Rebecca Ashley, An Awkward Arrangement.
Lord claims that the furniture an Irish lass bought was stolen from
him.
Setting: Bath & Chiltern Hills
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
Fan of Gothic novels expects horrors and romance on her visit to Northanger
Abbey.
Setting: Bath & Gloucestershire
Jane Austen, Persuasion.
Lady who allowed herself to be persuaded to break off an 'unsuitable
attachment' meets the man she jilted eight years later.
Setting: Somerset, Bath & Lyme Regis
Mary Balogh, Dancing with Clara.
Paralyzed woman pays a gentleman's debts in exchange for the intimacy
of marriage.
Setting: Bath, Kent & London
Mary Balogh, Secrets of the Heart.
Duke shuns his wife when he discovers she isn't a virgin on their wedding
night.
Setting: Bath
Anne Barbour, Kate and the Soldier.
Lady is eager to welcome a major back from the wars but he has become
a stranger.
Setting: Between Bath & Bristol
Donna Bell, A Tangled Web.
A lady puts off her tiresome mama's inquiries about her prospects by
pretending an attachment to a widower.
Setting: Bath
Donna Bell, The Valentine's Day Ball.
Lady meets a rake returned from abroad at a Valentine's Ball.
Setting: Bath
Janice Bennett, A Lady's Champion.
Art mistress at a haunted Academy for Girls accepts a gentleman's aid.
Setting: Outside Bath
Sheila Bishop, Honora Clare.
Lady uses the houses she inherits in Bath to open a boarding school
and is attracted to the father of one of her students.
Setting: Bath
Catherine Blair, Athena's Conquest.
A Frenchman in the secret employ of the foreign minister hides his
love for a lady, causing her to believe he prefers her silly sister.
Setting: Bath
Mary Brendan, The Silver Squire.
An on-the-shelf lady whose indebted father wants to marry her to a
roue flees to Bath and encounters a man who's determined to rescue her.
Setting: Bath
Caroline Brooks, The Runaway Princess.
Lady helps a childhood friend out of a scrape with Princess Caroline.
Setting: Bath area
Blanche Chenier, Wayward Heiress.
Gentleman follows a lady on a harebrained rescue mission to France.
Setting: Near Bath, London & on the road to France
Marion Chesney, 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
Lynn Collum, An Unlikely Father.
Lady agrees to accompany three orphans from India to their rakish uncle's
estate in England.
Setting: India (briefly) and in the Mendip Hills near Bath
Lynn Collum, The Valentine Charm.
A lady accompanying her cousin to Bath finds herself drawn to a dashing,
enigmatic man whom she suspects is involved in a rash of robberies targeting
the city's wealthiest families.
Setting: Bath
Nicola Cornick, The Blanchland Secret.
In response to a mysterious letter, a lady must return to her former
family home, which is now owned by a debauched rake, and receives an offer
of help from a lord who may have ulterior motives.
Setting: Bath and Somerset countryside
Caroline Courtney, Forbidden Love.
Lady who scandalized Bath by taking tea with a rake is sent to France
where she avoids her aunt's marriage scheme with the help of the rake and
the unwilling groom.
Setting: Bath & France
Caroline Courtney, The Fortunes of Love.
Lady is unimpressed with a handsome, rich duke because a gypsy once
told her she'd marry a man whose name starts with M.
Setting: Bath
Marian Devon, A Question of Class.
Lady falls for a major who is really an actor posing as a lookalike
gentleman on a bet.
Setting: Bath & London
Marian Devon, The Widow of Bath.
Widow is confronted by her husband's heir who once courted her.
Setting: Bath
Dorothea Donley, "Makeshift Mama," in
For Mother with Love.
A lady pretends to be her sister's mother so she can chaperone her
in Bath.
Setting: Bath
Carola Dunn, The Fortune-Hunters.
Two fortune hunters in Bath pretending to be rich fall for each other.
Setting: Bath
Gail Eastwood, A Perilous Journey.
Lady fleeing an unwanted marriage is helped by mysterious stranger.
Setting: On the road to from Taunton in Somerset to Scotland,
with a stop in Bath
Rachelle Edwards, Bath Revels.
When his nephew falls in love, a rake goes to Bath disguised as a doctor
to ascertain the position of the lady's "wicked stepmother" on the matter.
Setting: Bath
Rachelle Edwards, Runaway Bride.
A lady fleeing an arranged marriage and a violent stepfather is relieved
to be rescued by a colonel until she learns he has ties to her stepfather.
Setting: Bath
Diane Farr, "The Reckless Miss Ripley," in A Regency
Christmas Eve.
A man journeying to Bath for Christmas encounters a lady stumbling
through the snow.
Setting: Bath
Jo Ann Ferguson, The Greatest Possible Mischief.
While in Bath to prepare to launch her daughter into society, a widow
becomes involved in a dangerous web of betrayal when the man she loves
is accused of murder.
Setting: Bath
Jo Ann Ferguson, His Lady Midnight.
A lady who rescues those who have been unjustly imprisoned runs from
trouble into a gentleman's carriage.
Setting: London and near Bath
Ellen Fitzgerald, The Gambler's Bride.
Heiress agrees to elope with a gambler who may only be after her money.
Setting: Exeter in Devon, Bath, on the road to Carlisle in Cumbria
& to Gretna Green, Dover & Paris
Jacqueline Fleury, The Cinderella Bride.
A lady who hopes to restore her family's standing by making a brilliant
match has three suitors.
Setting: Bath
Mona Gedney, A Dangerous Affair.
Two orphaned sisters find themselves caught up in intrigue at their
guardian's home.
Mary Ann Gibbs, A Young Lady of Fashion.
Lady who refuses the proposal of a younger son has a change of heart
when he becomes the heir.
Setting: Outside Bath
Vanessa Gray, The Orphan's Disguise.
An orphan lady on her way to stay with a distant relation has an accident
and is taken in by a family who want her to trick the gentleman who controls
their finances into a betrothal.
Setting: Countryside & Bath
Vanessa Gray, The Unruly Bride.
Engaged couple who decided they didn't suit meet two years later when
the gentleman is courting another lady.
Setting: Bath & London
Barbara Hazard, The Dreadful Duke.
Lady who was the victim of rape refuses to wed.
Setting: East of Bath, Devon
Sandra Heath, Lady Sabrina's Secret.
Lady's attempts to clear her brother's name are blocked by a duke.
Setting: Bath
Emily Hendrickson, The Dashing Miss Fairchild.
Bath tabbies' tongues wag at a spinster with a baby who keeps company
with a rake.
Setting: Bath
Candice Hern, A Change of Heart.
Wealthy spinster is wooed by an indebted marquess.
Setting: London & Bath
Candice Hern, A Proper Companion.
Dowager who dislikes her son's fiancee tries to set him up with her
companion.
Setting: Bath
Georgette Heyer, Bath Tangle.
Lady finds herself the ward of a man she once jilted.
Setting: Bath
Georgette Heyer, Black Sheep.
Lady chaperoning her rich, beautiful niece confronts a man whom she
mistakes for a fortune hunter.
Setting: Bath
Georgette Heyer, Friday's Child.
Viscount marries his childhood friend to get his mother off his back.
Setting: Kent, London & Bath
Georgette Heyer, A Lady of Quality.
Spinster takes in the ward of "the rudest man in London."
Setting: Bath
Victoria Hinshaw, The Eligible Miss Elliott.
A lady who is wary of fortune hunters and a retired naval captain join
forces to reunite their aunts who were best friends until gossip drove
them apart.
Setting: Bath
Samantha Holder, Scandal in Bath.
Lady mystery writer discovers the body of a governess who was employed
by a handsome lord and was rumored to have been his mistress.
Setting: Bath
April Kihlstrom, Miss Tibbles' Folly.
The Westcott ladies' governess is surprised to find herself being courted
by a gentleman who served with her late fiance.
Setting: Bath
April Kihlstrom, The Wary Spinster.
Daughter of a brutal man is determined to protect her niece from a
dangerous suitor and is helped by gentleman with a dangerous reputation
of his own.
Setting: Bath
Emma Lange, The False Fiancee.
Duke hires a lady he thinks is an actress to be his fiancee in order
to uncover a plot against his life.
Setting: Bath & London
Nancy Lawrence, A Noble Rogue.
Lady whose brother has gambled their estate into ruin agrees to pose
as the housekeeper when a noted gamester visits.
Setting: Outside Bath
Alice Chetwynd Ley, A Conformable Wife.
A dashing gentleman seeking a conformable wife proposes to a spinster
in Bath.
Setting: Bath
Laura Matthews, Holiday in Bath.
Lady is reluctant to marry a stuffy gentleman whom she's known since
childhood, but a trip to Bath opens her eyes.
Setting: Bath
Laura Matthews, A Rival Heir.
A lady takes very seriously her deathbed promise to her dying grandfather
that she will care for her cantankerous old aunt for the rest of her life,
but she begins to regret her vow when she encounters a wonderful man who
may hold the key to the secrets of the past.
Setting: Bath
Laura Matthews, The Village Spinster.
Earl who is irritated with an impoverished spinster's interference
in his siblings' lives begins to suspect her of being a woman of easy virtue.
Setting: Near Bath
Emily Maxwell, Queen of Hearts.
Lord investigates a lady who wins money from his sister at cards.
Setting: Bath
Barbara Metzger, A Worthy Wife.
When a lady's fiance turns out to be already married, his brother-in-law
marries her to save her from ruin.
Setting: Bath
*Jude Morgan, An Accomplished Woman.
A spinster is happy at home with her father in the country,writing literary criticism and trading verbal jabs with their cynical bachelor neighbor, Lewis Durrant, whose hand she rejected nine years ago, until entering the social whirl in Bath with her young charge.
*Jude Morgan, Indiscretion.
Impoverished young woman becomes the recipient of secret confidences which could cause trouble if the secrets were to be known to her employer and is puzzled by her benefactor's witty son.
Dawn Aldridge Poore, Bath Bramble.
Artist seeks help in controlling her brother from the childhood friend
who is now their guardian, while he in turn finds he must marry to gain
his inheritance.
Setting: Bath
Dawn Aldridge Poore, A Perilous Attraction.
Lady stuck with an abandoned baby hooks up with a man with a stolen
necklace.
Setting: On the road to Bath
Elizabeth Powell, A Reckless Bargain.
A scholarly widow helps a dowager duchess out of a spot trouble with
the aid of the duchess's charming nephew.
Setting: Bath & Gloucestershire near Stow-on-the-Wold
Jeanne Savery, A Lady's Deception.
Lady poses as a man to escort her sister to Bath and find her a husband,
but a friend of her late twin brother sees through her disguise.
Setting: Bath
Amanda Scott, The Bath Quadrille.
Lady taunts her wayward husband by setting up her own flirt.
Setting: Bath
Amanda Scott, Bath Charade.
Lady who loves novels despairs when her elegant guardian thwarts her
romantic schemes.
Setting: Bath
Amanda Scott, The Bath Eccentric's Son.
Fleeing to Bath to escape the cousin who inherited her family estate,
a lady ends up in the arms of a libertine.
Setting: Bath
Margaret SeBastian, Lord Orlando's Protegee.
Lord rescues an actress from gaol only to be embarrassed when his name
is linked with hers.
Setting: Bath & London
Lillian Shelley, The Belle of Bath.
Lady grieving for her late fiance goes to live with her godmother in
Bath and meets an arrogant lord.
Setting: Bath
Joan Smith, Bath Scandal.
Lord sends his hoyden sister to Bath to live with a widow whom he recalls
as being well behaved.
Setting: Bath
Joan Smith, Romantic Rebel.
Lady whose father wills everything to her cousin whom he intends her
to marry writes an attack on male arrogance, leading a critic to believe
her liberalism extends to sexual matters.
Setting: Bath
Joan Smith, Tea and Scandal.
When a rich man dies after he weds his housekeeper, the widow's niece
& a lord investigate.
Setting: Bath & the Cotswolds
Joan Smith, Wife Errant.
When her mother starts flirting with beaux to put her husband in his
place, a lady tries to stop her by inventing an affair of her own with
a known rake.
Setting: Bath
Mira Stables, The Swynden Necklace.
A lady whose unexpected interitance allows her a Season in Bath is
attracted to an apparently unsuitable man who may be only interested in
the fabulous Swynden necklace.
Setting: Bath
Marcy Stewart, Lady Scandal.
Glassmaker asks a widow who writes a scandalous gossip column to help
him recover his family's glass formula.
Setting: Bath
Penelope Stratton, The Devil's Bride.
Lady imprisoned by her guardian is rescued by a lord whose cousin tries
to kill her.
Setting: Bath
Claire Thornton, Gifford's Lady.
A lady tries to help a man who is plagued by nightmares.
Setting: Bath
Patricia Veryan, Some Brief Folly.
Lady's page turns out to be the lost son of a man accused of killing
his wife & son.
Setting: Estate 10 miles outside Bath
Margaret Westhaven, The Willful Wife.
A lady is anxious when her diplomat husband abandons her in Bath shortly
after their wedding.
Setting: Bath
Catherine Blair, A Viscount for Christmas.
Arriving at his newly acquired country estate, a lord meets his match
in the daughter of his doddering estate manager.
Setting: Bedfordshire
Jean Ewing, Valor's Reward.
Scholarly lady is mistaken for a highwayman and is shot while she tries
to stop a coachman's abusive treatment of his horses.
Setting: Northumberland and near Bedford
Lynn Kerstan, Francesca's Rake.
Rake has to convince the lady he swore he wouldn't marry to spite his
father that he loves her.
Setting: Bedfordshire
Valerie King, Captivated Hearts.
Lady who is contemptuous of a lord's claim that he can win her heart
is no match for Cupid's wife Psyche.
Setting: Bedfordshire
Sylvia Andrew, Rosabelle.
A lady who needs to escape London switches places with her twin sister
in Berkshire, but her sister's neighbor begins to suspect something.
Setting: Berkshire
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.
Setting: Berkshire, Hertfordshire & London
Marilyn Clay, Felicity's Folly.
Lady opens a boarding house and is troubled by ghostly occurrences.
Setting: Berkshire
Marian Devon, Lady Harriet Takes Charge.
Lady who broke off her engagement when she caught her fiance kissing
another at their betrothal party is still attracted to him eight years
later.
Setting: Berkshire
Jennie Gallant, Friends and Lovers.
Lady fights for custody of her sister's children with their uncle.
Setting: By the Kennet River outside Reading
Sandra Heath, Marigold's Marriages.
Impoverished widow at the mercy of her husband's greedy relatives accepts
a proposal from a lord who believes in an ancient curse.
Setting: Isle of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Windsor, London,
Wiltshire
Victoria Hinshaw, The Fontainebleau Fan.
A lord who suspects a lady of swindling him with a reproduction of
an antique fan nevertheless allows his grandmother to hire her to paint
a mural in his conservatory.
Setting: Berkshire
Ann Hulme, False Fortune.
Lady's suspicions about her stepmother's nephew appear to be confirmed
when a diamond necklace disappears.
Setting: Berkshire
Shirley Kennedy, The Rebellious Twin.
Lady falls in love with a neighboring lord but her jealous identical
twin sister schemes to win him for herself.
Valerie King, A Country Flirtation.
A dangerous stretch of road brings first a young man then his guardian
into the care of a spinster with four younger sisters.
Setting: Berkshire
Valerie King, Cupid's Touch.
Lady tries to convince her sister's suitor he's chosen the wrong bride.
Setting: London & Berkshire
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.
Setting: Berkshire
Mary Kingsley, An Intriguing Affair.
When a lord who must marry for money offers for a vapid chit, his friend
wishes she hadn't turned down the joking proposal he once made to her.
Setting: Berkshire & London
Juliette Leigh, Sherry's Comet.
Lady rescuing a mistreated horse from a man falsely claiming to be
a lord meets the true heir who was believed dead.
Setting: Berkshire
Barbara Metzger, Lady Sparrow.
A young widow discovers that her late husband had twelve illegitimate
children and decides to track down the orphans, including her own son whom
she thought dead at birth.
Setting: Berkshire & London
Barbara Metzger, A Loyal Companion.
Lady and dog go to London and meet a man scorned for a scandalous deed.
Setting: Berkshire & London
Located in Sussex
Janice Bennett, "A Shocking Faux Paw," in
Summer Kittens.
Widow encounters her first love in Brighton.
Setting: Brighton
Susan Carroll, Brighton Road.
Lady offers advice to a lord whose marriage proposal she heard rejected.
Setting: Brighton
Catherine Huntington Chadwick, Midsummer Night's Kiss.
A lady in Brighton for Midsummer's Eve resists the attentions of a
lord who is secretly investigating her father.
Setting: Brighton
Marion Chesney, 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
Deborah Chester, A Love So Wild.
A lord who releases a lady from jail and grooms her to be his wife
turns out to be the brother of the villian who had her imprisoned.
Setting: Brighton & London
Rachelle Edwards, A Hasty Marriage.
Lord stumbles into the bedchamber of a lady who loves him and proposes
a marriage in name only.
Setting: Brighton & London
Elisabeth Fairchild, Lord Ramsay's Return.
Lord who returned from India to find his family's finances in shambles
is mistaken for a bath house attendant and massages a lady who is tense
because her cousin's husband wants to seduce her.
Setting: Brighton
Jennie Gallant, Thick as Thieves.
Gentleman uses a lady as bait to catch a jewel thief.
Setting: Brighton
Georginia Grey, The Belle of Brighton.
Sandra Heath, Lady Jane's Ribbons.
A lady enters a coach race to Brighton to prove herself to the lord
who wronged her and deemed her frail.
Setting: On the road to Brighton
Sandra Heath, Mistletoe Mischief.
Gentleman who cannot abide women who work as companions changes his
mind when he meets his cousin's companion.
Setting: Brighton
Julia Jeffries, The Clergyman's Daughter.
Parson's daughter elopes with a dashing aristocrat, enraging his older
brother; but when her husband dies the brother still wants to control her.
Setting: Brighton
Valerie King, A Brighton Flirtation.
A lady and gentleman uncover a plot to assassinate the Prince Regent.
Setting: Brighton
Valerie King, My Lady Vixen.
Lady joins a plot to ruin a lord only to fall in love with him.
Setting: Brighton
Mary Kingsley, A Summer Folly.
Widow returns from Jamaica to face her husband's cousin whom she once
loved.
Setting: Brighton
Martha Kirkland, Three for Brighton.
