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Ted and Marilyn Bader
DESIRE AND DUTY: A Sequel to Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice 1997 ISBN: 0965429903 Regency. Set in the years 1805 - 1816, Desire and Duty tells the romantic adventures of Mr. Darcy's younger sister Georgiana, after her narrow escape from the nefarious clutches of Mr. Wickham.
Elizabeth Bailey
THE CAPTAIN'S RETURN 2/2002 Regency. In a village near Steepwood Abbey, a captain - thought lost in the war -returns to his wife and daughter. But things are not quite what they seem… Captain Henry Colton is stunned to find his lost love living the quiet life of a widow – with a small daughter! Given the way they had parted, in anger, could he now expect Annabel to let him back into her life? His only recourse seems to be to pose as her husband, miraculously returned alive from the war…
A FRAGILE MASK 6/1996 ISBN:0263795985 Georgian. Miss Verena Chacely was a mystery to her neighbors. She was stunningly beautiful, but so coldly calm that she held all at a distance. Only Mr Denzell Hawkeridge saw a break in her facade, as she frolicked joyously with the local children. He realised there was a turmoil of feeling beneath her polite expressionless exterior. Shaken, Denzell knew that this time his flirting could hurt, and he determined to find the truth about Verena - falling in love with her wasn't part of the plan at all...
FRIDAY DREAMING12/1994 ISBN: 0263788628 Regency. She did not wish to marry… if she could not marry Nicolas. And as Miss Frideswid Edborough -- familiarly known as Friday -- well knew, she could no more marry Nick than fly to the moon. She was plain Friday, a bluestocking, bespectacled miss, not even remotely pretty, as unlike the females Nick's taste ran to as she could be. It seemed then that she was doomed to spinsterhood… But Friday had reckoned without a father determined to see his daughter -- sole heir to the Edborough estate -- off the proverbial shelf…
SEVENTH HEAVEN ISBN: 0373303602 Regency. After a year of wealthy widowhood, Lady Louisa Shittlehope prided herself on her skill at discouraging the attentions of greedy suitors. A skill that she was sure to find handy when she accompanied her ward to town for the season to find the girl a suitable husband. Louisa's arrival set the Berowne brothers scrambling for an introduction to the lovely widow, hoping for a profitable alliance. But in Septimus Berowne, seventh-born, and rock of the clan, Louisa found a man who made her feel like a woman. Yet could she trust that his love was for her alone and not her wealth?
SEVENTH HEAVEN-FRIDAY DREAMI-A FRAGILE MASK 6/2001 Georgian and Regency
Lynn Bailey
FLOWERS BY MOONLIGHT 2/1999 ISBN: 0515124486 Medieval. Sira, who's a faerie, falls in love with a young knight who was blinded in battle and they become lovers. But Sira must decide if she can sacrifice her immortality for her young lover.
SPLENDID YOU 7/2000 ISBN: 0515128686. Victorian. London, England, 1848. Egyptology has always fascinated Julia Hanson. A self-taught hieroglyphics expert, she is unable to pursue her occupation because of the societal prejudice against her gender. Her only hope is to attract the attention of Dr. Simon Archer, the famed Egyptologist who discovered the tomb of Twelfth Dynasty Princess An-ket, and offer her services. Simon is appalled at Julia's interest in "manly pursuits," and quickly dismisses her, to her outrage and disappointment. Overnight, she locks herself in the museum exhibiting Simon's artifacts to expand her Egyptian knowledge. But a flash of lightning awakens the spirit of An-ket, who decides to help Julia win not only Simon's confidence, but his heart as well...
Cynthia Bailey-Pratt
LADY FAIR 7/1992 - Regency
Anne Baldwin
FIRST SEASON 7/1992 ISBN:0821738100 Regency. Country heiress Laetitia Biddle had so looked forward to her first London Season. Instead she succeeds in making a fool of herself committing one faux pas after another--to the infuriating delight of young Lord Wakeford. Now Letty is determined to turn the tables on this arrogant man by becoming a season "original".
