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  • Knockout by Sarah MacLean

    Knockout by Sarah MacLean

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 84 ratings
    New York Times bestselling author Sarah MacLean returns with the next Hell’s Belles novel about a chaotic bluestocking and the buttoned-up detective enlisted to keep her out of trouble (spoiler: She is the trouble)...
  • The Gunpowder Girl by Tania Crosse

    The Gunpowder Girl by Tania Crosse

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Originally published as Cherrybrook Rose and A Bouquet of Thorns.A GRIPPING TALE OF LOVE AND SELF-SACRIFICE SET ON WILD DARTMOORDartmoor, 1875. Rose Maddiford, beautiful, vivacious and intelligent, could have her pick of men across Dartmoor. But she is in no hurry to marry unless it is for true love — and certainly not while she can help her father manage the Cherrybrook Gunpowder Mills...
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  • The Railway Girl by Tania Crosse

    The Railway Girl by Tania Crosse

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 20 ratings
    Originally published as The Wrong Side of Happiness.A STRUGGLE TO FIND LOVE AND HAPPINESS AGAINST THE ODDSDevon, 1887. Life has not been kind to dairymaid Tresca Ladycott. She can’t rely on her flighty farmhand father, Emmanuel, so she relies on herself.Then comes a devastating blow. Tresca is sacked from the dairy and the pair lose their home...
  • Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Gaudy Night by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Rated: 4.22 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found here.The great Dorothy L. Sayers is considered by many to be the premier detective novelist of the Golden Age, and her dashing sleuth, Lord Peter Wimsey, one of mystery fiction’s most enduring and endearing protagonists...
  • Her Ruthless Duke by Scarlett Scott

    Her Ruthless Duke by Scarlett Scott

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 34 ratings
    From USA Today and Amazon Top 100 bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes a new, deliciously wicked Regency romance featuring scorching heat between a jaded guardian and his bluestocking ward, plus a delightful dash of mystery.Conscienceless seducer, cunning spy, confident scoundrel. Trevor Hunt, the Duke of Ridgely, has been called many things, most of which are true...
  • Valiant by Adele Clee

    Valiant by Adele Clee

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Meet Valiant—the third of four gentlemen who work to right injustices—in the new heart-stopping series Gentlemen of the Order.As the grandson of a marauding pirate, Evan Sloane strives to earn his moniker, Valiant. His work as an enquiry agent for the Order gives him the perfect opportunity to make amends for his ancestor’s misdeeds. But even the bold and bravely courageous have their limits...
  • The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Beloved writer Sean Dietrich—also known as Sean of the South—will warm your heart with this rich and nostalgic tale of a small-town sheriff, a mysterious little girl, and a good-hearted community pulling together to help her.Folks in Moab live for ice cream socials, baseball, and the local paper’s weekly gossip column...
  • The Quarry Girl by Tania Crosse

    The Quarry Girl by Tania Crosse

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Originally published as A Dream Rides By.August 1883. The future for Ling Southcott, a quarryman’s daughter, seems to be already mapped. Marriage to her childhood sweetheart, Barney, a cluster of children, a life contained to the hamlet of Foggintor Quarry. For Ling, with her sharp, enquiring mind and love of books, it is an accepted, if unwelcome fate...
  • The Duke's Counterfeit Wife by Caroline Lee

    The Duke's Counterfeit Wife by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    How did she end up make-believe married to the Grump Next Door?Spinster scientist Felicity Montrose has always been as curious as one of her pet cats. So when her dark and dangerous neighbor catches her breaking into his house, her body’s reactions to his manhandling raises all sorts of interesting questions...
  • The Duke's Virgin Sister by Caroline Lee

