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Governesses

Barbara Allister, The Impulsive Governess.
Lady takes employment in the home of a lord who has already dismissed four governesses.

Jane Ashford, The Three Graces.
Three sisters--a governess, a companion & a schoolmistress--find love.

Mollie Ashton, Debt of Honour.
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.

Elizabeth Bailey, Kitty.
A governess marrie a viscount who is determined to uncover the truth about her heritage.

Elizabeth Bailey, Prudence.
A governess finds herself frequently in the company of her employer and is drawn to him.

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

Marguerite Bell, The Devil's Daughter.
A penniless but spirited governess is thrown together with a rakish, cynical nobleman.

Anne Benson, Escape to Love.
A governess discovers that taking care of a 16-year-old spitfire by day and partaking of the pleasures of Paris by night may be more than she can handle.

Mary Brendan, Gentleman's Mistress.
Widow becomes governess to a rake's children.

Julia Byrne, Scandal and Miss Smith.
The governess of an unruly brood appeals to her charges' uncle but he thinks she is offering herself to him as a mistress.

Susan Carroll, Miss Prentice and the Yankee.
English governess of two American ladies falls for their brother.

Marion Chesney, A Governess of Distinction.
Governess is disappointed by her employer's failure to live up to her fantasy.

Judy Christenberry, Susannah's Secret.
Man is surprised when the governess he hired turns up with a baby of her own in tow.

Cathleen Clare, A Priceless Acquisition.
Divorced duke who thinks his daughter is flawed by a small scars offers a loveless marriage to her governess, only to find out how priceless they both are to him when they are kidnapped for ransom by his ex-wife.

Norma Lee Clark, Mallory.
Lady is hired as the governess to hoydenish twins by a man who becomes engaged to a beauty whom the governess hates.

Diana Delmore, Leonie.
French governess with mysterious origins is fired when the son of the house makes advances.

Charlotte Louise Dolan, Three Lords for Lady Anne.
Governess is attracted to her employer.

Carola Dunn, Lady in the Briars.
Impoverished lady finds intrigue in a governess post in St. Petersburg.

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

Delia Ellis, A Lady of Breeding.
Redhaired, freckled lady retires from the marrige mart to become a governess only to find herself in a compromising position with her employer who demands she marry him.

Jean R. 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.

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.

Zabrina Faire, Lady Blue.
Governess whose charge dyes her hair and face with ink is hired by a lord to impersonate an ancestral ghost called Lady Blue.

Pamela Frazier, A Daring Deception.
A lady takes a job as a governess so she can see Paris and on the way there she meets a lord.

Pamela Frazier, A Delicate Dilemma.
When a governess's reputation is ruined by jealous minds, the French emigre nobleman and scientist whom she's loved since childhood helps her by bringing her out and making her a Toast.

Pamela Frazier, The Gallant Governess.
A reversal of fortune forces a wealthy lady to become a governess, and during her charge's Season she meets an unattainable gentleman.

Deborah Fruchey, The Unwilling Heiress.
Lord seeks the governess his cousin unfairly dismissed in order to make amends.

Jennie Gallant, Olivia.
Lady who considers herself to be a superior governess outrages her employer's younger brother by teaching her charges the facts of life.

Mona Gedney, The Affair at Greengage Manor.
The master of Greengage Manor finds his life thrown into chaos when his twin sister's five orphaned children arrive on his doorstep with their governess in tow.

Janet Grace, A Most Unusual Lady.
Gentleman makes himself responsible for a lady whom he saved from a mishap, but she chooses to take a position as a governess.

Maria Greene, The Blackhurst Rubies.
Governess discovers stolen rubies among her belongings.

Maria Greene, A Christmas Blessing.
A widower and legendary recluse finds his life forever changed by the arrival of his daughter's new governess, a war widow with a young son, and the ghost of his late father, who is determined to help his son open his heart to love.

Denice Greenlea, The Masquer.
Governess who disguises her beauty to ward off improper advances falls for her employer and goes to a masquerade in order to be near him.

Sandra Heath, Second Thoughts.
A widow with a son who is governess to a lord's daughter accepts her employer's offer of a marriage of convenience.

Karla Hocker, The Impertinent Miss Bancroft.
Governess helps a lady accused of stealing a necklace.

Alice Holden, "One True Love" in On Bended Knee.
A penniless governess falls in love with a veterinarian despite the attentions of a wealthy suitor.

Sally James, Petronella's Waterloo.
English governess in Paris who learns information vital to Wellington's campaign is helped by a dashing lord.

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.

April Kihlstrom, The Mysterious Governess.
Straightlaced governess rejects an offer from an eligible gentleman, then returns to town as a beauty.

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.

Valerie King, "A Father's Love" in A Kiss for Papa.
A widower proposes to his daughters' governess but she turns him down.

Valerie King, "Rogue," in Wonderful & Wicked.
A governess must rein in four hot-blooded suitors who are intent on calling out an infamous rogue.

Mary Kingsley, Scandal's Lady.
Man who returns from the sea to inherit an earldom finds his childhood friend is now a governess.

Janis Laden, Scottish Rose.
Duke expects a playful governess to be strict with his siblings.

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

Alice Chetwynd Ley, Master of Liversedge aka The Master and the Maiden.
Governess finds herself falling for her employer, who is a mill owner, during the Luddite risings.

Elizabeth Mansfield, Winter Wonderland.
Ten years after a lady haughtily turned down his shy request for a dance, a gentleman has the chance to hire the now-impoverished lady as a governess for his brother's children.

Laura Matthews, In My Lady's Chamber.
Governess who leads her charges on a search for treasure finds one of her own when her former fiance reappears in her life.

Lois Menzel, Ruled by Passion.
Lady becomes governess to a lord's niece and learns a surprising secret.

