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Regency Romance: A Race Against The Lord (A Historical Romance Book) (COMPLETED)
Love is in the air Regency style. You will love this wonderful story because it will leave you filled with love.Dashing dukes, lavish ladies and enough romance to fill a season. Grab this amazing value box set to be swept away by dashing dukes and handsome lords.Four inspirational regency stories. Journey with these ladies as they choose the man of their dreams and find their happy ever after.If you're a fan of clean regency romance, you will love this book.
Regency Romance: The Earl's Obsession (Historical Romance) (COMPLETED)
(COMPLETED)It's 1817 and there is nothing more a woman wants than to marry a rich man and live a life of comfort. But not Nancy Brooks. Having spent half her life helping her mother run her laundry shop and the other half in the local library, Nancy knows what she wants, and it is not a life spent looking for the perfect suitor. Things take a turn when she delivers clothes to one of the schools she always dreamed of attending and ends up saving the day. Lord Andrew Montgomery rules almost every place he sets foot in-one of the perks of being the son of the most powerful duke of the time-and this includes Oxford. Violent and aggressive, he vows to make the life of every student who dares defy him miserable. However, when he targets the new (and first) girl at Oxford, his obsession becomes a little more than just making her life miserable. It began, he would later speculate, with a shout: the simple sound of someone shouting at him-for the first time in his life. It began, she would later speculate, with a catch: the simple movement of strong arms, breaking her fall, catching her midway. But after that, there would come many more events, and ones not too keen on bringing them together. What will they do when a powerful duchess steps in, when it seems every person is working to keep them apart? This is a story of betrayal and love, because they are not so different after all...
The Painter's Apprentice
[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 palace of Versailles. Ready to work, she notices that several of the courtiers are too beautiful to be human. Soon a battle-scarred warrior, Destan, tells her the truth: a faction of Fae have left the faerie and are slowly destroying the French monarchy. Determined that France must not fall, Florette is forced to use her skill to smuggle messages about the Fae inside her own paintings. Can she trust the rugged warrior at her side? And can Florette save France from creatures beyond mortal control?
Only Hope | Anthony Bridgeton
After the passing of Abigail Bentley's mother, she is now the only one responsible for her family's well-being. Her father, often too drunk to stand, cannot help her now. So it is up to her to proceed into society alone, in hope of securing a match that will take care of herself and her family. She is the sole hope for her family's name. Is she up to the task? She had better be, for she has no other option. After she meets Anthony Bridgerton however, she will be faced with a choice: love or responsibility?OC x Anthony Bridgerton
Regency Romance: An Unexpected Duke's Invitation (A Historical Romance Book)
( COMPLETED STORY)What happens when the rakish Lord in the whole of London is truly falling in love with a simple, plain, and most ordinary girl, something he has been avoiding- his innermost fear. True love? Miss Amy Ott is London's newest riddle. . . She's the mysterious niece of one of England's wealthiest dukes, and is about to encounter her first season. Knowing nothing about the workings of corsets and country dances, she's looking for any help she can find... even when it comes from the most unlikely source... London's infamous rogue-an older Duke. Duke Wardington's face transformed into something... dark . "Don't fear, Miss Ott. I have no desire of you. What if I told you that I could make you the belle of the ball? In every ball. The entire season." Amy chuckled. "Me? The belle of the ball? Impossible!" ... Or was it? This catches the attention from the most unlikely, most alluring man in all of London. Lord Nathaniel Dawnton knows what he wants. Amy Ott. And... this is definitely not in a way that he could speak of in public. The scoundrel, who blackened his own soul, had met all sorts of women throughout his years, but none like Amy. He's intrigued and won't stop until he has her. When Nathaniel's pursuits meet the walls of Amy's strength, the young lord is ready to jump those walls blindly... But... he doesn't realize that a jump toward Amy might mean a fall toward love... something he has been avoiding-his innermost fear ... true love. Find out NOW!
