Zebra Regency Romance — Multiple Authors

• Oct-1985
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HIS SCANDALOUS PAST INTRIGUED HER -- BUT SHE WAS PLAYING WITH PASSION'S FIRE! INNOCENT LADY Rebecca Langford, the toast of London, had never been so mortified in her life. She had defied society by inviting the notorious Earl of Compton to he...

• Nov-1985
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GAMBLE OF DESIRE Exhausted and rain drenched Jessamine arrived at a respectable-looking inn -- only to be mistaken for a jade that night by a very drunken gentleman. Jessamine may have been a poor relation of the Keighleys, but she was every inch a ...

• Mar-1986
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PASSIONS PROMISE Sarah should have been grateful for Mark Tarrington's timely intervention. Without a reference, no one but the notoriously handsome lord would ever have hired such a young and lovely widow as a governess for his niece and nephew...

• Apr-1986
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A LADY REVEALED The Earl of Linton had never been prone to sentiment. Only boredom could have led him to rescue Danny, a filthy street urchin, from the clutches of a drunken brawler. Once rescued, however, the spirited ragamuffin proved a handful ev...

• May-1986
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BATTLE OF LOVE During his pain-wracked nightmare days after the Battle of Talavera, Rathbourne's recovery was as much due to the hauntingly serene beauty of a woman who called herself Gina as to her skillful nursing. She had given herself to him...

• Aug-1986
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A PATRIOT'S HONOR As the belle of Philadelphia, spirited Sarah Ravensham had no fondness for the hateful British. But as a patriotic American, it was her duty to convey a certain document safely into the hands of Britain's prime minister -...

• Oct-1986
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FLUSH OF ANGER Too proud to live off the charity of relations any longer, Katherine Amory was determined after her great uncle's death to find a position as governess. But she had not counted on the peremptory intervention of the Earl of Tarri...

• Jan-1987
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WEDDING OF THE SEASON When young Lady Alexandra Redcliffe made her third venture down the aisle, it was agreed by all that she handled it with her usual style. True, it was rather disconcerting when it came time to "kiss the bride," Alexan...

• Feb-1987
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AN UNCONVENTIONAL LADY Lady Serena was commonly held to be an unusual young girl--outspoken when she should have been reticent; lively when she should have been demure; raggle-taggle when she should have been dressed to the nines. But there was on...

• Mar-1987
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A SECRET ESCAPADE Miss Helena Carstairs was tired of being sensible. For months she had been secretly selling her own embroidery to a modiste to keep her younger siblings in food and clothing. So when she was mistaken for a shop assistant, she imp...

• Apr-1987
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INNOCENT RUNAWAY Disguised as a boy, Melissa Mansfield had thought to stow away in the carriage of an elderly couple who would surely sympathize with her tales of misfortune. But instead she hid in the wrong carriage -- and found herself in danger...

• Jun-1987
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WILLFUL HEART Young Lady Damaris FitzHubert possessed beauty, fortune, and impeccable lineage. But that didn't seem to do her any good where the Duke of Camber was concerned. The man she had adored form afar since childhood had no interest whatsoe...

• Aug-1987
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A BEAUTIFUL THIEF Despite his reputation as an unscrupulous rake, Connor Amberson was not a man likely to shoot a woman -- even if she was dressed like a ragamuffin and intent on robbing his coach. Thus, his remorse was considerable when he discover...

• Sep-1987
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DEBT OF HONOR Moriah Landon had always been a singularly practical young lady. So when her father lost the family estate over a game of picquet at White's, she did not hesitate to pay a visit to the winner, the notorious Viscount Roane. And when t...

• Nov-1987
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SHE KNEW HER OWN MIND, BUT NOT HER OWN HEART... A SCHOLAR'S PASSION Miss Catherine Harland, a sheltered country girl, possessed a passion for Greek letters. Hippolytus, she felt, was the epitome of male virtue--high-minded, lofty in his ideal...

• Dec-1987
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From the moment Ariel first looked into the hot, smouldering eyes of Captain Ian Montague, she knew he was exactly the sort of hell-raising scoundrel she most abhorred. So when she was unwittingly compromised through his disreputable pursuits, she wa...

• 1988
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PROMISES KEPT Rescued from penury by her wealthy uncle Charles, Byrony Balmaine was all too well aware how much she owed the kindly old man. For this reason she had promised to marry, as soon as possible, a gentleman of her uncle's choosing. U...

• Feb-1988
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MARRIAGE OF CONVENIENCE Miss Celia Marcombe's dark eyes flashed with righteous indignation. She was not a commodity to be traded or bartered to a man as insufferably arrogant as Trevor Ryde, despite what her high-handed grandfather decreed! If...

• Jun-1988
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At twenty-four Miss Polly Rice was commonly held to be on the shelf. So it came as quite a surprise to her neighbors to hear that Sir Frederick Moresby, the so eligible and yet so elusive bachelor, had offered for her. Wasn't he aware of that rac...

• Jul-1988
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HE WON HER HAND Though she hailed from one of England's oldest, richest families, the Honorable Jane Sandiford had been brought up in a frugal fashion, far from the lavish London set she was about to join. For Jane was to wed the dashing Lord Wr...

• Jul-1988
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ENRAGED BY A RAKE Amanda was in a rage when the Earl of Ainsley had left the room. How dare he take such a tone with her! The impertinence of the man! Such insufferable conceit! It was obvious he assumed she would leave the management of Millfort Ma...

• Sep-1988
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HE WAS NO GENTLEMAN Lovely, titian-haired Verity Howard had disliked womanizing Capt. Alastair Glendenning on sight, despite her brother's admiration. She was all too familiar with men of his stamp -- men like the stepfather she had fled to Brus...

• Oct-1988
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AT HER DISCRETION When word reached Deirdre Fenton that her brother was pursuing the notorious actress Mrs. Dewinters, she immediately set about extricating her incorrigible sibling from his latest folly. But her brother had gone too far this time f...

• Nov-1988
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SECRET DOCUMENT It was nothing unusual for Lady Leonora Ashton to transport government documents to her father from the Home Office. But on this particular afternoon a gust of wind scattered the papers, and suddenly an important page was lost. A doc...

• Nov-1988
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An Excellent Plan Laurie knew what everyone was saying -- Pity the three dowerless St. John girls! Their father had died, leaving them destitute and at the mercy of their guardian, aloof and attractive cousin Tarquin. But practical Laurie had a Plan...

