Members’ Regency Fiction Releases for September 2023
On the 1st of each month, Regency Fiction Writers publishes our FREE online newsletter, The Regency Reader, to anyone interested in Regency Fiction (1780-1840). The publication features author interviews, tidbits about the Regency era, and a listing of new titles from members and non-members. Members’ releases also appear here on the blog. Submit your September Regency-set Fiction Release or Regency Author Article by October 24th, to appear in the October issue. Information submitted after October 24th will appear in the November issue. (Subscribe now!)
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New This Month
Robyn Chalmers
A Talent for Trouble
Series: Spirited Spinsters
Genre: Regency
Publisher: Robyn Chalmers
Content Rating: Clean Sweet
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 08/11/2023
Author Website: https://robynchalmers.com
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Could love be the most alluring game of all?
Harriet Truchard’s parents are the black sheep of the Ton. Exiled for her father’s notorious duels and cheating, they are back in London, and they have plans for their brilliant daughter.
She can either use her talent with cards to win them a fortune, or she can marry a man of their choosing. Which is out of the question since their choice is nothing but a well-dressed thug.
Until a chance encounter with Viscount Beaufort gives her the chance to escape…
Left with a crippling debt by his late father, Leo Astley, Lord Beaufort opened London’s most elegant gambling house in a desperate effort to keep a roof over their heads. He’s willing to flirt with scandal to save his family, but after a run of strange losses leaves the bank stripped of funds and threatens everything, he needs expert help, and fast.
As they join forces to hunt down the cheats threatening all he holds dear and try to avoid the repercussions of Harriet’s past, Leo and Harriet start to learn that admitting to the spark between them might be the biggest risk of all. Because what’s at stake are their hearts….
Mary Alexander
A Most Iniquitous Affair
Series:
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Humble Blessing Press, Delaford Publishing
Content Rating: Sweet
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/15/2023
Author Website: https://www.maryalicealexander.com/
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Beautiful Jane Bennet, dutiful daughter, and devoted sister, has finally found a man she might wish to marry. Charles Bingley, handsome, amiable, and scattered, fell hard for Jane. Jane’s mother, a tough woman at best, has decreed that Jane must marry one of two men, neither of whom is Mr Bingley.
Jane must decide whether she will obey her mother’s command or face an unknown future. Bingley, unsteady and irresolute, and burdened with a controlling sister must take charge of his life and become the man Jane deserves. Will Bingley persevere, break from his sister’s control and find Jane?
This 90K word novel follows the story of Jane Bennet and Charles Bingley, with Elizabeth and Darcy in supporting roles. “A Most Iniquitous Affair”
Nina Jarrett and others
Authors: Nina Jarrett
Pamela Gibson
Sara Adrien
Edie Cay
Jemma Frost
Tanya Wilde
The Grand Mistletoe Assembly
Series:
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Rogue Press
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/25/2023
Author Website: https://ninajarrett.com/
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Can the festive ball of the Season bring these couples together in time for the holidays? A collection of Regency romances with star-crossed lovers, fast-paced plots and timeless connections …
Cuddling under mistletoe, fine lace, snowy linen, and true love to be found in the flickering light of a hundred gas lamps. Pearler House is bedecked for the holidays and everyone is attending the event of a lifetime. Experience the joy of the season with six all-new tales of passion. Some are sweet, some are spicy, all will capture your heart.
Andrea Penrose
Murder at the Merton Library
Series: A Wrexford & Sloane Historical Mystery
Genre: Regency Mystery
Publisher: Kensington
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print eBook AudioBook
Release Date: 09/26/2023
Author Website: http://andreapenrose.com/
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Responding to an urgent plea from a troubled family friend, the Earl of Wrexford journeys to Oxford only to find the reclusive university librarian has been murdered and a rare manuscript has gone missing. The only clue is that someone overheard an argument in which Wrexford’s name was mentioned.
At the same time, Charlotte—working under her pen name, A. J. Quill—must determine whether a laboratory fire was arson and if it’s connected to the race between competing consortiums to build a new type of ship—one that can cross the ocean powered by steam rather than sails—with the potential to revolutionize military power and world commerce. That the race involves new innovations in finance and entrepreneurship only adds to the high stakes—especially as their good friend Kit Sheffield may be an investor in one of the competitors.
As they delve deeper into the baffling clues, Wrexford and Charlotte begin to realize that things are not what they seem. An evil conspiracy is lurking in the shadows and threatens all they hold dear—unless they can tie the loose threads together before it’s too late . . .
Janna MacGregor
The Duchess of Drury Lane
Series: The Scandals and Scoundrels of Drury Lane
Genre: Regency
Publisher: Janna MacGregor
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/26/2023
Author Website: https://www.jannamacgregor.com
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She plays a part in society. He’s convinced she’s been miscast.
Raised to be a future duchess, Celeste Worsley must marry the duke her grandfather chooses for her. That means staying away from Malcolm Hollandale, one of the infamous self-made Millionaires of Mayfair. The only problem? He’s irresistible, completely unacceptable to her family, and she’s been in love with him since the first time she saw him.