Rebecca Baldwin
THE MATCHMAKERS 12/1979 ISBN:0449500179 Regency. 'We are on the verge,' said Christian, 'of become a gossip item. A very young widow and a stepson only a few years older living alone together under the same roof. We are bound to cause comment.' This was the reason that Lady Charlotte Woodville invited her old school friend Elise to come and play chaperone. Despite the misgivings some had about Elise's emigre status, Lady Charlotte's stepson, Christian Woodville, was secretly glad she was there. She was extraordinarily beautiful and a talented painter to boot. Elise found life at Lady Charlotte's most pleasant. If she could only keep secret her love for Mr. Woodville. Suddenly her whole life took a shattering turn. For when Christian accused her irresponsible young brother of treason, Elise found herself in a very dangerous situation....
A VERY SIMPLE SCHEME 3/1982 ISBN: 0449502740 Regency.
Joan Balser
PASSIONS OF THE REALM 8/1988 ISBN: 0517006677 Medieval. Beautiful young Rowena was the proud and gallant daughter of the proud and gallant Sir Hugh fitz Giles. But now in strife-torn England of 1155, her father had fallen in battle, and the man who had vanquished him claimed his castle and all within it as his prize. That man was Runnolf, the favorite knight of the victorious king, and a warrior whose size and strength, skill and daring, had made him a fearful legend. What Runnolf wanted, he took...and now he wanted Rowena...and, God help her, she wanted him...with a passion that burned with the fire of the forbidden...and a love that defied all laws.
Elaine Barbieri
ONLY FOR LOVE 8/1994 ISBN: 0821746499 Colonial. Left impoverished after her father's death, Gillian Haige becomes an indentured servant to seek a new life in the Colonies, but the desperate illness of her twin sister forces her into a passionate bargain with handsome sea captain Derek Andrews.
AND A SIXPENCE FOR HER SHOE 5/1996 Short Story - Regency
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THE GRAND HOTEL 6/2000 ISBN:0451200365 Regency. Anthology featuring: The Background Man by Carla Kelly; Love Will Find the Way by Elisabeth Fairchild; The Castaway by Anne Barbour; The Management Requests by Barbara Metzger; Promises To Keep by Allison Lane .
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A WEDDING BOUQUET 5/1996 ISBN:0451187857 Regency. Anthology featuring: And a Sixpence for her Shoe by Ann Barbour, Something Blue by Edith Layton, Something Borrowed by Patricia Rice, Something New by Carla Kelly, and Something Old by Patricia Oliver.
Anne Barbour
BURIED SECRETS 5/2000 ISBN:0451200233 Regency. Love was for poets. Marriage was for fools. The philosophy of dashing rake Christopher Culver, the Earl of Cordray, would never melt a woman's heart. But that wasn't his desire. Nor was adhering to the restrictive tastes of the ton. He was looking for the kind of woman who matched his fire, the likes of which he'd never encounter at a Mayfair come-out..Miss Gillian Tate, the spinster daughter of Culver's new tenant, was intriguing. What was behind her midnight rides along the contours of the sprawling estate? What mysteries were hidden in the satchel she carried in the predawn hours? How could he discover the truth behind her reclusive father's secret obsession? And how could he ever convince a woman, so independent, so spirited and unrestrained, that he was falling prey to the weakness he feared most: love?
LADY HILARY'S HALLOWEEN 9/1998 ISBN:0451194993 Regency. The first meeting between Lady Hilary Merton and James Wincanon, the dashing new owner of a neighboring estate, did not go as planned. An avid student of archaeology, the spinster politely asked permission to excavate on his land. But James rudely accused her of feigning an interest in his favorite subject - to trap him into wedlock. Hilary was appalled. She certainly had no interest in a bachelor as insufferably conceited as James Wincannon.
A MAN OF AFFAIRS 8/1999 ISBN:01451196937 Regency. Living a quiet life on her parents' estate, a young woman falls for the adopted son of a duke. But the dashing gentleman has too many duties to his father to properly court her. It takes a scandalous heartbreak to bring them together in a love that would go against their families and society.
MELODY 11/1997 short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS CAROL: The Bond Street Carolers, The Earl's Nightingale, The Mistletoe Kiss, Make a Joyful Noise, Melody 11/1997 ISBN:0451193873. Regency.
STEP IN TIME 3/1996 ISBN:0451187237 Regency. Amanda McGovern's dreams were dashed by a man she adored in 1990. But romance offered even greater danger when she traveled back in time to Regency London!