• Dec-1988
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ADVENTUROUS MINX Ellie Dearborne bit her lip in consternation. How could she have gotten herself in such a fix! Her penchant for gaming had finally led her to ruin. It seemed like such a lark, wagering her devious cousin George that she would obtain...

• Dec-1988
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COMMON TROLLOP From her first encounter with the Marquis of Penderleigh when he had mistaken her for a common trollop, Penelope had been incensed with the darkly handsome lord. And even though he offered the hospitality of Pender Castle when Penelop...

• Jan-1989
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A DIRE CHARADE To save her village from utter ruin, sporting-mad Kate Draycott set out to wed the wealthy poet, Lord Ashwell. In order to win him, the country spitfire masked her earthy nature with a patina of refinement. However, she was not prepar...

• Feb-1989
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Charles Marcombe was ready to retire. The British secret agent had done his bit against the blasted Bonaparte -- legends would be told about his exploits as Le Maniganceur, The Intriguer. Now it was time to nurse his wounds and come to terms with the...

• Mar-1989
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SHE WED WITH RELUCTANCE Rosalind Dunstan's father had always been high-handed, but buying her a husband was the last straw. Though Geoffrey Chilton had quite managed to steal her spinsterish heart, Rosalind sensibly reminded herself of the peril...

• May-1989
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COULD A HOTBLOODED, HIGH-SPIRITED MISS RESIST HIM? A PEERLESS HEART If there was one man Madeleina never wanted to lay eyes on, it was the scoundrel who'd seduced her fashionable young stepmother and disgraced her beloved father. The spirited...

• May-1989
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SHOCKING PAST Despite her fetching blue eyes and sable hair, Kate Elliott remained every bit the prim and practical schoolmistress. Few at Miss Venable's Seminary for Young Ladies would have dreamed that Kate had entertained romantic notions in ...

• Jul-1989
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TWIN FOLLY The King's untimely death may have cheated the headstrong Lady Jean Conway out of her first season, but it had done nothing to curb her romantic imagination. To the dismay of her more sensible twin Margaret, Lady Jean proceeded to fal...

• Aug-1989
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ROMANTIC NONSENSE Miss Philippa was not the kind of young lady who spent her leisure embroidering or playing the pianoforte. Far from it; she was a very successful author of romantic novels. Thus she was chagrined to be snubbed by the handsome write...

• Aug-1989
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A HANDSOME RAKE MEETS HIS MATCH IN A LOVELY COUNTRY SPINSTER! A WAGER WON Only a rogue like Nicholas Ruxart would choose a bride on the basis of a careless wager. And only a rakehell like Nicholas would then fall in love with his betrothed'...

• Aug-1989
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MAN OF HONOR It was a point of honor with the Earl of Argyle never to take advantage of the "lower orders." The Earl was a rake--but a discriminating one, who only succumbed to the charms of his own kind. But there was something about his ne...

• Sep-1989
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AN ARTIST'S HEART Esme Sedgewick had always been indifferent to men, having devoted her passions to her painting, but the libertine Duke of Milbourne infuriated her as no other man could. He had accosted her on the stairway of the notorious co...

• Sep-1989
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PROVOCATIVE MISS The Duke of Milburne returned to Milburne Hall trusting that the new governess from up north--no doubt a dour, frigid sort -- had instilled the fear of God into his harum-scarum brood of siblings. But from his first glimpse of Miss ...

• Oct-1989
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SHE WAS A WOMAN WHO KNEW HER OWN MIND BUT NOT HER OWN HEART A BARTERED BRIDE Clarissa St. Miniver was no blushing bride when she exchanged wedding vows with Viscount Wrackham. She was a proud young woman coolly grasping a golden opportunity -- to...

• Nov-1989
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INDIGNANT MISS When Charity Holwell heard how rudely her handsome suitor, the Earl of Redbourne, had treated her beloved cousins, the blue-eyed beauty was enraged. But when the rogue finally asked for her hand, she gave her assent ... with revenge, ...

• Nov-1989
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BOOKISH HEIRESS Anne Sinclair hated leaving the safe world of Miss Turnbull's Academy to face the uncle she hadn't seen in years. But for the eligible young heiress there seemed little choice. Her arrogant uncle, the handsome Buckfast Sinc...

• Dec-1989
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MADCAP TOMBOY When the local magistrate jailed Jacelyn Trevaine's pet dog as a public nuisance, the country miss knew he meant to blackmail her into socializing with his nephew. High-spirited Jaceelyn decided to free her dog by kidnapping the...

• Dec-1989
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DRESS REHEARSAL Miss Augusta Carstairs was overcome with mortification every time she recalled her last encounter two years before with Major Edward MacKennoch. What had possessed her to so shamelessly try to induce him to kiss her, she couldn't...

• Dec-1989
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MAKE-BELIEVE LADY Lady Jane Marlingforthe knew that the world was full of fainthearted people who are completely overset by adversity. Penniless, her ancestral home sold for back taxes, and with no prospects on the horizon, Lady Jane almost caved in...

• Jan-1990
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A SCANDALOUS MEMOIR Annabelle Jocelyn preferred to keep men at a distance. Indeed, the young widow's heart belonged to her business. As owner and editor of Bailey's Press, her current project was to secure a certain scandalous diary with whi...

• Feb-1990
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OUT OF THE SHADOWS Petite, unassuming Kate suspected that her beaux would really prefer to pay court to her beautiful, spirited younger sister -- especially dashing Captain Mark Verelst, the man Kate secretly loved. Even when Mark offered for her, K...

• Feb-1990
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ONLY A CAD WOULD DOUBT A LADY'S INNOCENCE! A LADY'S INNOCENCE When secret information about the scandalous divorce trial of Queen Caroline fell into the wrong hands, Demetra Hawksley was incensed to learn that she was suspected of betra...

• Feb-1990
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HER INNOCENCE INTRIGUED HIM Ravenstoke wasn't fooled for a moment by the ragged urchin he found perched in the tree near Grantham Hall. Any idiot with eyes could see the frightened creature was a girl...and a dashed pretty one at that. But once ...

• Mar-1990
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Time travel to London, 1810 TIME MEANT NOTHING WHEN SHE WAS IN HIS ARMS... 1990 -- The vacation in London was exactly what Andrea Wells needed. Restless with her life back in Minneapolis, disillusioned with her fiancé, she found herself dra...