On his hands and knees and covered in his newest attempt to varnish the Drury Lane stage, chemist Malcolm Hollandale tries to ignore the enticing woman everyone calls The Duchess. Celeste is everything he can’t have, but when she needs his help to right a wrong, he can’t refuse her or her plush red lips. A stolen moment leads to a forbidden love that neither can walk away from, but fate has other ideas. Yet, Malcom can’t stop thinking that perhaps this bold, passionate woman might be the perfect formula for achieving all his dreams.
Suzanna Medeiros
Courting the Earl
Series: Landing a Lord
Genre: Regency
Publisher: Suzanna Medeiros
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/28/2023
Author Website: https://www.suzannamedeiros.com/
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Eleanor Pearson is distressed by the forbidden attraction she feels for her cousin’s betrothed. But she vows to ignore her fascination with the attractive earl and do whatever she can to ensure her cousin’s marriage takes place.
The Earl of Hargrove has no intention of marrying anytime soon. He sets out on a mission of his own to end the surprise arrangement his father revealed to him only on his deathbed.
It doesn’t take him long to realize that Eleanor could be the key to convincing the younger woman to end the betrothal. But his attraction to her threatens his determination to remain a bachelor.
COURTING THE EARL is book 8 in the Landing a Lord series.
Ally Hudson
The Baker and the Bookmaker
Series: Most Imprudent Matches
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Busy Nothings Books
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 10/03/2023
Author Website: https://www.Allyhudson.com
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The moment Augustus “Augie” Ainsley met Anna Hudson at four years old, he was lost to her sunset curls and flour-dusted nose. But why would Anna want a future footman when she could have the son of a viscount?
To win her affections, Augie needs to make her bakery dream a reality, but that will take a fortune he doesn’t possess. When life takes a turn, Augie follows his friend to the city, and the glittering distractions of London cause him to lose sight of what is most important. Then fate brings him crashing back into Anna’s life, and he’s devastated to learn that his ambitions may have cost him the woman he loves.
Anna is unwilling to abandon her life of contentment for an inconstant suitor. Desperate to convince her that he is the man she needs, Augie resolves to prove she can depend on him. He must find a way to balance his unending work with his undying love or risk losing Anna forever.
The Baker and the Bookmaker is a heartwarming coming-of-age novella by Ally Hudson. If you enjoy Regency romances about friends who become lovers, you will relish this tender and charming story of friendship, first love, and raspberry tarts.
Suzan Lauder
The Reluctant Chaperon
Series: Cecilia’s Mismatches
Genre: Regency
Publisher: Meryton Press
Content Rating: Sweet
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 10/10/2023
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The beautiful and perfect widow Lady Reddener lives an admirable life. With an estate in the country, a house in town, and a considerable fortune, the former Miss Cassandra Hales has no need for a husband to complicate her days. Why does she need a man? She has her mama and sisters, as well as her best friend and neighbour, Marcus Brand, Lord Broadmead. One and all proclaim Cassie the very picture of serenity.
However, Cecilia, Lady Hoxley, matches Cassie’s vibrant and argumentative sister Miss Alexandra “Lexie” Hales with Cecilia’s own brother, the gentle yet charming Mr. Reeve Charington. Thus, Cassie finds herself in the position of chaperon while they court. What is she to do when their constant interactions draw her towards Reeve’s allurement?
Meanwhile, Lexie wishes for a husband who will challenge her in debate, and Mr. Charington seeks harmony. A problem indeed!
When Marcus and Reeve go missing, Cassie’s calm world collapses, and she’s faced with her true passion for Reeve. But could it be too late?
If Reeve and Marcus are found, Cassie must discover whether Reeve shares her admiration. Can Cassie allow herself love when she has sworn herself to a life without a man? What will Cecilia say if another of her matches goes awry?
Book Two of the Cecilia’s Mismatches series is a stand-alone novel.
Sandra Sookoo
One Thing Led to Another
Series: Singular Sensation #6
Genre: Regency Romance Suspense
Publisher: New Independence Books (indie label)
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 10/11/2023
Author Website: https://www.sandrasookoo.com
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Digging for the truth requires a person to dirty their hands, but it might also set them free.
Graham Islington—Viscount Aldren—is no stranger to life’s foibles. After being given his title from the Regent for heroic services to the Crown during the war, he’s used his retirement from the military as an excuse to find scandal and sin in the beau monde. But when a rare bejeweled parasol handle once belonging to Louis XVI is discovered in his bed—along with the dead body of a courtesan—he regrets his careless lifestyle.
Lady Caroline Marlowe—sister to the duke of Lockwood—just turned nine and twenty. She suffers from boredom and is sick to death of London, as well as her brother’s rules, and needs excitement to relieve ennui. Everything changes when the man she’s harbored a secret tendre for shows up at her house in the middle of an autumn night trailing gossip, bloodied hands, and quite possibly murder. He demands her brother’s assistance, but with the duke busy with his new life, the responsibility lies with her.
As the two are thrown into a sticky web of revenge, forced proximity leads to forbidden desire between the viscount and Caroline. With reputations at stake, society matrons cutting them to ribbons with gossip, and trouble nipping at their heels, they will need to prove their mettle, especially when the madman grows desperate enough to put Graham’s life into jeopardy. If she wants a romance for the ages, Caroline will have to ignore familial expectations as well as her own doubts and risk everything for that chance… providing they both survive.
