Elaine Violette: 5 books

Tessia Bennington is relieved to spend the Christmas holidays at the Blackmoor Inn with her elderly aunt and uncle and their friends. The invitation offers an escape from her family's constant urging for her to consider other suitors. The man she'd expected to marry begged off after hearing of her...

Marielle Henley's betrothal to Richard Craymore has settled her future until her disobedience leads her into the path of a ruggedly handsome highwayman. York Blackstone's seemingly invulnerable nature, hardened by a life molded in poverty and thievery, is tested when he becomes enamored with his beautiful...

When Emily Grace Hughes, a poetess with an aversion to marriage, proposes a convenient pretense of courtship to Lord Marcus Deming during the London Season, Marcus sees it as a perfect solution to his matchmaking aunt's interference. While the ruse ends in emotional turmoil and misconceptions, a more...

When Olivia Fuller rebels against her minister father’s choice for her future husband, nothing prepares her for the heavy cost of her rebellion. Torn between her growing attraction to Benjamin Pratt, a carpenter who works at the parsonage, and her love for her aging father, her normally well-ordered...

With strict penalties enacted under the 1850 Fugitive Slave Act, widow Olivia Pratt makes a promise to her troubled sons to close her safe house, a station that has harbored numerous runaway slaves for years before her husband’s death. When a desperate runaway appears needing shelter, her heart...