Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for 02/2021

Juliette de Flournoy refuses to be imprisoned by her past – the French Revolution that robbed her family of their heritage, and the rape that left her homeless – comforting herself with her dreams of becoming London’s premier modiste, and by her friends, the enterprising ladies of Mrs. Gerrard’s, London’s most exclusive seraglio.

Then she meets Major Lord Adrian Claverton, the hero of her dreams, if she allowed herself to have them. Mrs. Gerrard’s ladies do not believe in love, but Juliette is not so sure. Will pride and her stubborn refusal to let anyone take care of her rob her of a chance to find out?

Major Lord Adrian Claverton wanted to right the wrongs of the world until war taught him that helping others sometimes makes their lives worse. Will he be able to convince the independent Juliette to let him help her, and will he realize that only someone who has suffered greatly can cure his own despair?

Colin, Earl of Shefford, visits a building he won, having determined its address to be an excellent location for a new club. Discovering not only a fully functioning orphanage but a beautiful headmistress, who refuses his offer of an alternative establishment, he suffers a pique of temper. Irritated by her immunity to his charms, he succumbs to intense attraction and offers her a choice. Either she must accept him in a marriage of convenience or provide proof that the orphanage has value to him.

Impoverished and needing to restore her fortunes, Miss Honoria Mason despises the members of the ton for their extravagance and blames them for her family’s loss of home and fortune. Nora’s life takes a turn when the handsome Lord Shefford becomes the orphanage’s landlord. Either she proves the orphanage’s worth to him in two weeks or becomes his convenient bride in order that he may produce an heir. She refuses to lose the orphanage she has worked so hard to preserve and so accepts his offer to marry.

Sparks fly as proximity forces them together, the better to know each other. Yet how may romance overcome such hazardous beginnings when resentment has stacked the dice against them?

Grief is sometimes unrelenting for widow Lillian Fernsby. Keeping sadness at bay by being an outrageous flirt is all well and good, but she’s lonely.

The Honorable Thaddeus Carrington is a viscount’s son, but he refuses to put much stock in familial pressure to marry. As a Bow Street Runner, he’s found a thrill in solving cases.

When a crazed stalker threatens Lillian, Thaddeus pledges to keep her safe; it’s imperative to ignore the game of cat and mouse between them. Yet desire builds, and her pursuer grows bolder. Can their romance—as well as themselves—survive the dangerous peril?

 
Valor in battle is nothing compared to the courage required to face up to love.

Harriet, Dowager Countess of Worthen, rusticates in the countryside outside Falmouth with her grandmother, a former beauty and Covent Garden actress. Although the elderly duchess’s days as the toast of society ended with marriage to the late Duke of Sidmouth, her aged mind has turned back to her earlier calling. Two mastiffs and Harriet’s naughty six-year-old son complete the havey-cavey household.

While combing Falmouth’s harbor-front bars for crew for the Black Condor, Royal Marine Lieutenant Richard Bourne has to rescue an elderly lady from drunken hecklers whilst she’s playing the witches’ scene from “Macbeth.” Seeing her safely home turns out to be complicated. Who knew she was a former duchess? Who knew her widowed granddaughter would have deep green eyes a man could drown in?

How can Harriet rusticate with an Irishman underfoot who looks that good in a Royal Marine uniform? How can Richard walk away this fiery beauty after one good deed?

 
Enter the emotional, suspenseful Regency world of USA Today bestselling author Jacki Delecki’s Code Breakers spy series. Undaunted by danger or scandal, these intrepid lords and ladies discover true love as they risk it all to save England from Napoleon’s treacherous designs.

Miss Joie James has been accepted back in society’s fold after her scandalous banishment to the country. She doesn’t give a fig about the pleasures of the season’s lavish entertainments. She is in London to assist her intended to find a French spy. Will she be a help or more of a hindrance to Lieutenant Reginald Talley on his clandestine mission?

Cassandra Linfield is a lady fossil collector who declares she will never marry as no man will ever take her studies seriously. When circumstances force her to travel to Town for the Season, Cassy infiltrates the hallowed portals of the Geological Society from which she has been banned.

She is horrified when she comes face to face with her nemesis, the infuriating Earl of Rothbury. Lord Rothbury is a gentleman-geologist with a turbulent romantic past. After a youthful disappointment, he vows never to fall in love again, and makes the decision, instead, to seek out a convenient wife when he returns to England from his geological travels abroad.

Brought together by their close family ties, Cassy and Rothbury collaborate on a geological paper and discover a powerful attraction. Marriage, however, is the one subject they cannot agree upon. But when Cassy’s life is threatened, the two realize that love matters more than their objections.

Miss Susan Kimball dreams of Italy and yearns to visit Rome someday. When she employs Gianni DeFerrante to teach her the Italian language, she learns the charming but enigmatic foreigner is even more skilled at engaging her heart.

After the loss of her husband—and her left foot—Ophelia Shaw threw herself into running his distinguished cousin’s country estate, to great success. But managing the Duke of Montrose himself was never a task she’d anticipated…until he returns from London without a bride, determined never to search for another. Well aware of the gruff duke’s appeal, Ophelia is equally determined to change his mind and school him in the art of courtship—only to be swept off her one remaining foot!

Harry has returned home to the Widow Shaw in a very bad mood indeed, though not because he was jilted. In truth, the one woman he wants is not the lady who received his proposal. Now, Ophelia is resolute he should try again, insisting love doesn’t always happen at first sight. If she only knew… To placate her, Harry agrees, keen to have his “lessons” over and done with. They’ll either prove Ophelia wrong—or deliver his perfect bride right into his waiting arms.

Her voice is pure, her motives wicked. Lady Sarah Merrington will never forget being spurned by the duke she was supposed to marry. And Sarah is determined to reinvent herself so she can seek satisfaction, if not a bit of feminine revenge against the Duke of Vexen.

Leonard Blackmore, the Duke of Vexen, is invited to host a charitable event in a place he’s never heard of before and by a lady he’s never met. Pleased by the opportunity, he accepts the invitation only to find his gracious hostess, Lady Whitmore, is not only a fellow patron to the arts but provides second chances to young ladies who simply need a helping hand. Unexpectedly, the duke meets a beautiful woman who sings like an angel. He swears he’s seen her before but can’t quite remember where or when.

Sarah can’t believe Vexen has arrived, giving her the chance to fulfill her dream for revenge. But the more she’s around him, the more she admires and likes him. And it’s only a matter of time before he realizes who she is.

Will Sarah take advantage of the perfect opportunity to fool her duke, or will she forgive and forget in order to give love a second chance?

Lady Grace Norrington is tired of being unwanted and unwed. She vows to make a match by her thirtieth birthday masquerade ball, except there’s one problem—the handsome new butler and her disturbing attraction to him. Mr. Harrison Conrad is a man who takes his position seriously. He follows all the proper rules, until he interacts with Grace—and his budding awareness of her ramps. Their illicit romance runs unchecked. When a premature unmasking at the Valentine’s masquerade goes awry, scandal ensues, and if they don’t fight for what they want, it might destroy them both.

Rejected by the man she loved, quick-witted bluestocking Rosemary Denby wins the position of governess to the temperamental Lady Miranda, daughter of the Earl of Howland. Drake, the new earl, is struggling to find his footing as a widowed father. But the new governess has him even more off balance. Does he dare open his heart again? As danger draws closer to the castle on the headland, he and Rosemary must work together to keep the village and his daughter safe. Could his bluestocking governess be the one to teach him a lesson, in love?