    The Duke's Virgin Sister by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 11 ratings
    They haven’t quite managed to tame her wild streak. It is to be The Match of the Season. At least, that’s what Lady Carlotta Merritt, sister to the cool and aloof Duke of Cashingham, has been told repeatedly by her mother. The Dowager is beyond thrilled about her daughter’s engagement to Society’s most eligible bachelor, Lord What’s-His-Face...
  • Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Murder Must Advertise by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 38 ratings
    The ad men at Pym’s can sell anything—even murder...The iron staircase at Pym’s Publicity is a deathtrap, and no one in the advertising agency is surprised when Victor Dean tumbles down it, cracking his skull along the way. Dean’s replacement arrives just a few days later—a green copywriter named Death Bredon...
  • Remembering Jamie by Nichole Van

    Remembering Jamie by Nichole Van

    Rated: 4.54 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Miss Eilidh Fyffe always assumed her life would follow a predictable pattern—meet a charming man, fall in love, marry, and live happily ever after. But when an accident damages her memory, she is left with only questions. Has she already fallen in love and married? If only she could remember...Master Kieran MacTavish has spent six years searching for his lost wife...
  • A Secret Love by Stephanie Laurens

    A Secret Love by Stephanie Laurens

    Rated: 4.12 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 55 ratings
    All of Regency London knows that no Cynster male would ever walk away from a lady in distress...but their protection can come at a tantalizingly high price. And now, Stephanie Laurens has created her boldest Cynster yet--Gabriel--a man who has known the pleasure of many women, but who has given his heart to no one. She was desperate for his help..
  • The French for Murder by Verity Bright

    The French for Murder by Verity Bright

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    A grand villa, croissants for breakfast and a dead body in the wine cellar… Lady Swift can’t seem to take a vacation from murder!Summer 1923. Lady Eleanor Swift is finally persuaded by her butler, Clifford, to take a villa in the south of France for the season. She plans to do what a glamorous lady abroad should: long lunches on the balcony followed by lazy afternoons lounging by the pool...
    Categorized as:
    mystery  suspense  humor  historical  clean  length-medium
  • The Hidden Hand: Love, Intrigue, and Gender Roles in Victorian Fiction by E.D.E.N. Southworth

    The Hidden Hand: Love, Intrigue, and Gender Roles in Victorian Fiction by E.D.E.N. Southworth

    Rated: 4.24 of 5 stars
    · 23 ratings
    Emma Southworth's 'The Hidden Hand' is a captivating novel that delves deep into the themes of mystery, romance, and intrigue. Set in the 19th century, this work of literature features a powerful narrative that keeps readers on the edge of their seats...
  • The Sinner's Tempting Captor by Caroline Lee

    The Sinner's Tempting Captor by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 9 ratings
    He might have killed her brother, but this sinner is now the only man who can save her.Lady Honoria Lindsay is the daughter of a duke and the sister of three-too-many dead brothers. She’s learned to armor herself against inconvenient emotions like grief with propriety and charity…until an altruistic favor to a bereaved old man offers her a way to absolve her guilt...
  • Willful in Winter by Scarlett Scott

    Willful in Winter by Scarlett Scott

    Rated: 4.35 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 15 ratings
    Rand, Viscount Aylesford, needs a fiancée, and he needs one now. His requirements are concise: she must not embarrass him, and she must understand he has no intention of ever marrying her. Miss Grace Winter is the most stubborn of the notorious Wicked Winters. When her brother decrees she must marry well, she is every bit as determined to avoid becoming a nobleman's wife...
  • The Favourite by Alice Coldbreath

    The Favourite by Alice Coldbreath

    Rated: 4.07 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 108 ratings
    Alisander de Balon, fifth Viscount Bardulf is a lot of things. Ambassador. Diplomat. Spy. He is also bored as hell at the Argent King’s court. His only diversion these days is tormenting staid Jane Cecil, the Queen’s favorite Lady-in-Waiting. Seeing her vexed amuses him more than any royal entertainment. Jane has finally found her place at Court, and it is among the Queen’s retinue...
  • Murder at the Country Club by Helena Dixon

    Murder at the Country Club by Helena Dixon

    Rated: 4.39 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Kitty Underhay is playing doubles… with death.Kitty Underhay is accompanying her fiancé, Matthew Bryant, and Bertie, his new cocker spaniel, on an outing to Torbay Country Club. However, the delightful day soon turns to disaster...
  • So True a Love by Joanna Barker

