Catalog Search Results
1) I thee wed
Author
Series
Formats
Description
At Ware Castle, lady companion Emma Greyson ducks into a cupboard to avoid a lecher, and who should she meet hiding there, but the dashing Lord Edison Stokes. He is in the castle on a secret mission and together they solve a murder. A Regency romance.
Author
Series
Vanza volume 1
Formats
Description
A romance of Regency England revolves around a set of forbidden rings suffused with the powers of Aphrodite, a sinister thief, a noble necromancer, and a willful beauty.
Author
Series
Formats
Description
"A lightsome, brightsome comedy." —Kirkus Reviews
"Nimble, light-hearted chronicle of high London society in the time of the Regency." —The New Yorker
Georgette Heyer's sparkling romances have charmed and delighted millions of readers. Her characters brilliantly illuminate one of the most exciting and fascinating eras of English history—when drawing rooms sparkled with well-dressed
...Author
Formats
Description
Exposed to fashionable society and romance--as well as clues about her mother--Lillian Haswell, brilliant daughter of a local apothecary, is torn when she is summoned back to her ailing father's bedside to save the family legacy at a time when women are forbidden to work as apothecaries and the suspicious eyes of a scholarly physician and a competing apothecary are upon her.
Author
Description
When the redoubtable Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy is ordered to South America on business, he leaves his only daughter Sophy with his sister in Berkeley Square. Newly arrived from her tour of the Continent, Sophy discovers that her aunt's family is in desperate need of her talent for setting everything right: her uncle is of no use at all, the ruthlessly handsome cousin Charles has tyrannical tendencies that are being aggravated by his grim bluestocking...
6) Wicked widow
Author
Series
Formats
Description
Madeline Deveridge is all too aware of the whispers behind her back, the rumors that she dispatched her husband to the next world and concealed her crime. But Madeline has a far more pressing problem than being called the Wicked Widow. She fears that she and her beloved aunt are being haunted!
Author
Description
When an old friend is killed, the senior partner at the law office where Benjamin Brooker works isn't satisfied with Bow Street's efforts. Benjamin agrees to investigate, and evidence takes him to Belle Island, a remote island on the Thames. Soon he finds himself falling for the main suspect-- a woman who claims not to have left the island in ten years. Isabelle Wilder leads a productive life, but is trapped on the island by fear. The new of her trustee's...
Author
Series
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12 - AR Pts: 27
Appears on these lists
Description
When Elizabeth Bennet meets Fitzwilliam Darcy for the first time at a ball, she writes him off as an arrogant and obnoxious man. He not only acts like an insufferable snob, but she also overhears him rejecting the very idea of asking her for a dance! As life pits them against each other again and again, Darcy begins to fall for Elizabeth's wit and intelligence and Elizabeth begins to question her feelings about Darcy. But when Darcy saves her youngest...
Author
Series
Cynster novels volume 7
Pub. Date
2001.
Description
Gyles Rawlings, the handsome Earl of Chillingworth, is a man determined to stay in control of his destiny. Even as he vows to marry a dutiful, blue-blooded lady soley for the purpose of fostering progeny, he deviously plans to fulfill hus most sinful pleasures with a brazen strumpet. But standing at the altar on his wedding day, he unexpectedly falls in love with Francesca, his beautiful bride-to-be. He never thought he could find all he wanted in...
10) Say you love me
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1996]
Description
Her parents' death has left Kelsey Langton penniless - and responsible for the well-being of her younger sister, Jean. Kelsey knows that the only way to avert their doom is to allow herself to be sold at auction. Resigned to becoming the plaything of a well-heeled gentleman, she gets more than she bargained for. Lord Derek Malory is the highest bidder - a dashing rakehell from a family of charming London rogues.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2017.
Description
Handsome appearance counts for naught unless matched by good character and actions. That's the firm opinion of not-so-meek minister's daughter Lavinia Ellison. So even though all the other villagers of St. Hampton Heath are swooning over the newly returned seventh Earl of Hawkesbury, she is not impressed. If a man won't take his responsibilities seriously and help those who are supposed to be able to depend on him, he deserves no respect from her....
14) The unknown Ajax
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Lord Darracott rules his barony with a firm hand. But when a tragic accident kills his eldest son, he must summon the next heir apparent--the unknown offspring of the uncle whom the family is never permitted to mention.
Author
Series
Vanza volume 2
Pub. Date
1999
Description
While Edison Stokes is searching for the man who stole an ancient book from a local museum, he meets Emma Grayson, a young woman who refuses to follow her employer's orders and has an uncanny ability to find danger wherever she goes.
Author
Series
Pink Carnation novels volume 8
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Laura Grey, a veteran governess, joins the Selwick Spy School and her first assignment is serving as governess for the children of Andre Jaouen, right-hand man to Bonaparte's minister of police. Jaouen and his arch rival, Gaston Delaroche, are investigating a suspected Royalist plot to unseat Bonaparte, and Laura's mission is to report any suspicious findings. Soon, Laura and Jaouen are forced on the run with the children, and with the help of the...
18) Nearly a lady
Author
Pub. Date
2011
Description
Winnefred Blythe learned at a young age to make do with very little. Following the death of her father, she taught herself to live on a pauper's allowance - until a charming visitor promises her the funds that had been stolen from her through the years. But Freddie isn't comfortable with the trappings of money or with the attentions of this handsome stranger from London.