LADY FORTESCUE STEPS OUT 1992 ISBN: 0312951299 Elderly widow Lady Fortescue and her friends hatch up a scheme to escape from genteel poverty. If each of them can relieve a rich relative of an expensive trifle, they can gain funds to turn her townhouse into a hotel for the ton! Lady Fortescue's nephew, the devilishly handsome and haughty Duke of Rowcester, is horrified. There must be something wrong with his aunt's wits, to stoop to trade! He is resolved to see her folly shut down...until he encounters the hotel chef, Miss Harriet James, a green-eyed beauty who once intrigued him on the ballroom floor. Harriet's heart skips a beat as she remembers that waltz with the duke-before she lost her parents and inherited their debts. Indeed, when Rowcester steals a delicious kiss, she heatedly questions his intentions. Will she, however, allow the other poor relations to dampen his ardor?
LADY LUCY'S LOVER 12/1983 ISBN: 044920118X Poor deluded Lucy. She had married a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunkard. And she refused to admit that his frequent overnight absences were of significance. it was not until he revealed that Lucy's parents 'bought' him for her that it really stung. And then one night at a ball she met the charismatic Duke of Habard. Suddenly all things seemed possible...
LADY MARGERY'S INTRIGUE 6/1980 ISBN: 0449216594 The petite Lady Margery at age twenty-three has graced the rows of wallflowers for many a Season. Except for Charles, the Marquess of Edgecombe, the only man who ever danced with her, Lady Margery has nothing to do with men; what's more, she does not even like Charles. Bored beyond words, she firmly decides this to be the end of it and returns to the comfort of her only love, Chelmswood, her home. But comfort she does not find. For her once-handsome, middle-aged father has taken himself a dim-witted brat of nineteen as his bride.
LESSONS IN LOVE 11/1987 ISBN: 0727840231 Betrothal at a tender age was nothing new, except the gentleman was a kidnapper! A young woman becomes betrothed at the tender age of 10 to the gentleman that had kidnapped her. Her father has no idea when he arranged the engagement what a beauty his daughter would become.
LOVE AND LADY LOVELACE 7/1982 ISBN: 0449503143 They married each other for money - and then found they had nothing but love.
THE LOVE MATCH 12/1989 ISBN: 0449216330 By day Felicity championed women's rights, but by night she dreamed of romance. She was even the secret author of a scandalous new novel--the tale of a lady "rake" and her passionate exploits. Yet one titled gentleman grew ever more intrigued with this headstrong young woman, and Felicity would soon learn that real life was infinitely more interesting than fiction. . .
THE LOVE MATCH / QUADRILLE 8/1998 ISBN: 0449002101 THE LOVE MATCH: By day Felicity championed women's rights, but by night she dreamed of romance. She was even the secret author of a scandalous new novel--the tale of a lady "rake" and her passionate exploits. Yet one titled gentleman grew ever more intrigued with this headstrong young woman, and Felicity would soon learn that real life was infinitely more interesting than fiction. . . QUADRILLE: Everyone in the Haute Ton knew that Lord Hubert Challenge had married country mouse Mary Tyre for her dowry. But no one guessed that the lady had actually fallen in love with her husband! And she would try anything--sumptuous clothes, a saucy manner, even flirting with another man--to get her handsome husband's attention. Until she learned that two could play at that particular game. . . .
THE LOVES OF LORD GRANTON 2/1997 ISBN: 0449222608 As the youngest of four unmarried vicar's daughters, Frederica feared her destiny was to die of tedium in the sleepy village of Barton Sub Edge. Her looks deemed "unfortunate," her willful notions damned as "difficult," she never dreamt the arrival of a rake would challenge her fate in the most surprising way.For Frederica and the worldly gentleman from the city, Lord Granton, had something in common: boredom. And thus a secret friendship was formed. Frederica lived vicariously through his tales of adventure while he found a delightful respite from the simpering females thrown his way. But when had their summer idyll turned to love? When had a country miss become a breathtaking lady? Worse, what the devil was a certified rogue who was much too old for her going to do about it?
