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  • The Thames River Murders by Ashley Gardner

    The Thames River Murders by Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Captain Lacey is asked by Peter Thompson of the Thames River Police to help him investigate a cold case–the murder of a woman found near the docks Thompson patrols. The investigation was sidelined, considered unsolvable, but Thompson has long wished to find her killer. Captain Lacey joins him in the hunt, entering a part of society that is closed to outsiders...
  • Miss Determined by Grace Burrowes

    Miss Determined by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Trevor, Marquess of Tavistock, has finally decided to stop larking around on the Continent, come home, and take a bride. His solicitors applaud his decision to settle down, provided he chooses a wealthy young lady to be his marchioness. Those years Trevor spent seeing the world were bad years for the lordly coffers...
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  • Murder in Grosvenor Square by Ashley Gardner

    Murder in Grosvenor Square by Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 21 ratings
    Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries, Book 9. This is a full-length novel of 86,000 words (32 chapters). Captain Gabriel Lacey begins Spring 1818 preparing for a duel. But while he focuses on the affair of honor, darkness, greed, and death stalk the streets of London and bring tragedy to a family Lacey has grown close to...
  • A Provincial Peer by Sian Ann Bessey

    A Provincial Peer by Sian Ann Bessey

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lord Benning is no ordinary nobleman. The heir to an earldom, he feels more at home working on the farm at his country estate than socializing in the ballrooms of London. So when a mysterious, veiled woman mistakes him for a farmhand, he takes the assumption in stride. And though he is not offended, he is intrigued...
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    georgian  regency  historical  length-medium
  • A Matchmaking Mismatch by Martha Keyes

    A Matchmaking Mismatch by Martha Keyes

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Love lessons have never gone so awry...Miss Ruth Hawthorn helps support her fatherless family the only way she can: doling out love advice in a local newspaper column under an assumed name, The Swan...
  • Scandalous by Minerva Spencer

    Scandalous by Minerva Spencer

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 18 ratings
    "Have you no decency?" Straight-laced missionary Sarah Fisher has never met a man like Captain Martin Bouchard. He is the most beautiful person—male or female—she's ever seen. Overwhelmingly masculine, elegantly attired despite months at sea, he is in complete command of everyone and everything around him: everyone, that is, except Sarah...
  • Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer

    Devil's Cub by Georgette Heyer

    Rated: 4.09 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 50 ratings
    THE ABDUCTION Dominic Alistair, Marquis of Vidal is a bad lot a rake and seducer, reckless, heedless, and possessed of a murderous temper. He is known by friend and foe alike as the "Devil's Cub." Yet as the handsome and wealthy heir to a Dukedom, he is considered a good prospect on the marriage market...
  • The Mistletoe Dare by Emma V. Leech

    The Mistletoe Dare by Emma V. Leech

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An Outspoken Beauty…When Lady Georgina Anderson goes to spend Christmas with her godparents, The Duke and Duchess of Bedwin, she is full of anticipation. Spending the festive season with the large, boisterous family in their splendid home, away from Scotland and her three annoying older brothers will be nothing short of bliss...
  • An Affair for Aumont by J.A. Rock, Lisa Henry

    An Affair for Aumont by J.A. Rock, Lisa Henry

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    All he wants is the love he lost.Four years ago, Louis-Charles Aumont, the Marquis de Montespan, chose duty over the man he loved. And then the man he loved chose death in service to England. Now, after finally cutting ties with his king, Aumont is living in a slum in Seven Dials–and intending to die there too...
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    regency  georgian  historical  m-m  queer  length-short
  • Snapdragons by Sarah M. Eden

    Snapdragons by Sarah M. Eden

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 8 ratings
    The fateful day has arrived. Niles Greenberry has always known his family would eventually arrange a marriage for him, but he is certain that marrying Miss Penelope Seymour will cost him every dream he has. He’ll do anything to avoid the match altogether—even if it means disappearing. But the lovely Miss Seymour will not be so easily brushed aside...
  • Worth More Than Rubies: A Regency Holiday Novella by Grace Burrowes

