SWEET ROMANCES
Aiken, Joan
IF I WERE YOU
Two look-alike girls trade places with delightful, funny, and suspenseful results. Alvey Clement finds herself struggling to maintain her own identity after she switches places with her look-alike, the well-born Louisa Winship.
Aiken, Joan
THE SMILE OF THE STRANGER
17-year old Juliana Paget has lived quietly with her historian father in Florence until the rumblings of the French Revolution, the threat of invasion, and a suspiciously inquisitive stranger force the pair to leave the country and take their chances crossing France to England.
Argers, Helen
NOBLESSE OBLIGE
Raised by a father whose only passion is horses, spirited Caroline Richmond plots with her invalid mother to have one social Season in London and hopefully win the heart of an eligible bachelor.
Blyth, Juliet
THE PARFIT KNIGHT
The handsome Marquis of Amberly, a notorious rake, is forced to take shelter in the home of the beautiful Rosalind Vernon, who lost her sight in a tragic childhood accident. The Marquis finds himself falling in love with Rosalind and, determined to free her from her sheltered existence, arranges for her to have a Season in London.
Brodnax, Elizabeth
THE MARQUIS OF CARABAS
Over the years Catherine Brown has played many parts in her adventurer father's schemes. In her latest role as the Marquis di Carabas, Catherine takes London by storm and soon has gentlemen falling at her feet, until she meets a man to whom she wants to reveal her true self.
Brown, Diana
THE SANDALWOOD FAN
Lord Charles Mortimer, a war hero and London's most sought-after bachelor, falls in love with a quiet, nature-loving widow who is sponsoring her younger sister.
Chesney, Marion
FINESSING CLARISSA
Clumsy Miss Clarissa Vevian is rescued from highwaymen by Crispin, the graceful Earl of Greystone. The six titles in the School for Manners series include Perfecting Fiona and Enlightening Delilah.
Clark, Norma Lee
LADY JANE
When her employer's brother makes advances, a maid is fired then taken in by a kindly lord who marries her. After her husband's death, Lady Jane meets the man who once accosted her, but this time as a social equal.
Cummings, Monette
THE BEAUTY'S DAUGHTER
When the Seminary for Young Ladies where Lady Alice had sent 8-year old Priscilla closes, she must take back the daughter she never loved. Fearful that Sean O'Rourke, a handsome admirer, will spurn the youthful Lady Alice when he learns that she has a now grown-up daughter of 22, Alice forces Priscilla to take on the guise of her lowly secretary.
Cummings, Monette
SEE NO LOVE
A lady who is not allowed to wear her spectacles makes a spectacle of herself at a house party.
Darcy, Clare
LETTY
Penniless gentleman Harry Tyne leaves home after being falsely accused of cheating at cards and heads for Vienna to start a gaming house. On the way he meets Miss Letty Montressor, a runaway lady who offers her singing talents for the new establishment.
Darcy, Clare
VICTOIRE
When the Marquise of Tarn accidentally compromises Victoire Duvernay, he does the gentlemanly thing and proposes. His aunt decides that the courtship should take place during the Season, and so it does-amid balls, murder attempts, and jealous schemes.
Dunn, Carola
THE FROG EARL
An Indian princess falls for an estate manager who is really an earl in disguise.
Dunn, Carola
MISS JACOBSEN'S JOURNEY
As they flee across war-torn Europe, Miss Miriam Jacobsen is courted by a lord and the rabbinic scholar she once rejected.
Edghill, Rosemary
FLEETING FANCY
Viscount Severn is forced to wed the lady he ruined before going to India ten years ago.
Fitzgerald, Ellen
THE DAMSELS FROM DERBYSHIRE
Chaperoning her sister years after her own disastrous Season, Lady Tabitha Spencer is pleased when a suitor renews his attentions but dejected when she fears her scandalous family will prevent him from proposing.
Freemen, Joy
A SUITABLE MATCH
Lady Vescinda Bancroft plays along with Viscount Adrian Sherworth's mistaken belief that she is an ill-bred hoyden.
Fruchey, Deborah
THE UNWILLING HEIRESS
When Lord Hersington learns that his foolish cousin has unjustly dismissed her governess, Lucy Trahern, he feels bound to find Lucy and set things right. Lucy, meanwhile, finds refuge working for two elderly, eccentric sisters, who are a good deal more than they seem.
Grant, Tracy
DAUGHTER OF THE GAME
Charles and Mélanie Fraser are a happily married couple whose world crashes apart when their 7-year-old son is kidnapped. The suspenseful race to save him brings shocking revelations.
Heyer, Georgette
APRIL LADY
Nell, Countess of Cardross, is a young wife who gets further entangled while trying to hide debts from her husband.
Heyer, Georgette
FARO'S DAUGHTER
Miss Deborah Grantham, a gambler's daughter who plays cards to support herself, pits her skills against an arrogant gentleman who thinks she led his cousin astray.
Heyer, Georgette
FRIDAY'S CHILD
A viscount marries his childhood friend to get his mother off his back.