Three ladies cheated out of an inheritance go to Brighton to find a
rich husband for the most beautiful lady while the other two pose as her
elderly companion and kid sister.
Setting: Brighton
Emma Lange, Brighton Intrigue.
Inexperienced lady fears a worldly lord is merely using her in a game
of intrigue.
Setting: Brighton
Alice Chetwynd Ley, A Season at Brighton.
Lady runs away to Brighton rather than meet the stuffy viscount her
parents want her to marry only to find herself rescued by him.
Setting: Brighton
Alice Chetwynd Ley, The Sentimental Spy.
Lady staying at an inn in Sussex is puzzled when a past love pretends
not to recognize her.
Elizabeth Lyle, Claire.
A beautiful French aristocrat makes a new life for herself in Brighton.
Setting: Brighton
Maggie MacKeever, Cupid's Dart.
When a chance encounter between a lord and lady leads to an unexpected
kiss, they both try to deny their mutual attraction until scandal brings
them back together once again, forever.
Setting: Brighton
Kasey Michaels, The Chaotic Miss Crispino.
Gentleman agrees to escort a baron's long-lost granddaughter from Florence
to England, but while he finds her to be a hellion, she thinks he's a prig.
Setting: Italy, Brighton & London
Petra Nash, Brighton Masquerade.
A lady pursued by fortune hunters switches places with her cousin and
finds a gentleman interested in her for herself, but their deception soon
leads to danger.
Setting: Brighton
Patricia Oliver, An Inconvenient Wife.
Lord forced to marry a lady vows to keep her shut away at one of his
minor estates.
Setting: Brighton & Dorset
Patricia Oliver, Scandalous Secrets.
Divorced lady returning to England after many years helps a little
girl with a handsome yet irritating father.
Setting: Brighton
Dawn Aldridge Poore, The Brighton Burglar.
Lady suspects her mysterious boarder of being an art thief.
Setting: Brighton area
Dawn Aldridge Poore, The Secret Scroll.
A scroll in Roxanne's library is thought to be the key to a treasure.
Setting: Brighton area and London
Dawn Aldridge Poore, The Cairo Cats.
Roxanne and Lymond hunt the thieves of cat statues and find treasure.
Setting: Brighton area and London
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.
Setting: Brighton
Joan Smith, Kissing Cousins.
Lady is forced to turn to her stuffy cousin to help her brother get
out of debt.
Setting: London, Brighton & Tunbridge Wells
Joan Smith, Royal Revels.
Lady is incensed when her fiance's detective work for the Prince Regent
involves charming one of Prinny's jilted mistresses.
Setting: Brighton
Sheri Cobb South, Brighton Honeymoon.
Newlyweds find their honeymoon cottage filled with people, including
a disapproving dowager, a lady claiming to be Mr. Brundy's sister, and
a skeptical dandy determined to expose her as an impostor.
Setting: Brighton
Mary Balogh, A Christmas Bride.
Widow takes a Cit to her bed but tries to spurn his proposals when
she finds she is pregnant.
Setting: London & near Bristol
Teresa DesJardien, The Bartered Bridegroom.
Gentleman is forced to take another man's troublesome fiancee off his
hands.
Setting: On the banks of the River Severn near Bristol &
in London
Teresa DesJardien, The Misfit Marquess.
Lady fleeing from a false lover is rescued by a lord and, fearing discovery,
pretends to be a bit daft.
Setting: On the banks of the River Severn near Bristol
Teresa DesJardien, The Reluctant Smuggler.
A widow who needs funds and a father for her young son encounters a
lord who needs a woman for his money-making scheme.
Setting: On the banks of the River Severn near Bristol
Mona Gedney, A Dangerous Arrangement.
Lady thinks one lord is dangerous while another is poisoning his family.
Setting: Clifton near Bristol
Eileen Jackson, The Secret Bluestocking.
Lady tries to hide her intelligence in order to find a husband.
Setting: Outside Bristol & in London
Rebecca Ashley, An Awkward Arrangement.
Lord claims that the furniture an Irish lass bought was stolen from
him.
Setting: Bath & Chiltern Hills
June Calvin, A Lord for Olivia.
A lady who hasn't trusted a man since a past love broke her heart finds
a gentleman's frank, charming demeanor to be a most refreshing surprise.
Setting: Buckinghamshire
Susan Carroll, Miss Prentice and the Yankee.
English governess of two American ladies falls for their brother.
Setting: Buckinghamshire
Carola Dunn, Crossed Quills.
Gentleman who wrote gothic romances seeks the help of an anonymous
political writer for his maiden speech to Parliament.
Setting: Buckinghamshire & London
Carola Dunn, Ginnie Come Lately.
Lord is determined to dislike his new step-siblings but finds himself
drawn to the eldest lady.
Setting: Buckinghamshire
Carola Dunn, The Improper Governess.
Lord asks a lady disguised as an actress to be first his mistress,
then a governess, then his wife.
Setting: London, Buckinghamshire & Gloucestershire
Barbara Hazard, Beth.
Lady is stranded by a snowstorm at an inn with a duke from whom a sensitive
government report is stolen.
Setting: Buckinghamshire & London
Barbara Hazard, Lady Lochinvar.
An innocent lady is determined to capture the attention of the jaded
lord she loves.
Setting: Buckinghamshire & London
Alice Chetwynd Ley, The Toast of the Town.
Much-admired lady determines to attract the attention of the one man
who ignores her.
Setting: Buckinghamshire & London
Isobel Linton, The Counterfeit Heiress.
Lady with a background in trade who is engaged to baronet is invited
to an exclusive house party and a develops tendre for the man who defends
her against those who look down on her.
Setting: Buckinghamshire
Catherine Blair, A Scholarly Gentleman.
A widow moves to Cambridge and meets the professor she once rejected
in favor of his dashing cousin.
Setting: Cambridge
Carola Dunn, The Babe and the Baron.
Baron whose mother died in childbirth takes in his cousin's pregnant
widow and is nervous about her health.
Setting: Cambridgeshire & Shropshire
Gail Eastwood, An Unlikely Hero.
Fiery twin tries to set up her gentle, epileptic sister with a quiet,
scholarly gentleman.
Setting: Cambridge & Gloucestershire
Emily Hendrickson, A Perfect Performance.
Lord offers to finance the production of a lady's play.
Setting: Cambridge
Georgette Heyer, Sprig Muslin.
Baronet takes charge of a runaway lady on the eve of his proposal to
another.
Setting: On the road through Cambridgeshire
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.
Setting: London, Cambridgeshire & Devonshire
Therese Alderton, An Easter Bouquet.
Lord accepts a wager to pose as the rector of a country village.
Setting: Cheshire
Nancy Butler, The Bartered Heart.
Penniless rogue sets out to court an heiress but meets a beautiful
waif along the way.
Setting: Cheshire
Fiona Hill, The Country Gentleman.
Independent society lady who loses her money must retire to her farm
and accepts marriage as a business arrangement with her bumbling neighbor.
Setting: Cheshire
Emma Lange, The Scottish Rebel.
Scottish lady must find an English husband but refuses to be tamed.
Setting: Scotland & Cheshire
Elizabeth Mansfield, Miscalculations.
An indebted gambler's mother allows him control of his finances, but
only if he will heed the advice of her female business manager.
Setting: Cheshire
Eileen Putman, A Passionate Performance.
Lord asks an impoverished lady to pose as his mistress to find his
father's killer.
Setting: London and Cheshire
Audrey Blanshard, Granborough's Filly.
Lady shipwrecked off Cornwall must depend on the help of a gambler
to avoid death at the hands of wreckers.
Setting: Cornwall
Sara Blayne, Duel of the Heart.
Lady who nursed a duke after Talavera turns out to be his cousin's
widow, but she has amnesia and doesn't remember their time together.
Setting: Cornwall
Evelyn Bond, The Heart's Intrigue.
Cornish lady intended as a duke's bride finds a wounded man who may
be a spy.
Setting: Cornwall & London
Gayle Buck, Willowswood Match.
American lady burned by love moves to her English cousin's estate.
Setting: Cornwall (briefly) & Devon
Marion Chesney, Milady in Love.
Viscount falls for his French ward.
Setting: Cornwall
Cathleen Clare, An Elusive Groom.
Lord is exasperated by a lady who blatantly pursues him.
Setting: London & Cornwall
Charlotte Louise Dolan, The Counterfeit Gentleman.
Heiress is saved from assassins by the "bastard" son of an earl.
Setting: Cornwall & London
Charlotte Louise Dolan, The Unofficial Suitor.
Lady's brother tries to sell her in marriage to the highest bidder.
Setting: Falmouth in Cornwall & London
Carola Dunn, Smuggler's Summer.
Lady longing for adventure is thrilled to accept an invitation from
a friend who's been sent away from the man she loves to a castle on the
coast where they encounter smugglers.
Setting: Cornwall
Jean Ewing, Virtue's Reward.
Captain promises he'll wed a dying comrade's fiancee.
Violet Hamilton, A Secret Affair.
Lady whose fiance elopes with another flees to Cornwall where she meets
an arrogant lord and becomes involved in the investigation of a spy ring.
Setting: Cornwall
Barbara Hazard, Wild Roses.
Lady asks two of her suitors to deal with a Regency stalker who threatens
to reveal a terrible secret.
Setting: London, Oxfordshire & Cornwall
Elizabeth Hewitt, Lady China.
A lord travels to Macao to determine whether a relation's widow is
an adventuress.
Setting: Macao, at sea, Cornwall & London
Betty Hale Hyatt, Portrait of Errin.
Uncle's gaming forces a lady to leave her fiance and accept a marriage
of convenience with a distant relation in Cornwall.
Setting: Cornwall
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.
Setting: Cornwall
Allison Lane, The Earl's Revenge.
Earl finds that the lady who left him at the altar eight years ago
is now a mature, independent woman.
Setting: Cornwall
Stephanie Laurens, Fair Juno,
Rake rescues a damsel in distress then searches for her when she disappears.
Setting: Cornwall, on the road to London & in London
Dawn Lindsey, A Proper Proposal.
Lady concerned with miners' rights is compromised by a lord who owns
a mine.
Setting: Cornwall
Amanda McCabe, A Loving Spirit.
A lady visits a haunted castle belonging to a bookish lord, but the
couple needs a little spiritual guidance.
Setting: Cornwall
Amanda McCabe, The Spanish Bride.
A British officer and a Spanish countess who were wed on a battlefield
are separated by the war and believe each other to be dead.
Setting: Spain (briefly), London & Cornwall
Amanda McCabe, "Upon a Midnight Clear" in Regency Christmas Magic.
A sea captain and the daughter of a freed slave meet in a moonlight
encounter that changes their lives.
Setting: Cornwall
Patricia Oliver, The Lady in Gray.
Lord with a tragic past asks a lady scorned by society to paint his
portrait.
Setting: Cornwall
Patricia Veryan, A Shadow's Bliss.
East India Company captain loses his memory and is cared for by a lady
after villains sink his ship.
Setting: Cornwall
Sheila Walsh, Madalena.
Lady disguised as boy meets a duke on a secret mission.
Setting: Cornwall
Gail Whitiker, An Offer to Love.
Widow who is the target of fortune hunters retires to Cornwall, where
she mistakes an earl on a neighboring estate for a steward.
Setting: Cornwall
Claudette Williams, Naughty Lady Ness.
Lady whose scrapes get her sent off to a remote estate discovers the
identity of the Devil of Montlaine, a mysterious rider rumored to practice
witchcraft and murder young women.
Setting: Cornwall
Includes parts of Gloucestershire,
Oxfordshire,
Warwickshire
& Worcestershire
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.
Setting: The Cotswolds in Gloucestershire
Marion Chesney, The Loves of Lord Granton.
Lord visiting a lady expecting proposal from him slips out to meet
a vicar's daughter.
Setting: The Cotswolds
Caroline Courtney, The Masquerading Heart.
Spirited lady accepts her aunts' invitation for a London Season in
the place of her gentle twin who loves a local man.
Setting: Cotswolds & London
Rebecca Danton, Amythest Love.
Man marries the lady he promised to take care of but turns out to be
a rake and a gambler.
Setting: Kent, the Cotswolds, & London
Rebecca Danton, Fire Opals.
To avoid a scandal a high-spirited lady is forced to marry a man who
is said to keep his mistress in the same house.
Setting: London & Cotswolds
Elisabeth Fairchild, Breach of Promise.
Beekeeper in Chipping Camden leases her old home to a mysterious stranger.
Setting: Chipping Camden in the Cotswolds
Sandra Heath, Breaking the Rules.
Sinister events begin to occur after the arrival of a lady's reluctant
fiance.
Setting: The Cotswolds
Carla Kelly, The Lady's Companion.
Impoverished lady becomes a paid companion & falls for her employer's
bailiff.
Setting: The Cotswolds
Carla Kelly, Miss Chartley's Guided Tour.
Lady who had to become a school teacher after being left at the altar
meets the finace who jilted her and becomes involved in intrigue.
Setting: On the road from Plymouth to the Cotswolds
Valerie King, A Christmas Masquerade.
Lady who does not want to marry the stranger selected by her late uncle
proposes to a man she meets at an inn.
Setting: Cotswolds & Somerset
Valerie King, A Rogue's Masquerade.
Lady determined to save her village from ruin sets out to marry a wealthy
viscount but is drawn to a handsome devil she meets in the woods.
Setting: The Cotswolds
Dawn Lindsey, The American Cousin.
American lady comes to England and meets her cousin's fiance.
Setting: The Cotswolds
Mary Jo Putney, The Diabolical Baron.
Baron who decides he must marry randomly chooses a shy musical lady,
but his plan goes awry when he discovers that the girl's aunt is the lady
he loved long ago.
Setting: London & the Cotswolds
Lindsay Randall, Miss Marcie's Mischief.
Lady fleeing school is nearly run down by a marquis escaping scheming
misses by driving a mail coach.
Setting: The Cotswolds
Jeanne Savery, A Lady's Lesson.
Lord's son switches places with a beautiful widow's son.
Setting: The Cotswolds
Joan Smith, Tea and Scandal.
When a rich man dies after he weds his housekeeper, the widow's niece
& a lord investigate.
Setting: Bath & the Cotswolds
Jessie Watson, The Country Mouse.
Lady moves to the Cotswolds to care for her collection of stray animals
and rescues a marquess from a curricle accident.
Setting: The Cotswolds
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession
of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Setting: Hertfordshire & Derbyshire
*Linda Banche, A Gift from the Stars.
A stone from the stars brings a wounded hero health and happiness with a beautiful lady.
Wilma Counts, Willed to Wed.
Lady will lose her inheritance unless she marries the stranger who
inherited the neighboring estate.
Setting: Derbyshire
Emily Hendrickson, The Dangerous Baron Leigh.
Lady assumed to be in mourning for her fiance is in truth haunted by
a long-ago affair.
Setting: Derbyshire
Brenda Hiatt, A Christmas Bride.
A new bride's diplomat-husband is charged with treason because of her
attempts at espionage.
Setting: Derbyshire, Yorkshire & London
Valerie King, Merry, Merry Mischief.
Lord is torn between his proper fiancee and a lady raising a large,
happy family.
Setting: Derbyshire
Martha Kirkland, That Scandalous Heiress.
Lady inherits a dilapidated manor from a stranger and is scorned by
all her neighbors except a disreputable lord.
Setting: Derbyshire
Martha Kirkland, An Uncommon Courtship.
When a gentleman whom a lady blames for several embarrassing incidents
returns home to raise money for his political career, she is determined
to ignore him but must accept his help when her brother is kidnapped.
Setting: Derbyshire
Elizabeth Mansfield, Matched Pairs.
Lord tries to save a lady's engagement to another against her wishes.
Setting: Derbyshire
Elizabeth Mansfield, A Grand Deception.
When a bluestocking runs away to become a schoolteacher, a lookalike
stray is enlisted to take her place at the house party of the viscount
who admires her.
Setting: London, near Manchester, Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire,
and East Riding.
Elizabeth Mansfield, A Regency Charade.
Immature young man joins the army to escape the bride he thinks is
cheating on him and does not return until six years later.
Setting: London & Derbyshire
Dixie Lee McKeone, The Winter Picnic.
Four-year-old duke schemes to get his guardian to marry a neighbor
lady.
Setting: Derbyshire
Melinda McRae, The Unrepentant Rake.
Lady is stranded in a blizzard at the home of a rake when a series
of pranks turn dangerous.
Setting: Outside Derby
Debbie Raleigh, A Convenient Marriage.
A plump, shy lady is thrilled when a lord asks for her hand, but after
they are married she learns he needed her fortune.
Setting: Derbyshire
Lindsay Randall, Lady Lissa's Liaison.
Lady plagued by fortune hunters invents a liaison with an earl of frightful
reputation.
Setting: Derbyshire
Barbara Allister, An Amiable Arrangement.
Lady whose first fiance jilted her because of her injuries agrees through
an exchange of letters to marry a man whose wife apparently died in mysterious
circumstances.
Setting: Devon coast
Rebecca Ashley, Lady Fair.
A widow tries to maintain her husband's estate, but inquiries by a
mysterious gentleman cause her to question how well she knew her spouse.
Setting: Near Plymouth in Devon
Mollie Ashton, Debt of Honor.
A lady whose family wants her to marry a rich old marquis convinces
them to allow her to become a governess for a year and falls in love with
her charge's father.
Setting: Devon
Jane Austen, Sense and Sensibility.
Practical sister learns love and romantic sister learns sense.
Setting: Devon
Sheila Bishop, Fair Game.
Lady spending the summer with relatives in Devon finds that her cousin
has been led astray by a rogue.
Setting: Devon
Sheila Bishop, Lucasta.
Plump, freckled lady who harbors a secret love for an eligible neighbor
enlivens her dull life by keeping a journal about her best friend's romantic
and ultimately tragic life.
Setting: Devon
Gayle Buck, Willowswood Match.
American lady burned by love moves to her English cousin's estate.
Setting: Cornwall (briefly) & Devon
Nancy Butler, The Discarded Duke.
A destitute widow agrees to sell her late husband's bloodstock to a
duke hoping to lure him into marriage, but the duke's bailiff could throw
a wrench into her plans.
Setting: Devon
Nancy Butler, The Prodigal Hero.
A former sailor regains his honor by rescuing the daughter of his former
employer, but he never imagined he'd also rescue her heart.
