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When Amelia Langridge accepts an invitation to stay in London as companion to the beautiful Camilla Strickland, her thoughts are merely to enjoy herself a little before settling down as the wife of dull but dependable Edmund Crannock. Camilla's intention is to capture a rich and noble husband, and her mother is only too delighted to allow Amelia to remain quietly in the background. When Camilla attracts the attention of pleasure-loving Earl Rossleigh it seems that she will realize her ambition. But the earl is intent on another, much more dangerous quarry and it is level-headed Amelia who finds herself caught up in his tangled affairs...A merry dance through the Georgian world of duels, sparkling romance and breathless adventure.
In the closing months of 1792, the terror of the French Revolution forces Camille, the young Comte du Viviere, to flee his homeland and seek refuge with his relatives in England. For Madeleine, the arrival of her handsome French cousin marks a change in her so-far uneventful existence and soon she finds herself caught up in a dangerous web of intrigue that also entangles Camille. But is he victim or villain? The author weaves a tale of romance, adventure and intrigue set during the final years of Georgian England.
Antonia Venn describes herself as a very average sort of female, of average height, average colouring, a poor little dab of a girl and certainly nothing to win the heart of a man of fortune or fashion. In a bid for independence and at a time when the waltz was born, she decides to open a dancing school in Bath, despite the misgivings of her family. And it is here that she is persuaded to take on the beautiful Isabella Burstock as a pupil. However, this decision puts Antonia on a collision course with the young heiress' autocratic brother...So begins this entertaining Regency romance, which will enchant all readers of the genre.
Miss Clarissa Wyckenham comes to London to join her pretty stepmama - only to find that Mama-Nell has formed a 'discreet club for ladies' ...! Soon she is pitched headlong into the deliciously wicked antics of the Belles Dames Club, and finds herself in conflict with the disapproving Lord Alresford. But when one of the Club's members, Lady Dorothea Gaunt, takes her pursuit of excitement to the point of indulging in a little highway robbery, what is Clarissa to do ...?