Belgrave House: 700 books

Wounded and trapped behind enemy lines, Major Lord Tyverne was rescued by Lieutenant George Croft, who subsequently died. Trying to repay the enormous debt he owed, Tyverne offered marriage to Delia Croft. Though her obnoxious cousin kept her on insufficient monies and Georges fiancé was devastatingly...

When Rosellen Lockharte, penmanship teacher at a girls school, believes she is dying from influenza, she feverishly pens letters to those who have, through various misdeeds, brought her to this pass. And to forgive them. Well, most of them. Let Lord Stanford bear the responsibility for her death always. Except that he arrives in time to rescue her. Originally published by Signet

Lord Carroll had plans for marrying off his three beautiful daughters--by Christmas. Joia, Hollice and Meredith had plans of their own. Joia wasn't going to marry a rake; Holly wasn't going to be pushed into marriage with her childhood friend; and Merry wasn't sure she'd marry at all. But the magical...

Adventurous Lady Emilyanne had no one but Viscount Stokely to turn to when her guardian tried to force her to marry his awful stepson. So the viscount married her while on leave and returned to his army unit. Which left Lady Em to attend to estate and ton matters pretty much as she saw fiteven if...

Ada Westlake has turned down Viscount Ashmeadagain, convinced that a marriage of convenience would ruin their perfect friendship. She then also fails to latch onto the fortune in coins she finds in her apple orchard, assuming it is tainted money. Though the viscount knows something about that money,...

Kathlyn Partland mistrusted Lord Chase's offer to pay her for appearing in public with him. But she was in need of the money, and he was in need of proving to Society that he was a rake. Chase assured her it was a ruse, that he believed both bride and groom should arrive at marriage with innocence intact. Regency Romance by Barbara Metzger; originally published by Fawcett Crest

When Rowanne Wimberley meets Carey Delverson, one of the Delverson Devils, at Almack's, he is about to join his regiment in the Peninsula. Carey's service is grueling, and his new sense of responsibility makes him offer (unsuccessfully) for a young relative. Rowanne isn't waiting for this devil to...

Rakish Lord Hartleigh discovers a baby on his doorstep. Because he hasn't the least idea how to care for it, he turns to his neighbor's housekeeper, the disapproving Mrs. Carissa Kane, for assistance. The well-born Carissa, abandoned by her husband and her own family, has been forced along with her...

Viscount Knowle--war hero, society darling and rising political star--expected to inherit his aunt's Primrose Cottage--but she left it to her dogs, and her companion, Angelina Armstead. Angelina would not be reasoned, bribed, threatened or even kissed into giving in to Knowle's shameless tricks to secure the property. Regency Romance by Barbara Metzger; originally published by Fawcett Crest

When one of the Duke of Caswells painted portraits started talking to him, he knew hed best find treatment for his problem. Sir Osgood Bannister offered such a programand expected his niece, Lilyanne, to carry out the bland regimen. Lilyanne was not at all the sort of woman the duke would ordinarily...

Lady Bounty had her heart broken by the libertine Marquess of Woodvale ten years ago. When he comes wooing her, she will have none of it, instead spending her energies on helping a friend break an unwanted betrothal. Nicholas, too, was trying to help a cousin avoid an unsuitable marriage. All their...

Lady Cassiopeia Anderbys spendthrift stepbrother plans to sell her on the London marriage mart to the highest bidder. He holds a threat over her to assure her compliance. When Cassie meets Richard Hawke, a self-made man with a disastrous past, she realizes he is not a gentleman but an adventurer....

Juliet Winterton refused to marry a drunken gambler her brother had chosen, so she ran away and established herself on the country estate of the absent Alexander Barr, Viscount Hawkswood. Pretending to be his wife was simpleuntil he showed up. Alexander was a rake, but he was also a gentleman, so...

Roberta Gellis has reimagined the Greek myth of Hades and Persephone, in all its colorful intensity. Persephone has been restless under her domineering mother, Demeter. When Hades kidnaps her to his Underworld and teaches her what “gift” she has, he is threatened by the other mages to return her...