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A Civil Contract
Viscount's father dies leaving nothing but debts. To save his family home he agrees to marry an heiress from the merchant class and gives up any hope...

April Lady
Nell is a very young lady married to an English aristrocrat. The marriage was semi-arranged. He fell in love with her at first sight, but things hav...

Bath Tangle
Lady Serena's father had always been eccentric - even now, after his death, his legacy lives on. Having left behind a widow younger than Serena himsel...

Beauvallet
'Mad Nick' to his friends, 'Scourge of Spain' to the enemy, dashing Sir Nicholas Beauvallet has never been known to resist a challenge or lose a battl...

Black Moth
When Jack Castares takes the blame for his brother's dishonesty when playing cards, he is disgraced in the eyes of the world. He is not longer accepte...

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Cotillion
Kitty Charing was infuriated when her guardian compels her cousins to offer to mary her -- especially when the cousin of her choice did not appear...



Death in the Stocks
A man with a knife wound in his back is found dead, clapped in the stocks that are on display in the town square of a small English village. Scotland ...

False Colours
Christopher (Kit) and Evelyn Fancot, twin brothers, have always been extremely close. So when Christopher, abroad on a diplomatic mission, feels pangs...

Frederica
Vernon, Marquis of Alverstoke, is rich, handsome and utterly self-centered and it is therefore as much a surprise to him as to anyone else when he agr...

Friday's Child
Angered and humiliated by his beautiful neighbour's refusal to his offer of marriage, which was necessitated by the fact that he did not come into his...

Regency Buck
Judith and her brother are orphaned and very rich and have yet to attain their majority. They go to London where their guardian is living. Judith an...

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Sylvester
Sylvester, the Duke of Salford, reaslises that it's time for him to wed. He has shortlisted five girls as eligible - not being very romantic - but see...

The Convenient Marriage
In addition to her regency romances, Heyer wrote some stories set in the Georgian era. The wealthy Earl of Rule is engaged to marry a daughter of the...

The Corinthian
Richard Wyndham, notorious Corinthian and excellent match for any social-climbing lady, is being pressured from all sides to marry Melissa, the seemin...

The Grand Sophy
Sophia Stanton-Lacy's father sets off for the Americas, leaving Sophy with her reluctant aunt and her family. Soon after arriving the resourceful Soph...

The Masqueraders
Prudence and Robin have lived a roundabout life - following their father from city to city and country to country, always under a false name, they hav...

The Nonesuch
When wealthy Sir Waldo Hawkridge inherits a Yorkshire country mansion from his uncle, he decides to have the house fixed up and use it as an orphanage...

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The Reluctant Widow
When she accidentally steps into the wrong carriage, Elinor is persuaded by Lord Carlyon to help him not to inherit his cousin's estate. Married ...

The Unknown Ajax
Major Hugo Darracot is the unwelcome heir to a cherished title. When he is summoned to his grandfather's estate, so the elderly man can meet his futur...

Toll Gate
Captain John Staple arrives at Tollgate and finds a scarred boy whose father has disappeared. He stays the night and meets a squire's daughter who he ...

Venetia (Romance)
This is a historical romance by one of the world's most popular writers of the genre. Sadly, it is not one of her best works. The cynical hero, the fr...

Venetia (Literature)
Venetia Lanyon is a 25 year old girl and Lord Damerel is a 38 year old man with a past. They meet and fall into a flirtation. Due to unforseen circu...

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