Regency Romance: The Lady's Masquerade (A Historical Romance Book) (COMPLETED)
Good girls don't go snooping where they don't belong. But Lady Delia Scarborough never claimed to be a good girl.Lady Delia Scarborough wants her sister back from the grave. Since that can't happen, she'll settle for the next best thing...Making sure her sister's murderer does not go free.Lady Delia's happy to play the part of maid as long as it gets her inside the home of Kieran Dearborne, Duke of Cowanfield. He may be able to fool his young daughter into thinking he's innocent, but he can't fool Delia. She knows a murderer when she sees one.But the attraction that blossoms between them throws her plans into chaos. The more Delia gets to know the Duke, the more she thinks his innocence is no act.But every clue she uncovers points to him, and he acts strangely whenever she's around.Delia will do anything to avenge her sister's death, but that means putting her own life in peril.Can the duke's love pull Delia back from the brink of danger?Or was her fate sealed the moment she stepped into the Duke's home?
Queen of Mean
When Victoria becomes the official heir of the Rozenreff Dukedom, she decides to be the queen with the king of her choosing.- - - - - - - - Set after a year when Victoria Rozenreff announces to the high society that she takes side with the aristocratic faction. Victoria will move her plans to make the second prince, Prince Corean, sit on the throne as the next king. Victoria decides that she will be the second Queen Regent in the history of the Eckrett Empire.The line has been drawn between foes and friends.Will she be able to do it when the impending death of Prince Corean is still set in stone?Will she become the queen with her chosen king candidate?- - - - - - - - -WICKED SERIES 2An Original StoryDate Started: April 23, 2021BOOK 2 of The Villainess
Annabelle's Will
Born a slave, made an heiress, Annabelle must battle a society unwilling to accept her and a love that threatens to ruin her in order to keep her freedom. ***** Born a slave, Annabelle soon finds that fate has other plans when she's purchased by a man named Elijah Finley, who not only rescues her from an abusive master, but also gives her her freedom. However, her new life comes at the cost of another: Elijah has made Annabelle the heiress to his estate, in spite of having a son. So Henry Finley, unwilling to accept his father's will, is determined to regain his rightful fortune at any cost -- even if that means seducing his father's former slave...Content and/or Trigger Warning: This story contains some racist and sexist language that reflects the historical time period when it's set.[[word count: 80,000-90,000 words]]
Have Faith
A chance encounter between two people changes the trajectories of their lives forever.Cassian Kensington was a poverty stricken man, on the brink of starvation, before a chance encounter with a mysterious woman changes everything. Leaving him with only her name - Faith - and a purse full of coins, she tells him to make something of himself.But years later, fate is not finished with Cassian and Faith, and brings them together again ...
Regency Romance: The Lords of Love (A Prequel to Wardington Park) (COMPLETED)
(COMPLETED)Before the Duke of Wardington, before marriage, and before the games of marrying off his three sons and their friends, there was simply Lord Martin...There's only one sort for a rogue and that's more rogues. So... when Martin and his friends spot London's newest and most beautiful lady, competition is struck.Martin intends to use all his charm on Lady Ellen Kay simply to prove who amongst his group fulfills Tirso de Molina's Don Juan. But there's another lady distracting his mission-an old friend. Before she became the queen of the season...Lady Abigail Irwin has transformed since she was last seen by the beau monde. Blossomed into a beauty, she now finds gentlemen willing to take her off the marriage market. While one man in particular seems the most interested, Abigail finds Martin's games to be the most exciting thing to ever happen to her. But in the end, everyone must make a choice and live with the consequences... A prequel to "The Wardington Park" universe, The Lords of Love is the novella that will answer many questions about the past. Who is Levi's mother? Why does Abigail reign supreme during the rule of Prince Regent? Who was Her Grace, the Duchess of Wardington? The woman whose death led Martin into his depression and back into the debauched life? If you're wondered the answers to these question, then get read to curl up in bed, a chair, or even a long flight, and brace yourself for Lord Martin...