A MARRIAGE OF INCONVENIENCE 6/1992 ISBN: 0449219933 The only saving grave of this forced betrothal was that Lord Harry was a complete fop. He stated quite bluntly-and much to Isabella's relief-that theirs would be a marriage in name only. But neither Harry nor Isabella was aware of the other's disguise-contrived in vain to thwart the impending nuptials. Isabella was not the selfish princess she seemed, nor was Harry a mincing dandy, but a prime Corinthian. A search for buried treasure and a thwarted suitor out for revenge add adventure to the marital mayhem, as two hearts discover that loves lies no farther than the nearest kiss...
MARRYING HARRIET 7/1990 ISBN: 0312924208 Amy and Effy Tribble try to put Lord Charles Marsham and Miss Harriet Brown together as much as possible to push them towards love and marriage. Once again the Tribbles would be praised for their wonderfully successful matchmaking. But Harriet isn't at all concerned for her own success in marriage: she's trying to find suitable husbands for the Tribbles instead! Harriet and Lord Charles join forces to accomplish this feat, but soon find themselves falling in love...
THE MARQUIS TAKES A BRIDE 1980 ISBN: 0783887779 The Bewildered Bride....Miss Jennie Bemyss was in a a position that any intelligent young lady would envy. The wealthy, worldly Marquis of Charrington proposed a marriage of convenience that would leave him free to pursue his pleasures, and leave Jennie free of his undoubtedly depraved desires. At the same time, handsome, charming Guy Chalmers, whom she had loved since childhood, proposed to aid her in enjoying her freedom to the fullest. Jennie should have felt happy to be ignored by a man whom she properly should despise. She should have felt even happier to be courted by a man whom she had so long adored. Why, then, did Jennie only fell so confused......?
MILADY IN LOVE 6/1987 ISBN:0449209326 Poor Lord Anselm, the dashing bachelor was plagued with female wards. Just when he'd fobbed off the last brat, another appeared to take her place!...She's a saucy miss with a mind of her own, and marry her off he must!
MINERVA 6/1983 ISBN: 0449205800 Poor Minerva. Prudish, self-righteous, and incredibly beautiful, she is to be sent to London to capture a wealthy husband. But Minerva doesn't know the first thing about flirting. The London dandies find her moralizing appalling and concoct a plan to assault her virtue - an assault that will scandalize all London society. Meanwhile, Lord Sylvester Comfrey, whom she met earlier through her father, had been keeping a careful eye on the girl. A fact which she resents. She dislikes Lord Sylvester. There is something about him that disturbs her. Now the plan to destroy Minerva's reputation begins to unfold. And Minerva stumbles headlong into the trap. But the plotters have reckoned without Lord Sylvester....
THE MISER OF MAYFAIR 4/1986 ISBN: 0312906897 Truth be told it was a matter of economy that drove the staff at Number 67 to become masters of matchmaking. But that is a well-guarded secret...and it all begins when the mysterious Miss Fiona and her frumpy Scottish uncle take the lease for the Season...Miss Fiona is more beautiful than any titled lady in the ton. But her dazzling loveliness is, alas, her only fortune. It is enough to tempt a nobleman-but surely not to marriage! And poor Fiona has already fallen in love, far above her station, with the haughty Earl of Harrington. Is heartbreak or ruin to be her fate? There is one slim hope: the servants contrive a daring plan of deception to make a snobbish Earl lose his heart to an orphan lass.
MISS DAVENPORT'S CHRISTMAS 11/1993 ISBN: 0449221733 The Davenport sisters were alone, without even a dour-faced maid to supervise their strict puritanical devotions. Then the elder, flame-haired Gillian, boldly decided it was high time they let their hair down. So, with the help of a kindly relation, the two daring misses exchanged their somber attire for modish gowns and hairstyles that would surely give their parents apoplexy! But the best was yet to come: plum pudding, eggnog, carols, and a most breathtaking tree. The Davenport sisters reveled I the rituals of Christmas - and in the selection of handsome gentlemen who decorated the festivities! But when Gillian was caught under the mistletoe by Lord Ranger Marden, she discovered things her mother had never dreamed of telling her...
MRS. BUDLEY FALLS FROM GRACE 6/1993 ISBN: 0816159807 With the inhabitants of the Poor Relation Hotel requiring more money, Lucy Budley plans to convince a rich, senile, old Marquess that she is a relative, only to find that the handsome Marquess is neither senile nor old.
