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A charming Christmas Regency romanceA festive romance to fool society... but are they fooling themselves too?

Mysteries swell in London's snowbound Hell. The Other Face of the Christmas Shilling - Kathy L WheelerLady Thomasina Staunton takes refuge in an abandoned house as far from London, her friends, and her family as possible. But her ruse of an absent husband fighting the French backfires. Horribly so. When Florentine Comier, former Duc of Bouchard, returns unexpectedly from months of travel, he is shocked to find a stranger living in his home, claiming to be his wife. Despite the deception, Florentine cannot help being drawn to the beautiful and rebellious Lady Thomasina, and soon discovers a love he never believed possible. But danger looms on the horizon as not everyone believes decent Frenchmen exist on England's shores. A Christmas Ha'penny's Worth of Love - Amanda McCabeLady Elizabeth Rathburn hates being apart from her Miss Greensley's Girls and being forced to stay at her bullying father's cold, lonely estate. She hopes she might at least find her old friend, a handsome young man she only knew as "Mick," but he no longer appears in their old meeting spot by the river. Until she finds out "Mick" is actually Lord Michael Hamilton, the son of her family's old enemy! Worse-her father insists she must marry Lord Michael to seal a new business deal and end the enmity. Feeling betrayed, Eliza runs to her beloved La Sous Rose at Christmas, only to be trapped in a snowstorm with Michael, the one man she despises-and desires. The man who declares he has loved her all this time, but how can she trust him now? Read the other books by Kathy and Amanda: Gaming Hell Christmas: Volume 1A Gift for the Duke's Illigetimate's DaughterThe Merry Widow's Christmas AdventureGaming Hell Christmas: Volume 2The Thief Who Stole ChristmasThe Kerse Who Saved ChristmasAnd don't forget: Regency Christmas Kisses - 5 short Christmas Romances

Take a walk back in time with five sweet Regency Christmas shorts and novellas.Snowbound Christmas - Amanda McCabe(A sequel to "The wallflower's Mistletoe Wedding")Years ago, fate parted Helen Layton and Charles St. George. Now a wealthy widow and a famous artist, they are stuck together in a Christmas blizzard! Can old pain, and true love, bring them back together? Lady Felicity's Feud with Christmas - Kathy L Wheeler(Part of the Rebel Lords of London series)Christmas does not come easy for a young woman who has seen too much tragedy around the holidays. Lord Lexum is snared into obtaining Lady Felicity's assistance for a Christmas event. Can he find a way to show Felicity Christmas also means hope? A Partridge in a Pear Tree - Amanda Mc CabeA National Reader's Choice Award FinalistSpend the holidays at a Regency England house party! Seeking an heir to her fortune, a widow challenges her family to a wild holiday scavenger hunt in the novella "A Partridge in a Pear Tree"--and two lost, lonely people find a lasting love and true family seeking the Twelve Days of Christmas... Five Gold Rings - Kathy L Wheeler(Part of the My True Love Gave to Me anthology from the Oklahoma Romance Writers.)The noblest of England's finest families vie for the honor to attend Pemberton's Annual Christmas Ball-most especially those with daughters of a marriageable age. Something Bartholomew Dixon, Viscount Weston, in all accounts, typically avoids like the plague but for one idiotic wager. He's acquired four of the five rings required to win...but what of the fifth? Nine Ladies Dancing - Amanda McCabe(the sequel to A Partridge in a Pear Tree!)Spend Christmas in the magic of Regency England! The lovely, red-headed Gordon twins, studious Jane and vivacious Kitty, are excited to attend their first Kirkwood Christmas Ball at Swan Court--and are filled with plans for the future. Kitty has dreams of marrying the Duke of Tremanton, while Jane thinks the handsome new vicar, Harry Phillips, might suit her. But Christmas has a magic of its own-and the universe has its own idea of romance! Will all end well, under the mistletoe?Other Christmas Novellas by Amanda McCabe not included in this anthology: "Snowbound and Seduced" in Regency Christmas ProposalsUpon a Midnight Clear"The Bluestocking's Christmas Wish" and "The Duke's Christmas Waltz" (two in one volume)A Very Tudor Christmas One Wicked Christmas

GAMING HELL CHRISTMAS - VOLUME 2: Mysteries abound at London's most fashionable Hell. The Thief Who Stole Christmas - Amanda McCabeA man who has never broken the rules, and a woman who just might break his heart! But Christmas is always a time for second chances... As one of Miss Greensley's Girls, a member of the exclusive club la Sous Rose, and famous author Lady L, Victoria Lanford moves easily through Society ballrooms. Few people know how her unhappy childhood and anxiety led her to pickpocketing (yet, she did return the jewels)! When she comes face-to-face with old flame Rhys Neville, Earl of Hammond, she knows the kind-hearted, straight-laced, devilishly handsome lord is not for her-especially once the past comes back to haunt them. Why, then, can't she stop thinking about their kisses? The Kerse Who Saved Christmas - Kathy L WheelerKerse: He, of the no nonsense approach, is stymied by She, a woman considered long past prime marriageability who needs a keeper more than he requires a wife. Yet the dreamy-eyed, impractical, and much too optimistic Philomena still manages to steal his heart despite her unrealistic beliefs and trust in fortune tellers. Other books by Kathy and Amanda: Gaming Hell Christmas Volume 1Regency Christmas Kisses - a collection of short storiesMartini Club 4: The 1920sMartini Club 4: The 1940s