Polly Meyrick, The Damask Rose.
Governess is caught up in the whirl of the Season.

Joan Overfield, The Dutiful Duke.
Summry: When a lady confronts a duke at gunpoint and insists he take responsibility for his brother's byblow, he agrees and hires her as governess.

Sheila Rabe, An Innocent Impostor.
Governess forced to leave her position is mistaken by an earl for his lookalike runaway ward.

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.

Jeanne Savery, "A Father's Duty" in A Kiss for Papa.
A colonel returns from military service in India to help find his daughter a husband but she seems more interested in matching him up with her governess.

Jeanne Savery, A Reformed Rake.
Rake insists on escorting a governess from France to England.

Margaret SeBastian, The Honorable Miss Clarendon.
Governess falls in love with a gentleman's servant--or is he?

Donna Simpson, Lord St. Claire's Angel.
A devil-may-care gentleman is surprised to find himself falling in love with a plain yet intelligent governess.

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.

Hayley Ann Solomon, Viscount Victorious.
Highwayman who saves a governess turns out to be her employer's brother who is trying to clear his name of a false forgery charge.

Mira Stables, Miss Mouse.
Beautiful governess who has received too many improper advances disguises herself as a drab mouse only to find herself in the household of a handsome eligible lord.

Judith Stafford, Sarah's Angel.
Kids try to get their father to marry the governess.

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.

Olivia Sumner, A Deceptive Bequest.
Lord mistakes a governess for her long-lost twin sister who is an opera dancer.

Julie Tetel, The Temporary Bride.
Lady on her way to a governess position is waylaid by a gambler who wants her to pose as his wife to flush out the criminal who holds the key to his past.

Sylvia Thorpe, Romantic Lady.
Governess whose impulsive act threatens to ruin her is saved by a man with no taste for romantic ladies.

Sylvia Thorpe, Tarrington Chase.
New governess at Tarrington Chase is told to avoid the family's enemy or risk losing her position.

Luanne Walden, Delicate Dilemma.
A duke visiting his late brother's estate in Virginia falls in love with a governess.

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.

Margaret Westhaven, Yuletide Match.
Lady forced to take a position as governess with a horrible family is pursued by two men.

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.

Companions & Chaperones

Barbara Allister, A Marriage of Convenience.
Companion to the mother of the fiance who jilted her when her family lost their money marries the friend who always loved her but who may have rabies.

Sylvia Andrew, Serena.
Lady travels from the West Indies to London as a chaperone and meets a delightful gentleman but soon finds herself the target of revenge.

Caroline Arnett, Clarissa.
Lady accepts a marriage of convenience to a mysterious man to escape life as companion to a cruel lady.

Jane Ashford, The Three Graces.
Three sisters--a governess, a companion & a schoolmistress--find love.

Elizabeth Bailey, An Angel's Touch.
Lady's companion rescues two children and berates their father when he admonishes them.

Mary Balogh, A Chance Encounter.
Ruined lady hides out as a companion but meets a man who knows her past.

Elisabeth Barr, Revelry Manor.
A lady forced by circumstances to become a companion discovers she is working in the home of a man who once mistook her for a serving maid and stole a kiss.

Elizabeth Barron, The Viscount's Wager.
Lady with a ruined reputation becomes a lady's companion only to find that the man who ruined her is the head of the house.

Anthea Bell, A London Season.
Man hires a lady to chaperone his niece and finds both ladies have secrets that make them reluctant for a Season.

Julia Byrne, An Independent Lady
A lord heads to Devon to oust his grandmother's new companion, whom he assumes to be a schemer.

Marion Chesney, The Constant Companion.
Companion weds the lord her employer hoped to snare, then disappears.

Marion Chesney, The Chocolate Debutante.
Companion of a debutante who prefers chocolate to men falls in love herself.

Lynn Collum, A Game of Chance.
Man unknowingly hires the daughter of a famous gambler as a companion for his gambling- addicted aunt.

Jan Constant, The Only Hope.
Lady takes a job as a companion to be near her late sister's child from whom her family is estranged.

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

Eleanor Anne Cox, Intermezzo.
Lady becomes a companion and piano instructor in the home of a lord who is a patron of the arts.

Dinah Dean, The Ice King.
Lady's companion who is offered a Season in St. Petersburg wants to discover what made a prince so cold and unfeeling.

Diana Delmore, Dorinda.
The daughter of a nobleman and an actress becomes a chaperone to a spirited lady and is pursued by two men.

Diana Delmore, Substitute Bride.
Lady's companion receives a bold proposition from her employer's brother and finds herself unable to resist.

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

Dorothea Donley, A Lady Decides.
Lady's companion arrives to find her new employer dead and fears it may not have been an accident.

Carola Dunn, Mayhem and Miranda.
Lady's companion and her employer's roguish nephew keep his aunt from being committed to Bedlam.

Rachelle Edwards, Dangerous Dandy.
Lady who tends an injured man meets him again when she is a lady's companion and he is a marquis.

Rachelle Edwards, Lord Trenton's Proposal.
Scholarly chaperone accused of theft is rescued by a lord who proposes to her but then announces that their betrothal was an effort to catch the real thief.

Jean R. 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.

Mary Gaul, Misdeeds at Marriston.
Schoolteacher dismissed from her post because of an obnoxious student's relations becomes a companion at the home of the girl's father and learns dangerous secrets.

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

Sandra Heath, Mistletoe Mischief.
Gentleman who cannot abide women who work as companions changes his mind when he meets his cousin's companion.

Emily Hendrickson, Drusilla's Downfall.
A lady's companion becomes involved in scandal, intrigue and passion when she meets her employer's son.

Emily Hendrickson, Miss Timothy Perserveres.
Lady becomes a companion to a duke's injured mother.

