Rosemary Albright has been a topic of gossip in the Ton for six long years. She has perfected her gentle smile, her polite non-answers are above reproach, and not a single brash suitor has seen a snippet of her ire. She is the picture of a calm and collected widow, and she intends to remain that way, even as strangers, acquaintances, and friends alike insist on encouraging her to marriage once more. Alexander Kilroy will do anything in his power to remain unnoticed. Caught between two worlds - his brothers' titles and his father's humble roots - there is nowhere he quite belongs. Ignoring the whispers around him and the hurt in his mother's eyes, Alex is determined to forge his own path, even if it carries him even further from the family he craves but cannot have. When Rosemary and Alexander are reunited, they find their situations are not so different. And what starts as a friendship between two opposite - one like sunshine, the other midnight rain - might just be what they've both been searching for. *A Humphrey Chronicles Novella (book 3.5) which may be read as a standalone* An ONC 2024 Entry (2K, 8K, and Round 2 Ambassador's Pick) Completed December 2024 (~35000 words)

When Sinead O'Reilly agrees to be her childhood best friends Maid of Honour, she's immediately filled with dread. Sinead hates weddings. She's never told anyone that before , until she meets a handsome stranger in the airport. Safe in the knowledge she'll never see the handsome stranger again, Sinead is floored when he shows up in Dublin as the best man. Even more so when the stranger devises a plan to help keep her away from her cheating ex... but Sinead isn't sure that plan will hold up, and she worried about what will happen when it all falls apart. - ONC PROMPT 51. The problem with red flags is that I'm attracted to them

It's 2203. Dr. Emma Harper works as a researcher at the Time Preservation Society. Her focus is in British Theatre History. She is content to spend her days recording and organizing information brought back by Time Agents. The last thing she expects is to be called on to make the jump into time. Sam Caden is an ex-cop, working a special mission for the Time Preservation Society. He'd never expected to be chasing thieves and criminals through time. He doesn't know what his new partner, Dr. Harper, will bring to the case, but he's willing to put up with it since everything he knows about the Regency England theater world would fit on a postage stamp. Can this unlikely pair work together to keep Mrs. Siddons' prized Marie Antoinette shawl safe from thieves, or will they get caught in the 1808 Covent Garden devastating fire?

Twenty-year-old Diana Forester, a country-bred young woman fears that her inexperience and uncertainties have driven Mr. John Richfield away. On arriving back home from London, she learns that he is already there, ready to continue their acquaintance. If Diana thought that it was difficult in London, courting takes on a whole new aspect when Diana's younger siblings become involved. She finds herself dealing with her own feelings, her sister, her younger brother, jealous members of a house party, a jilted suitor, and a highwayman as she falls in love with the charming Mr. Richfield. This is the first chapter of the novel, which can be purchased on Amazon, Kobo, Apple, and more!

A young woman exchanges her hand in marriage for the financial freedom of her family. Rose Holt meets her betrothed on the day they are to marry. Mr. Adam Morton's brusque manner would be enough to send any young lady fleeing, but if she wants to keep her family from complete ruin, Rose must keep her word and become the man's lawful wife. Will Rose find happiness with her change of circumstances, or has she married a beast of a man?

Charlotte Claridge lives a life dictated by her stepmother's whims. Sent to live with one family member after another, she finally arrives in Scotland, on the doorstep of a crumbling estate abandoned by its owner. With her aunt, she spends her days mending curtains and peeling potatoes, a quiet existence that changes with the appearance of a carriage bearing a coat of arms. From out of the carriage falls Lord Hartley Cowden, Baron Aldburgh. Drunk, unconscious, and bleeding, Charlotte and her aunt carry him into his ancestral home. As he recovers in Charlotte's care, Hartley confesses to a crime that nearly sent him spiralling towards his grave. But can she entrust him with her own secrets while coaxing him back from the dead?

To save her family from scandal, Emily Collicott must marry. Ruined in her first season in London, she is given no choice but to wed her father's pick for a husband, or be cast out from her home. Emily agrees to marry William Hazlitt, a man she hardly knows. But William remembers her. Growing up as a tenant on her father's estate, he admired her from afar, their lives kept separate first by class, and then by loss. Emily seeks to begin a new life with this quiet man to whom she finds herself wedded. But the scandal she escaped in London soon finds her again, the very man who destroyed her reputation threatening to tear down the happiness she's found with her new husband. To keep from losing everything, she must either make a deal with a devil... or learn how to destroy one.

Grace Anderson was certain her future was secure when she accepted the proposal of Jonathan Sinclair. When he dies unexpectedly, she is devastated, and even after five years, she has found no man who can equal the man she was to have married. Her mother has introduced uncountable bachelors to her, but she could not encourage them. A strange lady's maid reintroduces Grace to Mr. Adam Melbourne, a young man who had been as a younger brother to Jonathan. Despite her determination to ignore the cheerful gentleman, she thinks of the future once again. A companion novella to The Debutante, The Sinclair Society Book Two and Best Laid Plans, A Gentleman of Misfortune Book Two.

Sophia has sacrificed everything for her younger sister, Lucy. She has removed them from the only home they ever knew, taken on the care of Lucy's illegitimate son, George, and even assumed the role of a widow and mother in order to erase all hint of scandal from the boy's birth. But rumor continues to follow them like the darkest of clouds, and Sophia must adapt to her new existence as a false widow with no prospects beyond the doors of her small cottage. Lord Haughton - "Finn" to those close to him - will stop at nothing to prevent the slightest whiff of disgrace from tainting his family's name. When he learns of his younger brother's latest indiscretion-one that leaves a bastard child in his wake-Haughton rushes across the country to offer the boy's mother a comfortable living in exchange for her silence about the child's true parentage. But he arrives only to have his generous offer thrown back in his face by Sophia Brixton, a sharp-tongued and sharper-witted woman who proceeds to toss him out of her house. But just because he is banished from her home does not mean he is so easily banished from her life.

After two years, Lady Celia Leith has had enough. When she married Sir Horace, she thought she knew what marriage would bring her: security, a home, a loving husband. What she wasn't expecting was a mother-in-law who despised her and criticized everything she did. She also believed her loving husband would actually be at home more than a week at a time. Taking a stand takes a strength of will this lady didn't know she had. With the help of a lady's maid who is more than she appears, Celia sets about making Clarendon her home. However, when Sir Henry returns with friends in tow, Celia must be resolved to continue her plans. Will the truth behind his travels bring her closer to the husband she loves, or will her heart be broken?