Setting: On the road from London to Exeter in Devon
Julia Byrne, An Independent Lady.
A lord heads to Devon to oust his grandmother's new companion, whom
he assumes to be a schemer.
Setting: Devon
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.
Setting: On the road to Exeter
Wilma Counts, My Lady Governess.
Lady fleeing an arranged marriage to an unsavory man disguises herself
as a governess in the home of an eligible lord.
Setting: Devon
Charlotte Louise Dolan, Three Lords for Lady Anne.
Governess is attracted to her employer.
Setting: Devon
Jean Ewing, Scandal's Reward.
Lady's companion first meets a gentleman by falling under his horse,
then meets him again when he's brandishing a pistol in an attempt to clear
his name and claim his legacy.
Setting: Devon
Ellen Fitzgerald, The Gambler's Bride.
Heiress agrees to elope with a gambler who may only be after her money.
Setting: Exeter in Devon, Bath, on the road to Carlisle in Cumberland
& to Gretna Green, Dover & Paris
Ellen Fitzgerald, A Streak of Luck.
Lady is thrilled when a lord asks for her hand but soon learns he was
forced to after losing a card game to her father.
Setting: London, Devon, on the road to Northumberland
Mona Gedney, A Lady of Quality.
Lady believes a devilish lord to be a smuggler and a spy.
Setting: Overlooking the Bristol Channel & in London
Paula Tanner Girard, Charade of Hearts.
Lady pretends to be a famous hostess and arranges a party for an impoverished
lord seeking a rich bride.
Setting: Devon
Sandra Heath, A Commercial Enterprise.
Lady turns the mansion she inherited into a hotel and finds her plans
thwarted by a debauched cousin, a jealous rival, and a dashing gentleman.
Setting: Devon (briefly) & London
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.
Setting: Devon
Kate Huntington, Town Bronze.
An officer released from captivity as a prisoner of war in France is
not pleased to discover he is expected to marry his grandfather's ward,
and the feeling is mutual until the pair head to London and acquire some
Town bronze.
Setting: Devonshire (briefly) & London
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.
Setting: London, Cambridgeshire & Devon
Carla Kelly, Marian's Christmas Wish.
Educated lady spurns love until a lord visits for Christmas.
Setting: Devon
Carla Kelly, Miss Chartley's Guided Tour.
Lady who had to become a school teacher after being left at the altar
meets the finace who jilted her and becomes involved in intrigue.
Setting: On the road from Plymouth to the Cotswolds
Valerie King, My Lord Highwayman.
A lady en route to her new post as governess is kissed by a highwayman
and can't help but compare that dashing rogue to the arrogant, disreputable
lord she meets at her employer's home.
Setting: Devon
Martha Kirkland, The Honorable Thief.
Honorable lady ends up stealing from a stranger then spending the night
at an inn posing as his wife.
Setting: Devon
Janis Laden, Moonlight Veil.
Lady agrees to marry the betrothed of her sister, who loves another.
Setting: Devon
Allison Lane, The Beleaguered Earl.
Lady's family home is gambled away to a disreputable earl.
Setting: Devon
Allison Lane, Lord Avery's Legacy.
Lord who thinks all women are schemers accuses the sister of his ward's
beloved of being a fortune hunter.
Setting: Devon
Allison Lane, The Notorious Widow.
Earl agrees to investigate the rumors swirling around a friend's widowed
sister, not realizing she is the same woman he insulted only the day before.
Setting: Devon
Allison Lane, The Purloined Papers.
A captain returns home from Waterloo and recognizes his sister's companion
as the woman he wronged 11 years ago, and soon discovers she is in danger
from a villain seeking papers that could ruin him.
Setting: Devon
Elizabeth Mansfield, A Christmas Kiss.
Earl falls in love with the lady his son brings home for Christmas.
Setting: Devon
Barbara Metzger, An Enchanted Affair.
Lady who talks to faeries offers a fortune to a lord in exchange for
his forest.
Setting: Devon
Nadine Miller, The Barbarian Earl.
Earl offers his bastard son an inheritance if he marries a lady, but
an arranged marriage is an affront to the lady's romantic sensibilities.
Setting: Exmoor in Devon
Nadine Miller, A Touch of Magic.
War veteran guilt-ridden over an accident that killed a farmer seeks
out the man's widow and finds she is rumored to be the granddaughter of
a witch.
Setting: Exmoor in Devon
Mary Morrow, An Innocent Ruse.
Canadian orphan returns to England and avoids an arranged marriage
by pretending to be engaged but falls in love with her fiance's brother.
Setting: Devon
Irene Northan, Love's Parole.
Lady's penniless family agrees to billet an American prisoner of war
for a small fee.
Setting: Dartmouth in Devon
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.
Setting: Devon
Sheila Rabe, Miss Plympton's Peril.
Gothic romance reader fears a family is holding her captive for her
dowry.
Setting: Devon
Debbie Raleigh, A Bride for Lord Challmond.
A gentleman returns from a trip to Italy and receives a dressing down
from an old childhood friend about his estate manager's abuses and neglect.
Setting: Devon
Patricia Rice, Mad Maria's Daughter.
Lady abducted by a highwayman refuses to fear him.
Setting: Devon
Meg-Lynn Roberts, An Alluring Lady.
Runaway assists a wounded British agent who defended her virtue.
Setting: On the road from Devon to London
Joan Smith, Delsie.
A schoolteacher is convinced to marry a dying man and uncovers strange
occurrences at her new home.
Setting: Devon
Rebecca Ward, Lady in Silver.
Lady whose uncle forced her to masquerade as an ancestral ghost to
earn money meets a skeptical tourist.
Setting: Devon
Sarah Westleigh, A Most Exceptional Quest.
Widow helps a man who lost his memory in the Peninsular War regain
his identity.
Setting: Devon
Rebecca Ashley, Intrepid Encounter.
A lady travels to Dorset to comfort her widowed niece and encounters
her niece's arrogant brother-in-law.
Setting: Dorset
Jane Austen, Persuasion.
Lady who allowed herself to be persuaded to break off an 'unsuitable
attachment' meets the man she jilted eight years later.
Setting: Somerset, Bath & Lyme Regis in Dorset
Mary Balogh, Daring Masquerade.
Widow is tempted by a dashing highwayman and an infuriating lord.
Setting: Dorset
Blanche Chenier, Lucinda.
When a lady who must pay her brother's gambling debts attracts the
interest of her neighbor, a jealous woman starts a rumor that she's illegitimate.
Setting: Dorset
Marion Chesney, A Governess of Distinction.
Governess is disappointed by her employer's failure to live up to her
fantasy.
Setting: Dorset
Carola Dunn, The Lady and the Rake.
Rakish gamester and a lady whose mother ran off with an actor stand
to inherit a fortune if they can live together chastely for 6 months; but
a ghost and their scheming relations are determined to throw them together.
Setting: Dorset
Violet Hamilton, Return Engagement.
Man woos the lady to whom he was engaged six years before.
Setting: London & Dorset
Barbara Hazard, The Calico Countess.
Lady saves her sister from an arrogant man but is herself forced into
a marriage in name only with him.
Setting: Dorset & London
Sandra Heath, False Steps.
Sent to Weymouth by the Queen of England, a lord finds his boredom
cast by the wayside when he encounters an enigmatic beauty who steals his
heart.
Setting: Weymouth in Dorset
Sandra Heath, The Makeshift Marriage.
Penniless lady in Venice marries a dying man who duelled to defend
her honor and wants her to inherit his money, but he recovers and brings
her home to where the woman he adores waits.
Setting: Venice & Dorset near Lyme Regis
Sandra Heath, Playing with Fire.
A lady and her scheming, selfish cousin are rescued from a shipwreck
and pirates by a dashing British spy.
Setting: Dorset & Egypt
Martha Kirkland, The Gallant Gambler.
Lady who despises gamblers tries to prevent her sister from being coerced
into marriage with an heir, while the heir's brother, a gambler, also hopes
to prevent the match.
Setting: Dorset
Jennifer Malin, Lord St. Leger's Find.
A lord excavating a Roman villa suspects that a lady claiming to be
an archeologist is really a fortune hunter.
Setting: Dorset
Elizabeth Mansfield, The Counterfeit Husband.
Countess asks a merchant seaman to play her husband.
Setting: Dorset & London
Elizabeth Mansfield, Mother's Choice.
Lady falls in love with the man her daughter hoped to marry.
Setting: Dorset
Patricia Oliver, An Inconvenient Wife.
Lord forced to marry a lady vows to keep her shut away at one of his
minor estates.
Setting: Brighton & Dorset
Mary Jo Putney, The Rake and the Reformer.
Heiress who found refuge from heartbreak by becoming the steward of
a remote estate finds her position in peril upon the arrival of the dissolute
new owner.
Setting: Dorset
Alicia Rasley, Poetic Justice.
Rogue helps a lady who must marry or lose her library and a secret
trunk.
Setting: Dorset
Alicia Rasley, A Royal Escapade.
A Russian princess intended to wed the Duke of Cumberland is attracted
to her handsome escort.
Setting: St. Petersburg in Russia, Smyrna in Turkey, at sea,
France, Dorset & London
Margaret SeBastian, The Honorable Miss Clarendon.
Governess falls in love with a gentleman's servant--or is he?
Setting: Dorset
Sheila Simonson, A Cousinly Connexion.
Wounded veteran takes on unexpected resposibilities as the new Lord
Meriden and is helped by a practical lady.
Setting: Dorset
Patricia Veryan, Love's Duet.
Lord undercover in a nefarious organization shuns his family &
the woman he loves to protect them.
Setting: Dorset
Patricia Veryan, The Riddle of Alabaster Royal.
Captain returns from the war to claim his decrepit estate but finds
it inhabited by a lady searching for her father's killer.
Setting: Dorset
Rebecca Ward, Enchanted Rendezvous.
Lady thinks a foppish lord is the exact opposite of her heroic midnight
rescuer.
Setting: Dorset
Rebecca Ward, A Monstrous Secret.
Lord suspects a lady's aunt of selling submarine plans to the French.
Setting: Dorset
Margaret Westhaven, Country Dance.
Lady with a scandal in her past dares not hope for the love of the
mysterious man who buys the neighboring estate.
Setting: Dorset
Area in eastern England including Norfolk,
Suffolk,
Essex
& Cambridgeshire
Janet Edmonds, Nabob's Daughter.
Viscount blames a lady's brother for for leading his brother into a
search for smugglers.
Setting: East Anglia
Martha Kirkland, The Noble Nephew.
When her brother is named as an heir and mysterious accidents begin
to happen, a lady suspects the barrister who stands next to inherit.
Setting: East Anglia
Sheila Bishop, A Speaking Likeness.
Widow adopts an illegitimate boy and meets a man who may be his father.
Setting: London, Essex, & the Midlands
Elizabeth Chater, Miss Cayley's Unicorn.
A lady trying to avoid marrige to a slaver and a lord trying to avoid
his mother's matchmaking agree to a marriage of convenience.
Setting: Essex & London
Lynn Collum, "Cakes, Kisses, and Confusion," in Sweet Temptations.
A lord sets a trap for a lady he mistakes for a schemer but she soon
proves him wrong with her culinary magic and her sweet temper.
Setting: Essex
Vanessa Gray, The Innocent Deceiver.
Lady sent to the country in disgrace after an indiscretion with a masked
stranger is courted by war hero and his seductively handsome brother.
Setting: Essex
Barbara Hazard, Lady at Risk.
Unexpected inheritance causes lady to be surrounded by suitors.
Setting: London & Essex
Elizabeth Hewitt, A Sporting Proposition.
Widow who succumbs to one night of passion with a friend of her late
husband's is shocked when she wakes to find he's left money by her bedside.
Setting: Essex, Newmarket & London
Ann Hulme, A Scandalous Bargain.
Lady is shocked to discover that the man she loves has offered her
in marriage to a fellow officer in exchange for payment of his debts.
Setting: Near Oxford, in Essex & in Brussels
Lynn Kerstan, A Midnight Clear.
Lord tries to prevent the publication of a scandalous book featuring
his family by appealing to the author's secretary.
Setting: London & Essex
Jo Manning, The Reluctant Guardian.
Man determined to avoid the parson's mousetrap finds himself saddled
with two young ladies.
Setting: Colchester in Essex
Mary Nichols, The Honourable Earl.
An earl who feels responsible for a lady whose family has fallen on
hard times because of him tries to rescue her from an arranged marriage
but suspects she may be involved in smuggling activities in the Essex marshes.
Setting: Essex
Joan Smith, Wiles of a Stranger.
Lady takes a position as a governess at a house full of intrigue in
order to prove her father innocent of stealing jewels and finds herself
falling for a mysterious man whom she should suspect.
Setting: Essex
Linda Walker, My Lady's Deception.
A penniless lady with no prospects concocts a ruse to find a mate only
to encounter a lord who is hiding his title and fortune during a quiet
visit to the country.
Setting: Essex
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey.
Fan of Gothic novels expects horrors and romance on her visit to Northanger
Abbey.
Setting: Bath & Gloucestershire
Mary Balogh, Courting Julia.
In order to inherit the home she loves, a lady must marry one of her
cousins.
Setting: Gloucestershire
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.
Setting: The Cotswolds in Gloucestershire
Clare Darcy, Gwendolen.
Lady who broke off an engagement to a naval captain is attracted to
the lord both her sisters sought to marry for his money.
Setting: Cheltenham & Gloucestershire countryside
Carola Dunn, The Improper Governess.
Lord asks a lady disguised as an actress to be first his mistress,
then a governess, then his wife.
Setting: London, Buckinghamshire & Gloucestershire
Carola Dunn, A Poor Relation.
Poor relation forced to act as a servant snags the earl on the neighboring
estate.
Setting: Kent & Gloucestershire
Gail Eastwood, An Unlikely Hero.
Fiery twin tries to set up her gentle, epileptic sister with a quiet,
scholarly gentleman.
Setting: Cambridge & Gloucestershire
Dorothy Mack, A Temporary Betrothal.
Captain proposes a fake betrothal to the cousin of the married lady
he loves.
Setting: Gloucestershire
Elizabeth Mansfield, Her Heart's Captain.
Lady doubts her love for a naval captain when her midshipman brother
tells her he's cruel to his men.
Setting: Portsmouth & Gloucestershire
Joan Overfield, Learned Lady.
Lady scientist who needs help presenting her theories teams up with
a man seeking his brother's killer.
Setting: Bibury in Glouchestershire & London
Elizabeth Powell, A Reckless Bargain.
A scholarly widow helps a dowager duchess out of a spot trouble with
the aid of the duchess's charming nephew.
Setting: Bath & Gloucestershire near Stow-on-the-Wold
Barbara Reeves, The Much Maligned Lord.
Lady spurns the attentions of a lord, believing rumors that he's a
rake.
Setting: Gloucestershire
Joan Smith, Sweet and Twenty.
Parliamentary candidates and advisors stir up a small town and ladies'
hearts.
Setting: Across the Severn River from Chepstow
Patricia Veryan, Give All to Love.
Man falls for the girl he's raised from childhood and is challenged
by an evil man.
Setting: Gloucestershire
Rebecca Ward, Grand Deception.
Poor relation teams up with a man claiming to be an earl.
Setting: Gloucestershire
Margaret Westhaven, A Cheltenham Comedy.
Lady who flees to Cheltenham takes a role in an amateur theatrical
and encounters a gentleman who is evasive about his background.
Setting: Gloucestershire
Includes Portsmouth
Jane Ashford, The Three Graces.
Three sisters--a governess, a schoolmistress & a companion--find
love.
Setting: Hampshire, Bath & London
Anne Ashley, Lady Jane's Physician.
Lady meets a physician with little patience for social etiquette.
Setting: Hampshire & Bath
Mary Balogh, The Plumed Bonnet.
Duke mistakes vicar's daughter for a Cyprian because of her fancy bonnet.
Setting: On the road to Hampshire & in London
Mary Balogh, A Promise of Spring.
Man marries an unwed mother but their love is threatened by the child's
father.
Setting: Hampshire
Anne Barbour, Miss Prestwick's Crusade.
A lady trying to prove that her nephew is the rightful Earl of Camberwell
must go up against the current earl.
Setting: Hampshire
Kathleen Beck, The Spirited Miss Caroline.
Lady pretends to be a ghost to scare away unwanted houseguests including
her estate's new heir and a gentleman who once jilted her.
Setting: Hampshire
Nancy Butler, Lord Monteith's Gift.
Lady who disguises herself as a boy so she can work to support her
family goes to the rescue of an abducted earl who saved her brother's life.
Setting: London & Camden Town & near Southampton in
Hampshire
Marion Chesney, 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
Cathleen Clare, Lord Montjoy's Country Inn.
Impoverished lord is resigned to marrying an heiress until his American
cousin with a pet bobcat suggests he make his castle into an inn.
Setting: Portsmouth & English countryside
Caroline Courtney, The Courier of Love.
Duke finds a lady bathing unclothed in his trout stream.
Setting: Winchester in Hampshire
Marian Devon, Miss Armstead Wears Black Gloves.
Lady trying to avoid an unwanted marriage pretends to be engaged to
a naval hero presumed lost at sea--but then he returns.
Setting: Hampshire & London
Marian Devon, Miss Kendal Sets Her Cap.
Lady refuses a proposal from a lord who stole a kiss, causing interest
and speculation from the ton.
Setting: Hampshire & London
Marian Devon, Miss Romney Flies too High.
Man wills his fortune to whichever of his nephews marries his illegitimate
actress daughter.
Setting: Portsmouth & Hampshire countryside
Carola Dunn, A Susceptible Gentleman.
Lord's childhood friend helps him out of a mess with three mistresses.
Setting: Hampshire
Jennie Gallant, Lady Hathaway's House Party.
Duchess arrives at a house party escorted by a young admirer only to
find her estranged husband is also a guest.
Setting: Hampshire
Emily Hendrickson, Lord Dancy's Delight.
Mischievous lady returning to England from Macao is determined to repay
the lord who saved her life three times.
Setting: London, Portsmouth & Lisbon (briefly)
Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck.
Lady discovers she is the ward of the rake who accosted her at an inn.
Setting: Grantham in Lincolnshire, London, Belvoir Castle in
Leicestershire, Hampshire, Brighton
Valerie King, The Willful Widow.
Serious widow intent on marrying off her sisters and managing her mama
has no time for a gentleman's romantic foolishness.
