Historias de Regency-romance

Six months. That's all the time I have before my head rolls onto the executioner's block. Dying choking on spicy instant noodles was a pathetic way to go, but waking up as Ilse de Varannes? That's a death sentence. In the original novel, Ilse isn't the heroine. She isn't even the villainess. She's the brainless, loyal sidekick the girl destined to be butchered just for being the "troublemaker" (instigator) of her best friend's shitty schemes. I used to be a Public Relation staff. My entire life was damage control, narrative-spinning, and cleaning up messes. So, I have a plan: tame my impulsive best friend, dodge the Crown Prince like the plague, and ghost the imperial palace before the military cleans house. Simple, right? Wrong. My strategy didn't account for the Duke d'Alençon. The Grand Commander of the military. Brother of Prince, The cold-blooded monster who's literally supposed to sign my death warrant in the final chapter. He's not ignoring me like he's "supposed" to. He's cornering me in dark hallways. He's gripping my wrists tight enough to bruise. He's looking at me with those damn icy eyes like he knows exactly what I'm up to and he finds it fascinating. "You're in too deep, Ilse. And I don't have the habit of letting go of what I've already claimed."

"Help me ruin a political rival... and I'll erase your family's debts." Lady Isadora Vane is already ruined. Her family lost everything in a single night, and now they've returned to a society that never forgave them. To survive, Isadora plays the perfect lady by day... and by night writes A Lady's Guide to Ruin-an underground pamphlet teaching women how to destroy men like the ones who ruined her. Then she's caught. By Julian Blackwood. The Earl of Roth. Her family's enemy. The man she was warned never to trust. She expects exposure. Instead, he offers a deal. Fake courtship. Dangerous alliance. One rule-don't fall. Too bad she already is.

A Regency Romantic Comedy "He's a marquess with no grace. She's a maid with no patience. Together, they're society's worst scandal-and its greatest love story." He survived the war with his title intact, his cravat crooked, and absolutely no idea how to function in normal society. Now that he's home, the once-dashing (and accidentally heroic) Marquess of Windmere is a walking catastrophe-spilling tea, forgetting names, and setting fire to social decorum at every turn. The only thing standing between him and complete ruin? His maid. Catrina Bellamy is sharp-tongued, unshakable, and definitely not impressed by her employer's noble title or inability to hold a teacup. Secretly, she's been in love with him for years. Publicly, she calls him "Your Disastership" under her breath and threatens him with a mop. But when a scandal brews, a kiss almost happens (twice), and society demands the Marquess marry anyone but her, things begin to spiral into one gloriously chaotic, heart-squeezing mess. Will he trip over his own feelings before he can propose properly? Will she ever admit her heart's been his since she was ten? And how many household objects will they destroy before they finally kiss? A slow-burn, laugh-out-loud, enemies-to-lovers-but-also-servant-to-disaster-romance that proves love doesn't require elegance-just a little honesty, a lot of heart, and maybe a goat in pearls.

Somerset, 1817. For three years, Edmund Vale's elder brother has been missing. Frederick was the heir to Hawthorne Hall. Edmund was content to remain the second son-to have his books, his horses, and a life free from the responsibilities that would one day belong to his brother. Then Frederick comes home. And he isn't alone. Laurence Ashcombe is charming, impertinent, secretive-and apparently determined to get under Edmund's skin. Edmund dislikes him immediately. Unfortunately, Laurence knows where Frederick has been. As Frederick's return unsettles Hawthorne Hall, old secrets begin to surface. There are questions nobody wishes to answer, expectations nobody can escape, and feelings that two gentlemen in 1817 have very little freedom to acknowledge. Between country dances, family dinners, stolen conversations and the watchful eyes of polite society, Edmund must decide how much of the life chosen for him he is willing to sacrifice for the first person who makes him want one of his own. The Vale Chronicles - Book I *A Regency M/M romance of forbidden affection, family secrets, and the things we are never supposed to want.*

