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Lady Elizabeth Allgreave is a cool customer, proud of her independence and determined to prove she can manage Trentmere House and its surrounding estate. But, following her grandmother’s death, she becomes aware of the full extent of the estate’s neglect and sorry financial state. She must seek help or lose it. When the odious Sir Geoffrey Griseley reappears in her life, threatening to take it all away, she has little choice but to accept the services of the mysterious stranger who comes calling. Christopher Blake, not for the first time, is running for his life. He takes refuge in a ...

In 1918 Lily Deacon is surprised to be asked to join a commission investigating the morals of young Englishwomen serving at the Western front in the First World War, an interruption to her ordered life and her work as a factory inspector. While in France, by chance she hears the reminiscences of a wounded soldier and promises to find out what happened to the young doctor Edward Hamilton and nurse Lucy Smith, who saved his life on their voyage to South Africa in 1900. Within a matter of weeks she has fallen in love with an army surgeon, become a courier for secret information and uncovered ...

Twenty-five-year-old Lady Vanessa Templeton’s life is ruled by her aunt and uncle, who took over title, house, and estate following her father’s death. With no intention of escaping to marriage, she avoids society as much as possible. Following a rare visit to London to see an elderly aunt, she encounters an illiterate, ex-seaman who looks suitable for the footman’s position her aunt has been trying to fill, so she takes him home.

Eighteen-year-old orphan Harriet Thomson has resided with a distant cousin’s aristocratic household since the age of five, first as companion to Prudence, the youngest daughter of house, later as carer of Pru’s ailing father. When he dies, she has to make her own way in the world and finds work as companion to the elderly Countess Arden, who resides in the Dower House on the Hertfordshire estate of the dashingly handsome Duke of Fairbridge.

In the summer of 1889 15 year old Sam Masters rescues 8-year-old Lady Olivia Susannah Charlton from a Cornish cove. He’s only interested in a smuggling mystery, she only cares for her precious doll. Sadness awaits each of them back home for Sam’s father has died in mysterious circumstances and Olivia’s father has disappeared. Sixteen years later, Sam has become a senior customs officer. Olivia’s seemingly conventional life as a writer of children’s fiction masks a secret passion for speed and risk-taking, fed by the devil-may-care Harold Jenkins, whose family now lives in ...

This is more than a historical romance, for it illustrates the cronyism of mid-19th Century Britain, its class divisions and snobbery, where high position was not necessarily correlated with ability, or even common sense, and in which woman were beginning to make their mark, but not necessarily through common cause and co-operation, but in the kind of rivalry and conflict that characterised the nursing recruits to the Crimean War, one of whom was Daisy Ashton. Daisy knows little about her origins or how she came to live under the guardianship of the Marquess of Chantry, until an overheard ...

Lady Susannah Thistlewood is determined never to marry, but to devote herself to charitable endeavours to help those less fortunate than herself. She is fairly confident no one will offer for her anyway. For a start, she has resisted being presented, added to which, she has a reputation for being somewhat outspoken and behaving inappropriately in society. Attending a friend’s wedding, she encounters Sir Edward Derringham, who has recently finished with his latest mistress and is open to new possibilities. When Susannah’s thoughtless behaviour causes him to land in undignified fashion in...

Three Romantic Short Stories on the them town meets country, full of warmth, humour, unexpected meetings and happy endings. 1. New Lease of Life: Single mum Rosie struggles to hold onto her job and keep her teenage son out of trouble, till her friend Kate comes up with a suggestion that will help them both. The catch is, it involves adjusting to country life, but as it’s supposed to help Kate catch a man, it’s all in a good cause. Little does Rosie realise that local landowner Hugh has ideas of catching her. 2. Posing the Question: Fiona is thrilled when she hears of an old painting ...

Beatrice leaves behind her life and job in London to stay with her great aunt Jane, her only remaining relative. Being mixed race in the early eighties is not so unusual in the big city, but in the north she does rather stand out as different and wonders if she’ll be able to get work. As it happens there’s an aristocratic lady who needs a typist and is delighted to discover Beatrice’s half-African roots, when at last Beatrice manages to get there. She is somewhat late for her interview, which happens to fall on the day the snowy winter of 1981/2 begins. Beatrice’s car gets stuck in ...

Joanne Gifford has lived most of her life in the Devonshire seaside town of Stowmouth. Her father is the local vicar and she is the eldest of eight children. She left school when her mother died and took over the running of the household and the care of her younger siblings. At twenty-eight, with the youngest three still at home, she doesn’t see a time when she’ll ever be free of her responsibilities and able to develop a life of her own. Then handsome Swiss architect, Liam Keller, arrives in town, bent on acquiring a run-down Victorian hotel for his family’s five-star chain, and by ...

