Aunt Sapphire has passed away, leaving no children. Her large fortune is passed down to her brother's only child, Essie Compton. Essie inherits a large fortune, which includes her Aunt's beautiful estate Mooreton House. However she is only entitled to her inheritance when she is married. And Essie has no desire to mar...
Highest Rating: #1 in Historical Fiction. Currently #1 under Historical Romance Lady Ginny Sherman is forced into an arranged marriage to Lord Stephen Knightly when her parents leave her and her sister alone and destitute after they die in a stagecoach accident. Ginny's life is completely flipped upside down. This...
Born in 1905, Alabama is baby number 10 of a large family. She learns about life, and especially love, when she meets Jackson Marshall: a too good-looking widower who has inherited his deceased wife's property. They have some ups and downs, and fight the challenges of the Great Depression. Author's notes: I do not de...
Caroline Winther has everything a girl in Victorian England can wish for. A kind, caring family, plenty of money, a respected name, and a loving fiancee. Her life takes a drastic change, however, with the start of the Crimean war. Carol finds her plans to join Florence Nightingale's team of nurses roadblocked by her l...
A toss of the dice, doomed Evangeline to an uncertain future. Her father gambled away their families fortune leaving her in the hands of a ruthless man determined to have her at any cost to repay their debt. She escapes him, and a series of unfortunate events lands her in the company of two pickpockets and two goons t...
~HIGHEST RANK #15~ When Charlotte's father dies, she travels to London to seek employment, to save her family from destitution. Once hired temporaryly by the wealthy and ill Lady Wellington, Charlotte becomes curious about her only son, Edmund who joined the militia several years prior without returning home until...
***COMPLETED!!!*** ---- Everyone has secrets... Vincent, Viscount Thorne, perfected his wicked grin and his good-humored mask years ago. He has no time for fools. Or that fickle emotion, love. The ton is full of sheep blindly walking into heartbreak. After all, he had ruined his best friend's little sister for love on...
Juliet Sinclair knows her brother was murdered--now if only she could understand why. Proving her family innocent of treason is taking a toll on lady-turned-maid Juliet. Her latest investigation has brought her into the service of the spoiled Miss Dunbar and her salacious older brother, who pursues Juliet despite repe...
[Completed] New Highest Ranking #7 in Historical Fiction: After a shaky past of arranged marriages and abuse, Millicent Thorne decides to start anew away from the life she used to know. To escape her past life, Millicent signs up for a job as a housemaid on the estate owned by Mr. Theodore Ashton. Can Millicent chan...
When Rebecca arrives in London from millcot to live with her aunt and uncle both Childess and willing to adopt her and provide proper upbringings she has many calls when she makes her debut there is one bloke imparticular who won't take a No for expectable answer will Rebecca give in after to this infuriated bloke he...
Know your daughters. When young Lady Anne Macleod runs off with her true love, the handsome young falconer, Kirk Buchanan, she inadvertently sets off a chain of events that turns her young daughter, Cordaella, into a pawn between wealthy lords locked in a game of power, wealth, and greed. At age nine, Cordaella is for...
Tony Matthews spends his time in London's most notorious gambling dens, frittering away his fortune. But when his latest victory leaves a man ruined, Tony knows he's reached his lowest point. Determined to make amends, he returns home to his family's country estate with plans to settle down and marry at last. And he h...
Lady Aria Alford, daughter of the Duke of Wellington has always dreamed of finding love. However, her occasional clumsiness and unspoken demeanor cause her to be a less than desirable woman of society as she is often reminded. Her love of reading and adventurous spirit may lead her down a path she did not expect and a...
She believes in happily everafter.... Since childhood Alaina knew that she is destined to be the wife of the Duke of Glenford and she believed that one day the Duke will claim her she will be cherished,they will be together and they will live happily ever after... Stolen kiss....Shattered dreams.... but her dreams wer...
Marcus Reese, Duke of Essex, has spent most of his days pulling his twin brother out of trouble. An occasional thank you would suffice; instead, his resentful sibling forges his name to a marriage license and presents him with a unwanted wife. She's a vicar's window with a mind of her own who may be the first person i...