Candice Hern, A Proper Companion.
Dowager who dislikes her son's fiancee tries to set him up with her companion.

Anne Herries, A Damnable Rogue.
A lady who is forced to earn her living as a companion finds her position - and her heart - in jeopardy from a lord who wants her as his mistress.

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.

Sally James, Lord Fordington's Offer.
A lady's companion believes that a lord who visits frequently is courting her charge.

Josephine Janes, London Frolic.
Lady trying to save her family estate agrees to become a companion to a lord's mother.

Melissa Lynn Jones, Out of the Common Way.
Tall redhead tries to avoid marriage by becoming a duchess's companion but meets her employer's grandson who once mistook her for a lightskirt.

Carla Kelly, Mrs. McVinnie's London Season.
Naval captain press-gangs widow to help his niece in Marriage Mart.

Carla Kelly, The Lady's Companion.
Impoverished lady becomes a paid companion & falls for her employer's bailiff.

Shirley Kennedy, Lady Semple's Secret.
Lord falls for a lady's maid who is really the lady's daughter.

Kathryn Kirkwood, A Valentine for Vanessa.
Married earl falls in love with the lady who is his shy, sickly sister's companion and can only express his feelings anonymously.

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.

Edith Layton, The Disdainful Marquis.
Lady who becomes a duchess' companion only to find she is expected to entertain her grace's gentlemen admirers is particularly disturbed by the attentions of a marquis.

Isobel Linton, A Gentleman's Daughter.
Penniless chaperone to an heiress falls for a younger son who must marry for money.

Dorothy Mack, The Unlikely Chaperone.
Chaperone has to protect men from her scheming sister.

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.

Joanna Maitland, Rake's Reward.
A companion instructed to keep her employer from gambling seeks out a rake who won a fortune from the dowager.

Paula Marshall, An Improper Duenna.
Lady's companion falls in love with one of her charge's suitors.

Paula Marshall, Wolfe's Mate.
Lady cheated out of her inheritance must become a companion and is mistakenly kidnapped by a gentleman.

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.

Kasey Michaels, The Tenacious Miss Tamerlane.
Duke invites a cousin to chaperone his flighty sister but when the chaperone begins to attract a swarm of suitors he finds himself unaccountably jealous.

Nadine Miller, The Duke's Dilemma.
Lady's companion receives amorous attention from her employer's suitor.

*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.

Irene Northan, Miss Astbury and Milordo.
While traveling to Italy, a lady's companion and her employer have a series of mishaps and find themselves in the company of a disdainful lord.

Joan Overfield, A Proper Taming.
A lord asks the lady who knocked him unconscious when he entered her room at an inn to become a companion to his disabled mother.

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

Julia Parks, The Devil and Miss Webster.
A lady finds her position as companion threatened when her employer's brother-in-law arrives to run the estate.

Phyllis Taylor Pianka, The Calico Countess.
Earl forces a lady to chaperone woman claiming to be his long-lost mother.

Mary Jo Putney, Carousel of Hearts.
A boldly beautiful baroness's quiet companion agrees to help a suitor make her friend jealous.

Debbie Raleigh, The Valentine's Wish.
A lady tries to escape her father's scandalous exploits by becoming a companion, but she finds herself drawn to her employer's nephew.

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.

Meg-Lynn Roberts, A Perfect Match.
"Lord Perfection" is infuriated when a chaperone spills punch on him.

Meg-Lynn Roberts, Christmas Escapade.
Lord attempts to elope with a lady but ends up compromising her companion.

Madeleine Robins, The Heiress Companion.
Heiress continues to work as a companion for a lady whose son sparks off instant antagonism when he visits.

Elizabeth Rolls, The Unruly Chaperone.
A widow who had been forced into marriage meets the man she once loved while chaperoning the lady he intends to marry.

Amanda Scott, An Affair of Honor.
Spinster finds herself drawn to the man who has been selected for the lady she is chaperoning.

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

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.

Melynda Beth Skinner, The Blackguard's Bride.
A man with amnesia turns up on the doorstep of an elderly spinster and her companion.

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

Joan Smith, A Highwayman Came Riding.
Lord who robs war profiteers to help veterans meets the companion of a duchess from whom he steals diamonds.

Hayley Ann Solomon, Seeking Celeste.
Destitute lady's companion is mistaken by an earl as his new governess, but when he realizes his mistake he hopes to keep her on anyway.

Mira Stables, Lissa.
The neighborhood ladies set their caps at a broken-hearted viscount who only has eyes for the lady of questionable background he hired as his sister's companion, but when gossip starts she runs away.

Margaret Summerville, Sensible Cecily.
Poor companion to a flighty heiress is courted by a marquis.

Olivia Sumner, An Improper Alliance.
Chaperone trying to dissuade her charge from an unsuitable attachment for a foreign prince is undone when she meets the prince's friend.

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.

Jessie Watson, The Cat's Bracelet.
Lady's companion agrees to take a widow's place for the Season and search for a diamond bracelet, but the widow's childhood friend knows her for a fraud.

Margaret Westhaven, False Impressions.
Lady's companion shuns a man whom she thinks offers her a carte blanche.

Teachers

Jane Ashford, The Three Graces.
Three sisters--a governess, a companion & a schoolmistress--find love.

Mary Balogh, "The Best Gift," in A Regency Christmas VI.
Lord asks a schoolteacher to accompany his niece to his country estate for Christmas.

Blair Bancroft, The Indifferent Earl.
When a mysterious benefactor leaves her an English 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.

Janice Bennett, A Lady's Champion.
Art mistress at a haunted Academy for Girls accepts a gentleman's aid.

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

Jo Beverley, An Unwilling Bride.
School teacher vows not to submit to the man who was forced to marry her in order to inherit a dukedom.

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.