Shorthand/typist Claribel struggles to find another job after her London employer goes bust in the economic difficulties of the early eighties. At last she’s offered a post at a country estate in rural Wiltshire, but she’s not sure she wants it. The signs are not good. On her first day a Rolls Royce almost knocks her off her bike. She’s supposed to be staying in the old stable block, but there’s no furniture. And who is the autocratic owner who has such a thing about privacy and security. She begins to think she got the job because no one else wanted it. And then there’s his ...

Mutual Designs: Kay is proud of the company she’s created. Kilderscope Interior Design might be a relatively new and small-scale business but her reputation is growing and media coverage is promising. When an oil-rich sheikh requests her company’s professional services, she finds he will only deal with a male chief executive. To bring the deal off she needs a suitable man to play the part, so she hires Rob, believing him to be an out-of-work actor. That’s her first mistake… Written in the Beads: June goes to Africa for a working holiday after being dumped by both her boyfriend and ...

Seventeen year old Jane Waterford quits her step-mother’s house in Ireland after the sudden death of her father and takes a ship to England to get away from the threat of an arranged marriage. A friendly widow takes Jane under her wing, but their carriage overturns on the road and after that things never go quite as Jane intended. Unwittingly she takes a job as secretary to the grandmother of the Duke of Grantley, the mysterious stranger who rescued them after the accident. When Jane at last realises who he is she clashes with him over a number of things, since they are poles apart ...

A traditional Regency tale, in which an innocent rector’s daughter runs from the squire of the manor only to fall into the clutches of a handsome former army major who has just inherited a dukedom and whisks her off to his remote castle in Scotland. Light-hearted and a little bit sexy, a relaxing holiday read. NEW: AUDIO BOOK with British accents for the UK reader, obtainable from Amazon.com

Anna knows little of love, but dutifully travels to South Africa to marry a man twice her age, her father’s choice. When he dies and the family disowns her, there’s no money to bring her home, and she must find a way to survive. Set in the Boer War of 1899 to 1902 and its aftermath, Anna’s story is one of transformation as she leaves behind her privileged upbringing and devotes herself to supporting homeless Boer families. More than once she encounters army vet James Forsyth, whom she believes despises her. So, when the war ends and he unexpectedly inherits a title and lands and asks ...

In 1897 orphan Rose Turner revisits Exeter, the city of her birth. A chance meeting inspires her to find a way to better her life and escape the drudgery for which she’s been trained. She also learns the truth of her family’s death in a tragic fire ten years before. Back in London she enrols at a cookery school and becomes a key member of the team hired out to grand houses to cater for important guests, for she has a particular talent with ice-cream. At several of these she encounters George Kemble, self-made businessman, in line to succeed to the Duke of Fairleigh’s title, should he ...

In 1890, shortly before her twenty-fifth birthday, Elizabeth Portland finds herself abandoned for the second time in her life. Against her better judgement she is persuaded to act as chaperone to an eighteen-year-old society girl to see her safely through a summer on the continent before her coming out season. Caught up in the parry and thrust of society match-making, she has no thought of herself becoming an object of interest, particularly to Hugh Wentworth, heir to a duke and reportedly a philanderer who makes his living by gambling. How unfortunate that circumstances keep throwing her ...

Twenty-five-year-old Lady Millicent Smythe has come a long way since her elder brother, as her then-guardian, tried to marry her off. It was a deal he’d made when she was but 17 with his friend Sir Montague Morton MP, in return for funds. Her escape all those years ago was not a little to do with Lord Charles Lombard, a chivalrous 20-year-old army officer who found her stranded on the road and carried her to safety.

Over ten years have passed since Joanna fled her Yorkshire home in distress and shame. Now aged twenty-eight, she is established in London society. But she also has a secret life known to few. How unfortunate that she should come to the notice of Detective Inspector Matthew Harcourt, a senior member of the Metropolitan Police Detective Branch. His all-seeing eyes miss nothing. How long can she deceive him as to her real identity? If he discovers the truth, her work is over, along with her means of support and her claims on the neat Georgian house that is her home. When he commissions her to...

Thomas Robertson has worked with horses since the age of thirteen, mostly recently on a stud farm near the racing town of Newmarket. After notable successes at some of the big races, his reputation is made and he receives an offer to be head groom and trainer to Titus Fox, the Duke of Exford. It couldn’t have come at a better time, for Tom has been receiving unwelcome attention from the stud owner’s daughter—unwelcome at least so far as the stud owner is concerned, having someone of higher social status in mind for his only child. At Exford Hall, Tom finds himself treated with great ...