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  • Bibliography:
    32 Books (5 Series)
  • First Book:
    November 1978
  • Latest Book:
    December 2002
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Full Series List in Order

Georgian Riddle

1 - The Riddle of the Shipwrecked Spinster (Apr-2001)
2 - The Riddle of the Deplorable Dandy (Dec-2002)

Golden Chronicles

1 - Mistress of Willowvale (Mar-1980)
2 - The Wagered Widow (Jul-1984)
3 - Practice to Deceive (Oct-1985)
4 - Journey to Enchantment (Apr-1986)
5 - The Tyrant (Mar-1987)
6 - Love Alters Not (Dec-1987)
7 - Cherished Enemy (Jul-1988)
8 - The Dedicated Villain (Mar-1989)

League of Jewelled Men

1 - Time's Fool (Aug-1991)
2 - Had We Never Loved (Jul-1992)
3 - Ask Me No Questions (Apr-1993)
4 - A Shadow's Bliss (Apr-1994)
5 - Never Doubt I Love (Mar-1995)
6 - The Mandarin of Mayfair (Nov-1995)

The Riddle Saga

1 - The Riddle of Alabaster Royal (Sep-1997)
2 - The Riddle of the Lost Lover (Nov-1998)
3 - The Riddle of the Reluctant Rake (Oct-1999)

Sanguinet Saga

1 - Some Brief Folly (Jul-1981)
2 - Feather Castles (Jun-1982)
3 - The Lord and the Gypsy (Nov-1978)
4 - Love's Duet (Mar-1979)
5 - Nanette (Dec-1980)
6 - The Noblest Frailty (Oct-1983)
7 - Married Past Redemption (Jan-1983)
8 - Sanguinet's Crown (May-1985)
9 - Logic of the Heart (Feb-1990)
10 - Lanterns (Oct-1996)
11 - Give All to Love (Aug-1987)

Book List in Order: 32 titles



  • Deirdre had loved him since she was six years old. Now young Lord St. Clair was a soldier home from the wars with a scandalous tragedy trailing at his heels. She had to know if he was truly the man she once had loved, or the callous rake and murde...



  • The beautiful, high-spirited Lady Sophia Drayton had planned a clever revenge against the Marquis of Damon. For had he not conspired to send her beloved brother into the battle of Waterloo that had sent him home a cripple? Now, Sophia faced Damon ...



  • WE HAVE PARTS TO PLAY, YOU AND I YOU MAY LOATHE MY EVERY FIBRE, BUT WE MUST APPEAR TO BE DEEPLY IN LOVE Once, Leone believed that her marriage to the handsome Christopher, Lord Aynsworth, would be her every dream come true. But the shivers of anti...



  • She could outrun her family, her past, and her pain but she couldn't escape true love. FORCED TO MARRY HER UNCLE FOR MONEY--IT WAS THE OUTSIDE OF ENOUGH. To foil her family's attempt to keep her considerable dowry in their coffers, Nan...



  • He had saved her from losing her life...Nothing could save her from losing her heart. When I meet the man who will claim my heart, I think I will know him at once. They called her "The Unattainable." A regal beauty who had besotted hal...



  • She was trapped by a promise she never should have made... BETROTHED TO ONE MAN, IN LOVE WITH ANOTHER . . . Rachel Strand, a beautiful young Englishwoman, discovered a wounded stranger on the battlefield of Waterloo. Despite his wounds, the val...



  • It was a marriage of convenience -- until the bride found herself alone. "VERY WELL. IF JUSTIN OFFERS MARRIAGE, I WILL ACCEPT." Forced to wed a man she despised, lovely Lisette Lindsay found herself alone on her wedding night. It was wo...



  • a delightful tale of one young lovely and the pair of roguish cousins competing for her heart "I do love Devenish, Mama. He's the very dearest boy." Lovely Yolande Drummond has been promised to Alain Devenish since both were childr...



  • When gentlemen bet on a lady's virtue, her heart may betray her honor... HE INSISTED ON TREATING HER LIKE A TROLLOP' ...and Rebecca Parrish, a most respectable young widow, found him utterly odious. What right had this supercilious rake...






  • He may have saved her life, but she must lose her heart all the same... "'T'S ALMOST TWO YEARS NOW. I WILL NOT WALK IN TERROR OF MONSIEUR SANGUINET FOREVER" So says Miss Charity Strand, and, having escaped the clutches of the e...



  • They dared all for one England, one dream, one love! NO TREACHERY CAN CONQUER A PASSIONATE HEART. NO MASQUERADE CAN CONCEAL THE EYES OF LOVE... It is 1746. Bonnie Prince Charlie's rebellion has been crushed, and his loyal followers, bound ...



  • Only Passion Could Burn as Bright as their Love for their Country A JOURNEY OF LOVE AND DANGER...AND A VAST TREASURE Beautiful, flame-haired, fiercely independent Prudence has two passions: Scotland and the heroics of Ligun Doone, scourge of th...



  • THEY PLOTTED TREASON TOGETHER -- UNTIL LOVE GOT IN THE WAY... Brooks was gallant, handsome, and loved her dearly, and perhaps Phoebe loved him in return. But thoughts of her betrothed fled the evening her brother enlisted her aid with his rebel ...



