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Elisabeth Fairchild
BREACH OF PROMISE 4/2000 ISBN: 0708944299 Regency. The village of Chipping Camp den is abuzz with gossip when the local honey merchant, Miss Susan Fairford, leases her former home to a mysterious young gentleman. Miss Fairford went from belle to beekeeper after her marriage to a cad who absconded-after just one day-with her pride, her fortune, and her faith in men....Her new tenant, who goes by the name of Philip Stone, was similarly bereft at the hands of his gold-digging fiancee, whom he caught in an act of betrayal-on the very morning of their wedding! Philip's angry flight from the scene of his humiliation brings him from Cornwall's rocky coast to Fairford Manor, where he is captivated by his landlady's wit and beauty-despite his resolution to steer clear of all tempting females. Only time will tell whether bachelor and beekeeper can overcome their mutual mistrust in order to discover how much they really have in common....
THE HOLLY AND THE IVY 10/1999 ISBN: 0451198417 Regency. Mary Rivers's elderly Gran has predicted a wonderful London Christmas-and a wonder is what it will take to soothe Mary's heart, lonely for her country relatives. So when their neighbor, the dashing, though usually prickly, Lord Balfour is increasingly solicitous, Gran suspects that his attention to Mary is more than merely neighborly....Neglected as a child, Lord Balfour made friends with loneliness long ago. The holidays only increase his gloom. And now there are his neighbors to contend with-notably Mary Rivers with her irrepressible, and admittedly dazzling, smile. Usually such cheer would annoy him. Why then does he find himself searching for that smile-and for her company, at every opportunity? Perhaps a country girl and a titled gentleman have more in common than first meets the eye. If the two can weather a scandalous misunderstanding and a chaotic Christmas Eve ball, they just may find out.
LORD RAMSAY'S RETURN 3/1996 ISBN: 0451182820 Regency. To Mahomed's Bath House in Brighton, where the restorative powers of Dene Mahomed's body "shampoos" have earned reknown, Miss Prudence Stanhope goes in search of a sense of peace. Lord Ramsay hopes to find peace as well. Just returned from India, he discovers what little was left of his inheritance gambled away by one brother, a second brother just returned from a runaway marriage to Gretna Green, and his sister married to the very gentleman who now holds possession of his fortune. Peace, however, is not what Prudence and Ramsay find in the bath house on the day Esther Childe keels over dead in a steam tub. They are fated to find one another, to begin a strange journey of growth and growing passion that takes them from the glittering halls of the Prince Regent's Brighton Pavilion to the distant shores of the Orient.
THE LOVE KNOT 11/1995 ISBN: 0451182812 Regency. Miss Aurora Ramsay had set her sights on a moneyed marriage to save her family estate-and had found the perfect target. Not only was Lord Walsh wonderfully wealthy, he was her ideal of masterful masculinity and rugged good looks to boot. But Aurora was a novice when it came to the art of hunting for a man. She had to learn how to stir a man's senses as well as snare his heart without delay-and only one person could teach her...Miles Fletcher might be the kind of dandy she scorned, but this devastatingly handsome, exquisitely elegant gentleman knew every trick of enticement and strategy of seduction. He promised to make her irresistible to any man if she put herself in his knowing hands. He did not mention, though, what would happen when she found herself in his surprisingly strong arms. ...
THE MISTLETOE KISS 11/1997 short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS CAROL ISBN: 0451193873 Regency
THE RAKEHELL'S REFORM 2/1997 ISBN: 0451191226 Regency. Selina Preston knew her father loved her and that he was determined that his hard-earned wealth buy her happiness in the form of a highborn husband. Unfortunately, the man he chose to press on her was everything she found hateful in aristocratic society. Jack Ramsay might have had the bluest of blood, but he had the most scarlet of reputations-as a wastrel, a womanizer, and a gambler whose only chance of rescue from financial ruin was marriage to a moneyed miss like her. Selina vowed that she would never surrender to the practiced charms and seductive skills of a rakehell like Ramsay-only to find that she had never met a man who made all that she tried to loathe so easy to love...