Catherine Blair, The Scandalous Miss Delaney.
When the lord who put her virtue in question refuses to marry her, a lady must repair to the country where she finds the tutor who witnessed her rejection.

Rita Boucher, The Scandalous Schoomistress.
Plainly dressed lady running a country house becomes a respected member of society, but one man suspects she's hiding a secret past.

Marion Chesney, School for Manners series.
Two spinster sisters open a school for ladies who won't take.

Marion Chesney, The Intrigue.
Lady is supposed to attract the new owner of Mannerling's son but falls for his Oxford don cousin instead.

Christina Cordaire, Pride's Folly.
Lady whose aunts want her to leave the school where she teaches for a Season meets London's most eligible bachelor on a wild coach ride.

Nicola Cornick, The Virtuous Cyprian.
Virtuous schoolteacher's sister is a notorious Cyprian who seems intent on undermining her sister's happiness.

Carola Dunn, Miss Hartwell's Dilemma.
Lady running a girls' school gets involved with a student's father and in intrigue.

Jo Ann Ferguson, "The Best Father in England," in A Kiss for Papa.
A widower is told by his son's tutor that he has over-indulged the boy.

Janet Grace, Isabella.
A lady whose father wants her to marry an elderly roue is drawn to her brothers' tutor, who is also heir to an earldom.

Victoria Hinshaw, Miss Milford's Mistake.
A lady who runs a school meets a former suitor who pretends to woo her sister in order to get close to her.

Karla Hocker, The Devilish Marquis.
Lord is appalled when the lady who owns half his London townhouse evicts his mistress and opens a school for officers' wives.

Karla Hocker, An Improper Companion.
Schoolmistress agrees to be a young lady's chaperone and falls for her charge's widowed father.

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.

Shirley Kennedy, The London Belle.
Penniless lady takes a position tutoring the lonely son of an infamous rake.

Judith Lansdowne, Lord Nightingale's Debut.
Impoverished lord who learns his inheritance depends on his teaching a bird to sing hires a singing teacher to help him.

Patricia Laye, The Taming of Lord Whitfield.
Lady is afraid her finishing school's reputation will suffer from the drunken revelry of a neighboring lord.

Meredith Leigh, An Elegant Education.
Schoolmistress is asked to turn two unruly girls into ladies.

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.

Melinda McRae, The Temporary Duke.
Lady hires a tutor to impersonate her brother, a duke who has disappeared just before his wedding.

Laura Paquet, A Rakish Spy.
A headmistress helps an enigmatic man uncover a ring of French spies.

Andrea Pickens, Second Chances.
Lady has her own reasons for tutoring the son of an arrogant earl.

Evelyn Richardson, The Scandalous Widow.
A widow opens a school for young ladies and meets a lord who comes to examine the school before enrolling his niece.

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.

Joan Smith, Petticoat Rebellion.
Art mistress visiting a lord's home thinks he's mixed up in a thieves' ring.

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

Sheila Walsh, The Sergeant Major's Daughter.
A lady whose father died at Waterloo takes a position as governess and convinces her employer to allow her to open a school for his tenants, not realizing her life -- and her heart -- will be endangered

Barbara Whitehead, Ramillies.
Schoolmaster becomes an earl and must choose between two ladies.

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

Gail Whitiker, The Guardian's Dilemma.
A gentleman tries to protect his stepsister from a fortune hunter by placing her at a genteel ladies' academy only to discover that one of the schoolmistress is a lady he once caught in a compromising situation at a house party.

Entrepreneurs

Anne Barbour, Lady Liza's Luck.
Lady who made a fortune in the stock market instead of making a proper match meets a former suitor.

Diana Brown, The Emerald Necklace.
Lady marries a self-made man of illegitimate birth to save her father from debt, but when she comes to love her husband she fears she has mistreated him for too long.

June Calvin, The Baron and the Bookseller.
Quiet bookseller exchanges correspondence on politics and women's rights with a baron under a false name.

Marion Chesney, At the Sign of the Golden Pineapple.
Lady hopes to turn a small inheritance into a fortune by opening a sweet shop but is thwarted by an earl who wants to shut her business down.

Teresa DesJardien, The Reluctant Lord.
Lord's American heir returns and meets an independent lady who wants to open a weaving shop and a man who knows his "secret."

Sandra Heath, Fashion's Lady.
Penniless lady asks a rake to help her open a dressmaking establishment and considers an affair with a married former love.

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.

Elisabeth Kidd, The LadyShip.
Lady who runs a coaching inn loves a scholarly guest who's engaged to a flighty chit with other plans.

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.

Eva Rutland, Enterprising Lady.
Lady in business to support her family meets a duke claiming to be a confirmed bachelor who knows her secret and is determined to save her from ruin.

Sheri Cobb South, The Weaver Takes a Wife.
Illegitimate workhouse orphan becomes a wealthy mill owner and marries the daughter of a duke who gambled away his fortune.

Margaret Summerville, The Cotton Caliph.
Lady is infuriated when a man who used money from the trade to buy a title and position in society tries to buy her hand in marriage.

Chefs

Anne Ashley, Tavern Wench.
An impoverished vicar's daughter who earns her living cooking at a tavern must reenter Society to help an amateur sleuth solve a series of murders.

Donna Bell, A Taste for Love.
Earl who goes into business as a chef under an assumed name is in a quandary when his childhood friend arrives 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.

Cathleen Clare, A Delectable Dilemma.
Lord is attracted to a vicar's daughter working as his pastry chef.

Wilma Counts, "The Way to a Man's Heart," in Sweet Temptations.
A lady accepts a challenge to disguise herself as a chef and goes to work for an earl whose health depends on her cooking.

Elisabeth Fairchild, Lord Endicott's Appetite.
Lady chef must find a way to tempt her employer who lost his appetite when his wife died.

