All Regency Collection

A Timeless Romance Anthology, Book 10

By: Anna Elliott, Sarah M. Eden, Carla Kelly, Josi S. Kilpack, Annette Lyon, Heather B. Moore

Narrated by: Mary Jane Wells

Length: 8 hrs and 36 mins

Publisher's summary

Six Award-Winning Authors have contributed new stories to A Timeless Romance Anthology: All Regency Collection. Listeners will love this collection of six regency romance novellas.

In The Wedding Gift: A Pride and Prejudice Story, an enchanting novella by Anna Elliott, the story opens two weeks before Elizabeth Bennet's wedding to Mr. Darcy. He has given her the perfect wedding gift, and now she must come up with one for him. But what do you give a man who has everything? Elizabeth soon discovers that the gift of love is more important than any one thing.

Dream of a Glorious Season, a sweet novella by Sarah M. Eden, we meet Elizabeth Gillerford who envies her sister only one thing - that she's been intended for Julian Broadwood since they were children. The trouble is that Elizabeth is hopelessly in love with Julian too. When Julian discovers that Elizabeth has been denied a Season because her older sister is yet unwed, he undertakes his own stealthy measures to introduce her to society, only to find himself falling in love with her himself.

In The Mender, a captivating story by Carla Kelly, Thankful Winnings takes a sea voyage with her cousin on the Ann Alexander, in a last adventure before she settles down to marry one of her beaus. Unexpectedly they come upon the aftermath of a fierce ship battle, and Thankful is commissioned to help in the place of an injured surgeon on one of the Royal Navy ships. Adam Farnsworth, surgeon, has been at sea for years. Tired of war, but devoted to his post, it takes a resourceful lady such as Thankful to give him the hope of love and help heal his own wounds, the ones that show and the ones that don't.

In Begin Again, a charming novella by Josi S. Kilpack, Regina Weathers gives up on marrying for love the day that Ross Martin walks out of her life. Now, fifteen years later, Ross shows up at a ball and thinks he can woo Regina. But she is set on her lonely path and stitched-up heart, no matter the excuse Ross gives for his years of silence and neglect.

In Annette Lyon's endearing story, The Affair at Wildemoore, Mrs. Ellen Stanhope escorts her three daughters to a ball. As her oldest flirts with a beau, Ellen is reminded of her courtship and early years of marriage with Anthony, before tragedy struck with the death of their infant son. The marriage has faded and dulled. Not until she sees Anthony dancing with a woman he courted years before does Ellen realize how much she misses him, still loves him, and yearns for him to yet feel the same way for her.

In the delightful novella, The Duke's Brother, by Heather B. Moore, Mr. Gregory Clark is having an awful day, and it only gets worse when he's ran over by...a woman.

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Enjoyable and easy listen

These stories were very different from each other but each so enjoyable! Short stories but complete. Clean and sweet with a HEA for each. These are the kind of stories I love to read. Light and fun.

So Christmas

Lovely short ❤️stories sweet endearing charming characters great travel listening I’m impressed and smile happily

Delightful narration!

One of the best parts of this whole book was the narrator. Mary Jane Wells is a fabulous reader. She does great voices, knows how to voice the British dry wit perfectly. She had me laughing throughout enough, while also making me cry at points that I now have a long list of books I think she needs to read. She makes it well worth it.

Of the stories themselves:

The Wedding Gift: A Pride and Prejudice Story, by Anna Elliott -- Told as diary entries from Elizabeth. It has the sharp wit and humor you expect from Elizabeth Bennett. Mary Jane Wells delivers the lines so perfectly that it will have you laughing very quickly.

Dream of a Glorious Season, by Sarah M. Eden -- This was sweet. Some humor and it worked nicely.

In The Mender, by Carla Kelly -- This one surprised me a bit. The heroine is a Quaker and the author touches a bit on the culture but isn't too heavy handed about it. It would do better as a longer story, I think. But otherwise, it was good.

Begin Again, by Josi S. Kilpack, -- Similar to some others but I think it went well. The Lost Letters by Mimi Matthews did it better but this was good. The narrator made it better.

The Affair at Wildemoore, by Annette Lyon -- Very nice to have one from a couple already married for years. This was beautifully touching and I was fascinated by the story. It's not usual to find a regency romance of rekindled love between a couple who have been married for a couple of decades. This story and The Wedding Gift are reason alone to buy this anthology

The Duke's Brother, by Heather B. Moore -- Now I will listen to anything by Heather B. Moore. I like her books. This story was well worth it. The heroine is absolutely fun. She is a real person and so is the hero, Gregory. They make me laugh.