Setting: Hampshire
Stephanie Laurens, Tangled Reins,
A notorious lord is attracted to a spinster who plans to remain unmarried.
Setting: Hampshire & London
Isobel Linton, An Impromptu Charade.
A marquess and an earl's daughter mistake each other for a tutor and
a governess.
Setting: Hampshire
Elizabeth Mansfield, Her Heart's Captain.
Lady doubts her love for a naval captain when her midshipman brother
tells her he's cruel to his men.
Setting: Portsmouth & Gloucestershire
Laura Matthews, A Very Proper Widow.
Widow left in charge of an estate and two small children resists the
efforts of her husband's friend to manage her affairs.
Setting: Near Basingstoke in Hampshire
Lois Menzel, In the Shadow of Arabella.
Lady marries an earl to free herself and her sister from their stepfather,
but the shadow of her new husband's late wife hangs over their marriage.
Setting: London & Hampshire
Roseleen Milne, Borrowed Plumes.
Lady who is determined to despise the earl coming to seize her family
estate meets a stranger who is the man of her dreams.
Setting: Hampshire
Gwyneth Moore, Love's Lady Lost.
Man stranded at "widow's" house in a snowstorm discovers her secret
past.
Setting: Between Guildford and Portsmouth.
Kate Moore, Sweet Bargain.
When he finds a lady fishing in his trout stream, a gentleman demands
a kiss for every fish she and her brothers have stolen from him.
Setting: Hampshre
Barbara Neil, Mask of White Satin.
Lady artist gives her heart to a man in a white satin mask thinking
she knows his identity.
Setting: Hampshire
Patricia Oliver, The Colonel's Lady.
Colonel weds a lady jilted by his brother to save her from scandal.
Setting: Hampshire & Brussels
Mary Linn Roby, Fortune's Smile.
Lord always seems to be on hand when a lady and her family members
find themselves in embarrassing situations.
Setting: London & Southampton
Martha Schroeder, Lady Meg's Gamble.
To save her family estate a lady marries a wealthy man who ran away
to sea to escape his past and now yearns for a home.
Setting: Hampshire
Barbara Sherrod, Daughter of the Dreadfuls.
Gentleman bored with insipid beauties is attracted to an accident-prone
lady from an eccentric family.
Setting: Southampton & London
Joan Smith, A Country Wooing.
When the man she loves dies leaving a mountain of debts she begins
to realize his selfishness and see the goodness in his younger brother.
Setting: Hampshire
Joan Smith, Never Let Me Go.
Modern-day American writer who rents an English cottage to research
the life of a Regency rake said to have killed his fiancee meets his ghost
and the current lord who closely resembles him.
Setting: Hampshire
Joan Smith, Old Lover's Ghost.
Lady whose father travels the country banishing ghosts meets a skeptical
earl whose mother is distressed by strange occurrences.
Setting: Hampshire
Joan Smith, Rose Trelawney.
Lady with amnesia is taken into a gentleman's home, and when she begins
to fall in love with him she wonders if there is anything in her past that
would prevent a match between them.
Setting: Hampshire
Joan Smith, A Tall, Dark Stranger.
Lady is drawn to a mysterious stranger who appears in her village just
as a murder occurs.
Setting: Hampshire
Joan Smith, Valerie.
Lady trying to discover why her aunt is nearly bankrupt suspects an
overbearing man claiming to be a lord's secretary.
Setting: Hampshire
Patricia Veryan, Had We Never Loved.
Viscount falls in love with a gypsy who rescues him from thugs.
Setting: Hampshire
Patricia Veryan, Love Alters Not.
Lady carrying a crucial Jacobite cypher switches identities with a
woman claiming her son is a baronet's heir.
Setting: Hampshire
Sheila Walsh, The Perfect Bride.
Lady betrothed to a sickly duke falls for his cousin.
Setting: Wiltshire & Hampshire near Winchester
Emily Hendrickson, Drusilla's Downfall.
A lady's companion becomes involved in scandal, intrigue and passion
when she meets her employer's son.
Setting: Herefordshire
Emma Lange, The Unwavering Miss Winslow.
A lady becomes a companion in the home of an earl who thinks she has
designs on his brother.
Setting: Herefordshire
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice.
It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession
of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.
Setting: Hertfordshire & Derbyshire
Anne Barbour, A Dedicated Scoundrel.
Man fleeing false treason charges and murder attempts helps a damsel
in distress and gets amnesia for his troubles.
Setting: Hertfordshire & London
*Susana Ellis, Treasuring Theresa.
She's a country lady. He's a London swell. They have nothing in common. Or have they?
Georgette Heyer, Charity Girl.
Man is obliged to help a "charity girl" but falls for his childhood
friend.
Setting: Hertfordshire
Georgette Heyer, The Foundling.
Coddled duke pretends to be "Mr. Ware" & learns to stand up for
himself.
Setting: Midlands, London, on the road, Baldock & Hitchin
in Hertfordshire, & Bath
Georgette Heyer, Frederica.
Lady asks a distant connection to help her sister and brothers.
Setting: London & Watford in Hertfordshire
Anne Hillary, Compromised Love.
Lady flees an unwanted engagement with the help of a childhood friend,
but when she is declared compromised it is her friend's disapproving older
brother who must offer for her.
Setting: Hertfordshire
Karla Hocker, June Love.
Historian hired by a lord turns out to be a woman.
Setting: Near St. Albans
Valerie King, Reluctant Bride.
When her suitor treats her cousins rudely, a lady accepts his proposal
with the intention of leading him a merry chase then jilting him publicly.
Setting: Hertfordshire
Lois Menzel, At Daggers Drawn.
Lady is incensed when the trustee of her late father's ruined estate
arrives and begins issuing orders.
Setting: Hertfordshire
Eva Rutland, Matched Pair.
Gentleman plagued by matchmaking mamas and a lady who wants to save
her family's racing stables enter into and engagement as a business arrangement.
Setting: Hertfordshire and London
Amanda Scott, Lord Abberley's Nemesis.
Lady needs the help of an earl to save her nephew but first she must
save him from dissipation.
Setting: Hertfordshire
Margaret Westhaven, Miss Dalrymple's Virtue.
Lady agrees to become a lord's mistress if he publishes her book.
Setting: Hertfordshire
Shirley Callander, The Reluctant Heir.
Lady schemes to free herself and her sisters from their new guardian's
dictates.
Setting: Huntingdonshire
Marjorie DeBoer, The Unwelcome Suitor.
Lady is wooed by the lord whom she blames for her husband's death.
Setting: Huntingdonshire
Gail Eastwood, The Captain's Dilemma.
Lady hides a French prisoner of war on her family estate.
Setting: Huntingdonshire
Nancy Butler, The Ramshackle Suitor.
Lady defies her domineering stepbrother by seeking her missing sister
on the Isle of Man, where she finds an injured man.
Setting: Isle of Man
Includes Dover and Tunbridge Wells
Rebecca Ashley, The Right Suitor.
A lady who longs to remain in India where she was raised tries to avoid
her family's plans to marry her off to a lord.
Setting: Kent & London
Rebecca Ashley, A Suitable Arrangement.
Man whom a widow rejected to marry a rake asks her to be his mistress.
Setting: Kent
Elizabeth Bailey, An Angel's Touch.
Lady's companion rescues two children and berates their father when
he admonishes them.
Setting: Tunbridge Wells
Elizabeth Bailey, A Fragile Mask.
Setting: Tunbridge Wells
Mary Balogh, Dancing with Clara.
Paralyzed woman pays a gentleman's debts in exchange for the intimacy
of marriage.
Setting: Bath, Kent & London
Anne Barbour, A Pressing Engagement.
Earl threatens a lady with prison unless she poses as his fiancee.
Setting: Kent
Marguerite Bell, A Rose for Danger.
Lady used to the attentions of gentleman is annoyed when two men who
seem to be hiding something rebuff her.
Setting: Kent
Irene Loyd Black, A Determined Lady.
In order to have her novel published, a Boston bluestocking answers
an ad for a "plain Jane" to marry wealthy lord who loves another.
Setting: Boston (briefly) & Kent near Hythe
Nancy Butler, The Rake's Retreat.
Lady encounters a rake in the company of a young girl who has witnessed
a murder and agrees to act as the girl's chaperone.
Setting: Kent
Jeanne Carmichael, Madcap Johnny.
Lady who disdains a dandy admires the spying exploits of the Black
Domino.
Setting: Kent, France & London
Philippa Castle, The Reluctant Duke.
Lady loves the duke who is courting her elder sister.
Setting: Kent & London
Marion Chesney, Deborah Goes to Dover.
Matchmaker meets a lady disguised as a tomboy at a prize fight.
Setting: On the road to Dover
Alana Clayton, Heart's Deceit.
To save an earl from a plot against his life, a quiet lady must pretend
to be her wild twin, who is the widow of the earl's younger brother.
Setting: Dover area
Alana Clayton, The Phantom Husband.
Lady charged with the care of her younger sister rushes into a hasty
marriage with a man who disappears, but when she tracks him to his home
she finds a stranger instead.
Setting: Kent
Rebecca Danton, Amythest Love.
Man marries the lady he promised to take care of but turns out to be
a rake and a gambler.
Setting: Kent, the Cotswolds, & London
Georgina Devon, Scandals.
Marquis will do anything to stop his younger brother from marrying
a widowed actress whose husband is rumored to be still alive.
Setting: Kent
Marian Devon, Escapade.
Lady accidentally ends up in a balloon flying across the Channel with
a rake.
Setting: On the road (and in the air) from Calais to Kent
Marian Devon, Mistletoe and Folly.
Lady taking her sister's place at a house party gives the guest of
honor a piece of her mind for causing a carriage accident.
Setting: Kent
Jacqueline Diamond, The Forgetful Lady.
After a fall from horse, a lady can't remember why a gentleman dislikes
her.
Setting: Near Lenham in Kent & in London
Carola Dunn, The Man in the Green Coat aka Gabrielle's
Gamble.
Lady traveling from Europe to London is entrusted with a message for
"the man in the green coat."
Setting: On the road from Switzerland to Dover (briefly) &
in London
Carola Dunn, A Poor Relation.
Poor relation forced to act as a servant snags the earl on the neighboring
estate.
Setting: Kent & Gloucestershire
Roberta Eckert, My Lady Adventuress.
Lady who accepts a man but then has second thoughts is drawn to his
brother who thinks she's an adventuress.
Setting: Dover & on the road to Northumberland
Suzanne Enoch, Angel's Devil.
Lady who is impatient to be wed has her fiance ask his cousin to pretend
to pursue her so her parents will hasten their plans, but the lady's plans
go awry when she finds she's in love with the cousin.
Setting: Kent
Elisabeth Fairchild, Lord Endicott's Appetite.
Lady chef must find a way to tempt her employer who lost his appetite
when his wife died.
Setting: Kent
Elisabeth Fairchild, Marriage a la Mode.
Lady involved in a scandalous divorce is courted by a Scottish lord.
Setting: Kent
Ellen Fitzgerald, The Gambler's Bride.
Heiress agrees to elope with a gambler who may only be after her money.
Setting: Exeter in Devon, Bath, on the road to Carlisle in Cumberland
& to Gretna Green, Dover & Paris
Vanessa Gray, The Dutiful Daughter.
On-the-shelf lady receives an unexpected legacy and suddenly fashionable
gentlemen begin to appear at her country home.
Setting: Kent
Vanessa Gray, The Errant Bridegroom.
Country lady travels to Venice accompanying her beautiful stepsister
who's engaged to a gentleman the lady loves herself.
Setting: Kent & Vienna
Barbara Hazard, Monday's Child.
Widow is tricked by her parents into returning home so they can control
her money and marry her off again, but she prefers a neighboring farmer
who thinks she's above his station.
Setting: Kent
Sandra Heath, Rakehell's Widow.
Widow warns sister away from the man she blames for her husband's death.
Setting: Kent & London
Georgette Heyer, Friday's Child.
Viscount marries his childhood friend to get his mother off his back.
Setting: Kent, London & Bath
Georgette Heyer, Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle.
Lady meets the duke upon whom she based the evil character in her novel.
Setting: South of Calne in Wiltshire, London, Dover & France
Georgette Heyer, The Unknown Ajax.
"Weaver's son" in line for a title pretends to be the oaf that his
relatives expect.
Setting: Kent
Kate Huntington, Lady Diana's Darlings.
Widow dislikes her late husband's arrogant and proper relatives, but
when one gentleman takes an interest in her beloved son she unexpectedly
loses her heart to him.
Setting: Naples, London & Kent
Emma Jensen, Best Laid Schemes.
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.
Setting: Kent
Carla Kelly, Libby's London Merchant.
Lady meets a man claiming to be a London merchant who has had an accident.
Setting: Kent
Valerie King, My Lady Mischief.
Lady smuggler intends to jilt the man she agreed to marry in order
to pay her mother's debts.
Setting: Kent
Valerie King, A Poet's Touch.
Lord whose father died under mysterious circumstances courts the daughter
of one of the men he believes responsible.
Setting: London & Kent
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.
Setting: Kent
Judith Lansdowne, Lord Nightingale's Love Song.
Lady leaves an unsuccessful Season for Kent and encounters a gruff
marquess whose only friend is his horse.
Setting: Kent
Judith Lansdowne, Lord Nightingale's Triumph.
Lady is reunited with the man she loves only to realize he has stolen
the parrot called Lord Nightingale.
Setting: Kent
Lillian Lincoln, A Change of Heart.
Lady who wants the man she is expected to marry to win her romantically
throws other women in his path, only to find he is attracted to one of
them and she herself has reawakened feelings for a recently returned former
suitor.
Setting: London, Kent near Sandwich, and Suffolk (briefly)
Carolyn Madison, The Sinister Spinster.
A gentleman who is forced to spend time with an earl's obnoxious family
in order to gain support for a diplomatic cause finds himself falling for
the countess's companion.
Setting: Kent
Elizabeth Mansfield, A Brilliant Mismatch.
Lady who vows to wed the first man she sees must marry a mysterious
vagrant.
Setting: Kent
Barbara Metzger, A Debt to Delia.
Rescued from behind enemy lines by a fellow soldier, a major is horrified
to learn that his rescuer has been killed in process and offers to marry
the dead man's sister, a lovely young woman desperate to care for herself
and her dependents.
Setting: Kent
Barbara Metzger, The Painted Lady.
When the portrait he is painting speaks to him, a duke goes for help
to a noted brain fever specialist and finds himself in the care of the
doctor's daughter.
Setting: London & Kent
Barbara Metzger, The Primrose Path.
Nonpareil becomes a laughingstock when his cottage is left to his aunt's
dogs in the care of her companion.
Setting: Kent
Kasey Michaels, The Dubious Miss Dalrymple.
An earl pretends to be dead and goes undercover in the home of the
new heir in order to find out who tried to kill him.
Setting: Kent
Barbara Neil, Lucy's Scoundrel.
Lady agrees to thwart a scoundrel's scheme by presenting herself as
the fiancee he has fabricated.
Setting: Canterbury
Joan Overfield, The Journals of Lady X.
Duke is asked by the government to track down the author of gossipy
novels that contain elements of treason.
Setting: London and Folkstone in Kent
Nina Porter, A Matchmaker's Match.
Lady pretending to be bluestocking to avoid marriage attracts an educated
man.
Setting: Kent
Debbie Raleigh, A Scandalous Marriage.
When a midnight rendezvous with the wrong man leads to a marriage of
convenience, a headstrong lady and a notorious rake must cast aside their
differences to overcome danger and find unexpected love.
Setting: Kent
Alicia Rasley, A Midsummer's Delight.
A lady home from her first Season falls for the artist next door.
Setting: Kent & Sussex
Amanda Scott, The Madcap Marchioness.
New wife wants to cut a dash in town, but her husband wants a quiet
country life.
Setting: Kent
Donna Sinclair, Lady May's Folly.
A lady discovers a wounded man on her property and realizes he's the
man who rescued her from kidnappers.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, Blossom Time.
Lord realizes he loves the neighbor he's known from childhood.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, Country Flirt.
Lord enjoys a casual flirtation on his visits home with a neighbor
who loves him, but when his debauched uncle is intent on courting her he
realizes how much he'd hate to lose her.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, Gather Ye Rosebuds.
Lady artist discovers a necklace among her uncle's belongs and is caught
by a suspicious lord when she tries to return it to its rightful owner.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, A Kiss in the Dark.
Heiress snoops around the estate of a man who refused to rent her a
summer house.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, Kissing Cousins.
Lady is forced to turn to her stuffy cousin to help her brother get
out of debt.
Setting: London, Brighton & Tunbridge Wells
Joan Smith, Memoirs of a Hoyden.
Lady promoting the memoirs of her Oriental travels finds adventure
at home in England with spies and a dashing lord.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, The Notorious Lord Havergal.
Indebted gambler applies to his financial guardian for funds only to
find his guardian is a woman.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, Petticoat Rebellion.
Art mistress visiting a lord's home thinks he's mixed up in a thieves'
ring.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, Regency Masquerade.
Lady and gentleman trying to a catch thief suspect each other.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, Silken Secrets.
When a lady's uncle takes bolts of silk from a grounded French ship,
a draper with aristocratic manners comes to investigate.
Setting: Kent
Joan Smith, The Virgin and the Unicorn.
Lord steals the Bayeux Tapestry from under Napoleon's nose.
Setting: Kent
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.
Setting: Kent
Patricia Veryan, Time's Fool.
Captain returns from the war to find his family ruined and uncovers
a group of traitors known as the Jewelled Men.
Setting: Kent
Bess Willingham, The Bedeviled Barrister.
House party brings together a widow who once lost everything in a gaming
hall and the dashing barrister who was unable to help her because of his
own gambling problem.
Setting: Kent
Rhonda Woodward, A Hint of Scandal.
A notorious duke who is wounded by a highwayman is cared for by a genteel
lady.
Setting: Kent
Rhonda Woodward, A Spinster's Luck.
A duke who has never considered a lady below his station is attracted
to his nephews' governess but she seems to have a grudge against him.
Setting: Kent
Includes the counties of Cumberland & Westmoreland
Patricia Bray, A Most Suitable Duchess.
A duke who must marry before his thirtieth birthday or lose his estate
composes an ad for a wife in jest, but when it is published he is besieged
with letters from ladies hoping to fill the position.
Setting: Edinburgh & the Lake District
Nancy Butler, Prospero's Daughter.