    So True a Love by Joanna Barker

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    Danger and passion collide when a plucky young woman becomes embroiled in a Bow Street investigation alongside a handsome officer. London, 1803As the daughter of a renowned actress, Verity Travers is a privileged lady of high society —and the last woman one would suspect of working as a private investigator...
  • The Duke's Wicked Widow (Surprise! Dukes) by Caroline Lee

    The Duke's Wicked Widow (Surprise! Dukes) by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    They call him the Duke of Death, but he’s her last chance at a life worth living!To Society, Fawkes MacMillian is a nobody; a hanger-on at the edge of respectability with a murky past and an even murkier lineage. But to Lady Danielle Aycock, he is her only hope of salvation before a horrible Christmas deadline...
  • The Duke's Wicked Wife by Elizabeth Bright

    The Duke's Wicked Wife by Elizabeth Bright

    Rated: 4.25 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 19 ratings
    Sebastian Sinclair, the Duke of Wessex, is not in love with Eliza Benton—nor anyone else, for that matter. But he must marry and produce an heir, and love is not required for either. His future duchess must be of high birth and good nature, a lady unlikely to snipe at him over breakfast. In short, the complete opposite of Eliza...
  • A Matchmaker for a Marquess by Christi Caldwell

    A Matchmaker for a Marquess by Christi Caldwell

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Be prepared to smile, swoon, and sigh in Christi Caldwell's latest 'Heart of a Scandal' installment where a matchmaker firmly on the shelf is about to fall head over heels for her best friend's younger brother. She lived by a strict set of rules… Meredith Durant believes those who won’t marry, matchmake, and she’s made a notable career for herself helping young women find the perfect mate...
    Categorized as:
    victorian  m-f  humor  regency  historical
  • Charity by Beverley Watts

    Charity by Beverley Watts

    Rated: 4.37 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    In this funny Regency romance series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it…While Charity Shackleford might be considered far more outspoken than her twin sister Chastity, she was much less inclined to make a complete cake of herself. Something her twin appeared to be doing with increasing regularity...
  • The Hellion and the Highlander by Lynsay Sands

    The Hellion and the Highlander by Lynsay Sands

    Rated: 4.10 of 5 stars
    · 45 ratings
    From the NYT bestselling author of "Devil of the Highlands" and "Taming the Highland Bride", here comes another exciting and humorous historical romance as only Lynsay Sands can tell it. Only one man could set her heart ablaze . . . Lady Averill Mortagne learned to control her fierce temper as a young girl...
  • Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Strong Poison by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    An alternative cover edition for this ASIN can be found hereMystery novelist Harriet Vane knew all about poisons, and when her fiancé died in the manner prescribed in one of her books, a jury of her peers had a hangman's noose in mind. But Lord Peter Wimsey was determined to find her innocent—as determined as he was to make her his wife...
  • The Earl's Brazen Widow by Caroline Lee

    The Earl's Brazen Widow by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.41 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    She cannot confess her sins. Ten years ago, Lady Violet Forbes betrayed the man she loved…by marrying his father. It wasn’t her fault, exactly (you know how these things go), but Malcolm was, frankly, quite put out by the news, and has refused to acknowledge her since...
  • An Infamous Betrayal by Lynn Messina

    An Infamous Betrayal by Lynn Messina

    Rated: 4.14 of 5 stars
    · 31 ratings
    Having solved the two murders that somehow fell in her path, Beatrice Hyde-Clare is on the lookout for a third. Through a absurd quirk of stupid fate, the shy spinster has fallen in love with the thoroughly unattainable Duke of Kesgrave and is desperate for something, anything, to occupy her mind. A dead body would do nicely...
  • 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:
    mystery  suspense  historical  regency  humor
  • Earls Just Wanna Have Fun by Merry Farmer