Matthew Humphrey is a disappointment. He's a lazy, unscrupulous, wastrel who spends too much time in his cups or with a pretty woman in his bed. At least, that's what the Ton believes. Unbeknownst to everyone - including his family - Matt has found a purpose; one that would put more than just his own life at risk if it were discovered! Between spying on the scum that dwell amongst the peerage and maintaining his disastrous reputation, the last thing he needs is a distraction. When the fierce and fiery Beatrice forces her way into his family - her own ambitions hinging on his youngest sister's education - their clash is as predictable as it is intense. The pair find themselves thrown together in a battle of wit and snark, and Bea is certain Matt is little more than a vapid lordling whose carelessness could ruin the life she has built for herself. But as chance and necessity force an unlikely partnership, she begins to doubt that all is as it seems with the youngest Lord Humphrey. As mischief and mayhem give way to vitriol and violence, the spitfire and the scoundrel must choose to trust each other - with their hopes, lives, and true selves - or risk losing everything. ** Book 4 of the Humphrey Chronicles **

"You are my sister," Louise said. "We share blood," Lucy replied. "That does not change who we are." Cast out by the family who called her mother a mistake and her own existence a burden, Louise has nothing left to lose, until Sebastian Warrington risks everything to prove her wrong. "And yet you stood by," she said, her voice catching, "while my people were spoken of as though they were nothing. I stood outside your father's study three nights ago. I heard what he said, and I heard you answer him. I heard him call people like me chattel and I heard you argue with him for the better part of an hour." Sebastian's grip on her hand tightened. "You spoke well," Louise continued. "You said all the right things," Louise whispered. "But I have spent my whole life listening to men say the right things when they believe no one is listening, only to change their principles when those principles become inconvenient." Her voice trembled. "So tell me, Sebastian. If I am truly the woman you claim to love, what happens the next time your father asks you to choose between me and your name?" Sebastian did not pull away. "I choose you." Louise looked up. "You cannot say that so easily." "I am not saying it easily." His voice was quiet, but there was no hesitation in it. "I have spent years allowing duty, reputation, and expectation to dictate every important decision in my life. I told myself that sacrifice was honourable simply because it was expected of me." He shook his head. "But I will not sacrifice you." Louise's eyes filled with tears. "What if it costs you your title?" "Then it costs me my title." "What if your father turns against you?" "Then I will live with his anger." "What if society turns against you?" Sebastian gave a faint, humourless smile. "Then society may do what it pleases."

During the Regency era, in Cambria (North England), Josephine Fairfax is a noblewoman, who by now has passes the marriageable age; in the past she has been engaged to a gentleman, who did not carry out the engagement and now, as it is custom, he is providing her an income as a reparation for her reputation. After the gentlemen returns in Cambria, Josephine, unexpectedly, receives another proposal by him. A proposal that her family does not approve, given the past outrage to them. However Mr. Talbot seemed to be honestly changed from the young man he was before. DO NOT COPY, DISCLOSE OR SHARE ANY PART OF THE STORY. THE STORY COMES FROM THE AUTOR'S MIND, ANY RESEMBLANCE WITH REAL FACTS OR OTHER FICTIONAL STORIES IS TOTALY CASUAL.

When Beatrice Alvarez's aunt died, she was left with a ring that has a unique power. The often pale diamond turns red when someone is lying and blue when someone is being honest. She always used this secret gift to her advantage- especially to ward off dishonest suitors. It seems like Miss Alvarez will need this gift more than ever when she is deemed the most eligible lady of the season. Alexander Stanton likes to think that he has a talent for persuasion. He will need to be persuasive if he is to find himself a bride. As the eldest son of Viscount Stanton, it's up to him to continue the family line. When he meets Beatrice Alvarez, he is impressed and revolted by how she seems to be able to read through people and detect dishonesty in them. Perhaps he might try to persuade her of his own honesty and candor. In this Regency romance with a magical twist, truth is the magic that will lead to true love- or to great heartache.