A gentleman hired to write a general's memoirs is attracted to a lady
recovering from a carriage accident.
Setting: Windermere in the Lake District
Sarah Carlisle, Kit and Kitty.
A lady and gentleman who were betrothed before they ever met are dissatisfied
with the arrangement, but they grow closer when they find themselves in
danger.
Setting: London & Cumberland
Cleo Chadwick, A Lakeside Season.
Lady whose banker father wants her to marry someone who'll take his
name and work for him meets a marquis in disguise in the Lake District.
Setting: Lake District
Dinah Dean, The Cockermouth Mail.
Governess becomes trapped at an inn with a war hero at Christmastime.
Setting: On the road in the Lake District
Teresa DesJardien, A Heart's Treasure.
Man with an eyepatch and scarred face feels unworthy of the lady who
loves him.
Setting: On the road to Cumberland
Elisabeth Fairchild, Captain Cupid Calls the Shots.
A sharpshooter returns from the war and travels to a friend's home
in the Lake District, where he is "paired" as part of a Valentine's Day
custom with a lady who has a child of uncertain parentage.
Setting: Lake District
Elisabeth Fairchild, A Fresh Perspective.
Lady artist despairs that her childhood love will never see her as
woman.
Setting: Lake District
Ellen Fitzgerald, The Gambler's Bride.
Heiress agrees to elope with a gambler who may only be after her money.
Setting: Exeter in Devon, Bath, on the road to Carlisle in Cumberland
& to Gretna Green, Dover & Paris
Elena Greene, The Incorrigible Lady Catherine.
Headstrong lady who is determined to marry a rake is banished by her
father to the Lake District, where she falls in love with the most unlikely
of suitors - a respectable country gentleman.
Setting: Lake District
Charlotte Grey, Fancy Free.
Orphan who regales her fellow schoolgirls with tales of daring by a
fictitious guardian is surprised when he appears.
Setting: Outside Carlisle & in London
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.
Setting: Lake District
Lynn Kerstan, Marry in Haste.
To avoid an unwanted marriage, a lady with a scarred face accepts the
proposal of a man whom she mistook for a burglar and hit over the head
with a frying pan.
Setting: Lake District
Valerie King, Love Match.
Lord tries to stop a matchmaking miss from inveigling his younger brother
into an unsuitable alliance.
Setting: Lake District
Martha Kirkland, Mr. Montgomery's Quest.
A lady disguised as a man to take a job as a guide is intrigued by
an enigmatic man who joins her walking tour through Cumbria and Yorkshire.
Setting: Lake District & Yorkshire
Laura Matthews, A Fine Gentleman.
Mother tries to match up her obstinate son with a visiting lady.
Setting: Lake District
Cissie Miller, Tish.
Lady whose family lost their fortune and were exiled to the Lake District
meets an amorous earl when she falls out of a balloon, but she is more
concerned with clearing her family's name.
Setting: Lake District
Andrea Pickens, The Major's Mistake.
Man who mistakenly believes his wife was unfaithful divorces her and
goes to war for six years, but on his return he meets her and the son he
never knew he had and wonders if he was too quick to judge her.
Setting: Lake District
Margaret Evans Porter, Road to Ruin.
Lady hiding from scandal meets a man falsely accused of murder.
Setting: On the road between St Albans and Carlisle via Staffordshire
with a detour to Gretna Green.
Donna Sinclair, Lord St. Claire's Angel.
A devil-may-care gentleman is surprised to find himself falling in
love with a plain yet intelligent governess.
Setting: Lake District
Joan Smith, Love's Way.
Lady who manages her poet brother's estate resists selling it to a
developer with the help of a nabob.
Setting: Lake District
Lois Stewart, A Reluctant Heart.
Starstruck, sheltered lady elopes with a drunken gentleman who doesn't
realize he is married and has an heir until seven years later.
Setting: Lake District
Includes Manchester
Rebecca Ashley, A Miss with a Purpose.
Lady demands that the lord with whom she shares ownership of a mill
help improve working conditions.
Setting: Manchester
Lynn Kerstan, Lucy in Disguise.
Lady assisting a friend on the run from danger helps a wounded smuggler
who sees through their disguises.
Setting: Lancashire
Anne MacNeill, A Mind of Her Own.
Lady who seems to have the perfect husband is still determined to live
her own life.
Setting: London & Manchester
Elizabeth Mansfield, A Grand Deception.
When a bluestocking runs away to become a schoolteacher, a lookalike
stray is enlisted to take her place at the house party of the viscount
who admires her.
Setting: London, near Manchester, Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire,
and East Riding.
Elizabeth Mansfield, The Grand Passion.
Lady seeks revenge on the lord whom she believes killed her fiance
in a coaching accident.
Setting: Near Manchester
Margaret Summerville, The Improper Playwright.
Lady sends a romantic play to a lord who is a famous playwright.
Setting: Lancashire
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.
Setting: Leicestershire
Rachelle Edwards, Reckless Masquerade.
Lady gets amnesia in a carriage accident and is told she is a countess,
but her husband behaves like a stranger.
Setting: Leicestershire
Anne Gracie, Gallant Waif.
An orphaned and destitute lady finds herself left at the hideway of
a bitter man whose fiancee jilted him when he returned from the war scarred
and wounded.
Setting: Leicestershire
Georgette Heyer, Cousin Kate.
Lady accepts an invitation from an aunt who wants to match her with
her son.
Setting: Near Market Harborough in Leicestershire
Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck.
Lady discovers she is the ward of the rake who accosted her at an inn.
Setting: Grantham in Lincolnshire, London, Belvoir Castle in
Leicestershire, Hampshire, Brighton
Elisabeth Kidd, The Rival Earls.
Lady is forced to marry a man she hates.
Setting: South of the Welford Arm of the Grand Union Canal
Katherine Kingsley, King of Hearts.
Lady accepts an invitation to a lord's manor despite rumors of his
rakish reputation.
Setting: Leicestershire
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.
Setting: Leicestershire
Dorothy Mack, The Luckless Elopement.
Lady rescues an heiress from an elopement with a fortune hunter only
to fall for him herself.
Setting: On the road and in Leicestershire
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.
Setting: London & Leicestershire
Miranda's Mistake. Signet, April 2003.
A widow is invited to a friend's country estate and is reunited with
the man she once loved.
Setting: Leicestershire
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.
Setting: London & Leicestershire
Julia Parks, His Saving Grace.
A new vicar finds is determined to expose a lady who runs a progressive
girls' school as a menace to English society, but his plan backfires when
he falls in love with her.
Setting: Leicestershire
Amanda Scott, Mistress of the Hunt.
Widow shuns marriage but is jealous when her suitor pursues another.
Setting: Leicestershire
Elizabeth Neff Walker, A Curious Courting.
Gentleman tries to persuade an eccentric lady to sell him part of her
land for a hunting lodge.
Setting: Leicestershire
Rebecca Ashley, Ruins and Romance.
A lady accepts a friend's invitation to a house party and discovers
that the guests are not all they pretend to be.
Setting: Lincolnshire
Georgette Heyer, The Convenient Marriage.
Lady who offered herself to an earl in place of her sister doesn't
realize she loves her husband until she finds herself deep in a dangerous
intrigue with his enemy.
Setting: London & Lincolnshire
Georgette Heyer, The Quiet Gentleman.
Earl returns from Waterloo to find intrigue at his family home.
Setting: Lincolnshire
Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck.
Lady discovers she is the ward of the rake who accosted her at an inn.
Setting: Grantham in Lincolnshire, London, Belvoir Castle in
Leicestershire, Hampshire, Brighton
Melinda McRae, Lady Leprechaun.
Widow and a duke are thrown together chasing after runaway schoolboys.
Setting: Lincolnshire
Olivia Sumner, A Deceptive Bequest.
Lord mistakes a governess for her long-lost twin sister who is an opera
dancer.
Setting: Lincolnshire
Nancy Butler, Lord Monteith's Gift.
Lady who disguises herself as a boy so she can work to support her
family goes to the rescue of an abducted earl who saved her brother's life.
Setting: London & Camden Town & near Southampton in
Hampshire
Teresa DesJardien, The Reluctant Lord.
Lord's American heir returns and meets an independent lady and a man
who knows his "secret."
Setting: Outside London
Marian Devon, Lord Harlequin.
Lord falsely accused of a shooting is forced to disguise himself as
a Harlequin.
Setting: Islington & London
Diane Farr, Fair Game.
Courtesan offers her gently reared daughter to a gentleman as payment
of a debt.
Setting: London & near Islington Spa
Marjorie Farrell, Autumn Rose.
Lady tries to prevent her illegitimate daughter from marrying an earl
and finds herself in league, and love, with the earl's guardian.
Setting: Hampstead
Ellen Fitzgerald, A Novel Alliance.
Novelist being divorced by her unreasonably jealous husband flees to
a small village and finds love with a fellow writer.
Setting: London & Hampstead
Jeanne Savery, Cupid's Challenge.
Lady raised by an abusive aunt hides her beauty until she falls at
a gentleman's feet.
Setting: Near Chelsea
Susan Carroll, Christmas Belles.
Guardian of four ladies proposes to the eldest, who loves another man,
and finds himself developing feelings for her younger sister.
Setting: Norfolk
Susan Carroll, The Sugar Rose.
Plump lady asks a fastidious gentleman to help her become fashionable
so her fiance will take notice of her, but her tutor is intrigued with
her himself.
Setting: Norfolk & London
Lynn Collum, The Wedding Charm.
A gentleman discovers he has inherited an estate in Norfolk and is
intrigued by a secretive lady he meets there.
Setting: Norfolk
Jo Ann Ferguson, His Unexpected Bride.
A lady tries to win the love of the man she was married to by proxy
as the result of her father's scheming.
Setting: Norfolk & London
Katharine Flixton, Daughter to the Nabob.
Nabob seeks to settle an old score by luring a gambler who has lost
his family home into marriage with his daughter.
Setting: London, Norfolk & Northamptonshire
Barbara Hazard, Caroline.
Lady who didn't take after two Seasons thinks a fussy, eligible lord
is arrogant.
Setting: Hunstanton in Norfolk & London
Martha Kirkland, A Gentleman's Deception.
Actress is annoyed when a gentleman tries to hire her to pretend to
be his godmother's long-lost daughter.
Setting: Norfolk
Jane Austen, Mansfield Park.
Poor relation sent to live with her well-to-do aunt and uncle finds
her friendship with her cousin Edmund altered with the arrival of a dashing
brother and sister.
Setting: Northamptonshire
Mary Balogh, Snow Angel.
Widow has a brief, passionate affair with a gentleman with whom she
is snowbound, only to discover later that he is promised to her niece.
Setting: Northamptonshire
Sara Blayne, An Easter Courtship.
Reclusive lady encounters the man she holds responsible for her fiance's
death.
Setting: Northamptonshire
Susan Carroll, The Bishop's Daughter.
When Hellfire Harry returns from war to the village that thinks him
dead, he sets out to reform his ways to win the hand of a bishop's daughter.
Setting: Northamptonshire
Katharine Flixton, Daughter to the Nabob.
Nabob seeks to settle an old score by luring a gambler who has lost
his family home into marriage with his daughter.
Setting: London, Norfolk & Northamptonshire
Candice Hern, The Best Intentions.
Earl who lost his beloved wife determines to make a practical match
for the sake of his children, but his plans go awry when he meets an unexpected
houseguest.
Setting: Northamptonshire
Jane Ashford, Meddlesome Miranda.
A lady suspects her brother-in-law of keeping her sister captive and
is equally suspicious of his friend.
Setting: Northumberland
Irene Loyd Black, A Touch of Merry.
Orphaned lady poses as a nursemaid to find her family.
Setting: Northumberland
Cathleen Clare, Midwinter's Bliss.
Lady and her companion forced by a snowstorm to stop at a rake's house
unwittingly interrupt a wild bachelor party and force their host to behave
with propriety.
Setting: Northumberland
Roberta Eckert, My Lady Adventuress.
Lady who accepts a man but then has second thoughts is drawn to his
brother who thinks she's an adventuress.
Setting: Dover & on the road to Northumberland
Jean Ewing, Valor's Reward.
Scholarly lady is mistaken for a highwayman and is shot while she tries
to stop a coachman's abusive treatment of his horses.
Setting: Northumberland and near Bedford
Ellen Fitzgerald, A Streak of Luck.
Lady is thrilled when a lord asks for her hand but soon learns he was
forced to after losing a card game to her father.
Setting: London, Devonshire, on the road to Northumberland
Carla Kelly, Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand.
Lord woos the widow living in his dower house.
Setting: Northumberland
Carla Kelly, With This Ring.
Lady eclipsed by her sister agrees to a wounded soldier's proposal.
Setting: London & on the road to Northumberland
Martha Kirkland, The Artful Heir.
Lady who restores paintings to support her sick father helps a gentleman
who hires her discover an art thief.
Setting: Northumberland
Judith Lansdowne, Balmorrow's Bride.
Lady agrees to marry a widower sight unseen to save her brother from
financial ruin.
Setting: Northumberland & London
Emily Hendrickson, Lord Nick's Folly.
During a dreary trip to visit her wealthy great-aunt, a rector's daughter
is forced to share a coach with the most aggravating man in all England
and an aristocrat who has heretofore been more interested in constructing
a golf course on his property than finding himself a bride.
Setting: Nottinghamshire
Paula Marshall, Miss Jesmond's Heir.
A gentleman arrives to inspect the property he inherited from his great-aunt
and finds a widowed lady dressed in men's clothes playing with two children.
Setting: Nottinghamshire
Paula Marshall, Dear Lady Disdain.
Heiress who has spurned numerous fortune hunters is stranded by the
weather with a man who has returned from America to cut all his ties with
England.
Setting: Nottinghamshire
Cilla Whitmore, Mansion for a Lady.
Lady architect designs a home for a viscount looking for a wife.
Setting: Nottinghamshire
Carola Dunn, Lavender Lady.
Lady raising her brothers and sisters nurses a gentleman after a curricle
accident not realizing he's an earl.
Carola Dunn, My Lord Winter.
Lady whose carriage breaks down on "Lord Winter's" doorstep pretends
to be a governess and is able to melt his heart.
Setting: Oxfordshire & London
*Susana Ellis, A Twelfth Night Tale.
A wounded soldier and the girl next door find peace and love amidst a backdrop of rural Christmas traditions.
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.
Barbara Hazard, Autumn Vows.
Lady vows not to let the man who married her to fulfill a promise to
his mother know that she loves him.
Setting: Somerset, Oxfordshire, & London
Barbara Hazard, The Unsuitable Miss Martingale.
A lady's family sends her to London hoping she'll make a suitable match,
but she feels out of place in Society.
Setting: Oxfordshire & London
Barbara Hazard, Wild Roses.
Lady asks two of her suitors to deal with a Regency stalker who threatens
to reveal a terrible secret.
Setting: London, Oxfordshire & Cornwall
Emily Hendrickson, The Rake and the Redhead.
Lady tries to stop an arrogant lord from destroying a village to improve
his view.
Setting: Oxfordshire
Ann Hulme, A Scandalous Bargain.
Lady is shocked to discover that the man she loves has offered her
in marriage to a fellow officer in exchange for payment of his debts.
Setting: Near Oxford, in Essex & in Brussels
Carla Kelly, Miss Grimsley's Oxford Career.
Lady disguised as her brother to attend Oxford is found out by a handsome
lord disguised as a humble scholar.
Setting: Oxford
Martha Kirkland, The Seductive Spy.
British spy who assumes another officer's identity must allay the suspicions
of that man's childhood sweetheart.
Setting: Oxfordshire
Martha Kirkland, Miss Maitland's Letters.
Lady falls in love with her fiance through letters written from the
Peninsula not realizing they were written by her disinterested fiance's
best friend.
Setting: Oxfordshire & Warwickshire
Allison Lane, The Rake's Rainbow.
Vicar's daughter marries a rake who is in love with another man's wife.
Setting: Oxfordshire
Carol Proctor, The Drawing Master's Dilemma.
Lady is saved from marriage to a lecherous lord by a mysterious drawing
master whom she finds wounded on the side of the road.
Setting: Oxfordshire
Jeanne Savery, A Lady's Proposal.
Wealthy lady who must wed for protection is turned down by indebted
lord.
Setting: Near Chipping Norton
Donna Simpson, A Rake's Redemption.
A vicar's daughter takes care of an injured gentleman she finds by
the road and learns he is a rogue.
Setting: Oxfordshire
Dorothea Donley, A Proper Match.
Lady who raised her younger brother, a duke, asks a neighbor's help
when he falls in love with an unsuitable woman.
Setting: Shropshire
Carola Dunn, The Babe and the Baron.
Baron whose mother died in childbirth takes in his cousin's pregnant
widow and is nervous about her health.
Setting: Cambridgeshire & Shropshire
Sandra Heath, An Easy Conquest.
A lady who knows she should accept a rich gentleman's offer can't stop
dreaming of a mysterious, penniless drifter who captured her heart.
Setting: Shropshire
Sandra Heath, Halloween Magic.
Lady vies with a beautiful widow for a lord's love.
Setting: Shropshire
Valerie King, The Fanciful Heiress.
Novelist is stunned when the lord she's been studying as a model for
her next villain mistakes her interest in him and prosposes.
Setting: Shropshire
Martha Kirkland, The Rake's Fiancee.
A lady who supports herself as a porcelain artist meets the man she
once rejected after being told he was a rake.
Setting: Shropshire
Allison Lane, A Clandestine Courtship.
Man who returns to England to assume an earldom and find his older
brother's killer is distrusted by the woman he once loved.
Setting: Shropshire
Margaret Summerville, Gentleman Jack.
Rake who has agreed to give up gambling is beaten and robbed and takes
a job as a groom in the household employing the governess who rescued him.
Setting: Shropshire
Sylvia Andrew, Eleanor.
A lady refuses to believe the accusations she hears about a gentleman
ostracized by the ton.
Setting: London & Somerset
Jane Austen, Persuasion.
Lady who allowed herself to be persuaded to break off an 'unsuitable
attachment' meets the man she jilted eight years later.
Setting: Somerset, Bath & Lyme Regis
Blair Bancroft, The Indifferent Earl.
When a mysterious benefactor leaves her a cottage, stipulating in the
will that she must live there for two months or lose her inheritance, a
headmistress meets her match in the earl who is determined to reclaim his
family's land on which the cottage stands.
Setting: Somerset
Susan Carroll, Mistress Mischief.