The Duke who caught my eye
Leonard Fox, the Duke of Montrose-handsome as the very devil and a physician by profession was very content with his less than normal life. But then his best friend dies, leaving his four year old daughter under Leo's guardianship. Leo loves the girl, no doubt. But that didn't mean he knew how to raise her. So he ends up in London in search of a wife. Meanwhile, Lady Clara Fethuerington is busy flitting from one ball to another desperately looking for the right man and reluctant to put herself out there at the same time. Unbeknownst to anyone, Clara is a famous novelist and has made fun of almost every single obnoxious member of the ton. If her secret got out, she'd be ruined. Will any man in his right man want her as his wife? Clara has no idea of what's in store for her. Let's find out..Completed.Cover by @00Athena00
نهضة || AL NAHDA
Zainab bint FarouqThirteen years ago, a girl with fire in her eyes and love in her heart escaped the clutches of war. Thirteen years later, she brings war. ***Asad ibn MalikIt takes him ten years to learn of the Great Betrayal. Ten years of blindness reduced his kingdom to rubble.Ten years later, he swears to make up for it.***For from the ashes of ordeals, is glory forged
The Accidental Duchess
When the arrogant stranger Bess is forced to marry unexpectedly becomes a duke, she'll find herself at odds with her growing feelings as he hunts for a killer. *****Sharp-tongued Elizabeth 'Bess' Jones is perfectly content living on her lonesome in a tiny village south of Derbyshire. She works as a nurse, owns a small home, and finds the label of 'spinster' an agreeable trade for her independence. But when her entire life is uprooted in an instant, she only has one person to blame: her new husband, Emmett Wilde, who was caught in a compromising situation with her. And now, despite his promise to fake a death certificate after their wedding--to free her of any duty to him or their marriage bed--he sends for her in the dead of night with startling news: his father has been murdered, and he is now the Duke of Ascot with a wife he can no longer deny...[[Word Count: 60,000-70,000 words]][[Cover designed by Ren Tachibana]]
Meant to Bea
Born a bastard, Race Belington has lived all his life paying the price of his father's infidelity. Scorned and set aside by society, he is in doubt that even his newly acquired wealth will be enough to secure him a wife. Still, he manages to fall in love with a woman of the ton, and risks it all by asking her to marry him.What Race is however not expecting, is to wake up on the morning of his honeymoon, to find a stranger in his bed.*#BEASERIES* Trigger warning; This book contains scenes of abuse.
Wildest Dreams
A series of Storm and Silence one shots ~~~ It was the warmth that he remembered the most. She was warm, so warm. Like a glowing hearth providing relief to a weary traveller from the cold in the dead of winter. Everything about her was like fire. From her fingers leaving scorched trails everywhere she touched him to the velvet of her lips igniting the furnace in his chest. ~~~
How to be a Housemaid
[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 change her life for the better, or will her past finally catch up with her and ruin her hard work forever? Book Cover Copyright- © Victoria Davies/ Trevillion Images Highest Rankings #61- August 16 #21- August 19 #8- August 20#14- August 22#7- October 10
My Virtual Darcy 🏆 2021 Wattys Shortlister
What would you give up to dive into your favourite story?Romantic, sharp-tongued, with a tendency to fall in love with tall, dark-haired, brooding men--Leah is the archetype of the "Pride and Prejudice" fan. TV series, movies, comics, musicals: she has seen and read them all.For her birthday, Leah's friends and family pool together to get her the ultimate Janeite gift: the Bridge, a virtual-reality gaming device.By granting access to her five senses, she can live her favourite novel as the iconic Elizabeth Bennet!As she explores Regency England and quarrels with the infamous Darcy, Leah cannot help but digress from the original plot to suit her modern-woman convictions.The longer she plays, the weirder her beloved characters act, until the lines between fiction and reality blur.⚠️ Content and/or trigger warning ⚠️This story contains one scene of (unsuccessful) sexual coercion, and mentions domestic violence and death by domestic violence, which may be triggering for some readers.📖 Featured 19 times! Seen on: 📖@beauty@SpeculativeFiction@Humor@ContemporaryLit@retold@WattRevenge@ScienceFiction@mystery@StoriesUndiscovered@WattpadGaming@ChickLit@Fanfic@NA@generalfiction@classicauthors@WattpadHistoricalRomance@HistoricalFiction
To Defy A Duke
Lady Eliza Turner has no interest in finding herself a wealthy husband, she has her books, her best friend Charlotte, and plenty of opinions on what society expects from her. When her curiosity gets the better of her, and she ends up in a compromising position with the desirable Duke Harrington she must use all her wits and charm to survive the scandal she has created. Jasper Harrington doesn't enjoy attending social occasions especially when opinionated women think that it is acceptable to criticise him, but there is something about Eliza that he can't quite bear to part with. Are this odd couple going to find a happy ever after together or apart?