Jo Ann Ferguson, "Not His Bread and Butter," in Sweet Temptations.
A lady working as a cook to support her parents hopes her employer will notice her.

Eileen Putman, Reforming Harriet.
Widow who hid her pain at her husband's infidelity through cooking is incensed when her husband's business partner seems intent on curtailing her independence.

Barbara Reeves, A Scandalous Courtship.
Lord who has long loved a married lady hopes to wed her now that she's a widow, but she is determined to support herself with her catering business.

Landladies

Marilyn Clay, Felicity's Folly.
Lady opens a boarding house and is troubled by ghostly occurrences.

Barbara Hazard, Tuesday's Child.
Poor lady forced to rent out rooms and give piano lessons intrigues her nabob neighbor.

Cilla Whitmore, His Lordship's Landlady.
Lady who runs a boarding house for young gentlemen is confronted by the uncle of a lord she is trying to evict.

Scholarly Pursuits

Anne Barbour, Lady Hilary's Halloween.
Lady asks her conceited archaeologist neighbor for help when she sees an antique figure come to life on Halloween.

Donna Bell, The Scandalous Miss.
A lady accepts a lord's commission to catalogue his library in her father's place in order to save her family home.

Catherine Blair, A Notorious Lady.
Escaping from scandal to a quaint country town, a lady finds herself enjoying the company of Cambridge astronomy professor, but their newfound relationship is threated by her past indiscretions.

Catherine Blair, A Scholarly Gentleman.
A widow moves to Cambridge and meets the professor she once rejected in favor of his dashing cousin.

Zabrina Faire, The Wicked Cousin.
A lady mourning the disappearance of her fat but gentle-hearted cousin is coerced into a betrothal with his new heir, but finds an unexpected ally in the librarian who was hired to catalog her father's collection.

Pamela Frazier, A Daring Deception.
When a governess's reputation is ruined by jealous minds, the French emigre nobleman and scientist whom she's loved since childhood helps her by bringing her out and making her a Toast.

Mona Gedney, A Scandalous Charade.
When lord has a spat with a lady archaeologist whom he followed up the Nile, he decides to woo her back at a masquerade playing Marc Antony to her Cleopatra.

Victoria Hinshaw, An Ideal Match.
In order to escape her matchmaking friends, a young widow finds an ally in a scholar who agrees to pose as her fiancé.

Karla Hocker, June Love.
Historian hired by a lord turns out to be a woman.

April Kihlstrom, The Wily Wastrel.
Apparently frippery fellow who hides his genius for invention from his disapproving older brother meets a lady with a mind as fine as his own.

Allison Lane, Double Deceit.
Antiquarian trying to avoid her father's matchmaking schemes finds herself embroiled in a deceit with a rogue.

Patricia Laye, Touch of Venus.
Lady answers a gentleman's ad for a coin cataloger.

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.

Elizabeth Mansfield, Passing Fancies.
Lady who longs for a peaceful life is drawn into numerous scrapes by the family she lives with and is rescued by the quiet, scholarly brother whom everyone ignores until he's needed.

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.

Susan Michaels, An Infamous Fiasco.
Lady who conducts archaeological digs on her late father's estate gets off on the wrong foot with the new heir when she mistakes him for a poacher and shoots him.

Joan Overfield, Learned Lady.
Lady scientist who needs help presenting her theories teams up with a man seeking his brother's killer.

Dawn Aldridge Poore, The Brighton Burglar.
Lady suspects her mysterious boarder of being an art thief.

Dawn Aldridge Poore, The Secret Scroll.
A scroll in Roxanne's library is thought to be the key to a treasure.

Dawn Aldridge Poore, The Cairo Cats.
Roxanne and Lymond hunt the thieves of cat statues and find treasure.

Dawn Aldridge Poore, The Mummy's Mirror.
Roxanne and Lymond seek treasure in Egypt and finally admit their love.

Ellen Rawlings, A Serious Pursuit.
Lady's scientist uncle makes her become a lady's companion so that she can spy on her employer's scientist nephew, but she dislikes deceiving the kind gentleman.

Joy Reed, The Baron and the Bluestocking.
A lady receives an inheritance from an elderly man who admired her book on the Second Punic War and is confronted by one of her benefactor's relatives.

Rebecca Robbins, An Irresistible Pursuit.
A lady seeking an Egyptian amulet hides in a museum, but her plan is thwarted by a dashing archaeologist.

Sheila Simonson, Lady Elizabeth's Comet.
Lady interested in astronomy is attracted to the brilliant mind of the new heir to her family's title.

Marcy Stewart, Lady Scandal.
Glassmaker asks a widow who writes a scandalous gossip column to help him recover his family's glass formula.

Lydia Trusz, A Touch of Class.
Six-foot lady retreats from a humiliating Season and accepts a request from a flirtatious marquess to do his family genealogy.

Rebecca Ward, My Lord Lion.
Lady takes a job as librarian for an earl.

Bess Willingham, The Lady's Mummy.
Egyptologist joins forces with the brother of a man whose mummy was stolen.

Physicians & Nurses

Anne Ashley, Lady Jane's Physician.
Lady meets a physician with little patience for social etiquette.

Audrey Blanshard, A Virginian at Vencombe.
Lady whose father hates Americans falls in love with an American naval surgeon who is a prisoner of war.

Mary Chase Comstock, Fortune's Mistress.
Pregnant mistress retires to a small village and meets a handsome doctor.

Rachelle Edwards, The Outrageous Lady Caroline.
Beautiful, rich widow with numerous suitors falls for a doctor who works with the poor and scorns wealthy ladies.

Alice Holden, "One True Love" in On Bended Knee.
A penniless governess falls in love with a veterinarian despite the attentions of a wealthy suitor.