MISS FIONA'S FANCY 7/1987 ISBN: 0451149939 It was a challenge that Miss Penelope Yarwood, Euphemia Perkins, and Letitia Helmsdale all smugly informed her that the Marquess of Cleveden was at once the most-eligible and the most elusive catch in the London marriage mart. Society's most dazzling beauties had failed to win him, and a newcomer like Fiona had not a ghost of a chance to make him look at her twice. That was all that fiery-tempered Fiona had to hear, and she bet-far more wealth than she possessed- that she would snare the maddening marquess before the seasons end. Now Fiona faced the risk of losing a wager she could not pay-and the even greater danger of losing her heart...
MISS TONKS TAKES A RISK 3/1993 ISBN: 0312952198 Disguised as a highwayman, faded spinster Miss Letitia Tonks holds up the carriage that is transporting her lovely young niece, Cassandra, causing Lord Eston, himself in disguise, to fall in love with Cassandra in the process.
MY DEAR DUCHESS 1987 ISBN: 0451149602 The Hasty Marriage. Handsome, dashing Henry Wright, the Duke of Westerland, needed a wife in a shockingly short space of time. Otherwise he would lose a legacy he desperately desired. Young, lovely, sheltered Miss Frederica Sayers needed a husband just as badly - to save her from the life of shame that most certainly awaited her when she fled the callous cruelty of her family. Marriage between the high and mighty lord and this reckless runaway was clearly the answer for both of them - until the duke discovered he had a duchess he could not tame...and the duchess found that she would rather lose her heretofore spotless reputation than lose him to a beauty who was everything she was not...
THE ORIGINAL MISS HONEYFORD 5/1985 ISBN: 0786236183 Miss Honeyford was sour on romance... Miss Honaria Honeyford was sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting a wealthy husband - and being a loving if not entirely dutiful daughter, she obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surrender her hand, this beautiful young lady who could ride, shoot and argue with any man was not about to lose her head or heart to the dismal dandies of the Marriage Mart. First she met the arrogantly attractive Lord Alistair Stewart, who treated her infuriatingly like a little girl. And then she met the skillfully seductive Lord Channington, who treated her intoxicatingly like a desirable woman. And now she had to choose just which role to play and just how much risk to run....
THE PAPER PRINCESS 12/1987 ISBN: 0449213412 London was aflutter to have in its midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasnia. What scandal would ensue should the ton discover that the bejeweled heir to a royal throne was in truth Miss Felicity Channing of Cornwall, fleeing the match arranged by her wicked stepfather! But how long could Felicity carry off this lively masquerade? Especially since the dark, raffish eyes of Lord Arthur Bessamy seemed to look straight through her disguise - and set her spirited heart to pounding...
THE PAPER PRINCESS - THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN 9/1994 ISBN: 0449223078 The Perfect Gentleman - From the top of his faultlessly groomed head to the tips of his fashionable shoes, Lord Andrew Childe was every inch the perfect gentleman. Alas, Andrew's arrogant composure was soon shattered by the impertinent Penelope Mortimer, an achingly lovely country miss with a decided knack for ruffling his lordship's feathers. Her nose for trouble seemed to land Lord Andrew into the most awkward situations...and love quickly became the most precarious of them all! The Paper Princess - London was aflutter to have in its midst the exquisite Princess Felicity of Brasnia. What scandal would ensue should the ton discover that the bejeweled heir to a royal throne was in truth Miss Felicity Channing of Cornwall, fleeing the match arranged by her wicked stepfather! But how long could Felicity carry off this lively masquerade? Especially since the dark, raffish eyes of Lord Arthur Bessamy seemed to look straight through her disguise - and set her spirited heart to pounding...
PENELOPE GOES TO PORTSMOUTH 7/1991 ISBN:0312927207 Upon receiving a considerable inheritance from her late employer, Miss Hannah Pym exchanged her career as a housekeeper for a life of travel on England's perilous stagecoaches, known in 1800 as "Flying Machines." With two exciting journeys behind her, the middle aged spinster has earned quite a reputation for adventure-and for helping young couples to find romance...