    Worth More Than Rubies: A Regency Holiday Novella by Grace Burrowes

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    All the Duke of Dunfallon wants this holiday season is a respite from the machinations of the matchmakers. When pursued by a particularly determined would-be duchess, he ducks into the West Bartholomew Street Lending Library. Librarian Emerald Armstrong sees a dapper gent in a bit of a hurry and mistakes Dunfallon for a curate overdue for his assignation with West Bart’s theological collection...
  • The Alexandria Affair by Ashley Gardner

    The Alexandria Affair by Ashley Gardner

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Captain Gabriel Lacey accompanies famous dandy Lucius Grenville to Egypt, a land that Lacey has long anticipated visiting. Lacey travels there for more than a simple holiday, however--James Denis has tasked him with finding an "object" in Alexandria and procuring it, whatever the cost.The task does not turn out to be so simple...
  • Lily of the Valley by Sarah M. Eden

    Lily of the Valley by Sarah M. Eden

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Cumberland, 1786Amateur inventor Kester Barrington prefers the peace and quiet of his estate to the bustle of Society. But when his tight-knit group of friends, the Gents, descends on Livingsley Hall for their annual gathering, he stoically joins in their activities. It all seems exhausting—until an unexpected addition to the party catches his eye: his new neighbor, the lovely Violet...
  • Loved and Found by Christi Caldwell

    Loved and Found by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    In the latest installment in the Scandalous Affairs Series, it's never too late for a second-chance at love...Lieutenant Thaddeus Phippen has lived a lifetime away from the only love he ever knew, Lady Edith, a powerful duke's daughter. Thaddeus has now returned from fighting Boney's forces, ready to put aside tragic battlefield remembrances and the memory of past heartbreak of love lost...
  • A Lady's Guide to a Gentleman's Heart by Christi Caldwell

    A Lady's Guide to a Gentleman's Heart by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 16 ratings
    Christi Caldwell's brand-new Regency book, "A Lady's Guide to a Gentleman's Heart" is sure to fill your heart with cheer and warmth this winter season! Don't miss out on the long-awaited second book in The Heart of a Scandal series!!Honor demands he give her up- Heath Whitworth, Marquess of Mulgrave and heir to a dukedom, is honorable to his handsome bones...
  • Crown of Dreams by Kimberly Cates

    Crown of Dreams by Kimberly Cates

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    The award-winning author of Only Forever takes readers on a passionate and irresistible adventure set in 18th-century Scotland. Only weeks before she's to wed, lovely Devlin Chastain falls under the spell of a hotheaded Scottish rebel, who's willing to die for Bonnie Prince Charlie, Young Pretender to the British throne...
  • Cocky Butler by Annabelle Anders

    Cocky Butler by Annabelle Anders

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    A duke pretending to be a butler and a very suspicious spinster realize that choosing love isn’t as easy as one might think…“The loser must perform butler duties for the winner throughout the Season this spring.” The Duke of Blackheart should never have accepted the wager...
  • The Earl and His Lady by Sally Britton

    The Earl and His Lady by Sally Britton

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 12 ratings
    Lady Virginia Macon, the recently widowed Baroness of Heatherton, has an impossible decision to make. Her late husband’s unscrupulous brother wants to take her sons away from her, and the British courts are on his side, unless she marries a man willing to be the boys’ guardian. Locking her heart away and devoting herself to her children is the only way Virginia can countenance such a decision...
  • A Hero for Lady Abigail by Maggie Dallen, Katherine Ann Madison

    A Hero for Lady Abigail by Maggie Dallen, Katherine Ann Madison

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    With one season left for Lady Abigail to find a husband, now is certainly not the time to lose her head...or her heart.No one would mistake Lady Abigail for a delicate wallflower. In fact, she's more like the gardener's shears. But with her parents' ultimatum still ringing in her ears, “Choose a husband now or we’ll choose for you,” Lady Abigail is desperate...
  • The Duke of Seduction by Darcy Burke

