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  • Fatal by Design by Cara Devlin

    Fatal by Design by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    A summer house party in the English countryside.A missing rare jewel.An abducted viscountess.The secrets and complications keeping Audrey and Hugh apart begin to unravel when they team up to solve a puzzling mystery surrounding the disappearance of Audrey’s sister, the Viscountess Redding, and a long-lost ring worth a fortune...
  • Taken to the Grave by Cara Devlin

    Taken to the Grave by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series comes to a thrilling conclusion in the seventh and final book, Taken to the Grave.As Audrey Sinclair reaches the end of her mourning period, she and Hugh Marsden, the Viscount Neatham, are at long last looking toward their future together — and hoping for a respite from the dangerous criminal investigations they’ve found themselves entrenched in...
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  • Deadly Lies by Carla Simpson

    Deadly Lies by Carla Simpson

    Rated: 4.55 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A young woman has been murdered at the prime of her life, striking fear into the hearts of women across London and anguish into the heart of her dear fiancé.There are no answers, only a single red rose left on the young woman’s body, the calling card once used for a cold-blooded killer who left a trail of dead women across the East End years ago...
  • The Bachelor Mr Darcy by Julie Cooper

    The Bachelor Mr Darcy by Julie Cooper

    Rated: 4.61 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Here I am, surrounded by heiresses without so much as a murmur from my heart MR FITZWILLIAM DARCY'S FAMILY has decided it is time for him to select a wife and marry. To that end, Pemberley is suddenly inundated with eligible young ladies vying for his time and attention. Disinterested in the notion, Mr Darcy’s attention is on his myriad other troubles...
  • Sin Like Flynn by Kathryn Le Veque, Alexa Aston

    Sin Like Flynn by Kathryn Le Veque, Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    From USA Today Bestselling author Kathryn Le Veque and #1 Amazon Bestselling author Alexa Aston, the Regency Duet you've been waiting for... meet the sensual, handsome, and naughty Sinning Flynns.London will never be the same...Mad King George III shocks Polite Society when he awards Cornish smuggler Sean Flynn, descended from an Irish pirate, an earldom and lands in Cornwall...
  • Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

    Who Buries the Dead by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 33 ratings
    The grisly murder of a West Indies slave owner and the reappearance of a dangerous enemy from Sebastian St. Cyr’s past combine to put C. S. Harris’s “troubled but compelling antihero” (Booklist) to the ultimate test in this taut, thrilling mystery.London, 1813. The vicious decapitation of Stanley Preston, a wealthy, socially ambitious plantation owner, at Bloody Bridge draws Sebastian St...
  • When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

    When Falcons Fall by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Ayleswick-on-Teme, England, 1813. Sebastian has come to this seemingly peaceful Shropshire village to honor a slain friend and to learn more about his own ancestry. But when the body of a lovely widow is found on the banks of the River Teme, a bottle of laudanum at her side, the village’s inexperienced new magistrate turns to St. Cyr for help...
  • What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

    What Remains of Heaven by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The latest request for help from Sebastian St. Cyr, Viscount Devlin--from the Archbishop of Canterbury, no less--is undeniably intriguing: The bodies of two men have been found in an ancient crypt, their violent deaths separated by decades. One is the Bishop of London, the elderly Archbishop's favored but controversial successor...
    Categorized as:
    suspense  regency  historical  mystery  length-medium  m-f
  • Seven Nights with the Duke by Alyssa Clarke

    Seven Nights with the Duke by Alyssa Clarke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Miss Elizabeth ‘Lizzy’ Fairbanks cannot forget a few abandoned moments with Rannulf Headley, the Duke of Ravenswood. Their romance had begun by accident until it ended when she discovered they were worlds apart.Now that her brother is the new Earl of Celdon, the very bad Fairbanks have been trying to behave themselves and fit into London society...
  • A Wager too Wicked by Alyssa Clarke

    A Wager too Wicked by Alyssa Clarke

    Rated: 4.45 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Love becomes the ultimate gamble when a wager turns into a passionate affair.Lady Victoria Knightly is determined to prevent her cousin from being trapped in a loveless marriage. To achieve this, she decides to spy on Ethan Darlington, the formidable Earl of Townsend, hoping to uncover secrets to thwart his courtship intentions...
    Categorized as:
    regency  virgin heroine  historical
  • Tamed by the Lyon by Chasity Bowlin