Alexa Aston
Training the Duke
Series: Suddenly a Duke
Genre: Regency
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 10/12/2023
Author Website: https://alexaaston.com
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An army officer who has returned to his childhood home. An earl’s daughter forced to earn her own living. Two damaged souls who find friendship . . . and love . . .
Lieutenant-General Cyrus Cressley’s head wound leaves him blind in one eye and unsuited to lead men into battle. Selling his commission, Cy returns to Melrose to find his father long dead and his distant brother, who is in poor health, the new Duke of Margate. Cy is given use of the hunting lodge on the estate, where he seeks to find his purpose in life after being forced from the military.
Lady Finola Honeyfield’s come-out was ruined when a cruel trick was played upon her, leaving her to trust no one but her dogs. She retreats to the country and becomes one of England’s premier trainers of English springer spaniels, having found a way to earn her keep, even as she is lost in loneliness.
Thanks to her Honeyfield spaniels, Finola has a chance meeting with Cy. Soon, a friendship springs up between them, with Cy even helping Finola train her current litter of pups. But these two keep secrets from one another and when Cy suddenly finds himself the Duke of Margate, Finola washes her hands of him.
Can Cy convince Finola they are meant to be together and forge a path as the Duke and Duchess of Margate—or will her mistrust of gentlemen of the ton keep them apart forever?
Cora Lee
Authors: Cora Lee
Ann Chaney
Shannon Donnelly
Courtney McCaskill
Charlotte Russell
Regina Scott
My Fair Regency: Tales From Holidays Throughout The Year
Series:
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: More Than Words Press
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: eBook
Release Date: 10/12/2023
Author Website: https://coraleeauthor.com
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Celebrate Regency romance all year long with this collection of short stories set during holidays and festivals throughout the four seasons! Fans of sweet romance will enjoy stories set from May Day all the way to Twelfth Night, featuring some of your favorite tropes—enemies-to-lovers, second-chance romance, forbidden love, friends-to-lovers, and more!
Katherine Grant
It’s In Her Kiss
Series: Northfield Hall Novellas
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Katherine Grant
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: eNovella
Release Date: 10/12/2023
Author Website: https://www.katherinegrantromance.com/its-in-her-kiss/
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No good deed goes unkissed…
Spencer Chow’s life at Northfield Hall is simple. He lives with his family, works at the Northfield Hall carpentry shop, and eats delicious meals at the dining hall. Until one day, he stumbles across a sobbing newcomer Harriet Hill – and changes the course of his life with one good deed.
Harriet Hill is determined to make her new life at Northfield Hall work. When Spencer Chow helps her find a new position – instead of turning her out on the street – Harriet decides to return the favor. Even if the only thing she has to offer the inscrutable Mr. Chow are kissing lessons.
With secrets from her past threatening to emerge, Harriet and Spencer are both surprised by how a simple attraction can grow into complicated feelings.
Enjoy this one-hour read from award-winning author Katherine Grant!
Andrea K Stein
Louisa Cornell
Tutoring the Bookseller
Series: Sex, Lies, & Forbidden Desires Book 5
Genre: Erotic
Publisher: Muirgen® Publishing, LLC
Content Rating: Burning (Hot)
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 10/17/2023
Author Website: https://www.andreakstein.com/
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Bookish Lord Whitcombe makes a bold request of ‘The Insatiable Lady’
Lord Daedalus Whitcombe, owner of the most wicked bookshop in London, has been named a scandal and a disgrace by most of good society. A title he revels in as it sells more books and annoys the very devil out of his haughty brother, the duke. His brother’s efforts to close the bookshop become secondary to Lord Whitcombe’s fascination with the shop’s new, in-demand book, A Feast of Fantasies, by The Insatiable Lady. His quest to discover the author’s identity becomes an obsession, for he has a singular request to make of the lady.
Miss Perriton never expected a bookseller to look like Lord Whitcombe
Miss Cordelia Perriton, the very pattern-card of a genteel young lady, has a reputation for her charitable works. Her endeavors on behalf of the fallen women of Seven Dials are lauded, though a bit daring for an unmarried woman of good family. If only society knew she’s The Insatiable Lady, and those fallen women are providing the erotic tales in her sensational book. She means to use the sales to gain financial independence and to establish a home for women who wish to retire from the streets of Seven Dials.
When Lord Whitcombe demands Cordelia submit her next book in person, her irritation moves to fury. The man she’d pictured as an elderly bookish type is instead a sensuously handsome lord. The connection between them is immediate and incendiary when he shocks and intrigues her with a bold request. Her response stuns him to his core.
But when Cordelia’s Seven Dials friends begin to disappear, the couple’s erotic adventure turns deadly. Are they ready to abandon their dreams to save wheat they have or will their nightmares part them forever?
Buy Tutoring the Bookseller today to open a world of desire and suspense!