Gentleman refuses to take an indebted widow as his mistress.
Setting: Somerset & London
Nicola Cornick, The Blanchland Secret.
In response to a mysterious letter, a lady must return to her former
family home, which is now owned by a debauched rake, and receives an offer
of help from a lord who may have ulterior motives.
Setting: Bath and Somerset countryside
Nicola Cornick, The Larkswood Legacy.
A lady wonders whether a gentleman is pursuing her for the estate she
inherited.
Setting: Taunton in Somerset
Nicola Cornick, True Colours.
The first person a lord encounters on his return to England is the
last person he wants to see �€” the woman who scandalized the ton by breaking
off their engagement.
Setting: Somerset
Monette Cummings, Loving Spirit.
Lady who loves town life meets a lord who prefers country life at a
Halloween ball on his estate.
Setting: Somerset
Shannon Donnelly, Proper Conduct.
When her father's schemes threaten to ruin her family, a lady must
put her trust in a gentleman who wants to be accepted by Society despite
his gypsy blood.
Setting: Somerset
Shannon Donnelly, A Proper Mistress.
Hoping to protect his brother from a disinheritance, a man hires an
unsuitable woman to pose as his intended bride in order to deliberately
incur his father's wrath only to discover that she is not so unsuitable
after all.
Setting: London & Somerset
Carola Dunn, His Lordship's Reward.
Lord falls for a lady sharing his lodgings in Belgium prior to Waterloo.
Setting: Brussels, Somerset & London
Carola Dunn, The Captain's Inheritance.
Earl's daughter with a scar on her chest falls for an impoverished
soldier who inherits money.
Setting: Somerset
Gail Eastwood, A Perilous Journey.
Lady fleeing an unwanted marriage is helped by mysterious stranger.
Setting: On the road to from Taunton in Somerset to Scotland,
with a stop in Bath
Barbara Hazard, Autumn Vows.
Lady vows not to let the man who married her to fulfill a promise to
his mother know that she loves him.
Setting: Somerset, Oxfordshire, & London
Georgette Heyer, The Corinthian.
Runaway heiress meets a Corinthian.
Setting: London and on the road to Somerset
Valerie King, A Christmas Masquerade.
Lady who does not want to marry the stranger selected by her late uncle
proposes to a man she meets at an inn.
Setting: Cotswolds & Somerset
Valerie King, A Rogue's Embrace.
While on a two-week charity caravan, a lady is forced to team up with
the dashing scoundrel who kissed her five years ago.
Setting: Somerset & on the road
Martha Kirkland, The Secret Nabob.
Lady trying to stop her sister from being forced to marry a nabob meets
a "mysterious" stranger.
Setting: Somerset
Allison Lane, The Unscrupulous Uncle.
Lord marries his friend's sister to save her fortune then worries more
about the lady he had to jilt.
Setting: Somerset & London
Michelle Martin, The Butler Who Laughed.
Man agrees to pose as his friend's butler to retrieve an incriminating
letter and is drawn to the lady whom his friend is supposed to marry.
Setting: Somerset
Regina Scott, The Twelve Days of Christmas. Lady trying
to manage her impoverished family's affairs is surprised when the neighbor
she's loved since childhood wagers that she must marry him if he can deliver
all the gifts listed in "The 12 Days of Christmas" without spending money.
Setting: Somerset
Elizabeth Neff Walker, In My Lady's Chamber.
Governess who leads her charges in a search for a treasure finds one
of her own when her former fiance reappears in her life.
Setting: Somerset
Elizabeth Neff Walker, The Nomad Harp.
Lady rejects her fiance when he inherits a viscountcy and seems intent
on marrying her solely out of honor, but by the time they realize their
true feelings for each other he has become entangled with another woman.
Setting: Somerset
Margaret Evans Porter, Road to Ruin.
Lady hiding from scandal meets a man falsely accused of murder.
Setting: On the road between St Albans and Carlise via Staffordshire
with a detour to Gretna Green.
Diana Brown, A Debt of Honour.
Lord mistakes lady for an adventuress and offers her money for her
favors; she later tries to take him up on his offer when her brother gambles
away their estate.
Setting: Near Newmarket in Suffolk & in London
Nicola Cornick, Lady Polly.
Lady who jilted a man five years earlier on her parents' advice is
uncertain about his renewed interest in her.
Setting: Suffolk
Wilma Counts, The Wagered Wife.
A gentleman forced to marry a lady he won in a card game enlists in
the military and goes to the Peninsula for seven years, and on his return
he discovers his wife has become the Toast of the Town.
Setting: Newmarket in Suffolk & London
Shannon Donnelly, A Much Compromised Lady.
A lady who is trying to uncover her lost birthright finds herself in
the bedroom of a notorious rogue.
Setting: On the road from the Newmarket area & in London
Barbara Hazard, The Runaways.
Former loves unite to stop their children from making a marital mismatch.
Setting: London, Suffolk, & on the road to Gretna Green
Candice Hern, An Affair of Honor.
Lady mistakes a lord's proposal for a carte blanche.
Setting: Suffolk
Elizabeth Hewitt, A Sporting Proposition.
Widow who succumbs to one night of passion with a friend of her late
husband's is shocked when she wakes to find he's left money by her bedside.
Setting: Essex, Newmarket & London
Jenna Jones, Saving Serenity.
Lord thinks his fiancee is part of a thievery ring; she thinks he's
a cad.
Setting: Suffolk
Emma Lange, The Irish Earl's Ruse.
Duke's daughter who is expected to marry a peer is attracted to "humble"
Irish horse trainer who expresses contempt for her kind.
Setting: Newmarket in Suffolk
Stephanie Laurens, An Unwilling Conquest.
A gentleman at the Newmarket races encounters a widow and her stepdaughter
who are making a tour of England's inns.
Setting: Newmarket in Suffolk
Lillian Lincoln, A Change of Heart.
Lady who wants the man she is expected to marry to win her romantically
throws other women in his path, only to find he is attracted to one of
them and she herself has reawakened feelings for a recently returned former
suitor.
Setting: London, Kent near Sandwich, and Suffolk (briefly)
Elizabeth Mansfield, The Girl with the Persian Shawl.
A lady who always speaks her mind seems ill-suited to any bachelor
until an admirer of her family's portrait strikes her fancy.
Setting: Suffolk
Elizabeth Mansfield, The Magnificent Masquerade.
Lady and her maid switch places on a visit to the lady's betrothed,
while the fiance's brother sees through her disguise and is enchanted.
Setting: Suffolk
Barbara Metzger, My Lady Innkeeper.
Lady disguises herself as an innkeeper to uncover a spy ring.
Setting: Suffolk
Barbara Neil, Gentleman Rogue.
Ladies' man who hopes to bring his exploits to the attention of the
man who has stolen his inheritance meets his match in a bishop's daughter.
Setting: Sudsbury in Suffolk
Carol Quinto, The Duke Who Came to Visit.
Tall, awkward lady returns home to Newmarket after an unsuccessful
Season and is content raising horses until a carriage accident brings a
duke to her door.
Setting: Newmarket in Suffolk
Joan Smith, True Lady.
Lady who gives Latin lessons to young gentlemen is accused of being
a lightskirt by a lord who thinks she's leading his nephew astray.
Setting: London & Newmarket
Anne Barbour, A Man of Affairs.
Duke's adopted son commanded to find a wife for his father's heir chooses
a spoiled beauty and falls in love with her spinster sister.
Setting: Surrey & London
Mary Brendan, Gentleman's Mistress.
Widow becomes governess to a rake's children.
Setting: Surrey & London
Gayle Buck, Lady Althea's Bargain.
Lady who wants a happy marriage defies her husband by following him
to Brussels.
Setting: Surrey, London & Brussels
Lillian Cheatham, The Saxon Inheritance.
Governess returning from India pretends to be her charge's mother and
is suspected of stealing a treasure.
Setting: Surrey
Lynn Collum, The Spy's Bride.
Heiress whose guardian is forcing her to marry flees to Portugal to
seek her cousin's protection and en route disguises herself a British spy's
valet.
Setting: At sea, in Portugal, near Farnham in Surrey, &
in London
Caroline Courtney, The Daring Heart.
Lady's bold behavior is condemned by her best friend's guardian.
Setting: Surrey & London
Juliana Davison, The Golden Locket.
Lady is torn between 2 lovers...
Setting: Surrey & London
Emily Hendrickson, Elizabeth's Rake.
Lady will not believe that a rake who pursues her is sincere.
Setting: Surrey
Shirley Kennedy, Three Wishes for Miss Winthrop.
When her employer discovers she is the sister of an advocate of prison
reform, a governess is fired and then hired by a prestigious member of
parliament.
Setting: London & Surrey
Mona Prevel, Educating Emily.
A marriage of convenience turns out to be much more.
Setting: Surrey
Joan Smith, Winter Wedding.
Lord who has pursued the lady he loves around the country is hampered
in his courting by a spoiled beauty.
Setting: Surrey
Elizabeth Thornton, Bluestocking Bride.
Scholarly lady refuses to be baited by a scornful marquis.
Setting: Surrey
Patricia Veryan, The Tyrant.
Brother and sister hide a fugitive on the estate of an anti-Jacobite
"tyrant" who must offer marriage to the lady when they're found alone together.
Setting: Surrey
Includes the counties of East Sussex & West Sussex; see also
Brighton
Mary Balogh, Christmas Beau.
Lord plans to seduce and drop the widow who jilted him years ago.
Setting: London & Sussex
Mary Balogh, The Double Wager.
Tomboy wagers she can snag a duke.
Setting: Sussex & London
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.
Setting: Sussex
Irene Loyd Black, The Duke's Easter Lady.
Lady thrown off her estate accepts an invitation to stay with her brother's
friend.
Setting: Sussex near Brighton
Mary Blayney, His Heart's Delight.
A gentleman whose parents demand he choose a bride pretends to be engaged
to a lady who is also trying to deceive her parents.
Setting: Sussex & London
Mary Blayney, His Last Lover.
A bitter man finds his life taking a suprisingly happy turn when the
new family housekeeper turns out to be a captivating Frenchwoman whose
charming disposition and love of life melt his icy heart.
Setting: West Sussex
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.
Setting: Sussex near Brighton
Caroline Brooks, A Sea Change.
Lady novelist working on her latest romance in a cottage by the sea
meets the man who jilted her years ago.
Setting: Sussex coast
Julia Byrne, Ravensdene's Bride.
A lord travels to Sussex to uncover a spy and encounters a lady whose
family is among the suspects.
Setting: Sussex
Miranda Cameron, The Dissolute Duke.
Lady despises a duke for his shocking behavior and his cruelty to his
siblings.
Setting: On the coast in Sussex
Susan Carroll, The Wooing of Miss Masters.
Duke has a ball to choose a wife and picks a lady who wants to remain
unwed.
Setting: Sussex
Marion Chesney, The Ghost and Lady Alice.
Lady falls in love with a ghost.
Setting: Sussex Downs
Lynn Collum, Lady Miranda's Masquerade.
Lady fleeing an arranged marriage takes an assumed name and ends up
at the home of an earl who thinks she's the harlot who fleeced his friend.
Setting: Near East Grinstead in West Sussex
Marian Devon, Miss Osborne Misbehaves.
Lady fleeing an engagement meets a gentleman just released from Newgate.
Setting: Sussex
Marian Devon, Sir Sham.
Lady matches her sister with a nabob and is intrigued by his mysterious
friend.
Setting: Sussex
Rachelle Edwards, Brighton Beau.
Prince Regent commands a gentleman to buy a prize racehorse from a
lady.
Setting: Sussex
Jo Ann Ferguson, Faire Game.
Lady Priscilla and Sir Neville investigate the murder of an actor at
a Michaelmas Faire.
Setting: Sussex coast
Jo Ann Ferguson, A Rather Necessary End.
A vicar's widow discovers the dead body of a neighbor in the garden
and calls upon an old friend for help.
Setting: Sussex coast
Vanessa Gray, The Reckless Orphan.
Lady whose late father gambled away his estate receives money for a
Season from a mysterious benefactor.
Setting: South Downs & London
Maria Greene, The Ghost and Mrs. Wenthaven.
A lady's husband dies leaving her with a mountain of debts, so she
offers to become his twin brother's housekeeper.
Setting: Sussex
Georgette Heyer, The Black Moth.
Lady is kidnapped by a duke and rescued by a dashing highwayman.
Setting: Sussex
Georgette Heyer, Regency Buck.
Lady discovers she is the ward of the rake who accosted her at an inn.
Setting: Grantham in Lincolnshire, London, Belvoir Castle in
Leicestershire, Hampshire, Brighton
Georgette Heyer, The Reluctant Widow.
Governess who mistakenly arrives at the house of a debauched rake agrees
to marry him on his deathbed to avert suspicion that his cousin's family
murdered him for his estate.
Setting: Sussex
Georgette Heyer, The Talisman Ring.
Lady staying at an inn meets a French girl running away from marriage
to her unromantic cousin in the company of a romantic cousin, who is a
smuggler suspected of murdering a man to retrieve a ring he lost at cards.
Setting: Sussex
Karla Hocker, Christmas Charade.
A lady's companion accompanies her employer to a Christmas house party
at the castle of the man who unknowingly broke her heart during her first
Season -- a duke who is trying to track down documents stolen by French
agents.
Setting: Sussex
Jane Aiken Hodge, Runaway Bride.
Upon being told she is to wed a stranger, a lady flees home and unknowingly
ends up as a companion to the grandmother of the man she was to marry.
Setting: Sussex
Valerie King, A Daring Courtship.
A Scotsman who buys a castle in Sussex finds that he is distrusted
by the locals and seeks the help of a lady to bring her neighbors around.
Setting: Sussex
Mary Kingsley, The Reluctant Hero.
A lady with an aversion to marriage changes her mind when she's rescued
by a gallant war hero.
Setting: Sussex
Martha Kirkland, An Inconvenient Heir.
When her best friend dies and leaves her baby boy in her care, a lady
writes a letter to the baby's uncle, but he believes her to be a scheming
con-artist who is after his family's fortune.
Setting: West Sussex including Chichester
Martha Kirkland, The Righteous Rogue.
Penniless lady finds a lord in disguise living in her brother's empty
house.
Setting: London & Sussex
Leslie Lynn, A Soldier's Heart.
After a whirlwind courtship and marriage, a young bride's husband goes
off to war and returns a stranger.
Setting: London & Sussex
Laura Matthews, Lord Clayborne's Fancy.
Lady whose husband thinks she was not a virgin on their wedding night
tries to win his love.
Setting: Near Chichester in West Sussex
Barbara Metzger, Miss Lockharte's Letters.
Thinking she is dying, a lady writes a series of embarrassing letters,
including one to the arrogant brother of a school friend.
Setting: Brighton & London
Kasey Michaels, The Wagered Miss Winslow.
Lady must wed the man who wins her lands from her brother.
Setting: Sussex
Kasey Michaels, The Anonymous Miss Addams.
While on a mission to prove himself a true gentleman to his father,
a notorious rogue stumbles upon an unconscious young woman lying in the
middle of the road.
Setting: Sussex
Lucy Muir, Sussex Summer.
Returning war hero meets a country miss but considers proposing to
a glamorous lady.
Setting: Sussex
Petra Nash, Heir Apparent.
Lady's cousin warns her against a mysterious Samaritan.
Setting: Sussex
Petra Nash, Lady Harriet's Harvest.
Country lady who dreads her Season is thrilled when a gentleman learning
farming on her father's estate accompanies her, until she learns he has
been deceiving her about his identity.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Overfield, A Heart's Disguise.
Lady meets a lord working for the government who looks suspiciously
like the wounded man she nursed to health a month before.
Setting: Rye in East Sussex
Joan Overfield, A Spirited Bluestocking.
Lord's efforts to capture smugglers are threatened when a bluestocking
moves into the "haunted" mansion he's been using as a lookout.
Setting: London & Sussex
Dawn Aldridge Poore, Sweet Deceit.
Lady believes a wounded soldier is really a smuggler and a spy.
Setting: Sussex
Sheila Rabe, The Improper Miss Prym.
Lady who had a disastrous first Season is transformed into a Toast
who toys with her suitors, but finds true love with a man who loved her
as she was.
Setting: London & Lewes
Alicia Rasley, A Midsummer's Delight.
A lady home from her first Season falls for the artist next door.
Setting: Kent & Sussex
Jeanne Savery, Love for Lydia.
Lady pretends to be her half-siblings' governess when their handsome
new guardian arrives.
Setting: Sussex
Jeanne Savery, Miss Seldon's Suitors.
Penniless and alone, a lady finds a savior in a noblewoman who transforms
her into a beautiful lady of mystery, but when a wealth of suitors beg
for her hand in marriage, she finds herself longing for a sensible and
quiet barrister.
Setting: Sussex near Chichester
Jeanne Savery, Taming Lord Renwick.
Lord nearly blinded in India hires a lady to read to him and help write
his memoirs.
Setting: Sussex
Melynda Beth Skinner, Lord Logic and the Wedding Wish.
A lady descended from gypsies is mistaken for a proper lord's mistress
and enters a false engagement with him to preserve their reputations.
Setting: West Sussex
Joan Smith, An Affair of the Heart.
Jilted lord intends to wed a beauty to make the lady who jilted him
jealous but falls instead for the beauty's sister who thinks he's fickle.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, Behold, a Mystery!
According to her murdered great-aunt's will, a lady must choose one
of four men suspected of the killing.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, Cousin Cecilia.
Matchmaking lady confronts the rake who has led astray all the neighborhood's
eligible bachelors with his behavior.
Setting: East Sussex
Joan Smith, An Infamous Proposal.
Lord turns down the proposal of his friend's widow then tries to help
her find a husband.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, The Kissing Bough.
Lady who accepts an invitation to a neighbor's estate expecting to
be wooed finds that he is already engaged to an unsuitable lady.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, Lace for Milady.
Ghostly sounds begin after a lady refuses to sell her house to a duke.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, Madcap Miss.
Childish-looking out-of-work governess agrees to pose as a gentleman's
daughter to appease his grandmother while his real daughter is in Scotland.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, Murder and Misdeeds.
The Berkeley Brigade search for a lady whom Corinne fears Luten loves.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, Murder Comes to Mind.
Luten's politics delay his engagement to Corinne; the others discover
the murder of one of Prance's neighbors at his country estate.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, Prelude to Love.
