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MISS ELIZA'S GENTLEMAN CALLER is a clean, sweet, wholesome Regency romance set in London following the close of the Napoleonic war. Young and innocent, Miss Eliza Foxburn is alarmed when her widower father begins courting a nineteen-year-old young lady whose father is in trade! Eliza believes the tendre is making her father look like an old fool! What better way to show him how ridiculous he looks than by encouraging a much older gentleman to come calling on her! At thirty-eight, the dashing General March Huntley is hardly over the hill. Back in London after a long military campaign, he's ...

MURDER IN MARGATE, Book 3 in Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series features clever young Regency sleuth, Miss Juliette Abbott. What begins as a relaxing holiday for Juliette in the seaside village of Margate quickly turns into an anxiety-riddled nightmare! Once Juliette and her friend Miss Cathleen Haworth are settled in the picturesque village, things go vastly awry when the younger sister of Juliette’s new friend in Margate goes missing and Juliette finds the girl’s abigail dead on a ledge below a cliff! As she searches for clues to the killer’s identity, and for the...

In the tradition of Georgette Heyer and Jane Austen, THE UPPITY EARL: A Clean, Sweet, Regency by Marilyn Clay is set in London. Miss Tessa Darby was born in England but grew up in American. She has now returned to England to escape her cruel stepfather. Harrison Belmour, the fifth Earl of Penwyck is having the devil of a time controlling the deplorable behavior of his mother’s houseguest, the auburn-haired, spectacle-making young lady from America. The stubborn chit refuses to take direction and the last thing the aristocratic Belmour family needs is another scandal! Still, the earl has ...

“Complete with a romantic subplot, DECEPTIONS: A Colonial Jamestown Novel is a strong historical tale that brings the Jamestown Virginia Colony to life through the eyes of the determined heroine Catherine, who manages to travel to the New World in search of her betrothed. Breathtaking suspenseful action follows as Catherine tries to unravel the various mysterious happenings between her husband and the Powhatan Indians. Readers will relish this in-depth look at how the first English colonists struggled to survive in Jamestown, circa 1617-1619.” —Harriet Klausner Desperate to escape a ...

This NEW, expanded edition of BETSY ROSS: ACCIDENTAL SPY by Marilyn Clay is set in 1773 Philadelphia. When Quaker Betsy Griscom falls in love with fellow upholstery apprentice John Ross, the two young lovers marry. Three years later a munitions warehouse explosion kills Betsy's beloved husband John. When the authorities refuse to investigate the crime, Betsy determines to uncover the truth and soon finds herself deep in Philadelphia's dangerous and confusing underworld of spies and double spies working for both the British and the Patriots. Will she succeed in bringing down the heartless ...

"Masterful & comprehensive!" -- 5 stars JANE AUSTEN’S REGENCY ENGLAND by Marilyn Clay is an in-depth look at the life and death of the beloved author of Pride & Prejudice, Sense & Sensibility, Northanger Abbey, Mansfield Park, and others, lived alongside the world-changing events that occurred before and during the colorful years of the English Regency. When Jane Austen was born, George, Prince of Wales, firstborn son of King George III, was a boy of thirteen, growing up in London with his parents and a houseful of royal brothers and sisters. JANE AUSTEN’S REGENCY ENGLAND follows their ...

BRIGHTON BEAUTY is a clean, sweet, traditional Regency set in London and the walled Medieval city of Chester. Chelsea Grant hadn’t planned to be a deceiver! She had been the prettiest—and most penniless—young lady at Miss Farringdon’s Academy in Brighton. Befriending spoiled heiress Alayna Marchmont and telling her about a family scandal was a schoolgirl’s naïve mistake. Now, Alayna has blackmailed Chelsea into agreeing to spend a dull month in the country with Alayna’s elderly aunt, while pretending to be Alayna! The plan might have worked but for one unforeseen occurrence, ...

MURDER IN THE MERRYTON MEWS by MARILYN CLAY is book eleven in the popular JULIETTE ABBOTT REGENCY MYSTERY SERIES. Miss Abbott, now wed to her beloved Mr. Sheridan, (who is now Lord Sheridan dur to inheriting his late father's title and fortune) has been invited to Merryton to visit with two of her husband's cousins, a married couple. Although they specifically invited Juliette to come for a visit, they seem far less than cordial or welcoming. Juliette quickly begins to uncover the Harris’s deadly secrets but as the complications mount and her fears grow, her options to seek and find help ...

YOU ARE NEVER ALONE is a book for all spiritual seekers. Whether you believe it or not, not a one of us is ever alone. We all came into this life on Earth accompanied by a host of loving, understanding Spirit friends, who are with us every moment of every day and night, waiting patiently to assure us that no matter how lost and alone we feel, we are truly not alone; we are, in fact, loved and cared for, and protected forever. How marvelous to know that gentle, compassionate, and loving guidance is as close as the air we breathe! We have only to listen for the voices of our Spirit friends, ...

18th and 19th CENTURY ENGLISH WOMEN AT SEA is a lively and entertaining account of the three types of women one would normally find, legally, or illegally, on board a ship during the 18th and early 19th Centuries—prostitutes, officer’s and midshipmen’s wives and other female passengers during wartime, and women masquerading as sailors or crewmen. Colorful but factual accounts of surprising and certainly, little-known, incidents are drawn from letters written by sailors and other men at sea, from diaries of such figures as Admiral Horatio Nelson, and autobiographies written in the late...