Hill, Fiona
THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN
Miss Anne Guilfoyle is an independent society lady who loses her money in a bad investment. She retires to her farm and accepts marriage to her neighbor, but only as a business arrangement.
Hill, Fiona
THE STANBROKE GIRLS
Romance develops among a group of friends in England and on the Continent in this humorous Regency novel.
Hocker, Karla
THE IMPERTINENT MISS BANCROFT
Miss Sophia Bancroft, governess to Viscount Lucian Northrop's nephews and niece, helps a lady accused of stealing a necklace.
Hocker, Karla
THE INCORRIGIBLE SOPHIA
The characters from The Impertinent Miss Bancroft return in this sequel. Lucien Payne, Viscount Northrop, assumes Miss Sophia Bancroft will stop solving mysteries once they're engaged, but she can't resist taking an interest in his investigation of Napoleon's agents.
Kidd, Elisabeth
A HERO FOR ANTONIA
For years Antonia knew she could never marry anyone but Charles, her hero since childhood. But when she meets Duncan, Viscount Kedrington, she begins to wonder who her real hero is.
Kidd, Elisabeth
LADY LU
Young widow Lady Luisa Ingram finds herself living under the same roof as her one-time fiancé.
Laine, Annabel
THE RELUCTANT HEIRESS
When amateur sleuth Charles Darnay, Earl of Moriston, agrees to help beautiful Caroline Malcolm discover who her father is, he doesn't plan to solve a murder in the process-or fall in love.
Lee, Elsie
THE WICKED GUARDIAN
An heiress whose guardian is forcing her to marry his son jumps out of a moving carriage. She wakes with amnesia and finds herself in a gypsy camp with a mysterious stranger.
Lovelace, Jane
ROLISSA
When Lady Rolissa Amberly 's betrothed dies, she refuses to marry his brother and wonders if rumors that he killed for the title are true.
Manley, Edna
AGATHA
Miss Agatha Winslow has resigned herself to a quiet country life, but she cannot ignore the breathless letter from her young sister Celia, in London for her debut, announcing that she is passionately in love with a man whom Agatha believes to be a rake.
McGorian, Gladys
THE PRINCE REGENT'S SILVER BELL
A horse-breeding hoyden must become ladylike in order to inherit money from her ill father.
Metzger, Barbara
A DEBT TO DELIA
Major Lord Tyverne is rescued from behind enemy lines by a fellow soldier. When he learns of his rescuer's untimely demise, Tyverne offers to marry the dead man's sister, a lovely young woman desperate to care for herself and her dependents.
Metzger, Barbara
THE DIAMOND KEY
A lady trapped in a burning building vows to marry whatever man rescues her, but he must reveal his past before they can share their future.
Milne, Roseleen
BORROWED PLUMES
Miss Constance Osborne is determined to despise the earl coming to seize her family estate, but she meets a stranger who is the man of her dreams.
Reeves, Barbara
GEORGINA'S CAMPAIGN
An avowed spinster's plan to find a husband for her sister backfires when the man she enlisted to help her makes amorous advances.
Savery, Jeanne
AN ACCEPTABLE ARRANGEMENT
Earl John, society's most eligible bachelor, is ready to take the plunge, and he dispatches his trusted manservant, Tuttles, to draw up a short list of appropriate ladies. Tuttles finds the perfect woman in Miss Morgan, who has entrusted her dresser, Flint, with a similar mission.
Simonson, Sheila
THE BAR SINISTER
Captain Richard Falk, whose "accidents" may be connected with his possible inheritance, hides his Spanish-speaking children in a widow's home when he returns to war. Emily Foster gives them the love and security they desperately need and finds herself attracted to their brusque, illegitimate father.
Simonson, Sheila
LADY ELIZABETH'S COMET
Lady Elizabeth Conway, astronomer and current caretaker of her teenage twin half-sisters, is intrigued and confused by the enigmatic Lord Clanross.
Simonson, Sheila
LOVE AND FOLLY
In this sequel to Lady Elizabeth's Comet, Lady Margaret Conway asks a gentleman to help save her sister from a seductive poet.
Smith, Joan
BATH BELLES
A lady whose late fiancé left her a London house learns that he also had £10,000 in insurance money which an agent of Lloyd's wants back.
Smith, Joan
LOVE'S WAY
A lady who manages her poet brother's estate resists selling it to a developer with the help of a nabob.
South, Sheri Cobb
MISS DARBY'S DUENNA
A gentleman disguises himself as a lady to keep an eye on his childhood friend during her Season.
Veryan, Patricia
LANTERNS
When Marietta is forced to move into an abandoned dower house to keep her family fed and clothed, she is alarmed to find the estate is not entirely deserted after all. This book is part of the Sanguinet series; other titles are Nanette, Feather Castles, and Sanguinet's Crown.
Veryan, Patricia
LOGIC OF THE HEART
Young widow Susan Henley moves with her brother and daughter to Highperch Cottage in Longhills Manor. Susan entrances Baron Montclair, but he is unsure if he can trust the notorious widow, especially after a series of accidents and odd incidents has him worried that someone is plotting against him. This book is related to Veryan's Sanguinet series.
