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  • Petteril's Folly by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Folly by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.65 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Time to confront reality – and a worrying mystery.Lord Petteril and his new viscountess return to England to face the consequences of their unequal marriage, only to discover that Petteril’s valet, the enigmatic Stewart, has been arrested for theft...
  • The Secret Heart by Mary Lancaster

    The Secret Heart by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 12 ratings
    Betrayal, temptation and an impossible love.The final book in the Unmarriageable series...Some suspect that Lily Villin is the true heart of the Hart Inn, a lucky house where love always seems to blossom, whatever the obstacles. But Lily has another secret. She is in love with an enigmatic nobleman, and no luck in the world can make such a marriage possible...
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  • Petteril's Wife by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Wife by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Incognito in Portugal…Lord Petteril’s cousin, the newly commissioned Major Bertie Withan, has gone missing somewhere between landing in Lisbon and joining his regiment on the front line of the Peninsular War...
  • Petteril's Christmas by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Christmas by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.63 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A merry Christmas for the Petterils?Piers wants to make their first Christmas together special, and so it proves to be - just not quite in the way he planned.His eccentric Great Aunt Prudence summons him to London with the news that she is dying and that one of her servants is stealing from her. Only one of these claims turns out to be true, though both require investigating...
  • Petteril's Corpse by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Corpse by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 14 ratings
    A murdered stranger in his home wood…The discovery of a naked corpse upsets the new Viscount Petteril’s return to his ancestral acres. The local magistrate, Robert Lindon, has no idea how to proceed with so heinous a crime...
  • Petteril's Thief by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Thief by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    A missing family heirloom – and one of the family stole it.In the spring of 1812, Piers Withan is dragged from his beloved Oxford to be the new Viscount Petteril. Burdened by responsibilities he doesn’t want and the remnants of a family who don’t want him, he is saved from an irredeemable mistake by Ape, the small thief burgling his house...
  • Petteril's Ladybird by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Ladybird by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.52 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    An earl’s son, shot in the home of his mistress…Lord Petteril, with his redoubtable assistant April, is called back to London to help prove the innocence of his friend, Percy Austen, who is suspected of murder.Percy was once the lover of the victim’s mistress, and his pistol was found at the scene of the crime...
  • Hope by Beverley Watts

    Hope by Beverley Watts

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 22 ratings
    In this funny romantic series, the Shackleford sisters descend on a Regency society that doesn’t know what’s hit it…There was no doubt that things had definitely looked better for Gabriel Atwood, one time Viscount Northwood. Mainly because everyone who knew him or of him almost certainly believed him dead—the bastard who’d betrayed him had made sure of that...
  • Entranced by the Earl by Jillian Eaton

    Entranced by the Earl by Jillian Eaton

    Rated: 4.40 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    Sometimes love is hiding in the unlikeliest of earls . . . Evelyn Thorncroft wants to marry a duke, but she'll settle for an earl. The Earl of Hawkridge, to be precise. The only problem? Weston cannot stand the sight of her. At least, that's what he says. Their passionate kisses, however, tell a very different story . .
  • 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...
  • 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...
  • Petteril's Portrait by Mary Lancaster

    Petteril's Portrait by Mary Lancaster

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    A defaced portrait and the death of an artist – but is anything quite what it seems?To the furious disapproval of his assistant, April, Lord Petteril insists on calling in on Lady Haggard’s country house party – only to discover his hostess and her guests in uproar over a portrait of the late Sir Weston Haggard which has been deliberately damaged...
  • Irresistible by Darcy Burke

    Irresistible by Darcy Burke

    Rated: 4.49 of 5 stars
    · 11 ratings
    Jessamine Goodfellow has spent six Seasons avoiding the parson’s trap, and spinsterhood is finally within her grasp. A brilliant scholar, she longs for adventure and new experiences, things her family frowns upon. Presented with the opportunity to use her puzzle-solving talent on a secret mission for the Foreign Office, Jess eagerly accepts...
  • 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...
  • The Moonstone Major by Meara Platt

    The Moonstone Major by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.51 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 4 of 5
    Explicit open door [?] · 10 ratings
    His scars ran deep. Only Chloe had the power to heal him.It is said moonstones shine brightest in the presence of true love. Will they shine for Chloe, the youngest of the Killigrew sisters, and Fionn, the battle-scarred hero who has closed himself off to love?Lady Chloe Killigrew is surprised to find herself much sought after in Moonstone Landing's elegant society...
  • One Night to Remember by Erica Ridley

    One Night to Remember by Erica Ridley

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Meet the unforgettable men of London's most notorious tavern, The Wicked Duke...
  • Duke in All But Name by Caroline Warfield