• Apr-1990
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CAST IN THE SHADE Impoverished, orphaned Amanda Marlowe knew she was completely cast in the shade by her vain cousin Eve whose spectacular beauty and fortune had brought even London's most infamous rake, the Marquis of Vale, up to scratch. But n...

• Apr-1990
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Only boredom could have prompted Sir Robert Lange to wager that he could earn his own keep for six months. That and a few drinks too many. But a gentleman's word is his bond, and a wager is a wager. Which was why the ton's most devil-may-care...

• May-1990
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DARING DAYDREAMS Despite her sheltered country upbringing, Corrine Randolph dreamed of a dashing lover just like the ones in the novels she so relished. Her own betrothed, the object of her girlhood adoration, paled in comparison to her thrilling ...

• May-1990
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FREE SPIRIT With beauty, wit and a sizable fortune, Maria, Comtesse de Beaulieu, could have had her pick of suitors, yet preferred not to marry. Rather, the young widow savored the life she led: throwing splendid literary soirees, hatching fabulous ...

• Jun-1990
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IMPETUOUS LADY Impudent, outspoken Charmian Crewes was outraged by plans to match her with the notorious Earl of Wexford. Refusing even to meet such a scoundrel, the impetuous miss set out in the dark of night for her aunt's home in Paris. When ...

• Jun-1990
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A ROMANTIC MISS Authoress Meg Longville was utterly aghast to learn that the disreputable Lord Worthen was enamored of her. True, she had been attentive to him, but only because she meant to use him as a model for the villain in her next romance nov...

• Jun-1990
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AN INNOCENT YOUNG LADY BECOMES A SPY -- ONLY TO FIND HERSELF IN THE ARMS OF HER ENEMY! DANGER'S DELIGHT It was obvious from his bold scrutiny that the handsome stranger thought her a lightskirt. Yet Miss Rilla Linville didn't care so long...

• Jul-1990
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AN EARNEST SUITOR Dowager Countess Sarah Mary Ester Worthington was only nineteen and a virgin widow, but she d had enough of arranged marriage to last her a lifetime. Never again would she be a man's bauble, treasured only for her beauty! The...

• Aug-1990
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A MATTER OF LOGIC Level-headed Lady Maryann Rivington had never seen a love match that didn't end in disaster. She was determined to wed for all the practical reasons -- lineage, security, and the comparatively exalted status of the married wo...

• Aug-1990
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UNDREAMT-OF ADVENTURE Lady Briana Rosewynn secretly hoped to be the first in her village to encounter her reclusive new neighbor, the duke of Brocco. Instead, it was merely a handsome servant by the name of Darnier who came upon her in her favorit...

• Sep-1990
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A LADY AROUSED Virginia's first impression of Lord Sherbourne was somewhat less than favorable. First he almost ran her down as he came thundering through the forest on horseback. Then he silenced her indignation with a most ungentlemanly kiss. ...

• Sep-1990
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MODERN WOMAN Erika Van Hamel had been living alone on the tiny British island for two years when a stranger identifying himself as Gilbert Randall washed up after a boating accident. Although he was strikingly handsome, he wasn't exactly her typ...

• Sep-1990
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DEVIL IN DISGUISE Lady Clarissa Tregallen preferred the windswept wilds of Cornwall to the jam-packed ballrooms and noisy routs of the London ton, but as the future bride of the tediously respectable Duke of Mainwaring, Clarissa would soon bid her...

• Oct-1990
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She was a lady with a business proposition -- He was a rake with other ideas... AN HONORABLE POSITION NEEDED: Gentleman schooled in assessing and cataloguing of coinage. Raines Scott's lovely eyes lit up when she read the advertisement. ...

• Oct-1990
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GENTLEMAN OFFERS SECURITY AND SOCIAL POSITION IN RETURN FOR MARRIAGE WITH AN UNQUESTIONABLE LADY. Too proud to apply to relatives or friends for help, Miss Claudia Talton was desperate enough to answer the advertisement. But why would an affluent an...

• Nov-1990
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AN INGENIOUS SCHEME Lovely Sabrina Latimer had come to London incognito on a fortune bunt. Disguised as a Hungarian countess, the young widow meant to secure the ten thousand pounds her brother needed to pay a gambling debt. His debtor was that no...

• Nov-1990
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A FESTIVE SEASON Justin Stockton considered himself a reasonable man, and he made every allowance for the Laurence family's recent bereavement during this Christmas season. Nevertheless the eldest girl Amanda seemed bent on infuriating him at ...

• Nov-1990
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A BANKER'S DAUGHTER Katherine Wilde congratulated herself. She bad neatly sidestepped her father's demand that she accept young Pemberton's timid proposal by mentioning the attentions she'd received, from Simon Stafford, the Marqui...

• Dec-1990
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He was a handsome scoundrel whose luck was uncanny with spades, clubs, diamonds -- and hearts A GAME OF CHANCE... About to be thrown into the street by her landlady, the poor but ever-virtuous Elinor Hardy was forced to earn her rent as a deal...

• Dec-1990
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A PHANTOM LOVER For years, Lady Margaret Willoughby had resisted marriage, convinced that no man could compare to her perfect, long-departed girlhood love, the late Jeremy Verelst. But now, practically on the shelf at twenty-two, Lady Margaret knew ...

• Jan-1991
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A LADY WITH A PAST For six years, Diana Farington Verney had buried herself in the country, far from the gossip surrounding her ill-fated, marriage and her late husband's demise. Indeed, London was be last place the lovely widow wanted to be, bu...

• Jan-1991
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A SINGULAR SENSATION Miss Elizabeth Carstairs, in the ordinary way of things, was a level-headed young lady, not given to flights of romantic foolishness. But when Mr. Frederick Ashfield arrived at Halliford Castle, after two years on the Continent,...

• Feb-1991
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A ROMANTIC TRADITION Tradition held that at eighteen years of age, all the Heartland ladies met the man they would marry at the Valentine's Day Ball. So it was that Miss Jane Lindsay was on the shelf at the advanced age of twenty-four -- for w...

• Feb-1991
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She'd come to uncover the family scandal -- and found a rake with a secret of his own... A DARK SECRET IN HER PAST Mr. Chance Harland was a most infuriating gentleman! Lilac Morton had traveled all the way to Yorkshire to discover the deep, d...

• Feb-1991
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The lovely young widow, Mrs. Henrietta Harte, was not all inclined to pursue the sort of romantic folly the persistent King Brandish had in mind. She had to concentrate on marrying off her penniless sisters and managing her spendthrift mama. Surely M...

