Belgrave House: 700 books

Once, in a fit of temper, Jessabelle ran away from her tempestuous marriage, only to end up being held to ransom by a highwayman. Then her disagreeable, devilishly attractive husband divorced her, resulting in her exile from Polite Society. Now the Earl of Pennymount plans to take a second countess,...

Escapades: Four Regency Novellas. The Castawaya young lady who plans a deception has a last minute change of heart; The Wooing of Lord Walfordan enterprising young lady outwits a gambling gentleman; …and a Sixpence for Her ShoeCatherine hopes her lucky sixpence will bring an offer of marriage; Melodya...

The legendarily libidinous Loversalls are notorious for their amorous

Clara Christopher had met Lord Allingcote several years previously at a houseparty, when he had chosen her as his flirt. But hed disappeared from her life, and now reappeared escorting the outrageously beautiful Nel Muldoon to a wedding for his cousin. Though his lordship still had eyes for Clara,...

Lydia Trevelyn and her neighbor, Lord Beaumont, have thwarted family plans for a match. But when they discover a body in a local river, and it seems possible the dead woman was her fathers mistress, the two join forces to discover the villain who has murdered the young woman. Beau is intrigued when...

For the writer and anyone else interested in Renaissance England (1485-1649), this remarkable resource covers the day-to-day details: fashions, food, customs, family life, the Royal Court, law and punishment, holidays, city and rural living, seafaring and land occupations, alehouses, marriage, birth...

All London is abuzz with speculation about charming Lord March, who departed White's one night six months ago and never made it home to his beloved wife. Not even Bow Street has been able to trace him one step. And then suddenly he reappears, his memory a blank, a case of priceless jewels in his hand-- Regency Romance by Maggie MacKeever; originally published by Fawcett Coventry

Because Valerie Ford is tall with lion-like eyes and hair, her aunt chooses her to come to Troy Fenners to act as model for Aunt Loos latest heroine, Gloria. Valerie is expected to accomplish amazing featsand to attend séances with a distant French cousin and a handsome, though poor, scholar. Why does...

Amy Talbot enjoys doing watercolors of plants, but when her brother discovers a body in the water meadow she is dismayed. There are several strangers around Chilton Abbas, and Mr. Renshaw with his bamboozling tales of India, seems a rather suspect one. His interest in Amy (with her large dowry) also...

Sir Nicholas Grenville fought a disastrous duel for Laura Milbanke’s honor, and, believing himself dying, he married her so she wouldn’t be poverty-stricken. But the baronet didn’t die. Laura took him to his home, King’s Cliff, where beautiful Augustine Townsend awaited him. Laura had a decision...

Veronica Ganz is a bully. She has beaten up everybody in all her classes and has never been challenged…until little Peter Wedemeyer, who only comes up to her shoulder, moves into the neighborhood. Taunting, teasing and always one step ahead of her mighty fists, Veronica must find a way to teach him...

Chloe Barwick manages the rundown family estate while her brother Edward plays poet. Her neighbors Lord Carnforth and his daughter Emily seem to be struggling, too, until a wealthy nephew, Jack Gamble, comes home from India. Chloe is suspicious of Jack lending money to her brother, and of Jacks engagement...

Summoned to the bedside of a dying friend, Dr. Earl Garnet is called upon to take a life.