    The Duke of Seduction by Darcy Burke

    Rated: 4.28 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lady Lavinia Gillingham prefers rocks and dirt to marriage. Her passion is science, and she’s determined to marry if—and only if—she finds a man who supports her interests and intellect. So far, she’s managed to avoid attention on the Marriage Mart, but when the Duke of Seduction pens anonymous letters singing her praises, she suddenly become the toast of the ton and matrimony seems imminent...
  • The Lure of the Moonflower by Lauren Willig

    The Lure of the Moonflower by Lauren Willig

    Rated: 4.06 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 27 ratings
    In the final Pink Carnation novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Mark of the Midnight Manzanilla, Napoleon has occupied Lisbon, and Jane Wooliston, aka the Pink Carnation, teams up with a rogue agent to protect the escaped Queen of Portugal.   Portugal, December 1807...
  • Five Days with a Duke by Christi Caldwell

    Five Days with a Duke by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The 5th and final installment in Christi Caldwell's Heart of a Scandal series will have readers sighing, swooning, and laughing out loud! Years earlier, Connell Wordsworth, the Duke of Renaud gave up the woman he wanted for the responsibilities thrust upon him. After loss upon loss, he heads to London, for a new home with no memories, no staff, and the only thing he wants in life…to be alone...
  • The Unassuming Curator by Sian Ann Bessey, FIC027070

    The Unassuming Curator by Sian Ann Bessey, FIC027070

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Emily Norton loves nothing more than losing herself within the pages of a good book. But the solitary pastime is poor preparation for participating in the dreaded London Season. Her trepidation over formally entering Society is all-encompassing, until she stumbles upon an enigmatic gentleman digging up flowers in a hedgerow...
  • One Summer of Surrender by Jess Michaels

    One Summer of Surrender by Jess Michaels

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    A hot historical romance from USA Today Bestselling Romance Author Jess Michaels Lucien, the Earl of Stenfax has been engaged twice, but only in love once. That was with his childhood sweetheart, Elise. When she threw him over for a man with more money and a higher ranking title, it broke him. Now she’s widowed and he finds himself drawn to her again, like a moth to her flame...
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    regency  tall-heroine  historical
  • An Affair by the Sea by Erica Ridley

    An Affair by the Sea by Erica Ridley

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    What happens when a wallflower's extremely make-believe fake suitor appears in the flesh just in time to ruin all her spinsterly plans?Orphaned pianist Allegra Brown is a poor relation with nothing much to recommend her, save a minuscule dowry and a very big imagination...
  • Autumn Duchess by Lucinda Brant

    Autumn Duchess by Lucinda Brant

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A beautiful duchess mourns for her beloved. A sun-bronzed merchant returns to claim a birthright. Disparate souls in need of love and renewal. Paths cross and the journey begins... The Roxton family saga continues...
  • The Vicomte's Masquerade (Georgians in Paris) by Sofi Laporte

    The Vicomte's Masquerade (Georgians in Paris) by Sofi Laporte

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    ♥★♥★♥★ He's the last man she’d ever marry. She’s the last woman he’ll ever love.Sent to Paris with her elderly chaperone, Miss Melinda Finlay resists her arranged marriage to a haughty French vicomte...
  • A Match Gone Awry by Arlem Hawks

    A Match Gone Awry by Arlem Hawks

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    She needs a match. He's here to help.Desperate to leave Paris, Gabrielle d’Amilly has set her sights on an English diplomat who can whisk her away to a happier life. But when an attempt to catch his eye goes wrong, she enlists the British navy lieutenant Harvey Barlow to help in her scheme...
  • Sleepless at Midnight by Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Sleepless at Midnight by Jacquie D'Alessandro

    Rated: 4.03 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 36 ratings
    The ladies in London are abuzz over Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, especially Miss Sarah Moorehouse. Her imagination is fired up, so when she spies Matthew Devenport, Marquess Langston, mysteriously sneaking home in the wee hours clutching a shovel, she simply must investigate...
  • The Marquis and the Vixen by Collette Cameron

    The Marquis and the Vixen by Collette Cameron

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The only thing more passionate than their differences is their chemistry… There is nothing Blythe Culpepper wants less than a Season in London. Except Lord Leventhrope. She definitely wants nothing to do with that odious (and admittedly handsome) man. So, imagine her dismay when she’s saddled with both... Tristan has no interest in social gatherings...
  • My Captive Earl by Emily Windsor