Lady carrying a letter vital to England's security is offered help
by two men, either of whom may be a spy.
Setting: Sussex
Joan Smith, Strange Capers.
Lady thinks the lord who owns her aunt's ramshackle home may be involved
with traitors stealing shipments of weapons.
Setting: Sussex
Mira Stables, Emma Disposes.
A lord who is recalled from the Peninsula to search for a French spy
encounters a lady at a Sussex inn.
Setting: Sussex
Olivia Sumner, Lord Devlin's Dilemma.
Lord tries to retrieve the Royal jewels from an American who inherited
them.
Setting: Sussex
Patricia Veryan, Cherished Enemy.
Lady whose fiance was killed at Culloden finds the courier escorting
her home from France is a hated Scot.
Setting: Sussex
Patricia Veryan, Give All to Love.
Man falls for the girl he's raised from childhood and is challenged
by an evil man.
Setting: Sussex
Patricia Veryan, The Lord and the Gypsy.
Lady disguises herself as a gypsy to discover if her childhood love
is a murderer.
Setting: Sussex
Patricia Veryan, The Noblest Frailty.
Lady promised to her cousin falls for a dashing Canadian relative whose
father is suspected of killing her intended's father.
Setting: Sussex & Ayrshire
Patricia Veryan, Sanguinet's Crown.
Lady is rescued from Claude Sanguinet by an arrogant gentleman.
Setting: Sussex
Elizabeth Neff Walker, The Nomad Harp.
Lady rejects her fiance when he inherits a viscountcy and seems intent
on marrying her solely out of honor, but by the time they realize their
true feelings for each other he has become entangled with another woman.
Setting: Sussex
Rebecca Ward, Lord Longshanks.
Gentleman called Lord Longshanks because he is rumored to have fled
from battle puzzles a lady with his kind heart and heroics.
Setting: Sussex
Rebecca Ward, Madame Mystery.
Lady writes mysteries under a man's name.
Setting: Sussex
Patricia Wynn, A Country Affair.
Earl investigates a brother and sister claiming the right to his family
name.
Setting: Sussex
Susan Carroll, The Lady Who Hated Shakespeare.
Scholar's daughter shuns a Bard-lover in favor of a dangerous lord.
Setting: Stratford-upon-Avon in Warwickshire
Susan Carroll, The Valentine's Day Ball.
Ten years after a lady left a man standing at the altar, he reenters
her life while she is helping a young lady escape a horrid fiance.
Setting: Warwickshire
Marion Chesney, Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace.
Mrs. Budley is sent to steal from a marquess who is thought to be old
and senile but is in fact young and handsome.
Setting: London & Warwickshire
Rosemary Edghill, The Ill-Bred Bride: or, an Inconvenient Marriage.
Lord with an ancient lineage and numerous debts marries a wealthy Cit's
daughter.
Setting: Warwickshire & London
Martha Kirkland, Miss Maitland's Letters.
Lady falls in love with her fiance through letters written from the
Peninsula not realizing they were written by her disinterested fiance's
best friend.
Setting: Oxfordshire & Warwickshire
Laura Matthews, Lord Greywell's Dilemma.
Lady runs her husband's household, cares for his sickly son and hosts
his parties but insists he keep his promise not to touch her.
Setting: Warwickshire
Barbara Metzger, Father Christmas.
Duke wants one of a war widow's twin sons as his heir.
Setting: Warwickshire
Patricia Wynn, Jack on the Box.
Lady becomes friendly with a mail coach driver, but when she meets
him again after an accident she begins to suspect he's not what he seems.
Setting: Warwickshire
Rebecca Ashley, A Lady's Lament.
A lady with a carefully tended estate wants to buy her neighbor's wild,
overgrown property but he seems amused by her offer.
Setting: Wiltshire
Mary Balogh, The Famous Heroine.
Country girl marries a fop thinking he's not interested in women.
Setting: London & Wiltshire
Mary Balogh, The Last Waltz.
Widow of a puritan earl is shocked when her husband's heir arrives
and wants to hold a Christmas ball so he can find a wife.
Setting: Wiltshire
Mary Balogh, The Temporary Wife.
Marquess hires a lady to be his wife in order to enrage his father.
Setting: London & Wiltshire
Nicola Cornick, Miss Verey's Proposal.
Duke whose first marriage was a disaster tries to choose a wife for
his younger brother but is attracted to the lady himself.
Setting: Wiltshire & London
Gail Eastwood, The Lady from Spain.
Gentleman investigates a lady from Spain claiming a British inheritance.
Setting: Wiltshire & London
Vanessa Gray, The Accessible Aunt.
Lady falls for the man whom her troublesome relations are trying to
match with her niece.
Setting: Wiltshire
Barbara Hazard, Thursday's Child.
Reclusive lady meets a man at a house party where odd things occur.
Setting: Wiltshire
Sandra Heath, Marigold's Marriages.
Impoverished widow at the mercy of her husband's greedy relatives accepts
a proposal from a lord who believes in an ancient curse.
Setting: Isle of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Windsor, London,
Wiltshire
Emily Hendrickson, The Gallant Lord Ives.
Lady with two glamorous sisters feels she has no hope winning the earl
she loves.
Setting: Wiltshire
Georgette Heyer, Sylvester, or the Wicked Uncle.
Lady meets the duke upon whom she based the evil character in her novel.
Setting: South of Calne in Wiltshire, London, Dover & France
Christie Kennard, The Famous Miss Feversham.
Lady writer discovers that the lord upon whom she based a rakish character
is charming and well-mannered.
Setting: Wiltshire
April Kihlstrom, The Scholar's Daughter.
Scholarly lady falls in love with an engaged man.
Setting: Wiltshire
Martha Kirkland, The Ruby Necklace.
Lady talked into marrying a dying man is pursued by his heir &
a thief.
Setting: Wiltshire & London
Clarice Peters, False Betrothal.
Lady agrees to a betrothal to the uncle of the boy who "compromises"
her.
Setting: Wiltshire
Martha Powers, False Pretenses.
An officer hoping to be killed in battle agrees to marry a lady's pregnant
sister and give her the protection of his name.
Setting: London and Wiltshire
Joan Smith, Dame Durden's Daughter.
Man encouraged to be a ne'er-do-well comes home to take on his responsibilites
and falls for his childhood friend, but that lady's eccentric mother thinks
him unsuitable.
Setting: Wiltshire
Joan Smith, The Devious Duchess.
Sleuthing couple investigate the mystery of a man who was killed at
his birthday party before he could make significant changes to his will.
Setting: Wiltshire
Sheila Walsh, The Perfect Bride.
Lady betrothed to a sickly duke falls for his cousin.
Setting: Wiltshire & Hampshire near Winchester
Sheila Walsh, The Sergeant Major's Daughter.
Orphaned lady is forced to work as a governess in her cousin's house
and is shocked by the indolent life of those living there and by the arrogance
of the lord and master.
Setting: Wiltshire
April Kihlstrom, The Nabob's Widow.
Rich widow returns from India and is branded a fortune huntress.
Setting: Worcestershire
Includes the North Riding, West Riding & South Riding
Barbara Allister, A Moment of Madness.
Ugly-duckling-turned-Beauty succumbs to a night of passion at an inn
with the man she had crush on 10 years ago and finds herself with child.
Setting: Harrogate
Mary Balogh, Lord Carew's Bride.
Plain, crippled man marries a beauty who thinks she loves another.
Setting: Yorkshire & London
Elizabeth Barron, Miss Drayton's Crusade.
Lady visits a school chum and falls for the girl's brother who lost
an arm in the war.
Setting: Yorkshire
Audrey Blanshard, Sir Ranulf and the Runaway.
The son and daughter of two eccentrics are kept apart by a family feud
until the lady's sister helps a boy running away from the gentleman's house.
Setting: Yorkshire
June Calvin, Siege of Hearts.
Lady who assumes a handsome lord is courting her beautiful sister refuses
to marry him after they are forced to spend the night together on an island.
Setting: Yorkshire
Jeanne Carmichael, A Touch of Blackmail.
Lady inherits a Yorkshire estate and befriends the neighboring earl
but someone wants her gone.
Setting: Yorkshire
Loretta Chase, The Sandalwood Princess.
Lady wants to know why the dashing government spy called Falcon stole
the sandalwood statue she received as a gift on leaving India.
Setting: India, at sea, London & Yorkshire
Marion Chesney, Miss Davenport's Christmas.
Two sisters whose parents don't celebrate Christmas make the most of
the season when they find themselves on their own.
Setting: Yorkshire
Marion Chesney, The Sins of Lady Dacey.
Vicar's wife and an innocent miss each find love as the guests of a
scandalous lady.
Setting: Yorkshire (briefly) & London
Marion Chesney, 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
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.
Setting: On the road from London through Yorkshire to Scotland
Lynn Collum, Elizabeth and the Major.
Lady's friend and a major's sister are contenders for an eccentric's
fortune.
Setting: Harrowgate
Lynn Collum, A Kiss at Midnight.
While attempting to escape from an arranged marriage to a vile old
earl, a lady injures herself and decides to thwart her bethrothed's unwelcome
advances by pretending to be unconscious, but her plans go awry when the
earl's dashing new butler discovers her plan.
Setting: Yorkshire
Catherine Coulter, An Honorable Offer.
Lady who dislikes men after her brother-in-law accosted her marries
a man with many mistresses thinking he'll leave her alone.
Setting: Yorkshire & London
Caroline Courtney, Abandoned for Love.
Duke decides to choose his bride from among three ladies by testing
their reactions when he introduces a nobody from Yorkshire as his future
duchess.
Setting: Yorkshire & London
Megan Daniel, The Sensible Courtship.
Lord and lady who were once in love pursue sensible spouses at a house
party and resolve to avoid each other.
Shannon Donnelly, A Compromising Situation.
Lady with a shameful secret becomes companion to the niece of a lord
hiding vulnerability beneath his dark facade.
Setting: West Yorkshire
Carola Dunn, Toblethorpe Manor.
Gentleman finds a lady who's been thrown from her horse and lost her
memory.
Setting: Yorkshire
Marjorie Farrell, Heartless Lord Harry.
Lady is mesmerized by the rake from whom she wants to protect her sister.
Setting: Yorkshire
Marjorie Farrell, Lady Arden's Redemption.
Arrogant lady whose barbed wit has driven away any potential suitors
is forced to marry a lowly captain who turns out to be a marquess.
Setting: London & Yorkshire
Jo Ann Ferguson, A Christmas Bride.
Gentleman who has regaled his relations with tales of an imaginary
fiancee asks a lady with amnesia whom he rescued from a carriage accident
to pose as this paragon at Christmas.
Setting: Yorkshire
Vanessa Gray, The Lost Legacy.
Man whom lady jilted because of his arrogance inherits her destitute
family's country estate.
Setting: Near Scarborough
Barbara Hazard, Taming Eliza
Spoiled lady is sent to Yorkshire to wed an earl she hasn't met.
Setting: Yorkshire
Emily Hendrickson, Queen of the May.
Lady who'll dare anything is daunted by the love of a lord.
Setting: Near Scarborough
Georgette Heyer, The Nonesuch.
Nonesuch's arrival to inspect his inheritance causes a local stir.
Setting: Yorkshire
Gerogette Heyer, The Toll-Gate.
Soldier helps a lady whose cousin is up to no good.
Setting: In the Pennines near Sheffield
Georgette Heyer, Venetia.
Lady plots her own "ruin" so a black sheep lord will marry her.
Setting: Yorkshire
Brenda Hiatt, A Christmas Bride.
A new bride's diplomat-husband is charged with treason because of her
attempts at espionage.
Setting: Derbyshire, Yorkshire & London
Karla Hocker, Love Tangle.
A lord who views ladies as featherbrains is startled when an intrepid
lady ventures through a snowstorm to his estate to save an infant.
Setting: Yorkshire
Elizabeth Jackson, Galatea's Revenge.
A gentleman wagers he can turn an unknown chit into the toast of the
ton.
Setting: On the road from Yorkshire to London & in London
Jenna Jones, Tia's Valentine.
Man tries to convince his childhood chum to look on him romantically.
Setting: North Yorkshire
Carla Kelly, Miss Billings Treads the Boards.
Impoverished lady becomes an actress & theatre owner and meets
a marquess "on the lam" who joins the company.
Setting: On the road to Yorkshire
Carla Kelly, Miss Milton Speaks Her Mind.
Poor relation with a secret that prevents her from marrying takes care
of a boy whose parentage is in question and receives help tutoring him
from a neighbor with a secret of his own.
Setting: Yorkshire
Carla Kelly, Mrs. Drew Plays Her Hand.
Lord woos the widow living in his dower house.
Setting: Yorkshire
Carla Kelly, One Good Turn.
A duke who lost the woman he loved to another gets a second chance
at happiness when he offers a ride to a Spanish lady and her child.
Setting: Yorkshire
Carla Kelly, Summer Campaign.
Major rescues an illegitimate lady from brigands & marriage to
a stuffy vicar.
Setting: On the road to Yorkshire
Martha Kirkland, Mr. Montgomery's Quest.
A lady disguised as a man to take a job as a guide is intrigued by
an enigmatic man who joins her walking tour through Cumbria and Yorkshire.
Setting: Lake District & Yorkshire
Janis Laden, "The Gilded Cage," in
Valentine's Day Treasure.
Lady sent home from India is dismayed when her escort is stranded with
her in Yorkshire by a storm.
Setting: Yorkshire
Elizabeth Law, Double Deception.
Bluestocking heiress switches places with her penniless school chum
when her dashing uncle wants to bring her out for a Season.
Setting: France & Yorkshire
A Scent of Lilac. Walker, 1988; reissued in paperback
by Zebra, February 1991.
Characters: Mr. Chance Harland & Miss Lilac Mary Morton
Summary: Lady travels to Yorkshire to uncover family secrets
but is hindered by a neighboring gentleman.
Setting: Yorkshire
Elizabeth Lynch, Dear Deceiver.
Fleeing a scandal, a lady becomes a governess in Yorkshire, but her
past returns to haunt her.
Setting: Yorkshire
Elizabeth Mansfield, A Grand Deception.
When a bluestocking runs away to become a schoolteacher, a lookalike
stray is enlisted to take her place at the house party of the viscount
who admires her.
Setting: London, near Manchester, Whaley Bridge in Derbyshire,
and East Riding.
Jo Manning, Seducing Mr. Heywood.
A widow returns to Yorkshire for a reunion with the children she hasn't
seen for years and encounters the vicar who has been appointed their guardian.
Setting: Yorkshire
Paula Marshall, My Lady Love.
Lord slanders the name of a lady, not realizing that his father is
negotiating a marriage between them.
Setting: Yorkshire
Laura Matthews, Alicia.
Widow with a child to support must run a shop and fend off the advances
of a rake with the help of a kindly lord.
Setting: Midway between York and Hull
Amanda McCabe, One Touch of Magic.
A lady takes over her late husband's archeological dig at a site that
may be haunted on a lord's estate.
Setting: Yorkshire
Nadine Miller, The Yorkshire Lady.
A commoner's daughter is flattered to be courted by an earl until she
meets a man seeking a British aristocrat who sold secrets to Napoleon.
Setting: London and Yorkshire
Anita Mills, Scandal Bound.
Unable to face her wedding night with an elderly groom, a lady jumps
from a window and into the arms of a rake.
Setting: On the road from London to Yorkshire
Andrea Pickens, Second Chances.
Lady has her own reasons for tutoring the son of an arrogant earl.
Setting: Yorkshire
Mary Jo Putney, The Rogue and the Runaway.
American lady fed up with English society flees her ancestral home
and ends up in the arms of a rogue.
Sheila Rabe, The Adventuress.
Lady is suspected of murdering her rich old husband.
Setting: Yorkshire
Lindsay Randall, A Dangerous Courtship.
Lady who makes it her mission to expose untrustworthy men is rescued
by an earl posing as a riverkeep while he seeks his family's killer.
Setting: Yorkshire
Joy Reed, Lord Wyland Takes a Wife.
Lord who was rejected by an older lover finds her interests renewed
when he inheirits a title, but he marries a prim governess who thinks he's
a libertine instead.
Setting: Yorkshire
Joy Reed, Miss Chambers Takes Charge.
Lady's companion helps her employer, who married above her station,
stand up to her late husband's intimidating heir.
Setting: Yorkshire
Catherine Reynolds, The Highwayman.
Lady with a taste for adventure nurses a highwayman wounded in a delicate
area only to find he is a notorious rake.
Setting: Yorkshire
Amanda Scott, Dauntless Miss Wingrave.
A lady defies the arrogant earl who the trustee of her widowed sister's
estate.
Setting: Yorkshire
Regina Scott, A Dangerous Dalliance.
Bostonian inherits an English estate and finds himself responsible
for a disappearing art collection and a conniving widow.
Setting: Yorkshire
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.
Setting: North Riding of Yorkshire
Regina Towers, The Rake's Companion.
A lady's companion cannot determine which of her employer's two nephews
is trying to kill the old lady for her fortune.
Setting: Yorkshire
Barbara Whitehead, Ramillies.
Schoolmaster becomes an earl and must choose between two ladies.
Setting: Yorkshire
Jane Ashton, The Impetuous Heiress.
A beauty used to being admired is puzzled by a Scotsman who seems unimpressed
by her.
Donna Bell, A Tangled Web.
A lady puts off her tiresome mama's inquiries about her prospects by
pretending an attachment to a Scottish widower.
Setting: Bath
Rita Boucher, The Devil's Due.
Lady disguised as widow of a Scottish laird is surprised when he appears.
Setting: Scotland
Patricia Bray, A Most Suitable Duchess.
A duke who must marry before his thirtieth birthday or lose his estate
composes an ad for a wife in jest, but when it is published he is besieged
with letters from ladies hoping to fill the position.
Setting: Edinburgh & the Lake District
Susannah Carleton, A Scandalous Journey.
When a gentleman is kidnapped by an eccentric divorcee with marital
designs, he manages to escape along with an American lady who is a fellow
hostage.
Setting: On the road from Drummore on the Mull of Galloway in
Scotland to London & in London
Elizabeth Chater, The Runaway Debutante.
When her father loses her in a card game to a libertine, a lady runs
away and becomes a cook at an inn and is soon hired by a major.
Setting: London & Scotland
Marion Chesney, The Highland Countess.
Widow of an old lecher wants to cut a dash in London.
Setting: Scotland & London
Marion Chesney, Perfecting Fiona.