    Tamed by the Lyon by Chasity Bowlin

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    It was their first kiss, possibly her first kiss ever. All the more reason to get it right.Abandoned at the altar by her groom in favor of her younger sister, Miss Madeline Keyes has become an object of pity, scorn and scandal. Rather than flee to the countryside to rusticate as a spinster with her less than loving parents, she seeks the aid of Mrs...
  • The Moonstone Marquess by Meara Platt

    The Moonstone Marquess by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 14 ratings
    What happens when a battle-scarred hero bent on destroying himself meets an irresistible force by the name of Phoebe?Lady Phoebe Killigrew is appalled by the scandalous country parties their new neighbor, a war hero marquess, is holding at his estate in Moonstone Landing. She has every intention of keeping well away from him, until a governess arrives at her door with his two nieces...
    Categorized as:
    regency  virgin heroine  victorian  historical  m-f
  • Nature of the Crime by Cara Devlin

    Nature of the Crime by Cara Devlin

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    The Bow Street Duchess Mystery series continues in January 2024 with the sixth Audrey Sinclair and Hugh Marsden investigation...When a fellow passenger is found dead on Audrey’s packet ship from France, a mysterious note on the body points to her as the killer...
  • What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris

    What the Devil Knows by C.S. Harris

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Sebastian St. Cyr thought a notorious killer had been brought to justice until a shocking series of gruesome new murders stuns the city in this thrilling historical mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of Who Speaks for the Damned.It's October 1814. The war with France is finally over and Europe's diplomats are convening in Vienna for a conference that will put their world back together...
  • Made for the Marquess by Alexa Aston

    Made for the Marquess by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    First sons inherit all. Third sons are promised to the church. Second sons do their duty and serve in the military—unless fate intervenes and turns their lives upside down...
  • The Captain's Heiress by Amy Jarecki

    The Captain's Heiress by Amy Jarecki

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Captain Gibb MacGalloway might adore women, but he does not allow them aboard his ship…Females are too distracting for his crew—and too distracting for him, truth be told. But when his brother, the Duke of Dunscaby, asks him to provide safe passage to Miss Isabella Harcourt, the daughter of an old family friend, Gibb has no choice but to bend his rules...
  • Nameless by Julie Cooper

    Nameless by Julie Cooper

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    “This was not a man who would explode in a rage, or who would give way to shame or temper...which meant my choices were simple: either he had killed her in cold blood, or he had not killed her at all.”ORPHANED AND ALONE IN THE WORLD, Elizabeth Bennet has found reasonable contentment as a companion to the Dowager Countess of Matlock, the affairs of 1811 and Fitzwilliam Darcy long forgotten...
    Categorized as:
    regency  suspense  historical  length-medium
  • The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl by AnneMarie Brear

    The Orphan in the Peacock Shawl by AnneMarie Brear

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Yorkshire Dales 1850As a terrible storm rages, Annabelle Wallis is shocked to find a distressed young woman at her cottage door, heavy with child. Moments later a baby girl is born. But by dawn, the mother has vanished, leaving behind the helpless child wrapped only in a silk peacock shawl...
  • An Accidental Meeting by Melanie Rachel

    An Accidental Meeting by Melanie Rachel

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    An accident at Pemberley leads to the revelation of a family secret--and might give Darcy a second chance to win Elizabeth's heart.Fitzwilliam Darcy has been working to improve himself since Elizabeth Bennet’s scorching rejection of his proposal four months ago...
  • The Sapphire Intrigue: A Crown Jewels Regency Mystery by Lynn Morrison, Anne Radcliffe

    The Sapphire Intrigue: A Crown Jewels Regency Mystery by Lynn Morrison, Anne Radcliffe

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A stolen code, a locked-down Pavilion, and a love on the line—Regency Brighton’s season of secrets is just beginning.Brighton, 1813: The upper class departs London’s bustling streets for the serene seaside elegance of the Royal Pavilion. A summer of relaxation and romance beckons, especially for Lord Roland Percy and Lady Grace Tilbury...
  • The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

