Can Cleone play matchmaker while keeping her own heart intact? Regency England Orphaned and with no dowry, Cleone Latham relies on the protection of her penny-pinching great-uncle, the Earl of Brestwick. At twenty-three, she has resigned herself to a humble life of running his household and keeping the peace between him and her lively cousins. When the enigmatic Lord Altern comes to stay Bramble Hall — apparently intent on courting her most beautiful cousin, Emerald Hardwicke — Cleone must help promote the advantageous match. But Lord Altern seems more interested in playing chess with the old earl and discussing art with Cleone than seeking out Emerald’s company. And as they spend more time together, Cleone finds it increasingly difficult to resist his mysterious charm… An Unconventional Courtship by Dorothy Mack is a classic Regency romance full of twists and surprises.

    Anne pines for the social and political life she has left behind, especially when confronted with the society of her nearest neighbor, country bumpkin Henry Highet. Yet all is not what it seems, as Anne soon discovers in this pleasant Regency tale.

    — Beautiful Erica Stone left Regency England for Vienna with a husband she barely knew. But she found her husband mysteriously murdered and herself alone in a city of romance, where women were playthings and words of love were lies. — Owen Kingsley, the handsome, cynical Duke of Graves, promised her protection if only she would spy for England among the licentious lords of Europe. Erica, of course, expected that she would be tangling with danger and intrigue and barely raised an eyebrow when her noble targets offered her dubious pleasures at the price of honor. But Erica never dreamed she would soon be wrestling with her own blazing passion for the tantalizingly reserved duke, whose first achingly tender kiss sparked a burning desire in her more powerfully exciting than her heart had ever felt before....

    Not could the beautiful countess divine the face of the gallant stranger whose waiting arms saved her from the starless, rainswept night. Nonetheless, her heart was stirred by his gentle kindness and manly grace. How different was he from the kinsman who schemed for her fortune and her dishonor! But her dangerous past left her with no choice but to desert this splendid stranger. And so Rosaline vanished with the dawn, never dreaming that the fates would lead her to a company of traveling players, the "patronage" of a lord desirous of her presence both on the stage and in his bedchamber, and the disturbing reappearance of Richard Courtenay, secretary to the aristocrat and, it soon became clear to Rosaline, rescuer of lost ladies and lost love!