    Earls Just Wanna Have Fun by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 8 ratings
    Lady Shannon O’Shea has seen all of her sisters married off by their brother, Fergus, in order to keep them out of trouble, and she is determined not to encounter the same fate. She has far too many other things on her hands, including her secretive, scandalous, and growing beer brewing business...
  • Speak of the Duke by Tamara Gill

    Speak of the Duke by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Speak of the duke and he shall appear…Julia Woodville knew the kiss she’d shared with Lord Cyrus Franklin, known rake, couldn’t have meant as much to him as it had to her. And he proved her right by leaving London and marrying another. But now he’s back, and this time, she’s not about to let him anywhere near her heart…Leaving Julia behind was one of Cyrus’s greatest regrets...
  • Surrender to the Duke by Tamara Gill

    Surrender to the Duke by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Surrendering to the Duke will be easy. Not losing her heart to him is another matter entirely… Miss Lila York should have refused her sister’s request. But since she didn’t, she’s now in the unfortunate position of traveling to London, pretending to be her sister, and rejecting a man—a man she’s long coveted from afar for herself...
  • 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...
  • Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Have His Carcase by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Rated: 4.11 of 5 stars
    · 36 ratings
    The second Dorothy L. Sayers classic to feature mystery writer Harriet Vane, Have His Carcase. Harriet’s discovery of a murdered body on the beach before it is swept out to sea unites her once more with the indomitable Lord Peter Wimsey, as together they attempt to solve a most lethal mystery, and find themselves become much closer than mere sleuthing partners in the process...
  • The Notorious Lord Sin by Tamara Gill

    The Notorious Lord Sin by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Love might be the only luxury she can’t afford…Paris Smith remembers the days when she was penniless all too well. The pain of being deemed unsuitable for marriage by her first love never truly faded. Now, she’s a widowed Countess with more money than she could ever spend, and the man who nearly destroyed her wants a second chance...
  • Kiss Me Duke by Tamara Gill

    Kiss Me Duke by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.36 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Molly Clare is living her dream. Being a guest in a gorgeous villa while she explores Rome is everything she could’ve hoped for and more. The man who owns the villa is equally charming—and entirely too tempting. At least, that’s what he appears to be. The truth of who and what he really is…well, that’s infinitely more complicated.Lord Hugh Farley is living a nightmare...
  • The Cairo Curse by Pepper Basham

    The Cairo Curse by Pepper Basham

    Rated: 4.32 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Clue meets Indiana Jones with a fiction-loving twist only Grace Percy can provide.   Newlyweds Lord and Lady Astley have already experienced their fair-share of suspense, but when a honeymoon trip takes a detour to the mystical land of Egypt, not even Grace with her fiction-loving mind is prepared for the dangers in store...
  • Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen

    Crowned and Dangerous by Rhys Bowen

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Nothing is simple when you’re thirty-fifth in line for the British crown, least of all marriage. But with love on their side, and plans to elope, Lady Georgiana Rannoch and her beau Darcy O’Mara hope to bypass a few royal rules..
  • Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Unnatural Death by Dorothy L. Sayers

    Rated: 4.08 of 5 stars
    · 40 ratings
    Dorothy Leigh Sayers was an English crime writer and poet. She was also a student of classical and modern languages. She is best known for her mysteries, a series of novels and short stories set between the First and Second World Wars that feature English aristocrat and amateur sleuth Lord Peter Wimsey...
  • Every Duke Has a Silver Lining by Tamara Gill

    Every Duke Has a Silver Lining by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    He can’t deny her anything…except maybe his heart…Ashley Woodville didn’t mean any harm when she broke into Grady Kolten’s office. It was only a dare from her friends. She wasn’t supposed to get caught. And she certainly wasn’t supposed to talk the notorious gaming hell owner (and disturbingly sexy rogue) into showing her London’s wilder side. Falling for him? Also not part of the dare...
  • Dare To Be Scandalous by Tamara Gill

    Dare To Be Scandalous by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    After inheriting a small fortune, Willow Perry has everything she’s ever wanted. Except a husband, that is. But not just any husband will do. She’s looking for a grand love—someone who will challenge and excite her. It’s just her folly that the one man who interests her is a notorious rake. He’s as wild and passionate as Willow is sheltered and staid...
  • Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens by Andrea Penrose