    My Captive Earl by Emily Windsor

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    The Earl of Rookdean did not want to host a house party. Miss Clara Lockwood did not want to attend the Earl of Rookdean’s house party. You don’t always get what you want… At a masquerade ball on the opening night, Rookdean encounters a captivating Grecian-dressed goddess...
  • The Valet Experiment by Ellie St. Clair

    The Valet Experiment by Ellie St. Clair

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    How does he ever protect a woman whose greatest danger is herself?Jemima St. Vincent may now live in one of the finest homes in London, but she hasn't let that change anything. She is still going to become a renowned chemist—even if she has to put out a few fires along the way...
  • No Good Dare goes Unpunished by Alyssa Clarke

    No Good Dare goes Unpunished by Alyssa Clarke

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Miss Louisa Templeton is considered the shy mouse of the secret ladies’ club held at 48 Berkeley Square but after her friends on a dare kidnapped Sebastian Colfax, the Marquess and Marsden’s cat, Queen, Louisa finds that the delectable and far too dangerous marquess is showing an unusual and scandalous interest in...
  • The Venus and the Viscount by Scarlett Scott

    The Venus and the Viscount by Scarlett Scott

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    A hellion. A hoyden. Scandalously flawed.Flouting convention and shocking society has become the primary source of entertainment for Lady Charity Manners. She makes no apologies for her wild ways, nor does she have any intention of changing.As for marriage? No, thank you. She would far prefer to live an independent life on the Continent...
  • The Importance of Being Eunice by Claudia Stone

    The Importance of Being Eunice by Claudia Stone

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A duke, a spinster, a faux engagement; what could possibly go wrong? For four seasons Lady Eunice was quite content with the mantle of wallflower. Bespectacled, frumpy, and put-upon by her overbearing mother, all she really wished to do was vanish from London once she came of age to inherit her fortune...
  • Cut to the Quick by Kate Ross

    Cut to the Quick by Kate Ross

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 29 ratings
    THERE'S A BEAUTIFUL YOUNG WOMAN IN JULIAN KESTREL'S BED. UNFORTUNATELY, SHE'S DEAD. Add the unflappable Julian Kestrel to the ranks of great sleuths of ages past. He's the very model of a proper Beau Brummell--except for his unusual willingness to plunge headlong into murder investigations...
  • The Importance of Being Wanton by Christi Caldwell

    The Importance of Being Wanton by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    USA Today bestselling author Christi Caldwell turns polite London society on its head in a delightful romance of unguarded hearts, second chances, and a scandalous rivalry between the sexes.Emma Gately and the Earl of Scarsdale were betrothed as children―less a vow of future happiness than an obligation...
  • Earl of Wainthorpe by Collette Cameron

    Earl of Wainthorpe by Collette Cameron

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Could you ever love the unrepentant rake who won you in a wager? He didn't gamble on losing his heart when he won her at the gaming tables. Pierce, the Earl of Wainthorpe has finally thwarted his worst enemy. Except he can't revel in his victory after winning his foe's ward in a winner-takes-all wager...
  • The Make-Believe Widow by Darcy Burke

    The Make-Believe Widow by Darcy Burke

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Widower James Ludlow, Earl of Rotherham, attends a house party in search of a mother for his two daughters, and his primary requirement is that he doesn’t fall in love. Having already given that emotion to his former wife without reciprocation, he prefers a mutually beneficial arrangement without sentimentality...
  • Runaway Wallflower by Bianca Blythe

    Runaway Wallflower by Bianca Blythe

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    One Swarthy Sea Captain Lord Rupert Haywood, future Duke of Belmonte, has no desire to manage an estate with his corrupt father. He prefers to roam the ocean with his crew of rugged pirates. One Awkward American Ever since Louisa Carmichael's brother unexpectedly inherited a dukedom, her mother's expectations for her have veered in a distinctly vertical direction...
  • Some Brief Folly by Patricia Veryan