• Mar-1991
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UNFORTUNATE CIRCUMSTANCES The Earl of Chatleigh was not a man easily taken in by manipulative misses, but he'd certainly botched things this time! Yet how was he to know that the beautiful young doxy in his bed at the Hart and Hind was of the Q...

• Mar-1991
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She would not allow his iron will to rule her heart... A WILLFUL MINX Lady Araminta Beresford was quite capable of taking care of herself. After roaming eastern Europe and Syria -- often unchaperoned! -- she had little patience, upon returning to...

• Mar-1991
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A CYNICAL WAGER It was just the sort of absurd wager in which bored London fashionables delighted. In return for a prime piece of horseflesh, Lord Vyse the most decadent of town sophisticates, would pose until Easter as a virtuous Rector in a countr...

• Apr-1991
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HE THOUGHT HER A JADE Having risen from the squalor of London's back alleys to be the darling of Drury Lane, Meg Fletcher was indeed a consummate actress. And it took all her considerable skills to conceal her shock when she learned she was actu...

• Apr-1991
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BETROTHED TO A RAKEHELL Midwifery was hardly a fitting endeavor for a noblewoman, but Lady Skylor nevertheless chose medicine over matrimony. Independence, in her opinion, was far preferable to life as a lawfully wedded wife, no matter the superstit...

• Jun-1991
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A lady known for her icy demeanor is secretly a highwayman who steals from the rich, but when she accidentally holds up her new neighbor she finds her heart in peril. By day she was Lady Jewel deVree, The Dark Goddess, famed for her breathtaking b...

• Jun-1991
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SUSPICIOUS HEART Miss Phyllida Dearne prided herself on her composure. But the murder of her lovely, selfish sister -- and in a London opera box -- was enough to overset the most level-headed of ladies. For once, she was relieved to lean on a man...

• Jun-1991
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A LADY IN DISTRESS Nicola Crawford was hardly surprised when her cousin's betrothed disappeared on some mysterious quest with hardly a fare-thee-well. Anyone engaged to Charles Windham was bound to run off sooner or later. Charles might be deuce...

• Jun-1991
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Lia Maudsley was considered too independent by half, for she had failed in her duty to capture a rich gentleman and put her impoverished family to rights. But Lia had grown accustomed to tending her numerous siblings as well as an eccentric mother. I...

• Jun-1991
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A MIND OF HER OWN Free-spirited young Brie Morgan wanted no part of marriage to anyone -- certainly not to "Demon" Drake, the Earl of Malvern, a man she had never even set eyes on. Since her grandfather refused to break the pledge he'd m...

• Jul-1991
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WEDDING BELLS A hasty marriage to redeem her reputation was bad enough, but Alessandra's punishment for an innocent moment in the park was not to end there. Only if she and her new husband Jeffrey Huntingsley managed to share sleeping quarters f...

• Jul-1991
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A RUDE CAPTAIN AND A FORTHRIGHT WIDOW ARE CAUGHT IN A WEB OF DANGEROUS DECEPTION... A LOVELY WIDOW The idea of two small, motherless children had wrung Emily Foster's heart. The pretty young widow had immediately agreed to take them in despit...

• Jul-1991
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A LOVELORN LADY In an attempt to recover from the rumors surrounding her jilted engagement, lively Jennifer Dryden hoped to find sanctuary in the calming atmosphere of the blue-washed coast of Cornwall. Instead, a passionate kiss en route in the arm...

• Aug-1991
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A LADY'S DILEMMA Lady Cecily Randall was no green girl to be seduced by a handsome face. The eminently dutiful daughter of the Duke of Marlowe, she'd been groomed to make a suitable match. So when the rather humorless Marquess of Edgewater p...

• Sep-1991
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She inherited a fortune...and a deadly secret! "Why don't you go away? You're not wanted here." Kirstie MacDonell nearly wept with joy to learn that she was no longer penniless and alone, but a Scottish laird's long-lost gr...

• Sep-1991
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A FRUSTRATING LORD Ruanna Moreton's troubles were just beginning the day she fled to London to escape a dreadful arranged marriage. Reduced to scraping a living in the slums, the beautiful Ruanna luckily fell into the graces of a matronly cousin...

• Sep-1991
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AN IMPETUOUS MISS Miss Stacia Ashcroft was gleeful when she arrived in London with a brand new inheritance. At twenty-two, she felt much too old for the marriage mart. So she took on the guise of a rich widow -- a pose that would surely allow her BU...

• Sep-1991
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WELL-MEANING MINX Whether she was saving errand boys from cruel taskmasters or aiding poor servant girls, young Allegra Caulfield was a champion of causes. And her latest cause was to rescue her older sister from an arranged marriage. Not only did h...

• Oct-1991
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A SPIRITED LADY When her sister Phoebe summoned her to Grayson Hall a fortnight before All Hallows Eve, Lady Caroline Templeton was understandably intrigued. It seemed a ghost was stalking the corridors of this ancestral home, and Caroline's w...

• Oct-1991
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A LADY'S PLAN Callie Stone was resolved to become an artiste rather than a wife. She was quite content with her productive life painting portraits in Bath, except for the problem of her carousing younger brother. Bereaved of parents, Callie had ...

• Oct-1991
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A WILLFUL WIDOW Katherine Delecourte's introduction to Lord Quentin Tregarren left the young widow perplexed. To her recollection, she had never made the acquaintance of this rather arrogant and disdainful gentleman, although he did bear a remar...

• Nov-1991
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SHE SPEAKS HER MIND Free-spirited Sophy Bancroft has been dismissed from several posts for "impertinence and unauthorized, irresponsible acts." But now, as she begins her seventh attempt as a governess, she vows that, this time, she'll c...

• Nov-1991
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'Tis the season for sweet delights...and tender secrets! AN UNWILLING GUEST Elizabeth Gore-Langton was hardly in a position refuse to accompany Lady Astley to the Christmas party at Stenton Castle. After all, a paid companion must follow her ...

• Nov-1991
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A DEVILSIHLY CLEVER RAKE At long last, vowed Lord Roger Conistan, the wretchedly interfering, damnably lovely matchmaker Lady Emmeline Penrith had met her match -- in him! Season after season, the jaded nobleman had watched her maneuver society...

• Nov-1991
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BITTER SCARS There was no mistaking Sir Clifford Moore's sardonically handsome features as he stood at Almack's staring at her. Emily shivered at the sight of the thin scar on his left cheek. That had nor been there before. She knew then t...