  • THE MAN SHE LOVED STILL LOOKED UPON HER AS A CHILD! OR DID HE? Though he had half the women in England at his feet, criminally handsome Alain Devenish had--at the ripe old age of thirty-three--eluded all the trappings of matrimony. Perhaps it...



  • Beautiful Dimity Cranford tries to rescue her people from her despised enemy and all but loses her heart to him... SHE NEVER DREAMED BEING A TRAITOR WOULD ENDANGER HER LIFE AND HER HEART.... Impetuous Dimity Cranford bravely sets out to rescue ...



  • ENEMIES IN BATTLE, COULD THERE BE TRUCE IN LOVE...? Exquisitely beautiful Rosamond Albritton, genteel though she was, found herself hating the Jacobite rebels who had caused her fiance's death. And for some reason, she immediately distrusted t...



  • HOW THE DEVIL COULD A FELLOW MAKE LOVE TO A GIRL WHO GIGGLED WHEN HE TRIED TO KISS HER?! Fiona Bradford was more amused than offended by handsome Roland Fairleigh Mathieson's passionate ardour. He was acting, she suspected--a talent that seemed to...



  • WAS SHE FALLING IN LOVE WITH A MAN WHO COULD ONLY BRING HER HEARTACHE? Susan Henley had inherited the Highperch Cottage legally--if somewhat notoriously--and no insufferable baron would cheat her out of the dear old place! She would fight Valenti...



  • HE FEARED SHE WAS A WANTON, AND SHE'D HEARD HE WAS A LIBERTINE.... Captain Gideon Rossiter, his handsome face pale from his war experience, returned to England after six years to find naught as he had left it. His father was accused of bank fraud...






  • THE GYPSY AND THE GENTLEMAN... It is a turbulent era of intrigue and deception; the struggle for England's throne wages fierce and bitter. In the midst of this strife is born the sinister League of the Jewelled Men, hatching another deadly conspir...



  • The American-born son of European parents, Michael Owens' love for Britain and his detestation of the Hitler regime drove him to enlist in the Eagle Squadron long before the United States enters World War II. He transfers to the U.S.A.A.F. and heavy ...



  • PENNILESS, DISGRACED, AND WITH TWO SMALL NEPHEWS TO SUPPORT, SHE IS IN DIRE STRAITS INDEED.... But by pure luck and a dash of feminine wiles, Ruth Allington is able to put her generous artistic talent to work by restoring an ancient mural at the e...



  • To provide for her loved ones, Olivia posed as the fiancee of a soldier killed in battle to receive some desperately needed finances. But what would she do when her "fiance" returned...?...



  • WHO WAS THIS GALLANT STRANGER WITHOUT A PAST? Jennifer Britewell was one of the few people in the Cornish hamlet of Roselley to show kindness toward the wreck of a man who dragged himself into the village, bound for a life of grinding poverty-far ...



  • SHE WAS A SIMPLE COUNTRY MISS -- CAUGHT UP IN A WORLD OF DANGER AND ROMANCE! Zoe Granger arrived in London for a Season under the auspices of her dreadfully vain and disagreeable sponsor, Lady Clara Buttershaw. But even the awful lady Buttershaw...



  • Two opposing hearts find desire when they least expect it! As a devious plot swirls to overthrow the monarchy, Gwendolyn Rossiter, whose brother leads the fight to defend the Crown, finds hers lively wit and outspoken nature largely ignored by the ha...



  • AN ABANDONED ESTATE, A MYSTERIOUS STRANGER, AND A LADY DRAWN IRRESISTIBLY TO INTRIGUE! As spirited as she is penniless, living sparingly on the dilapidated estate called Lanterns, Marietta Warrington is the backbone of a large family whose fortune...



  • WHICH WAS MORE INTRIGUING -- THE GRAND ESTATE OR THE FEISTY FEMALE? When Captain Jack Vespa suffers a head injury in battle, he chooses to recuperate at his family's estate, the dilapidated--some say haunted--Alabaster Royal. It is there he meet...



  • A MARRIAGEABLE MISS . . . With Royal blood in her veins, Miss Consuela Carlotta Angelica Jones could look as high as she pleased for a husband. But when Captain Jack Vespa entered a room, she saw no further than his twinkling eyes. This war hero w...






  • A QUESTION OF HONOR When Lieutenant-Colonel Hastings Adair agreed to escort Alice Prior home from a party, he never imagined he would awake two days later in a most compromising position. Now, publicly drummed out of the service, Adair discovers tha...



  • Mrs. Regina Stansbury, a woman of high fashion and dwindling fortunes, has just trapped London's most courted bachelor into agreeing to marry her daughter Cordelia. Though young Miss Cordelia Stansbury has admired the handsome and dashing Gervai...



  • Elspeth Clayton's family has been living in considerably reduced circumstances, and to improve their finances, her brother Vance becomes a soldier of fortune. His assignments take him to France, where he is caught up in political intrigues. Inj...


Award-Winning Books by Patricia Veryan

Sanguinet's Crown
1987 RT Reviewers Choice Award -- Regency Romance


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Patricia Veryan has published 32 books.

Patricia Veryan does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, The Riddle of the Deplorable Dandy, was published in December 2002.

The first book by Patricia Veryan, The Lord and the Gypsy, was published in November 1978.

Yes. Patricia Veryan has 5 series.