VALENTINE'S CHANGE OF HEART 1/2003 ISBN: 0451207726 Regency. Valentine Wharton has been drowning is sorrow ever since he lost his beloved Penny Foster to the town gossips. But Wharton no longer cares what the members of the ton have to say—not since high society scorned his beloved Penny. Now his sole care is for his nine-year-old daughter, Felicity, who his one and only love left behind and who he cherishes more than life itself. Miss Elaine Deering is, in young Felicity’s opinion, the best part of boarding school. So when Wharton arrives at the school to take his daughter on holiday, he arranges for Miss Deering to join the two as a temporary governess. Unfortunately, his reputation has preceded Wharton, and the handsome lord scares Miss Deering to no end. But when he begins to take delight in the skeptical schoolteacher, there may be luck for both of them—and hope in store for his broken heart....
Zabrina Faire
BOLD PURSUIT 12/1980 ISBN:0446944645 Regency. A young man and woman are deserted at the altar by their fiancées, who have shockingly eloped together!
ENCHANTING JENNY 11/1979 ISBN:0446941034 Regency. Fate decreed that Jenny must become the Comtesse de la Garde, but even the power of Fate could not make her love the Comte... Jenny said "No!" But everyone else insisted that this was the right marriage for Jenny. The Comte was the scion of a noble family, said Jenny's mother, pointing out that both Jenny's sisters' chances would improve when she became the Comtesse. The Comte agreed because his mother's secret plan to use Jenny's inheritance was irresistible. Even Jenny's clairvoyant grandmother declared it had to be... Only Jenny herself was opposed to the match. Only Jenny and the Comte's half-brother who viewed the marriage of convenience -- and Jenny -- with contempt. ....
LADY BLUE 4/1979 ISBN: 0446940569 Regency. He was an enfant terrible...yet the pranks that little Lord Algernon visited upon his patient governess, Meriel Hathaway, were borne by her with good grace, until the morning he deliberately spilled blue ink over Meriel's pale gold curls. She slapped him, and she was dismissed with no references - and blue hair. But all was not lost. The handsome Lord Farr had a job for a blue-haired lady; and since Meriel had a secret love for Lord Farr, she could not refuse him, no matter how bizarre, perilous, unconventional - and heartbreaking - the assignment was.
PRETTY KITTY 2/1981 ISBN:0446944653 Regency. She was the Major's Lady!... And how gallantly Major Quentin had offered for Kitty. He was a British Army officer and she a red-haired Southern belle when they met during the war in Washington. He saved her from certain dishonor and brought her here to London's mad whirl of balls and masquerades. But in England Kitty was a foreigner, and the love he had professed for her seemed to vanish from Quentin's heart. He had made another promise long ago...to another woman. Yes, Kitty was the Major's lady, but for how long?
THE ROMANY REBEL 10/1979 ISBN:0446942065 Regency. Lord Roxbrough had taken charge of young Easter Hazeltyne’s life and he decreed she was to be presented in town. He watched her carefully, lest she commit some indiscretion. He had been hurt by love, and now she must be protected from it. But Easter had found a man to love, a wild, undisciplined, romantic man. Together they would rearrange the plans, and the life of the cold Lord Roxbrough.
THE WICKED COUSIN 3/1980 ISBN:0446941042 Regency. Her cousin Stephen was just the right man for her, Bryony's mother insisted. A fine figure of a man—who pledged his undying love. But Bryony often thought of her absent cousin Lucas. He'd not been handsome: in fact, he'd been much too fat. Still, she thought, what fun they'd had! Bryony's brow crinkled—where was Lucas now? She sighed a deep sigh, and prepared herself to marry...
Ann Fairfax
HENRIETTA 10/1979 ISBN:0515051284 Regency. Even the inhabitants of secluded Nethercote looked pityingly upon young Henrietta. The Vicar's sister, her plain features seemed set to guarantee a solitary future. And yet, she had spirit -- and those magnificent hazel eyes...So when Great-aunt Hester left her unexpected wealth, Henrietta set out to conquer London's glittering high society and confound them all. But the fashionable elite was less than warm in its welcome -- especially when the "bold minx" voiced her intention of carrying off its most treasured possession: the irresistible, extravagant, heart-stopping Lord Beau Reckford, a prize wildly beyond her lowly desserts..
