British Historical Romance

This collection contains three previously published short stories featuring Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet. To Tempt Me When Elizabeth Bennet is slighted by the wealthy Mr. Darcy at the Meryton assembly, she laughs at his scorn. But when she later dances with his closest friend, Mr. Darcy suddenly finds himself in a most precarious position. A Recontre At long last, Mr. Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet are engaged to be married... but a long walk and a pouring rain tempts our dear couple to anticipate their vows. The Arrival of Letters Mr. Darcy and his wife are approaching their first wedding ...

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...

In the tradition of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, THE UPPITY EARL: A Clean, Sweet, Regency by Marilyn Clay is set in London. Miss Tessa Darby was born in England but grew up in American. She has now returned to England to escape her cruel stepfather. Harrison Belmour, the fifth Earl of Penwyck is having the devil of a time controlling the deplorable behavior of his mother’s houseguest, the auburn-haired, spectacle-making young lady from America. The stubborn chit refuses to take direction and the last thing the aristocratic Belmour family needs is another scandal! Still, the earl has ...

In this Regency love triangle, spinster Amanda Fitzhugh is far too level-headed to again fall for any man's seductive promises. She'd been down that road before and was lucky to escape with her virtue intact. She's content to chaperone her young cousin's come-out and betrothal to Simon Hannibal Thornton, one of England's most esteemed war heroes, now Lord Sommersby. But when the iron-willed earl with a haunted castle turns his soldierly skills from winning a bride to conquering her companion, Amanda discovers her own heart in mortal danger amid the ghosts of passion. --"What a splendid ...

A lush historical novel set in Victorian England, When It Rained at Hembry Castle is the story of an aristocratic family, secrets that dare not be told, and the wonder of falling in love. When the 8th Earl of Staton dies, his eldest son, the unreliable Richard, inherits the title and the family’s home—Hembry Castle. The Earl's niece, the American-born Daphne, is intrigued by Edward Ellis, a rising author with first-hand knowledge of Hembry Castle—from the servants’ hall. Can Richard come to terms with his title before bringing ruin on his family? Will Edward and Daphne find their ...

Faced with financial ruin and the loss of her good name, Rose Chadwick decides to make a new start for herself and her young daughter Hannah in the rough-and-tumble gold rush town of Barkerville, British Columbia. However, making a new life is not so easy when it’s built on lies. Viscount Harrison St. John knows he’s expected to marry well to bolster his family fortunes. Instead, he leaves England to pursue riches in the gold fields of a town in the wilds of Canada. Will dark secrets from Rose’s past keep them apart? Or will they find love, happiness, and a new life together?

MURDER IN MAYFAIR is Book 2 in MARILYN CLAY's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series. Clever young Miss Juliette Abbott and Miss Cathleen Haworth have catalogued a house-full of priceless artifacts in order to sell to a London Curiosity Dealer, but before the girls can approach the handsome man, he turns up dead! With only two likely suspects and no funds to hire a Bow Street detective to investigate the crime, Juliette takes on the task of solving the mystery herself. Attempting to uncover who killed the kind gentleman who made female hearts flutter keeps Juliette awake at night and on her...

William of Normandy is a rough man, but what more can you expect of an illegitimate son trying to muscle his way into a dukedom? After a violent start to their courtship, Mathilda of Flanders discovers William to be a man of unexpected sensitivity, driven by two goals: to prove himself by becoming a great ruler and to build a warm and secure family.

Although they are separated by more than 150 years, Nell finds herself drawn to the Victorian novelist by their shared experiences of unrequited love - Gaskell for an American critic she met in Rome, Nell for a soulful American screenwriter living in Paris. As Nell's romance founders and her passion for academia fails to materialize, she finds herself wondering if the indomitable Mrs. Gaskell might rescue her pursuit of love, family, and a writing career.

The Angelotti family reels when the lost son, given up for adoption in the war, traces his birth family and returns to the fold, with devastating consequences. As poverty-stricken newlyweds, Laura and Giovanni Angelotti were forced to put their first child - a boy - up for adoption. They have had other children since, and their first little Italian cafe has become a restaurant empire, but Laura is still haunted by thoughts of the baby she lost.

Lisa blends the world of southern belles with English aristocracy, Welshmen, and Scottish villagers in her own unique style with the story of Victoria, Volume 3 in the Brides of Grace Hill series. Victoria has grown up on the Kentucky meadows and fields of Grace Hill and Sarah Rose Hall, surviving what Lincoln called the Great War. But her family emerges from the war unscathed, only to turn around and face severe hardship. She’s beautiful, vivacious, and swarmed by one beau after another. However, none have held her heart captive quite like Lieutenant Langford does for her sister, Rose. ...

London, 1833. Doctress Hester Reeves has been offered a life-changing commission. But it comes at a price. She must leave behind her husband and their canal-side home in Kings Cross and move to Tall Trees – a dark and foreboding house in Fitzrovia. If Hester can cure the ailing health of its owner, Gervaise Cherville, she will receive payment that will bring her everything she could dream of. But on arriving at Tall Trees, Hester quickly discovers that an even bigger task awaits her.

Eleni has been coming to Crete her entire life, swapping her English home for cherished sun-baked summers with her grandfather in his idyllic shoreside villa. When she arrives in 1936, she believes the long, hot weeks ahead will be no different to so many that have gone before. But someone else is visiting the island that year too: a young German man called Otto. And so begins a summer of innocence lost, and love discovered; one that is finite, but not the end.

A Scandalous Widow. A Desperate Lord. A Contract That Ignites Forbidden Affection. Dive into "Ink and Affection," a captivating tale of a marriage forged in pragmatism, but destined for something far more profound. Lord Nathaniel Ravenswood faces ruin unless he secures an heir. Lady Sophia Harrington, a widowed beauty with a scandalous past and a fortune to invest, offers an unconventional solution: a marriage of convenience. Their meticulously crafted contract—separate bed-chambers, shared finances, and a strict "no emotional demands" clause—seems foolproof. But as spring awakens, so ...

From sun-drenched Spain to the icy halls of an English Earl... Catalina Esperanza Navarro had been shielded in comfort in Barcelona which had been bracing itself against the turmoil of Napoleonic conquest. As the cherished daughter of a shrewd Spanish merchant, her life had been one of privilege. But when the shadow of war had fallen across Spain, her father, desperate to secure her future, had orchestrated a transaction that sent her across the seas. Hugh Wentworth, the Earl of Strathmore, a man known for his icy control, desperately needed a wealthy bride to save his crumbling estate. ...

A quiet governess. A powerful politician. A dangerous conspiracy and scandal… In the heart of early 19th-century London, where whispers of intrigue echo through the corridors of power, a quiet governess named Margaret Hayworth discovers a world beyond her wildest dreams. Trapped in a life of routine and intellect, Margaret yearns for passion and adventure beyond the confines of her role. But when her path crosses with James Thornton, a rising star in the political arena, Margaret's ordinary life is turned upside down. Drawn to each other despite the societal boundaries that separate them,...

James Fenimore Cooper was America's first successful popular novelist. Son of the prominent federalist William Cooper, founder of the Cooperstown settlement, James was educated at Yale in preparation for a genteel life as a federalist gentleman. After his father's death in an 1809 duel, Cooper quickly squandered his inheritance, and at thirty was on the verge of bankruptcy. He turned to writing but his first book, Precaution (1820), was a failure.