• Nov-1991
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DASHING DECEIVER Wealthy rakehell John Cornwall, the fifth earl of Brandon, was the most eligible-and elegant bachelor in all London. But the dashing nobleman had eyes only for the incomparable, though overly romantic, Marianne, a captivating crea...

• Dec-1991
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The sixth Earl of Fenchmore had a rather jaundiced view of marriage-minded misses. They were all simpering, manipulative featherbrains and he'd have nothing to do with them or their ambitious mamas. So jaded was the arrogant lord that the forthri...

• Dec-1991
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Sometimes true love can be a shocking affair! A DISHONORED GENTLEMAN Once a brilliant government figure, Viscount Gideon Came had fled England amid scandal and betrayal. Determined to rebuild his life, he returned at last to find his once-success...

• Dec-1991
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DOMINEERING DEVIL Penniless and abandoned by her family, Miss Amanda Waverley had no one to turn to but the mysterious highwayman who'd kidnapped her. Though Nick Malvern's elegant bearing seemed more suited to a gentleman than an outlaw, ...

• Jan-1992
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Theirs was a marriage in name only -- until they fell in love! A DANGEROUS DECEPTION Chandra was in need of a proper husband. She had returned to England to find her father's killer, a blackguard who traveled in the highest circles of London ...

• Jan-1992
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If there was one man lovely Roxanne Winston never wanted to lay eyes upon it was the notorious Duke of Rutledge, the man responsible for her brother's death. To her dismay, however, it was that very gentleman who turned up on her doorstep one dar...

• Jan-1992
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HEART'S DESIRE Valentina Jardine had always looked forward to Valentine's Day for it was also her birthday. However, this year promised to be rather different than most, for her cousin Libby was determined to play matchmaker at the Valenti...

• Jan-1992
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She risked all on luck -- but never counted on true love! A GENTLEMAN'S SUSPICIONS Lord Gabriel Fairmont regarded his spirited adversary with icy interest. Ever since her arrival in Bath society, the respectable young "widow" had show...

• Feb-1992
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SHE VOWED TO DESPISE HIM... Miss Elizabeth Armitage was certain the world had gone mad! The school teacher wanted nothing more than to live her life free of the shackles of matrimony. Yet, after a harrowing meeting with the elderly Duke of Belcraven...

• Feb-1992
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MARRIAGE BOUND Fiddlesticks, thought Lady Mary Wagnall. Finding a husband couldn't be that difficult. She knew she was no great beauty, and at the ancient age of 28 she was prepared to settle for an older gentleman, one happy to settle down and ...

• Mar-1992
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A BEWITCHING MISS Of noble birth on her father's side, Miss Mary Elizabeth Sinclair was decidedly startled to have the British Home Office employ her as a spy. While she did not mind rejoining her mother's gypsy family, nor posing as "Ta...

• Mar-1992
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HARDENED RAKE Briony Langland knew she was expected to take her place in England's polite society. But the straight-laced Quaker miss had no patience for London's constant social whirl of halls, soirees, and the dashing young blades who f...

• Mar-1992
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A FASHIONABLE HOLIDAY Andrew Norville regarded the high-handed Miss Harrington with astonished outrage. Not only had she convinced her impressionable young cousin to avoid his marriage proposal, she had swept the girl off to revel in the frivolous r...

• Mar-1992
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A WOMAN OF MISCHIEF Finding herself quite literally in Philip Thornton's arms after a curricle accident, Sarah was more than a little intrigued by her rescuer, especially by his mysterious eyepatch. Fortunately her injuries were minor, and her...

• Apr-1992
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A MYSTERIOUS GENTLEMAN Bloody hell! Lord Lucien Seabrook swore. As an agent for His Mahesty's Government, he was close to capturing smugglers operating on the English coast - until the adventurous bluestocking Miss Elinore Denning and her broth...

• Apr-1992
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Diana Hartland never imagined falling in love could be such a wretched business. But when handsome Captain Everard, the man she adored, announced his intention to wed her lovely but scatterbrained sister, Diana knew the world had gone quite mad. Juli...

• May-1992
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A DAMSEL IN DISTRESS He had seemed a suspicious sort on the coach with his black greatcoat and hat pulled low. But any man who was willing to protect Jillian St. Erney's virtue, and get shot in the process, certainly deserved her help. She had e...

• May-1992
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AN HONOURABLE ROGUE Lord John Montrain was in a devil of a dilemma. As part of a romantic masquerade to protect a good friend, he'd kidnapped a much-sought-after beauty of the ton--only to discover he'd mistakenly abducted the lady's you...

• Jun-1992
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SHE WAS AN UNMATCHED MATCHMAKER To save herself from a marriage without love, Lady Psyche Veringbam bad long ago decided to pose herself as "Lady Bluestocking," a sharp-tongued chit with no interest in wedded bliss. A resigned spinster at three and ...

• Jun-1992
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An engraved locket and a recurring nightmare about a silver-handled dagger are Lexie Anderson's only link to her forgotten childhood. Alone in the world at 24, Lexie's research for her doctoral thesis brings her to a secret passageway leading...

• Jul-1992
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A FAHIONABLE DIVERSION Lord Jules Wakeford was one of the town's most eligible bachelors, an intimate of the Beau himself -- but prey to an increasing ennui with each new London Season. Then country heiress Laetitia Biddle entered society and began ...

• Jul-1992
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A MISCHIEVOUS WIDOW When the dashedly handsome Duke of Tremont summoned Anne Templeton home to England, the lovely young widow left Jamaica with a wary sigh. Seven years before, as a foolish green girl, she had jilted Giles Templeton in favor of his...

• Jul-1992
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A SCANDALOUS RAKE Adam, Duke of Marchmaine, watched in amazement as Miss Diana Rustin swept gracefully through the corridors of his family's manor. It was incredible that this vivid beauty bad just saved the lives of his sister and her newborn baby ...

• Aug-1992
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LOVE LOST The impertinence of the man! Their broken engagement years ago had been a result of Tony Everely's roving way with women, and Francey had no intention of accepting his attentions a second time. As a society hostess of the first order, ...

• Aug-1992
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When a lady offers her hand in marriage, must she also offer her heart? A DARING DECLARATION It had only been six weeks since her brother was named the Eighth Marquis of Parminter, but already Rachel's life seemed but a farce played out to pl...

• Sep-1992
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An improper proposal could lead to a most delightful distraction. A CHARMING HOSTESS The one person to whom sensible, strong minded Camilla Rayburn had ever allowed herself to become indebted was her godfather, the Earl of Sheringham. That deares...