    Murder at the Royal Botanic Gardens by Andrea Penrose

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The upcoming marriage of the Earl of Wrexford and Lady Charlotte Sloane promises to be a highlight of the season, if they can first untangle—and survive—a web of intrigue and murder involving the most brilliant scientific minds in Regency London..
  • Brazen Rogue by Tamara Gill

    Brazen Rogue by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    When the past and present are standing in the way of happiness, it’ll take brazen act to save the day…Miss Reign Hall has resigned herself to being a spinster. Her disastrous season in London left her with little opportunity (or desire) for anything else. But when she’s offered a governess position, she knows it’s her best chance for a fresh start away from small country village life...
  • I Kissed an Earl by Merry Farmer

    I Kissed an Earl by Merry Farmer

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    Lady Marie O'Shea lives life by her own rules...But her days of running free end when her brother, Lord Fergus O'Shea, returns from England, intent on marrying his sisters off to keep them from being the scourge of the county. And when Marie lands herself in a scandalous amount of trouble, she ends up as the first sister doomed to whatever marriage of convenience her brother can arrange...
  • A Scandalous Deception by Lynn Messina

    A Scandalous Deception by Lynn Messina

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    As much as Beatrice Hyde-Clare relished the challenge of figuring out who murdered a fellow guest during a house party in the Lake District, she certainly does not consider herself an amateur investigator. So when a London dandy falls dead at her feet in the entryway of a London Daily Gazette, she feels no compulsion to investigate...
  • Drop It Like It's Scot by Caroline Lee

    Drop It Like It's Scot by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 5 ratings
    Alistair Oliphant has devoted his entire life to his clan’s well-being. As one of the laird’s bastard sons, he’s determined to prove his worth by managing the Oliphants’ correspondence, alliances, land stewardship, trading schedules, and about a million other (boring) aspects of keeping a busy Highland clan going...
  • Not Half Plaid by Caroline Lee

    Not Half Plaid by Caroline Lee

    Rated: 4.60 of 5 stars
    · 5 ratings
    Fenella Oliphant has always thought it apropos she was named after an herb: Useful, subtle, and not much to look at. But here in the Oliphant Castle kitchens, none of that matters, because she’s in command…as long as she can keep from being distracted by the dangerously delicious beast who has planted his shapely arse beside her hearth and is offering unwanted advice...
  • My Rogue to Ruin by Erica Ridley

    My Rogue to Ruin by Erica Ridley

    Rated: 4.17 of 5 stars
    · 15 ratings
    The riotous Wynchester family has taken on a new case to expose a forger, but the prime suspect isn't at all what he seems in this captivating Regency romp from a New York Times bestselling author.Lord Adrian Webb is a no-good, roguish, rakish scoundrel of the first order, which is why his father sends him to the Continent and cuts him off without a farthing...
  • Only a Viscount Will Do by Tamara Gill

    Only a Viscount Will Do by Tamara Gill

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    Lady Alice Worthingham never conforms to Society’s norms. Ever. She loves adventure, new experiences, and approaches life with a sassy attitude Society can take or leave. But even for her, robbery by a highwayman is a bit much.Lord Arndel, Lady Alice’s neighbor, is playing a dangerous game—acting the proper viscount by day and the Surrey Bandit by night...
  • A Lady's Rules For Ruin by Jennifer Haymore

    A Lady's Rules For Ruin by Jennifer Haymore

    Rated: 4.26 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 5 of 5
    Explicit and plentiful [?] · 10 ratings
    She’s found the perfect plan to avoid marriage…Miss Frances Cherrington has long been criticized as independent and prickly. And she’s fine with it. Truth be told, she’d prefer to be a spinster—damn her family’s desires. But it’s a conversation with the devilishly handsome yet highly infuriating Earl of Winthrop that inspires the perfect escape from her nuptial troubles...
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