Historical Romance

A widow interested in a second chance at marriage. An earl who desires a love match. A meeting at a ball which changes the course of both their lives . . .

Forced to wed a man she loathed to placate her dying father, Sarah Waters, Lady Alton, finds herself the focus of Polite Society’s gossips, her only crime being that she is the widow of a viscount murdered in a fight over a trollop. When she returns to the Season after her mourning period hoping to make a match, she is ostracized. Then a dashing earl comes to her rescue, and her fortunes begin to change.

Hadrian Fulton, Earl of Traywick, has witnessed his two sisters and seven cousins make love matches, which is almost unheard of within the ton. Now, Tray is ready to find love for himself. When he meets the tall, auburn-haired Lady Alton and witnesses how the ton shuns her, his sense of justice has him coming to her rescue.

Family is everything to Tray, and he introduces Lady Waters to his large, extended family and their many children. He also meets Lady Water’s daughter, the delightful Tilly, who steals his heart as much as her mother has.

But Sarah is hiding a secret, one so dark it would cause instant rejection from the man she has come to love, his family, and all of Polite Society.

Will Sarah’s secret keep her and Tray from finding lasting happiness?

A spy who has become a shopkeeper. A lady more interested in painting than marriage. A possessive kiss which changes everything between them . . .

Major David Rochester was more valuable to the crown as a spy than a soldier, and he has spent seven years living a dangerous existence. When he is given the opportunity by none other than Wellington himself to leave the army and return his wounded friend to England, David leaps at the chance for a quieter life. As an earl’s second son, David must earn his living and chooses to use the proceeds from the sale of his commission to open a shop in a small village, where he adds a second floor which becomes a bookshop.

The fiercely independent Lady Justina Fulton comes from a family where love matches are common. She has never been interested in marriage for herself, though, preferring to focus on painting landscapes of the Lake District, her home. Fortunately, she has the love and support of her large family and is not forced to conform to Polite Society’s expectations.

When Justina crosses paths with David, she finds herself drawn to him in a way she never thought possible. His kisses ignite a fire she never knew existed within her, and yet David is in no position to take on a wife, barely eking out a living for himself. Justina begins to question what she wants from life, wrestling with her growing feelings for the humble shopkeeper and her desire to make her mark in the London art world.

Will Justina fight for love and manage to remain true to her art, or will the pressures of the ton keep her apart from David forever?

A man branded a scoundrel by the ton, his family the scandalous Sinning Flynns . . .

A woman burdened with the reputation of her own promiscuous family . . . 

Fate brings them together on one magical night . . .

Though he physically resembles his older brothers, Aiden Flynn is not close to being a rogue, though Polite Society lumps him in with the other Sinning Flynns, one of England’s most notorious families. He is more like his maternal grandfather, the Duke of Savernake, the man Aiden models himself after.

Lady Larissa Warren, the product of her mother’s long-ago affair with Viscount Silverton, has yet to find a suitor, thanks to her amoral family’s behavior. Her legal father, Lord Campton, has issued Larissa an ultimatum—find a husband at the annual Savernake Stag Ball—or he will see her married to the ancient Lord Langdon.

A chance meeting brings Aiden and Larissa together just as Aiden learns from his dying grandfather that he will inherit Larkhaven from the duke—if Aiden finds a bride at tonight’s Stag Ball—and weds her before the duke’s impending death.

Aiden decides Larissa is the one for him, but she is determined never to wed a man who would be unfaithful to her, especially one of the infamous Sinning Flynns. Will Aiden convince Larissa he is nothing like his rakehell brothers and win the auburn-haired beauty’s hand?

On the night of her come-out, Lady Emma Spencer learns her father has bilked numerous peers. Not only is she humiliated, but her father flees England, leaving Emma penniless and homeless. She finds work as a companion and years later, she winds up with a fortune. All she lacks now is the children she so desperately desires. That means finding a husband—and she turns to The Black Widow of Whitehall, Mrs. Bessie Dove-Lyon, who pairs women touched by scandal with men in desperate need of money.

Upon his father’s death, Marcus becomes the Earl of Rutherford and finds he’s bankrupt, thanks to his father losing the family fortune to poor investments and gambling. Though Marcus had wanted to wed for love, he turns to an infamous matchmaker, who arranges a marriage for him. Lady Emma Spencer is everything he dreamed of in a woman, and Marcus gallantly refuses to discuss her past, telling Emma he is her future.

But secrets have a way of coming out and Marcus learns he’s married to the one woman he never would have chosen.

Can Marcus put aside the ghosts of the past and accept a future with his wife?

An unnamed ghost haunts a bridge crossing the Medway River, seeking help from newlyweds who promise to right a 500-year-old wrong . . .

Elric de Bergville of Windsong goes against his father’s wishes and weds his childhood sweetheart, Lady Anne Glanville, at the center of the bridge which connects their families’ properties. But the lovers are betrayed, cruelly separated by death and time, forced to walk the earth alone.

Lady Iris Langley returns to Glanbury, her father’s country estate, after a decade of living in London and encounters the ghost she befriended as a child. Iris learns the ghost is named Anne but can find no record of what happened to her. In despair, she turns to Crispin Bergville, her childhood friend and now Earl of Windthorst, whose estate, Windsong, lies across from Glanbury, separated by the Medway River.

Sparks ignite between the pair and soon Iris and Crispin are betrothed. When the couple discovers initials inside a heart carved into the center of the bridge connecting their families’ estates, they believe it is the key to unlocking Anne’s story. The pair vows to learn the truth and find a way to set Anne’s spirit free. 

Will Iris and Crispin be able to solve the mystery—or will Anne and Elric be doomed for all time?

Inspired by the lyrics from The 12 Days of Christmas (a chant and not yet a song during Regency times), Luke St. Clair, Earl of Mayfield, is determined to give his beloved wife of eight years, Caroline, a Christmas she will always remember.

Caroline has fond memories of the chant from her time in Boston with her beloved Aunt Evie, for whom Caroline’s bookshop is named. Luke locates a copy of the book where the lyrics to The 12 Days of Christmas were first published and has their four children memorize the lines to chant to their mother. He then plans, as the lover in the song, to present his countess with twelve different gifts during the Christmas season.

As the twelve days progress, Luke gifts Caroline with a new present each day. His final gift is the best of all, one that changes their family—but not the love between this couple.

A child from the streets . . .

A couple with love in their hearts . . .

After her mother’s death, six-year-old Lucy is sold by her father to Driskell, a drunk who forces her and two orphans, Jem and Boy, to work the streets of London as pickpockets. When Jem is killed in a carriage accident, Lucy and Boy run from their brutish owner. Separated from Boy as they flee, Lucy must now learn how to survive on her own.

Luke and Caroline St. Clair, Earl and Countess of Mayfield, are still madly in love after several years of marriage and have a growing brood of three children whom they adore. They also own the popular Evie’s Bookstore and Tearoom. It is here Luke first encounters a small child all alone, peering into the store’s windows, hungrily eying the books on display. Though young and seemingly innocent on first glance, he quickly realizes that she is an old soul and a street urchin who must live by her wits and learns she is an orphan who belongs to no one.

In the midst of celebrating the Christmas season with their family—and with love in their hearts for a child who needs them—can Luke and his countess convince a young, untrusting girl to become a part of their family?