Vivian, Daisy
THE FORRESTER INHERITANCE: A REGENCY ENTERTAINMENT
Miss Mariana Porter 's inheritance depends upon her marrying within the family, which is surely the reason her loathsome cousin is wooing her.
Vivian, Daisy
RETURN TO CHEYNE SPA
Penniless Elinor Hardy, forced to become a dealer at a London gaming house, is invited by Lady Augusta, Duchess of Towans, to Cheyne Spa-but on the condition that Elinor must lure a rogue away from the duchess's niece.
Westhaven, Margaret
CITY HEIRESS
Wealthy heiress Polly Percy has just one London Season to enjoy before her unfashionable lineage as the daughter of a city merchant becomes common knowledge. Her guardian, Lord Geoffrey Barnstone, has his own reasons for keeping his ward in his sister's estate.
RACY ROMANCES
Balogh, Mary
THE TEMPORARY WIFE
Anthony Earheart, Marquess of Staunton, hires Miss Charity Duncan to be his wife, but only in order to infuriate his father.
Beverley, Jo
SKYLARK
Wealthy young widow Laura Gardeyne is terrified that someone wants to kill her son for his inheritance. Her former suitor, Stephen Ball, offers to help her find the would-be killer, and they begin to rekindle their relationship.
Beverley, Jo
THE STOLEN BRIDE
Lady Sophie Kyle thinks her fiancé Lord Randal Ashby is losing interest as their wedding day approaches, but she has even more reason to fear when anonymous threatening letters begin to arrive.
Chase, Loretta
THE DEVIL'S DELILAH
A rogue's daughter enlists a bookish fellow's help to suppress her father's scandalous memoirs.
Chase, Loretta
VISCOUNT VAGABOND
While trying to escape an arranged marriage to an aged fortune hunter, Catherine Pelliston gets abducted, drugged, and imprisoned in a house of ill repute.
D'Alessandro, Jacquie
RED ROSES MEAN LOVE
Stephen Barrett, the Marquis of Glenfield, must conceal his highborn identity to avoid a killer. Injured while traveling incognito, he finds redemption and hope with the Albright family, especially the beautiful and kind Miss Hayley Albright.
Diamond, Jacqueline
THE FORGETFUL LADY
"She's a lass with a memory loss," proclaims the book jacket. After falling from a horse and hitting her head, a lady can't recall why the man she loves dislikes her.
Diamond, Jacqueline
LADY IN DISGUISE
Lady Victoria Courtney is mistaken for an actress and a gentleman's mistress, and she winds up in a play with the man she's been betrothed to since childhood.
Harbaugh, Karen
CUPID'S MISTAKE
When Cassandra Hathaway meets a lord who thinks women can't be both freethinking and virtuous, she must decide whether to hide her intelligence or prove herself.
James, Eloisa
POTENT PLEASURES
Lady Charlotte Caverstill refuses the hand of Alex McDonough Foakes when he fails to recognize her after they share a sensuous evening in a garden.
Lane, Allison
THE NOTORIOUS WIDOW
The Earl of Rockhurst agrees to investigate the rumors swirling around a friend's widowed sister, not realizing she is the same woman he insulted only the day before.
Laurens, Stephanie
THE PROMISE IN A KISS
The Duke of St. Ives recognizes a young lady when she enters London society seven years after he stole a kiss from her in a French convent.
Moore, Kate
SWEET BARGAIN
Resigned to a marriage of convenience, tomboy Bel Shaw nevertheless entertains a flirtation with a handsome man by the river-an encounter that could lead to scandal, ruin, and true love.
Porter, Margaret Evans
JUBILEE YEAR
Beautiful and wealthy Lady Miranda knows her family history will make it difficult to find a suitable husband, but she comes to London hoping to make a match. Justin, Lord Cavender, captures her attention, but then a beautiful Russian princess arrives, claiming a very intimate relationship with her intended.
Porter, Margaret Evans
ROAD TO RUIN
Miss Nerissa Newby, a lady hiding from scandal, meets Dominic, Baron Blythe, a man falsely accused of murder.
Putney, Mary Jo
THE RAKE
Lady Alyson Blakeford has found refuge from heartbreak by reinventing herself and becoming the steward of a remote estate. She finds her position in peril upon the arrival of the dissolute new owner, Reginald Davenport.
Putney, Mary Jo
THE WOULD-BE WIDOW
A lady who wants to be a widow so that she can take a duke as her lover marries an apparently dying soldier in need of funds to support his sister.
Quick, Amanda
LATE FOR THE WEDDING
Lavinia Lake and Tobias March are lovers and investigative partners who track a murderer through Regency England, while a rival vies for Tobias' affections. Other books featuring this sleuthing duo include Slightly Shady and Don't Look Back.
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Regency romances are set in England between 1811 and 1820, when George III was the King and his son, George IV, ruled as Prince Regent ("Prinny") because his father had become insane.