    Duke in All But Name by Caroline Warfield

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Secrets and lies threaten to pull them under, but a forced marriage may be their salvation. Gideon Kendrick grew up as the despised bastard son of the Duke of Glenmoor. Exiled to the mines by his father, he has not only survived but thrived and prospered. He lives apart, wanting nothing to do with the duke, the estate—or anything in his past, except his younger brother Phillip, the new duke...
  • It's Raining Rakes in April by Annabelle Anders

    It's Raining Rakes in April by Annabelle Anders

    Rated: 4.56 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    An undercover duke and a clumsy, but ambitious, debutanteEveryone knows debutantes will do anything to marry a duke, which is precisely why this season, the Duke of Ridgefield is going undercover as yet another notorious rake—the mysterious Mr. Pope. As the eldest of seven sisters, Miss Julia Rigsby has one task in life—marry well. The trouble is, she’s clueless when it comes to flirting...
  • Kiss The Rake Hello by Tracy Sumner

    Kiss The Rake Hello by Tracy Sumner

    Rated: 4.46 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 10 ratings
    Cortland DeWitt is the most infamous second son in England. Twin to a duke, he thankfully lost out on the ducal title by a mere three minute's grace. And he's never looked back, living his life with one rule and one rule only: no attachments.But to Alexandra Mountbatten, the fearless woman who's known him since childhood, Cort is merely the loathsome boy next door...
  • His Reckless Bargain by Cynthia Wright

    His Reckless Bargain by Cynthia Wright

    Rated: 4.34 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    Special Author's Cut EditionOriginally published by Ballantine Books as BARBADOS1818: Nathan Raveneau is known as “The Scapegrace” in Regency London for his rakish exploits and devastating good looks. He's also a sea captain with an estate on Barbados, where his enemy Xavier Crowe lives...
  • 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...
  • The Untamed Duke by Melanie Rose Clarke

    The Untamed Duke by Melanie Rose Clarke

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    When a Scottish duke targets her brother, Sophia will do anything to protect her family, including kidnapping the powerful lord. What happens when the duke kidnaps her instead?Welcome to book 3 in the bestselling series The Secret Crusaders from the talented Melanie Rose Clarke!Social justice crusader Sophia Hawkins will do anything to protect her family...
  • Radiance by Sydney Jane Baily

    Radiance by Sydney Jane Baily

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    In this sparkling early Victorian romance by USA Today bestselling author Sydney Jane Baily, a fiery-haired Diamond daughter sets her cap at this man of science... and he doesn’t stand a chance!She’s a gifted artisan with sparkle to spare, and he’s a preoccupied man of science.At Prince Albert’s Great Exhibition, Lady Radiance Diamond falls in love..
  • Lyon's Lover by Maggie Sims

    Lyon's Lover by Maggie Sims

    Rated: 4.57 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A wastrel lord and an ex-courtesan forced together must pay the price of their past sins. She’s planning for the future… Having enjoyed a successful career as mistress to various members of the Ton, Isabella Rossi longs to walk away from her past. She wants a normal life with all it entails—a husband, a home, and children...
  • Always the Matchmaker by Emily E K Murdoch

    Always the Matchmaker by Emily E K Murdoch

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Always the matchmaker and never the bride - even when she's found her perfect partner…Miss Theodosia Ashbrooke does not believe there is anything greater than matching the perfect pair - and she's become rather expert in it. Never mind that she's never found the missing half to her own soul and body. Perhaps that's not her lot in life, even at the age of eight and twenty...
  • A Stormy Season by Melanie Dickerson

    A Stormy Season by Melanie Dickerson

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Nothing but the deepest love will induce Jane Gilchrist to marry, even when asked by the young and handsome widower with whom every other girl is in love.Luke Watley lost his wife to a tragic accident. But when he discovers it was no accident at all, he must solve the mystery behind her murder, or he—and anyone close to him—is in danger of becoming their next victim...
  • Lost with a Scot by Lauren Smith

    Lost with a Scot by Lauren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Aiden Kincade hasn't had it easy. As the youngest of three Scottish brothers, he's watched his two older brothers fall head over heels in love.Unlike his brothers, he is destined to be alone. Due to an old family prophecy, he knows whoever he loves will suffer a tragic death too soon. So he hides in the woods of Scotland, sharing his solitude with his animals...
  • It Starts With a Kiss: A Very Merry Fairbanks Christmas by Alyssa Clarke

