"Well it is unfortunate that you will be saddled with a husband, despite your preference to remain a spinster," Mr Wilkes said with a smirk. "I beg your pardon?" The faintest alarm flickered in his eyes. "You don't really intend to refuse me?" The look on his face turned to that of a bewildered schoolboy. Frederick Wilkes was not used to refusal. "You don't really mean to propose marriage to a lady you have just met?" London, 1910. A strange bequest in a will leads to Mary Taylor hastily marrying reckless playboy Frederick Wilkes. Fred has a bad reputation but it is the seemingly moral Mary's past that threatens to destroy them both. A story of love, betrayal and murder. Best ranks: #1 in literary fiction, #1 in historical fiction #5 romance

Scarred and broken from a disastrous marriage, Laura Maidstone vows never to love again. And it's not love, when she seduces Richard Armiger, Lord Albroke, on her library room floor. It's only desire. And anger. And loneliness. Which, as she discovers, can be quite as dangerous... COMPLETED

When Hannah Templeton ran away from an arranged marriage, she did not expect everything to go so wrong, so quickly. Now she's snowed into a barn on her first night of freedom - along with a drunken, obnoxious stranger. In the cold light of dawn, perhaps arranged marriage will be the least of her troubles...

Verity Baker has spent her life cleaning up after her father's mistakes. But one day, he goes too far and sells her, for one night only, to a local lord to pay his debts. What kind of man would buy a woman? What kind of woman would agree to be bought? COMPLETED

Confident, independent, and beautiful, Lady Cecelia is the envy of every woman in London. Nothing ever breaks her composure, not even the handsome rake Major Godfrey being in love with her. Then her childhood sweetheart Sebastian Price returns to London, and everything falls apart. 21,000 words, completed.

The story follows the main character Elizabeth Bennet as she deals with issues of manners, upbringing, morality, education, and marriage in the society of the landed gentry of early 19th-century England. Elizabeth is the second of five daughters of a country gentleman living near the fictional town of Meryton in Hertfordshire, near London.

Rose Davies, a modern-day university student, finds herself trapped in the body of a 20s Lady, who had been brutally murdered at her time. Cutthroat gangs, fancy pubs and a new aristocratic lifestyle pull her into the hazardous world of Old London. An encounter with the Walker Twins, leaders of a subversive organisation, throws her into a blind alley as she tries to save herself from the dangerous fate that awaits her. Looking for a way to turn back to her world, what will cross her path in the meantime? Hardship? Crime? Betrayal? New friendships? And perhaps, love? Cover made by nelysian Copyright © 2020 by L (highfoxes)

Beauty has always been deadly and paired with intelligence it is lethal. Helen is written in our books as the face that launched a thousand ships, but they don't know how close they were to the truth. Helen is beautiful, intelligent and ruthless, a little different than history would like us to believe.

Maurea wants a place to belong and, after finally finding it with the Spirits of The Ocean, she must defend it and her loved ones against Hunters from her past. Maurea de'Laure is a powerless woman in the 1850s who has just left behind everything she knows for a chance at happiness. That is until she finds herself in the ocean at the heart of a story with burley, an old sailor pulling her to land. He introduces her to a world that had been hidden from humans where Maurea finally finds happiness. Well, as much happiness as expected with a flirtatious boy and scheming allies. When the lines between her past and future begin to blur, Maurea must decide what's more important: safety or freedom. Sometimes the only way to win is to lose; when the world is fighting against you. -Book 1 of The Spirit Series-

*Ranked #1 in Strong-heroine* In an alternate historical England... Ever since their first meeting, Prince Henry of France felt drawn towards the young Queen Elinora. Inhumanly beautiful, wittingly intelligent, and a guarded control to her every move. She was a paradox he wanted to unravel. Three years later, in order to solidify the peace treaty between the France and England, Elinora proposes marriage, and Henry accepts. Will they ever become more than a political ally to each other?