• Sep-1992
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A LADY'S DILEMMA Spurning the, fashionable nonsense of the ton. Felicia was a country miss with a mind of her own. She quite preferred the business of helping her architect uncle with his dream building project, until she encountered the delightful ...

• Oct-1992
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A MANAGING MISS How could anyone accuse her of being a managing female, wondered Matty. She simply wanted what was best for those around her, and that included the most reserved Earl of Kirkswood. That vexing man claimed he had no need of a wife, bu...

• Oct-1992
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THE MASQUERADE For one fog-ensbrouded evening, Olivia Beacham was, determined to break away from the confines of society and experience a taste of excitement and freedom. Her husband's sudden death had left her in mourning for the last two years...

• Oct-1992
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HER EFFRONTERY INTRIGUED HIM The Honorable Gregory Rushton gave Miss Cressida Chalcot a triumphant smile. Once again -- of course! -- he had deftly thwarted her clever attempts to enveigle his innocent young ward into a highly unsuitable match wi...

• Nov-1992
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SHE WAS A PRIZE WAITING TO BE WON Miss Ginny Makepeace was not the type of young lady who often entertained thoughts of romance-smart and sensible was the only way to be. Yet all thoughts of propriety were abandoned after she made the acquaintance...

• Nov-1992
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A MOST PROVOKING PRINCESS It was all too exciting, thought Princess Tatiana. While she dreaded her impending marriage to the infamous Duke of Cumberland, she welcomed the chance to escape the snows of Russia for the green fields of England. And her ...

• Nov-1992
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HE HAD NO INTEREST IN LOVE Leander Knollis, Earl of Charrington, was tired of gadding about the Continent on diplomatic missions. It was time he settled down in his family home with a wife at his side and enjoyed a proper English Christmas. But his ...

• Dec-1992
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DANGEROUS INTRIGUE Lady Henrietta Galbraith had always thought of herself as calm and level-headed, but the death of her fiance at her betrothal ball threatened to overset her completely. Though she'd had little regard for Cousin Desmond she nev...

• Dec-1992
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Even the sternest chaperone can be diverted with a kiss! THE STRAIGHT AND NARROW With no marriage prospects of her own on the London horizon, Celeste Prescott was pressed to accept the position of chaperone to a headstrong, lovestruck chit of the...

• Jan-1993
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A MOST RESPECTABLE MISS If only her father hadn't incurred those outrageous debts, Linnea fumed, she wouldn't be in this predicament. Instead she found herself married to Viscount Carrock, one of the most renowned rakes of the ton. She was c...

• Jan-1993
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A DELICATE DILEMMA All Sabrina wanted when she journeyed to Bainbridge Abbey was to find her long-lost family, not seek her share of their fortune. But His Grace Oliver Carrick, Fifth Duke of Bainbridge, was determined to think the worst of her ... ...

• Jan-1993
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When the contents of her grandmother's will were revealed, Catherine Mansard was horrified! It seemed she must spend each season in London until she found a husband or else she would lose her beloved Sparrowell Hall. Cat had always prided herself on ...

• Feb-1993
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AN INDIGNANT HEIRESS Lady Caroline Dundas may have been raised in New Orleans but she knew how to comport herself as well as any London miss. But proper manners were quite impossible to maintain in the face of Simon Renshaw's arrogance. How dare...

• Feb-1993
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CUPID'S ROGUE Known by his cronies as "The Constant Lover," Hayden St. James found himself favored with enough charm to win any lady's heart. Thus, when he learned his friends were wagering as to whether he could win the affections o...

• Feb-1993
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It was an affair of the heart she could never resist! A SCOTTISH LASS Marry an English nobleman or lose her inheritance! How could Grandfather be so cruel? England held little appeal for a Scottish born lass such as herself, however common sense ...

• Feb-1993
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EVEN A CONFIRMED BACHELOR IS NO MATCH FOR...The Widow's Gambit It was a scandalous scheme, but it was high time the eldest Neville sister made a match and desperate measures were in order. Although Claudia was a diamond of the first water, the orp...

• Mar-1993
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AN INDEPENDENT MINX Pompous and arrogant did not begin to do justice to the Earl of Coltrane! Jillian Lamb had traveled all the way to London to see her guardian and determine why her heretofore regular allowance had suddenly stopped arriving, and n...

• Mar-1993
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Outraged that a distant cousin was about to inherit her estate, Lady Emma Winslow began seeking a new place to live. Then her late brother's closest friend, the Duke of Attlebery, invited her to stay with him while she conducted her search. All u...

• Apr-1993
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He thought the worst of her -- until she decided to get the best of him! YANKEE SPIRIT Lord Carlton was quite simply the most arrogant man Susan Phillips had ever encountered. As a young American visiting her aunt and uncle in London, she was n...

• Apr-1993
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They were unable to resist the magic of Cupid's touch... A LADY'S DECISION When she first heard the Marquis of Brandreth's boast that he would make her fall in love with him, Lady Evanthea Swanbourne could not help but laugh. The nerve of the m...

• Apr-1993
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Francesca Verdant found her prolonged stay in London rather tiresome, and she wasn't particularly impressed with any of the gentlemen she met, especially the one they called "My Lord Perfection". After rudely bumping her at the Chattering...

• May-1993
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Love can lead even the most cautious heart astray... A SENSIBLE LADY Aristocratic Alessandra di Tassio had learned her lesson in love only too well, and now, at one-and-twenty, was no longer given to giddy swoons and foolish romantic yearnings....

• May-1993
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Marriage to the arrogant Earl was a dangerous game... until she lost her heart... HONOR'S FIRE She was a charming rogue, an impish child -- and a maddeningly alluring woman. And if the Earl of Shayle knew little else about the mysterious ...

• May-1993
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AN IMPETUOUS HEROINE They were really too wretched, sighed lady Selinda. She had never dreamed that the aunts who bad taken her and her younger sister in after their parents' death would turn out to be such gorgons! It was a most difficult task inde...

• Jun-1993
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A PROUD PENNY-PINCHING MISS Unless she raised the necessary funds, Nerissa Dufresne would have little choice but to sell her beloved Bath estate. Preoccupied by her troubles, she set out on an unchaperoned stroll--and suddenly spied a stallion bea...