    It Starts With a Kiss: A Very Merry Fairbanks Christmas by Alyssa Clarke

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Snowed in Together, Forced proximity, One bed to share, Steamy Regency Romance.Margaret Fairbanks is devoted to her role in securing her children's place in the ton. She journeys from town to Penporth for the Christmas season. Little did she anticipate being trapped in a cottage with the enigmatic Mr. Grayson Rochester...
  • An Unwitting Match by Laura Beers

    An Unwitting Match by Laura Beers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Lady Edwina Lockwood grapples with the loss of her father when her cousin extends an invitation to Lord Hilgrove to visit Brockhall Manor. She intends to avoid this houseguest, but he quickly becomes a constant presence, much to her annoyance. Despite her initial reluctance, Edwina discovers she can offer support to Lord Hilgrove as he copes with his own grief...
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  • A Brilliant Alliance by Laura Beers

    A Brilliant Alliance by Laura Beers

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    Bennett Lockwood, Earl of Dunsby, should feel nothing but contentment in his life, yet an unfulfilled longing tug at his heart. Despite past heartbreak, he yearns for a love match. When he discovers an injured young woman in the woodlands, he finds himself drawn to her, especially as she struggles to recall her past...
  • 21 Days with the Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Shana Galen

    21 Days with the Lyon: The Lyon's Den Connected World by Shana Galen

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    A desperate heiress. A jaded former soldier. They’ve got twenty-one days to fall in love…or risk losing everything. Twenty-one days. A measly three weeks. That’s all the time Bianca Featherswallow is allowed to convince Theo Filliol to marry her. If she doesn’t marry in three weeks, Bianca will once again be prey to fortune hunters who are eager to abduct her for her dowry...
  • Indecent by Darcy Burke

    Indecent by Darcy Burke

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    Society’s most exclusive invitation...Welcome to the Phoenix Club, where London’s most audacious, disreputable, and intriguing ladies and gentlemen find scandal, redemption, and second chances.If Bennet St...
  • Moonstone Angel by Meara Platt

    Moonstone Angel by Meara Platt

    Rated: 4.44 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 9 ratings
    He thought she was a thief, but the only thing she ever stole was his heart...
  • An Excellent Walker: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Lyndsay Constable

    An Excellent Walker: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Lyndsay Constable

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    Is Mr Darcy capable of wanting to marry just for the sake of love?AN UNEXPECTED MEETING between Mr Darcy and Elizabeth Bennet becomes suddenly and shockingly dangerous. Mr Darcy is determined to protect Elizabeth but his exertions leave him grievously wounded...
  • The Duke and the Dressmaker by Eva Devon

    The Duke and the Dressmaker by Eva Devon

    Rated: 4.23 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings
    A duke becomes unraveled by love in this delightful historical romance from USA Today bestselling author Eva Devon…Dressmaker Miss Lily Martin knows too well the sordid dealings of London’s corrupt underbelly. She should have known borrowing from one of the city’s most reviled moneylenders was risky. Horribly so...
  • Discouraging the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Discouraging the Duke by Alexa Aston

    Rated: 4.21 of 5 stars
    · 17 ratings
    Welcome to the new world from Alexa Aston—Dukes Done Wrong.Accused of something they never did. Five boys banished from their homes in disgrace, to the place where they find the brothers of their heart—and build new family ties that will last a lifetime.A lonely army captain who suddenly finds himself a duke. A gentleman’s daughter running an estate because her father no longer can...
  • Follies and Vices: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Emily Russell

    Follies and Vices: A Pride and Prejudice Variation by Emily Russell

    Rated: 4.27 of 5 stars
    · 13 ratings
    What was Wickham’s real reason for not attending the Netherfield Ball? Elizabeth Bennet had been looking forward to the ball at Netherfield Park. In particular, she’d been looking forward to dancing with the charming, amiable George Wickham. But when he fails to appear, Elizabeth blames the proud Mr Darcy and his animosity against Wickham for keeping him away...
  • A Sanctuary for Soulden by J.A. Rock, Lisa Henry

    A Sanctuary for Soulden by J.A. Rock, Lisa Henry

    Rated: 4.29 of 5 stars
    · 12 ratings
    He wasn't meant for a quiet life.Philip Winthrop, Viscount Soulden, is a fop. An idle popinjay with nothing more on his mind than how to best knot his cravat. He definitely doesn’t spy against the French. Or arrange hasty weddings. Or occasionally commandeer the navy. And he certainly doesn’t seek out mortal danger in order to combat his pervasive ennui...
  • The Hero and the Hellion by Ava Devlin

    The Hero and the Hellion by Ava Devlin

    Rated: 4.31 of 5 stars
    · 10 ratings
    One Last Scandal, for Old Time's Sake ... A  Hero's HomecomingLieutenant Callum Laughlin has spent four long years at war. Finally, he has enough status and fortune to return to Yorkshire and reclaim the woman of his dreams - a girl he could never have wed when he was a mere stable boy. What awaits him at Somerton is far from the warm welcome he imagined...
  • The Love of a Libertine by Jess Michaels