Sandra Sookoo
The Lyon’s Redemption
Series: Lyon’s Den Connected World
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 10/25/2023
Author Website: https://www.sandrasookoo.com
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In need of redemption… Thomas Prestwick, Viscount of Ashbury, has left the thought of love and romance behind. Never again will he allow himself that vulnerability and has, instead, kept himself busy with various vices every fine gentleman of the beau monde indulges in. If only he’d stayed away from the tables at the famed Lyon’s Den gaming hell that night, he might not have been caught up in fate’s unfortunate web, which brought him face-to-face with the past.
In want of vengeance…Miss Olivia Rose Jameson wants nothing to do with men—whether related to her or not. With her parents dead and her worthless brother losing everything of value at the gambling tables, she’s incensed when her hand is bartered for his freedom. That complication will not help her cause of having revenge on the man who killed her best friend, until chance matches her with the object of her ire.
Forgiveness has a way of changing everything… With no choice but to wed at the order of the mysterious Mrs. Dove-Lyon, the pair ushers in the Christmastide season as a married couple. No matter that Ashbury’s heart is locked away and Olivia wishes to carve it from his chest, more than compassion and secrets are shared between the enemies-to-lovers one snowy evening in the viscount’s library. As desire gives way to romance, fate once more intervenes. For one terrible night, everything hangs in the balance, and nothing short of a miracle—or love—can save them.
Because doesn’t the house—and Mrs. Dove-Lyon—always win?
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Heather Moll
Loving Miss Tilney
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Genre: Regency
Publisher: Excessively Diverted Press
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print eBook AudioBook
Release Date: 08/01/2023
Author Website: https://www.heathermollauthor.com/
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She’s forbidden to wed a nobody. He’s nothing in society’s eyes. Will their desperate schemes backfire before they find a way to be together?
Northanger Abbey. Eleanor Tilney can’t bear her lonely life any longer. Distraught when her tyrannical father throws her friend out of the house because the girl lacks an inheritance, the long-suffering general’s daughter decides anything is better than a future all alone. So in a frantic bid for freedom, she puts aside her tender feelings for a man of no standing to pursue a wealthy husband.
Philip Brampton understands that fortune is against him. And he tries gallantly to bury his distress and support his lonely beloved, even after she starts pursuing an arrogant buffoon. But when he catches the fellow about to kiss her, their resulting harsh words cause a heartbreaking rift.
Stiffening her spine in a world that refuses to acknowledge her value, Eleanor attempts to navigate the impossible situation without quashing her desires. And though his shy nature abhors a scene, Philip braces himself for a confrontation with her cruel and abusive patriarch.
Do these childhood sweethearts have any hope of achieving lasting happiness?
Elizabeth Donne
Book Title: Tales of Timeless Romance: How Do I Love Thee?
Author Name: Elizabeth Donne
Release Date: 08/02/2023
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Tales of Timeless Romance: How Do I Love Thee?
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Genre: Regency Traditional Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Sweet
Format: eBook
Release Date: 08/02/2023
Author Website: https://elizabethdonnebooks.com
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Spinster is such a loathsome word. But—Miss Sophia Grant has to confess—this is what she has become. With the first strands of greying hair, and lungs weakened by childhood illness, she does not expect to become anyone’s wife anymore. Sophia does not mind it too much. After all, she has her many siblings around her. And her writing, of course. Her days are full of everything that matters. That is, until the letter comes.
Tobias Mannerly is entirely smitten with the written word. It fills every corner of his thoughts and imagination. Perhaps that is why he has not yet found love—no woman can reach his heart the way poetry does. Words are his passion, especially those in the latest poem by a certain Miss S. Grant. How they speak to him, call to him! He must write to her. She must know what power she wields on the page.
What begins as a simple letter by an ardent young literary admirer soon develops into genuine affection. Two modest souls appear to have found their match. But how can Sophia tell her beau that she can never marry? If her father even suspected her feelings, he would be furious! Losing his wife has made him fragile. Clinging to his remaining family has made him unreasonable. It seems an impossible situation. It is just the sort of challenge love is made to overcome, if only Tobias can convince Sophia she deserves it.
Alissa Baxter
Book Title: The Baron and the Lady Chemist
Author Name: Alissa Baxter
Release Date: 08/03/2023
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The Baron and the Lady Chemist
Series: The Grantham Girls
Genre: Regency Traditional Romance
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Clean Sweet
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 08/03/2023
Author Website: https://www.alissabaxter.com/
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Dorothea Grantham has always been fascinated by chemistry and spends most days conducting experiments in her laboratory at Grantham Place, staining silk with gold, silver, and other metals using chemical processes.
Thea embroiders the beautiful gold and silver silk shawls she creates and enjoys wearing them, but her grandmother, Lady Longmore, advises her not to reveal to anyone outside the family circle that she has created the fashion items herself, concerned her granddaughter might be seen as an oddity.
When Thea enters Society, her shawls attract a great deal of attention and become the talk of the town. James, Lord Castleroy, takes a particular interest in her work, having inherited a share in his grandfather’s silk mill in Macclesfield.
Eager to invest in the ailing silk industry, the baron studies Miss Grantham’s silks with an admiring—and increasingly suspicious—eye, believing the fabrics to be smuggled imported silk. As he spends more time with the enterprising young lady, however, his interest in her quickly extends beyond his business affairs to engulf his guarded heart.
