Sheri Cobb South: 6 books

Bow Street Runner John Pickett and Julia, Lady Fieldhurst seem to have reached an impasse as they wait for the annulment of their accidental marriage to come before the ecclesiastical court. In the meantime, Pickett is summoned to investigate the theft of almost two hundred pounds from a linen-draper's...

A mind is a terrible thing to lose... Overworked and underpaid curate James Weatherly is resigned to a life of genteel poverty, never suspecting he is heir to a dukedom until a solicitor appears on his doorstep. Alas, on the way to claim his inheritance, James is set upon by ruffians whose...

A duke in disguise . . . a damsel in distress . . . a match made in—Manchester? When 23-year-old Theodore Radney becomes the Duke of Reddington after his father dies, the weight of his new responsibilities is enough to send him into a panic. Theo soon accumulates a pile of debts—and discovers...

Oh, Susannah! Richard, Lord Ramsay has been brought up from the cradle with a consciousness of his duty to his family and his name. His sense of responsibility has led him to install two elderly aunts in the Dower House; educate his cousin Peter Ramsay and employ him as a steward; and provide...

Shady dealings in sunny places... In 1961, young schoolteacher Robin Fletcher is delighted to accompany her widowed aunt on a cruise from Barcelona to Venice—a voyage whose ports of call include some of the great cities of Europe. On her first night at sea, Robin is awakened by the moonlight...

When magistrate Patrick Colquhoun orders a habitual thief and ne’er-do-well transported to Botany Bay, he doesn’t realize a fourteen-year-old boy has been left behind to follow in his father’s footsteps—not until young John Pickett is hauled into Bow Street for stealing an apple from the produce...