Lindy Nettleton

Lovely, wealthy, and well bred, Clarissa Vevian has been unable to find a suitable husband because of her terrible clumsiness. Her petite and fastidious mother, the Lady Clarendon, has tried to mold Clarissa into a dainty miss to fit the fashion, but until the fashions fit tall Clarissa, her mother's efforts are doomed to fail. Enter Amy and Effy Tribble, chaperones-for-hire, who have seen three charges through the perils of three seasons and into...

She had a long way to go from the wedding to becoming a wife. When Lady Anne Sinclair vowed to marry before her spoiled beauty of a sister, she had no idea the "anyone" would be the Marquess of Torrance. Long the darling of the ton-and considered quite the confirmed bachelor-he succumbed to Annie's charms and, almost magically, made her his wife. But Annie's lifelong battle for attention had ill-prepared her for married life. In a tipsy reverie on...

Emily had been retrieved from orphanage life for the exclusive position of companion to Sir Peregrine's hound, Duke. Upon the gentleman's death, Emily and Duke inherited a fortune in diamonds. But Duke soon fell prey to greedy relatives, and Emily had to protect herself from Lord Storm, who had declared Emily's pedigree quite unsuitable, while at the same time threatening to steal her heart. Marion Chesney spins a delightful Regency romance, complete...

She was the flower of an East End slum who rose to become a star. But Poppy Duveen quit the stage to marry Freddie Plummett, the only real gentleman she had ever known-the bounder who died. When Freddie died, Poppy was left the castle, but she was also left in the clutches of Freddie's formidable uncle, Hugo, the dazzling Duke of Guildham. How could she admit, even to herself, this dangerous attraction? Instead, Poppy tried to turn her back on it-but...

Fanny and her groom had been tricked! Parents on both sides, all impoverished, had decided to recoup their families' losses by marrying their children to the progeny of a wealthier neighbor. The joke was on them, however, when it was outed that neither family had a penny to its name. Charles was not the dark rogue of Fanny's girlish fantasies, but he was chivalrously determined that she should meet someone more appropriate for her than he. And for...

Followers of the series will notice in this volume some personality changes in the odd assortment of retainers who keep the infamous house at sixty-seven Clarges Street, in London's Mayfair, at the ready for whatever entrepreneur will rent it as a launching pad into the London social season. This time the renters are an unlikely couple, the Goodenoughs, apparently father and daughter, she a great beauty, he silent and mysterious. Their secrets eventually...

"I do not think I want to be married at all. I want to be rich. Very rich…" When Henrietta Bascombe opens a confectionary shop in order to turn her pittance of an inheritance into a fortune, her friends are shocked to hear of such a well-bred lady going into trade. The earl of Carrisdown is both drawn to and repelled by her shopgirl status. Undaunted, Henrietta proceeds to hang out the traditional confectioners' sign of a golden pineapple and soon...

Susie dreamt of a rose-covered cottage, instead she ends up in a big, damp castle married to old Earl of Blackhall. Lucky for her, the lecherous old man dies on their wedding night leaving her a wealthy and young widow. Handsome Sir Giles enters the picture, determined to reveal the real Susie who he believes to be a sneaky minx. Luck brought Susie a fortune; could it also bring her true love?

If Henry Wright could not find a wife in a short period of time, he would lose the legacy he desired. Frederica Sayers needed a husband to save her from the life of shame that awaited her when she fled the callous cruelty of her family. A marriage between them was clearly the answer, until the duke discovered he had a duchess he could not tame and the duchess found that she would rather lose her reputation than lose the duke to another woman who was...

Miss Honaria Honeyford was sent to London to save the family fortune by hunting a wealthy husband-and being a loving if not entirely dutiful daughter, she obeyed. But if she was reluctantly willing to surrender her hand, this beautiful young lady who could ride, shoot, and argue with any man was not about to lose her head or heart to the dismal dandies of the Marriage Mart. First she met the arrogantly attractive Lord Alistair Stewart, who treated...