A is For Arson: A Langley & Porter Mystery (FIRST FIVE CHAPTERS)
Alexander Langley wasn't looking for trouble but Charlotte Porter found him anyway. Only, this new partnership has them in over their heads and way before their time.2020 WATTYS WINNER in MYSTERYThe life of a poor merchant's daughter in Victorian Era London is quite boring. Charlotte Porter, it seems, is the exception. Desperate for a source of income once her father's gambling debts have drained their funds and placed them in the sights of some of London's most notorious criminals, Charlotte is in search of salvation. It comes in the form of handsome detective Alexander Langley, a curious gentleman with a strange connection to Scotland Yard and an even stranger connection to the American West. Charlotte soon finds herself swept into his world of investigation and intrigue. When a case of art theft turns into murder and she and Alexander are thrown into the seedy underbelly of the London elite, Charlotte realizes that the work isn't the only thing she's become attached to. But now, her father's powerful creditors are ready to close the books on them, and Charlotte must find a way to keep them out of the red because this time it won't be written in ink.Book 1 of the Langley & Porter Series*Featured on:The Wattpad Stars For Fans of Bridgerton ListWattpad's Strong Female Leads List @HistoricalFiction 's The Gothic ListEDITOR'S PICK April 2021 Content warning: This story contains violence.**This is only the first five chapters. The rest of the book is available on Amazon for purchase and via KU.**
She Who is King
"May God have mercy on my enemies. Because I won't."~England. 18 year old Lyra disguises herself daily to pass as a boy to fulfill her duties as Sir Grummore's squire. Content where she is, Lyra doesn't have anything to wish for.When Grummore goes to the Stone Tournament, Lyra follows. The tournament surrounds the sword in the stone, the legendary kingmaker. So when Lyra pulls the sword, chaos ensues.She must balance learning to be the king, plotting to stop the Saxons' invasion, and her confusion over the wizard, Merlin, and his intriguing apprentice, Arthur, as she fights for the rights to rule her kingdom.~~~ONC entry 2022ONC Longlister ✨ ONC Shortlister ✨ ✨featured✨ ~HistoricalFiction under Historical Fanfiction, Historical Fantasy, & Alternate Universes!~MythandLegend under Legends and Heros!~Fantasy under Medieval Magic and Mythology! ~Stories Undiscovered on Historically Inaccurate!~Teen Fiction under Supernatural!~Stories Undiscovered under Feast on Fiction!Prompts 52 and 96amazing cover by meha-k
Star's Crossing
{WATTY'S 2020 WINNER & EDITOR'S PICK.} Hopeless romantic and aspiring writer Mare Atwood has fallen madly in love with her childhood correspondent. There's only one catch-she doesn't know who he is. When the beaus of Star's Crossing return from boarding school to begin the courting season, Mare is determined to uncover the identity of her writer, flout her family's intentions of orchestrating an advantageous marriage, and procure the life of writing and romance she's always sought. But as in the tales she so adores, it won't be easy. Galas, masquerades, picnics, and hunts-alongside an old friend, a former teacher, and an unlikely ally, Mare delves into an investigation that leaves her torn between three clever, deceptive, and wealthy young bachelors. If Mare can confirm which is her writer and claim his hand before the courting season ends, she'll have her wish: the love of her life, a valuable marriage, and a future of writing romance. But with the eyes of Star's Crossing upon her, a business plot forcing invisible hands, and the unwillingness of her writer to come forward-Mare's future may not end in triumph, but tragedy.Set against the gilded Victorian backdrop of coastal Connecticut and lush with pre-war luxury, fans of Jane Austen, Margaret Mitchell, and Louisa May Alcott are sure to enjoy this lighthearted, lyrical novel of young love, independence, and identity.#1 Literary #1 YA Romance #1 Victorian #1 Lyrical#8 General Fiction
My Best Friend Anastasia Romanov
