The Life of a Wallflower Series by Chasity Bowlin

A witty friends-to-lovers Regency romance. Miss Eleanor Harcourt has spent years managing her brother’s household — and quietly burying her feelings for his closest friend, Mr. Adrian Grant. He was a confirmed bachelor, and she long ago accepted that he would never look twice at his best friend’s sensible, spinster sister. Then everything changes. An unexpected inheritance makes Adrian master of an entailed estate — and a man in need of a wife for the first time in his forty years... moreA witty friends-to-lovers Regency romance. Miss Eleanor Harcourt has spent years managing her brother’s household — and quietly burying her feelings for his closest friend, Mr. Adrian Grant. He was a confirmed bachelor, and she long ago accepted that he would never look twice at his best friend’s sensible, spinster sister. Then everything changes. An unexpected inheritance makes Adrian master of an entailed estate — and a man in need of a wife for the first time in his forty years. Determined to fulfill his new responsibilities, he steps into the marriage mart… only to discover that every eligible woman is inevitably compared to Eleanor. Not as clever. Not as steady. Not as kind. Not as her. He might have continued ignoring what that meant — until a titled gentleman arrives and begins paying Eleanor very pointed attention. And Eleanor, who has loved him in resigned silence for years, finds herself quietly fuming that it took another man’s admiration to make Adrian finally notice her. Now she must wonder whether his sudden change of heart is genuine…. …or merely a bout of inconvenient masculine competitiveness. To claim a future with her, Adrian must weigh the greatest risk he has ever faced — the ruin of his long-standing friendship with her brother — against the one woman he can no longer imagine losing. less

A Regency romance of scandal, pride, and unexpected devotion. Miss Caroline Ashworth has always been the darling of the ton — beautiful, charming, and an heiress destined for an enviable match. For years, society has assumed that the gentleman courting her would eventually offer for her. .. Instead, he elopes with another woman. Overnight, Caroline becomes the subject of cruel gossip and clever jokes about the lady who can secure husbands… for everyone but herself. Invitations vanish... moreA Regency romance of scandal, pride, and unexpected devotion. Miss Caroline Ashworth has always been the darling of the ton — beautiful, charming, and an heiress destined for an enviable match. For years, society has assumed that the gentleman courting her would eventually offer for her. .. Instead, he elopes with another woman. Overnight, Caroline becomes the subject of cruel gossip and clever jokes about the lady who can secure husbands… for everyone but herself. Invitations vanish. Friends fall silent. The same society that once adored her now treats her humiliation as entertainment. And that is when Julian Harcourt steps forward. Julian has admired Caroline for years, quietly biding his time as she smiled at a man who never deserved her. Now that scandal has turned her into a laughingstock, he has no intention of standing by while the world dismisses her worth. Not when he has always seen her clearly. But Caroline has no desire to be anyone’s consolation prize. Hurt, furious, and struggling to trust her own judgment, she cannot help wondering whether Julian’s devotion is truly love… or merely the opportunity he has been waiting for. To win her, Julian must prove that he did not choose her because she has fallen — but because, to him, she has always been extraordinary. less

Is it a cruel twist of fate. .. or second chance at happiness? More than a decade ago, Miss Lydia Whitby was the belle of every assembly room — admired, accomplished, and betrothed to the devastatingly handsome Lord Oliver Hartwell. Then her father died, his debts and misdeeds came to light, and Lydia did the only honorable thing she could she vanished... moreIs it a cruel twist of fate. .. or second chance at happiness? More than a decade ago, Miss Lydia Whitby was the belle of every assembly room — admired, accomplished, and betrothed to the devastatingly handsome Lord Oliver Hartwell. Then her father died, his debts and misdeeds came to light, and Lydia did the only honorable thing she could she vanished. Reinventing herself under her mother’s maiden name, she has spent the years since as Miss Lydia Mercer, a governess of impeccable reputation, determined that scandal and heartbreak remain firmly in the past. Oliver Hartwell survived the disappearance of his fiancée only to find himself bound in a dutiful, joyless marriage that secured his estate and very little else. Now widowed and father to a spirited young daughter, he is resolved to provide stability and kindness in his household — beginning with the selection of a suitable governess. He is wholly unprepared when the woman who enters his study is the fiancée who vanished without a word, leaving behind questions he has never stopped asking. Against her better judgment, Lydia remains at Hartshorne House, caring for a child who, had life taken a kinder course, might have been her own. At every turn she and Oliver find themselves thrown together, and the spark that once bound them proves far from extinguished. Indeed, it threatens to blaze into something neither prudence nor pride can contain — and this time, walking away may prove impossible. less

An enemies-to-lovers arranged marriage Regency romance. Two neighboring estates — one wealthy, one nearly ruined. One practical marriage. If only the intended bride and groom did not thoroughly detest one another. To keep a ruthless neighbor from swallowing their lands whole, the Earl of Denham and the indebted Viscount Alderley bind their families together with an unbreakable the earl’s heir must marry the viscount’s youngest daughter... moreAn enemies-to-lovers arranged marriage Regency romance. Two neighboring estates — one wealthy, one nearly ruined. One practical marriage. If only the intended bride and groom did not thoroughly detest one another. To keep a ruthless neighbor from swallowing their lands whole, the Earl of Denham and the indebted Viscount Alderley bind their families together with an unbreakable the earl’s heir must marry the viscount’s youngest daughter. Lord Benedict Denham is certain Miss Harriet Alderley is stubborn, argumentative, and wholly unimpressed by him. Harriet finds the future earl insufferably confident and far too accustomed to obedience. Their disagreements are longstanding. Their irritation, mutual. And now they must wed. Yet beneath every argument lies a spark that refuses to be ignored — and close quarters have a way of turning irritation into something far more dangerous. Because sometimes the last person you would ever choose…. becomes the one you cannot live without. less