Can Vicky foil the plans of a shameless fortune hunter? Regency England After breaking off her engagement, society belle Vicky Seymour decides to return to her childhood home in the countryside. On the way, she crosses paths with the menacing Andrew Massingham, who is about to elope with naïve young heiress Drucilla Hedgely. Believing Andrew to be an unscrupulous fortune hunter, Vicky decides to take Drucilla with her. Furious at the desertion, Andrew soon chases after them. But when disaster strikes, Andrew and Vicky are forced into uncomfortably close quarters. Each wilful and accustomed to having control, their personalities soon start to clash. And though Vicky believes herself incapable of falling in love, it may prove difficult to protect her heart… The Luckless Elopement by Dorothy Mack is a classic Regency Romance with a witty, spirited heroine.

    Julian Stretton, Lord Meriden, wounded in the war and now home to assume family responsibilities is unexpectedly assisted by a practical young lady who is a distant relation.

    When his friend is accused of murder, scholar Justin Rutherford vows to solve the deadly puzzle…London, 1816At a fashionable London ball, the unpopular but entertaining Society gossip Marmaduke Yarnton is found dead in the cloakroom — strangled with his own cravat.Having argued with him shortly before, Lord Velmond finds himself the prime murder suspect.Determined to clear his name, Velmond’s scholarly friend Justin Rutherford teams up with his niece, Anthea, and the Bow Street police to find the murderer.But Justin soon finds that everyone has something to hide – even Velmond’s seemingly virtuous new wife, Lucy.And as he delves deeper into the mystery, Justin uncovers a web of deceit, buried scandals and blackmail…

    Everything about his rugged good looks spelled danger. . .and fascination. But her hand had been promised to his brother!When China moved into the great Cross mansion at Portsmouth to become the bride of Sir Ranulf Cross, her presence enflamed the already raging conflicts among the Cross brothers. And amid bitter charges of betrayal and blackmail, Justin was banished from the house.With Justin suddenly gone, China is tormented by the words left unspoken, and on the eve of her wedding, she is seized by the reckless desire to see Justin once more. For the message he left on her pillow could only mean the promise of love...

    No one could guess she had been forced to take a position in trade—or that she had come to the Earl of Auden’s estate to entice him into naming her dismayingly disagreeable cousin Anthony heir to a fortune that she then could share.But Elizabeth had stiff competition for the Earl’s imperious favor…from the schemingly seductive Lady Isabel Courtney and her odious little boy, Owen…from the implacably upright Richard Courtney and his unfortunate honesty…and from the memory of the Earl’s first wife, who had made him despise women who deceived.Elizabeth knew she could never reveal the truth to the Earl—even when she forgot about gaining his fortune and began losing her heart….

    When a stepmother's hatred forces her to flee her beloved home, Sandra becomes a companion to the celebrated Countess of Kyle. The boldest day-dreams of this country beauty are surpassed when romance blooms. Only a blackmailing Beau and a seductice Russian princess stand between Sandra and absolute ecstasy...

    MONEY, LUXURY, LOVERS - AND A SCANDALOUS REPUTATION.Which is why she had to think twice about launching her runaway niece, Disanne, into society. Would people accept the girl knowing she was the infamous Lady Liza's protegée?Then there was the matter of her lover, Lt. Christopher Lamb (almost young enough to be her son). She was forced to put him aside. There could be no breath of scandal now.Disanne had run away because she was being forced to marry an odious older man named Mr. Convers. Then Liza discovered this "odious older man" was an old friend. Meeting him again changed everyone's plans...

    For her bewitching mother, the Countess of Clovelly, was notorious for her amorous escapades, and every hot-blooded gentleman in society expected Amanda to follow in the Countess's straying footsteps. So far Amanda had succeeded in steering clear of the clutches of those eager young blades. She even had begun to hope that the eminently respectable Sr Giles Boothe might consider her a possible match. But when, by her mother's cunning design, Amanda found herself in the arms of the incredibly handsome and charming Viscount North, the most irresistible if infamous rake in the realm, she discovered she could defend her virtue only if she refused to listen to her heart.