Regency Cozy

In the heart of Regency London, where the gulf between the opulent upper class and the squalid streets is as wide as the Thames, Zoe Demas, a young French woman entangled in two worlds, finds herself at the center of a chilling mystery. When her lady's maid, Lucy, is found dead in the notorious district of Whitechapel, Zoe refuses to accept the verdict of a tragic accident. Determined to uncover the truth, she enlists the help of Quinton Huxley, a man whose expertise lies in navigating the murky waters between legality and the underworld. Alongside a cast of characters as diverse as they ...

Twelve sweet Regency Christmas romance stories to make you fall in love this holiday season. Christmas Mystery of the Heart Escaping her past, Lady Sarah Sayers seeks a simple life as a governess. Her world is turned upside down when she meets the Duke of Huntington. Together, they must solve a mystery, but will they also find love in this troubled time? A Duke for Christmas Isabella did not want to end up on Charles’ doorstep, but it might be exactly what both of them need… A clean, Regency romance to warm your heart Christmas Masquerade Ball A Christmas tale of mystery and love from ...

This sparkling box set includes all four full-length novels in Claudia Stone’s Regency Murder and Marriage series—a delightful blend of cosy mystery, romantic mischief, and sharp-tongued heroines who always find trouble… and often find love along the way.

During a spring visit to Kent, Elizabeth Bennet expects nothing more than polite society and the quiet duties of friendship. She does not expect to encounter Fitzwilliam Darcy, nor to discover how deeply time and reflection have altered them both. At Rosings Park, where pride once prevailed, chance meetings beneath April’s budding trees awaken feelings neither has forgotten. Darcy is determined to earn her good opinion; Elizabeth is determined to guard her heart. Yet as Easter approaches and restraint gives way to renewal, hope begins to blossom where doubt once lived. When Darcy speaks ...

Enjoy 11 sweet regency romances in one touching box set! Follow the stories of Lords and Ladies as they delve their way into the heart of society and lose their hearts along the way!' This Box Set Includes: The Viscount in Hiding The Reluctant Viscount Threatened by a Lord The Widow and the Lord Alex & Harriet An Everlasting Love A Healing Love Lady of His Dreams The Heart of a Lady The Memories of Duke A Heart’s Return

Setting: Regency Mayfair in the middle of a very talkative Season, where rain slicks the cobbles, tea tables become evidence, and Brook Street drawing rooms fight desperately to remain respectable. Hook: A dead stranger on a countess’s carpet would be inconvenient enough, but the note in his hand names Lady Helena Foxe as a threat, which is rude, alarming, and possibly accurate. Promise: A low-heat historical romantic mystery with a sharp happy-for-now spark, a clue-and-consequence investigation of letters, leverage, and lies, and a resolution that feels socially logical rather than ...

In this delightful trio of Regency cosy mysteries, three clever heroines find themselves entangled in village gossip, suspicious deaths, and dangerously attractive gentlemen who refuse to stay out of the investigation. Because in Plumpton, solving a murder may be difficult… But falling in love is inevitable.

An inherited estate. A hostile steward. A corpse in the forest—and a past that refuses to stay buried. Newly married and eager to begin their life together, Zoe and Quinton Coleville arrive at Cedarbrook, Quinton’s ancestral estate. But the welcome is anything but warm. Two days later, a body is found near the crumbling shell of the old manor house hidden deep in the woods. A shadowy figure seen in the West Wood only fuels the local legend of a Coleville ghost watching the estate, protecting its secrets, unable to rest. With their friends on the way to visit—and quickly drawn into the...

After refusing to become his partner in life, she never imagined becoming his partner in the pursuit of justice. Miss Elizabeth Bennet expected the morning after rejecting Fitzwilliam Darcy's proposal to be awkward. She did not expect to discover a dead woman hidden inside Lady Catherine de Bourgh's hedge maze. Lady Catherine wants the matter settled quietly. Since the victim appears to have died without violence, the coroner is willing, but Elizabeth refuses to believe the contrived cause of death. Armed with little more than keen observation, relentless curiosity, and a determination to ...

The Truth Elixir is a witty, sparkling, and affectionate Pride and Prejudice variation filled with gentle romance, memorable conversations, and unexpected humour, where the greatest surprises are not born of magic—but of what people have always wished to say. There is no lingering angst here—only brilliant irony, lively situations, and a grand declaration delivered with raw, unforgettable vulnerability. What happens when the most hypocritical society in Regency England is forced to drink the unvarnished truth? When Elizabeth Bennet sets out for Netherfield to nurse her ailing sister, ...