Suzanne Barclay
KNIGHTS DIVIDED 4/1997 ISBN: 0373289596 Medieval. Though Emmeline Spencer captured Jamie Harcourt as her prisoner, the rogue adventurer stole kisses from her that were sweet beyond her wildest imagining. Yet how could Emma love the man suspected of the murder of her beloved sister? Heir to the Sommerville legacy of bravery, Jamie Harcourt had willingly entered a maze of intrigue knowing full well that there was little hope of escape. Though he hadn't counted on the interference - or the inspiration - of the lady Emmeline.
KNIGHT'S REBELLION: The Sommerville Brothers 12/1997 ISBN: 037328991X Medieval. 'Twas Said That The Sommervilles Love Only Once.... Yet Alys Sommerville was no heir to this legacy of passion, for the Fates had sent her along a different road. One that led straight into the arms of Gowain FitzWarren, the leader of a desperate rebel band... Though the highborn Alys was seemingly a bride of the church, Gowain could not fail to note the radiant beauty that her simple garb did nothing to conceal. But he was intent on recovering his birthright, and could scarce afford any distraction, no matter how compelling!
A TOUCH OF MYRRH Short Story in THE GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS 12/1998 ISBN: 0373833725 Medieval.
Jill Barnett
BEWITCHING 10/1993 ISBN:0671778633. Regency Period. She had bewitched the most serious, snobbish, and handsome Duke in England. Joyous MacQuarrie...the pixie-like, green-eyed beauty had appeared from nowhere and fell unashamedly into his arms. And all that his society friends knew of the mysterious lady was that she was Scottish and that her grandmother had been a Locksley. Even her fine bloodline didn't make Joy quite proper enough to be a Duchess, but a proud nobleman like Alec, Duke of Belmore, did as he pleased...and he wanted to marry the beautiful girl who aroused his desire. But Alec soon discovered he could not do what he pleased with Joy Fiona MacQuarrie. Bubbling with laughter, filled with spirit, she turned stately Belmore Park upside down with merriment and strange occurrences. She might even have gotten Alec to laugh -- and to cherish her -- if it had not been for the truth she hid. Though he turned to fire when he tasted her petal-soft lips, he turned to ice when he discovered that this winsome lady was, in fact, a witch. A witch whose powers of white magic were not always perfectly under control....Too late, Joy knew she was desperately in love and that nothing could stop the course of their destiny -- the scandal threatening to destroy her and the passion that held them both spellbound in a forbidden, irresistible match of two enchanted hearts.
DREAMING 6/1994 ISBN: 0671778684. Regency Period. Most English girls meet their heart's desire across a crowded ballroom or in a genteel parlor. Letitia Olive Hornsby finds hers when she knocks him into a river. A curly-haired, blue-eyed hellion of only eleven, she decides even then that Richard, the dashing, handsome, and totally disreputable son of the Earl of Downe, is the white knight of her dreams. Now fully grown and unexpectedly beautiful, Letty is spinning a plan to save Richard from himself..by marrying him, of course. And he soon has the bruises to prove it. The insufferable, albeit unforgettable, chit has come back into Richard's life with a crash - literally falling into his arms. He is struck by her softness, her dizzying scent, and her impossible meddling in his ruinous drinking, gambling, and amorous liaisons. But when fate makes them prisoners of a ring of dangerous smugglers, Richard discovers in his mischievous cellmate a pure, romantic, questing spirit that sparks a flame in his own shadowed heart. If only they can escape, a wondrous passion can blaze free..and they can find a lifetime's adventures in each other's arms.
A KNIGHT IN TARNISHED ARMOR Short Story in MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S MADNESS 7/1995 ISBN: 0312955073 Medieval. Fleeing a marriage of convenience to Englands most fearsome Knight, the Lady Linnet meets a handsome stranger, unaware her new found protector is also her betrothed, with only one week to woo and win his fair lady....
WICKED 9/1999 ISBN: 067103412X. Medieval. Lady Sofia Beatrice Rosalynde Anne Therese Howard has had as many suitors as she has names. But she's spurned every last one of them, to the dismay of her guardian, King Edward I. Now, even increasing her dower prize will not lure offers for the defiant, but lonely, Sofia, whose young heart was once broken by a too-arrogant knight. Sir Tobin de Clare is the man who broke her heart, and he must make amends for a careless act from the past. Nothing will stop this ruthless warrior from winning her hand. Nothing, that is, except Sofia's tattered pride and her demand that he also surrender his heart. In a rousing battle of will and wit that makes war seem peaceful, one powerfully determined knight and his spirited lady find that love at first sight is never, ever easy.
