
At the age of five and twenty, confirmed spinster Isabella Peregrine is given an unexpected ultimatum by her new step-mother: find a husband or I'll find one for you.Thoroughly in a tizz, Isabella proposes a marriage of convenience to the nearest mal...
When Lady Emma Percival's father dies, leaving her penniless and alone, she fears that she will end up on the streets. Help is at hand, albeit from an unlikely source, when it transpires that her father has appointed his greatest enemy to be her ...
Following the death of her husband, Lady Katherine Atwood returns to London, determined to live a quiet life. Having endured a decade long marriage to a brute of a viscount, she is more than happy to live in genteel poverty, as long as she is free. W...
When Brandon Drew issues an edict that his youngest daughter will not be allowed to make her come-out unless her elder sister secures the attentions of a duke, Miss Charlotte Drew is understandably horrified. As a confirmed bluestocking and dedica...
A Season of Shakespeare Continues... Miss Violet Havisham is in a bind. Having agreed to help her twin brother disappear from London for a spell, she now finds that his presence is needed by Whitehall, to help them catch a spy. Not only that, but ...
Lady Julia Cavendish has always been a most sensible and practical young woman. So when her parents declare that she must marry, or spend the rest of her days acting as a companion to her dreadful Aunt Mildred, she agrees. Love, she believes, is n...
When a midnight encounter with a duke almost lands her in Newgate, orphaned Hannah Smith realises that she must bring her career as a thief to an end -- before she finds herself at the wrong end of a noose. But escaping the Seven Dials and Sidney P...