Clean short stories

This is a well written short stories all the authors did a good job bringing us to that period of time, the books are clean full of romance, second chance, danger, pride , prejudice all that you could want in a collection. I love it

4 Out of 6 Excellent

All Regency acllectoon

The Wedding Gift: A Pride and Prejudice Story, by Anna Elliott, the story opens two weeks before Elizabeth Bennet's wedding to Mr. Darcy. I love Pride and Prejudice and can’t imagine any one trying to add more. My eyes rolled on the second paragraph. But four of the novellas in this collection are excellent.

Dream of a Glorious Season, by Sarah M. Eden, is the Regency version of the boy next door to Cinderella. When Julian undertakes his own stealthy measures to introduce Elizabeth to society, only to find himself falling in love with her himself.

In The Mender, Carla Kelly writes a captivating story. Two wonderful characters and a delightful plot made me search out more from this author. Thankful takes a last adventure before she settles down to marry, but ends up helping an injured surgeon on one of the Royal Navy ships.

In Begin Again, by Josi S. Kilpack, fifteen years later, Ross and Regina still are lacking enough plot to make this a five star. Toward the ending did grow to like Ross.

In Annette Lyon's story, The Affair at Wildemoore, a marriage like so many finds a a beautiful renewal.

The Duke's Brother, by Heather B. Moore, includes beauty, brains and a short but totally enjoyable romance.

Loved it

I absolutely loved this anthology. Sarah Eden"s story was a repeat from another anthology I recently read, but all the others were new. Such variety. It begins with a Pride and Prejudice story about a wedding gift. I was so enthralled with The Mender about a Quaker women who finds herself on a British ship following a horrific battle. Begin Again was about second chances as was the Affair at Wildemoore. I loved that one of these dealt with and established marriage where life's challenges had caused the couple to drift apart. The Dukes Brother was humorous and charming. All in all, an enjoyable set of stories to listen to during my daily commute.

Great collection of stories

I really enjoyed this story collection, but the narrator was what made them even better!

Fantastic Regency Novellas

All of these Regency romance stories are well-read and charming, not to mention wholesome and full of wit and banter. The character development and dialogue makes this collection one of my favorites.

3 1/2 star read and wonderful narration..

Let me begin with an apology because I couldn’t read the first story, THE WEDDING GIFT by ANNA ELLIOT, because I just cannot read an historical novel, novella, short story, even a sentence, written in the first person. Sorry.

This rating will be for the other 5 novellas.

DREAM OF A GLORIOUS SEASON BY SARAH M. EDEN
Really cute story about Elizabeth, who had loved Julian since she was 8 years old, and her vicious, selfish, witch of a sister, Mary, who the family thought would grow up and marry Julian. Mary was someone you loved to hate, as well as her mother and father. Needless to say, Elizabeth and Julian got their HEA. 3 stars

THE MENDER BY CARLA KELLY

This was cute but a little too religious for me. I’m not one for Quakers and their “thee” and “thy.” And the heroine’s name was Thankful. Really? Thankful and Adam fell in love in about 2 days’ time and had her cousin, Loum, marry them since he was a ship’s captain. Like I said, it was cute but the only reason I read it all was because it was so few pages. And I can’t see myself reading anything else by this author. 2 stars.

BEGIN AGAIN BY JOSI S. KILPACK
Another cute story about Regina and Ross who were apart for 15 years because of Regina’s father. When Ross went away to war Reggie’s father kept all the letters Ross sent and Reggie thought he’d never written. What a crappy father. Anyway, they found out the truth and finally got their HEA. 3 stars.

THE AFFAIR AT WILDEMOORE BY ANNETTE LYON

This was the best one so far. Ellen and Anthony were an older couple that had lost their closeness somewhere along the way and they both missed it, each afraid to say something to the other for fear of being rebuffed. If it hadn’t been for Amelia it might have gone on. But, Ellen didn’t know that Anthony couldn’t stand Amelia, a woman he’d been seeing some 20 years ago but ran off with another man. For Anthony it was a relief but Ellen thought Anthony still loved the other woman when she showed up in town after all those years. Communication solved everything. 4 stars.

THE DUKE’S BROTHER BY HEATHER B. MOORE

Ugh! Mabel? Really? What a god-awful name for a heroine. That’s even worse than “Thankful” in the first story of this anthology. When I think of a Mabel I think of an old, old woman.

Anyway, this was definitely my favorite story of all of them. I guess it was because it was very different with Mabel’s love of her insects and Gregory’s falling for her and not being bothered by it all. 4 stars.

There was no sex, no swearing, no nothing except short little love stories.

As to the narrator: Mary Jane Wells is the reason I bought this set in the first place. She is always a delight to listen to.

Excellent narrator

Best narration in a timeless regency collection. Great stories as well. All clean and sweet