WONDERFUL 9/1997 ISBN: 0671004123. Medieval. After too many years on the battle field, Merrick de Beaucourt is looking forward to a simple life of peace and quiet with a docile wife at his side. But when he finally fetches his bride-to-be from a secluded English convent, he finds he needs more than his knight's spurs to bring order to his life. When she was betrothed at fifteen to the legendary English knight she had never met, Lady Clio of Camrose believed that love was something magical. But her youthful hopes faded as she languished in a convent for six long years, never hearing a word from Merrick. Weary of war, Lord Merrick finds little peace guarding the wild Welsh borders, and even less with the wife whose trust he destroyed. But as Lady Clio comes to understand the dark knight she so blindly wed, she see a chance to make her dreams come true. Amid the enchanted mists that envelop Camrose Castle, they will battle together to discover a place where all things are possible, even a love that is rare and wonderful.
Elisabeth Barr
MASTER OF ROXTON 1/1976 ISBN:0440056012 Regency. England was a frightening new world for beautiful young Anne Brandon. Raised in distant Australia, she was totally unprepared for the dizzying whirl of romance and the intricate web of intrigue that awaited her when she followed the lure of love half way around the globe to a nobleman's magnificent country estate.
June Barraclough
THE HEART AND THE ROSE 12/1986 ISBN:1555472214 Regency. In 1818 England, young and beautiful Anne Tesseyman travels a vast distance from the isolated countryside of her birth to take a job as a sewing maid at the magnificent castle.
KINDRED SPIRITS 1/1989 ISBN:0312025971 Regency. When Jane Banham's father dies she is forced to leave the country village of her youth to live with an unknown uncle in London. She is distressed by the sudden upheaval in her life, but her spirits revive when her uncle introduces her to the leading lights of London's literary world.
ROOK'S NEST 8/1987 ISBN 0312010834 Regency. Set in a Yorkshire village in mid-19th century Harrogate, and London--is an intelligent and engrossing novel of a young woman coming into her own
Julia Barrett
THE THIRD SISTER: A Continuation of Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility 8/1996 ISBN:1551664461 Regency. Margaret, the other sister, was a good humored, well-disposed girl; but she had already imbibed a good deal of Marianne's romance, without having much of her sense, she did not, at thirteen, bid fair to equal her sisters at a more advanced period of life.
Elizabeth Barron
AN AMICABLE ARRANGEMENT 5/1988 ISBN:0446347647 Regency. Belinda Hanbury's blue eyes blazed with fury. She loved her father dearly, but this latest ploy against poverty simply would not do. Pretty Belinda would not wed a corpulent man thirty years her senior, however well-lined his pockets. Still the 'courtship' progressed...until her odious intended turned lecherous in a darkened theater box - and Belinda knocked him senseless with a bottle of champagne! Such explosive melodrama quickly brought that dashing light of the London stage, Baron Francis Kenmore, to Belinda's side. Actor, producer, and nobleman, the wealthy Kenmore gallantly offered to mary her - temporarily, and in name only, after he heard her tale of woe. But could naive Belinda convincingly act the part of a blissful bride in high society? What were the notorious Kenmore's real motives? And what if these mock mates were to actually fall in love?
Linda Lang Bartell
ALYSSA 2/1987 ISBN: 0380751577 Medieval. She is a prize of war, fair game for any soldier of the conquering armies. Yet the golden-haired knight who sweeps Alyssa MacLauren onto his ebony stallion with a tender kiss has rescued her from a far worse fate, and his very touch leaves her trembling - helpless in his hungry embrace. Alyssa's heart is bound by this magnificent Norman god as surely as if she were in chains. While her spirit yearns for freedom and her beloved Scotland home, her heart beats wildly with desire she cannot resist....And as danger and treachery close in to destroy their very lives, it is her conquering hero she clings to. Only in his arms is she safe...from all but the thundering passion of a love that will not be denied...
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