• Jun-1993
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AN ADVENTUROUS HEIRESS Lady Elizabeth Farrington wished to advance the cause of science with a museum full of natural curiosities. The ton was all a twitter over "Farrington's Folly" as she scoured the countryside for fire-eaters and ...

• Jun-1993
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UNBRIDLED AFFECTION Having been raised by an eccentric Irish grandmother, Deirdre Darrington was clearly too impulsive and rather too forthright for a lady of the ton. But the headstrong miss's fanciful facade bid a heart that was fair to breaki...

• Jul-1993
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A DELIGHTFUL MISS Charity Calder had been only too happy to return to her country village after her first season in London, for she knew her expertise would be needed to help plan the midsummer festival. Of course, she missed the excitement and gaie...

• Jul-1993
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A LADY OF MANY DISGUISES Did she exist, or had he lost all reason? Jason, Earl of Wynhaven, had chanced upon the entrancing, silver-haired minx in a remote forest glen and did not even know her name. Certainly, he never expected to encounter her nex...

• Jul-1993
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SHE DEFIED CONVENTION Surely it would be the lesser of two evils! To escape an arranged marriage to a hateful suitor, Miranda Houghton fled her father's home...and ran off with Peter Worthington instead. He promised, at least, to be a thoughtf...

• Aug-1993
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A larcenous lady. Her dear mother would faint dead away! But their current straitened circumstances had left Cara Brentwood little choice but to don cloak and boots and roam the midnight highways in search of unsuspecting noblemen. After all, the ton...

• Aug-1993
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The announcement of the Viscount Stanton's marriage was to be expected, thought Althea regretfully. She and Jeremy had been friends far too long for her not to know of his father's debts and his need for ready funds. But how could Jeremy offe...

• Sep-1993
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In love's battle of wills, may the best lord -- or lady -- win! SHE FOUGHT A DUKE... AND WON The unmitigated gall! Jonathan Rayner, Duke of Alverly, might indeed own half the county--but it didn't grant him the right to rule it with an...

• Sep-1993
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SHE WAS A RELUCTANT BRIDE Eleanor Chivenbam didn't put much past her vile brother, but even she bad not anticipated his greedy scheme to dupe a rich earl into mistaking her for a lightskirt! Her reputation in shreds, her future ruined, a defeat...

• Sep-1993
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TREASURE SOUGHT Genevieve had been more than happy to escape the dreadful summer heat of London, and what better way than a journey north to Cumberland on a treasure hunt, along a path strewn with various clever clues designed to befuddle and bemuse...

• Oct-1993
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SECRET LIFE When Jonathan Murray promised to look in on the younger siblings of an old army friend, the former soldier never imagined that the household would include one outrageously behaved beauty! Not only had he seen the bewitching, blue-eyed vi...

• Oct-1993
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It was said that odd and peculiar things happened on All Hallow's Eve, and Blanche Charolais was inclined to agree. Her impetuous young cousin had eloped and taken all her money and a raging storm held her trapped in a shabby little inn. Now a my...

• Nov-1993
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Love is sweeter the second time around! LOVE LOST Five years had passed, but Pierce Reston, Duke of Stornway, remembered the humiliation and heartache only too well. Despite his ardent courtship, Lady Joanna Ransome had escaped his tender trap, j...

• Nov-1993
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SUSPICIOUS MIND Charlotte Amberley was determined to wage war on the insufferably arrogant Lord Stoneleigh. After all, he'd been absolutely ghastly to her two dearest friends, and it was high time he had his comeuppance! But her plans were thwar...

• Nov-1993
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A MERRY MACHINATION Robert Avery, Earl of Barrisford, prided himself on being the quintessential gentleman. But he could hardly stand by and allow his foolishly smitten nephew to be led down the garden path by the incomparably lovely but duplicito...

• Dec-1993
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AN INNOCENT MISS Masquerading as an errand boy seemed the perfect solution to Mattie Serinier's financial woes ... until an accidental encounter with the debonair Earl of Staffield nearly proved to be her undoing. Mistaking her for a lad was one thi...

• Dec-1993
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A BATTLE OF WILLS Unconventional Kate Durabian was as free-spirited as her favorite stallion, Waterloo, and while she did enjoy the companionship of men, she had no intention of being shackled by the stifling bonds of matrimony...until her indebte...

• Jan-1994
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The game's afoot to get her wed...to an unsuspecting Lord! A LADY DETERMINED NOT TO WED Justine Riggs cared nothing for propriety. Pretty as a picture, she flouted convention by dressing like a boy, sitting her horse like a jockey, and pond...

• Jan-1994
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Is sweet justice worth the price of true love? A RECKLESS LADY Vivacious Lillian Aulderbury couldn't have been more delighted! Her very first London season had presented her with a perfect opportunity to foil Sir Anthony Meade, the scheming b...

• Jan-1994
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Orphaned Cassandra Edwards loved to sit on the small hillock overlooking sprawling Ranleigh Manor, imagining that she lived the carefree life of a gentlewoman. But she was practical enough to know that her idle daydreams could never come true...until...

• Feb-1994
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LOVE LOST What a shock it had been to learn that the new Earl of Lynton was her girlhood friend, Nicholas St. John! Many years ago, he had rescued her from a scandalous scene, and Cassandra had never been able to forget his bright blue eyes and warm...

• Feb-1994
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A MATTER OF RANK The distinguished Viscount Roworth of Kent hoped that his clandestine activities on behalf of the British Army would help restore his family fortune and gain him entry into Brussels' high society. The only fly in the ointment wa...

• Feb-1994
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When Giles, Earl Of Castleton, hired Mrs. Caroline Alveston to replace his ailing housekeeper, he had little idea just who he was bringing into his home. She kept a neat house and cooked a fine omelette, and for a world-weary soldier, that was enough...

• Mar-1994
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Can a scoundrel shed his wicked ways? SCANDAL'S DARLING Never one to resist an adventure, governess Harriet Cole was only too delighted to help her young charge flee France -- and the designs of a despicable suitor. But more trouble soon ar...

• Mar-1994
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A daring masquerade could bring her ruin...or romance! TROUSERS BECOME HER... When Phillip Sinclair, Earl of Weston, flirted with her at their first meeting, Harriett Haversham felt a delicious stirring. Later, when he shook the hand of the new...

• Mar-1994
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Can a sensible lady resist the most scandalous lord in London? THE TALK OF THE TON Miss Victoria Blum's pretty cheeks blushed scarlet! She had stolen into Lord Hardwick's library to retrieve her cousin's bracelet--only to find herself swept int...