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

Sophia Nash, A Passionate Endeavor.
A lord returns home wounded from the war and finds himself in the care of a compassionate nurse who challenges his vow never to marry.

Mary Nichols, Marrying Miss Hemingford.
An independently wealthy lady is attracted to a doctor who helps the poor, but a mystery surrounding his sister-in-law may stand in the way of love.

Barristers

Karla Hocker, A Deceitful Heart.
Lady is attracted to a lawyer who claims her father has only returned to England from New Orleans to grab the family fortune and title.

April Kihlstrom, The Reckless Barrister.
Barrister agrees to help a lady who comes to him seeking legal advice for oppressed factory workers.

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.

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.

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.

Religious Orders

Janice Bennett, A Lady's Champion.
Art mistress at a haunted Academy for Girls accepts a gentleman's aid.

Carola Dunn, Miss Jacobsen's Journey.
As they flee across wartorn Europe, a lady is courted by a lord and the rabbinic scholar she once rejected.

Judith Lansdowne, "The Parson's Moustrap," in My Darling Bride.
Romance between an honorable cleric and an older woman.

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.

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

Patricia Wynn, The Parson's Pleasure.
Lady is attracted to the new village rector.

Gamesters

Anne Barbour, A Dangerous Charade.
Lady gambles in disguise to earn money to pay her friend's husband's debts.

Clare Darcy, Letty.
Penniless gentleman leaves home after being falsely accused of cheating at cards and heads for the Congress of Vienna where he intends to start a gaming house featuring the singing talents of a runaway lady he meets en route.

Georgette Heyer, Faro's Daughter.
Gambler's daughter who supports herself at cards pits her skill against an arrogant gentleman who thinks she led his cousin astray.

Dorothy Mack, The Gamester's Daughter.
Lady who helps her father at his gaming establishment flees when he's murdered and ends up on the estate of one of his customers.

Amanda McCabe, The Golden Feather.
Left destitute except for a gaming establishment following the death of her husband, a genteel widow embarks on a desperate scheme to run the Golden Feather by hiding her identity, until a reformed rake falls for the mysterious proprietor.

Sheila Rabe, Lady Luck.
A lord finds that the shy, plain girl he married for money and left behind in London has not only become the proprietor of a high-class gambling house but a spirited beauty whom he must woo again.

Irene Saunders, The Lucky Lady.
Lord intends to rescue his brother from the clutches of a mysterious lady who has opened a successful gaming house in London.

Daisy Vivian, Fair Game: A Comedy of Regency Manners.
Lady establishes a genteel gaming salon in Cheyne Spa to finance her nieces' comeout.

Daisy Vivian, Return to Cheyne Spa.
Penniless lady forced to become a dealer at a London gaming house is invited by a duchess to Cheyne Spa on the condition that she lure a rogue away from the duchess's niece.

Farmers & Estate Managers

Denice Greenlea, Birchwood Hall.
A lady whose father wants her to marry a neighboring lord to save the family home turns for help to one of her father's tenant farmers.

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.

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 neighbor.

Jane Hinchman, Daughters of the Earl.
When their father leaves his entire inheritance to his second wife and son, two ladies must try to make a living on their godfather's small farm in America.

Carla Kelly, The Lady's Companion.
Impoverished lady becomes a paid companion & falls for her employer's bailiff.

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.

Janet Radcliffe, The Gentleman Pirate.
Lady manages a tropical estate in the absence of its owner, who suddenly returns with a party of elegant ladies and gentlemen.

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.

Men (& Women) of Affairs

Anne Barbour, A Man of Affairs.
Duke's adopted son who is commanded to find a wife for his father's heir chooses a spoiled beauty then falls for her spinster sister.

Elizabeth Barron, The Elusive Countess.
Lady hiding from greedy relatives with an acting troupe realizes that the secretary of a lord who wants her as his mistress is the man who once rescued her on a dark heath.

Dorothy Mack, The Courtship of Chloe.
Lady hired to straighten out a family's financial affairs deals with the son's advances and the father's arrogance.

Elizabeth Mansfield, Her Man of Affairs.
Lady falls for her man of affairs.

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.

Servants

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.

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.

Marion Chesney, The Adventuress.
Servants help make a man and his "daughter," who turn out to be a ex-butler and chambermaid, into society's darlings.

Norma Lee Clark, Lady Jane.
When her employer's brother makes advances, a maid is fired and is taken in by a kindly lord who marries her; but after her husband's death she meets the man who once accosted her as an equal.

Georgina Devon, Untamed Heart.
Lord tries to return the vowels of a man who died just after the game but his sister is too proud to accept them and goes to work for a lecherous earl to raise the money.

Rachelle Edwards, The Silken Net.
Lady falls for a former chimneysweep and together they uncover secrets.

Monique Ellis, Dauntry's Dilemma.
While seeking the cause of ghostly apparitions at his father's estate, a man becomes intrigued with a widow who must scrub floors to support her son after her inlaws seized her inheritance.

Barbara Hazard, The Rake's Protegee.
Servant girl sent by an earl to be raised as a lady returns to find he is a rake hated by his household.

April Kihlstrom, The Ambitious Baronet.
A lady whose father gambled away the family fortune is forced to work as a housekeeper for a new baronet.

Barbara Metzger, Lord Heartless.
When a lord discovers a baby on his doorstep, he turns for help to a woman who was abandoned by her husband and must work to support her daughter.

Anne O'Brien, The Enigmatic Rake.
A lady becomes a housekeeper for a spy who fosters a reputation as a rake as cover for his secret activities.

Mary Jo Putney, Lady of Fortune.
French lady fleeing the Revolution takes a position in a viscount's house.

Oddjobs

Janice Bennett, A Desperate Gamble.
When a lady takes a job as a maid in a gambling hell to discover her sister's seducer but finds him dead, she is drawn to the Bow Street Runner investigating the case.

