Posts Tagged ‘Regency’
Regency Royal Navy Christmas, by Carla Kelly
Regency Royal Navy Christmas, by Carla Kelly Even the squared away, efficient Royal Navy must surrender to the joys and misadventures of a Regency Christmas. Four stories shine a light on Christmas during the Napoleonic Wars on land and sea. In Boxing the Compass, a homesick frigate captain shepherding a convict convoy to Australia wants…
Read MoreMy Wayward Lady, by Evelyn Richardson
My Wayward Lady , by Evelyn Richardson Lovely Lady Harriet Farehem doesn’t mind risking a scandal that could ruin her and destroy her sister’s chances of making a brilliant marriage by being seen at London’s most select establishment of fashionable impures. Discovering a former servant among them, she promises to instruct the young women who…
Read MoreRegency Christmas Gifts, by Carla Kelly
Regency Christmas Gifts, by Carla Kelly Regency Christmas Gifts is a collection of two novella-length regency romances and one short story by Carla Kelly. The Lasting Gift: Christmas approaches, and Mary Ann Poole has little to anticipate. Her daughter Beth was born just after the death in battle of her father seven years earlier, and…
Read MoreSeason’s Regency Greetings by Carla Kelly
Season’s Regency Greetings, by Carla Kelly “Let Nothing You Dismay”: In 1810 England, Cecilia Ambrose is an oddity at the Bath academy for young ladies where she teaches. Although gently raised, she is half-Egyptian, and at age twenty-eight believes she will never marry. With Christmas only days away, Cecilia has agreed to escort twelve-year-old Lucinda…
Read MoreHeartbreak Trail, by Shirley Kennedy
Heartbreak Trail, by Shirley Kennedy 1850. Lucy, a pampered New Englander, is dragged by her husband and cold-hearted brother-in-law on a wagon train bound for California. The first casualty of the arduous trek is her husband. Lucy longs to return home, but that would mean abandoning her little stepson. How fortunate then that rugged Clint…
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