But Lord Castleroy isn’t the only person in London interested in Thea’s exquisite creations. And when a silken web of intrigue entangles her in real danger, Thea must trust the devotion of a man she never expected—or intended—to fall in love with.
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Alexa Santi
Book Title: Austen Tea Party
Authors Names: Alexa Santi, Amanda Faye, Angela Kady, Anja Raney, Bianca White, Carrie DiRisio, Catherine Bilson, Catherine Stein, Cecilia Rene, Charlie Lane, Christina Alexandra, Clyve Rose, Deborah E Pearson, Debra-Ann Kummoung, Ella Hazard, Elle Linder, Gabbi Grey, JKLycke, Katy Rose, Kenna Campbell, Michaela Brent, Sharon Michalove, Stacey Jaine McIntosh, Tabetha Waite, Tanya Wilde, TL Clark
Release Date: 08/09/2023
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Austen Tea Party
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Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Romance Cafe Publishing
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 08/09/2023
Author Website: https://www.alexasanti.com
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Take care not to spill the tea (literally) while we share the latest on-dit (aka dish the dirt) about the Ton, who is courting, and who has been compromised in this collection of Austen-inspired romance stories.
Join us for a turn around the room in stories from USA Today best-selling and award-winning romance authors curated by the New Romance CafĂ© featuring cameos from some of Jane’s most memorable characters (and some we’d like to forget). ALL proceeds go to the Breast Cancer Research Foundation.
Anne Rollins
Book Title: The Solitary Rose
Author Name: Anne Rollins
Release Date: 08/14/2023
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The Solitary Rose
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Genre: Fantasy or Science Fiction Romance
Publisher: The Wild Rose Press
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 08/14/2023
Author Website: http://www.annerollins.com
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Henry Dawson, sorcerer and apothecary assistant, works to support his mother and younger siblings after his father’s investments and consequent death leave them penniless. Invited to woo a reclusive heiress with magical empathy, he reluctantly accepts, despite a preference for earning his own way.
Emma Ainsworth fears smallpox scars and her hypersensitivity to others’ thoughts make her ineligible for marriage. Sheltered by her aunt and uncle, she has withdrawn from most social life and wears a veil whenever she must go out.
When a serious injury confines Henry to Emma’s estate for the summer, a verbal duel ensues—Emma wants to test her empathy in a sexual relationship, not marry him. What neither admits is their fear that passion might burn them both.
Andrea K Stein
Louisa Cornell
Book Title: Claiming the Chess Mistress
Author Name: Andrea K Stein
Release Date: 08/15/2023
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Claiming the Chess Mistress
Series: Sex, Lies, & Forbidden Desires Book 4
Genre: Erotic
Publisher: Muirgen® Publishing, LLC
Content Rating: Burning (Hot)
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 08/15/2023
Author Website: https://www.andreakstein.com/
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The loss of Col’s damning journal pages is about to turn deadly;
The forfeit of Charlotte’s closely guarded secrets might destroy her;
Will their mutual quest for justice bring them together, or tear them apart?
By night, she’s a masked chess mistress who challenges and trounces all takers; by day, she’s the ethereal white-blonde beauty who volunteers at the children’s refuge in Seven Dials — Charlotte Smythe lives a luxurious double life of ease as the mysterious chess genius at Goodrum’s House of Pleasure..
After spending years as a gifted investigator extricating others from their peccadillos, dedicated Bow Street runner Archer Colwyn has landed in a suds of his own making. The light-hearted journal of sensual exploits he and his school chums kept while students at Cambridge has gone missing, and the secrets within his particular pages, if revealed, could set off deadly consequences.
The dangerous Captain El Goodrum, proprietress of the most infamous house of pleasure in London, holds the key to their retrieval. In exchange for her cooperation, she demands he run a gauntlet of secrets to deliver a master criminal to justice. His only path to the damning pages is the inscrutable chess mistress who not only resents his attempts to romance away his journal pages, but seems to relish his dread and panic at the prospect of the pages becoming public knowledge.
Charlotte craves the kind of refuge she provides to the orphans she rescues from London’s stews. The respite she seeks away from the world in her St. John’s Wood villa with her two house companions is all that keeps her sane, but sometimes, late at night, she needs something more, something even she cannot name.
Vanessa Kelly
Book Title: The Highlander’s Kilted Bride
Author Name: Vanessa Kelly
Release Date: 08/22/2023
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The Highlander’s Kilted Bride
Series: Clan Kendrick
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Kensington Books
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: Print eBook AudioBook
Release Date: 08/22/2023
Author Website: https://www.vanessakellyauthor.com
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The irresistible Kendrick clan returns in the latest Scottish-set historical romance from the USA Today bestselling author—a witty, sensuous and adventure-filled romp that will delight Regency fans and readers of Sabrina Jeffries and Victoria Alexander. Charlotte “Charlie” Stewart would rather don a kilt and ride her horse than simper in a ballroom. But with her younger sister about to be wed, she can’t escape the pressure to be next. A husband has been chosen, and Charlie’s fate seems set. Until an afternoon gallop sends her horse colliding with Kade Kendrick, the broad-shouldered Highlander who was once her childhood pal . . .