Eleanor Fairleigh arrives in London with no intention of causing a stir. She wishes only to observe, to understand, and-if possible-not to be paraded before the loudest and most persistent suitors of the Season. Unfortunately, she has been placed under the care of Lady Cordelia Ashcroft, a friend of her grandmother's as respectable as she is dangerously brilliant, and firmly convinced that the best way to protect a young lady is to present her-carefully, and with impeccable timing. As the Ton sets itself in motion with balls, intimate invitations, and an embarrassing number of suddenly attentive gentlemen, Eleanor navigates the Season with courtesy, intelligence, and a remarkable talent for being underestimated. Lady Cordelia, meanwhile, pretends to be in earnest search of the perfect husband for her protégée, while thoroughly enjoying every step of the process. Observing it all with outward composure is Julian, Viscount Ravenscroft: irreproachable gentleman, reluctant social strategist, and entirely convinced that he feels no interest whatsoever in Lady Cordelia's young charge. After all, esteem is not love. Attention is not jealousy. And irritation is certainly not emotional involvement. Or is it? Between rules obeyed only in appearance, conversations far too intelligent to be innocent, and a Season that tests even the steadiest of characters, With Due Discretion tells the story of how one may fall in love slowly, properly... and in the most intense way possible: by following the rules of the Ton to the letter.

Annabelle is frightened as her first season in London approaches. Marriage? She always hoped it would be for love. But what does she know about love. When looking for clues among her letters from her past suitors, she finds a letter she's never read before. Such passion and love, although she does not know its author, she has made it her ideal of what she wishes to find ... Love's Counterpart. Cyril Kane is probably the least romantic person on the planet. He wouldn't know a sonnet from a bonnet but upon seeing Annabelle all that has to change. He does not know how but he is determined to be the man worthy of her love. Made it through 3 rounds of the contest and on the short list from which the top five finalists and grand prize winner will be picked. 2-19-18 02-01-18 Ranked 215 in Historical Fiction #OpenNovellaContest ©All Rights Reserved by Ruechari If you are reading this story on any other site other than Wattpad you may be subjecting yourself to Malware. To view this story in it's original, safe form please go to the link provided. https://www.wattpad.com/story/128874217-love%27s-counterpart-opennovellacontest

This is a part of Imbolc through Beltane Day Collection 2024 I am doing The Dukedom of Lennox The Cover Art Work for the series was done by LadyWicca We hope you like our new collection.

She came to England to make a good match. She found a body first. India, 1818. Miriam Linden is one and twenty, too tall, too loud, and too much for an English marriage market that has already decided she does not belong. Her only comforts are the letters she writes home to her cousin Clementine, and the memory of Charlie, the ship's deckhand she was never meant to love. Then, at a grand and slightly crumbling country estate full of charming suitors, a guest turns up missing, and everyone agrees it was nothing at all. Everyone except Miriam. Now she is the only one asking the questions no one wants answered, in a house thick with secrets, courtship, and at least one person who would very much like her to stop. Falling in love was never the plan. Neither was solving a murder. A Regency mystery told entirely in letters, for readers who like their romance with a body count.

Every drawing room in England has a story about Lord Lynmouth. The Right Honourable Xavier Julius Devereux, Fourth Earl of Lynmouth. Brilliant, enigmatic and impossibly eligible, he is the man mothers covet, debutantes admire and society cannot stop talking about. At forty, he has become less a gentleman and more a legend. Cordelia Bridgerton has known those stories for years. A broken engagement, persistent illness and seasons spent away from the heart of London left the quiet Bridgerton twin watching society from its edges. So she stitched together whispered conversations, scandal sheets and second-hand tales until she knew Lord Lynmouth without ever having met him. Then the legend walks into her life. The man behind the myth is kinder than the rumours, stranger than the gossip and infinitely more captivating than the fantasy she had built around him. As old expectations crumble beneath glittering ballrooms, impossible conversations and a love neither of them saw coming, Cordelia discovers that the rarest things in life are never adored at first glance. Some people are simply an acquired taste.