Virginia Farmer
SIXPENCE BRIDE 6/2000 ISBN: 050552385X Medieval. A wife sale reenactment, a twist in time and Jocelyn Tanner finds herself in another woman's body and whisked away by an arrogant earl, bent on revenge. Garren Warrick, the Earl of Spenceworth, soon learns that making Jocelyn his bride does not make her his wife. Though she comes from a world he'll never know, Garren will risk his heart and the laws of time to hold tight to his Sixpence Bride
Jeffery Farnol
THE AMATEUR GENTLEMAN 1913 Regency. When Barnabas Barty, son of a famous retired boxing champion, inherits a fortune, his one ambition is to go to London and be a "Gentleman of Fashion". Thus he plunges into adventure...only to eventually learn he's not the son of whom he thinks...
Diane Farr
DUEL OF HEARTS 10/2002 ISBN: 0451207203 Regency. Lilah Chadwick thinks she’s the apple of her father’s eye--until he announces his plans to marry. Hoping to counter his decision, she rushes to London. Adam Harleston, the ninth Earl of Drakesley, is a man possessed. His young cousin has been seduced by an older gentleman, and he’s determined to save her honor before it’s too late. But wedding bells are about to ring for Lilah’s father and Drake’s cousin. Joining forces, Lilah and Drake vow to stop their loved ones from making a drastic mistake--only to discover that falling in love is never a mistake....
FALLING FOR CHLOE 4/2000 ISBN:0451200047 Regency. Dashing Sylvester "Gil" Gilliland would no more think of ravishing--much less marrying--his comely childhood friend Chloe than he would his own sister. But Gil's mother happily sees more to their bond than either yet realizes. And when the two innocents are caught in a deceptively compromising situation, she wastes no time in using it to her advange--and theirs.
THE NOBODY 1/1999 ISBN:0451205650 Regency. Publicly humiliated by the tongue of a snobbish society dragon, a comely young country girl flees unescorted into the dark London streets. Unwittingly, she becomes the savior of an enigmatic man who suddenly approaches and kisses her to evade the violent scoundrels stalking him. Terrified and aghast at his audacity, she abandons him to his fate, only to discover his identity as a roguish nobleman engaged to the very woman who insulted her! She finds herself drawn into a web of frightening intrigue, in which the only way out is to trust the desire in her heart.
ONCE UPON A CHRISTMAS 10/2000 ISBN: 0451201620 Regency. After a tragic loss, Celia Delacourt accepts an unexpected holiday invitation-which is, in fact, a thinly veiled matchmaking attempt. For the lonely Celia and a reluctant young man, it turns out to be a Christmas they'd never forget....
Marjorie Farrell
AUTUMN ROSE 9/1994 ISBN: 0451168747 Regency. To the ton, Honora Dillon was a person beyond the pale, soiling her hand with ink to pander to popular taste. To the haughty Countess of Alverstone, Honora was an adventuress, trying to snare the Countess's son. To Miranda, Honora's adoring daughter, Honora was a saint, giving and giving up all to raise Miranda in comfort. To the devastating Viscount Marcus Vane, Honora was the only woman with the beauty and brilliance to make him want to wed. But only Honora knew the truth about herself - the truth too shocking to tell no matter what its cost to hide...
CHRISTMAS ROSE short story in A REGENCY CHRISTMAS IV 11/1992 ISBN: 0451173414 Regency
JACK OF HEARTS 2/2000 ISBN: 0451199537 Georgian. Wanted: The Perfect Husband... Anne Heriot, the daughter of a wealthy mill owner, already possesses a sizable fortune - she just needs a title to make her life complete. So when her quest for the ideal husband takes her to London, Anne draws up a list of eligible bachelors who can provide her with the future - and the social clout - she longs for...Notorious womanizer Jack Belden is not on Anne's list. He's a titled charmer who needs money to resurrect his impoverished estate - and although his distinguished lineage perfectly suits Anne's requirement, his sullied reputation stands in the way of a mutually beneficial marriage. But when she's forced to eliminate each of her prospective mates, Anne finds that she had only one choice. And when it comes to true love, only one man can get to the heart of the matter...