I survived five Seasons as a chaperone without a single scandal. Then a werewolf bit me in the hedge maze. Invisibility is the greatest asset a spinster chaperone can have. But while searching for a straying debutante in the dark gardens of a masquerade ball, I stumble upon a massive, terrifying wolf. Instead of eating me, the beast pins me to a stone statue, nuzzles my throat, and gives me a sharp, stinging bite right on the collarbone. The next morning, the most notorious rake in London, Lord Loxley, arrives at my door. He isn't here for my young charge. He is here for me. Suddenly, ...

Does the truth really set you free? A missing serving girl. A swindled nobleman. An Irish mobster. London 1811. When her stepcousin Alexander Dovefield, the future Baron of Newark, asks for her help to find a missing serving girl from his favorite gambling hell, Lady Zoe Demas once again enlists inquiry agent Quinton Huxley to piece together the puzzle of who is cheating whom. What at first seems like a simple swindle takes a sinister and murky turn when bodies start to pile up. As they attempt to solve the mystery, Quinton also struggles with revelations about his own past . . . and what ...

Twenty-six-year-old Beatrice Hyde-Clare is far too shy to investigate the suspicious death of a fellow guest in the Lake District. A spinster who lives on the sufferance of her relatives, she would certainly not presume to search the rooms of her host's son and his friend looking for evidence. Reared in the twin virtues of deference and docility, she would absolutely never think to question the imperious Duke of Kesgrave about anything, let alone how he chose to represent the incident to the local constable. And yet that's exactly what she does.

Lady Frederica knows she needs to stay away from the Earl of Wetherby. However, she cannot seem to remove thoughts of him from her mind. The London Season has just begun, and one of the first gentlemen Lady Frederica meets behaves most improperly, indeed! The Earl of Wetherby’s social blunders keep happening and her own reputation is at risk. Percy, the Earl of Wetherby, is embarrassed by his own behavior and mistakes. However, most of the mistakes are not his fault. Someone is out to get him. He does not understand why a mysterious woman is trying to force his hand in marriage. Lady ...

In the second installment of the Q&Z Regency Mystery series, Quinton and Zoe must take on their most complex and chilling case yet. When the savage murder of a dressmaker bears a striking resemblance to a series of murders spanning two decades—including Quinton’s own mother—Zoe Demas and Quinton Huxley join forces again to unmask the killer. As the two of them draw closer to the truth, as well as each other, things take a dark turn when one of their friends is arrested for the present killing. Now they, alongside the diverse cast of characters they’ve come to rely on, must race ...

Traveling to the ancestral Matlock estate with her husband, Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, is finally able to confront her greatest foe: the pinery. Forced to endure an endless parade of pineapple-inflected dishes early in her marriage, she has devised a scheme to sabotage the despised fruit, which she can now carry out at long last. Good gracious, no. Bea does not really mean the plants any harm, and approaching the building on a summer morning, she is struck by how lovely it is, with its elegant portico and high arching windows.

Mystery, ghosts and gowns. In the charming Regency seaside town of Sidmouth, Devon, Trinity Bishop is thrilled to open her Jane Austen-themed tearoom on the picturesque seafront. However, the grand opening takes a dark turn when a guest is found murdered shortly after the festivities begin. After the chaos, a mysterious package arrives at Trinity’s door containing a ring that uncannily resembles one owned by Jane Austen herself. When Trinity slips it on, five ghosts materialize, bearing a striking resemblance to characters from Austen’s *Pride and Prejudice*. With her spectral ...

Charlotte Collins has always known the value of being overlooked. At Netherfield’s Halloween masquerade, no one notices where she sits, what she hears, or what she remembers. That suits her perfectly — until a man is found dead, the house fills with rumors, and the smallest details begin to matter. Mr. Collins wants to be useful. Charlotte wants to be certain. Between a ghost story, a torn page, and a murder everyone would rather explain away, they may be the only two people asking the right questions. But in a house full of masks, seeing clearly can be dangerous. A sweet and clean ...

Beatrice, Duchess of Kesgrave, will not do the bidding of Hell and Fury Hawes. It does not matter how difficult it is to find new murder mysteries to investigate, especially ones where the victim was stabbed with a chisel. She absolutely refuses to lift a finger to help him figure out who killed one of his associates.

Since the new Duchess of Kesgrave cannot be swayed from her unfortunate interest in dead bodies, Lady Abercrombie decides to confront the matter head-on by hosting a murder mystery dinner party. Gathering together several of society’s most influential members, she concocts an amusing puzzle-play, assigns roles, and stands back to allow Bea to impress them all with her ingenuity.