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  • Bibliography:
    24 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    January 1961
  • Latest Book:
    March 2001
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Related Books

1 - Love's Charade (Jun-1981)
2 - Love's Renegade (1981)
3 - Love's Promenade (Jun-1981)
4 - Love's Serenade (1981)
5 - Love's Escapade (Jun-1981)

Book List in Order: 24 titles



  • Nelson Alexander was putting the wrong interpretation on her “bird watching.” Forsythia Brown decided. She was a writer, and peeking into the window of The Garret, the tiny but popular new night spot across the court from her Greenwich Village ap...



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    He stood there, looking down at the obscene would… French Lowther stared at what only moments ago and been Edith Willis, sensual, scheming, adulterous. The wound, which had bloodied the distinctive white hair of which Edith had been so proud,...



    • / Traditional Regency
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    Lena Lassiter's two older sisters were marrying lords. And just what were Lena's accomplishments in comparison? She had beautiful penmanship and had acquired a position to Lady Beekman. It was not quite what her sisters had, to be sure, but it did af...



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    Not so beautiful music. Electra Lassiter can play the harp - but not very well. But that doesn't stop her good-hearted music teacher from involving Electra in an orchestra composed of well-bred young ladies. The aim of this orchestra is to en...



  • With dizzying speed, beautiful Fiona McQuade went from shopgirl to protege of a duke and duchess. Dazzled by the luxurious living, Fiona forgot her lowly origins and even dreamed of marrying Viscount Will Huxley, the duchess's handsome lover. But...



  • NEVER MARRY A YOUNGER SON!... Since her father is a younger son who inherited neither title nor money, Merrie Lassiter fully understands her mother's instructions. So she prepares for a season in London with her sights set on at least an earl,...



  • A Grand Tour of Romance and Adventure May Lassiter was leaving her tomboyish ways behind. She still loved horses, but she was a young lady now, and young ladies were interested in young men. And where better for a young, lady to find charming and ...



  • Taysie and Rho Lassiter are identical twins--and seeing double means double trouble. The misapprehensions begin when Taysie and the family move to Brighton, leaving Rho in London with an ailing relative. In London Rho is smitten with the handsome Bar...



  • Lady Alicia had a plan... Since the gallants who courted her were enchanted only by her face and her fortune, Lady Alicia Morgan Fitzhugh St. John was determined to seek true love elsewhere-away from London and all who knew her. So she create...






  • "How could she protect the child...when her own life was in deadly peril?" Orphaned and penniless, Tisha Hawkins had gratefully accepted the past as governess to Lady Trevelyan's small son. Her contentment was shattered when she witnes...



  • A lecherous millionaire wanted her for his mistress. A nobleman wanted her for his wife. But headstrong Kate Kingsley gave herself to the wild and wicked Harry Ravenshaw, who wanted her body. But her happiness shattered when Kate was forced to marry ...



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    Lady Margarita Elena Godoy was in love with the dashing Sir Roger Jeffries, who had pledged his own love with the gift of a silver box with her initials on it. A mere trinket, Sir Roger had called it -- but nothing could have made the enamored yo...



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    DESPERATION AND DESIRE Rescued from poverty to live in an opulent mansion filled with servants...loved by two adventurous and passionate men...Georgina's new life was wantonly wonderful. But she was caught between her arrogant benefactor and h...



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    The two weeks she must wait before going south for her new job seemed endless to Jill Haynes, and throughout them she had tantalizing visions of what life would be as secretary to wealthy Celeste Weber at her luxurious island estate. She could see he...



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    Due to the crippling debt incurred by her profligate father, Lady Anne Pettigrew is forced to become a music instructor. To her good fortune, however, she is rescued from her debased station by her godmother, Lady Sarah, Duchess of Merion. But fro...



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    "You should be wearing emeralds--green, mysterious, exotic..." When she heard those words, the mahogany-haired Vicky Sinclair had already given her heart to the charismatic, darkly handsome Phil Mart. But their searing love is sorely tested i...



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    The Vander Curse Jenny Clayburn peered around the cliffs for a glimpse of Vander Mansion. An expanse of red brick, tall and bleak and turreted, with dark ivy clinging to its walls, it looked gloomy even in daylight. Jenny was the unexpected gue...



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    Death had a home at Fanecliff. The blood-red brick walls, the black tangled ivy, the sea wind whipping the house into a torment - there was no light at Fanecliff, no joy. When Bart Fane, master of the manor, died suddenly and violently, his widow A...



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    The aged Miss Amy was said to be the last of the Malvernes until a suave attorney talked orphaned Melissa Malverne into claiming heritage. But Melissa found herself welcomed at Malverne Hall only with suspicion and hatred. There were those who had...







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    Beautiful, spirited young Mellie Wilton thought the handsome Earl of Henning was going to rescue her from her degrading life in London and take her to his wealthy estate in Kent because he wanted her for his wife. When he tricked her into marrying hi...



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    For a young girl in search of psychic reality dreams of a lost love spiral into a nightmare of madness and murder. The man she loved ... the friend she trusted ... the doctor she relied on ... their conspiracy spelled disillusion and certain disaste...



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    Suzanne Barclay had drowned six years ago, but her body had never been recovered. In another year, Rome Barclay would be officially a widower - free to remarry. Paulette, his secretary, and Fiona, his daughter's governess, counted the days. Th...



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    There was so much to be done in the Afghanistan village of Darreh-i-Angurha, so much Alice Warner, R.N., tried to do...only to be asked to leave by the people she wanted so much to serve! The Valley Of Grapes . . . A hair-raising ride over twi...


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Rachel Cosgrove Payes has published 24 books.

Rachel Cosgrove Payes does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Bride of Fury, was published in March 2001.

The first book by Rachel Cosgrove Payes, Shadow of Fear/Forsythia Finds Murder, was published in January 1961.

Yes. Rachel Cosgrove Payes has 1 series.