A Beauty with a limp, a Beast with a scarred face, an unwanted proposal, a matchmaking aunt, a carriage journey in a snowstorm, a duel for a maiden’s honour, and the perfect happiness of a love returned! At twenty-three, Georgiana Hall has received no offers of marriage, not is she likely to, for despite being a great beauty, she harbours and inconvenient secret which deters suitors. Captain Asher Brandt, a man haunted by the past that left his face hideously scarred and beast-like, is a man on a mission. To retain guardianship over his young niece, the last living memory of his brother, ...

What happens in Bath, stays in Bath! Clemence Hurst is an unusual young lady, with a burning desire for the freedom that the combined assets of singleness and wealth can bring her. But she never bargained on meeting the one person who would throw all her dearly held notions of happiness into disarray! Finding herself Bath, and falling for a known rakehell, she also must drive off an unwanted suitor, and rescue her sister-in-law from a scrape which brings disgrace to the family name! Frederick Wolverton’ rakish past is no secret, and young ladies are warned about him wherever he goes. When...

In this Pride & Prejudice variation, the story begins in 1808 when Mr. Darcy does not arrive at Ramsgate until two days after Georgiana’s elopement with George Wickham. The servants sell their story to the newspapers, the couple vanish, and when the gossip columns run rampant with the news, Darcy’s relatives demand that Darcy disown his sister. When Wickham learns he cannot gain his wife’s dowry until she is thirty years, he deserts Georgiana and Darcy takes her back into their London home. With society turned against them, Darcy takes his sister to Pemberley but she dies during the ...

When three women’s lives come together in a mad Regency tale of flight and pursuit, things go rather awry as expectations are disappointed, suitors spurned, and happy endings seem further off than ever before. Will Camilla, Alice and Louisa find their destinies, or will true love be thwarted as they throw caution to the winds? Married by Michaelmas is the fast-paced tale of three women, all bound on a path away from matrimony for various reasons…but fate always has a tendency to have its own way, and for Camilla, Louisa and Alice, there are enough mix-ups, intrigues and angst-ridden ...

When Catherine Morland married Henry Tilney, she was sure the seemingly cosy Woodston parsonage could not harbour any secrets such as she had imagined to lurk at Northanger Abbey. It is not long, however, before Catherine finds that there may be more skeletons in Woodston's closets than she could ever wish for to occupy her imagination. Meanwhile, determined to become a perfect wife, Catherine gets herself into one scrape after another, and it is not long before she gives up hope of ever gaining Henry's respect. When temptation visits Woodston in the form of a charismatic drawing instructor...

A disguised runaway falls into the hands of an unsuspecting rake. Driven to flight to escape the machinations of her relatives, Clementina is appalled to find herself in worse trouble. Who is this devilishly attractive man? What will he do with her? Intrigued by the beautiful girl he has captured, Jake takes pains to protect her reputation. But Clementina proves a handful. When her Nemesis turns up, she escapes Jake, only to end up in the enemy’s hands. Will Jake’s dramatic rescue settle it all? Or will his drastic solution prove worse than the problem?

‘Elizabeth’s Covenant’ is more than just a new edition of one of Florence Gold’s early novels; it is a revised version that, while grounded in the same idea of a covenant undertaken by Elizabeth, it also reveals an entirely different underlying mystery. Elspeth Awbrey, formerly Bennet, is the sister of Mr Bennet and the guardian of traditions inherited from their Scottish ancestor, Elspeth MacLellan. Married to Oliver Bennet, the man who imposed the infamous entail on Longbourn, Elspeth MacLellan insisted that all their descendants, whether male or female, must fulfil a covenant to ...

A misunderstanding, an accident, and a mistaken fortune – three paths to the same heart. A trio of captivating novellas that reimagine Jane Austen's beloved classic from fresh perspectives. A Governess at Pemberley Financial misfortune forces Elizabeth Bennet to become governess to Georgiana Darcy. As she brings warmth to Pemberley and confidence to its shy young mistress, Fitzwilliam Darcy finds himself increasingly drawn to the unconventional governess. But in Regency England, the social divide between a wealthy gentleman and his employee seems insurmountable. Chance and Circumstance ...

Penelope is wary and scared of her debut ball and begs her brother to let her be and just choose whoever he wants as a husband for her but John is adamant that she enjoy the full experience of a season and then choose a husband from all the gentlemen that offer for her. Resigned, Penelope decides to be a wallflower and somehow get done with the season as she knows that no such offers for her hand would be forthcoming. While most of her estimations ring true, she does end up attracting some of the least gentlemanly attention because of her lush figure. Hiding and leaving early become her ...

Daniel Gerrard is a successful businessman who had learned from an early age that entry into the world of the aristocracy would not be easy for those not born to it. A fatal accident sees Daniel inheriting a title that he doesn’t want and he is forced into the world that once rejected him. Penelope Hall has been under pressure since the age of fourteen to marry the Earl of Rivington. Determined to only marry for love, she refuses to do as her father wishes. When Daniel inherits the title and arrives in the area, she finally meets someone that she can love, but her father’s inappropriate...