Regencies

A new Regency. How can a disgraced Earl make the most of his return from exile, especially when he is impersonating his half-brother, the real Earl? Silas expects to find a flourishing estate and marry an heiress, but Fanny, the heiress he meets on the homeward-bound ship, dislikes him. Then he meets his family, cousins Lucien and Amanda. and Aunt Charlotte, and finds his inheritance worthless.

Three Regency Lords – one cannot court Elizabeth while his ward is infatuated with her young brother; one, missing after Waterloo, leaves a devastated fiancée and a cousin with his importunate family; the third, exiled for years, dead in India and impersonated by his bastard half-brother hoping to gain his fortune and an heiress bride. Will they obtain their just rewards?

Persuaded by her grandfather to supervise the coming out of Matilda, his great-niece, Louise reluctantly goes to London to take part in the season for the first time since her soldier husband was killed three years before. Matilda is difficult, but Louise enjoys meeting old and new friends and the balls. But finding a husband for Matilda proved more difficult than anticipated.

Eve longs to escape from her rigidly disciplinarian father, and experience life away from her small Herefordshire village. Her brother James longs to join the army fighting Napoleon. Eve is fascinated by cider-making, and despite her father's disapproval, makes it with the help of a local farmer. When Justin, the Earl of Newark, discovers her in boys' clothes high up an apple tree he is intrigued.

Their carriage is attacked while on the way to Vienna, and Belle, the only survivor, is taken to the Count's castle. He employs her as companion to his niece, then, by a mixture of threats and promises, asks her to go with him to Vienna where the Congress is meeting, and help him persuade the politicians to return the Tyrol to Austria.