Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for 03/2021

Matthew Wolfe, only seventeen in Book One of this series, is rapidly growing up, as is that little girl he caught trout with back in Kent. But perhaps too late, Matthew has left Kent for a series of grand adventures that have nothing to do with hops farming. Including encountering a gang of gem thieves he cannot best, acquiring a mistress ten years his senior, and gathering the first crumbs of information about his possibly royal relatives.

Having a London Season is not all it’s cracked up to be, as Lady Lorelei is quickly finding when attending her first ball. The lights are too hot, the corsets too tight. It’s enough to make one faint.

Thorne Gray, the earl of Kimpton, has no interest in debutantes, but what the devil is he supposed to do when one swoons at his feet? He catches her before she hits the floor, of course. An intriguing performance to be sure.

But a scheming and powerful aunt, determined to see her niece settled before her death, threatens Lorelei’s opportunity to enchant the man of her choosing.

Experience Sizzling Regency Romance!

She needs to lose her maidenly innocence, he needs to fulfill a wicked challenge. Will this short-term arrangement give them both more than they bargained for?

Lady Mercy Granville is determined to have a bit of fun before she is forced to marry a man not of her choosing. So after convincing her ladies’ maid to switch places with her for a fortnight, Mercy heads to Brighton to attend an illicit house party, not knowing what fate awaits her.

Malcolm Grant, Viscount Westbrook, has never embraced the idea of marriage, but he knows it is an eventuality. Just not yet. Determined to enjoy himself in Brighton, he convinces his valet to switch places with him so that he can embrace bachelorhood one last time. But he learns that fate can’t be ignored.

She tried everything to make a certain gentleman take notice. He only wanted the lady’s attention for financial gain. After a scandalous night and a swift ride to Gretna Green, can the couple admit to their true feelings of love for one another?

Evelyn Holbrooke found herself married after a remarkable night spent in the earl’s bed. However, she used deception to make him fall for her charms. Now, trapped in a stormy marriage, Evelyn only hoped for his forgiveness.

At every turn, life dealt Reese Worthington obstacles to overcome. With his latest dilemma, he found himself married to a lady who trapped him into a marriage based on deception. Reese fought the attraction he felt toward Evelyn with every whisper, moan, and scream. After he sought his own revenge, he realized he couldn’t resist how she captured his soul with her every action.

Reese thought he married a dull debutante. Evelyn thought she married Prince Charming. When their marriage exposed each other’s true character, would they allow their attraction to destroy the other? Or would they see how it only strengthened their love?

If you enjoy sizzling romances filled with undeniable attraction, then you’ll love Evelyn and Reese’s explosive drama.

Victoria Forster needs a husband. Orphaned, nearly penniless, saddled with an indifferent guardian plus a cousin intent on sabotaging her matrimonial hopes, she cannot afford to be a wallflower. Unfortunately for her, the only man in her path is a stuffy, well-above-her-touch duke. But with every fateful encounter, she glimpses more and more of the lonely, kindred soul behind the duke’s decorous demeanor.

Charles Danforth, Duke of Taviston, is seeking a wife. Nothing if not methodical, he determines a set of qualities his future bride must possess&emdash;neither love nor passion makes the list. Above all, she must be free of scandal so as not to tarnish the family legacy. Soon enough though, Taviston’s well-ordered life, impeccable social standing, and not-so-impenetrable heart are in jeopardy.

What’s an exceedingly proper duke to do when he finds himself embroiled in a scandal of his own making?

He’s on the brink of ruin. She’s in search of a hero.

Notorious for his seductive charm, the Earl of Brecken searches for a wealthy heiress. His choices are dismal until he meets Miss Franklin. Guileless, gorgeous and with an enormous dowry, she seems the answer to his prayers. Until his conscience makes an unexpected appearance.

A woman with a broken heart . . .

A soldier who never dreamed he’d become a duke . . .

Phoebe, Countess of Borwick, loses her family in a carriage accident and retreats to Cornwall, where she finds a smuggler who’s washed ashore, blood leaking from a bullet wound.