    The Love of a Libertine by Jess Michaels

    Rated: 4.33 of 5 stars
    · 9 ratings
    When Morgan Banfield wakes up in Newgate after a night of debauchery, the last thing he wants to see is his estranged brother. But in exchange for his help, Morgan must agree to take on responsibility and try to get his life together by taking on the job of Man of Affairs for a friend.The last thing Lizzie Margolis wants is some rogue coming onto her brother's staff...
  • Stealing the Heiress by Samantha Holt

    Stealing the Heiress by Samantha Holt

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    She was looking for adventure...Lady Rosamunde Stanley just never expected in the form of a kidnapping.Well, an almost-kidnapping. The dastardly man only went and took the wrong woman!But she soon discovers the dark, handsome man is not quite the terrible rogue she thinks him to be and she decides to put his experience to use...
  • Two Dares, a Duke, and a Runaway Bride by Alyssa Clarke

    Two Dares, a Duke, and a Runaway Bride by Alyssa Clarke

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · Steam rating: 3 of 5
    Open door [?] · 8 ratings
    After a botched elopement, Lady Evie hatches a daring impersonate the wife of a soon-to-depart duke to gain lodging at an inn. However, an unexpected storm traps them together, igniting undeniable chemistry.As their pretend marriage morphs into nights of fiery passion, Evie grapples with her growing feelings, fearing she's diving headlong into a love that promises only heartbreak...
  • How to Tame a Dissolute Prince by Scarlett Scott

    How to Tame a Dissolute Prince by Scarlett Scott

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    From USA Today bestselling author Scarlett Scott comes a scorching Regency romance between a rakish prince and a spinster who's been living a lie... Nando, the handsome, ne’er-do-well Prince of Varros, has grown bored with his aimless life of pleasure seeking and debauchery...
  • Secrets of a Duke by Martha Keyes

    Secrets of a Duke by Martha Keyes

    Rated: 4.38 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings
    By station, they’re worlds apart, but living under the same roof brings their hearts dangerously close. William Yorke faces a tall order: convince people he is worthy of the Dukedom of Rockwood that has unexpectedly fallen to him. Returning from London to his enormous estate, he breaks his journey at an inn and finds himself witness to a drunkard selling his wife to the highest bidder...
  • Duchess of His Heart by Collette Cameron

    Duchess of His Heart by Collette Cameron

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    He once loved her beyond all reason. Dare he risk heartbreak again? Leaving her first love behind was the hardest thing Regine, Duchess of Heartwaite, had ever done. Her marriage of convenience to another man saved her family, even as it laid waste to her heart. That was years ago, however. Now widowed, she’s ready to begin her life anew...
  • Playing with Fire by Jayne Davis

    Playing with Fire by Jayne Davis

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    France 1793Phoebe's future holds little more than the prospect of a tedious season of balls and routs, forever in the shadow of her glamorous cousin and under the critical eye of her shrewish aunt. She yearns for a useful life, and a love match like her parents', if such a thing could ever be possible for an unwanted, poor relation...
  • 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...
  • The Upright Son by Caroline Warfield

    The Upright Son by Caroline Warfield

    Rated: 4.43 of 5 stars
    · 7 ratings
    A notorious will left David, the very proper Earl of Clarion, with a crippled estate and dependents. He’s the one left to pick up the pieces while caring for others—his children, his tenants, and the people of Ashmead. He cares for England, too. Now that the estate has been put to right, he is free to pursue his political ambitions. But loneliness weighs him down. Then he meets his new neighbor...
  • Nell and the Runaway Duke by Sofie Darling

    Nell and the Runaway Duke by Sofie Darling

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    Nell never dreamed she’d have a holiday romance…Miss Nell Tait is nobody’s fool—at least not now. In her youth, a man had taken advantage of her and changed her whole life. Now she’s left the East End behind and is a successful modiste to the ton—and will never fall for another man’s lies...
  • The Scoundrel of Drury Lane by Lauren Smith

    The Scoundrel of Drury Lane by Lauren Smith

    Rated: 4.50 of 5 stars
    · 6 ratings
    (Alternate cover edition of ASIN B0C6NV63FJ.) He was falsely accused and sentenced to die... At nineteen, Christopher "Kit" Hollingsworth is spared the noose but sentenced to serve seven years in Australia as a convict. The men who betrayed him have plans to make sure he never returns to England. But Kit's strong will and thirst for vengeance ensure his survival...
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