THE PERFECT GENTLEMAN 6/1988 ISBN: 0449213420 From the top of his faultlessly groomed head to the tips of his fashionable shoes, Lord Andrew Childe was every inch the perfect gentleman. Alas, Andrew's arrogant composure was soon shattered by the impertinent Penelope Mortimer, an achingly lovely country miss with a decided knack for ruffling his lordship's feathers. Her nose for trouble seemed to land Lord Andrew into the most awkward situations...and love quickly became the most precarious of them all!
PERFECTING FIONA 1/1989 ISBN: 0312025777 Amy and Tribble can only ponder why Miss Fiona Macleod was placed in their charge at their School for Manners. For there seems to be nothing about the young heiress that needs perfecting. She is demure, refined-and turned many a handsome head at her first Society ball, where London's ton waiting in eager attendance. But when left to her own devices, dear Fiona is an incorrigible flirt, a feisty-tempered lass determined to shock and anger her suitors with her outspoken discourse-on the most unspeakable topics! For Fiona has no intention to marry, not even when the Season's most unattainable bachelor, Lord Peter Havard, turns his rakish eyes to her. But when their heated banter turns to fiery kisses, Lord Peter might persuade her to reconsider...
PLAIN JANE 10/1986 ISBN:0312903235 With each London Season, an enchanting romance moves into the fashionable town house at #67 Clarges St. And there below the stairs, the Staff has a special mission--to arrange a match, to hatch a scheme, to bring love home..
THE POOR RELATION 3/1984 ISBN: 0451128184 Once Miss Amaryllis Duvane had been the reigning beauty of the London season, about to marry the man of her dreams and live and love happily ever after... Then her father died. Suddenly Amaryllis was penniless and alone, forced to survive on the charity of relatives who made her little more than a servant to their husband-hunting daughters... Now the lord that Amaryllis had once loved - the magnificently handsome Marquess of Merechester - had come to court one of these daughters....
PRETTY POLLY 10/1988 ISBN:0449213439 What a pretty pickle she'd got into--and it tasted more sour by the moment! Blessed with beauty, Mrs. Manners never bothered with the lesser skills of grammar and spelling. So, in order to entrap a second husband, namely the dashing Duke of Denbigh, she needed Miss Verity Bascombe. Surely the modest chit would be honored to write her love letters. Poor Verity! Her old schoolmate was as selfish as ever. But the lovely girl's gilded pen soon had the duke most intrigued by the poetic Mrs. Manners! But alas, what began as a tiny deception became troublesome indeed - for Verity soon found herself enamored of the handsome duke herself!
QUADRILLE 4/1981 ISBN: 0449501744 'Madam, pray keep your distasteful and vulgar observations to yourself!' So said Lord Hubert Challenge when it was boldly suggested that he had married a country mouse for her money. Alas, it was true that he had dug himself deep into dun territory and Mary Tyre's dowry had dug him out. What no one in the haute ton had guessed was that little Lady Mary had actually fallen in love with her own husband! And she would try anything, sumptuous clothes, a saucy manner, nay, even flirting with another man, to get her handsome husband's attention. Until she learned that two could play that particular game.
RAINBIRD'S REVENGE 5/1988 ISBN: 0312912943 John Rainbird, the shrewd and resourceful butler at 67 Clarges Street befriends Jenny, suggesting she look in the mirror a little less often. The result: a mischievous scheme that will insure Jenny's social success and determine the fate of the close-knit family of servants in this rousing finale to Chesney's highly praised series A House for the Season.
RAKE'S PROGRESS 6/1987 ISBN: 0312910363 Lord Guy Carlton, late of His Majesty's regiment and weary from the war in France, has only wine, women, and song in mind when he rents Number 67 for the Season. A notorious rake, this follows the attempts by his house servants led by the inimitable Rainbird to find a "good woman" to reform his black soul.
REFINING FELICITY 10/1988 ISBN:0312022883 The funds for their School for Manners were frightfully meager when they advertised to "Bring Out a Wild, Unruly or Undisciplined Daughter" for a London Season. Indeed, their first client, Lady Felicity was as undisciplined as she was beautiful....