Andrew, Duke of Windham, was shot by his greedy half-brother, and soon falls in love with the widow who nurses him back to health. Before he can ask for her hand, she disappears–and he has no way to find her–until he spies her in a London ballroom months later.

What will Phoebe do when she learns that her Mr. Andrew is none other than the famous Duke of Renown?

Lady Samantha Wallace has been in love since childhood with her brother’s best friend, the Duke of Colebourne, but George only sees her as a little sister. She weds a viscount who is George’s opposite, only to find herself trapped in a miserable marriage. When she becomes a widow, she is held against her will and finally escapes, vowing to live life her own way and never be controlled again.

George is jilted at the altar and becomes one of London’s most scandalous rakes, bedding women left and right. After years of being the Duke of Charm, though, George is tired of his meaningless existence and decides he is ready for a change–which includes finding Sam, who is now a widow, and asking her to be his duchess.

Fate brings George and Samantha together at a house party, where their desire for one another ignites in a torrid encounter. Yet Samantha refuses to wed George. Determined to learn Sam’s secrets and make her his, George will do whatever it takes to fight for the woman he’s always loved in secret.

Having lost her parents at a young age, Flora MacGregor grows up as the substitute mother for a group of notorious criminals. She hates stealing, but to save her adopted brother, she takes to the streets to pick pockets. Her mission is accomplished when she lifts a jewel-filled box from a handsome Englishman. After she hides the treasure, he tracks her down, detains her, and demands the return of his goods in exchange for not reporting her to the authorities. When a dangerous man she’s wronged in the past closes in to exact revenge, she agrees to return the items if Isaac hides her from the threat. Although she’s becoming enamored with the earl, following through on their deal isn’t an option.

Isaac Nathaniel Hamilton, 7th earl of Dunbridge has spent years trying to regain the family shipping fortune lost by his gambling uncle. After winning the deeds back, a captivating Scottish lass bumps into him and takes his prize. She refuses to give it back until he offers to protect her from a crime lord intent on revenge. As he teaches her to act like a lady to conceal her at a country estate until the danger has passed, he soon discovers that there is much to admire about the person she already is. She needs his protection, but can he trust the word of a thief?

Other books in the series:
To Covet a Highland Criminal, Available April 13, 2021
To Save a Highland Sinner, Available May 11, 2021

Lady Cecilia Holmes is in Scotland with her family to attend a wedding, but she’d rather be in London nursing the forgotten segments of society. Mathias Stahley, the Earl of Huxington wishes he were arguing cases as a barrister, for he’s more effective helping the less fortunate in that role than working for his title. When an unexpected romance blooms, it takes them both by surprise. Unfortunate circumstances lead to an unwanted betrothal and high emotions. Through obstacles and familial opposition, they might find something infinitely more satisfying and enduring amidst the magic of the Highlands if they work together.

From the glittering ballrooms of the ton to the city’s grittiest corners, London has no shortage of wrongs in need of righting–and the Maidens of Mayhem are prepared for the challenge. United by secrecy and sisterhood, these daring woman from all walks of life aim to fight injustice wherever it takes them–even into the arms of unexpected love . .

Scarlett Wynn’s tragic childhood taught her that life can be cruel to women with little power. So when a local seamstress disappears, Scarlett vows to find out why. Armed with a weapon and her courage, Scarlett scours London for clues–and crosses the unlikely path of Ambrose Cross, the Duke of Aylesford, at an unlikely place: an upscale brothel. The Duke is trying to solve a mystery of his own, and Scarlett is sure they can help each other–if she can resist the attraction that draws them together . . .

As Duke of Aylesford, Ambrose is duty-bound to protect his family name from scandal no matter the cost. But Scarlett’s fearless spirit forces him to look beyond his world of privilege. Scarlett is as intoxicating as she is dangerous, igniting a fire in him like no other. But when the pair learn both mysteries they’re trying to solve are tied to a string of missing women, the tangled scheme they uncover may put their lives, and their growing love, in mortal danger–and lead them to search their hearts like never before…

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.