LADY ARDEN'S REDEMPTION 3/1992 ISBN: 0451171942 Regency. Lady Arden Huntly was beautiful, highborn, and wealthy. Her entry into the marriage mart should have been a stunning success. Instead it was a disaster. For Arden was as arrogant as she was exquisite. No lord was good enough for her. And all were easy targets for her wickedly barbed tongue. Certainly Captain Gareth Richmond should have stood no chance with her. But this officer did not play the game of love like a gentleman. And the only way Arden could keep the upper hand on him was not to lose her heart...
LADY BARBARA'S DILEMMA 3/1993 ISBN: 0451171942 Regency. Lady Barbour Stanley had the perfect husband-to-be in Lord Peter Rushcliffe, Marquess of Wardour. She had the perfect platonic friend in Sir David Treves and the perfect musical companion in the secretive Alex Gower. In short, Lady Barbour had the most perfect of lives in the best arranged of all worlds--until she discovered that what she wanted was not perfection, but love . . .
MISS WARE'S REFUSAL 1990 ISBN: 0451164725 Regency. Lovely Miss Judith Ware was proud. Too proud to feel sorry for herself when her family's loss of fortune forced her to earn a living. And too proud to accept the marriage proposal of the handsome, wealthy Simon Ballance, Duke of Sutton, who offered her everything but love. The duke was just as proud. Too proud to expose his grievous war wound to society's scorn. And too proud to open his heart to any woman's painful pity. With pride so powerful, could passion & love ever prove stronger . . . ?
RED, RED ROSE 2/1999 ISBN: 0451408179 Regency. In Regency England, the conventional daughter of an army major finds herself rescued from roving bandits by a dashing officer from General Wellington's staff. But even as the officer courts the young lady, he is haunted by his status as a bastard son to the Earl of Farringdon, and considers himself unworthy of her affections. When his half-brother dies, he is overcome with grief and allows himself to find solace in her arms. Will her love inspire the necessary courage within him to claim his birthright and his place among the aristocracy?
SWEET AWAKENING 5/1995 ISBN: 0451404920 Regency. Soon after lovely Lady Clare Dysart met Lord Justin Rainsborough, the darkly handsome aristocrat won Clare's heart and hand. He dazzled her with his charm and intoxicated her with his passion. Only when she was bound to him in wedlock did she discover his violent side...the side of him that led to his violent demise. Lord Giles Whitton, Clare's childhood friend, was Justin's opposite, gentle and tender. Now he wanted to be much more. But though Giles was the finest man Clare knew, it would take a miracle to wipe out the bitter memories of her marriage...to make her feel anew the sweet heat of desire and all-consuming fire of fulfillment - a miracle called love.
Colleen Faulkner
TO LOVE A DARK STRANGER 4/1997 ISBN: 0821756265 Renaissance. In a moment of shattering violence, Meg Randall's life changes forever. Desperate to save her newborn son from her husband's murderous wrath, she kills this cruel, deformed tyrant she was forced to wed against her will. Now, with blood on her hands, the dazed, horrified Meg flees her home and its tragic memories. On the road to London, she collapses...and is rescued by a masked highwayman who sweeps her into his arms, onto his horse - and into an ambush that leads to Newgate prison. For Captain Scarlet is King Charles's prisoner. And Meg has just been charged as an accomplice. Together, they escape into London's underworld, and Meg becomes more and more dependent on the dashing outlaw who saved her life - and is rapidly laying siege to her heart. Intimate strangers clinging to secrets they dare not reveal, they abandon themselves to passion...only to discover a love destined to bring them the greatest danger of all.