    The Noble Guardian by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A Cross-Country Trip through Regency England Brings Intrigue, Rogues, and High Adventure  The must-read conclusion to Michelle Griep’s Bow Street Runners Trilogy: Life couldn’t be better for Abigail Gilbert—but it’s been a long time in coming. Having lived with a family who hated her, it’s finally her time for love...
    Categorized as:
    regency  suspense  christian  historical  humor
  • Once Upon an Accidentally Bewitching Kiss by Bree Wolf

    Once Upon an Accidentally Bewitching Kiss by Bree Wolf

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    In this second-chance Regency romance by USA Today bestselling and HOLT Medallion winning author BREE WOLF, a jilted lord and a young widow are forced to risk their hearts all over again.Once, he loved her.Once, he lost her.Now, he must fight for her.England 1803: TROY BEAUMONT, only son to the EARL OF WHICKERTON, risked his heart once…and came to regret it...
  • I Never Knew Myself: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Rachel

    I Never Knew Myself: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Rachel

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Elizabeth Bennet is living a lie.She’s known since she was fifteen that she isn't truly a Bennet, but who is she? Are the people and places that appear in her dreams just a sign of her active imagination, or are they memories of her true family? Could the stories she'd told Jane when they were children not be stories at all?Fitzwilliam Darcy is reliving a nightmare...
  • Murder at Kingscote by Alyssa Maxwell

    Murder at Kingscote by Alyssa Maxwell

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 24 ratings
    For fans of HBO’s The Gilded Age, explore the dark side of the alluring world of America’s 19th century elite in this gripping series of riveting mysteries… In late nineteenth-century Newport, Rhode Island, journalist Emma Cross discovers the newest form of transportation has become the newest type of murder weapon . .
  • Deadly Curse by Carla Simpson

    Deadly Curse by Carla Simpson

    Rated: 4.48 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    The British Museum gets one more corpse than they bargained for as doors open for their new Egyptian exhibit.Excitement is palpable among London Society as the opening of the exhibit draws near...
  • The Starlet Spy by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    The Starlet Spy by Rachel Scott McDaniel

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Hollywood Star Turns Spy In 1943, Movie producer Henrik Zoltan approaches Amelie Blake under the guise of offering the Hollywood star a leading part in his upcoming film, but he has a more meaningful role in mind. Amelie’s homeland of Sweden declared neutrality in the war, but Stockholm has become the ‘Casablanca of the North...
  • The Sisters of Sea View by Julie Klassen

    The Sisters of Sea View by Julie Klassen

    Rated: 4.20 of 5 stars
    · 25 ratings
    When their father's death leaves them impoverished, Sarah Summers convinces her sisters to open their seaside home to guests to provide for their ailing mother. Emily and Georgiana agree, but Viola, who wears a veil to cover a scar, detests the idea. Determined to stay together, the sisters begin the new venture...
  • Seduced by the Scot by Jillian Eaton

    Seduced by the Scot by Jillian Eaton

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    A promise made... When Lady Brynne Weston was just fourteen, she made a pact with her brother’s friend, Lord Lachlan Campbell, a charming Scottish boy with a rebellious streak that called to her own sense of adventure. If, in ten years, neither was married, they would marry each other. The promise was sealed with a stick of sugar, and then forgotten about..
  • The Heart of a Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World (The Lyon's Den Connected World) by Anna St. Claire

    The Heart of a Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World (The Lyon's Den Connected World) by Anna St. Claire

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    She needs a miracle to save her, but he refuses to consider marriage, until a pretend betrothal changes how he sees her .Riddled with guilt and haunted by nightmares over the tragic death of his father, Henry Stanton, the Earl of Egerton, returns home a broken man and seeks solace in the excesses of the Lyon’s Den...
  • The Secret of the Lost Pearls by Darcie Wilde

    The Secret of the Lost Pearls by Darcie Wilde

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 18 ratings
    Beyond the glittering ballrooms and elegant parties of Regency London lurk all manner of unexpected dangers. In Darcie Wilde’s captivating mystery series inspired by the novels of Jane Austen and written with the wit of “Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s cheeky asides in Fleabag” (Bookpage), no one is better equipped to help ladies who find themselves wronged than “useful woman” Rosalind Thorne..
  • Peacocks of Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Laraba Kendig

