Meddlesome Miranda

Miss Miranda Dennison was a properly brought-up young lady with an improper appetite for adventure. She found it in abundance on the isolated estate of Baron Philip Highdene.

There was the darkly handsome, brooding baron himself, married to Miranda's sister and clearly keeping her a prisoner. There was his friend, Alan Creighton, whose shocking reputation as a rake did not stop Miranda's heart from beating faster in his company. And there were mysterious threats to Miranda's safety that chilled her blood.

Miranda had fallen head over heels in love. She had also plunged over her head into danger. And now, through a mystifying maze of romance and intrigue, she must somehow find her way to a happy ending.

Reviews

...a very enjoyable story filled with humorous moments. The unique device of alternating chapters between Miranda's diary entries and a third-person narrative is highly effective. --Regency Reviews
...a charming, funny story that kept me entertained – Rakehell

Buy this book at Amazon

The Reluctant Rake

Miss Julia Devere was the most innocent and sheltered of young beauties. Her doting parents had succeeded in shielding her from exposure to the more sordid facts of life in society, and now both they and she were delighted with her coming marriage to the handsome and wealthy Sir Richard Beckwith, the very model of righteous rectitude.

Therefore when Julia spied the paragon of moral perfection in the arms of a young woman who clearly did not give a fig for the proprieties, Julia was more than shocked. She was awakened to the fact that the game of love could be played by very different rules than hers.

And unless she could beat Sir Richard's new light-of-love at her own game, Julia stood to lose all that she suddenly discovered she wanted.

Buy this book at Amazon

Reader comment

very entertaining book Ketera

The Irresolute Rivals

The first sight that Miss Susan Wyndham and Miss Marianne MacClain had of each other was enough to make their eyes blaze. For both were arriving at the first grand ball of the season at the same time -- in identical gowns. But even this flurry of fury paled beside the emotion that each young lady felt when she saw the gentleman who stepped in to make peace between them.

He was Randal Kenyon, Baron Ellerton, the most supremely handsome, charming, elegant and eligible lord in London. And far from making peace, he sparked a battle between a pair of dazzling young beauties who had always had everything they wanted, and who now wanted only him.

Buy this book at Amazon

The Repentant Rebel

Miss Diana Gresham was only seventeen when she was lured by the scheming Gerald Carshin into making a ruinous misstep, only to be abandoned by that handsome scoundrel.

Now she is twenty-five, beautiful, wealthy, vibrantly intelligent, but embarrassed by her previous misjudgment and wary of her own slumbering susceptibility.

When she meets the divinely charming Captain Robert Wilton, she tells herself that this gallant officer is unlike the fops and fortune hunters who swarm around her at the fashionable resort of Bath. But could even he be trusted to want her rather than her wealth...or take her as his bride when a scandalous rake from the past returns to embrace her again?

Buy this book at Amazon

The Impetuous Heiress

The moment Lady Alicia Alston first encountered Ian Cairnyllan, she could see that this imperious lord from the wilds of Scotland had a great deal to learn. He clearly did not appreciate that Alicia was a most sought-after beauty, with swarms of suitors. He had even less understanding of the pleasures his younger sister wished to pursue in her first London season. And he absolutely refused to mask his contempt for the dictates of society and for the behavior of its leading lights.

Lord Cairnyllan might be high and mighty now, but Alicia vowed that before she was finished, he would bow to the ways of the civilized world. And as she pitted her wiles against his iron will, Alicia discovered that at the end of a cleverly conceived maze of intrigue was the pitfall of love.

Buy this book at Amazon

First Season

Lady Anabel Wyndham was in a most unusual situation for her first London season. Beautiful, witty, and still young, she nonetheless was a widow with three small and very lively children. Thus she could not claim to be an innocent in love -- no matter how little experience she had with the ways and wiles of the fashionable world.

And so when she caught the loving, attentive eyes of charming Christopher Hanford, and then aroused the impassioned interest and hunting instinct of Sir Charles Norbury, a handsome, notorious rake, Anabel Wyndham felt cornered in a dilemma of choice and as defenseless as a schoolgirl with one glorious suitor too many.

Reviews

This is an extremely well written book -- all the characters are distinct individuals, even the kids and the cat -- yet it's done with a marvelous economy of words. There is a gentle wry undertone throughout; the comedy scenes aren't overdone and the serious ones are thoughtful, not heavy-handed. She does a great deal with just a few words. -- Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon

A Radical Arrangement

Sir Justin Keighley was everything that repelled Margaret Mayfield in a man. He was shocking in his opinions, arrogant in his manner, rude in his actions, and completely without respect for the common decencies of civilized society.

Margaret was everything that Sir Justin detested in a woman. She was shy, retiring, obedient to her parents, almost embarrassed by her own beauty, and ignorant of virtually every phase of real life in the real world.

Needless to say, they both did everything in their power to escape being matched with each other. Somehow everything was not enough...