Cerise DeLand
Book Title: THE LYON’S PERFECT MATE
Author Name: Cerise DeLand
Release Date: 08/23/2023
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THE LYON’S PERFECT MATE
Series: The Lyon’s Den
Genre: Regency Georgian Romance Historical Fiction
Publisher: Dragonblade
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 08/23/2023
Author Website: https://cerisedeland.com
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Can two people who have learned how to fight for all they want and win push pride aside to save their love and their marriage?
Miss Priscilla Taunton has little to commend her. No looks, no titled family, no savoir faire. But her fortune can buy her a husband if she’s brave enough to use it.
Cilla has struggled to make a new life for herself. Years of ridicule and suppression at the hands of her parents mean she has had to live down the scurrilous reputation her elders cast upon her. But after creating herself anew, Cilla needs a husband of good cheer and spotless reputation. To make that a reality, she’ll use her money, all of it, if necessary, to hire Mrs. Dove-Lyon—and ask for herself only one special reward.
Captain Valerian Anderleigh has always won every battle. Hailed by his superiors as honorable, revered by his men as heroic, he is a legend.
When Val returns home from the wars to assume his family’s title, he meets challenges for which no battlefield prepared him. His estate is flooded. His stepmother and her two daughters spend every penny. His younger brother runs wild.
Val will do anything to resurrect his family’s pride. Even enter the Lyon’s Den and assume a terrible burden. Surprisingly, marrying a lovely, lonely woman becomes not a challenge but a greater joy than he anticipated.
Losing the love of his life in defeat is not an option.
Alexa Aston
Book Title: Love Blooms with the Duke
Author Name: Alexa Aston
Release Date: 08/31/2023
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Love Blooms with the Duke
Series: Suddenly a Duke
Genre: Regency
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 08/31/2023
Author Website: https://alexaaston.com/al
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Xander Hughes, London’s biggest rake, suddenly becomes the Duke of Brockbank and guardian to two nieces he has never met. He decides he must turn over a new leaf and become a sober, responsible duke and starts by hiring a Miss Fennimore, a governess for the girls. Soon, Xander wonders if she might make for an even better duchess.
Willa’s parents were the toast of London’s theater world until Theodosia Fennimore murdered her playwright husband and leaped to her death. Not wishing to become an actress like her mother, Willa supports herself as a companion and governess, finding her latest post is to instruct a duke’s two unruly nieces.
As Willa falls in love with the orphaned girls, she finds herself also tumbling into love with the Duke of Brockbank. She’s been warned that the duke was a wild rogue before he inherited his title, but Willa only knows the caring man who meets his duties head on and spends an inordinate amount of time with his nieces, who aren’t so terrible after all.
After Brockbank offers marriage to Willa, she dreams of a new life filled with love and happiness. The only thing standing in her way is the secret of her past. If Willa shares her background, she fears she might lose Xander forever.
Will Xander reject Willa when he learns of the scandal involving her parents—or will this rule-breaking duke flout the rules of Polite Society yet again and make a most inappropriate woman his duchess?
Cheryl Bolen
Book Title: Defended by a Duke
Author Name: Cheryl Bolen
Release Date: 09/01/2023
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Defended by a Duke
Series: The Beresford Adventures
Genre: Regency Mystery
Publisher: Dragonblade
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/01/2023
Author Website: https://www.cherylbolen.com/
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On the day he’s to wed the woman of his dreams, Richard Harwood, the 6th Duke of Bentley, is summoned by the Prince Regent. The prince and Britain’s Home Secretary suspect the family of his prospective bride, the powerful Beresfords, of plotting to overthrow the government. Bentley is encouraged to go ahead with the wedding but to say nothing to his wife about her traitorous relatives. He’s to quietly investigate.
In her first Season, lovely Emily Beresford, has the good fortune to win the heart of the kingdom’s most sought-after matrimonial catch, the handsome Duke of Bentley. From the moment they met, the two have been hopelessly in love. So why does this man she adores abandon her on their wedding night?
Bentley’s inquiries keep stealing him away from this woman he craves with every aching breath, his wife. These same inquiries point to a plot so sinister it threatens everything he loves, especially his duchess. . .
Elizabeth Essex
Book Title: Mad Rogues & Englishwomen
Author Name: Elizabeth Essex
Release Date: 09/05/2023
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Mad Rogues & Englishwomen
Series: Highland Brides
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Oliver-Heber Books
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/05/2023
Author Website: https://www.elizabethessex.com
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A thing of beauty can be a joy forever.
But beauty lies…
Lord Archie Carrington knows a beauty when he sees one. Barmaids and countess alike fall beneath the charm of the youngest-ever editor of Edinburgh’s sharpest political and literary quarterly. So when he sets out to write an exposĂ© on the new Lord Advocate, the clever Scotsman devises a plan to charm his opponent’s shy portraitist daughter out of her smock—and her family secrets.
in the eyes of the beholder.