• Mar-1994
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TRIANGLE OF LOVE It was really most vexing! Two weeks into the London season and Lady Pamela Premington had already received her first offer of marriage. If only it hadn't come from the ton's most notorious rake! Lady Pamela was the first ...

• Apr-1994
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WED WITHOUT WARNING! Lady Romayne Smithfield's impetuous romantic plans turned to disaster when highwaymen overtook her carriage and stopped her elopement with the fashionable Bradley Montcrief. Narrowly escaping with her life, Romayne found an un...

• Apr-1994
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Love had -- literally -- fallen at her feet! DESTINY'S DARLING Desperate circumstances have reduced Charity Abercrombie to giving lessons on the pianoforte. But while music may feed the soul it cannot provide a secure future...nor can the k...

• Apr-1994
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Miss Daphne had always considered herself a logical sort of person, so she greeted the notion of ghosts haunting the Selwood Academy for Young Ladies with a large amount of skepticism. However, her position as art mistress at the Academy would be Jeo...

• May-1994
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A LADY'S PENULTIMATE PREDICAMENT... Grace Penworth could not sing or play the pianoforte, embroider or paint. In despair, her parents dispatched her to London for the Season. What the Vicar Penworth and his wife didn't know was that Grace ...

• May-1994
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A MAN OF DESIRES Considering the delight the gossipmongers took in spreading tales about his latest tendre, Andrew Halpern, Viscount le Temple, was not surprised when his father insisted he settle down with a respectable mate. However, marrying a pen...

• Jun-1994
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WEDDING DAY HIDE-AND-SEEK In her exquisite silk wedding gown, Julianna Redmere was a vision against the rose-bedecked background of her parents' Yorkshire estate. And her groom? Therein lay her dilemma, for Julianna had never met Lord Carlton. W...

• Jun-1994
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LOVE'S MISCHIEVOUS MIX-UP Poor, plain Emily Vane! Her spoiled sister Elyza got the beauty in the family and all the beaux. Now she had manipulated Emily into secretly exchanging costumes with her at a masked soiree so she could slip away unnoticed...

• Jun-1994
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A GAME OF KISS-AND-TELL Chastity Hartford simply hated her name. She was a most proper lady, but a few stolen kisses had made her the laughingstock of the ton and ruined her prospects for a suitable match. Now she was on the shelf at her parents&#...

• Jun-1994
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MARRIAGE -- AND MAYHEM -- ON HER MIND Jessica Seton is in a state. She must wed, with her pompous uncle's approval, before her next birthday or lose her legacy -- the most valuable book collection in all England! Worse, she will forfeit the se...

• Jul-1994
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LOVE'S GAMBIT Miss Chantel Emberly detested no man more than Richard St. James, the Earl of Hartford. She was sure he had been the masked intruder in her bedroom, the cad who bound and gagged and very nearly kissed her. Of course, St. James might ...

• Jul-1994
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A dazzling beauty has suitors aplenty...and a mind of her own. TWO'S COMPANY...THREE'S A LOVER'S DILEMMA! When Lady Velvet made her debut before the discriminating Paris ton, the gentlemen gaped and the Marquis of Talgarth gasped. H...

• Jul-1994
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THE MOUSY MISS IS NOT WHAT SHE SEEMS! In the merry social whirl of Bath, Miss Elizabeth Compton was the perfect lady's companion: self-effacing and utterly forgettable. She'd simply perish if anyone uncovered her true identity as Lady Elizab...

• Jul-1994
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Hippolyta, the widowed Countess of Trevalyen, couldn't understand why society persisted in labelling her a witch. True, she was constantly discovering new and exciting herbs in her well-tended garden, and casting spells was as natural to her as breat...

• Aug-1994
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HE WAS AN OFFICER...BUT WAS HE A GENTLEMAN? The calendar said Spring, but a cold wind chilled Dorsetminster's daffodils and Miss Fabia Thurston. Yearning for her balmy childhood home in the West Indies, the nineteen-year-old orphan took a miss...

• Aug-1994
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DEVILISH DELIGHT Catherine Hunter was enjoying a last stroll on the moors before she left her father's vicarage to become a paid companion to Lady Montagu. Spying the approaching horseman, Catherine had only meant to warn him of the bog; instead, ...

• Aug-1994
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WHEN LOVE TAKES COMMAND... Lady Constantia Roworth had no fortune and didn't give a fig about rank. But her father, the Earl of Westwood, expected his offspring to make matches that befitted their station -- or enriched the family coffers. Alas, Cap...

• Sep-1994
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UNCONVENTIONAL... The beautiful Lady Sylvia Danville's return from an archaeological dig in Egypt had the tabbies of the ton in a jealous tizzy - and a certain irresistibly attracted lord in one dandy of a dilemma.... UNFORGETTABLE... Sir C...

• Sep-1994
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LOVE IS BLIND...BUT THIS LADY'S EYES ARE WIDE OPEN! Louisa Beckenham had never been so humiliated in all her twenty-five years! Her brother could only marry beautiful, cold-as-ice Gwendolyn Fortescue on one condition: Louisa must be wedded and gon...

• Sep-1994
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When a rakish lord proposes, it can bring romance...or ruin! WHAT'S WORSE THAN A RELUCTANT BRIDEGROOM? A FORGOTTEN BRIDE! Zoe Bennett was in a terrible fix. A sheltered vicar's daughter, she had stars in her eyes when a handsome lord as...

• Oct-1994
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SHE TOOK THE TON BY STORM… Charity Wade had gone from impoverished miss to heiress, from a spinster-on-the-shelf to the talk of the ton. And she owed her good fortune to the masked rogue who’d saved her life! Charity had been sailing from Indi...

• Oct-1994
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"BELLE," BOOK, AND CANDLE... What a perfect setting for a Halloween ball, thought Fiona Mallory as she walked into Queen's Gift, Viscount Rex Stinson's majestic mansion... if only the lavish estate weren't so far from London. A...

• Oct-1994
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THE CHASE IS ON! It all began when Regist, Viscount Collingsworth, overheard that scoundrel, Lord Willernott, laying odds at White's that he could woo and win the lovely Lady Stephana Monroe. Regist had always held the incomparable Stephana in...

• Nov-1994
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A lady's unsuitable situation... Fine linen, Oriental silks, sumptuous satines, Miss Adele Fonteyne had no rivals when it came to dressing a la mode. And she hadn't a care more serious than a loose button, until the morning her abigail elo...