The Duke is an odious man. To keep her father from hanging, Caroline must marry this repulsive man. Unless fate steps in and lends a hand, she will be miserable for the rest of her life. Fate does step in, but only to muck up the works. Caroline is thrust into a seedy world where she must struggle to survive. Love is the furthest thing from her mind, as she scrubs chamber pots. But love sometimes grows in the most inhospitable environs and friendships are forged in fire and pain. Sometimes it takes a long while to get to that happily ever after, but that makes it all the sweeter. The characters in this series have country homes in the fictional district of Northwickshire. Any persons or places with similarity to real people is unintentional. The books can be read in any order.

She's been kidnapped. He's hiding his true identity. Can love really conquer all? Miss Marilee Pelletier...is a confirmed spinster. After all, lady's maids do not marry. They do not have romance in their lives except vicariously through their ladies. Marilee loves her mistress, Miss Caroline...and her work. Until she is kidnapped by the people who murdered a duke People who don't care about her well-being. Marilee is separated from her friends and family... Locked down under house arrest... And treated as a slave rather than a person. Marilee wonders if there can be a happily ever after for her When all she loves has been left behind. Can love really conquer all? To cover his debts, Mr. Nikolas Harding threw in with some very bad people. Now, he can't get out. He finds himself attracted to the lovely new maid, Miss Marilee Pelletier, but what does he have to offer...

Is Lord Willingham the rake the gossips say he is or is he Lady Arabella's last chance for love? A man with a secret past, Lord Christopher Hayes, Baron Willingham, wishes simply to be left alone to lick his wounds and regain the fortune his uncle lost to a villainous fraudster: a swindler who continues to plague Christopher wherever he goes. When Lady Arabella lands unexpectedly on his doorstep, Christopher is forced to choose between helping her or keeping his secrets, but at what cost? Lady Arabella Sedgewick fears spinsterhood, but she fears her attraction to Lord Willingham, an infamous rake even more. When Christopher takes up residence in the dilapidated manor house at the end of the lane, Arabella's father forbids her to associate with the scoundrel. But Arabella ignores her father's wishes and befriends Christopher. As their unlikely friendship grows, Arabella is soon swept up in...

Miss Peggy Williams is no wilting flower. She does not need or want a man in her life. Baron Whitefall wants to protect the love of his life and give Peggy all the luxuries she has missed. He just must convince her that he is everything she needs...and wants. A slow burn proper Regency Romance. Miss Margaret (Peggy) Williams had a plan. Find her son, Adam, and settle unobtrusively in the countryside with him. She would masquerade as a widow, and he would not have to endure the stigma of bastardy. Only, her son likes his foster family and doesn't want to leave. Add to the mix an annoyingly friendly town and meddlesome gypsies, plus the handsome Baron Whitefall and his vivacious sister. The whole lot of them just won't leave well enough alone, and all of Peggy's well-laid plans for a quiet life come tumbling down in chaos. Being unobtrusive is next to impossible and much to Peggy's dismay, she is beginning to...

A slow burn Regency romance you won't soon forget! Lady Marianne Sedgewick is a confirmed bookworm. She loves a puzzle, but needs little acumen to deduct that the three suitors buzzing around her are more interested in her father's money than Marianne herself. No matter that she hates every bit of the hypocrisy of the ton, she must endure. She is not given to fits of fancy or inanities in conversation. Still, Society dictates that she must be very brave and venture into the insipid conversation of her peers. But the truth is, Marianne is peerless. Captain Andrew Larkin is a man of action. Decorated for valor, the very air around him seems to hum with energy. The captain knew unequivocally that he could never be contented with a settled, stationary existence, and it would be monstrously unfair to take a wife and then leave her to live a solitary life for the majority of her time. He saw firsthand the struggles that...