But Maisie Conway knows a rogue when she sees one and although she agrees to paint Lord Carrington’s portrait, she rebuffs all of Archie’s attempts at flirtation and familiarity. That is, until Archie offers to pose nude as a life drawing lesson and Maisie cannot resist the opportunity to uncover all of his manifest charms. Posing leads to passion, but soon they find themselves working at cross purposes. As Archie and Maisie follow the dictates of their desire, will they learn to trust one another, or will the dark secrets surrounding them cost them their only chance to achieve true love?
Sandra Sookoo
Book Title: Catch Her if You Can
Author Name: Sandra Sookoo
Release Date: 09/12/2023
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Catch Her if You Can
Series: Diamonds of London #3
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: New Independence Books (indie label)
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/12/2023
Author Website: https://www.sandrasookoo.com
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When a lady snubs love and romance in favor of being ruined, all hell will break loose.
Lady Katharine “Kitty” Gibson is the youngest child of the Earl of Armestead. At six and twenty, she wants no part of living a fairytale and desires love even less. She has dreams for her life that do not include romance, but tolerating a man long enough to be ruined would be a lovely addition and might allow her past society’s dictates that domestication and a good match is all she should aspire toward.
Mr. Reginald Healy made his first fortune with the East India Company and his second importing beautiful silk fabric and selling it first to ladies in American then to the beau monde in London. All he has ever wanted is to be respected as a gentleman instead of the “earl’s fool” he’s been nicknamed. When he purchases a rundown manor house in the countryside and furthers his acquaintance with a winsome blonde who is not in his usual style, his dream shifts to include a wife and possible family.
While Reginald tries his best to be more to Kitty than a gentleman with benefits, she thinks him endearing and a tad embarrassing. He’s not much changed from when he’d proposed to her ten years prior, but the longer his clumsy attempt at wooing continues, romance creeps in to mar her lovely no-strings-attached affair. Terrified and confused, she sets out one night to flee into obscurity, but as Reginald gives chase, unexpected peril on the road makes them both face their biggest fears and has the capacity to show them both that falling in love can be whatever they need it to be.
Sylvie Sinclair
Book Title: Earl of My Dreams
Author Name: Sylvie Sinclair
Release Date: 09/18/2023
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Earl of My Dreams
Series: Romancing the Rogue
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Sylvie Sinclair
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/18/2023
Author Website: https://www.sylviesinclair.com
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All Miss Sophie Everett wants is to see her beloved cousin happily married to the man she loves, and she’ll do whatever it takes to make it happen. When a prime opportunity for matchmaking presents itself in the form of a country house party, she contrives to spend the week sowing the seeds of romance…until a fellow guest arrives with ideas of his own. Soon Sophie finds herself butting heads with the most stubborn man she’s ever known. A man who once owned her heart…
James Halloran, the Earl of Dearborn, is in need of an heir, but first he must find a wife. He thinks he’s found precisely what he wants: a girl possessed of both beauty and breeding, one who will make few demands and never touch his heart. The perfect countess. Unfortunately, the girl’s cousin—the maddening Miss Everett—does not share his enthusiasm for the match, and vows to prevent it, no matter the cost…
As their feud turns to friendship, sparks fly and passions ignite. But secrets, long kept hidden, threaten to destroy their future before it’s even begun…
Katherine Grant
Book Title: The Hellion of Drury Lane
Author Name: Katherine Grant
Release Date: 09/19/2023
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The Hellion of Drury Lane
Series: The Scandals and Scoundrels of Drury Lane
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: Katherine Grant
Content Rating: Sensual (Mild)
Format: eNovella
Release Date: 09/19/2023
Author Website: https://www.katherinegrantromance.com/the-hellion-of-drury-lane/
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Behind the scenes, drama cuts both ways…
For Samantha Billings, nothing can go right. Ever since she inherited her father’s business as head carpenter for Drury Lane Theatre, she has been fighting off problems from creditors to unending rain. When an inspector of the carpentry guild announces he will stop her work unless she hires a master carpenter, Samantha fears she may lose everything – but she resolves to overcome, one way or another.
For Oliver Chow, nothing can go wrong. In London for the first time ever, he is celebrating his new status as a master carpenter and looking for the adventure of a lifetime. When he happens upon a woman carpentress in distress, he is happy to help – even if it is in name alone.
Thrown together to thwart the guild’s inspector, Samantha and Oliver discover that sometimes, a little drama behind the scenes can have a surprisingly happy outcome.
C.H. Admirand
Book Title: The Duke’s Defender (The Duke’s Guard, Bk 6)
Author Name: C.H. Admirand
Release Date: 09/22/2023
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The Duke’s Defender (The Duke’s Guard, Bk 6)
Series: The Duke’s Guard
Genre: Regency
Publisher: Dragonblade Publishing
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/22/2023
Author Website: https://www.chadmirand.com
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The Duke’s Guard: The men in black who have sworn an oath to protect the Duke of Wyndmere and his family from enemies that would stop at nothing to discredit and destroy him!
“Lass, ye need to trust someone in yer hour of darkness…let it be me.”
Aiden Garahan is tasked with protecting the duke’s new ward. He promises to protect her with his life. The lovely young woman, with auburn hair and quiet gray eyes is no child, but a petite, curvaceous beauty. His reaction to her is unexpected and unwanted.
