A taste for magnificent clothes and extravagant parties has led beautiful Lady Theodora Fairchild to the brink of financial disaster. Only handsome bookkeeper David MacKenzie knows the depths of her money woes--and the despair of a love she thinks can never be fulfilled.

    She does not wish to go with them to Paris, now Napoleon is safely imprisoned on Elba, but her employer's husband, a Frenchman, unexpectedly takes them there, where she finds herself embroiled in intrigue, thrown into Lord Claverton's company. Regency Romance by Sally James; originally published by Robert Hale [UK]

    Which was the major reason Philip Hobart had asked her to marry him. And reassuring her aging father was Glenna's real reason for accepting. Everything changed when the naval captain became a viscount--who expected a different kind of wife than independent Miss Forbes.

    They had only a month to find husbands or husbands would be found for them! Julia and her sister Phoebe had Ben whisked from school into the last of the London season. Sir Giles and Lady Ffoulkes, their new guardians, had delivered the ultimatum. And if Mr. Hazelton- Smythe was any indication of their preferences, there was no time to lose. Julia vowed they would marry for love. There was dashing Sir Tristan, shy Mr. Muffin - and her old friend Marcus Cotsworthy. Julie had turned Marc down again and again. Suddenly, she saw him as if for the first time. Had she already sacrificed her last chance for happiness? Was it already too late for love?

    But many people in her port town of Salford lived in poverty, their only chance at making a decent living being the smuggling trade. Mab inadvertently found herself the leader of this group, but a government agent, Sir Stamford Wicklow, was come to town specifically to discover the leader's identity--and imprison the villain. Regency Romance by Joan Smith; originally published by Fawcett Coventry

    What she needed, she decided, was an older man--one with fewer demands. A suitable husband who would be a pleasant companion and who would give her independence under the protective shield of matrimony, who would set her free, unchaperoned, to enjoy the social whirl.Rosanna found her man and even signed the marriage contract. Then Charles wandered into her life--invading her dreams, upsetting her schemes, opening her heart like Petals of the Rose

    To her contemporaries, she was a dignified spinster--plain, perhaps, but oh-so-elegant with a bearing and style all her own.Fanny had no intentions of rushing into a marriage hastily proposed by Jack Airfield, despite the fact that she'd silently adored him for years. She had suffered through his courtship and marriage to her beautiful cousin Sarah. Now, Sara was dead and Jack needed someone to manage his house and children.Fanny's sister was overjoyed, her godmother cautious, and her dear old friend Roger downright skeptical. Fanny knew she had to listen to her heart...

    Thrikell, who had rescued her from a gypsy caravan at the age of twelve. Now, blissfully unaware of the radiant beauty she had become, Zandra was unprepared for the jealousy and hostility she would encounter from London society... and for the strange, new emotions borne by the passionate gaze of the dashing Captain Fitzallen. But, dare she trust her own feelings of passion? He had known so many women. Would she be just another of his heedless conquests?

    Miss Chrissy Ashton was fallibng in love with the very man she was supposed to deceive. How he would hate her if he knew! And how she hated him as she watched him fall for the little minx she was supposed to be. She was trapped, with no place to run--except into the arms of the man she desired...a man who thought she was another!

    What is particularly unbearable is the plight of her new companion, Angela, who is working for Margaret's uncle under false pretenses. For Angela is of an aristocratic family and not at all a common servant. She has run away from her villainous stepmother who means to marry her off to some rich, odious lord. To complicate matters further, Margaret has met Angela's brother Robert, and she fears her heart is in danger

    "Poor Margaret Terrell, so young, so beautiful. A widow with everything but money. What's to become of her now?" But Margaret was preoccupied by more than mere finance. Anabelle Herenford, runaway heiress, was on her doorstep, begging for sympathy and shelter from a hated aunt -- and an unwanted marriage!First, there was the risk of imprisonment for hiding Anabelle; then, the risk of exposure by the arrogant Marcus Salterson, who came to claim his niece -- and to torment Margaret, the only woman who had ever told him "No!" Marcus, the richest peer in the realm, was accustomed to getting what he wanted when he wanted it. Once she opened the door of her home to him, could Margaret keep him out of her heart?

    She to quickly barter her hand in marriage for enough wealth to pay his enormous debts.Cecily thought she was willing to risk anything to win this mercenary marriage game–until she began to lose her heart to the elegant, irresistible Marcus Anstruther, a man who offered her everything except what she most desperately needed…

    Yet Dorinda loves the color pink as much as she adores the "manly" sport of riding...so much so that when the Earl's carriage is, by mistake, painted a "pink hue" instead of an "ink blue," Dorie wants it desperately. Recklessly, she accepts her father's conditions: in return for her pink phaeton, Dorie must marry. Nonetheless, accepting an arranged match arouses the rebel in her - even when her intended is the dark-eyed nobleman Lionel Ridgely, the man her little sister would gladly wed, the man who sends her own heart thumping so wildly in her breast...

    Everyone -- except Maria Templeton -- knew their marriage was a prearranged affair. — Only the threat of ruin could have led the Duke of Atherton to agree that Monty, his rakish, red-haired son, should woo and wed the American tycoon's daughter. From country house to glittering London halls on the eve of King Edward's coronation, the young lord would set his snares for Maria's heart.But the harsh, overheard words of others, the glimpse of a temptress trysting with her husband to be, soon set Maria on a vengeful course. Now Monty must teach the Marquess of Medford a lesson in the ways of treachery -- and love!

    Though old and ailing, the countess came to love Faith and wanted her to win one of her two handsome nephews--kind Mr. Felix Kingston and brooding Earl of Moorshead. Faith was torn between the brothers--who each sought the countess's fortune. Regency Romance by Nina Coombs Pykare, writing as Regina Towers; originally published by Dell