1889With the wild chase for the late unlamented duke's diamonds finally over, business is booming for Flora Flowerdew's seance society, but she's bored with summoning ghosts with the help of her psychic Pomeranian Chou-Chou. She longs for adventure, like what she had with Benedict, and her Cockney maid Mary and journalist Evie as they chased across England and France in search of the diamonds. A late night visit from Benedict, Duke of Everton changes that. He was the last man she ever wanted to see again, with his frosty green eyes and rough laughter. But he needs her help. His great-aunt Imogen is being blackmailed--and it might turn London politics upside-down! Not to mention Ben's own matrimonial prospects.Lady Imogen begs Flora to help her hide her naughty past. She insists they attend a country house party at Windermere Abbey, where all the thieving suspects will be gathered. A tangle of politics, passion, fear hang heavy in those lavish corridors, and Flora must sort it out before it's too late! And before her heart is lost, too...

The one match¿she doesn¿t want to make¿

Two short romances

It's a mad, ill-advised journey that leads the usually sensible Lady Caroline Blacknall to the legendary isle of Muirin Inish, off the windswept coast of Ireland. Even so, she doesn't expect to find herself shipwrecked and then rescued by a man she believed she would never see again. A man who, long ago, held her life in his hands . . . and with it, her heart.Reformed rake Sir Grant Dunmore knew he could never forget the beautiful woman he once endangered nor will he ever forgive himself. But history seems doomed to repeat itself, for as long as Caroline stays on the island, she is trapped in a secret plot that could forever free Ireland-or turn deadly for all. And yet, now that she is in his arms again, how can he dream of ever letting her go?

Blonde and beautiful Lady Anna Blacknall is in the mood for mischief. Entering Dublin's most notorious den of vice, she finds herself in the arms of a mysterious, emerald-eyed Irishman. And although he is masked, his tender kiss is hauntingly familiar.Conlan McTeer, Duke of Adair, has come to Dublin to fight for a free Ireland. But he's suddenly reunited with the young Englishwoman who had once claimed his heart, and his passion turns from politics to pleasure. When their sizzling encounter brings danger to Anna's door, she must decide where her loyalties lie-and quickly. For someone will do whatever it takes to destroy Conlan . . . and anyone he dares to love.

As children, Eliza Blacknall and William Denton ran wild over the fields of southern Ireland and swore they would be friends forever. Then fate took Will away to England, while Eliza stayed behind to become a proper Irish countess.Years later, Will finally makes his way home-as an English soldier sent to crush the Irish uprising. When he spies the lovely Eliza, he is captivated by the passionate woman she has become. But Eliza's passions have led her to join the Irish rebel cause, and Will and Eliza now find themselves on opposite sides of a dangerous conflict.When Ireland explodes in bloody rebellion, Will's regiment is ordered to the front lines, and he is forced to choose between his duty to the English king and his love for Eliza and their Irish homeland.RITA finalist, Best Historical Romance

It has been six years since Carmen de Santiago, a Spanish countess, and the Earl of Clifton fell desperately in love and married on a Spanish battlefield. But after a single, passionate night, tragedy separated them -- and now only fate can bring them back together... Originally published in 2001 RT Reviewers' Choice Award Nominee, Best Regency Daphne Du Maurier Award Finalist

In the wake of a horrible accident that killed the wretched man who was to be her husband, Lady Elizabeth Everdean has fled to Italy, where she vows to become a great artist-and to never let another man control her destiny. Sir Nicholas Hollingsworth is as renowned as a war hero as he is as a rake. When the man who saved his life in battle asks him to find his missing sister Elizabeth, he departs at once for Venice. Only he never expects the object of his search to become the object of his desire... Originally published in 2001 "An excitingly sensuous tale yet darkly haunting tale of love..." RT Book Reviews

London 1888Flora Flowerdew has a secret. The former Florrie Gubbins, music hall dancer, is now Madame Flowerdew, one of London's most renowned spirit mediums. But it's actually her beloved Pomeranian dog, Chou-Chou, who can see the ghosts.One of her most lucrative seances, for the wealthy Petrie family whose daughter is about to marry a handsome young duke, goes chaotically awry. The duke's late, and very irate, grandfather demands Flora and his grandson Benedict find the long-missing family diamonds-even the search becomes littered with mayhem and murder! Can Flora discover the jewels before she loses her career, her sanity-and her heart?Sparks fly as Flora, Benedict, and Chou-Chou pursue the truth of the diamonds' disappearance in this lighthearted, cozy historical mystery set in foggy, gas-lit London

Leaving Manhattan... For a secret Parisian affair...

An invitation to Venice...

Rebellious The 1920's Lady Jessica Hatton fled her high-society London debutante life for one of investigative journalism in New York--only to be relegated to the fashion pages. Searching for a juicy story leads her to Club 501, the city's most glamorous speakeasy--and its handsome, mysterious owner, Frank Markov. But his past of war and revolut...