Patricia Bray, An Unlikely Alliance.
Earl suspects a fortune teller of being in cahoots with those who fixed a race so that his horse would lose but discovers that her life is in danger from her mother's killer.

Nancy Butler, Keeper of the Swans.
Lady fleeing an arranged marriage sails down the Thames to an island where she meets a gentle man who tends the swans.

Elisabeth Fairchild, Breach of Promise.
Beekeeper in Chipping Camden leases her old home to a mysterious stranger.

Sandra Heath, My Lady Domino.
Lady turned penniless shop girl goes to a masquerade and sees the man who jilted her when she lost her fortune.

Alice Holden, An Unconventional Miss.
Cit's daughter seeking a man who wants her for herself meets an impoverished man whose relatives want him to court her but who'd rather earn money boxing.

Samantha Holder, Miss Rowland's Resolve.
Lady seeking her missing brother flees her mean relatives & takes a job at Hookham's, then meets a man who fled to the U.S. years ago when a lady jilted him for his brother.

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.

Clarice Peters, London Tangle.
Lord is horrified when a lady hypnotist takes in his mother and sister.

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.

Rebecca Robbins, Guardian for an Angel.
Lady jockey's guardian loses her estate to a libertine.

Schoolroom Misses

Blanche Chenier, Wayward Heiress.
Gentleman follows a lady on a harebrained rescue mission to France.

Roberta Eckert, Scandalous Journey.
Earl and his ward, stranded en route from her school, must wed.

Jean Ewing, Love's Reward.
Lord involved in political intrigues must marry the lady who ran away from school with his married brother.

Jacquelyn Gillis, Otherwise Engaged.
Gentleman inherits a Scottish estate and a fresh-faced schoolgirl.

Charlotte Grey, Fancy Free.
Orphan who regales her fellow schoolgirls with tales of daring by a fictitious guardian is surprised when he appears.

Emily Hendrickson, Miss Wyndham's Escapade.
Lord proposes a daring scheme to restore the good name of a lady branded a thief at finishing school.

Alice Chetwynd Ley, The Clandestine Betrothal.
Schoolgirl gets herself into a muddle when she claims to be betrothed to another student's dashing brother.

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.

Phyllis Taylor Pianka, The Sleeping Heiress.
On her father's death, a lady who'd been shut away in a boarding school finds herself being escorted for a Season by her handsome young guardian.

Lindsay Randall, Miss Marcie's Mischief.
Lady fleeing school is nearly run down by a marquis escaping scheming misses by driving a mail coach.

Melynda Beth Skinner, The Blue Devil.
A lady disguises herself as a student at a School for Young Ladies in order to find her aunt's missing diary and encounters a lord who is a covert operative seeking a spy.

Claudette Williams, Lady Barbara.
Schoolroom miss tries to prevent a lord's marriage of convenience with a lady whose virtue she questions.

Poor Relations

Jane Austen, Mansfield Park.
Poor relation taken in by her well-to-do relations finds her friendship with cousin Edmund altered by the arrival of a dashing brother and sister.

Catherine Huntington Chadwick, The Poor Relation.
Lady with a sought-after sister turns down the man she loves thinking she's his second choice, but he had only courted her sister to get her attention.

Marion Chesney, Poor Relation series.
A group of poor relations found a moderately priced hotel.

Clare Darcy, Cecily.
Gentleman discovers a penniless relation has taken to the stage and bundles her off to the country to train her in ladylike behavior, but their lessons are interrupted by her fans.

Charlotte Louise Dolan, The Resolute Runaway.
Penniless orphan travels with a friend to Brussels, where the two ladies become rivals for a man's love.

Carola Dunn, A Poor Relation.
Poor relation forced to act as a servant snags the earl on the neighboring estate.

Rachelle Edwards, Marriage a la Mode.
Lord takes revenge on the mistress who jilted him by marrying the poor relation she sent to break the news.

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.

Elizabeth Mansfield, Poor Caroline.
Poor relation is determined not to like the heir who is coming home from the war.

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.

Mona Prevel, A Kiss for Lucy.
A poor relation is swept off her feet when she receives a kiss from a duke who mistakes her for her niece.

Margaret SeBastian, The Poor Relation.
Lady becomes hostess for her great-uncle, a duke, and falls for his heir.

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

Rebecca Ward, Grand Deception.
Poor relation teams up with a man claiming to be an earl.

Gypsies

Patricia Bray, An Unlikely Alliance.
Earl suspects a fortune teller of being in cahoots with those who fixed a race so that his horse would lose, but he discovers that her life is in danger from her mother's killer.

Norma Lee Clark, Zandra.
Beautiful lady who was rescued from a gypsy caravan at age 12 becomes a target of jealousy from other debutantes and is pursued by a rakish captain.

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.

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.

Elsie Lee, The Wicked Guardian.
Heiress whose wicked guardian is forcing her to marry his son jumps out of a moving carriage and wakes with amnesia in a gypsy camp with a mysterious stranger.

Laura London, The Gypsy Heiress.
Lord discovers a gypsy with a mysterious locket poaching on his land.

Martha Jean Powers, Gazebo Rendezvous.
A lady disguises herself as a boy in order to be accepted by her new guardian, then disguises herself as a gypsy to dissuade him from marrying another.

Janet Radcliffe, The Blue-Eyed Gypsy.
Lady who fled her cruel stepfather as a child and lived with the gypsies is found by him and auctioned in marriage to a lord.

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.

Patricia Veryan, The Lord and the Gypsy.
Lady disguises herself as a gypsy to discover if her childhood love is a murderer.

Patricia Veryan, Had We Never Loved.
Viscount falls in love with a gypsy who rescues him from thugs.

Sheila Walsh, Lord Gilmore's Bride.
Drunken lord who wed a gypsy hates her when he sobers up.

