The Trengrouse Ball Series by Elizabeth Leydin

Petroc Trengrouse has come home from Waterloo missing his right leg. Family friend Lady Beatrice Marlowe has been thrown out of her home on the deaths of her father and brother. When Petroc comes to stay at Beatrice’s mother’s seaside house to recover from his wounds, he has no idea that he’s causing severe financial problems. He feels he’s not fit to marry; she knows she’s too poor to attract an aristocratic suitor. Will the Trengrouse Ball prove both of them wrong?

A heart-warming forced marriage, friends-to-lovers romance.When Ives Trengrouse hijacks his friend Den’s coach after the Trengrouse Ball, he thinks it’s no more than a prank. But Den isn’t inside. Instead, its his sister Katie, going home early with a migraine.Compromised beyond saving, the two must marry immediately—and do so. Katie’s dreams of a big London Season are gone. Ives can’t go on his light-hearted, care-for-nothing way now he’s a married man... moreA heart-warming forced marriage, friends-to-lovers romance.When Ives Trengrouse hijacks his friend Den’s coach after the Trengrouse Ball, he thinks it’s no more than a prank. But Den isn’t inside. Instead, its his sister Katie, going home early with a migraine.Compromised beyond saving, the two must marry immediately—and do so. Katie’s dreams of a big London Season are gone. Ives can’t go on his light-hearted, care-for-nothing way now he’s a married man.Neither of them wants to be in this can they turn childhood friendship into something deeper and everlasting? less

A heart-warming second chance Christmas story.Widowed, pregnant Lady Demelza Mandeville returns to her family home, Trengrouse Hall, after her husband’s recent death, dreading meeting family friend, Sir Denzell Kelynack, who jilted her in her first Season.Denzell looks forward to the meeting—he wants to know why Demelza had jilted him eight years ago... moreA heart-warming second chance Christmas story.Widowed, pregnant Lady Demelza Mandeville returns to her family home, Trengrouse Hall, after her husband’s recent death, dreading meeting family friend, Sir Denzell Kelynack, who jilted her in her first Season.Denzell looks forward to the meeting—he wants to know why Demelza had jilted him eight years ago. And what role did his needy, unstable mother play in that?Finding out the truth, and finding a path to a new life, is complicated by Demelza’s pregnancy. If the baby is a boy, she’ll be bound to the Mandeville estates until he’s an adult; if a girl, she’s free to live her own life while a Mandeville cousin inherits the estate.The Trengrouse Ball is a promise of things to come, but will the promise come true at Christmas? less