Jane Feather
THE ACCIDENTAL BRIDE 8/1999 ISBN: 0553578960 Renaissance. For four years, Cato, the Marquis of Granville, had been just another man - the uninteresting, somewhat intimidating husband of Phoebe's older sister. But then her sister died, and Phoebe seemed a reasonable substitute. Her forced engagement to him should have been quite a cold-blooded arrangement...except that one day Phoebe looked at Granville - really looked at him - and saw what she'd never seen before: he was darkly, breathtakingly attractive. Once she'd noticed, she couldn't seem to stop noticing, and suddenly Phoebe was disastrously in love. It would be nothing short of torture to be married to Granville, knowing he didn't love her and never would. After all, Phoebe was not the kind of woman men fell in love with - Phoebe with her untidy hair, her rumpled clothes, and her fingers forever ink-stained from the poetry she wrote. When running away does not solve her problems, Phoebe decides to try something a little different - something that involves a little change in wardrobe, a daring new attitude, and a bit of brazen seduction. Granville is about to discover that his awkward Phoebe is woman enough even for him....
BELOVED BETRAYAL 7/1987 ISBN: 0821723464 Renaissance. Despite the dangers Sabrina Spencer was determined to go to New Mexico and find her fathers's killer. To protect herself from unwanted advances she donned a gray wig and veiled hat and swaddled herself in a padded gown before blackmailing rugged Ridge Tanner into guiding her to Ft Canby. But the costume soon became her prison-for the passionate beauty had fallen head over heels for her verile companion. Ridge Tanner knew something was amiss. So when the mysterious woman fell asleep one night he took a good look at the baggage he was escorting West. Right then and there, Ridge vowed that before they reached Santa Fe, he'd strip away her unsightly disguise and make her surrender to her heart's beloved betrayal.
BELOVED ENEMY 7/1987 ISBN: 0821756397 Renaissance. Daring and defiant, Virginia Courtney risks her life by transporting Royalist fugitives to safety. Until Colonel Alexander Marshall seizes her family's land and takes her prisoner. But the fearless beauty arouses a passionate yearning that the honor-bound soldier has never before allowed himself to feel. Irresistibly drawn to her handsome captor, Virginia cannot forget that he is also her most treacherous enemy. Yet with each caress, Alexander mounts a delicate assault on her senses, quelling all thoughts of rebellion - leaving her conscious of the perfection of his passion. Torn between desire and duty, Virginia and Alexander become players in the most dangerous of games...where intrigue and betrayal rule the day and where love carries the inevitability of destiny.
BRAZEN WHISPERS 12/1990 ISBN: 038076167X Medieval
THE EMERALD SWAN 2/1998 ISBN: 0553575252 Renaissance. This story begins on a terror-filled night when two babies - identical twin girls of noble birth - are separated. One grows to womanhood as the frail, manipulative ward of the handsome young earl of Harcourt. The other becomes an enchanting, street-smart urchin who earns her way as a traveling player on the streets of England and France. The two girls' paths might never again have crossed if Harcourt hadn't run into Miranda in the midst of an exuberant performance. The resemblance to his ward is unmistakable - uncanny, in fact...and an ambitious plot begins to take shape in Harcourt's mind. His ward, Maude, will commit herself to a convent rather than marry the love-struck king of France, who will soon be traveling to London to claim her. What if Miranda were to take Maude's place? Harcourt is confident that with the right training, the right clothes, and the right attitude, the lithe, carefree Miranda will captivate society - and the king. So begins Harcourt's breathtaking scheme to turn an ugly duckling into a gorgeous swan. But if he succeeds too well, Miranda may become something irresistible - even to Harcourt...
HEART'S FOLLY 9/1988 ISBN: 0380755688 Renaissance. Nicholas, Lord Kincaid, had finally found a weapon to use against his archrival, the powerful Duke of Buckingham -- Polly Wyat, the beautiful tavern wench Nick had rescued from the London slums. Little did he suspect that this urchin would so thoroughly complicate his life! An irrepressible actress, both onstage and off, Polly played the role of a lifetime when Nick established her in their own cozy love nest, then set her to entrap his enemy. But as the duke grew suspicious, Polly's passion for the devilishly charming Nick surpassed her willingness to continue the dangerous ploy. And when the duke's cruel revenge threatened their very survival, Nick's fury matched his determination to win forever the leading lady who had so completely captured his heart.