    Some Brief Folly by Patricia Veryan

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 7 ratings
    When I meet the man who will claim my heart, I think I will know him at once. They called her "The Unattainable." A regal beauty who had besotted half of London's elibible gentlemen with love. And though Miss Euphemia (Mia) Buchanan liked them all, love was simply not in the picture. But the accident was to change all that. The accident that had almost killed her and her brother...
  • Talk of the Town by Joan Smith

    Talk of the Town by Joan Smith

    Rated: 4.13 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 8 ratings
    Daphne Ingleside's visit to her Aunt Effie in London was meant to add a little spark to her placid country life. And it did--once the two women decided to write Effie's memoirs. For Effie, a faded divorcée, had been the beauty of London in her day, and many of the town feared their misbehavior would be disclosed. The Duke of St...
  • Her Husband, the Rake by Cynthia Wright

    Her Husband, the Rake by Cynthia Wright

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    “And they lived happily ever after...” Or did they?Can a rake like André Raveneau truly be tamed into a domesticated husband and father...or will he remain a pacing tiger, destined to break free of his cage?Come into the Raveneaus’ Connecticut home, as Devon struggles to balance the needs of her little children with the demands of a restless, hot-blooded husband...
  • A Lady Never Surrenders by Bronwen Evans

    A Lady Never Surrenders by Bronwen Evans

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling Author, Bronwen Evans comes her new Sisterhood of Scandal series. A group of ladies whose friendship is based on ensuring they can take on the world dominated by their men folk. No male relative is going to choose their destinies.Shhh. Blue Stocking Miss Tiffany Deveraux has a secret. The poor orphan is not so poor...
  • Molly's Tale by Jayne Davis

    Molly's Tale by Jayne Davis

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Molly Simons can’t wait to see the world beyond Marstone Park, hoping for excitement and even romance. But is she ready for what she will find?As maid to Lady Isabella, the youngest daughter of the Earl of Marstone, a trip to London feels like an adventure to Molly. Footman Jem Langton will be going too. He’s a favourite of hers, but unfortunately he doesn’t seem to return her feelings...
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    georgian  regency  historical  length-short
  • Midwinter Magic: A Rockliffe Novella by Stella Riley

    Midwinter Magic: A Rockliffe Novella by Stella Riley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Celebrate among old friends ... and perhaps a gate-crasher or two. There will be wassailers and kissing-boughs; music, dancing and romance; laughter and some tears. Above all, expect the unexpected because at Christmas anything can happen.So accept your invitation for what promises to be the most talked-of house-party of 1778 ... and is also a last Huzzah to the Rockliffe series...
    Categorized as:
    regency  georgian  historical  humor  length-short
  • King George's Man by Jayne Davis

    King George's Man by Jayne Davis

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Nell discovers a dangerous plot. Will she lose her life as well as her heart?Nell works hard as an unpaid cook in her uncle’s inn on the lonely, windswept moors. She dreams of something more; a good marriage might be too much to hope for, but perhaps she could find employment in a place less miserable than this one...
  • Salt Redux by Lucinda Brant

    Salt Redux by Lucinda Brant

    Rated: 4.05 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Jane and Salt—four years of Happily Ever After Sir Antony Templestowe—four years of Exile Lady Caroline—four years of Heartache Diana St. John—four years plotting Revenge The time has come..
    Categorized as:
    regency  georgian  historical  length-medium
  • The Passion of the Purple Plumeria by Lauren Willig

    The Passion of the Purple Plumeria by Lauren Willig

    Rated: 3.96 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 2 of 5
    Behind closed doors [?] · 30 ratings
    Colonel William Reid has returned home from India to retire near his children, who are safely stowed in an academy in Bath. Upon his return to the Isles, however, he finds that one of his daughters has vanished, along with one of her classmates...
  • The Admiral’s Heart by Danelle Harmon

    The Admiral’s Heart by Danelle Harmon

    Rated: 4.01 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    England, 1774. Ten years have elapsed since Lady Philippa Ponsonby Hatfield made a painful sacrifice in giving up the dashing Royal Navy captain with whom she was desperately in love...
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