THE UNSUITABLE SUITOR is a clean, sweet, traditional Regency romance set in Regency London. The devastatingly handsome Lord Peterbloom is rumored to have kept as many as eight mistresses at once! But having grown weary of his dissolute ways, he now leads an exemplary life. His one regret is that despite his winning way with the ladies, he never once fell in love. Now, after meeting the lively Miss Miranda Frasier, Peterbloom is smitten. But, how to convince her that he is a new man? Miss Miranda Fraser and her sisters go to London to save their family home, only to discover that it is now ...

"SECRETS AND LIES by Marilyn Clay is a terrific book. Four young women come from England on a Bride Ship to marry colonists and help settle the New World. Strangers to one another, each girl brings a secret. After surviving the trip across the sea, they find life in the Jamestown colony is not what they dreamed. SECRETS AND LIES is like stepping through a doorway into history. Ms. Clay has done an incredible amount of research into the period, how it would look and smell and feel if you were truly in 1620s Jamestown. The romances are sweet and touching and made me sigh in pure happiness. ...

MURDER IN MARTINDALE by MARILYN CLAY is book nine in the popular JULIETTE ABBOTT REGENCY MYSTERY SERIES. When clever young sleuth Miss Juliette Abbott is invited to spend a fortnight at Martindale Manor as companion to a young blind girl whose father suddenly passed away, she believes she has been offered the perfect respite from murder and mayhem in the tiny hamlet of Martindale in England’s North Country. Told that the girl’s brother and heir, Sir James Martindale, is even now on his way home, Miss Abbott and her trusted maid Tilda set out in high spirits for their four-day journey ...

MURDER IN MAIDSTONE is Book 6 in best-selling author Marilyn Clay's popular Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series. Upon arriving at Maidstone Manor to begin her next assignment as curator of artifacts and precious collectibles, Miss Abbott and her maid Tilda are stunned to find that a gentleman on the estate has only just been found face down in the knot garden, and that the killer absconded with the dead man's clothing! When Miss Abbott learns that another suitor to one of the Wentworth daughters of Maidstone Manor disappeared a few days earlier, as did the former owners of the manor ...

MURDER AT MARLEY CHASE by MARILYN CLAY is book ten in the popular JULIETTE ABBOTT REGENCY MYSTERY SERIES. Whilst Lord Marley prepares for the important Derby he is hosting at his large country estate Marley Chase, located near London, his lady wife is in the midst of readying their sumptuous mansion for the onslaught of house guests set to arrive to take part in the festivities surrounding the horse races. Frantic that she’ll not be ready in time, Lady Marley has recruited Miss Abbott’s help in assembling a prestigious art gallery in her home. Whilst gathering precious artifacts to ...

MURDER AT MORLAND MANOR, Book One in Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series features clever, young Miss Juliette Abbott as sleuth. A former companion to a titled London lady, Miss Abbott has now agreed to serve as lady’s maid to one of the young ladies invited to the country estate of Morland Manor, each girl hoping to win the heart of the wealthy Morland heir. But nothing at the house party goes as planned and suddenly Juliette finds herself the suspect in a shocking murder! The only way to escape the muddle is to solve the mystery herself, otherwise she'll lose this ...

THE WRONG MISS FAIRFAX by Marilyn Clay is a sweet, clean Regency romance set in London. Emma Fairfax, and her cousin Jemima Fairfax, bear a striking resemblance to one another, although in personality they are as different as chalk and cheese. When Miss Emma Fairfax goes to London to sort out the details of her late father’s will; she is instead coerced into funding her look-alike cousin Jemima’s debut into Polite Society. When the handsome and wealthy Viscount, Lord Townsend, calls on Jemma, it’s Emma he meets . . . and loses his heart to. The amusing episodes soon pile up, causing ...

MURDER IN MAYFAIR is Book 2 in MARILYN CLAY's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series. Clever young Miss Juliette Abbott and Miss Cathleen Haworth have catalogued a house-full of priceless artifacts in order to sell to a London Curiosity Dealer, but before the girls can approach the handsome man, he turns up dead! With only two likely suspects and no funds to hire a Bow Street detective to investigate the crime, Juliette takes on the task of solving the mystery herself. Attempting to uncover who killed the kind gentleman who made female hearts flutter keeps Juliette awake at night and on her...

MURDER AT MONTFORD HALL is Book 7 in Marilyn Clay's Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series. A pair of mysteries collide in this intricately-plotted tale set against the glamorous backdrop of the London theater in the 1820s. What can possibly go wrong when a group of former actors and actresses, all of whom once appeared to great acclaim on the London stage, all gather for a lovely winter house party at the country home of Lord and Lady Montford? How about the vicious murder of one of their group on her way to Montford Hall, the poor lady found dead in her carriage before she even arrives at...

MURDER ON MARSDEN MOOR by Marilyn Clay is the 12th and final book in the Juliette Abbott Regency Mystery Series. The former Miss Juliette Abbott and her new husband, Lord Sheridan, who continues to represent England's Home Office, and her companion Miss Paula Woods, all travel to Castle Longley on Marsden Moor in North Yorkshire. Lord Sheridan has been tasked with conducting an exhaustive search of official records to insure that the unwed and childless Duke of Longley bequeaths his vast wealth and estates to a legitimate heir. If no heir is found, the Duke's fortune will, of course, revert...