Isabel Fairchild has spent her life biting her tongue, knowing that speaking out only brings pain. As the eldest daughter of a crumbling noble family, she's expected to marry well and stay silent-but silence has never been her way. Then there's Nathaniel Mercer, the son of a wealthy merchant who sees her, truly sees her, in a way no one else does. He makes her wonder if there's more to life than duty and fear. But when her father tries to sell off her little sister to the highest bidder, Isabel knows she can't just escape-she has to fight. And for the first time, she's not fighting alone.

She is willing to give up her love for his honor ... He is willing to give up his honor for her love ... Lady Beatrix Gillingham ran from her duty years ago... Giving up her family's status and childhood dreams. No one would suspect the barmaid is an earl's daughter. She's learned to work hard and make her heart even harder. But ... in one night, everything changes. She saves a life. Who knew that life would be the son of one of the oldest titles and most honorable homes in England? The Curbains And to a man who's just as valiant as his name suggests. General Hero Curbain has fought England's greatest enemies. As the son of a duke, he's faced his own challenges but never had he expected the challenge of Lady Beatrix. In thanks for her kindness, he offers her the chance of a lifetime: 1- One Season. 2- One opportunity to restore her name. 3- One chance to find love. However ... As secrets spill and the truth of Beatrix's past is revealed, she'll have to decide the best course of action. Fight for the man she loves or run away from her dreams once again? What happens when Hero discovers Beatrix is not the perfect lady he envisioned? Can love live in a society founded on duty? For fans of regency romance, THE PERFECT LADY is an absorbing and gripping story that will tug at your heartstrings.

Thomas Radcliff, Duke of Sussex, was anything but happy. His heart was recently broken by his childhood best friend who accepted a proposal to another man. His grief drives him to escape his Dukal duties during the autumn season to a nostalgic destination. Harvest Inn, a quaint countryside manor he'd spent many visits to with his family in the past was just the place. Fantasizing about riding horseback through the apple orchards and leisurely reading in the library in front of a roaring fireplace would be the cure to his broken heart. That is until he meets another Harvest Inn guest. Clara Beachum, an aspiring novelist interrupts his solitude with her intelligence and confidence, something he's never seen in a woman before. Will Thomas find a cure for his heartache? Or will the Harvest Inn draw him towards a new direction in his life? *This story contains mild language, depictions of alcohol, and some sexual content*

To save her family from ruin, a clever bluestocking must form a dangerous alliance with the one man in London she should avoid: the formidable Viscount who broke her heart. Lady Elodie Vance discovers her family is being bled dry by a respected friend's elegant fraud. Her only path to salvation is a devil's bargain with Lord Gabriel Stirling, Viscount Stonehurst-a man of ice and intellect who once coldly dismissed her youthful love. He offers a simple, clinical arrangement: her sharp mind and social access, in exchange for his protection and her family's security. Thrust into a world of deception, they must navigate glittering ballrooms and midnight searches, pretending a partnership that grows more perilous by the day. Elodie finds the icy Viscount guards a scarred and secretive heart, while Gabriel is unnerved by the brave, brilliant woman who challenges his every guarded instinct. But when a single, stolen kiss shatters the careful rules of their business arrangement, their fragile trust threatens to collapse. With a powerful enemy closing in, Gabriel must decide whether to retreat behind the walls of his past, or risk everything-his reputation, his control, and his carefully fortified heart-for a love that was never part of the bargain. 1st in #regencyengland

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Book One in the Woods series. Marion Woods believes that true love doesn't exist. After having her heart broken by a man she loved deeply, she stopped believing. She keeps herself locked away from others and waits as time ticks. James Cook doesn't believe in a happy life. Abandoned by his family at age ten, James thinks he will forever be alone and doesn't trust anyone for fear he will be left behind. Will these two overcome the fears and beliefs they hold to discover that they need each other?