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1) Bath tangle
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Pub. Date
c1955
Description
Lady Serena Carlow's eccentric father has left her guardianship to the Marquis of Rotherham, who has complete control over her. She is displeased to say the least, but when she spends time with the Marquis, she can't help but wonder if her feelings are those of sheer aggravation or if they are of a more tender nature
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Series
Pub. Date
c1972
Description
Georgette Heyer's Regency romance novels have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her smart, independent heroines and dashing heroes brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history, when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed nobility, and romantic intrigues ruled the day.
The spirited and independent Miss Annis Wychwood is twenty-nine and well past the age for falling in love.
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Series
Pub. Date
1991
Description
"A lightsome, brightsome comedy." —Kirkus Reviews
"Nimble, light-hearted chronicle of high London society in the time of the Regency." —The New Yorker
Georgette Heyer's sparkling romances have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her characters brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history—when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed
...4) The Countess
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Andrea Jameson marries a widowed earl, only to fall in love with his nephew. To complicate things further, someone is trying to kill her.
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Pub. Date
c2005
Description
When Kat Adair plunges into the waves to rescue a drowning man, it is just the beginning of an odyssey that will sweep the fisherman's daughter into danger and desire. Convinced she is in love with the man she saved, Egyptologist David Turnberry, she feigns amnesia, thus enabling her to linger among the highborn. Hunter MacDonald, rugged archaeologist, is wise to her little charade -- and determined to protect his best friend.
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Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Drake turns out another fine historical in this Victorian murder mystery/romance. In the final years of Queen Victoria's reign, a series of murders of outspoken antiroyalists is stirring up hostility toward the crown-not a matter of interest to many young ladies of the 1890s, but gently reared orphan Ally Grayson is a serious writer who takes the matter to heart. That gives her something in common with Mark Farrow, the nobleman she abruptly learns...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
Fighting against cultural expectations, common sense, and a mentor who is not as he seems, Isabella Goodrich leaves her predictable Oxford life behind and sets sail to a new world in order to become a missionary in the Far East in this first novel in the Rollicking Regency series.
11) My fair captain
Author
Series
Sci-regency volume 1
Pub. Date
2008
Description
A storm of political intrigue, murderous mayhem, and sexual hungers is brewing on planet Regelence.
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Pub. Date
[2008], ©1946.
Description
"A fateful mistake...
When Elinor Rochdale boards the wrong coach, she ends up not at her prospective employer's home but at the estate of Eustace Cheviot, a dissipated and ruined young man on the verge of death.
A momentous decision...
His cousin, Mr Ned Carlyon, persuades Elinor to marry Eustace as a simple business arrangement. By morning, Elinor is a rich widow, but finds herself embroiled with an international spy ring, housebreakers, uninvited...
13) April Lady
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Pub. Date
[2009]
Description
"Graceful and exciting ... the best kind of 'escape' story." —LIBRARY JOURNAL
What seems a marriage of convenience...
When young newlywed Lady Nell Cardross begins to fill her days with fashion and frivolity, the earl has to wonder whether she really did marry him for his money, as his family so helpfully suggests. And now Nell doesn't dare tell him the truth ...
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...14) Arabella
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Series
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
When Arabella Tallant meets Robert Beaumaris, an arrogant bachelor, she is horrified when he accuses her of being just another in a long line of women who are interested in him only for his money. Determined to save face, Arabella tells a lie--declaring that the last thing she needs is a rich husband because she happens to be an heiress herself. When word of Arabella's "wealth" leaks out, she finds herself pursued by every fortune hunter in London--but...
15) The Corinthian
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Pub. Date
c2009
Description
When a man comes across a beautiful young woman climbing out of a window in a bid to escape, he finds the ideal opportunity to realize his own escape in this sparkling Regency romance with a decidedly Shakespearean twist.
Author
Pub. Date
2009.
Description
Stubborn seclusion is just one of the obstacles in the way of this British couple. That's not even counting the pressures they are about to face when society gets wind of their unconventional romance....Lord Nicholas Kenswick wants no more of the world. So God brings the world to him. Christina Wakelin, the vicar's daughter, literally falls into his arms, just before his late brother's baby is sent to him to raise. But is love enough for a nobleman...
19) Frederica
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When Frederica brings her younger siblings to London determined to secure a brilliant marriage for her beautiful sister, she seeks out their distant cousin, the Marquis of Alverstoke. Lovely, competent and refreshingly straightforward, she makes such a strong impression that the Marquis agrees to help launch them all into society. Normally wary of his family, Lord Alverstoke does his best to keep his distance. But with his enterprising country cousins...
20) A civil contract
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Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Adam Deveril, the new Viscount Lynton, is madly in love with the beautiful Julia Oversley. But he has returned from the Peninsular War to find his family on the brink of ruin and his ancestral home mortgaged to the hilt. He has little choice when he is introduced to Mr. Jonathan Chawleigh, a City man of apparently unlimited wealth and no social ambitions for himself--but with his eyes firmly fixed on a suitable match for his only daughter, the quiet...
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