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Katherine Penn, daughter of a scholar, was fascinated by the theatre. She wrote plays which she longed to see performed, even if that went against her father's strictures. Lord Ramsey was willing to help her make her stage dreams come true--but make-believe love had a surprising way of turning to...

The beautiful and wealthy Lady Penelope Winthrop was searching for a husband--one who would marry her and then leave her alone. The dashing and cynical Earl of Harford was willing to assist Penelope in her search through the London marriage mart. But the best laid plans can go awry . . . Regency Romance by Emily Hendrickson; originally published by Signet 

Miranda, companion to amiable but eccentric Lady Wiston, is suspicious when her ladyship's ne'er-do-well nephew Peter Daviot turns up. All my lady's previous companions have married her nephews. Can she intend penniless Miranda to make a match with the equally penniless Peter? But deeper plots...

Lady Winton's first marriage was blessedly brief; she would never marry again. Better an impoverished portrait painter than that. Lord Temple's marriage had been equally disastrous; his unfaithful wife died by her own foolishness. Julia and Noel, however, are haunted by a ghostly woman in white,...

Marianne Findlay lives next door to the Earl of Latteridge's York townhouse. Though she has never met him, it was his mother who sealed her fate years before--and drove her from polite society. Now she and Aunt Effie take in boarders and live a modest life, which is soon disrupted by the handsome...

James Underwood returned to England after the murder of his twin brother, the Earl of Ridgeway, and vowed to find the killer. Mary Northrup, now the widow of a baron, was Jamess former love, but she now appears to scorn and mistrust himanother legacy left by his brother. But James cannot pretend that...

Lady Arden Huntly entered the London season with the attitude that no lord was good enough for her, and that everyone could be the target of her sharp tongue. Captain Gareth Richmond would be well beneath her notice, but he refused to be intimidated by her arrogance. In this battle of wills, Lady...

Jane Lonsdale had been dismissed from her position at Miss Prisms Academy because the music master had tried to kiss her. Jane went to her aunt, having no idea that the housekeeper had married Lord Pargeter, who promptly died. Neighbors at nearby Swann Hall were suspicious about the will, and Lord...

Jane Ramsey was invited to her old and dear friend Nicks homecoming. His relatives believed he would now settle down with her for his bride. But Nick arrived with his Incomparable fiancé and plans to be married early in the new year. Was it only Jane who could see how wrong Aurelia was for Nick?...

Lady Barbara Stanley was devoted to her music. But she was also interested in making a marriage that would fulfill her in other ways, like the one her friend Judith had contracted. There were men in her life—the charming Marquess of Wardour, her friend Sir David Treves, and the violinist Alexander...

Pamela Comstock and Nigel Raleigh had been “courting” for several years at their families behest. Neither was enthusiastic. But Nigel is helping with French actress Flawless Fleurs memoirs and is enamored. After Fleur and her aristocratic manager, Lord Breslau, arrive at Nigels family home, Belmont,...

Joanna Pettigrew was leading a miserable life, so she decided to run away, gambling on something better. Her goal was to reach Brussels and pretty Belinda Dillon could just possibly help her, if she didnt get in Belindas way. But it was Captain Nicholas Goldsborough who took her in hand, though as...

Judith Ware arrived in London to live with her brother, after being a governess for several years. She reconnected with her friend Lady Barbara Stanley at whose home shed previously met the Duke of Sutton. The duke, blinded in the Waterloo battle, unknowingly chose Judith as his reader while he waited...