REGENCY GOLD 1/1980 ISBN: 0449500020 An Unexpected Legacy. Spirited, young Jean Lindsay knew nothing of the inheritance, which was hers, until it was almost too late. She was much too involved with her fantasy about the dashing Marquess of Fleetwater who was all the rage with the London beauties. She did not know then that it was more than a fantasy. The marquess indeed was falling in love with her. Someone else, however, hated her. Was jealous of her and wanted her fortune. He also wanted her dead. He had not counted on the marquess to interfere.
THE ROMANCE 4/1997 ISBN: 0783883854 Belinda Beverley has seen four of her sisters marry for love rather than to reclaim their home, but she is certain her pragmatic nature will win out, and win Mannerling for the Beverleys. Unfortunately, this means becoming the bride of Lord Luke St. Clair, a childish fop more interested in the latest fashions than he is in marriage or Mannerling. Surely, however, that would be a small price to pay for fulfilling her destiny as a Beverley and restoring her family to the splendors of their ancestral home. If only the feminine wiles that captivated Lord St. Clair didn't cause the handsome, sophisticated Lord Gyre to keep looking at Belinda with such contempt.
THE SAVAGE MARQUESS 3/1988 ISBN: 0451152409 Certainly the two should never have met. The handsome, wealthy Marquess of Rockingham was the most notorious rake in London, as infamous for his violent temper as he was for his intemperate ways. Miss Lucinda Westerville was a country vicar's daughter, as innocent as she was lovely and as proper as a young lady could possibly be. Yet when this impossibly matched pair met at a glittering ball, they had made the dubious bargain to become man and wife - in name only! But Lucinda found that she had more than she bargained for - when she vowed not to love this untamed, infuriatingly attractive man - when she tried to rein her own foolishly galloping heart...
THE SCANDALOUS LADY WRIGHT 8/1990 ISBN: 0449217620 Marriage to a loathsome brute was vile enough -- now she was accused of his murder! Fashionable society regarded Sir Benjamin Wright with utmost honor and respect. Yet Lady Emma knew her husband was, in fact, a drunken, jealous brute who delighted in humiliating her both in and out of the bedroom. His murder was a blessing -- until the constable's accusing finger pointed at Emma. But it soon became apparent that her late husband had secrets...and enemies. When the practical comte Saint-Juste arrived on the scene offering his services, Lady Emma was about to discover what the French dedication to l'amour really meant.
THE SCANDALOUS MARRIAGE 2/1992 ISBN: 0449219925 Lucy Bliss was told she'd make an excellent Clergyman's wife... Her mother, however, had loftier aspirations for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke. More specifically, the Duke of Wardshire. Lucy was truly horrified. "Lucifer" Wardshire! Why, he was rumored to be as wicked as the devil, with orgies and mistresses - and worse!.. As the London Season unfolded, Lucy couldn't decide who was more abominable, her vulger mama or the arrogant yet disconcertingly handsome duke. No matter, Lucy vowed to go to any lengths to protect her sister, even if her mission should take her into the very arms of the devilish duke himself...
SILKEN BONDS 10/1989 ISBN: 0783882696 The recent elopement of her sister Fanny, had sparked the fires of romance in Frederica's well educated head. She was ripe for the innumerable charms of Lord Harry Danger, who was smitten by her outspoken beauty from the moment he rescued her from a pack of drunken thugs. Now if he would only treat her as an equal, and stop that incessant flirting...
THE SINS OF LADY DACEY 4/1994 ISBN:0786203021 The ton could only speculate how a pair of turtledoves would cope as the guests of the scandalous Lady Dacey. Surely she would attempt to corrupt them--an act that both Pamela Perryworth and Honoria Goodham would welcome in their rigid, joyless lives. Though Mrs. Perryworth is married--most unhappily--and the young Honoria has a cloying tendency to read scripture, the purity and loveliness of both ladies inflame the senses of two notorious rakes. Mr. Sean Delancy loses his heart at first sight of the fair Mrs. Perryworth, while the disreputable Duke of Ware is quite disturbed by the innocent Honoria, who dares to tempt his jaded heart.
SIR PHILIP'S FOLLY 11/1993 ISBN:0816174148 A group of poor but well bred people who live in Poor Relations Hotel turn to crime when they run out of funds. Sir Philip brings in another poor relation, Mrs. Budge, who is a drain on their resources because she eats all day long. It is up to the poor relations at the Poor Relation Hotel to deal with the lazy Mrs. Budge, find Arabella a husband, and trounce her terrible mother!