Being a governess was truly the only path open to Olivia Fairfax. Left as a child on the doorstep of Miss Clearwater's School for Girls, she had lived her life among the spoiled and rich daughters of the ton. They often eschewed her company due to her unknown history, leaving the girl alone with her books. Still, Oliv...
One must see beyond the title. The Duke of Devonshire, the most powerful duke in England, tires of female debutantes' and their gabster mothers' pretenses and Spanish coins just to win the station of duchess next to him. But one queer day in Northamptonshire, he meets the strangest of women by the name of Esther. Who...
Cara grew up in an orphanage and she is tired of living in that old house. For 10 years, she stayed there without a clue who her real parents were. She has a vague memory of her past. She remembers waking up one day at the orphanage but can't remember any other thing even her name. Cara is the name given to her at the...
Ms. Charlotte Denali is turning eighteen and is now of marrying age. The problem is that she has no interest in finding a husband, or been being a proper lady. Mr. Henry Parker is looking for a wife and is introduced to Charlotte at a ball thrown for her birthday. Henry quickly singles out Charlotte and begins to spen...
If every young lady likes to be crossed in love now and then, the Vicar Pearce's daughters are three times blessed. Willful and spirited, Rachel refuses to think Lord Ellsworth's son, her dearest friend since childhood, is not in love with her. But the youngest sister, Amanda, is the one who's attracted the eye of Lor...
There are no words worth speaking, and death is just inevitable silence. I've inherited more money than I'll ever need, but for some reason it's inappropriate to resign oneself to spinsterhood after only one season. I'd put up a fight, but it seems a waste of breath when my quietness is a very effective deterrent.
London, England, 1844... Lady Jane Wicked, (pictured on the front book cover), is a Lady of High Society, who ignores every suitor who loves her... ...But when Lord James Lowe attempts to seduce her...their behavior causes a scandal in London Town in the 19th century. The new historical romance book by Robert Helliger...
She saw as he approached her only to pass her as he shuts the curtains, "Go to bed, I will be there momentarily." He said as he began to plunge the room into darkness . She had no choice she must, even if it will be against her will, he was her husband and it was his right. She walked to bed and frowned as she laid d...
Abigail lived in her sister's shadow all of her life. She had to live up to her only sister's expectations. She has her own dreams, to study music with the masters, marry on her own time. Her failing body and her sister's marriage held her back. She had to give her mother what she wanted, the perfect marriage. One nig...
Katrina Goddard, oldest daughter of the Duke and Duchess of Suffolk. Her crimson hair and brown eyes enchant the many suitors of England, making her a prize among men. She cannot fathom the idea of marriage, but to appease her mother, she'll entertain the thought. At nineteen years old, she wants to travel the world a...
[This story is now FREE] Florette moves to Versailles, only to discover a group of Fae are destroying France. Allying with the battled-scarred Destan, she has to save the kingdom. ***** Florette, a painter's apprentice, is finally welcomed to the pa...
Sold into the slave trade at the young age of 4, Cadha has worked as a servant for the majority of her life. Sadly, she has never quite done well as a slave in any of the households she has worked in. The longest she has kept her job as a servant was 1 year. She now works in the household of Lord Dunbar, but unfortun...
Captain Alex Woodward was fighting Napoleonic troops on the Peninsula, until his wounds forced him to retire. Now he travels to an estate of his former comrade, killed by the enemies, to fulfill his promise and help the slain officer's sisters any way he could. The estate is entailed, but the eldest sister Rebecca com...
The setting is New Zealand in the 1860s, when gold miners poured into the fledgling settlement of Dunedin. Rose is unhappy in the household of her fanatical uncle, but Thomas, a young merchant from Canada, offers a glimpse of another possible life, if she is brave enough to reach for it. (Short story)
Becky is the envy of the courtesans of the demi-monde - the indulged mistress of the wealthy and charismatic Marquis of Aldridge. But she dreams of a normal life; one in which her daughter can have a future that does not depend on beauty, sex, and the whims of a man. Finding herself with child, she hesitates to tell A...