Miss Emily Montrose may be small in stature, but she is no shrinking violet! When a runaway carriage tragically cuts her father’s life short, she is thrust into chaos as the duke’s ward. Her life is turned upside down when rumors and a wager challenges all comers to win her hand. Emily’s life is threatened as the wager increases and unscrupulous men see her as a prize.
Aiden must cut through the lies to the truth. He guards her valiantly and vows to protect her to the last beat of his heart, while she steals it away, one glance at a time…one caress at a time. Aiden faces a battle he never imagined…one that pits his heart against his honor!
Danger stalks in the night, but it will have to challenge The Duke’s Defender before he will let harm come to those he has sworn to protect with his strength, his honor, and his heart.
Louise Mayberry
Book Title: A Radical Affair
Author Name: Louise Mayberry
Release Date: 09/22/2023
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A Radical Affair
Series: The Darnalay Castle Series
Genre: Regency Georgian Gothic Romance Suspense Historical Fiction
Publisher: Louise Mayberry
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/22/2023
Author Website: https://www.louisemayberry.com
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What harm could one night of pleasure do?
Cybil Bythesea is imprisoned in a marriage that ended ten years ago. That’s when she fled the cruelty of her husband, Lord Falstone, and took refuge at her father’s estate in Northumberland. Since then, her family’s money has kept the villain at bay, and she’s been able to pursue her creative passion—writing. But freedom, true freedom, has been beyond her grasp.
Except for her clandestine liaisons with Will.
Will Chisolm is haunted by the past, the tragedy of his family’s eviction from their ancestral Highland farm, then his own foolish descent into political radicalism. Even now that he’s gained wealth and respectability as the manager of a set of spinning mills in Glasgow, he’s burdened with more responsibility and guilt than anyone knows.
But there’s something about Cybil—a lightness, a kinship that, at least temporarily, makes all Will’s troubles fade away. It’s a dangerous game. Cybil is his employer’s sister, the wife of his political enemy and for the last four years, his lover.
She’s also with child. Will’s child. And their world, their lives, will never be the same.
Heather Redmond
Book Title: Death and the Sisters
Author Name: Heather Redmond
Release Date: 09/26/2023
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Death and the Sisters
Series: Mary Shelley Mysteries
Genre: Regency Mystery Historical Fiction
Publisher: Kensington
Content Rating: Suspense
Format: Print eBook AudioBook
Release Date: 09/26/2023
Author Website: https://www.heatherredmond.com
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London, 1814: Mary Godwin and her stepsister Jane Clairmont, both sixteen, possess quick minds bolstered by an unconventional upbringing, and have little regard for the rules that other young ladies follow. Mary, whose mother famously advocated for women’s rights, rejects the two paths that seem open to her—that of an assistant in her father’s bookshop, or an ordinary wife. Though quieter and more reserved than the boisterous Jane, Mary’s imagination is keen, and she longs for real-world adventures.
One evening, an opportunity arrives in the form of Percy Bysshe Shelley. At twenty-one, Shelley is already a renowned poet and radical. Mary finds their visitor handsome and compelling, but it is later that evening, after the party has broken up, that events take a truly intriguing turn. When Mary comes downstairs in search of a book, she finds instead a man face down on the floor—with a knife in his back.
The dead man, it seems, was a former classmate of Shelley’s, and had lately become a rival. What was he doing in the Godwins’ home? Mary, Jane, and Shelley are all drawn to learn the truth behind the tragedy, especially as each discovery seems to hint at a tangled web that includes many in Shelley’s closest circle. But as the attraction between Mary and the married poet intensifies, it sparks a rivalry between the sisters, even as it kindles the creative fire within . . .
Sandra Sookoo
Book Title: Dashing Through the Snow
Author Name: Sandra Sookoo
Release Date: 09/27/2023
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Dashing Through the Snow
Series:
Genre: Regency Romance
Publisher: New Independence Books (indie label)
Content Rating: Spicy
Format: Print eBook
Release Date: 09/27/2023
Author Website: https://www.sandrasookoo.com
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When two disillusioned people accidentally meet, finding a common bond in scandal will give them back hope.
The Honorable Laurence Bannerman lingers in London to avoid joining his family at his father’s country estate in Surrey to celebrate Christmastide. As the third son and a fourth sibling, nothing was ever expected of him, so his behavior has been quite scandalous. That is until he meets a woman who makes him long for a wife and wish for a change… but dogs don’t change their spots, do they?
Miss Eleanor Comerford hasn’t exactly been a darling of the beau monde. Though Christmastide brings with it naught but guilt and regret, there is the glimmering hope her family might forgive her past transgressions and take her back into their fold. Pretending to be someone she’s not is tiring, but when her path crosses that of a stranger, a plan begins to form… for she still dreams of belonging.
Forced to share the same traveling coach, when Eleanor asks Laurence to enter into a fake engagement with her to lend legitimacy to her story, he agrees merely to protect her and see her safely home. Perhaps a friendship would stave off loneliness during the journey north. As they come to know each other, hurts and secrets from their pasts bubble to the surface, and with acceptance comes a budding romance. Only with a holiday miracle will they have the chance to realize they never needed lies or proper images to grasp love… for they were worthy of it all along.