After the revolution, a woman claims she's the youngest daughter of the Romanov Family, the last imperial Family of Russia. She claims she is Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna Romanova. Back then, the Bolshevik's lied to the public and said they only killed the Czar and Czarina. That, however, was not true and like the rest, Anastasia was brutally executed with the rest of her family. Needing answers, they seek out the Danish Princess to ask her Questions. For she was the practical sister of Anastasia...RANKING!2 in #romanov1 in #czarina5 in #czar
D is for Deception: A Langley & Porter Mystery
This story will become free on July 5, 2023.They will stop at nothing. So Charlotte won't either.Desperate to save her family from the organized crime syndicate that is the Keene family, our heroine has devised a plan. One which requires shipping all of her new friends halfway across the world and distancing herself from everyone she cares about. Dying her hair and taking on the role of the rich heiress lost in London, she infiltrates the city's most powerful family in an attempt to bring them down from within.Though, despite the knowledge she's gained of the elite from living with the Langley's for months, she soon realizes that nothing could have prepared her for George Keene or, perhaps worse, his deceptively handsome son, Camden. Alone and with only her wits to get her through, will she manage a feat no one has attempted before? Or will she fall prey to the dangerous charms of the Keenes once and for all?This is book four of the Langley & Porter Mystery Series.Content warning: This story contains violence.
An Impossible Deception
FOR FANS OF BRIDGERTON. To save her family's reputation, Isabella must impersonate her twin sister to deceive her sister's husband in a scheme that depends on her not falling for him. ****** Identical twins Isabella and Arabella Garvey have nothing in common except their looks: where Arabella is a confident socialite, Isabella hides from society, ruined by scandal. But when Arabella runs away with a secret lover to escape her loveless marriage, Isabella must impersonate her sister in order to save her family's reputation. The only problem? In order to outfox Arabella's cruel and clever husband, Isabella must start living with him, and it doesn't take long for her to discover a passionate and respectful man under his icy exterior. But is she willing to destroy her sister's reputation in order to be with the man she loves?[[word count: 100,000-150,000 words]]
An Outlaw's Redemption
Weston Barlow never meant to create a name for himself as a notorious outlaw. Yet with each day the legend of his deeds and the bounty on his head rises. After a robbery goes wrong and Barlow is injured, he must use his only means of escape and outrun the posse seeking the price on his head - riding away into an unforgiving snow storm.When he gets stranded with an old rancher and the town doctor, each with secrets of their own, he is faced with a decision. One that will make him wonder if facing the posse might be easier than facing his own gang.
The Factory Girl // Book 1 in the Rosie Grey series
Rosie Grey was only seven years old when she arrived at Mr Thompson's cotton factory. Now fourteen, she has become accustomed to the treatment of the workers and the harsh conditions under which they are forced to work.After an accident in the storeroom leads to her dismissal, Rosie must try to make her own way in the real world, away from the life she had grown used to.But despite being seemingly free from her life at the factory, Rosie struggles with the dark past that holds her captive, and she doesn't know if she will ever be able to escape the life she tries so hard to forget.(C)Spruce_GooseCover - Made by @Azanthiel
Husband Wanted (HC #1)
Elizbeth Anne Humphrey wants a husband. Her expectations are not outlandish; all she asks is that he be reasonably handsome, reasonably wealthy and completely kind. Her brothers have offered their assistance, and it's given her hope that perhaps there is a man out there who might want her for a wife. But alas, the first man she meets after recommitting to the battle against spinsterhood is reasonably handsome, reasonably naked and completely soaked through and stranded on their front steps. He also has a head-wound and no memory of who he is, but Elizabeth Humphrey has larger mysteries to solve; namely, the mystery of who she might marry. Wattys 2022 EntryCompleted: March 2022 (~83000 words)