Reviews

The book also contains a host of well-rounded secondary characters, which increases the reader's enjoyment. This is a summer read in the very best sense. -- Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon

The Headstrong Ward

The aristocratic Debenham clan grew exceedingly uneasy when Lady Anne Tremayne left the school where she had been safely sequestered. For now it was the Debenhams' task to see this irredeemably rebellious young Miss through her first London season.

The elegant and imperious Charles Debenham, her legal guardian, was worried about her manners. Handsome clergyman Laurence Debenham was concerned with her morals. And the youngest and most rakish Debenham, Edward, was bothered by the disruption she threatened to his social life.

But only when these three gentlemen saw Anne did they fully realize how much they had to fear. Their wild ward had become a dazzling beauty -- and her guardians had to guard themselves from becoming her slaves.

Review

...fun reading --Affaire de Coeur
I like this story a lot. It's funny yet with a serious side. – Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon

The Marchington Scandal

Even a young lady as independent as Katharine Daltry had to admit she needed help. Alone, she could not defeat the notorious Countess Standen, who sought to make a love-besotted fool of young Tom Marchington, the bridegroom of Katharine's country cousin Elinor.

Katharine knew of just one person in London who could lure the Countess away from her cruel sport. That person was Lord Oliver Stonenden.

But Katharine dreaded to think what might be asked in return by this heartless and hatefully handsome aristocrat who, although he had the pick of society's beauties, perversely desired only her.

Reviews

I like this author's style. True, she uses elements in Austen (the rejected suitor of Pride & Prejudice) and Heyer…but she does something fresh with them. A good read. – Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon

The Three Graces

The Hartington sisters were three of the most captivating young ladies in the realm -- and suddenly among the most impoverished. The demise of their spendthrift father and the passing of their generous aunt left them with only their wits, wiles and beauty to fend off disaster -- and forced them to go their separate ways.

Aggie, the eldest, became a governess. Thalia, the literary one, became a schoolmistress. Euphie, the musical one, became a companion to an aristocratic old lady. And all of them saw the future of their hopes and the men of their dreams slipping out of their reach until they discovered that three Hartington heads were better than one when it came to playing a winning hand in the marriage game.

Reviews

Jane Ashford is an excellent writer and her prose is a joy to read. – Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon

Rivals of Fortune

Joanna swore her heart had been broken when Peter Finley married someone else. Then two gentlemen came to call. Sir Rollin Denby, handsome, tailored in the height of London fashion, flirted with her outrageously. Mr. Jonathan Erland, who had just returned from the Colonies to claim the estate adjoining hers, asked her to ride with him.

Little did Joanna imagine that she would choose between them in the dark ruins of a nearby abbey and discover the timeless truths of love when both men showed their true colors as rivals of fortune.

Reviews

A very enjoyable undemanding read; a perfect book for a lazy day. -- Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon

Man of Honour

Eliot saw his duty -- and married Laura. What else could a gentleman do when they had been snowbound together at an inn -- unchaperoned? The fact that Laura was beautiful, gentle, and completely suitable as a wife made his behaving as a man of honour very easy.

But Laura was not satisfied with such a meager basis for marriage. And the once-docile young bride soon began a rebellion that had all the ton agog -- and her husband forgetting about honour and listening instead to his heart.

Reviews

I thought it was a good read and I would recommend it as of interest to anyone who has read Heyer. -- Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon

Reader comment

Really Enjoyed this book ketera

Bluestocking

Elisabeth Elham had no use for the Marriage Mart. Perhaps when she'd been a penniless nineteen, it might have supplied the husband she needed to support her. Now, however, she was an heiress, twenty-four years old, independent, proud of her bluestocking brains and perfectly willing to live without marrying.

But undaunted suitors soon made her aware that she was beautiful as well as bright and that London was full of delights -- and dangers -- for an eminently sensible, endearingly sensitive, unsuspecting bluestocking.

Reviews

I liked the book because I liked the characters…sometimes you just want to settle down in the company of old friends, or people who would be your old friends if you knew them. -- Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon

Reader comment

a very enjoyable read flower girl

Gwendeline

Penniless! Gwendeline, just eighteen and totally unsuited to earn her own way in the world, was to be evicted from her country estate. Then the butler ushered in a tall, rather arrogant visitor, Lord Merryn. He had, it seemed, been a friend of her late parents, who had lived too well and too briefly -- squandering their fortune and then meeting death in a carriage accident.

But Gwendeline was an older orphan than Lord Merryn had expected: she was a young lady and must be introduced to London society. Quickly, he invented a "group of her parents' friends" to finance her debut. Never must she learn that he alone was her benefactor -- or why.

Reviews

I liked the author's portrait of this heroine; she begins as a naïve, sheltered girl with no particular accomplishments or abilities, but she finds unexpected talent, courage and a streak of common sense as she is tested by events. – Regency Retro Reads

Buy this book at Amazon