THE SUMMER OF DISCONTENT short story in SUMMERTIME SPLENDOR 7/1992 ISBN: 0515108774 Masquerading as a servant girl makes for a summer of mischievous madness for Cassandra, the mistress of Bramfield Park. When dashing Lord Peter Courtney comes to call, she must hide behind her disguise-or reveal a love touched by summer's warmth.
SWEET MASQUERADE 11/1984 ISBN: 0783896123 The tenth earl of Berham did not know what to do. An attractive thirty-two-year-old bachelor, he was appointed guardian of one Freddie Armstrong, the eighteen-year-old grandson of his late father's dear friend. That was bad enough. Then he discovered the boy was really a girl! It simply would not do to keep an unchaperoned young lady in his home. The earl's frequent visitor, Lady Clarissa Rennenord, heartily agreed--but for less noble reasons. Hoping to snare the earl in marriage, her ladyship did not want any competition. She recommended that Freddie be sent to a seminary. No one but Lady Rennenord knew what a horrid place it was. No one, including Lady Rennenord, expected Freddie to escape.Now Freddie was back. And the earl found her presence disturbing in more ways than one. .
THE TAMING OF ANNABELLE 11/1983 ISBN: 0449214575 The Missish Minerva win the handsome man in the Ton? Her sister would see about that! Miss Annabelle Armitage was pea-green with envy. What a cruel world it was when her spinster of an older sister could enchant the dashing Lord Sylvester Comfrey! Annabelle's own passionate nature was surely better suited for such a one as Sylvester. Alas for Annabelle, Comfrey seemed to care for her not a jot. Determined to get a bit of her own back, even if it meant marrying another, Annabelle found Peter, Marquess of Brabington, a most attentive admirer. War hero thought he might be, Peter was ill-prepared for his coming fight for Annabelle's true love - and a battle it would be, winner take all...
THOSE ENDEARING YOUNG CHARMS 4/1986 ISBN: 0449205339 The Earl of Devenham returns home after 10 years of war to claim the hand of Mary Anstey, whose family spurned him when he was a young and untitled soldier. But Mary's sister Emily, an avid reader of romances, is determined that her sister shall not suffer a loveless marriage, and she vows to sacrifice herself instead. A drop of laudanum in Mary's chocolate on the morning of the wedding, a brown wig and a heavy veil, and a switch is accomplished at the altar, with Emily blithely assuming the marriage will be annulled as soon as the dupe is discovered. But the earl has his pride, and Emily is stuck in a marriage with a husband who detests her. Worse, she realizes that she is gradually falling in love with him.
TO DREAM OF LOVE 6/1986 ISBN: 0727844296 Tired of living in poverty, Harriet Clifton invites herself to the posh London home of her widowed sister and attracts the attention of the dashing Marquess of Arden, on whom her vain, selfish sister has set her sights.
THE VISCOUNT'S REVENGE 11/1983 ISBN: 072784184X The handsome, arrogant Lord Charles Hawksborough desperately wanted to catch the infernally insolent thief who had held him up at pistol point on the King's highway and ridden off with his family's fabled jewels.
THE WICKED GODMOTHER 2/1987 ISBN: 0816144001 Lovely but penniless Harriet Metcalf is aghast when a nobleman's will names her guardian of his snobbish twin daughters when they come out during the next London Season! But is innocent Harriet wily enough for the intrigues of the ton-or its two most eligible bachelors, the Marquess of Huntingdon and Lord Vere? Harriet sees them as suitors for the twins, while the gentlemen see only Harriet's charms. Soon she is falling in love with one of the dashing rakes... but a cruel betrayal will be her ruin unless the Clarges Street servants can save a lady's honor when she loses her heart.
YVONNE GOES TO YORK 6/1992 ISBN: 0312078927 The shy miss Yvonne Grenier, a beautiful fugitive of the French Revolution, is quite terrified when a dangerous enemy boards her stage to York. Luckily, Miss Hannah Pym is also on board. Ever the matchmaker, Miss Pym sees the answer to Yvonne's plight in the hands and heart of another passenger...the Marquis of Ware.