Miss Harriet Brown, daughter of a Methodist minister, is the embodiment of propriety and Christian charity--too much so, perhaps, for her own good. The virtues Harriet possesses are far from...

His feelings toward her were warm. She turned their conversation over and over in her mind, reading into every casual answer a double meaning, hints of a growing passion that were held in check....

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...

When Fiona Macleod is sent by her guardian aunt and uncle to spend a London season with the Tribble sisters, it is something of a last resort. At nineteen, Fiona is a beautiful and wealthy...

No sooner does Miss Pym board her next stagecoach than she finds herself embroiled in the plight of Miss Belinda Earle, a spirited heiress banished to Bath after swearing off the marriage market....

Before M. C. Beaton (a.k.a. Marion Chesney) began writing her internationally successful Hamish Macbeth and Agatha Raisin mystery series, she thrilled readers with humor-laced, highly entertaining...

Lady Beatrice Marsham is in quite a coil. No sooner is she widowed from a brutish gambling husband, than her heartless family is forcing her into another horrid marriage. Fleeing by stagecoach to...

Oh to be as beautiful as Euphemia! plain Jane Hart sighs when she joins her sister Euphemia at Number 67 Clarges Street for the Season. Then Lord Tregarthan might notice her...as she had noticed...

Daphne, the fourth daughter of the Reverend Charles Armitage, is beautiful--dazzlingly beautiful--but she is utterly wrapped up in her own appearance. It seems fitting when she decides to marry...

Minerva marks the delightful debut of The Six Sisters, a family saga in six volumes that will recount the romantic adventures of the six marriageable daughters of a country vicar, the Reverend...

When Amy and Effy Tribble, two charming but impoverished spinster sisters, lose out on a much needed inheritance, they place an advertisement in The Morning Post and hire themselves out as...

Owing to an unfortunate wager made by Sir Philip, the poor relations are once again scrounging around for a plan for solvency. This time it is Colonel Sandhurst to the rescue. After happening on...

Life is finally looking up for the poor relations. The Prince of Wales's coat of arms gleams over the hotel entrance. All but one of the rooms are filled by the open-handed Prince Hugo Panic and...

On the coach to Portsmouth, Miss Pym faces her most difficult matchmaking challenge yet. The lovely Miss Penelope Wilkins, daughter of a rich merchant, would be the perfect match for the handsome...

Truth be told it was a matter of economy that drove the staff at Number 67 Clarges Street to become masters of matchmaking. But that is a well-guarded secret...and it all begins when the...