THE HOSTAGE BRIDE 7/1998 ISBN: 0553578901 Renaissance. It's bad enough that seventeen-year-old Portia Worth is taken in by her uncle, the marquis of Granville, after her father dies. As the bastard niece, Portia knows she can expect little beyond a roof over her head and a place at the table. But it truly adds insult to injury when the Granvilles' archenemy, the outlaw Rufus Decatur, hatches a scheme to abduct the marquis's daughter--only to kidnap Portia by accident. 346 pages. Portia, who possesses more than a streak of independence as well as a talent for resistance, does not take kindly to being abducted--mistakenly or otherwise. Decatur will soon find himself facing the challenge of his life, both on the battlefield and in the bedroom, as he contends with this misfit of a girl who has the audacity to believe herself the equal of any man....
THE LEAST LIKELY BRIDE 2/2000 ISBN: 055358068X Renaissance. One moment Lady Olivia Granville is strolling along a path, her nose buried in a tome of Greek philosophy; the next she is plunging down a rocky cliff. When she regains consciousness, she is naked and unwittingly trapped on a pirate ship. Her captor, though, is no ordinary pirate. Wickedly handsome, disturbingly mysterious, the grey-eyed master of the Wind Dancer is both a physician and an artist, and admits to making his living from the sea. Most disconcerting of all, when he turns his glittering eyes on her, he sees not the stammering, hopelessly bookish young girl Olivia has always been, but a passionate, beautiful woman who can, if she chooses, embark on the adventure and the love of a lifetime.
LOVE'S CHARADE 1986 ISBN: 0821752855 Georgian and French Revolution. She called herself Danny. A runaway fighting to survive on the shadowy boulevards of Paris. A lady who concealed her beauty and her dangerous secrets beneath tattered rags as she waited to right a terrible wrong. He was Justin, Earl of Linton. An English aristocrat moved by compassion to save a wretched street waif from a life of hardship...only to discover a woman with much to offer - and so very much to hide...
THE SILVER ROSE 8/1997 ISBN: 0553575244 Renaissance. Ariel Ravenspeare has been taught to loathe the earl of Hawkesmoor and everything he represents. Their two families have been sworn enemies for generations. But it's one thing to hate him, and another to play the part her vicious brothers have written for her - trapping Hawkesmoor into a marriage that will destroy him, using herself as bait. forced into the marriage, Ariel will find her new husband unexpectedly difficult to manipulate, as well as surprisingly - and powerfully - attractive. But beneath the passion lurk the strands of a long-hidden secret...a secret embodied in a sparkling silver rose.
A VALENTINE WEDDING 2/1999
VELVET 8/1994 ISBN: 0553564692 Regency. Clad in black velvet and posing as a widowed French comtesse, Gabrielle de Beaucaire had returned to England for one purpose only - to ruin the man responsible for her young lover's death. But convincing the forbidding Nathaniel Praed, England's greatest spy master, that she would make the perfect agent for his secret service would not be easy. And even after Gabrielle had lured the devastatingly attractive lord to her bed, she would have to contend with his distrust - and with the unexpected hunger that his merest touch aroused...
VENUS 6/1996 ISBN: 0553937677 Renaissance. The last thing Lord Nicholas Kincaid expected to see in the gloom of a London tavern was a vision of loveliness. And when she led him to a bedchamber with a come-hither smile, there was no question of resisting...until he realized the lying wench meant to render him senseless so the landlord could rob him blind! That's how the handsome lord made the acquaintance of Miss Polly Wyatt, a ravishing beauty he soon decided would make the perfect spy. Unwittingly, she would infiltrate the inner circle at the king's court. But when Nicholas sets out to bind Polly with chains of passion, he'll find himself hard-pressed not to be bewitched...or to fall in love...
VIRTUE 4/1993 ISBN: 0553560549 Regency. A tale of a strong-willed beauty forced to make her living at the gaming tables. An arrogant nobleman is determined to get the better of her, and the stakes are nothing less than her virtue.
WISHFUL THINKING short story in WHEN YOU WISH 10/1997 ISBN: 0553576437 Regency. To be taken seriously as a scientist, the bespectacled Rosie Belmont passes herself off as a man...but her plan backfires when a very attractive fellow scientist arrives for an all-too-lengthy visit.
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