M. C. Beaton
Sir Philip has fallen in love. But has the old man lost his mind? His colleagues at the popular hotel, the Poor Relation, have to wonder. The smitten nobleman has installed his paramour at the hotel—and he’s the only...
The Poor Relation, a hotel run by impoverished aristocrats, is in need of money to survive. Widow Eliza Budley wants to help save her new home, but with her fortune lost due to her deceased husband’s gambling...
The Poor Relation is a London hotel owned and run by high society’s down and out. When it burns to the ground, the genteel paupers who work there hatch a plan to save their golden goose. Enter Lady Tonks, a spinster about to shed her meek and mousy image by posing...
Life is finally looking up for the eccentric owners of London’s Poor Relation hotel. The Prince of Wales’s coat of arms gleams over the entrance. All but one of the rooms are filled by the open-handed Prince Hugo...
Young Harriet Metcalf has come from the countryside to Mayfair, and her assigned task is to get two teenage heiresses launched in the London ton. For the course of the season, they will be renting at 67 Clarges Street—where the quirky but resourceful servants are...
8) Amaryllis
Amaryllis Duvane is the belle of the London Season: a Diamond of the First Water, desired by every man and envied by every woman. Even better, she's about to marry the devastatingly handsome Marquess of Merechester. But when her father dies, Amaryllis loses more than a parent. She loses her...
Miss Annabelle Armitage was pea-green with envy. What a cruel world it was when her spinster of an older sister could enchant the dashing Lord Sylvester Comfrey! Annabelle’s own passionate nature was surely better suited for such a one...
In this historical romance by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries, a spoiled duke meets his match.
Lady Betty has no interest in the Duke of Collingham. She doesn’t care that he’s fabulously wealthy, or devastatingly handsome, or impeccably well-dressed. All she sees is an arrogant nobleman with an abrasive personality and an annoyingly persistent streak.
And the Duke of
...Miss Honaria Honeyford is sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting for a wealthy husband. For the sake of her family, Honaria reluctantly accepts the challenge. But this beautiful young lady who can ride, shoot, and argue as well as any man is not about to lose her head or heart to...
Lovely Alice Lacey is a true Incomparable, and her marriage to the Duke of Ferrant is set to be the event of the Season. No one knows that she secretly loves someone else. No one, that is, but a clever talking mynah bird who announces her intimacies at the worst possible moment!
Now...
15) Pretty Polly
The widowed Mrs. Charlotte Manners needs a new husband, and has the Duke of Denbigh in her sights. But her plot requires some love letters, so she calls upon Miss Verity Bascombe, her old schoolmate, to take care of that tiresome task.
Verity is indeed a skilled writer and agrees to help...
16) The Banishment
In this Regency romance series opener by the bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries, a family’s future rests on a daughter’s engagement.
Isabella Beverley is blessed with unparalleled beauty but, unfortunately, has been raised in the most snobbish and haughtiest of families. And when her father gambles away their fortune—including Mannerling, the exquisite family mansion—Isabella discovers there is
...17) The Folly
In this Regency romance by the New York Times–bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin series, a maiden struggles to woo a widower.
After their father gambled away Mannerling, their family estate, three of the six Beverley daughters tried to marry strategically to regain the home but failed—marrying instead for love. Now it’s the fourth daughter’s turn. Rachel has her sights set on the estate’s
...As far as matrimonial prospects were concerned, Lucy Bliss was told she'd make an excellent clergyman's wife. Her mother, however, had loftier aspirations for her lovely younger sister Belinda. Belinda would marry a duke. More specifically, the Duke of Wardshire.
Lucy was truly...
In this Regency romance series opener by the bestselling author of the Agatha Raisin mysteries, two chaperones must tame a boisterous young lady.
Although they still dream of getting married one day, elderly and impoverished sisters Amy and Effie Tribble must face the reality that they need money. Their plan: to market their skills as professional chaperones. With an advertisement in the newspaper offering to refine “a wild,
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