Scottish heiress's incorrigible flirting causes men to shy off until
she meets her match in a rake.
Setting: London
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.
Setting: On the road from London through Yorkshire to Scotland
Catherine Coulter, The Generous Earl.
English duke inherits a Scottish earldom and becomes the guardian of
a lady determined to prove to him she's a woman.
Setting: Scotland
Jean Ewing, Folly's Reward.
Scottish governess finds a man with amnesia on the beach and accepts
his help in escaping with her charge from a wicked guardian.
Setting: Scotland
Elisabeth Fairchild, Marriage a la Mode.
Lady involved in a scandalous divorce is courted by a Scottish lord.
Setting: Kent
Jo Ann Ferguson, A Phantom Affair.
Scottish lady who has remained unwed for three Seasons is in love with
a man who dies and then comes back as a ghost to help her find a husband.
Jacquelyn Gillis, Otherwise Engaged.
Gentleman inherits a Scottish estate and a fresh-faced schoolgirl.
Setting: Scotland
Barbara Hazard, The Covington Inheritance aka The
Scottish Legacy.
Mysterious incidents occur when an eccentric aunt invites her relatives
to a gathering where she intends to announce her heir.
Setting: Scotland
Sandra Heath, A Highland Conquest.
American heiress finds lovers' intrigues and love at Scottish lord's
castle.
Setting: Scotland
Emma Jensen, His Grace Endures.
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.
Setting: Scotland & London
Melissa Lynn Jones, An Uncommon Miss.
Scottish lass must marry an English nobleman or lose her inheritance.
Setting: London
Carla Kelly, Mrs. McVinnie's London Season.
Naval captain press-gangs widow to help his niece in Marriage Mart.
Setting: Scotland & London
Valerie King, A Daring Courtship.
A Scotsman who buys a castle in Sussex finds that he is distrusted
by the locals and seeks the help of a lady to bring her neighbors around.
Setting: Sussex
Janis Laden, Scottish Rose.
Duke expects a playful governess to be strict with his siblings.
Emma Lange, The Scottish Rebel.
Scottish lady must find an English husband but refuses to be tamed.
Setting: Scotland & Cheshire
Dawn Lindsey, The Barbarous Scot.
Legendary beauty wagers she can make a recently arrived Scottish lord
her latest conquest but discovers he's a force to be reckoned with.
Dawn Lindsey, Rebel Lady.
Scottish lady is taken hostage by an arrogant lord who wants to hurt
her brother.
Dawn Lindsey, An English Alliance.
Scottish lady in Washington is forced to marry a British soldier during
the War of 1812.
Setting: Washington
Carolyn Madison, The Scotsman and the Spinster.
Soldier campaigning for war funds in the House of Lords is given a
lesson in etiquette -- and love -- by a young lady.
Setting: London
Elizabeth Mansfield, Her Man of Affairs.
Lady falls for her man of affairs.
Setting: London
Comments: Hero is Scottish
Melinda McRae, The Highland Lord.
English lady tries to make stubborn a Scotsman fall in love with her.
Lucy Muir, Highland Rivalry.
Lady is at a loss when a Scottish lord who seemed interested in her
suddenly proposes to her best friend then asks her to accompany them to
the betrothal party in Scotland.
Setting: Scotland
Mary Nichols, The Last Gamble.
Lady whose father gambled away her inheritance travels to Scotland
to seek her guardian and accepts the escort of a captain.
Setting: Scotland
Laura Paquet, Mr. McAllister Sets His Cap.
Determined to remain independent for the rest of her life, a widow
from a loveless marriage finds her plans thwarted by the dashing Scottish
architect she has hired to renovate her London townhouse.
Setting: London
Andrea Pickens, The Banished Bride.
Sent on a secret mission to capture a notorious female spy, a gentleman
mistakes a lady for his quarry, unaware that his lovely captive is actually
the wife he had married years ago in response to a family obligation and
who he has not seen since the wedding.
Setting: Near Ayr in Scotland
Andrea Pickens, A Diamond in the Rough.
A young woman defies convention by posing as a young male caddie on
a golf course-only to fall for an English lord and score in the game of
love.
Setting: Scotland
Eileen Ramsay, The Mysterious Marquis.
A lady is determined to meet the mysterious father of a boy she finds
near her home in rural Scotland.
Setting: Scotland
Jean Reece, The Devil's Dare.
Lady suspects her brother's rakish idol of being a traitor when she
learns the Scottish Regalia is missing and is thought to be in her house.
Rebecca Robbins, Lucky in Love.
A lady whose marriage to a duke was arranged to settle a feud between
their families vows never to give him her heart.
Margaret Summerville, Highland Lady.
Scottish lady is dismayed when a neighboring estate is bought by an
English lord whose grandfather was the general who brutally surpressed
a Highland rebellion.
Setting: Scotland
Patricia Veryan, The Wagered Widow.
Lady must choose between a stodgy rich man and rakish Jacobite.
Patricia Veryan, Practice to Deceive.
Lady helps a wounded fugitive of Culloden imprisoned in her house.
Patricia Veryan, Journey to Enchantment.
English soldier horrified by the aftermath of Culloden helps Scots
escape.
Setting: Scotland
Patricia Veryan, The Tyrant.
Brother and sister hide a fugitive on the estate of an anti-Jacobite
"tyrant" who must offer marriage to the lady when they're found alone together.
Setting: Surrey
Patricia Veryan, Love Alters Not.
Lady carrying a crucial Jacobite cypher switches identities with a
woman claiming her son is a baronet's heir.
Setting: Hampshire
Patricia Veryan, Cherished Enemy.
Lady whose fiance was killed at Culloden finds the courier escorting
her home from France is a hated Scot.
Setting: Sussex
Patricia Veryan, The Dedicated Villain.
Villain of the previous books in this series helps a lady in an acting
troupe smuggling Stuart gold.
Setting: On the road in England
Patricia Veryan, The Noblest Frailty.
Lady promised to her cousin falls for a dashing Canadian relative whose
father is suspected of killing her intended's father.
Setting: Sussex & Ayrshire
Joan Wolf, The Scottish Lord.
Susannah Carleton, A Rake's Redemption.
Vowing to change his wicked ways once and for all, notorious rogue
decides he needs a wife and pursues a spirited Welsh beauty.
Elisabeth Fairchild, Valentine's Change of Heart.
A notorious lord hires a lady as governess to his illegitimate daughter
and the trio find magic and love on a journey to the coast of Wales.
Setting: Wales
Sandra Heath, Diamond Dreams.
After the death of her parents and the reversal of her fortune, a lady
finds solace in Wales and in the arms of a stranger who steals a kiss,
but who is engaged to another.
Setting: Wales
Sandra Heath, Marigold's Marriages.
Impoverished widow at the mercy of her husband's greedy relatives accepts
a proposal from a lord who believes in an ancient curse.
Setting: Isle of Anglesey off the coast of Wales, Windsor, London,
Wiltshire
Sandra Heath, Mally.
Lady whose love died returns to her childhood home in Wales with a
friend of her love's who wants to marry her; but then she meets her charming
host who claims to be her new suitor's closest friend.
Setting: Wales
Elizabeth Hewitt, Captain Black.
Lady banished to Wales falls for a dashing highwayman.
Setting: Wales
Samantha Holder, Temporary Wife.
Lady who has turned down several offers is snowbound at an inn with
a new Welsh earl who needs a temporary wife.
Emma Jensen, A Grand Design.
Lady assisting her architect uncle in renovating a Welsh lord's London
home tries to keep her role in the family business secret.
Setting: London
Edith Layton, "Last Gift" in A Regency Christmas Present.
Lord who wishes for an old-fashioned girl finds one on a visit to Wales.
Setting: Wales
Meg-Lynn Roberts, Lord Diablo's Demise.
Lord fakes his own death to avoid marriage & falls under the care
of a physician's daughter.
Setting: Wales
Amanda Scott, Lady Meriel's Duty.
A Welsh lady heads to France to find a school for her sister and becomes
caught up in intrigue with a fashionable gentleman.
Setting: France
Mary Balogh, The Plumed Bonnet.
Duke mistakes vicar's daughter for a Cyprian because of her fancy bonnet.
Setting: On the road to Hampshire & in London
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 grandmother to find her a position
when she refuses.
Setting: On the road to London, in London & in the English
countryside
Mary Balogh, The Unlikely Duchess.
Lady fleeing from an unwanted marriage is unknowingly rescued by her
fiance.
Setting: On the Great North Road
The Fleeing Heiress. Signet, May 2003.
Characters: Lord David Cardiff & Miss Thea Strafford
Summary: An heiress is saved from an unwanted marriage by one
of Wellington's aides-de-camp, but then they must marry to save her reputation.
Setting: On the road
Nancy Butler, Lord Monteith's Gift.
Lady who disguises herself as a boy so she can work to support her
family goes to the rescue of an abducted earl who saved her brother's life.
Setting: London & Camden Town & near Southampton in
Hampshire
Nancy Butler, The Prodigal Hero.
A former sailor regains his honor by rescuing the daughter of his former
employer, but he never imagined he'd also rescue her heart.
Setting: On the road from London to Exeter in Devon
Susannah Carleton, The Marriage Campaign.
A lord whose father leaves him a list of 20 eligible ladies from which
to choose a wife thinks they are all the same until one particular lady
catches his eye.
Setting: London (mainly) & On the road from Cumberland through
Yorkshire, Lincolnshire & Nottinghamshire, Leicester, and Gloucestershire
Susannah Carleton, A Scandalous Journey.
When a gentleman is kidnapped by an eccentric divorcee with marital
designs, he manages to escape along with an American lady who is a fellow
hostage.
Setting: On the road from Drummore on the Mull of Galloway in
Scotland to London & in London
Elizabeth Chater, Gallant Lady.
Orphan whose dowry of jewels has attracted five troublesome suitors
hires a highwayman to rob her.
Setting: On the road from France to London & in London
Blanche Chenier, Wayward Heiress.
Gentleman follows a lady on a harebrained rescue mission to France.
Setting: Near Bath, London & on the road to France
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.
Setting: On the road to Exeter
Marion Chesney, 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
Marion Chesney, 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
Marion Chesney, 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
Marion Chesney, Deborah Goes to Dover.
Matchmaker meets a lady disguised as a tomboy at a prize fight.
Setting: On the road to Dover
Marion Chesney, 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
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.
Setting: On the road from London through Yorkshire to Scotland
Dinah Dean, The Cockermouth Mail.
Governess becomes trapped at an inn with a war hero at Christmastime.
Setting: On the road in the Lake District
Teresa DesJardien, The Former Fiance.
A lord who uses his fortune to fund a protection agency is surprised
when a former love hires him to protect her from a violent suitor.
Setting: On the road
Teresa DesJardien, A Heart's Treasure.
Man with an eyepatch and scarred face feels unworthy of the lady who
loves him.
Setting: On the road to Cumberland
Marian Devon, Escapade.
Lady accidentally ends up in a balloon flying across the Channel with
a rake.
Setting: On the road (and in the air) from Calais to Kent
Marian Devon, On the Way to Gretna Green.
Lady asks a lord's help in preventing his brother and her niece from
eloping.
Setting: London & on the road to Gretna Green
Marian Devon, Scandal Broth.
Lord is thrilled that the lady he is forced to propose to turns him
down, until he realizes he asked the wrong lady.
Setting: On the road to London & in London
Shannon Donnelly, A Much Compromised Lady.
A lady who is trying to uncover her lost birthright finds herself in
the bedroom of a notorious rogue.
Setting: On the road from the Newmarket area & in London
Anne Douglas, Miss Caroline's Deception.
Pregnant lady fleeing her abusive husband is rescued by an earl.
Setting: On the road to London
Gail Eastwood, A Perilous Journey.
Lady fleeing an unwanted marriage is helped by mysterious stranger.
Setting: On the road to from Taunton in Somerset to Scotland,
with a stop in Bath
Roberta Eckert, My Lady Adventuress.
Lady who accepts a man but then has second thoughts is drawn to his
brother who thinks she's an adventuress.
Setting: Dover & on the road to Northumberland
Ellen Fitzgerald, The Gambler's Bride.
Heiress agrees to elope with a gambler who may only be after her money.
Setting: Exeter in Devon, Bath, on the road to Carlisle in Cumbria
& to Gretna Green, Dover & Paris
Paula Tanner Girard, A Father for Christmas.
Rakish lord escorts a widow and her son to a Christmas house party.
Setting: On the road from London to Devonshire
Maria Greene, An Inconvenient Marriage.
Earl is forced to propose to a lady who stows away in his carriage.
Setting: On the road from Bath to London & in London
Barbara Hazard, The Runaways.
Former loves unite to stop their children from making a marital mismatch.
Setting: London, Suffolk, & on the road to Gretna Green
Sandra Heath, Lady Jane's Ribbons.
A lady enters a coach race to Brighton to prove herself to the lord
who wronged her and deemed her frail.
Setting: On the road to Brighton
Emily Hendrickson, Lord Nick's Folly.
During a dreary trip to visit her wealthy great-aunt, a rector's daughter
is forced to share a coach with the most aggravating man in all England
and an aristocrat who has heretofore been more interested in constructing
a golf course on his property than finding himself a bride.
Georgette Heyer, The Corinthian.
Runaway heiress meets a Corinthian.
Setting: London and on the road to Somerset
Georgette Heyer, The Foundling.
Coddled duke pretends to be "Mr. Ware" & learns to stand up for
himself.
Setting: Midlands, London, on the road, Baldock & Hitchin
in Hertfordshire, & Bath
Georgette Heyer, Sprig Muslin.
Baronet takes charge of a runaway lady on the eve of his proposal to
another.
Setting: On the road through Cambridgeshire
Jenna Jones, A Merry Escapade.
Earl helps a lady trying to find a list left by her late French-spy
father.
Setting: London & on the road south through Croydon and
Tunbridge Wells
Carla Kelly, Miss Billings Treads the Boards.
Impoverished lady becomes an actress & theatre owner and meets
a marquess "on the lam" who joins the company.
Setting: On the road to Yorkshire
Carla Kelly, Miss Chartley's Guided Tour.
Lady who had to become a school teacher after being left at the altar
meets the finace who jilted her and becomes involved in intrigue.
Setting: On the road from Plymouth to the Cotswolds
Carla Kelly, Summer Campaign.
Major rescues an illegitimate lady from brigands & marriage to
a stuffy vicar.
Setting: On the road to Yorkshire
Carla Kelly, With This Ring.
Lady eclipsed by her sister agrees to a wounded soldier's proposal.
Setting: London & on the road to Northumberland
Valerie King, A Poet's Kiss.
After receiving a kiss and a mysterious message from Byron, a lady
asks a lord to help her rescue her kidnapped cousin.
Setting: London & on the road through Derbyshire, Staffordshire,
Chesire, the Lake District, Kendal, Gloucestershire, Tewkesbury, and other
places.
Valerie King, A Rogue's Embrace.
While on a two-week charity caravan, a lady is forced to team up with
the dashing scoundrel who kissed her five years ago.
Setting: Somerset & on the road
Stephanie Laurens, Fair Juno,
Rake rescues a damsel in distress then searches for her when she disappears.
Setting: Cornwall, on the road to London & in London
Alice Chetwynd Ley, The Jewelled Snuff Box.
Lady helps a man with amnesia, whose only clue to his identity is a
jewelled snuff box.
Setting: On the road to Dartford & in London
Dawn Lindsey, The Great Lady Tony.
Lady helps a runaway who is pursued by her irate father.
Setting: On the road & in London
Dorothy Mack, The Luckless Elopement.
Lady rescues an heiress from an elopement with a fortune hunter only
to fall for him herself.
Setting: On the road and in Leicestershire
Prudence Martin, Passion's Persuasion.
A lady carrying papers out of France pertaining to Napoleon's plans
to escape St. Helena accepts the escort of gentleman and then discovers
he's the man she was warned against.
Setting: On the road from France to London
Barbara Metzger, Christmas Wishes.
Poor relation runs away to London and is stranded in a stable with
a rake, but she runs again when he offers her marriage.
Setting: On the road
Anita Mills, Scandal Bound.
Unable to face her wedding night with an elderly groom, a lady jumps
from a window and into the arms of a rake.
Setting: On the road from London to Yorkshire
Judith Nelson, Kidnap Confusion.
Lady is unperturbed when she is mistaken for an actress and abducted
by two young men, but when their older brother arrives she finds herself
quite overset.
Setting: On the road from Yorkshire to London
Mary Nichols, The Last Gamble.
Lady whose father gambled away her inheritance travels to Scotland
to seek her guardian and accepts the escort of a captain.
Setting: On the road from London to Scotland
Andrea Pickens, The Hired Hero.
When a lady carrying a document vital to England's fight against Napoleon
is attacked by mysterious assailants, she hires a gentleman to be her escort
and protector.
Setting: On the road to London
Dawn Aldridge Poore, A Perilous Attraction.
Lady stuck with an abandoned baby hooks up with a man with a stolen
necklace.
Setting: On the road to Bath
Margaret Evans Porter, Road to Ruin.
Lady hiding from scandal meets a man falsely accused of murder.
Setting: On the road between St Albans and Carlise via Staffordshire
with a detour to Gretna Green.
Meg-Lynn Roberts, An Alluring Lady.
Runaway assists a wounded British agent who defended her virtue.
Setting: On the road from Devonshire to London
Joan Smith, Kissing Cousins.
Lady is forced to turn to her stuffy cousin to help her brother get
out of debt.
Setting: London, Brighton & Tunbridge Wells
Joan Smith, Love's Harbinger.
Seeking to vindicate her fiance, a lady accompanies the reporter who
exposed his crimes on a search for the truth.
Setting: London & on the road
Joan Smith, Perdita.
A runaway lady joins an acting troupe and is targeted by a rake who
wants her as his mistress but who then falls in love with her companion.
Setting: On the road
Joan Smith, Reluctant Bride.
Lady content with being a spinster is involved in a carriage accident
with a man whom she hates at first sight, though she accepts his offer
to help her locate her stolen diamonds.
Setting: On the road
Patricia Veryan, The Dedicated Villain.
Villain of the previous books in this series helps a lady in an acting
troupe smuggling Stuart gold.
Setting: On the road in England
Patricia Wynn, Mistletoe and Mischief.
Lord agrees to escort a troublesome lady home from a failed elopement
in Gretna Green.
Setting: On the road to London
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