    Peacocks of Pemberley: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Laraba Kendig

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Darcy is surprised that Elizabeth has won the friendship of his unusual sister, and he is shocked when he begins to fall for her as well.Mr. Darcy feels guilty that he was not there to prevent Mr. Bingley from marrying Jane Bennet, who no doubt was only after his money...
  • A Lark's Release: A Regency Cozy by Lynn Messina

    A Lark's Release: A Regency Cozy by Lynn Messina

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    It is hardly surprising Verity Lark can’t sleep at night with all the thoughts darting through her her recent stay in Newgate, her debt to Colson Hardwicke, the horrible abuse suffered by the children at Fortescue’s that her reporting on the orphan asylum several years earlier had failed to uncover...
  • Millstone of Doubt by Erica Vetsch

    Millstone of Doubt by Erica Vetsch

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Regency London's detective duo is back on a new case--and this one is going to be a killerCaught in the explosion of the Hammersmith Mill in London, Bow Street Runner Daniel Swann rushes to help any survivors only to find the mill's owner dead of an apparent gunshot...
  • The Vengeance Trail by Elizabeth Bailey

    The Vengeance Trail by Elizabeth Bailey

    Rated: 4.42 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Join Lady Fan in her most dangerous case yet! For fans of Georgette Heyer, Mary Balogh, Barbara Erskine and Jane Austen.Is someone from her past trying to kill Lady Fan…?1796, EnglandWhen Lady Ottilia Fanshawe finds herself launched into a river and fighting for her life, she becomes convinced someone pulled her under the water...
  • The Beast's Bargain by Eva Devon, Maire Claremont

    The Beast's Bargain by Eva Devon, Maire Claremont

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    From USATODAY Bestselling author Eva Devon, writing as Maire Claremont, comes a brand new series that will sweep you away to the drama and angst of Regency England. Glittering ballrooms, wild moors, and brooding lords waiting to be tamed by bluestockings await. . .Sometimes the only way a beast can find love is with a bargain. .
  • Mysterious Lover by Mary Lancaster

    Mysterious Lover by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Welcome to a thrilling new series, "Crime & Passion," from USA Today Bestselling Author Mary Lancaster.London, 1851In the shadow of the Great Exhibition, poverty and crime stalk the meaner backstreets of the city. But sin is not confined to the underworld. One couple passes seamlessly between the neighboring worlds of privilege and privation, solving crimes and enabling love to bloom...
  • The Art of Stealing a Duke's Heart by Ellie St. Clair

    The Art of Stealing a Duke's Heart by Ellie St. Clair

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    It was only supposed to be one night.Calliope Murphy was determined to prove to her family that she was as capable as the rest of them. That she could master a priceless painting to steal from a duke who is far too arrogant and pompous for his own good...
  • Earl of Spades: Regency Romance by Tammy Andresen

    Earl of Spades: Regency Romance by Tammy Andresen

    Rated: 4.80 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    She’s a beauty beyond compare…Ash can’t deny that her fragile beauty holds him captive. And then there’s the fact that he stands between her and the danger circling ever closer. What man doesn’t wish to save a woman like Lily? He’d protect her with his last breath even he can’t give her a future. They are worlds apart and deep down he knows that love isn’t for a man like him...
  • In the Family Way: Another John Pickett Mystery by Sheri Cobb South

    In the Family Way: Another John Pickett Mystery by Sheri Cobb South

    Rated: 4.67 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    With a beautiful and clever wife, a growing investigative business, and a baby due any day, former Bow Street Runner John Pickett finally has a respectable life far removed from his beginnings as a juvenile pickpocket in the rookeries of St. Giles. Then his father returns from transportation to Botany Bay, and Pickett’s hard-won respectability threatens to collapse like a house of cards...
    Categorized as:
    regency  suspense  historical  mystery  humor
  • A Gentleman's Honor: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Rachel

    A Gentleman's Honor: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Melanie Rachel

