While on his way home, Duke Zachary meets a mysterious lady who barges into his carriage. The lady, who wears a black veil that hides her face, tells Duke that she came to tell him a big secret. She proves it...

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, moral rightness, education and marriage in her aristocratic society of early 19th century England...

Rocana Brunt helps her cousin Lady Caroline to meet secretly the man she loves. Then Caroline is told she is to marry the Marquis of Quorn who is in a tight corner over one of his many liaisons. Caroline is...

It is the story of Benedicta and how she meets the Duke of Kingswood after her preacher father falls ill and they take shelter on his land. The duke sees her arrival as a blessing since he's looking for someone...

A woman of innocence and notoriety... The prisoner stood with an expression of defiance, leather shackles on her wrists. Adam Vickery, Marquess of Tannerton, was drawn to this woman, so dignified in her plight....

The Marquis of Stowe is on the verge of a dreadful scandal that threatens to ruin both him and the lovely, but married, Lady Burnham. Knowing that their secret is out and that her husband will be plotting...

[from fictiondb] The Duke of Atherstone had been driven to a frenzy. Every debutante in London wanted to marry him. Their determined mothers had transformed all of England into a matrimonial obstacle course...

It is the story of Torilla who is bid by her cousin to come and be her bridesmaid. On her way to her cousin's house, Torilla is saved by a kind man who she finds out is her cousin's intended husband! How both...

At her rich, look-alike cousin's pleading, impoverished Sacha Waverley undertakes a daring masquerade. She travels to Scotland posing as Lady Deirdre to care for her cousin's fiancé, the handsome, wealthy Duke...

[from fictiondb] Lina was the spirited young daughter of the Earl of Wallingham, who escaping from an arranged marriage, applies for the post of a lady's maid - and finds herself involved in a plot to dupe a...

Sophie was alone in the world until a marquess took her in, but she’s kicked out when a misunderstanding causes her to be seen as a scandalous woman. Years later, she is working as a governess when she has a...

My dear sister Clara,London society is so much more complicated than I could ever have known! Every night is a different ball or assembly, and a different swirl of glittering jewels and rustling gowns. Though I...

*My Dear Miss Wilson, I have no wish to spoil your chances of meeting the decent and respectable man you desire. Yet I find I cannot idly sit back and accept that I will never see you again, or -- forgive me...

The handsome Marquis of Ruckley was in a fit of temper. He raced his horses up the drive to his country estate with such speed he couldn't swerve to avoid the girl in the path of his carriage. Greatly relieved...

Love, true Love! For the lovely, widowed Lady Sherington, it bloomed in her thirty-sixth year, when she was still ravishing enough to pass as the twin of her daughter Trina. But her gentle heart was racked with...