Lower Class Hero or Heroine

Alina Adams, Thieves at Heart.
Lady saves a man from the gallows and marries him to get her inheritance so she can save a friend being held by an evil man in France.

Helen Argers, An Unlikely Lady.
Cottage girl becomes a society belle and attracts a man who shunned her previously.

Rebecca Ashley, The Arrogant Aristocrat.
A penniless squire's daughter doubts a lord's honorable intentions.

Mary Balogh, Christmas Belle.
Rake and an actress meet again years after a passionate but painful romance.

Marion Chesney, The Adventuress.
Servants help make a man and his "daughter," who turn out to be a ex-butler and chambermaid, into society's darlings.

Marion Chesney, Yvonne Goes to York.
Matchmaker matches a French carpenter's daughter with a marquess.

Nicola Cornick, The Penniless Bride.
A man who must marry to gain his inheritance chooses the daughter of a chimney sweep as his bride.

Jasmine Cresswell, The Blackwood Bride.
Viscount picks a supposedly dying woman from a workhouse for a brief marriage but she turns out to be sturdier than he thought.

Corinna Cunliffe, Play of Hearts.
Lady whose father was an actor must call upon her own acting skills to pretend her duty marriage is a love match.

Marian Devon, Miss Romney Flies too High.
Man wills his fortune to whichever of his nephews marries his illegitimate actress daughter.

Rachelle Edwards, The Silken Net.
Lady falls for a former chimneysweep and together they uncover secrets.

Barbara Hazard, The Rake's Protegee.
Servant girl sent by an earl to be raised as a lady returns to find he is a rake hated by his household.

Sandra Heath, The Opera Dancer.
Opera dancer who is the Toast of London was once a singer in a house of ill-repute, a fact known only to the man who rescued her and captured her heart only to use her as a pawn.

Carla Kelly, The Lady's Companion.
Impoverished lady becomes a paid companion & falls for her employer's bailiff.

Valerie King, A London Flirtation.
Lady heads to London determined to make a brilliant match but a recently knighted friend who was once a stable hand has other plans.

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.

Elizabeth Michaels, The Fabric of Love.
Impoverished but genteel daughter of a tailor is introduced to the ton.

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

Margaret Evans Porter, Dangerous Diversions.
Dancer on the London stage attracts the interest of a duke.

Nina Pykare, Love in Disguise.
An actress inherits a London townhouse and finds herself courted by various beaux including the Duke of York.

Margaret SeBastian, Bow Street Gentleman.
Lady falls in love with a man who is not a gentleman and expects him to be grateful when she tries to introduce him to society.

Margaret SeBastian, Lord Orlando's Protegee.
Lord rescues an actress from gaol only to be embarrassed when his name is linked with hers.

Sheri Cobb South, The Weaver Takes a Wife.
Illegitimate workhouse orphan becomes a wealthy mill owner and marries the daughter of a duke who gambled away his fortune.

Marlene Suson, The Fair Impostor.
Actress agrees to masquerade as an earl's daughter to cause the lady's betrothed to cry off with her scandalous behavior, but he is drawn to her instead.

Rebecca Ward, Fair Fortune.
An impoverished lady who takes a position as a nurse to an unpleasant old woman must conceal her growing feelings for a groom on the neighboring estate.

Teaching Manners

Donna Bell, Words of Love.
Lady is asked to teach manners to a man reared in the wilds of America who has inherited a title.

Marilyn Carter, The Reluctant Debutant.
Lady who studied at an exclusive school in England tutors a rakish gambler in Boston.

Marion Chesney:
Refining Felicity.
Two spinster sisters open a school for girls who won't take: Their first project is a tomboy indifferent to marriage.
Series: School for Manners #1
Perfecting Fiona.
Scottish heiress's incorrigible flirting causes men to shy off until she meets her match in a rake.
Series: School for Manners #2
Enlightening Delilah.
When the man she loves thwarts her youthful crush, a lady retaliates by pursuing the most unsuitable man in London.
Series: School for Manners #3
Finessing Clarissa.
Clumsy lady is rescued from highwaymen by a graceful earl.
Series: School for Manners #4
Animating Maria.
Duke withdraws his proposal after meeting a lady's boorish parents.
Series: School for Manners #5
Marrying Harriet.
The sisters intend to find a vicar for a very proper young lady but the only suitor who seems interested is a notorious rake.
Series: School for Manners #6

Megan Daniel, The American Bride.
Lady on a ship to England to meet her betrothed meets a man who agrees to teach her the ways of the ton.

Clare Darcy, Cecily; or, A Young Lady of Quality.
Gentleman discovers a penniless relation has taken to the stage and bundles her off to the country to train her in ladylike behavior, but their lessons are interrupted by her fans.

Jo Ann Ferguson, Lord Radcliffe's Season.
Widow of a philandering brute agrees to tutor a "lad" in the ways of the ton, only to discover he's a fully grown man.

Cindy Holbrook, The Country Gentleman.
Lady who she thinks she killed a rake flees and is taken in by reclusive earl and she tries to teach him city manners.

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

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.

Laura Paquet, Lord Langdon's Tutor.
Lady turns down the abrupt proposal of the man her father chose for her but agrees to teach him how to make himself agreeable to ladies so he can find another bride.

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.

Artwork in page header from A Grand Design by Emma Jensen (left) and An Unlikely Alliance by Patricia Bray (right).

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Entrepreneurs	Chefs	Landladies
Scholarly Pursuits	Physicians & Nurses	Barristers
Religious Orders	Gamesters	Farmers & Estate Managers
The Arts	Men & Women of Affairs	Servants
Oddjobs	Schoolroom Misses	Poor Relations
Gypsies	Lower Class Hero or Heroine	Teaching Manners