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Someone wants Elizabeth Bennet dead. It’s all Fitzwilliam Darcy’s fault.Elizabeth Bennet wants the truth from Mr. Darcy. When she follows him from the ballroom to insist upon it, she becomes an unwilling witness to a scandalous scene. And for once, she cannot blame Mr. Darcy for disdaining his company. Not even when he departs Netherfield in the middle of the ball...
  • Lost in Darkness by Michelle Griep

    Lost in Darkness by Michelle Griep

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Even if there be monsters, there is none so fierce as that which resides in man’s own heart.Enchanting Regency-Era Gothic Romance Intertwined with Inspiration from Mary Shelley's Frankenstein     Travel writer Amelia Balfour’s dream of touring Egypt is halted when she receives news of a revolutionary new surgery for her grotesquely disfigured brother. This could change everything, and it does. .
  • The Managing Miss by Heidi Kimball

    The Managing Miss by Heidi Kimball

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She is capable of managing everything . . . except for her heart.Tasked with making a brilliant match for her cousin, Lavinia Harcourt whisks her entire household, including their two exotic pets, off to London for the Season. With limited funds and few connections, however, the undertaking is not easy...
  • The Juliet Code by Pepper Basham

    The Juliet Code by Pepper Basham

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley Finally Reach Their Honeymoon Destination Only to Encounter a New Mystery in Need of Solving   Frederick and Grace Percy finally make it to Italy to enjoy a delayed honeymoon and explore the beauties of the historic city of Venice...
  • Where the Waters Agree by Susan Adriani

    Where the Waters Agree by Susan Adriani

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    He ached from just looking at her. From wanting her. And from wanting to tell her—again and again—that she was the very best thing that had ever happened to him.EVERMORE ON SEA IS NOT BRIGHTON...
  • Secrets of a Wallflower by Laura Beers

    Secrets of a Wallflower by Laura Beers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Two unlikely partners must risk their secrets- and hearts- to unravel a web of treachery and save England. Miss Simone Delacourt, a seemingly unnoticed wallflower in the eyes of the ton, hides a secret life as a spy, enjoying the freedom her anonymity affords. When she’s reluctantly paired with Mr...
  • The Ruby Dagger by Lynn Morrison, Anne Radcliffe

    The Ruby Dagger by Lynn Morrison, Anne Radcliffe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Deadly intrigue meets royal expectations when murder comes for the crown.London, 1813. In the gilded corridors of St James's Palace, Lord Percy and Lady Grace face a mystery that could shake the throne itself. A murder and audacious theft of the Prince Regent’s ruby collar of state thrusts them back into a web of deception and treachery...
  • The Emerald Threads by Lynn Morrison, Anne Radcliffe

    The Emerald Threads by Lynn Morrison, Anne Radcliffe

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Can they stitch together fragile trust and unravel a sinister tapestry in time to save the Christmas season?Northumberland, 1813: Lord Roland and Lady Grace arrive in Northumberland expecting to celebrate the Christmas season. Instead, they are drawn into a frantic search for a group of local children who have disappeared overnight...
  • A Pursuit of Home by Kristi Ann Hunter

    A Pursuit of Home by Kristi Ann Hunter

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 1 of 5
    Glimpses and kisses [?] · 9 ratings
    Jessamine Beauchene has spent most of her life in hiding and always on the move in an effort to leave her past far behind her. But when she learns the family she thought long dead just might be alive and in danger, she knows her secrets can only stay buried for so long. Derek Thornbury loves the past, which has led him to become an expert in history and artifacts...
  • The Blood of a Baron by K.J. Jackson

    The Blood of a Baron by K.J. Jackson

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    A deal with the devil never goes according to plan in this newest novel from USA Today Bestseller K.J. Jackson.Her last hope.With her brother dead and destitution looming, spinster Lady Elania has only one hope left—finding the mysterious box her brother had left her and trading it for the modest fortune that would last her the rest of her days...
  • The Indebted Earl by Erica Vetsch

    The Indebted Earl by Erica Vetsch

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Captain Charles Malvern owes a great debt to the man who saved his life--especially since Major Richardson lost his own life in the process. The best way to honor that hero's dying wish is for Malvern to escort the man's grieving fianc�e and mother safely to a new cottage home by the sea...
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